In constant trouble with the Chinese authorities and in danger of being marked out as a counter-revolutionary , this novel's narrator moves between his childhood, the Cultural Revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s and the tentative, limited liberations of the 1990s.

This collection of short stories are about country life and the open air and were first published in the 1950s. Patrick O'Brian is the author of Clarissa Oakes , The Wine-Dark Sea and Testimonies .

A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels.

Never before have we attempted to measure as much as we do today. Why are we so obsessed with numbers? What can they really tell us?

This story describes the experiences of a group of people on a trip to Turkey. Aunt Dot is set on the emancipation of Turkish women through the encouragement of a wider use of the bathing hat, whilst Laurie's only object is pleasure.

On a lake deep in the Minnesota woods, Kathy Wade comforts her husband John, a rising political star, after a devastating electoral defeat. But it is clear that something is horribly wrong between them - too much has been hidden. Then Kathy vanishes, along with their boat.

A satirical romp through the corridors of the Foreign Office as Patrick Stubbs is posted as third secretary in the British Embassy in Lower Africa. Mayhem awaits him - an absent-minded ambassador, a bullying first secretary with a dipsomaniac wife, and a crush on the police chief's wife.

A collection of poetry casting light upon the world we live in, and upon the darker corners of the self. The book tries to make sense of a world which is chaotic with unemployment, in-and-out affairs, street violence, hip vicars and terrorism among many other themes.

'In Richard Fortey's capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic -- a remarkable and fascinating book.' SIMON WINCHESTER

'A great, shivery, seductive read.' Elle

Winner of two major European prizes, this funny, quirky chronicle of a family of Dutch clockmakers is a bestseller in the Netherlands.

An anthology of writings and photographs celebrating the outstanding contribution of one of the country's most distinguished and enduring travel writers, and the century's greatest living explorer.

A collection of Penelope Fitzgerald's short stories.

A savagely satirical tale of marital revenge.