Paris in 1968—seething with revolutionaries and spies—sees Will Flemyng's world turned upside down, after a mysterious encounter on the metro and a chance revelation from a rival operativeIn a city al
Paris in 1968 - seething with revolutionaries and spies - sees Will Flemyng's world turned upside down, after a mysterious encounter on the metro and a chance revelation from a rival operative. In a c
James Naughtie, the acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster, now brings his unique and inquisitive eye to the country that has fascinated him and drawn him across the Atlantic for half a century. In look
The Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognized by Agricola in the first century AD (parts of its most northerly portion mark the furthest north the Romans got) i
From Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel García Márquez and Toni Morrison, this DK book features more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers.Introduced with a stunning p
Featuring the five short-listed stories for the BBC National Short Story Award, this collection brings together a high-caliber group of new and established British authors exploring human relationship
The basis for Puccini's opera La Boheme and the musical Rent, and a?wonderful evocation of 19th-century Paris?Originally published in 1851, Henri Murger's best-known work novel draws largely on Murger
