Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers...
Most humans contain between nine and twelve pints of blood. Here Rose George, who probably contains nine pints, tells nine different stories about the liquid...
A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young...
People of earth, prepare yourselves for the ultimate showdown of classic sci-fi films. Who has the best special effects - Avatar or Gravity? Who has...
This humorous and handy guide contains all the information aspiring ninjas need to know. With padded ninja shoes underfoot and ninja stars around their belts,...
Horse and pony fans will love dressing the dolls as they care for their horses and take part in lots of showjumping and riding events...
A delightful story about a majestic friendship. There was a boy who liked to spend all his time alone. But one day he fell asleep...In...
'A persuasive and highly readable account of how rising inequality, and not just absolute poverty, is undermining our politics, social cohesion, long-term prosperity and general...
Hans Holbein's 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great leveller,...
Gothic, intoxicating, feminist and romantic - this is the breathtakingly imagined untold story of the brides of Dracula, by bestselling author Kiran Millwood Hargrave in...
The Forward Book of Poetry 2019 brings together the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the...
An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order. John Auden was a...
The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero.He plans to survive this war, whatever it takes. Meticulously he recounts...
In this third installment in her best-selling pictogram series, graphic designer Yang Liu brings the way we were face to face with the way we...
'Brilliant' Sunday TimesHow does a truly disastrous leader - a sociopath, a demagogue, a tyrant - come to power? How, and why, does a tyrant...
The International BestsellerAnger. Fear. Guilt.Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they...
What is contemporary art? What makes it 'contemporary'? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? The contemporary art world can be a...
'One of the greatest European prose writers' Philip RothIn the autumn of 1965, Bohumil Hrabal bought a weekend cottage in the countryside east of Prague....
One of a series of authoritative pocket guides introduced last year, the Amsterdam and:guide highlights several of the city's newest and most interesting governmental, residential,...
Eclecticism is LA's defining characteristic. It's a thriving hybrid of a city-decentralized with no clearly defined hub-and its architecture reflects its character. Here is a...
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