Life of Elves (Barbery Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Life of Elves (Barbery Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

The villagers had never seen anything like it: dense white curtains of snow that instantly transformed the landscape. Not in autumn, not here in Burgundy. And on the same night a baby was discovered, dark-eyed little Maria, who would transform all their

Elegance of the Hedgehog (Barbery Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Gourmet (Barbery Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

France's greatest food critic is dying, after a lifetime in single-minded pursuit of sensual

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Barrington Stoke Edition (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Muriel Spark's timeless and eternally modern novel of power and influence, brought to life for a new age of readers in a stunning dyslexia-friendly

South of Forgiveness (Elva Thordis)(Paperback / softback)

Penguin's Poems for Life (Barber Laura)(Paperback / softback)

Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this anthology brings together the poems in English. Beginning with babies, it is divided into sections on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death,

Girls Of Slender Means (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Strange Country (Barbery Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Alejandro de Yepes and Jes s Rocamora, young officers in the Spanish regular army, are stationed alone at Castillo when a friendly redhead named Petrus appears out of nowhere. There is something magnetic and deeply mysterious about him. Alejandro and Jes s are bewitched, and, in the middle of the

The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Barbery Muriel)(Paperback)

The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that 'explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building' (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant h tel particulier in Paris, Ren e, the concierge, is all but invisible--short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an

Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Comforters (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Muriel Spark's stunning debut

Selected Poems (Rukeyser Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-80) was one of the most significant and influential American poets of the 20th century. Her poetry confronts the turbulent currents of modern history as it explores with depth and honesty the realms of politics, sexuality, mythic imagination, technological change and family

Memento Mori (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant, daring and darkly funny novel by Muriel Spark, 'mistress of the highest high comedy' (The Times). Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern

Loch of the Dead - Frey & McGray Book 4 (Muriel Oscar de)(Paperback / softback)

Question Mark (Jaeger Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

In 1926 Muriel Jaeger set out to explore `The Question Mark' of what a future society might look like if human nature were properly represented. The result is a pioneering science fiction novel and forerunner of the now-familiar genre of dystopia, in which the utopian society of the future is not

Spark's Satire - Aiding and Abetting: The Abbess of Crewe: Robinson (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Anarchic, irreverent and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark's satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British

Gardener's Nightcap (Stuart Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Unfinished Palazzo - Life, Love and Art in Venice (Mackrell Judith)(Paperback / softback)

`The best gallimaufry of gossip and scandal I have read in years' Lynn Barber, Sunday

Farewell to France (Barber Noel)(Paperback / softback)

A rich, sweeping novel of love and war from the author of

Ballad of Peckham Rye (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the

Elves and the Shoemaker (English/Spanish) (Barkow Henriette)(Paperback / softback)

Encyclopedia of Life(Paperback / softback)

Girls Of Slender Means (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

A title written by the author of novels such as 'Memento Mori' (1959), 'The Ballad of Peckham Rye' (1960), 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (1961), 'The Girls of Slender Means' (1963), and 'Aiding and Abetting'

Finishing School (Spark Muriel)(Paperback / softback)

Now available as a stunning Canon'A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and darker' ALI