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On the outskirts of a concentration camp in northern Bohemia three people - two eighteen-year-old men and a desperately lost young woman, Leah - are thrown together, sharing their precarious existence in an attic room.

Beautiful, disturbing and a pleasure to read, Ruth Padel's new poems are her most ambitious yet, adding animal legend and zoological science to her glitteringly imaginative canvas.

We follow his meteoric journey from child prodigy to Whig parliamentary orator, then imperial administrator and liberal reformer in India, and later Cabinet minister, revered elder statesman and famed historian back in Britain.

These beautifully designed, entertaining little books explore the whole spectrum of life - from birth to death, and everything in between.Each short, stylish book sees a great contemporary or classic writer from the award-winning Vintage list take on a different subject.

An accessible poetry anthology containing 366 poems from around the world which have been chosen according to season or to commemorate a particular event.

How successful has Britain been in the twentieth century?

Animal Person is a collection of startling juxtapositions. Criminals and bystanders, siblings and strangers, infants, adolescents, young parents, and the elderly, mammals, reptiles and fish: unexpected encounters occur and every meeting is an opportunity for recognition or rejection.An empty-nest couple, separated after years of coexisting, find themselves pulled into the dreams of their silent, gazing rabbit, a mysterious passenger in search ...

I adore this book! ... An Experiment in Leisure shows us the burning, intense, messy beauty of youth and what it means to be alive' Maxine Peake 'Can I get a refund?' I asked the bus driver. 'You taking the piss, love?' It's January 2015, and Grace is supposed to have what she wants. She's swapped West Yorkshire for north London, her accent carefully edited and with a Cambridge degree under her belt. Her friends drink beer out of artful tins. ...

He had been, Kruger realised, 'the typical child of innocuous Germans who were never Nazis, and without whom the Nazis would never have been able to do their work'. This world of respectability, order and duty began to crumble when tragedy struck.

Many believe - wrongly, as it turns out - that under Franco's dictatorship, nothing truthful or imaginatively worthwhile could be said or written or created. In the four decades since Franco's death foreign narratives - For Whom the Bell Tolls, Casablanca, Homage to Catalonia - still have greater credibility than Spanish ones.

E.F. Schumacher argues that philosophy should provide a 'map' of life and knowledge which places the most important aspects of life in their correct prioritised place, and that we have too long depended on science to explain the mysteries of our lives and the universe. Reissue, to tie in with the centenary of his birth.

Taking a wry, down-to-earth and humorous look at life with young children, it taps into the very normal, but hard-to-admit ambivalence that so many parents feel about raising kids.

A portrait of the unconventional marriage between British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and his wife Mary Anne, now in paperback. From the author of "Young Romantics".

Emily Mayhew is the author of Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918. She is Research Associate at Imperial College and consultant and lecturer to various museums including the Wellcome Collection, the Imperial War Museum and the Royal College of Surgeons. Her first book, The Reconstruction of Warriors, was published in 2004. Emily¿s primary research interest is the history of the medical treatment of severe casualty in 20th and 21st ...

After the far-flung charms of "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel", Deborah Moggach moves to the Welsh countryside in her new comic novel.

In this unique and compelling anthology, Sebastian Faulks and Jorg Hensgen have collected the best fiction about war in the twentieth century. Ranging from the First World War to the Gulf War, these stories depict a soldier's experience from call-up, battle and comradeship, to leave, hospital and trauma in later life.

On 14 September 2003 Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, was arrested in Basra by British troops and taken to a military base for questioning. Williams tells the inside story of this crime and its aftermath, exposing the casual brutality, bureaucratic apathy, and instituional failure to hold people criminally responsible for Mousa's death.

Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. The history of great men loses its way in the stories of ordinary great-grandparents, grandparents and parents, including the historian's own.

It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling climate catastrophe. Social order is crumbling and private security firms have undermined the police force. On the rain-soaked streets, a man searches for his missing wife and finds himself on the trail of a serial killer known as 'The HEALER'. Atmospheric and moving, this is a story of survival, loyalty and determination in desperate times.

In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered, Mary Magdalene's account of Jesus' teaching and her relationship with him.