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Review All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon ... If only all literary lives were as succinct ― TIME OUT From his unique positio...

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. The marriage...

Product Description The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy o...

The headlines of Royal infidelity and divorce that are the bread and butter of today's tabloid press is nothing new. People have always been captiv...

Review 'An accomplished and engaging piece of social history' ― Daily Telegraph '[Nicolson] sweeps across voices and classes to assemble a mosaic...

The headlines of Royal infidelity and divorce that are the bread and butter of today's tabloid press is nothing new. People have always been captiv...

'Home seems impossibly far away as we step out onto a rough base of ice and snow. The temperature is -25�C. This is considered warm . . .' Michael...

'The Sahara embodies scale and mystery, the thin line between survival and destruction, the power to take life or to transform it . . .' Of all Mi...

'Once a traveller, always a traveller, and as long as there were maps and guide books and airline schedules I was still fatally susceptible to the ...

'It was a journey of dazzling extremes. Beauty and ugliness, sophistication and squalor, unceasing urban noise and monastic tranquillity . . . This...

'The reason why the 80-day journey retains its appeal is that it is still the minimum time needed to go round the world and notice it. To see it, s...

Paris 1940. The civilised, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson ends with the German occupation of the city. Out of money and almost out o...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZE THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and h...

THE INSTANTLY ICONIC NO. 1 BESTSELLER 'Devotees of Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories will feel most at home here' Guardia...

American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of the best known and...

Tennyson was one of the true great Victorian poets - much of his work is known throughout the world: 'Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do a...