Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire - A Confidential Report (Sinclair Iain)(Paperback / softback)

Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire - A Confidential Report (Sinclair Iain)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary fiction seeks to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympic Park gnawing at its

Old Buckie (Sinclair Iain)(Paperback / softback)

Rodinsky's Room (Sinclair Iain)(Paperback / softback)

Combining the history of East End London with a personal quest, this book weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own

Cannibal (Sinclair Safiya)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful debut collection from Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair that draws on our colonial history and speaks powerfully to our present

London Orbital (Sinclair Iain)(Paperback / softback)

Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when the author sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. This book deals with the author's voyage of discovery into the unloved

London Overground - A Day's Walk Around the Ginger Line (Sinclair Iain)(Paperback / softback)

Explores modern London through a day's hike around the London Overground

Beast in the Red Forest (Eastland Sam)(Paperback / softback)

A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is

Peace Work (Milligan Spike)(Paperback / softback)

From the giddy heights of Hackney Empire to a Zurich Freak Show and beyond, the author makes his way through backwaters of showbiz, first as band musician then as one-man wild-act and eventually in the company of a group of like-minded comedians called Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter

Living with Buildings - And Walking with Ghosts - On Health and Architecture (Sinclair Iain)(Paperback / softback)

One of Britain's finest writers embarks on a journey to explore the relationship between our health and the buildings that surround

Islamic Empires - Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization (Marozzi Justin)(Paperback / softback)

Babbitt (Lewis Sinclair)(Paperback / softback)

Realising that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for a greater purpose. In the economic boom years of 1920s' America, Babbitt became a symbol of middle-class mediocrity, and his name an enduring part of the American

All's Happy that Ends Happy (Lagercrantz Rose)(Paperback / softback)

Stone's Fall (Pears Iain)(Paperback / softback)

John Stone, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents, has been found dead in mysterious

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway Ernest)(Paperback / softback)

'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony BurgessHigh in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital

End of Average - How to Succeed in a World That Values Sameness (Rose Todd)(Paperback / softback)

Black Dahlia, Red Rose - A 'Times Book of the Year' (Eatwell Piu)(Paperback / softback)

Red Rose of Anjou - (Plantagenet Saga) (Plaidy Jean (Novelist))(Paperback / softback)

When Henry VI becomes king, it is soon clear that he would be better suited to a quiet life than to ruling the

Nuts! and Is That My Ball? - (Red Early Reader) (Jinks Jenny)(Paperback / softback)

Imperium (Kapuscinski Ryszard Kapuscinski)(Paperback / softback)

'The most passionate, engaging and historically profound account of the Soviet empire that I have read.' - Michael

Fireman Bill and Catch That Crab! - (Red Early Reader) (Dale Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Get That Broom! and Fizz! Wizz! - (Red Early Reader) (Dale Katie)(Paperback / softback)

Petra - The Rose-Red City (Auge Christian)(Paperback / softback)

Deep in the Jordanian desert lies the hidden rose red city of Petra, carved directly out of the solid rock that rises in sharp ridges above the sands. Recent excavations provide new information about this mysterious, beautiful and dramatic

Sowing Empire - Landscape And Colonization (Casid Jill H.)(Paperback / softback)

Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping--landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century--are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the 'nabobs' to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford's

Kublai Khan (Man John)(Paperback / softback)

Using China's great wealth, coupled with his shrewd and subtle government, he created an empire that was the greatest since the fall of Rome, and shaped the modern world as we know it