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Do You Mind If I Smoke?" is the astonishing and often hilarious life story of a national treasure, told for the first time in a special edition hardback book to be published on the eve of actress Fenella Fielding's 90th birthday this November.

Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Spain. From Spain's answer to Chuck Palahniuk, Alex Garland and Brett Easton Ellis, Jose Ovejero's taut, existential thriller of first mistaken and then stolen identity exposes the fictions people create to sustain themselves in the modern world.

Wonderful Fool is the story of Gaston Bonaparte, a young Frenchman who visits Tokyo to stay wth his pen-friend Takamori. Gaston is a trusting person whose simple love for others remains even after they have demonstrated deceipt and betrayal, but his appearance and his behaviour prove a bitter disappointment and embarrassment to Takamori and his associates, as Gaston spends his time making friends with street children, stray dogs, prostitutes a...

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This edition first published in Great Britain 1990 by Peter Owen, fifth impression 2013"--Title page verso.

An anthology of Victorian and Edwardian crime and mystery fiction by women writers.

Sarah M. Hall looks at Virginia Woolf's 'unsuitable' early suitors. The men considered in this book had an important impact on Woolf's life and work--veiled portraits of most of them appear in her novels. It brings brand new material and a brand new perspective to the fertile ground of Woolf studies.

Republished in paperback for the first time since the 1980s, this is perhaps the most fascinating autobiography by a filmmaker ever written. Translated from the Russian by Herbert Marshall.

The twenty-seven contributors to 'The Recollections of Virginia Woolf by Her Contemporaries' knew Virginia Woolf intimately, as relations, friends or acquaintances over a number of years. A must-read for those with an interest in Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury milieu.

A blistering apocalyptic novel from one of Finland's finest writers, and already a double prize-winner in Finland. The plot revolves around the widespread disappearance of bee colonies - a reality of today's natural world - and the devastating effects on mankind. *Also appeared in September Buyer's Notes*

The most comprehensive history of eyewear ever to be published in English, this bible among fashion aficionados and historians is reissued in an enlarged, updated edition Richard Corson worked extensively in the theater, and his fashion books have long been regarded as definitive works. Available for the first time since the 1980s, this is an indispensable sourcebook for anyone who works in fashion or theater, as well as being a fascinating jo...

Autobiography from Pizzey, who started one of the first women's refuges in the modern world. A pioneering figure of 1960s and 1970s politics, she was born in China in 1939, and endured a childhood that made her fight all totalitarian regimes. She was recently in the news due to her successful libel case against Andrew Marr, who described her as a terrorist.

A "song man" blinds his daughter to keep her from following her half-brother, who ran away due to the art's rigorous training. The girl forgives her father before his death, and through this act, she deepens her insight into the nature of human existence, and, as her father had insisted would happen, elevates the art of her p'ansori singing.

Paperback edition of Evelyn Farr's highly acclaimed biography which delves deep into the doomed love affair between Marie Antoinette and Count Axel Fersen. Drawing on the letters between the couple, Farr has built up a convincing and controversial portrait of the fated Queen and the Swedish Grand Marshall.

From the author of "Silence, " this powerful novel of ideas is also a sensitive and moving depiction of the trials of old age, set in the central region of Japan With two masterly portraits of two men who have lived their lives--both physically and metaphorically--under the shadow of the Akadeke volcano, this crucial work in Endo's oeuvre charts the conflicts between them, which have explosive results. This is the first paperback edition of on...

Showcasing another quirky side of the author best known for his monumental fantasy trilogy, Gormenghast, this collection contains pieces recently discovered by the Peake family From the macabre to the brilliantly off-beat, Mervyn Peake's nonsense verse can, like marzipan, be enjoyed by young and old alike. This collection of writings and drawings has been selected by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, and it introduces a bewitching gallery of character...

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An account of Charlotte and Emily Bronte's stay in Brussels between 1842 and 1843, 5yrs before they became bestselling authors. Reveals how the spell abroad inspired two of Charlotte's novels, and includes full transcription of her letters to her married teacher Heger, challenging the accepted motherly and straight-laced impression of her.

Short stories addressing the surreal realities of mental illness, from an incredible cult writer often compared to Kafka and Woolf The tortured life of Anna Kavan brought her some reward in terms of great pieces of art. Her drug addiction bore fruit in the Julia and the Bazooka collection of stories, while this companion volume recalls her experience of the asylum--powerful, haunting works which can be harrowing but are full of sympathy too.