What does it feel like to try and create something new? How is it possible to find a space for the demands of writing a novel in a world of instant communication? This book is about the act of creatio
Suitable for all the family, for any occasion, this book gathers lyrics, music, history and plenty of anecdotes from author's eventful and music-filled life.
Travellers have always been thrilled by the sight of citrus in Italy, where dark leaves and bright fruit seem to charge the landscape, making the trees symbols of a sun-soaked, poetic vision of the co
Tells the story of human endeavour that laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain. This book reflects what now seems to be the inexorable rise of Asia and the increasingly troubled situat
Arguably our brain's greatest sense is the ability to understand the minds of others - our real sixth sense. This book takes us on a tour of our incredible capacity for mind reading.
Explores the many notions of 'truth', and what it really means Riding to work in the morning has become commonplace. The author argues that our transportation technologies are not merely transient phe
The author returns, twenty years after the genoicide, to Rwanda and the eastern Congo April 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of perhaps the most terrible single event in many of our lifetimes. Thi
Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the
Revealing how a formidable imagination can arise from the humblest of beginnings, this title paints a poignant, unforgettable portrait of a working-class woman writer's struggle for creative expressio
Presents an account of Britten's life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburg
Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, this title is the conclusion of a three-volume history of the Spanish Empire. It tells the story of life in a conquered territory that stretched from Cuba
For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in c
Tells the story of how paper, a simple Chinese invention, has wrapped itself around our world, with history's most momentous ideas etched upon its surface. This book traces the westward voyage of this
Nearly seventy years ago, the author started to do her bit for vulnerable children, one child at a time. While she was still in school, she thought nothing of bringing home a schoolmate who needed ref
Tells the story of how the author came through the agony and humiliation of being sexually abused by her father, how she found the strength to seek justice, and how she coped when, at the final hurdle
Sinead's writing mixes the worldly wit of Jane Green with the down-to-earth warmth and insight of Marian Keyes and will remind people just how important their sisters - and their friends-who-are-like-
In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived m
Explores what it is like to move from a world of competition and discipline to one of recreation and introspection. Giving a glimpse into the private realms of swimming, and drawing, the author tells
We are seeing an extraordinarily powerful intersection of accelerating changes to our planet and its inhabitants, all traceable, the author says, to the steam engine's invention 300 years ago. This bo
