The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.' From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage, and a life, in good times and bad, that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas

MacKenzie examines the importance of culture in British imperialism

Wherever men or women are inspired by belief in a single god to think or behave in a certain way

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Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India — from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj — and reveals how Britain’s rise was built upon its plunder of India

1989 (Taylor's Version) is the hugely awaited upcoming fourth re-recorded album by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift

The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High

An exploration of middle-class life and permissiveness in 1970s London

Shevek is brilliant scientist who is attempting to find a new theory of time - but there are those who are jealous of his work

Miron Białoszewski

Stranger In Town

This edition also includes ten previously unpublished pages from the 1969 portion of the diary

Lumet’s electrifying snapshot of 1950s America on the verge of change is one of the great feature film debuts