Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woma
Jarvis Stringer lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking a tube line. His strange house draw a band of misfits into his orbit: young Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, busker
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 The dramatic and tormented life of Jerry Lee Lewis is the most fabled in rock 'n' roll history. Hellfire is a wild, riveting, and beautifully written biography that
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。 Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episo
Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage. This title relates the remarkable and diverse history of this England's second ci
Michael Pollan's "In Defence of Food" is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Po
And out of the Darkwood Mr Toppit comes, and he comes not for you, or for me, but for all of us. When the author of "The Hayseed Chronicles", Arthur Hayman, is mown down by a concrete truck in Soho, h
In "Descent Into Chaos: Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Threat to Global Security" Ahmed Rashid explores the most volatile and dangerous region in the world. The war on terror is being lost - but not ju
Mark Mazower's "Hitler's Empire" is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious re
"[A] delightful and eccentric new tale"(The Boston Globe) from the author of the runaway bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club In Karen Joy Fowler's newest novel, the bestselling author of The Jane Au
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製，需達到一定的數量書商才會著手印製。 Gaius Petreius Ruso, medicus to the Twentieth Legion, has been posted to the hostile north - and thrown into a no-win situation. Th
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)Moving to Africa is the worst thing that has ever happened to Benny Shaw. No one plays hurling and the local school is run by hippies who like to talk about feelings. As if
Helmand Province, October 2006: British soldiers are engaged in the most intense, sustained fighting they've faced since the Korean War. Against a tough, experienced and frighteningly motivated enemy,
The First World War killed around eight million men and bled Europe dry. In this provocative book Niall Ferguson asks: was the sacrifice worth it? Was it all really an inevitable cataclysm and were th
'His parting gift to her was a new beginning… Julia Lovat walks away from her seven-year affair with Michael with a broken heart and a book of secrets. Her book tells the true story
Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children's health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itse
In 1949, two young Cuban musicians, brothers Cesar and Nestor, leave Havana for New York. By day they work hard, by night they are the Mambo Kings: packing out clubs, dance halls and theatres with the
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Counting the Stars is a captivating tale of forbidden love and bestselling author Helen Dunmore's tenth novel. In the heat of Rome's long summer, the poet Catullus and
A haunting novel of loss, love, and human connection from the author of Astrid & VeronikaLinda Olsson's first novel, Astrid & Veronika, introduced readers to her gorgeous prose, and her extrao
Separates the nonsense from the fabulous and shows that falling in love with an It bag doesn't mean you have the IQ of an It girl. This book shows how to wear shorts without looking like an extra in "
Provocative and enlightening, Richard Sennett's "The Craftsman" is an exploration of craftsmanship - the desire to do a job well for its own sake - as a template for living. Most of us have to work. B
This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past
With old loyalties tested by new and unlikely alliances, Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang must call on every reserve of courage to face a new and desperate struggle – after all, the int
Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a count
Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With bit
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Catherine Alliott, bestselling author of One Day in May and A Crowded Marriage, takes a heart-warming look at what happens when your whole world is turned upside-down in The Secret Life of Evie Hamilt
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)When Giant Jim comes to town, people are terrified they'll be eaten, or squashed. But Jim is a good giant - he only eats omelettes, likes music and wants somewhere to live.
Beginning in a jail cell and ending in a rugby tournament—the true story of how the most inspiring charm offensive in history brought South Africa together. After being released from prison and winni
Robert Graves's dynamic retelling of Homer's powerful epic poemThis edition of Homer 's Iliad , retold with authority and grace by the incomparable Robert Graves, takes a revered classic back to its r
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Now a Major Motion Picture Schoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary life until Sheba Hart, the new art teacher at St. George''s, befriends her. But even as their relationship develops, so too does another: Sheba has begun an illicit affair with an underage male student. When the scandal turns into a media circus, Barbara decides to write an account in her friend''s defense--and ends up revealing not only Sheba''s secrets, but also her own.
Looks at how and why the British merchant banks and brokers sold out, and where that leaves us. This book takes us through the Thatcher years, the crash of 1987, Big Bang, and the aggressive invasion
From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are all-t
Adam Pollo, an amnesiac ex-student, has broken into an empty seaside villa. He visits the town at rare intervals. Soon lack of human contact affects him like a drug and he experiences other modes of b
Filled with cosmic ruminations, lyrical description and virtuoso games of language and the imagination, this title explores humankind's place in the universe, the relationship between us and the Earth
Iran often appears in the media as a hostile and difficult country. But beneath the headlines there is a fascinating story of a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and enormous cultural im
This work includes three heart-stopping stories of children trapped by their parents' pasts...Craig, the little boy who can't speak English, isn't allowed to use his real name and hides food around hi
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)The death penalty is one of the most hotly contested and longest-standing issues in American politics, and no place is more symbolic of that debate than Texas. Since the re
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製 Craig Venter is no ordinary scientist, and no ordinary man. He is the first human being ever to read their own DNA - and see the key to life itself. This book tells th
