Marcel Proust In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the...

Edited by Juliet Mitchell This book provides a thorough introduction to the stimulating and controversial ideas of the woman who charted the field of child analysis—Melanie Klein.Freud was surprisingly silent...

Satyajit Sarna   They called what they had lost the angels share. They believed that the angels would take a little of their drink and, in exchange, bless the rest...

James Goldsmith A well-known opponent of international economic integration argues that such agreements as the recently enacted General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will lead to environmental and economic deterioration....

Steve Cavanagh Before you read this book, I want you to know three things:1. The police are looking to charge me with murder.2. No one knows who I am. Or how I...

Kazuo Ishiguro The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver ourselves with it--is territory that Kazuo Ishiguro has made his own. In...

Robert Wright Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative...

Gerald Durrell 'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine...a country where we can grow.''Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening.'I had a letter from George this...

Arthur Ransome John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but...

Gordon Korman From the back cover:The race is on to find 39 Clues that safeguard a great power, and fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, are shocked to...

Peter Lerangis New Hampshire is nicknamed the Granite State for its many granite quarries, but the state offers much more than just durable construction materials. A True Book: My United...

Jude Watson   Betrayed by their cousins, abandoned by their uncle, and with only the slimmest hint to guide them, fourteen-year old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, rush...