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This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory and dista...

'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Mail A pawn-shop robbery It's no rest for the wicked as Kate Shackleton picks ...

The world's best-selling annual wine guide. 'This compact annual guide is packed with information and recommendations of top names from every wine...

Product Description 'Has a charm, and mystery, all of its own' The Times'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' Daily Ma...

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a pro...

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written...

Product Description Roaring from the rear, belching from behind, tooting the trouser trumpet – whatever you call it, we all fart, some of us more...

'In a series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself...Ted Hughes explores, colorfully and intensively, themes such ...

The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, written between 1956 and her death in 1963, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning edition of Plath's iconic poetry.

This is Hughes's version of Alcestis - the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die...

One man goes in search of the lost cities of the Amazon in the Inca heartland. The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful h...

Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way. Discover the Numbe...

'The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was consi...

Winner of the Oscar's Book Prize 2018 What if a PIG got stuck up your NOSE? How ever would you get it out? When Natalie has to go to school with...

A landmark study of ancient Greek and Roman cults, from the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis to the cults of Dionysus and Mithras. Mystery cults are...

Why is it easy to hate and difficult to love? When societies fracture into warring tribes, we demonise those who oppose us. We tear down our statue...

The world's best-selling annual wine guide. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shop...

Review Langston Hughes, for me, was always the poet of the people. -- Claudia Rankine The poet laureate of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance -- L...

An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023 'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah 'This book pulses with a defiant...