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South of the Border, West of the Sun
"Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. ow ...
The Good Soldier
This title is presented with an introduction by Zoe Heller. "The Good Soldier" is a brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful ...
Emily Jane Bronte: The Complete Poems
The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed to her. Many poems describe the mythic country of...
Jamie's Food Tube: The Pasta Book
The fourth book in the Food Tube collection is a brilliant set of essential pasta recipes, covering ten basics, from Classic spaghetti carbonara to Ragù Bolognese, as well as forty beautiful dishes embracing each season, including Seafood linguine, Summer vegetable ravioli and Pumpkin lasagne. Authored ...
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
There was a time when no one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and '70s. But there was one m...
Home: Vintage Minis
Salman Rushdie, a self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', explores the true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of m...
The Street Sweeper
'Excellent... Harrowing, humane and brilliant.' - The Times (UK)How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on th...
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to fo...
Plays
In his day, W. Somerset Maugham was most celebrated as a playwright, and the breadth of his ability is manifested in this collection of his most popular plays. Included here are the noirish mystery The Sacred Flame, the hilarious satires The Circle, The Constant Wife, and Our Betters, and the sharp-witt...
What Zola Did on Thursday (#4)
Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a problem. No matter how much she tries, she can't keep out of trouble. Like on Thursday, when she and the gang form a band and upset their cranky neighbour, Mr Walton . . . Collect all ...
Feel Good: Quick and easy recipes for comfort and joy
Simple, healthy cooking from bestselling author and Telegraph columnist Melissa Hemsley. For fans of Melissa's Good + Simple (53k), Deliciously Ella Quick and Easy (53k), Diana Henry's A Change of Appetite (23k) and Anna Jones' One. 100 satisfying recipes for effortless everyday cooking, packed with ve...
Fifteen Seconds of Brave: The wisdom of survivors
In your darkest hour can you still find hope? In this intimate and insightful book, Melissa Doyle shares the stories of some of the most resilient people she has ever met, gently drawing out their wisdom, empathy and heartfelt practical advice for anyone who's going through a difficult time. When the wo...
Dearly: Poems
'A source of uncompromising elemental warmth' Ali SmithBy turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in flux, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embe...
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