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**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**Winner of the Man Booker International Prize for 2009, Alice Munro is the author of eleven collections of stories, most recently The View from Castle Rock, and a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. She has received many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, the W.H. Smith Book ...

Reissue number 2. Jenny Porter travels to Scotland to sort out a failing mill for a client, and catches the eye of handsome Ross Grant. But when her boyfriend comes to visit, who does she really love?

Paperback of this exhaustive and minutely researched biography of the city of London, which has been hailed by various critics as "the" book on the city. A vivid and anecdotal overview which takes from the time of the Druids to the turn of the millennium, and which looks at subjects such as childhood, suicide, Cockney sppech and drinking, in relation to London's history. "Nothing can quite match the huge strange echo chamber of life-stories, f...

The compelling autobiography of the Kenyan peace activist and environmentalist, who in 2004 became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. 'Wangari Maathai's memoir is direct, honest, and beautifully written - a gripping account of modern Africa's trials and triumphs...' Bill Clinton

Omnibus edition of five novels by this great Irish comic writer.

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As Geoffrey investigates the mystery of the stuffed parrot Flaubert borrowed from the Museum of Rouen to help research one of his novels, we learn an enormous amount about the writer's work, family, lovers, thought processes, health and obsessions. But we also gradually come to learn some important and shocking details abou...

The classic novel dealing with family and slavery in America, which won the Pulitzer Prize and was voted best work of American fiction of the last 25 years by the "New York Times" in 2006. 'A magnificent achievement' A.S. Byatt, "Guardian

A vivid, timely and powerful on-the-ground account of modern Pakistan - a country whose future affects us all.

Introduced by Kennedy's speech writer Ted SorensenNelson Mandela: An ideal for which I am prepared to die. Introduced by Gordon BrownNikita Khrushchev: The cult of the individual. Introduced by Gary YoungeCharles de Gaulle: The flame of French resistance. Introduced by Antony BeevorMargaret Thatcher: The lady's not for turning.

A James Bond for the 1990's, with brilliant humour from the well-known comedian.

Stephen Fry was born in Hampstead in 1957 and, following a troubled adolescence, went on to study English Literature at Queen's College, Cambridge. As well as being the bestselling author of four novels, The Stars' Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus, and The Liar, and two volumes of his autobiography, Fry played Peter in Peter's Friends, Wilde in the film Wilde, Jeeves in the television series Jeeves & Wooster and (a closely guarde...

Michael Crichton's latest paperback comes with many good reviews to its name - "A first-rate thriller" "Sunday Times", "... a compulsive page turner... Crichton dazzles the reader" Nick Curtis, "Financial Times". Flight TPA 545 is nearing America when it calls in. There is an emergency and forty ambulances are needed - but nothing prepares the rescue services for what they find...

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE is Raymond Carver's most famous collection of short stories and remains one of the most influential pieces of modern literature to date. But the original, unedited manuscript, BEGINNERS - published here for the first time, was almost fifty per cent longer than the published collection. This restored version of Carver's stories reveal what was previously unsaid, filling in the narrative silences that h...

The AMERICAN CIVIL WAR was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. It is also one of the most mysterious. It has captured the imagination of writers, artists and film-makers for decades but the reality of it confuses and divides historians even today. In this magisterial history of the first modern war, the distinguished military historian John Keegan unpicks the geography, leadership and strategic logic of the war and takes us to the...

The definitive selection of Maugham's best short stories, rejacketed in the new series style. 'His plots are cool and deadly, and his timing is absolutely flawless' "Raymond Chandler

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The breathtaking new novel from Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon. It's 1758 and Europe is in turmoil - the Seven Years War is taking hold and London is ripe with deceit. The enigmatic Lord John Grey, a nobleman and high-ranking officer in His Majesty's Army, pursues a clandestine love affair and a deadly family secret. Grey's father, the Duke of Pardloe, shot himself just days before he was to be accused of being a Jacobi...

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines. Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and written with the poetic...

A brilliant, compelling new collection from the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. A wife and mother, whose spirit has been crushed, finds release from her extraordinary pain in the most unlikely place. The young victim of a humiliating seduction finds an unusual way to get her own back. An older woman, dying of cancer, weaves a poisonous story to save her life. Alice Munro takes on complex, even harrowing emotions and events, ...

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