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Leon Trotsky was the charismatic intellectual of the Russian Revolution, an authoritarian organizer, who might have succeeded Lenin and become the ...

J. D. Bernal's important and ambitious work, The Social Function of Science, was first published in January 1939. As the subtitle -What Science Doe...

'A triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.' Guardian 'Strange and hilarious and so, so sharp.' Monica Heisey 'When a book reaches out ...

I had arrived at the Greek view of nature. In wood and river and plant and animal and bird and insect it had seemed to me there was a spirit which ...

About the Author John Byrne was born in Paisley in 1940. He worked as a 'slab boy' at AFT Stoddard, the carpet manufacturers, before going to Glas...

When The Orators was originally published in 1932 it was described by Poetry Review as 'something as important as the appearance of Mr Eliot's poem...

Remembering Light and Stone is a moving study of a young woman coming to terms with herself in a changing world. 'Not only is Madden's book a joy ...

Home is a moment that's quickly lost. Afterwards you can only sail through the ghost of it. The Wellspring explores the complex and shifting dynam...

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by s...

About the Author Penelope Skinner's plays include The Village Bike (Royal Court Upstairs; 2011); The Sound of Heavy Rain (Paines Plough/Crucible T...

Product Description A tragedy of maritime decline, Bound follows the fortunes of six trawlermen from Devon as they embark on one final voyage...

Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee...

About the Author Michael Wynne was born and brought up in Birkenhead. His first play, The Knocky, was performed at the Royal Court Theatre: it was...

Fully revised and updated by the author, this is the�perennial and comprehensive guide to the art of wildlife gardening from the RHS,�freshly illus...

How to Raise a Happy Dog focuses on the happiness to be found in the person/pet relationship and includes dozens of ideas for activities and hacks ...

When they called saying your body had been found, I had one immediate thought. I remember thinking that maybe now I'd be free. Sam hasn't spoken t...

This beautiful new baking book is full of foolproof and delicious recipes where ingredients can be substituted to suit all dietary requirements and...

This Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to a distinguished body of work that has established Lavinia Greenlaw as one of the most percep...

A beautiful, stylish and comprehensive handbook from the Bloom Gardener's Guides series, covering everything you need to know to grow your own food...

With over 25 activities, A Little Dose of Nature is a gentle guide to being outside that helps children aged 5-8 make the most of all the good that...

The Times Food Book of the Year. A soul-searching memoir for foodies everywhere. Let award-winning food writer Clare Finney take you on a passionat...

Improve your wellbeing every day through the practice of astrology, and find guidance and inspiration through the symbolic movement of the celestia...

Here and Queer is a helpful, friendly guide full of support and advice about living your best queer life, written for girls. This vibrant, inclusi...

*Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023* From the award-winning creator of Flooded and Lost comes a magical story about discoverin...

For each book sold 50p will be paid to Comic Relief. Published in partnership with Comic Relief, Lenny Henry tells the inspiring story of the talen...

'I have been thinking I might go berserk.' When Claire, a priest, survives an atrocity she sets out on a quest to answer the most difficult questi...

Review A moving love letter to the Eighties. ― Stylist The Impossible Fortress lands us right back in the days of cassette tapes, Magnum PI and t...

The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the ...

Review Highly intelligent, deeply moving poems that provide a new lens through which to consider grief. -- Sarah Crown ― Guardian This is powerfu...

Review Hofmann's is one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century, as redolent of the mood, mores and matter of its time as any th...

In his first book with Faber, Hernandez tells the untold stories of these American comics legends' youth, and portrays the reality of life in a lar...

This third richly varied collection of plays by Marina Carr was published to coincide with the Royal Shakespeare Company's premiere of Hecuba at th...

Review Adorning the cover ... is a picture of a decrepit typewriter missing multiple letters - a fitting image for a novel that thrives on explori...

Review 'Eimear McBride is a writer of remarkable power and originality.' --Times Literary Supplement 'An instant classic.' --Guardian 'Unflinching...

Product Description we're still ourselves when we lieJoan and Tom have been married for nearly thirty years. Tara lies alone while Peter work...

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us." (Robert Louis Stevenso...

At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French...

Something's up with Maggie. She's rattling around in the house on Hope Place that she's lived in all her life. Her brothers and sisters flew the ne...

Review Teju Cole hits it out of the park over and over in Known and Strange Things, his essay collection on photography, travel, race and being. I...

Review A magnificent chamber play by one of the few major playwrights in our language. Quite unlike his "social" trilogy [Racing Demon, Murmuring ...