Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

Writers and artists across the centuries, from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, and from the creator of the Luttrell Psalter in the 14th century to John Piper in the 20th, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things and woven them into their novels, poems...

Review: "The Weaver of Time's Tapestry has finally succeeded in twisting the threads of history into a new shape; the Luftwaffe have pushed the RAF to the brink, and the invasion barges have reached the beaches of Sussex and Kent. Britain wakes up to the nightmare of the Wermacht unleashed in Sou...

A new paperback edition based on Webster's New World College Dictionary, fifth edition, the official dictionary of the AP.

A Hebrew-English, English-Hebrew dictionary that features more than 50,000 entries, a pronunciation key, and more.

From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?' to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year's weather; and from 'I've forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter' to 'Excuse me... is this book edible?' This book includes top 'Weird Things' from bookshops...

Welcome to Story Club, where the tales are true, twisted and usually TMI. This bumper collection contains highlights from a decade of live storytelling from the Big Chair at the legendary show that's now a hit podcast. Edited by Club founders Zoe Norton Lodge and Ben Jenkins, the stories are by t...

Review: "Korea's premier poet, the former Buddhist monk Ko Un, presents 108 Zen poems. These "thought-stopping Koan-like mental firecrackers" (as Allen Ginsberg called them) let us taste, hear, smell, and see the absurdities and miracles of daily life. Accompanied by Ko Un's own brush-painting il...