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'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ...' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind hi...

About the Author Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Aw...

It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from hi...

Product Description Michael Hofmann's poems have been widely admired, notably for their gift of compressed and vividly pointed reportage, and...

*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'* What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but stil...

We heal people. That's what we do here. We are a kinship. Gill has returned home to the north coast of Northern Ireland determined to speak to her...

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century af...

George was born into a world of village cricket matches and fox-hunting, but his failing income and the onset of war threatens his way of life. A t...

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...

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author...

Michael Hofmann is renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators; that he is also regarded as among our most respected poets - 'one...

About the Author The French-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in the Czech Republic and has lived in France since 1975. He is the author of th...

Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age. Edwar...

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last o...

Amazon Review Sylvia Plath churned out her final poems at the remarkable rate of two or three a day, masterworks Robert Lowell describes as writte...

Review Theatre at its best. ― The Sunday Times A stickily complex moral tale that will leave you debating long after the defendant's fate is seal...

Review A flawless treat... The immaculate ingenuity and off-beam symmetry of the plotting is a thing of wonder. ― Independent Pitch-perfect... Pe...

The change will come. And it's not far away, I promise you that. Some figure will emerge from the dark screaming 'Get out of the way'. And not far ...

In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those...

Review "Collins encourages wildness. She strips her poems of context, which invites readers to collaborate and imagine with her.... Who Is Mary Su...