Suitable for those who profess a love for art and literature, this title provides insight on subjects as varied as ageing, golf, dinosaurs, make-up and the author's own fiction.
The Victoria System is Eric Reinhardt's acclaimed and controversial French bestseller. NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX GONCOURT, THE PRIX RENAUDOT AND THE GRAND PRIX DU ROMAN DE L'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE David Kols
Fusing biography and essay, and finding, as ever, inspiration in place - as when he journeys to the Ile St Pierre, the tiny, lonely Swiss island where Jean-Jacques Rousseau found solace and inspiratio
An examination of television's effect on a new generation of writers, this title includes writing that collects swoops from erudite literary discussion to open-hearted engagement with the most familia
Shows how to play and produce professional keyboard sounds and rhythms from day one. This book explains the essentials with advice on those from fingering techniques and effective practice, to reading
Ben Turnbull is a 66-year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chao
On Park Crescent, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news of the expected enemy landing on the beaches of Brighton. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of t
Howard Belsey, a long suffering professor at Wellington College, is married to American Kiki, who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Howard feels the first two acts of his life are ov
Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, and moving on to two 19th century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, this book considers the eccentric pre-modern James McNeill Whistler,
Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari, the author sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards in a new direction, up the left-hand side, through South Afric
War has spread from the borders of India to the forests in the very heart of the country. Combining analysis and reportage, this title examines the nature of progress and development in the emerging g
The Professor of Truth is the newest novel by Saltire prizewinner James Robertson. Twenty-one years after his wife and daughter were murdered in the bombing of a plane over Scotland, Alan Tealing, a u
Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely ber
A collection of art criticism and a masterclass in appreciating art - from the great American man of letters. It treats readers to a series of essays on art, and includes writing on a comprehensive ar
There are two types of taxi drivers in the Carnival city - the spiders and the flies. The spiders sit and stew in their cars, waiting for the calls to come to them. But the flies are wanderers - they
Explores the immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the 'class war' fought by US business interests against worki
A sparkling and darkly humorous collection of short stories by bestselling novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux.A family watches, horrified, as their patriarch transforms into the wise-cracking le
