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A vivid and superbly written account of the unravelling of one of the great intellectual puzzles, set against the backdop of Europe in the Napoleonic era.

A guide to perfect punctuation for those who care about precise writing.

John Donne's poetry is marked by a scientific colloquial directness and a complex, even tortured, intelligence. It falls into two classes. There is the early ironic and erotic poetry that contains some of the finest English love poetry and also his later, religious poetry.

This text is a new translation of "The histories" of Herodotus. As well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. Included are tales of one-eyed men and gold-digging ants.

Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction. "The boy stood on the burning deck", "To be or not to be", "I wandered lonely as a cloud" - these verses and many more are to be found in this collection.

Bushnell, a columnist and social critic, trips on her Manolo Blahnik kitten heels on a drunken cocktail trail through New York, from the Baby Doll Lounge to the Bowery Bar. On her travels, she assembles a cast of freaks, wonders, wannabes and gossip-peddlars.

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A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything.

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'.

Biography on one of Britain's most extraordinary female literary figures. Winner of the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Book Award in 1993.

'I have nothing to declare', Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius'. A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great man. This collection demonstrates the brilliance of his vision, the audacity of his style.

Contains 61,000 dictionary entries; 13,000 thesaurus entries; and 3,000 other dictionary terms, such as biscotti, dot, and more.

The bestselling collection from Britain's best-loved poet and entertainer, Pam Ayres - now with extra new poems for the paperback edition

This is a collection of sports articles, interviews and opinions from Patrick Collins, five times winner of the Sports Writer of the Year Award. He has covered five World Cups, five Olympics, the Five Nations championships, World Boxing title fights and has interviewed key figures in every sport.

Published to outstanding critical acclaim in 1998, this work provides a collection of stories that reveal an extraordinarily visual imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility.

Taking you behind the scenes with reproductions of set drawings, costume designs and scene edits, this work features articles covering a range of topics including "In Production: Hamlet Through the Years", "Hamlet in Popular Culture", and "A Voice Coach's Perspective on Speaking Shakespeare". It also includes an audio CD.

This revised edition gives an insight into a world of erotic pleasure, offering hundreds of sensuous techniques, exciting postures and creative ideas for enriching loving, monogamous relationships.

Stevie Smith was a consummate performer of her own work and believed that only she could do justice to the qualities of humour and irony inherent in her witty, wry and often disturbing poems. This title collects 50 poems and songs recorded for the BBC over the period 1956-1968.

This is a collection of the literary works of the Florentine ruler and statesman, who was to emerge as one of the major poetic voices of the Florentine Renaissance. It focuses on his longer poems, which reflect the central concerns, activities and favourite ideas of the era.

Recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the simple Perceval, the thoughtful Bors, the rash Gawain, the weak Lancelot and the saintly Galahad - as they journey through danger and temptation to reach the elusive Holy Grail.

Describes the adventures of Odysseus, Greek warrior, as he strives to return to his home island of Ithaca after the Trojan War. This poem also describes his endurance, his love for his wife and son.

A examination of George Eliot's qualities as a novelist and an illustration of the deeper aspects of her works and literary outlook.

"The best of world fiction is categorised here - let the journey commence!" The Daily Mail See the world through the eyes of some of the finest foreign writers with this accessible guide. Hundreds of titles are featured from every continent, searchable by region, city or travel related theme. Discover your next great read...

A series of essays in which Barthes seeks to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals, gestures and messages through which western society sustains, sells, identifies and yet obscures itself.

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