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In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: be...

INTRODUCED BY PHILIP HENSHER 'Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great comp...

When Amy's husband dies on holiday in Istanbul, she is supported by the kindly but rather slovenly Martha, a young American novelist who lives in L...

'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen In the faded coast...

Foreword by Gerda Fl�ckinger Vintage Jewellery recounts 120 years of history, including Lalique's Art Nouveau enamelling at the turn of the twentie...

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked...

Product Description ‘A fascinating catalogue, torqued around the notion of a film critic watching moving images by day and then focussing on still...

Struggling to meet the right partner? Worried your powers of seduction are lacking somewhat? Want to improve your relationships with family and fri...

FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER INCLUDING LETTERS FROM: Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledo...

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitable wit. Born to celebrity parents, she was picked...

More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our lette...

Sapphire is the third and final instalment in Thames & Hudson’s showstopping series on coloured gemstones, created by Violette Editions. A feas...

Review Takes readers on a carnival ride through laughter and tears with a bit of time travel thrown in for spice ― Publishers Weekly Starred Revie...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A 1939 PUBLISHING SENSATION Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a serie...

Review Sleepless Nights assembles a series of fleeting images and memories united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose. ― Sally...

'One of the funniest books I've ever read' - Gore Vidal * The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless ...

Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, Egypt’s last queen who committed suicide in 30 BC to avoid falling into the hands of Octavian, made an indelible mar...

Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers ...

Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account o...

Review Written in and about the decade 1939-1949, the stories in this high caliber anthology are the work of women, chiefly English (five Amer...

A SUNDAY TIMES POP BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY MAIL MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR ('O...

Review Outrageously wonderful . . . hilarious . . . it is nice to read a book where someone truly enjoys being themselves. She has promised us 'un...