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Everywhere he looks he discovers only fragments - strange notes, boxes of marbles, undated postcards. Along the way he meets others building wholes from bits and pieces - taxonomists, ecologists, even travel agents - and begins to puzzle out his future.

Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His novels include Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist), Star of the Sea (Irish Post Award for Fiction, France's Prix Millepages, Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year), Redemption Falls, and Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel, 2011). In 2012 he won the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature. His work has been published in thirty-five languages. www.josep...

First published in Paris in 1949, a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Since then, this has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism.

KITCHEN tells the story of the life of the kitchen, through the food we eat now and the way we live, in the most important room of the house. As well as offering the reader a mouthwatering array of new recipes- from clams with chorizo to Guinness gingerbread, from Asian braised beef to flourless chocolate lime cake - Nigella rounds up her KITCHEN Kit Must-Haves (and, just as importantly tells us what we don't need), highlights individual ingre...

Cookery is not necessarily a subject one immediately associates with the author - one of Britain's most distinguished historians and commentators. This title presents a selection of his occasional writings that range: from cookery and family to Barack Obama, from preaching and Shakespeare to Victorian sages.

Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects in...

A funny, bittersweet novel about two weddings and a divorce, parents, family myth and memory

France, India and the revolt of the American colonies all had an impact on the business of the House during the second half of the eighteenth century, as detailed in these volumes of the History of Parliament.

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Oliver and Gillian are settled into a comfortable marriage, they have a child, Gillian is successful, Oliver is not. When Stuart returns from America, rich, divorced, a successful entrepreneur, the scene is set for the wheel to turn.

A new edition of Hillary's memoirs of his time as a fighter pilot in WWII, first published in 1942, months before he died. With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks, who wrote about Hillary in "The Fatal Englishmen".

Subtitled, "Adventures In A Megacity". An extraordinary portrait of one of the world's largest cities. 'A wild, spiralling wonder of a book...' Rory Maclean, "Guardian

Roth's short novel (his 30th) now comes in paperback. Simon Axler, once the leading stage actor of his generation, is now in his 60s and has lost his magic, talent and confidence. With his wife and audience gone, how can he make a comeback? 'There is a clarity, almost a ruthlessness to his work, which makes the experience of reading any of his books a bracing, wild ride... He is the great postwar chronicler of America... He is the last of the ...

A one-volume narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, written in the racy, readable prose for which Norwich is famous. The Mediterranean has nurtured three dazzling civilisations, three great religions and links three of the worlds six continents.

Alison Lurie is Professor of American Literature at Cornell University. Foreign Affairs won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 and The Truth About Lorin Jones won the Prix Femina Etranger in 1989.

China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was launched by the Chinese Communist Party in May 1966 and it ended with the death of Mao in 1976. Contemporary Chinese art exists as a reaction against the conformity of those years, yet a spirit of rebellion, ironically, lies at the heart of the revolution itself.

Laurent Fignon was born in Paris in 1960. He won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and the Giro d'Italia in 1989. In June 2009, Fignon revealed that he was being treated for advanced intestinal cancer and he died in August 2010.

Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. Along with his fellow operatives, he is planning something big, something truly, truly awful, to bring this big dumb country's fat inhabitants to their knees.

The only clue to her identity is a handbill found nearby, advertising a public lecture by Albert Einstein: 'On the Present State of Quantum Theory'. There the inheritor of Einstein's genius - his youngest son, Eduard - is writing a book that will destroy his illustrious father and, in the process, change the world.