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Elizabeth II: The Steadfast
Just as this book is being published, Elizabeth II will become the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has spent significant periods of time in her company, and is also a distinguished historian, portrays her more
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood
`I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art. It should be issued as a set text in every school` Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Now Grayson Perry is a fully paid-up member of the art establishment, he wants to show that any of us can appreciate art (after all, there is a reason
The Art of Flight
`Although there is much in this world that is incomprehensible, you can nevertheless discover a meaning as long as you have managed to limit your field of search.` Fredrik Sjoberg – collector, romantic, explorer – spends his life tracing the smallest details of the natural world. In these two beautifully wrought tales he meditates on
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
This book is the winner of the Longman`s History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature. More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been dreaming ever since of a `new` Trafalgar – a cataclysmic encounter
The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity
`Orthodoxy claims to be universal…` `Since its first publication fifty years ago, Timothy Ware`s book has become established throughout the English-speaking world as the standard introduction to the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy continues to be a subject of enormous interest among western Christians, and the author believes that an understanding of its standpoint is necessary before
The Money Machine: How the City Works
What happens in the City has never affected us more. In this excellent guide, now fully revised and updated, leading financial journalist Philip Coggan cuts through the headlines, the scandals and the jargon to explain the nuts and bolts of the financial system. What causes the pound to rise or interest rates to fall? Which
Citizen: An American Lyric
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD 2015WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 2015`Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. Get on the ground. Get on the ground now. Then
Conquistadores
NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TABLET AND THE LADY`This book is a terrific read … I could not put it down` Matthew Restall, Literary ReviewThe `conquistadores`, the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own
The Complete Short Fiction
Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners – the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde`s name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in `Lord Arthur Savile`s Crime` and `The Canterville Ghost`, and society`s materialism comes
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
`Required reading for anyone remotely curious about how they came to be remotely curious` Observer`Enthralling` Spectator What is human consciousness and how is it possible? These questions fascinate thinking people from poets and painters to physicists, psychologists, and philosophers. This is Daniel C. Dennett`s brilliant answer, extending perspectives from his earlier work in surprising directions,
The Time Machine
When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture now weak
The Map and the Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. How had our models so utterly failed us? Virtually every day, we make wagers on the future – but, even when we`re not driven by factors
Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul
Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the inheritor of his fortune. Thrown dramatically into the upper classes, he struggles desperately to
Maurice
Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive`s country estate, Maurice gradually experiences
The Man Who Would be King: Selected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the `Indian` stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism
Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature
`Anthology` comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands – a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind the colour & fragrance of the fields, of a season. Coelho`s anthology, therefore, is not only a collection of
We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog
An extremely very good book all about Charlie and Lola! Lola loves dogs. So when Charlie takes Lola and her friend Lotta to the park with his friend Marv and Marv`s dog Sizzles, Lola is thrilled. Marv lets her and Lotta look after Sizzles on the promise that they don`t let him off the lead.
But Excuse Me That is My Book
Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies is Lola`s absolute favourite book ever in the whole wide world. So naturally she is distraught when it`s not at the library. Someone else has borrowed it! Charlie tries everything he can think of to placate her but nothing is ever going to beat Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies. That is, until
Charlie and Lola: Snow is My Favourite and My Best
A extremely and very good snowy story all about Charlie and Lola! Lola can`t wait for it to snow. `Snow is my favourite and my best,` she says. It snows all through the night and in the morning everything is extremely, completely white! Charlie and Lola play in the snowy park with their friends –
Emma
The definitive text of Jane Austen`s penetrating and sparkling satire, “Emma”, this “Penguin Classics Edition” includes an introduction by Fiona Stafford. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, rich – and fiercely independent – is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the
