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First published in 1909, this title has often been likened to "Culture and Anarchy" though it is more sombre. It provides a penetrating, sceptical and unsettling anatomy of Edwardian England, seeing beneath the imperial splendour a society fissured into unnatural plenitude on the one hand and... an unnatural privation on the other.

I've learnt lots about making friends and making them laugh along the way. So I've decided to collect my favourite jokes together in this HA-HA-HA hilarious joke book. And best of all, I included your favourite jokes as well. Thank you, readers, for making me laugh too.Your funny friend, Humphrey

In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - his immigrant antecedents, his business dealings, his various addictions and his romantic attachments - Heylin is able to provide a fascinating picture of a man who changed the whole course of popular music in the sixties and, over thirty years later, won three Grammys. Heylin has given full weight to Dylan's own words and those of his closest associates, with over 250 people quoted in the book, helping...

A re-imagining of the Tarzan story for the 21st century. Aimed at readers aged 9+, this is a heart-stopping adventure with an ecological message that taps into the concerns of children today. Robbie Canler joins an illegal logging team in the Congo. But they are under siege from an unknown force. Then the daughter of the camp's boss, Jane Porter, goes missing. Are the rumours of a feral man raised by wild apes true? 2012 marks the centenary of...

To understand Lebanon's history is to understand the history of the entire region - and, with the rise of Hizbullah, it has come to assume a disproportionate, dangerous power of its own.

From the funked-up, messed-up Brookyn of the 1970s to the present day, this stunning novel spans thirty years in the life of two best friends, their families and an entire neighbourhood. From their stories comes the history of soul music, graffiti art, comic books, experimental film and 'rock writing'. A touching and intimate novel on an epic scale.

Reissues of 3 of Carey's classic historical novels, 2 of which won the Booker Prize. Repackaged to tie in with the paperback edition of "Parrot & Olivier In America", which was also nominated for the Booker.

Narrated by Kathy, now 31, this book hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, it is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

Paul Auster's SUNSET PARK is as mythic as it is contemporary. It is a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. But when Miles decides to go back to Brooklyn, he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the ...

Paperback edition of Carey's Booker shortlisted novel about a French aristocrat and his servant's trip to America in the 19th century. Carey has won the Booker Prize twice for his historical novels "Oscar & Lucinda" and "True History Of The Kelly Gang", which, along with "Jack Maggs", are reissued this month to tie in with this edition. Carey explores the adventure of American democracy, in theory and practice, with dazzling wit and inventiven...

Suitable as an accompaniment to "H G Wells in Love", which Wells drafted as Postscript to an "Experiment in Autobiography", this title relates his early life, student days, struggles to make a living, ascent to literary supremacy, and later career as prophet of socialism. It follows him from the beginnings of his thoughts to his conclusion.

He proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars, he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People', he could be generous yet hurled insults at his friends, he inveighed against Puritanism but was himself in many ways a Puritan: A L Rowse was a man of many contradictions. This book tells his story.

Concentrates on the young Disraeli's life: the tour through the Mediterranean and Near East which he undertook with the man who was intended to become his brother-in-law. The author traces the effects of the visit to Holy Land on Disraeli's view of his own position as a Jew converted to Christianity and an aspirant man-of-letters and politician.

Laura Ashley' became a global byword for a classic English country lifestyle. But behind the facade of the family-based business that bore both her name and the mark of her taste for 'a kind of scrubbed simple beauty' - what was Laura the woman really like? This title tells her story.

Enid Bagnold was born in 1889 and resolved from an early age to have it all: literary acclaim, social success, motherhood, marriage and lovers. This title explores the life of the gifted authoress of "National Velvet" and "The Chalk Garden".

Presents an history of the struggles of women to be admitted to professional journalism and so obtain the right to report from places where they were felt to have no place - most notably, war-zones. This title recounts the evolution of the woman reporter, from Miss Wreford during the Risorgimento and Lady Florence Dixie at the Boer War.

Academic anthropologist Stan Binstead is headed off to East Africa on sabbatical. Adulterous by nature, he's irked when his wife Millie asks to accompany him. But as the couple pass through London the balance of power in their marriage begins, strangely, to shift - a transformation that becomes yet more pronounced on safari.

Growing up in a small hotel in a shabby seaside town, lonely William 'Mackerel' Burton amuses himself by perfecting his conjuring tricks. In adult life his magic turns lethal as he stalks the streets of London - the butcher in rubber gloves, the acrobat called Death. He is the Sandman.

A study of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakof, Scriabin, and Borodin among others who were composers whose extraordinary musical accomplishments still left room in their lives for all manner of other interesting (and sometimes eccentric) activities.