Paperbacks

Synopsis Subtitled : Chris Bonnington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation. 'The Boys of Everest', which received enormous praise wh...

Synopsis Subtitled : Painting and Sculpture in Europe 1880-1940. Part of The Pelican History of Art Series edited by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner. Profes...

Synopsis Studying Scots Law provides a highly readable account of the educational and training requirements for entry into the Scottish legal profe...

Synopsis A personal code for prosperity and plenty. Some people seem to find money so easy. Easy to make, easy to hold on to, and easy to grow. The...

Synopsis An Olympic hero and a world champion in five weight divisions, Sugar Ray Leonard achieved phenomenal boxing success despite also having ...

Synopsis One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is ...

Synopsis Stephen Baxter now returns to the mysteries and challenges first hinted at in his acclaimed novel Proxima. In Proxima we discovered anci...

Synopsis One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. Jean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Ber...

Synopsis Classic tales by Laura Ingalls Wilder about life on the frontier and America's best-loved pioneer family.  The sun-kissed prairie stretc...

Synopsis Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly is a book by economist John Kay. It was inspired by an observation of the success...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016. A Radio 4 Book of the Week. In the spring of 1993,...

Synopsis So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a 2015 book by British journalist Jon Ronson about online shaming and its historical antecedents. The bo...

Synopsis A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death - from one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Un...

Synopsis On the night of 22 December 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames. 168 out of 169 passengers are ki...

Synopsis Long-Listed for The Orwell Prize 2020. In 1989 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is appar...

Synopsis The turn of the Nineteenth Century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles e...

.Synopsis Murdo, a teenager obsessed with music, dreams of a life beyond home. His recently widowed dad, Tom, stumbles towards the future, terrifie...

Synopsis After years of waiting, New York's newest subway line is finally ready - an express train that connects the city with the burgeoning com...

Synopsis Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming ve...

Synopsis Following the astonishing Plainsong and Eventide, this is Kent Haruf's third novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado. Short...

Synopsis Vespasian #7. AD 58: Rome is in turmoil once more. Emperor Nero has set his heart on a new wife but to clear a path for her, he must firs...

Synopsis Professor Lewis Dartnell takes us on an astonishing journey into our planet's past to tell the ultimate origin story. Blending geography...

Synopsis Split Second is the first in the gripping King and Maxwell series by bestselling author David Baldacci. When something distracts Secret Ag...

Synopsis Whether told in the rugby clubs of Wales or the gentlemen's clubs of London, their sharpness and simplicity unites us all. Short, sweet ...