\'Part-biography, part-social history, Catland is its own breed of historical investigation\' Amanda Foreman Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult.

a comic about dinosaurs supporting one another through life from the international bestselling team behind dinosaur therapy, @dinosandcomics including exclusive, never-before-seen bonus comics dinosaurs explore the meaning and significance of true friendship

One of the most anticipated novels of the year - the captivating and powerful untelling of Romeo & Juliet . . .The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo\'s attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming stranger offers her the chance of a different

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine.

A powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood and violence are conditions of life.

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry.

Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the historic and esteemed home of the world\'s most prominent explorers. In 1937, after the world was mapped, the North and South Poles were traversed, and air travel was a well-oiled machine, researchers had one pivotal question: \"What\'s left to explore?\" Despite

An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre. Autumn is the season of misty mornings and cosy nights in, but as the leaves begin to fall the nights get longer and the shadows grow darker... Secluded cottages, eerie manors and ghostly hauntings and cursed tombs abound in this collection of 12 supernatural mysteries and murderous plots featuring Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple

The genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette WintersonA ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms.

Jordan Peele, the visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of brand new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our world. Featuring an introduction by Jordan Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices,

A Book of the Year 2022 in The Economist and Daily Mail\'One of the most important non-fiction books of the year\' - Sunday TimesBoys are 50% more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects: maths, reading and scienceIn the US, the wages of most men are lower today than they were in 1979, while women\'s wages have risen across the boardIn the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of men

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021 WINNER OF THE SUSHILA DEVI AWARD 2021 A searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal - for fans of Jenny Offill, Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk and Diana Evans \'Beautifully written, emotionally wrenching and poignant in equal measure\' The Booker Prize Judges 2020 \'An unsettling, sinewy

c.1000 AD: Erik the Red\'s daughter heads south from Greenland 1492: Christopher Columbus does not discover America 1531: the Incas invade Europe Civilisations is the world as we don\'t know it: set at different points in history it links stories about characters in different places and times, all hungry to explore and to acquire power. Freydis is a woman warrior and leader of a band of Viking explorers

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES starring Anya Taylor-Joy from Academy-Award nominee Scott Frank and BAFTA nominee Allan Scott \'Superb\' Time Out \'Mesmerizing\' Newsweek \'Gripping\' Financial Times \'Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years - for the pure pleasure and skill of it\' Michael Ondaatje \'Don\'t pick this up if you want a night\'s sleep\' Scotsman When she is sent to an orphanage

Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke\'s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage.

Bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben, invites you to reconnect with nature As soon as we step out of the door, nature surrounds. Thousands of small and large processes are taking place, details that are long often fascinating and beautiful.

Discover Dante\'s original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante\'s descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins.

This elegant hardback edition presents Lewis Carroll\'s best loved work, Alice\'s Adventures in Wonderland, with gilded page edges and original pen and ink illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.First published in 1865, this perennially popular tale follows the tale of curious Alice and her fall through the rabbit hole into a fantasy world filled with anthropomorphic and peculiar creatures, including the

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband.