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‘I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever’ Mary Shelley’s dark story of a bereaved man’s disturbing passion for his daughter was suppressed by her own father, and not published for over…

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man’s dream and a woman”s nightmare. She is also dead….

***THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*** `Fans of Cloud Atlas and Never Let Me Go will love The History of Bees’ Good Housekeeping `Dystopian and electric, this book is set to blow minds everywhere’ Stylist ‘Haunting…

The Fleabag bites back. A rip-roaring account of some sort of female living her sort of life. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s debut play is an outrageously funny monologue for a female performer. It premiered at the 2013…

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company….

The storytelling genius of Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and Stardust, is one dazzling display in the variety of Smoke and Mirror’s original and brilliant short pieces….

In 2011, Lynn Nottage began spending time with the people of Reading, Pennsylvania: officially one of the poorest cities in the USA. During the following two years, she dug deep into the forgotten heart of…

WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham – aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of…

Relive the beauty and magic of Cecily Mary Barker’s Flower Fairies of the Spring, now with a brand new enchanting cover. Since the publication of Cicely Mary Barker’s first book in 1923, the Flower Fairies…

This easy and fun approach to learning the piano has a modern look with clear and straight-forward layout plus amusing new characters who help emphasise the information being taught. As new notes are introduced, the…

The buzzing life of bars, warm evenings by the Manzanares river, the subterranean terrors of the Metro, icy winters and hot, empty summers, student days in the sixties, the ruthless underworld of the city’s mafia…

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility Why should…