Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae...

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling; Jonathan Stroud (Introduction by)

For Mowgli movie fans, the must-have companion to The Jungle Book   Children all around the world are fascinated by the animal kingdom, and that's what makes the Just So Stories a perennial classic... Elephants, kangaroos, cats, leopards, and more. This complete volume of Rudyard Kipling's masterpiec...

The Story of Art without Men

Katy Hessel

The story of art for our times - one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history?  Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century?  And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the...