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Book of Longing is Leonard Cohen's astonishing new collection of poems, the first since Book of Mercy was published nearly three decades ago. Leo...

'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le CarreAround the world in Britain, the United States, Asia a...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, ...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to ...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the ...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZESUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom the acclaimed author of Swing Time, ...

Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell's timeless, ...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, ...

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, ...

You're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. What do Apple, Starbucks, Dyson and Pret a Man...

Colin Tudge's The Secret Life of Trees: How they Live and Why they Matter explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives - and how our fut...

Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror. 'A coruscating sermon on how we pictu...

The compelling Sunday Times bestseller about two neighbours brought together by fate, from the million-copy bestselling author of The Family Upstai...

The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and candid, and suprisingl...

A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wo...

Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of o...

'Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest' IndependentWritten in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The...

'The prince of philosophical novels' John UpdikeIn Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenm...

The inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Jaroslav Hasek's black satire The Good Soldier Svejk is translated with an introduction...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery,...

The essential poems of the inspirational thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, scholar and mysticThe founder of the order of the Whirling Dervish...

The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school...

'The most truthful translation ever, conveying as many nuances and whispers as are possible from the original' The TimesAfter a century of civil st...

'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerBeyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European phil...

The definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now updated with newly discovered materialMiraculously preserved on clay tablets datin...

'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir NabokovThe heroine of Tolstoy's epic of love and self-destruction, Anna Karenina ha...

'The first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war' GuardianOne of the foremost achievements in Western literature...

'A book that you don't just read, you live' Simon Schama Tolstoy's magnificent epic novel of love, conflict, fate and human life in all its imperfe...

Colin Thompson's books are mystical and complex, they will appeal to children and adults alike and demand to be returned to as there is always a ne...

The classic children's book from beloved author and illustrator, Shirley HughesDave's favourite toy is a battered, but still very loved, cuddly dog...

Discover the pooptastic world of Dino and Danny, from bestselling authors Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter!In this laugh-out-loud rhyming picture bo...

Truly a marvellous collection ... There is balm for the soul, fire for the belly, a cooling compress for the fevered brow, solace for the wounded, ...

Featuring dozens of new activities as well as some of the most popular prompts from the original, Wreck This Journal Everywhere will have you trave...

The BRAND NEW laugh-out-loud Daisy adventure for readers of 6-9, from bestselling author of the Oi Frog series, Kes Gray. Here comes trouble!It's G...

Princess Polly I'm a New Big Sister is part of Ladybird's successful Pirate Pete and Princess Polly range - introducing children to key milestones ...

Earn your Space Badge with Duggee!Duggee is looking through a telescope at things far, far away in outer space. It's time for Duggee to teach the S...

Earn your Bedtime Badge with Duggee!The Squirrels have had a very busy day at the clubhouse playing with Duggee's nephew, Duggly. Now it's bedtime,...

It's Easter at Duggee's Squirrel Club!Chicken has lost her eggs, so it's time for an egg hunt! Can the Squirrels solve the mystery of Chicken's mis...

THE SCORCHING HOT RICHARD & JUDY LOVE AFFAIR THAT WILL LEAVE YOU OBSESSED!'IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THIS' 5***** reader rev...

Get to know the woman behind the Instagram cleaning sensation, Mrs Hinch, in her fascinating and remarkably honest memoir*** FEATURING A BONUS PAPE...

Meet Duggee and the Squirrels in this bright and colourful board book with 7 tabs!Duggee loves playing with the Squirrels in the clubhouse. Pick a ...

THE THRILLING NEXT INSTALMENT IN TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN JR. SERIESA spy in the cross hairs . . . Jack Ryan Jr. lands in Israel. A few hours of simp...

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER IN THE BESTSELLING JACK RYAN SERIESA global race against the clock . . . The Chinese Navy is gaining power. With quieter...

DISCOVER THE ENCHANTING EPIC THAT WILL TRANSPORT YOU TO OTHER WORLDS . . . 'AN INSTANT CLASSIC' GUARDIAN'BEWITCHING' THE TIMES'MIND-BLOWING' LAINI ...

Join the latest thrilling NUMA Files adventure as Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet . . . THE...

THE THRILLING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FEATURING DETECTIVE ISAAC BELL FROM THE GRAND MASTER OF ADVENTURE, CLIVE CUSSLER'The Adventure King' SUNDAY E...

THE BREATHTAKING RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTION, SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ABOUT MOTHERHOOD AND OBSESSION . . . 'Utterly ad...

THE BIGGEST MYSTERY CAN BE MURDER TO SOLVE . . . DISCOVER THE YEAR'S MOST ORIGINAL CRIME NOVEL'One of the year's most entertaining crime novels' SU...