Wimbledon is a paradox. While outwardly appearing the quintessential English lawn tennis club, it is in fact the largest annual outside broadcast operation in the world and a multimillion?dollar comme
It is 1914 and Christabel Blakemore is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her fiance has drowned at sea. Heartbroken, she tries to piece her life together, bu
An engrossing new saga set in Cardiff from the author of Love Changes Everything. The only child of over-protective parents, Sarah Lewis yearns to leave home. Studying hard to please them, she earns a
When Lisa Martin and David Kirby were forced to part, they never dreamed they might one day have a second chance. Many years later, they meet again and it is clear that, despite everything that's happ
More bizarre questions and answers from guardian.co.uk's popular football trivia column.After a decade of successfully tackling the wide-ranging collection of football queries proposed by its readers,
A dazzling novel telling the history of Singapore through the moving stories of three families whose lives become intertwined.Riding a trolley bus through Singapore's crowded Chinatown, ten-year-old H
The I'm Sorry Bible tells the whole story of the notorious Python gang, from Footlights to Broadway to the ferret-filled madness of Radio Prune?comedy's answer to the rock & roll revolution of the
A groundbreaking tour of the human mind that illuminates the biological nature of our inner worlds and emotions, through gripping and at times harrowing clinical storiesKarl Deisseroth has spent his l
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife returns with “a bracingly epic and imaginatively mythic journey across the American West” (Entertainment Weekly).NAMED ONE OF THE
In this wordless tour de force, award-winning illustrator Raymond Briggs uses more than 175 subtly colored, neatly arranged picture frames to tell of a wondrous winter adventure shared by a little boy
Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry scrapes the plaster
In thisnew and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallellives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human
Representing the best of10 books and20 years' work,thiscollectionis a magical tour into Sweeney'sstrange, unsettling world. Readers familiar with his poetry will b
Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts' fourth collection - centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical and erotic, the bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life, death
A welcome reissue of one of the greatest sports books ever written, this book transcends its genre and subject and has become a classic. C. L. R. James, one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th centur
This fascinating book tells the dramatic story of the English parish church, from the first temporary buildings erected in Anglo-Saxon times to its uncertain future in the 21st century. Starting with
Astound your friends and befuddle your foes with this delicious lexicographical feast of rare and rediscovered words?Fedity. (Fe-di-tee) n. Loathsome practice. There being none greater than the additi
In this selection from over twenty years of reporting and writing, Ian Jack takes us to a place of which there are now only memories and ruins—the Great Britain that gave us the Industrial Revolution,
Photography was described by its British inventor, Henry Talbot, as 'the Pencil of Nature'. The medium used the laws of chemistry and physics to create superbly detailed descriptions of the material w
It may be natural to play games, but the sports we love aren't natural at all. Each and every one of them has been invented, tweaked, pushed, and pulled to come up with better rules, cleverer tactics,
