Paperbacks

Synopsis Subtitled : A guide to spiritual enlightenment. 20th Anniversary Edition. The bestselling self-help book of its generation - which has now...

Synopsis Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door wit...

Synopsis Athlete, activist, rebel, poet, legend - Muhammad Ali stood larger than life in the imagination of hundreds of millions of people around t...

Synopsis Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks E...

Synopsis Winner of the Bancroft Prize. This first volume in "The Americans" trilogy defines the unique qualities of the American nation and redisco...

Synopsis Make the most of your time with The Rough Guide to Scotland, your ultimate companion to this stunning country. The full-colour section int...

Synopsis At 19, Michael Dell started his company as a freshman at the University of Texas with $1,000 and has since built an industry powerhouse. I...

Synopsis Dr. Phil D' Amato returns following The Silk Code, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, with another bl...

Synopsis This is an exploration of the 21st Century. On the surface nothing seems to be changing, but behind the façade of normality the future is ...

Synopsis Amazon revolutionized the way the world buys books. And now, after having toppled the bookselling giants (and mostly everyone else) on-lin...

Synopsis Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of ...

Synopsis Yambo, a sixty-ish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory - he can remember the plot of every book he has ever...

Synopsis “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part o...

Synopsis The No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and adven...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Orange & Booker prizes. First in a series of 3 novels. Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret ...