Harper Perennial Modern Classics – Plexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
The second sensational volume in the ‘Rosy Crucifixion’ trilogy from the controversal and brilliant Henry Miller.
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics – Sexus (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
The extraordinarily candid tale of Miller’s sexual escapades amongst the low-life of Brooklyn, banned in Great Britain and America for nearly twenty years after its first publication in 1949.
The Slow Breath of Stone: A Romanesque Love Story
An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.
The Whole Day Through
A woman has a second chance at love in this novel from the author of Richard & Judy bestsellers ‘Notes from an Exhibition’ and ‘A Perfectly Good Man’.
A Place of Greater Safety
An extraordinary work of historical imagination from the double Booker Prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series, this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.
The Binding Chair
‘This is a tale as absorbing and exciting as Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha.’ Sunday Express The magical tale of a young orphan’s adventures after she flees rural China for turn-of-the-century Shanghai. From Kathryn Harrison, author of the bestselling memoir THE KISS.
The Lost King of France: The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette's Favourite Son
‘This is history as it should be. It is stunningly written, I could not put it down. This is the best account of the French Revolution I have ever read.’ Alison Weir, author of ‘Henry VIII, King and Court’
The Lost King Of France: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII: Abridged edition
‘This is history as it should be. It is stunningly written, I could not put it down. This is the best account of the French Revolution I have ever read.’ Alison Weir, author of ‘Henry VIII, King and Court’
The Lost King Of France: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII: Abridged edition
‘This is history as it should be. It is stunningly written, I could not put it down. This is the best account of the French Revolution I have ever read.’ Alison Weir, author of ‘Henry VIII, King and Court’
White Lies
‘Dexter Petley perfect writer’s eye gives us a candenced love story…Gripping, dryly hysterical, “White Lies” reeks of beauty and human truth.’ Alan Warner
Undressing Emmanuelle: A memoir
The candid and heartbreakingly honest memoir of Sylvia Kristel, the cinema icon of the 1970s who played the lead role in the worldwide sensation erotic Emmanuelle films.
The Slow Breath of Stone: A Romanesque Love Story
An absorbing travel book, a meditation on geology, photography, Romanesque art and the romance of physical decline, The Slow Breath of Stone throws a mirror on Europe of the Middle Ages and its hold on us today.
Allan Stein
Comic, poignant, richly imagined, effortlessly blending past and present, Allan Stein is a highly charged exploration of eroticism and identity.