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Part-autobiography, part-fiction, this is an account of the author's impoverished travels across 1930s Europe, through Spain and Antwerp with bits of occasional border-hopping. Appropriating the language of the Church, it creates a homily to a trinity of the author's own making - homosexuality, theft and betrayal.

An autobiography of Lady Diana Cooper covering the years from her earliest childhood (as Lady Diana Manners, youngest daughter of the eighth Duke of Rutland) to retirement at Chantilly and the death of her husband Duff Cooper, first Viscount Norwich, politician, writer and, at the end of the Second World War, British Ambassador in Paris.

A collection of prose that explores the author's connection to Wales through its culture, symbolism and through the notion of heroic defeat. It focuses on the question of visual art, not only in Wales, but also in England and in its relationship to war.

Richard Jefferies (1848-87) was more than a nature writer: he was a guiding spirit of the English landscape who affected a profound influence upon the author's own writings. First published in 1909, this title is a subtle account of the 19th century writer's life and an illuminating study of his body of work.

Examines the paradox underlying the transformation of England from an economy based on agriculture to one based on industry. This title chronicles the many manifestations of the pastoral impulse.

Discusses Left Bank cafe society that dominated postwar Paris. This book writes about James Baldwin, Nabokov, Boris Vian, Maurice Girodias and reveals a multitude of strange tales like the resurrection of Samuel Beckett by a small Left Bank magazine and the truth about the scandalous best-seller "The Story of O".

A survey of the use of ice in cookery takes us on a journey from 1581, where in Florence they put snow in the wine glasses, to that modern phenomenon, the growth of the ice-cream business.

When Louise returns to the house where she was brought up, old violence stirs beneath the calm surface. What, for instance, is the significance of the rare Chinese lily carefully raised by her grandmother in the odd greenhouse, perched high up on the side of the garden?

Having lived and worked there, the author knew that London's East Enders were not a race apart, but ordinary men and women, scraping by perhaps, but neither criminals nor paupers. In this book, he chronicles their adventures and misadventures, as well as their wooings and their funerals.

From acclaimed Hollywood actor/director James Franco comes a stunning work of fiction - the coming-of-age of a whole generation. PALO ALTO traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism. Franco presents a stark, vivid, disturbing, but, above all, compassionate portrait of lives on the rough fri...

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in , their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into the desert to die. By 1905, the survivors were interned in concentration camps, and systematically starved and worked to death. Years later, the ...

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First published in 1909, this title has often been likened to "Culture and Anarchy" though it is more sombre. It provides a penetrating, sceptical and unsettling anatomy of Edwardian England, seeing beneath the imperial splendour a society fissured into unnatural plenitude on the one hand and... an unnatural privation on the other.

From the funked-up, messed-up Brookyn of the 1970s to the present day, this stunning novel spans thirty years in the life of two best friends, their families and an entire neighbourhood. From their stories comes the history of soul music, graffiti art, comic books, experimental film and 'rock writing'. A touching and intimate novel on an epic scale.

Reissues of 3 of Carey's classic historical novels, 2 of which won the Booker Prize. Repackaged to tie in with the paperback edition of "Parrot & Olivier In America", which was also nominated for the Booker.

Paul Auster's SUNSET PARK is as mythic as it is contemporary. It is a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. But when Miles decides to go back to Brooklyn, he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the ...

Concentrates on the young Disraeli's life: the tour through the Mediterranean and Near East which he undertook with the man who was intended to become his brother-in-law. The author traces the effects of the visit to Holy Land on Disraeli's view of his own position as a Jew converted to Christianity and an aspirant man-of-letters and politician.

Laura Ashley' became a global byword for a classic English country lifestyle. But behind the facade of the family-based business that bore both her name and the mark of her taste for 'a kind of scrubbed simple beauty' - what was Laura the woman really like? This title tells her story.

Enid Bagnold was born in 1889 and resolved from an early age to have it all: literary acclaim, social success, motherhood, marriage and lovers. This title explores the life of the gifted authoress of "National Velvet" and "The Chalk Garden".

Presents an history of the struggles of women to be admitted to professional journalism and so obtain the right to report from places where they were felt to have no place - most notably, war-zones. This title recounts the evolution of the woman reporter, from Miss Wreford during the Risorgimento and Lady Florence Dixie at the Boer War.