In 1964 Lucian Freud set his students at the Norwich College of Art an assignment: to paint naked self-portraits and to make them 'revealing, telling, believable... really shameless'. It was...

Author: Nicholas Sparks Celebrating 25 years of The Notebook - the classic novel which became the heart-wrenching film. * Once again, just as I do every day, I begin to...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines. It is summer...

The Fifth Column is a thrilling novel about the only man who can thwart a Nazi sympathizer uprising in New York during the Second World War, from bestselling author Andrew...

Insolent and defiant, the Chants de Maldoror, by the self-styled Comte de Lautreamont (1846-70), depicts a sinister and sadistic world of unrestrained savagery and brutality. One of the earliest and...

Author: Orhan Pamuk The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and...

Spontaneous poetry by the author of On the Road, gathered from underground and ephemeral publications; including "San Francisco Blues," the variant texts of "Pull My Daisy" and "American haiku." HERE...

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Although it is set in the near future, Hocus Pocus is the most topical, realistic Vonnegut novel to date, and shows the struggle of an artist a...

Author: Jules Verne With an exclusive introduction and notes by David Stuart Davies.Translation by Louis Mercier.Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely...

Translated poems of 2 Brazilian poets, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, and original poems comprise 3 decades of the author's work

Ayaan Hirsi Ali   The brutal murder of the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh in 2004 shocked the world. Shot and mutilated by a Muslim fanatic as he cycled to...

From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher series comes a book set featuring Miss Fisher's first three adventures These three rollicking murder mystery novels are combined in a single,...