What to do if Matthew, your secret lover of the past four years, finally decides to leave his wife Sophie and their two daughters and move into your flat, just when you`re thinking that you might not want him anymore....
Featuring villains and idealists, profiteers and killers, superpowers and revolutionaries, "The Gun" tells the incredible story of how the Kalashnikov has transformed the way we fight, and changed our world.
It will come as no surprise to anyone that Jeremy Clarkson loves machines. But it`s not just any old bucket of bolts, cogs and bearings that puts that rings his bell. In fact, he`s scoured the length and and breadth...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, whom he`ll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert?...
Why isn`t globalization benefitting as many people as it should? Joseph Stiglitz shows us that things can change and that an optimistic world can exist where globalization really does work. Stiglitz examines how...
Masters and Commanders: Military Geniuses
"Masters and Commanders" describes how four titanic figures shaped the grand strategy of the West during the Second World War. Each was exceptionally tough-willed and strong minded, and each was certain that he knew...
Memoirs of my Melancholy Whores
`The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin`. He has never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn`t pay. But on finding a young...
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. But Barbara is not the only one to feel that Sheba Hart is special, and...
Our neighbours divide into the haves and the have yachts. Meet Mimi and Clare, two married women making the most of their Notting Hill postcode. New best friends, and close neighbours, that doesn`t stop them being...
Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they`ll find...
Set in New England mainly and London partly, "On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching...
On Suicide (Penguin Great Ideas)
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked...
"This rambling, chatty audiobook draws listeners in slowly (sometimes painstakingly so) as it follows the lives of three dynamic women - jilted Gemma Hogan; literary agent Jojo Harvey; and bestselling English author...
