Arts, Language & Literature
A Taste for Death
Peter O'Donnell
In the fourth instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must save a young woman from the criminal underworld
The Cobra Trap
Peter O'Donnell
The final collection of pulse-pounding short stories featuring the iconic heroine Modesty Blaise
Medici Money
Tim Parks
Lucky for Italy that Tim Parks decided to live there and write about his new home. His books instruct and entertain. His acute sense of people and his…
Letters To Lily
Alan MacFarlane
A sweeping tour d'horizon … deep-thinking, wide-ranging essays on identity and society couched in simple, sturdy prose … charming.
Gilgamesh
Stephen Mitchell
Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh is a wonderful version. It is as eloquent and nuanced as his translations of Rilke. This is certainly the best that…
The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000
Diarmaid Ferriter
This is a landmark book, full of insight and intelligent judgement and sheer diligent research, which deals with the complexity of the Irish revolutio…
Dead Man's Handle
Peter O'Donnell
In the eleventh instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin are pitted against one another in a terrifying fight to…
Modesty Blaise
Peter O'Donnell
In the first of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must foil a multi million pound diamond heist
Da Vinci Notebooks
Leonardo da Vinci
A dazzling array of invention, insight and observation from perhaps the greatest genius of Western civilisation. Towering across time as the painter o…
State Building
Francis Fukuyama
A hugely important book – Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building
Building A Better Business
Patrick Dixon
Mr Dixon has a heavyweight reputation in the business world with the Wall Street Journal hailing him as a "global change guru" … One of th…
The Alhambra
Robert Irwin
This highly readable study provides both a welcome demystification and a fascinating reinterpretation
Dragon's Claw
Peter O'Donnell
In the ninth instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must solve a series of baffling art world murders
I, Lucifer
Peter O'Donnell
In the third instalment of the bestselling Modesty Blaise series, Modesty and Willie Garvin must discover the truth behind a series of mysterious and…
An End to Poverty?
Gareth Stedman-Jones
[Stedman Jones] produces an argument that is not only powerful in its own right but should act as a stimulus and inspiration to others.
The Doctor and the Soul
Viktor E. Frankl
In this classic of psychotherapy, Dr Viktor Frankl lays out his theory of logotherapy.
The Art Of Seduction
Robert Greene
From the author of the multi-million copy bestseller The 48 Laws of Power and The Laws of Human Nature, a mesmerising handbook handbook on seduction