How it Works: The Sister

Jason Hazeley

A hilarious brand new book in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series for Autumn 2017. How it Works- The Sister - a nugget of wisdom from bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris. This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help ...

A Country for Dying

Abdellah Taia; Emma Ramadan (Translator)

An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature"Paris, Summer 2010.Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her.Zannouba, Zahira's frie...

Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

Frida Kahlo; Hayden Herrera (Introduction by)

Frida Kahlo is now an icon. In the decades since her death, Kahlo has been celebrated as a proto-feminist, a misunderstood genius, and a leftist hero, but during her lifetime most knew her as ... Diego Rivera's wife. Featuring conversations with American scholar and Marxist, Bertram D. Wolfe, and art cr...

Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold

Stephen Fry

The story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against the city of Troy, to which they will lay siege for ten whole years. It is a terrible war with casualties on all sides as well as strained relations between ...