The Discovery of Britain

Victor Hugo

Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award 1997

Rimbaud

An astute and engrossing biography from the author of Victor Hugo and Balzac.

Ancient Paths

Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilization.Inspired by a chance dis...

Parisians

No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris...

International Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis

Clinical Hypnosis has proved successful in a variety of clinical situations. This handbook, wi...

Discovery of France

With an introduction by Colm ToibinTen years ago, I began to explore the country on which I was s...

Debatable Land

'A book worth reading' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesThe Debatable Land was an independent territory w...

Cols and Passes of the British Isles

Strangers

A perceptive, vivid and sometimes startling re-evaluation of homosexuality in the Victorian era

Balzac

'Intellectually thrilling, psychologically acute and very wittily written: a worthy offering to i...

France

Drawn from countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, in the library...