The acclaimed retelling of the world s best-loved fairy tales by the #1 ",New York Times", bestselling author of ",The Golden Compass", now in paperback,...
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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...
Atmospheric, sensual and utterly riveting, Carmilla is the novel that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A true gothic masterpiece, this titillating tale is a key text...
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...
The great Kenyan writer's influential novel, written in prison, offering a powerful critique of the 'Satan of capitalism' and its effect on postcolonial Kenya A...
'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 -...
This magical collection of folk stories from across the world celebrates the winter season in all its frosty glory. From Norse, Japanese and Icelandic mythology...
An enduring classic from the greatest of storytellers...
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...
'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes'...
'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began...
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...
'One of the best historical novels by anyone, ever' David Mitchell 'Japan's greatest twentieth-century author' Graham Greene 'A masterpiece. There can be no...
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface, it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deepThe revolutionary...