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West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim - all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew...

Revelatory.Daily Telegraph). Fascinating. (Observer). Engrossing.(Daily Mail). David Litvinoff was one of the great mythic characters of 60s London. Flitting between the worlds of music, art and crime, he exerted a hidden influence that helped...

FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with...

THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. If you ve never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don t read War and Peace, you live it. (The Times). From sophisticated Moscow soirees to...

TRANSLATED BY LOUISE AND AYLMER MAUDE. Anna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of Levin, an...

The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate is also the story of a family, the Shaposhnikovs, whose lives in the army, the gulag, a physics institute, a power station and...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SAPIENS Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we re going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are at...

From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Superbly gripping. (Sunday Times). Terrifically compelling. (Guardian). A brilliant collection. (Daily Mail). An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses....

Selected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Economist, Independent, Observer and Mail on Sunday. THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017. Dramatic and precise...[A] thrilling and...

A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye, a leading High Court judge, renowned for her fierce intelligence and sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case. For religious reasons,...

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say...

Truly addictive. (Malcolm Gladwell). Brilliant. (Susan Cain). Essential. (Charles Duhigg). How many times have you checked your phone today Why are messaging apps, email and social media so hard to resist How come we always end up watching...

Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years). Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry,...

The hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of A Spool of Blue Thread A thoroughly modern love story. (Guardian, Books of the Year Kate Battista is stuck). How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father...

Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE. Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand...

You don t have to be a genius to achieve extraordinary things. In this fascinating book, Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool explain that learning new skills doesn t need to be daunting. Musical prodigies, sports stars and leading scientists acquire...

THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER. If you re lost, they ll find you...Evie Boyd is fourteen and desperate to be noticed. It s the summer of 1969 and restless, empty days stretch ahead of her. Until she sees them. The girls. Hair long and uncombed,...

Add this colouring and activity book to your radar and turn over a new page in your office meeting behaviour. Colour in some flip-flops for a little therapeutic release from indecisive leaders, create your own praise sandwich, populate your own...

Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A Peoples Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. A modern masterpiece (Andrew Marr). The most moving account of the Russian...