James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and St...

Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was i...

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holi...

Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Gro...

Kafka was an obsessive writer who produced a huge volume of stories, novels, diaries and letters ...

The defining work of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac provides the foundation for this collection,...

Bambi, a Life in the Woods is a 1923 Austrian coming-of-age novel written by Felix Salten - now p...

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a l...

The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798), in now synonymous with amorous e...

This autobiography includes the record of a sexual and spiritual quest, exploring the deepest rec...

Mikhail Tal is a true legend of chess. He was the World Champion and also holds the world record ...

The famous stage-designer Ivan Bilibin was a self-taught artist who was lucky enough to be offere...

In December 2012 Magnus Carlsen won the prestigious London Chess Classic and in doing so he becam...

The first great novel - and perhaps still the most influential - Don Quixote contains within it a...

This is a three-volume boxed set of Tolstoy's historical chronicle of Russia's struggle with Napo...

What separates the best chess players from the rest? What gives them the edge over their rivals? ...

The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fiftyyears. Readers fro...

'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road aga...

'Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbe...

Indian Stories

With effortless grace, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates in her second novel aseminal moment i...

A grandson of Mark Antony, young Claudius is mistaken for a weakling and an idiot because of his ...

Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century...

The act of walking inspires a dizzying variety of stories, from Bill Bryson's comic A Walk in the...

Anita Brookner is known for her poignant, witty studies of emotionally restrained women navigatin...

In this sumptuous, expansive new collection -- featuring new translations, for the first time, in...

This story is not just another history of the SAS. It is the only biography of an extraordinary m...

Balmoral Castle and it's 50,000-acre estate has been the private Highland retreat of The Royal Fa...

Hesiod (Work and Days) and Virgil's Georgics set the scene in the early pages with their poetry a...

The Waves has been hailed as Virginia Woolf's masterpiece. It interweaves the voices of six chara...

Many players are serious about their chess but become stuck at a certain playing strength. It's r...

Brought together for the first time in one volume are three books by the titan of chess, José Cap...

The Queen's Indian is a dynamic and flexible way to meet 1 d4. Using Nimzowitsch's principles, Bl...

Chess Developments provides state-of-the-art openings coverage. Chess Developments focuses on the...

In the modern classic, Secrets of Spectacular Chess, Jonathan Levitt and David Friedgood shared t...

Alexander Alekhine was a two-time World Chess Champion and is widely regarded as one of the great...

David Bronstein is one of the greatest and most loved chess players of all time. He won numerous ...

This book examines what might be described as the 'pure' Réti Opening. White starts with 1 Nf3 an...

The French Defence is a classical opening that has featured in the repertoire of many elite grand...

The Queen's Gambit Accepted (QGA) is Black's simplest way of dealing with one of White's most fas...

Imagine you are a club player who has been given the opportunity to talk at length with a famous ...

The Colle and London are opening systems for White starting with 1 d4. They are very popular choi...

The King's Indian and the Grünfeld are two of Black's most popular answers to 1 d4; unsurprising ...

Do you instinctively know what to do in every type of chess position or are you often uncertain a...

How can you improve your chess? It's not by chance that the top players say: 'Study the endgame!'...

'Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.'Abraha...

Together in one volume for the first time are Graeme Buckley's Multiple Choice Chess and Multiple...

Want to improve at chess? Then you'll need to improve your understanding of chess strategy. You p...