In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference

In the archives of the national library, a researcher named Linda sees a nine year-old girl\'s face in the pages of a yellowed newspaper, and the seed of an obsession is planted in her mind. Birgitta Sivander was brutally murdered one night in May 1948.

"If men no longer know what they are looking at, there may well be unicorns in the world yet, unknown and glad of it." Living in peace in her lilac wood, the Unicorn didn\'t know the world had changed, or that anything had happened to the rest of her kind. Overhearing a chance conversation, she resolves to venture out and discover the truth.

\'Cinema Love is not just an extraordinary debut but a future classic\' Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers\'A tender and enrapturing feat of storytelling\' Vanessa Chan, author of The Storm We Made\'Epic in its reach yet so intimate and nuanced in its ability to break the heart of its reader\' Wiz Wharton, author of Ghost Girl, BananaFor over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei

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Jane Eyre finds fulfilment in her duties as a governess and the love of her life in her employer Edward Rochester. But when a dark secret from Rochester\'s past comes to light, Jane must make the most difficult decision of her life.

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetry.

\'Graham Greene\'s beautiful and disturbing novel is filled with tenderness, humour, excitement and doubt\' The Times A leak is traced to a small sub-section of the secret service, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions.

Imagine how different our world would be if our ancestors had looked up and there were no stars . . . For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. One of our species\' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself, yet in the glow of today\'s artificial lighting, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos.

1971 - Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. \'The deeply atmospheric novel blends horror, science fiction, and historical events\' Time, 100 \'Must Read Books of 2022\'Carlota Moreau: growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict

Widely acclaimed since publication, John Fowles\' most beloved novel is the ultimate epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea.

A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark corners of Victorian sexuality. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to advise Count Dracula on a London home, he makes a horrifying discovery.

\'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have\' Literary Review. The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial.

\'One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius\' - David Walliams An international phenomenon and pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show, TV series, novel, stage play, comic book and film.

For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sheryl Sandberg and Mary Beard, Women and Leadership is a powerful call to arms about the lack of women at the top. \'Who better qualified to delve into this topic?\' Business Life Women make up less than 10 per cent of national leaders.

Whether it\'s horror at plastic littering the world\'s beaches, or despair at the melting of the polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative, Papanek argues for design that addresses these issues head on.

An enchanting graphic novel about a feud, a friendship, and two girls forever changed. Based on the beautifully hand-crafted animated adventure, WolfWalkers, this graphic novel features an introduction and exclusive original art from film cocreator Tomm Moore and co-Art Director Maria Pareja.

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.

When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined.