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The Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner

With an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury James Hogg's most ambitious prose work, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, is now widely ac...

PMC Venus In Furs

'Venus in Furs' describes the obsessions of Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman who desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von D...

Noose

Gentleman detective Anthony Gethryn is in a race against time to save an innocent man from the hangman's noose. Colonel Anthony Gethryn is recalled from a holiday in Spain to solve a mu...

The Nutcracker and The Strange Child

E.T.A. Hoffmann's famous tale The Nutcracker and the Mouse King may seem almost over-familiar as the inspiration for TcHaikovsky's equally famous ballet (in fact based on a French retelling of Hoffman...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Blackwater Sound

Compelling action and suspense in the Florida Keys and Bahamas - in the atmospheric new thriller from a writer acclaimed by Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and Robert Crais. The Braswells had everythi...

The Neverness Cycle-The Wild

The awe-inspiring sequel to The Broken God Danlo the Wild has started his quest into the stars, beyond the limits of the known universe to search for three things: his father, half god, half hero, Mal...

Havana Best Friends

A moody slice of Cuban noir from the acclaimed author of Outcast: A masterful book ... passionate, frightening and extremely violent' Independent on Sunday Years ago, a fleeing Batista supporter repor...

Hesiod – Theogony, Works and Days, Shield

Hesiod belongs to the transitional period in Greek civilization between the oral tradition and the introduction of a written alphabet. His two major surviving works, the Theogony and the Works and D...

Desmond Tutu

History will remember Desmond Tutu, who has been called South Africa's Martin Luther King, Jr., as a great leader in the struggle against apartheid. In this new biography, which includes original quot...

Lone Traveller

'You don't have to be twenty, male and an ace mechanic to set out on a great journey. I've cycled round the world twice now. I'm not young, I'm not sporty, I never train and I still can't tell a sproc...

John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes is arguably the most important and influential economist of the twentieth century, and stands alongside Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of the most famous economic thinkers of all...