A new collection of the best of the Daily Telegraph's world-famous cryptic crosswords
The one book that should be on every fiction writer's shelf...
A beautiful edition of The Golden Treasury, one of the most widely read anthologies of English Verse ever published, with a foreword by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
This fabulous debut is a funny, touching, revealing story written entirely in the form of letters, messages, postcards. Now with a stunning new cover look!
From fearsome striker to the most respected football commentator in the country, this is the story of a footballing legend
A compelling teenage mystery by one of the world's greatest children's writers.
Have you ever wondered why you feel like you've known someone for years when you've only just met? Why are you so attracted to someone who seems like your complete opposite? How can you make your relationship last despite your differences? This book aims to answer such questions and provides interpretations of the planetary aspects which can be used to compile an individual analysis of how compatible you really are with a loved one. It shows how to create an astrological chart based on time and date of birth.
Few writers are as strongly associated with a particular place as Thomas Hardy. His role as unofficial historian of Wessex has come to define his reputation, yet only hints at the complexities of a man who cultivated aristocratic friends, spent several months each year in London and wrote some of the most popular, but also most vilified, novels of the Victorian period. In The Guarded Life, Ralph Pite explores these contradictions in the context of HardyΓÇÖs relationships with women, friends and mentors; the social, family and work pressures he experienced; and his attachment to the Dorsetshire landscape. In doing so, he reveals the personal and emotional life of a public figure who has, despite his fame, remained largely obscure ΓÇô until now. ΓÇÿPite uses new critical techniques and perspectives to make his point . . . He is a subtle reader of HardyΓÇÖs work and applies his impressive reasoning to the man as if he, too, were a kind of textΓÇÖ Daily Telegraph ΓÇÿAn impressive, and impressively human, book, PiteΓÇÖs skill is in balancing the larger sweep of HardyΓÇÖs life with a sense for what happened at the edges. Like his subject, Pite takes risks with what he reveals, but the detail is always enlarging. Hardy, and his times, seem bigger for this workΓÇÖ New Statesman ΓÇÿIn portraits, Hardy habitually looks downwards or aside, avoiding direct contact. In this biography, Pite has caught his subjectΓÇÖs eyes and held his gazeΓÇÖ The Times ΓÇÿPite is skilful, not to say ingenious, in drawing together emblems and instances of secrecy . . . This new biography encourages us to re-examine HardyΓÇÖs life as a complex and often self-contradictory whole; Pite''s Hardy is altogether more vulnerable than Hardy''s version of himself, but also more likeableΓÇÖ Guardian
The definitive work on the complex history of Bosnia from a well-known journalist and historian.
A collection of funny, surreal and touching writings from Monty Python's Graham Chapman
Karry's beautiful memoir of adolescence is a striking and moving as its prequel, The Liar's Club.
The best of Kate Chopin's powerful feminist short stories, edited and introduced by Dr J. Michelle Coghlan.
An explosive biography, substantially updated with fascinating new material about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
A funny, romantic story told through emails and dairy entries, from the bestselling author of The Guy Next Door and Boy Meets Girl.
The authorized biography of John Cheever, one of the finest American writers of the twentieth century
It's the wedding of the century in this final novel of the bestselling Queen of Babble series
Ten of W. Somerset Maugham's wonderful stories in one collector's volume.
The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Filmed as a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson.
A collection of funny stories sure to delight eight-year-olds, with a gorgeous new cover illustrated by Adam Stower.
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