'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M.Cioran...
New school. New friends. Same old pixie.'Don't try to be somethingYou really are not. Your one true selfIs the best thing you've got.'In this heartwarming...
Gwen Poole is everyone's favorite character from the 'real' world! And her superpower is Official-Handbook-level knowledge of top-secret comic book facts! But the longer she's...
The world is not a level playing field, but no matter where you are starting from, you already have what it takes to stand out:...
Hypnotic, dreamlike and compulsive, a blazing literary debut for fans of Hot Milk, The Girls andTheVegetarian 'Immensely assured, calmly devastating. This is...
Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through...
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the...
Explores seven key scientific areas in the Science Museum's new interactive gallery for children: force and motion, electricity and magnetism, earth and space, light, matter,...
'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak ChopraThe spiritual is not to be separated from the material, nor the wonderful from the ordinary...
Do you prefer cats or dogs? Chocolate or vanilla ice-cream? The hen or the egg? Mummy... or Daddy? This pop-up book with flaps to lift,...
Step inside his home and you'll see papier-mache birds, a life-sized cardboard tiger, model cars, his work bench a vibrant collage of creativity, from hand-drawn...
Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual...
When an onslaught of revelations brings chaos to Mila's life she's left distraught and confused. In the explosive fall-out, her parents jet from LA to...
Originally published in 1853, Twelve Years a Slave is a haunting portrayal of stolen freedom and brutal life on the sugar and cotton plantations of...
First serialized in a French magazine from 1869-1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an incredible adventure story that popularized science fiction throughout the...
Ultrarunning legend Dean Karnazes has run 262 miles - the equivalent of ten marathons - without rest. He has run over mountains, across Death Valley,...
This delightful book and jigsaw boxset will keep children entertained for hours. It contains a 100-piece jigsaw of a vibrant under-the-sea scene for children to...
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces...
Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered...
For thousands of years, humans have built walls and assaulted them, admired walls and reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, accompanying...