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Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots,...
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence, being fascinated by the reality of the...
To most of us, Celtic culture is at once distinctive and enigmatic. Though we may acknowledge the Celtic heritage of&,nbsp,Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain (Galicia) and...
'I never have been in love, it is not my way, or my nature, and I do not think I ever shall'Beautiful, clever, rich -...
'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday...
An enduring classic from the greatest of storytellers...
Fairy stories, especially from the fertile landscape of Ireland where the supernatural grew from the legends of the Celts, are the magic stories of everyday...
Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatredOn 22 April 1962...
A gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the Heian period. Japan has gripped the imagination of...
Told in a simple mythical style, the story of Siddhartha is an inspirational classic by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Part...
The ancient roots of the Slavs can be traced through language and archeology to the time of late Babylon, and the Vedic culture of India,...
Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by...
'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history'...
Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile,...
'Burning ice, biting flame, that is how life began'The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the...
Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing...
A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels - an epic story of warring factions in the era of China's...