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Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film, Mary Queen of Scots.From the m

A stunning deluxe edition of the stand-alone novella from Proust's masterpiece--an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy--delivers the most memorable reading experience A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English--and since Proust died--Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of love and desire. Full of the rich social satire and penetrating insight that distinguish Proust's style, it is the perfect introduction to one of the world's great novelists. When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Cr嶰y, her beauty leaves him indifferent. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high society, and the seeds of desire in Swann begin to flourish. What follows is a journey through self-delusion, jealousy and delirious fantasy, which will take Swann far from the sedate comfort of his society life.

In the seventeenth century, a giant strides the border of the Cape Colony frontier. Coenraad de Buys is a legend, a polygamist, a swindler and a big talker; a rebel who fights with Xhosa chieftains ag

Shola is a little dog with attitude. She loves both comfort and adventure, and spends much of her time trying to decide between the two. Whether faced with the possibility that she may really be a lio

'Wise, witty, razor-sharp' Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the Renaissance BeganInterested in Machiavelli?That may be a bad sign.We always turn to Machiavelli at crisis points in history

Coming from the West African village of Lai, a Virginia plantation and Jamaica, three characters meet at the settlement of Monrovia, and it is through their disparate yet connected stories that Wayétu

Amid the conflict and desolation of post-Communist Albania, teenage boys Agim and Bujar share restless dreams of escape. After Bujar's father dies and Agim's family discover him dressed in his mother'

In Georg Trakl's brief, tragic life he produced a body of work of intense visual power. Dense, imagistic and full of unnerving symbolism, his poems occupy a critical space in German Expressionism. Unt

From the author of the hit The Evenings - two classic novellas that are considered among Gerard Reve's best workYoung Elmer longs to make friends and tries to control the world around him by forming s

'A freshly written, punchily flavoured and richly realised tale of intergenerational family strife' -- Sunday Times 'Captivating... full of sensual imagery... colourful and unforced... a debut novel w

The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize'Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of phy

'Sometimes, when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come out on the other side' Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, the headstrong

Intensely moving stories that tell of the absurd violence of war, and tenderly depict the animals and children caught in its vortex.In 1945, Akiyuki Nosaka watched the Allied firebombing of Kobe kill

The deliciously cosmopolitan story of the restaurant from eighteenth-century Paris to El BulliWhat does eating out tell us about who we are?The restaurant is where we go to celebrate, to experience pl

A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann. A cabinet of curiosities, a time machi

Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love the Count Axel von Fers

The oldest written story on Earth, retold for children "A real friend is a companion for your heart." Godlike Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, has built a beautiful city, but is also a terrible tyrant. In ans