THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the...
It takes patience and enthusiasm to get a guide to Moscow right. The author of The Rough Guide to Moscow lived in the city, married a Russian, and survived the storming of the White House (he was outside, not inside)...
"The Rough Guide to Moscow" is the definitive guide to one of Europe`s most fascinating and rewarding cities. The full-colour introduction covers the awe-inspiring Kremlin and The Red Square and includes the essential...
The Rough Guide to St Petersburg
Explore every corner of St Petersburg, using the clearest maps of any guide. Choose where to go and what to see, inspired by dozens of photos. Read expert background on everything from the flamboyant Baroque of the...
The Subterraneans haunt the bars and clubs of San Francisco, surviving on a diet of booze and benzedrine, Proust and Verlaine. Living amongst them is Leo, an aspiring writer, and Mardou, half-Indian, half-Negro,...
Written during Chekhov`s late twenties and early thirties, these stories are the work of a young writer in dialogue with his masters: Tolstoy, Gogol, and Furgenes. The stories-"The Steppe," "Panpipes," "The Kiss,"...
After ten years of marriage, Kit and Port Moresby have drifted apart and are sexually estranged. Avoiding the chaos of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, they travel to the remote North African desert....
It`s been 110 years since Frederick Warne published Beatrix Potter`s very first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and in celebration, we are delighted to be publishing special editions of her entire body of work. Unlike...
