The Lives of the Novel: A History (Pavel Thomas G.)(Paperback)

The Lives of the Novel: A History (Pavel Thomas G.)(Paperback)

A bold new account of the history of the novel, from ancient Greece to the present This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's

The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas (Janes Hilly)(Paperback)

In The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas, journalist Hilly Janes explores the poet's life and extraordinary legacy through the eyes of her father, the artist Alfred Janes. A member of Thomas's inner circle, he painted the poet at three key moments: in 1934, 1953 and, posthumously in 1964, portraits which

Armies of the Night - History as a Novel / The Novel as History (Mailer Norman)(Paperback / softback)

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy (Hardy Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from

Look Homeward, Angel (Wolfe Thomas)(Paperback)

The spectacular, history-making first novel about a young man's coming of age by literary legend Thomas Wolfe, first published in 1929 and long considered a classic of twentieth century literature. A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory (Christensen Thomas)(Paperback)

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory is the first comprehensive history of Western music theory to be published in the English language. A collaborative project by leading music theorists and historians, the volume traces the rich panorama of music-theoretical thought from the Ancient

Viking Britain - A History (Williams Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields.To many, the word `Viking' brings to mind red scenes of rape and pillage, of

The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History (Walker David F.)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD - A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Black Panther Party. Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky)(Paperback)

Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The contributors to this volume navigate new territory in literary theory with essays that implicitly challenge the 'hermeneutic of suspicion' widespread in current critical theory. In a stunning introductory

Cuba - A History (Thomas Hugh)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the whole sweep of Cuban history from the British capture of Havana in 1762 through the years of Spanish and United States domination, down to the twentieth century and the extraordinary revolution of Fidel Castro. This book analyses the political, economic and social events that have

The French Revolution (Carlyle Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the

Bread, Beer and the Seeds of Change: Agriculture's Imprint on World History (Sinclair Thomas R.)(Paperback)

The history of humankind is intimately tied to the history of agriculture: powerful societies rose, persisted and waned in parallel with their food supply systems. Describing what crops were grown, the constraints on their production, and the foods that were obtained, this book traces the impact of

Fugitive Blue (Thomas Claire)(Paperback / softback)

The prize-winning debut novel from the author of The

Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes - A History of the Lives and Rituals of the Dervishes of Turkey (Friedlander Shems)(Paperback / softback)

Daughter of the House (Thomas Rosie)(Paperback / softback)

A stunning novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE KASHMIR

Golden Thread - How Fabric Changed History (Clair Kassia St)(Paperback / softback)

A new history of ingenuity from the author of The Secret Lives of

Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine (Morris Thomas)(Paperback / softback)

The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse (Tunc Ayfer)(Paperback)

The Highly Unreliable Account of the Brief History of a Madhouse is an ever-expanding novel that moves at a dizzying pace. A literary panorama of Turkey that defies boundaries spatial or temporal: one end in the 19th century, and the other in the 21st. A book of 'human landscapes' that startles

The Old Way: A Story of the First People (Thomas Elizabeth Marshall)(Paperback)

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas was nineteen when her father took his family to live among the Bushmen of the Kalahari. Fifty years later, after a life of writing and study, Thomas returns to her experiences with the Bushmen, one of the last hunter-gatherer societies on earth, and discovers among them an

The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber (Tully John)(Paperback)

A history of the modern world told through the multiple lives of rubber Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world 'dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.' He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitive

The Real Lives of Roman Britain (de la Bdoyre Guy)(Paperback)

An innovative, informative, and entertaining history of Roman Britain told through the lives of individuals in all walks of life The Britain of the Roman Occupation is, in a way, an age that is dark to us. While the main events from 55 BC to AD 410 are little disputed, and the archaeological

The Rainbow (Lawrence D. H.)(Paperback)

Lawrence's classic novel chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen family in Nottinghamshire. Increasingly, the story focuses on Ursula, and follows her development through adolescence and early

Half Lives - The Unlikely History of Radium (Santos Lucy Jane)(Paperback / softback)

Lucy Jane Santos presents the surprising history of radium in everyday

Legacy - The Difficult History of J Lyons and the Family Behind It (Harding Thomas)(Paperback / softback)