Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell (West Nathanael)(Paperback / softback)

Day of the Locust and the Dream Life of Balso Snell (West Nathanael)(Paperback / softback)

Day of the Locust (West Nathanael)(Paperback / softback)

Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study (Light James F.)(Paperback)

This study of the novels of Nathanael West begins with the important threads of West's life and their relationship to his works. James Light gives a detailed analysis of each of West's novels, investigating in particular the works' treatment of social criticism and manipulation of dream and

Female Soldier - Or, The Surprising Life and Adventures of Hannah Snell (Snell Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

Orientalist - In Search of a Man caught between East and West (Reiss Tom)(Paperback / softback)

The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world. Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to research the oil business on the Caspian Sea, and

Victorian Muslim - Abdullah Quilliam and Islam in the West(Paperback / softback)

A timely reconsideration of the life and times of one of the West's most prominent Muslim

Today Is The Last Day Of The Rest Of Your Life (Lust Ulli)(Paperback / softback)

Man on the Moon - a day in the life of Bob (Bartram Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Fall Of The West - The Death Of The Roman Superpower (Goldsworthy Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman

Doctor (M. George Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

Step inside the life of Doctor Miranda and discover the challenges that each day

Day in the Life of the Brain - The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn Till Dusk (Greenfield Baroness Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Diana: Her Last Love (Snell Kate)(Paperback / softback)

An insight into Diana's world and a thorough interpretation of events central to the last years of her life. Reissue includes an afterword reflecting on Diana's legacy and addressing current royal

Faithful (West Juliet)(Paperback / softback)

A novel of love, deception and desire from the author of Before the

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars - Space, Exploration and Life on Earth (Greene Kate)(Paperback / softback)

A powerful reflection on life in isolation, in pursuit of the dream of

The Angel of the West Window (Meyrink Gustav)(Paperback)

A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwines past and present, dreams and visions, myth and reality in a world of the occult, culminating in the transmutation of physical reality into a higher spiritual

Hidden Wyndham - Life, Love, Letters (Binns Amy)(Paperback / softback)

John Wyndham redefined science fiction with dystopian classics The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos. In Hidden Wyndham, Amy Binns reveals the woman who was the inspiration for his strong-minded heroines. Their secret love affair sustained this gentle and desperately shy man through

Orlando (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)

A 'fantastical biography' inspired by the life of the flamboyant writer Vita-Sackville-West, Orlando is an amusing and eccentric jeu d'esprit, as well as a groundbreaking exploration of gender

Wake Up - A Life of the Buddha (Kerouac Jack)(Paperback / softback)

A biography of the founder of Buddhism and a study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. It recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. It offers an

Degas and the Little Dancer(Paperback / softback)

The life and art of Degas are seen through the eyes of a

Vertigo Years - Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914 (Blom Philipp)(Paperback / softback)

A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World

Portrait Of A Marriage - Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (Nicolson Nigel)(Paperback / softback)

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. 'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments'

Kon-Tiki Expedition (Heyerdahl Thor)(Paperback / softback)

This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years

Lost Railways of Limerick and the South West (Johnson Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Yesterday (Emar Juan)(Paperback / softback)

Over the course of a single day - the day before today - the hero of this novel and his adored wife embark on a journey through the absurd and the surreal, encountering a choir of monkeys and a carnivorous ostrich, travelling from the studio of an artist obsessed with the colour green to the