
People Power: Fighting for Peace from the First World War to the Present
Book
People Power charts the history of the anti-war movement in the UK from the outbreak of the First...

A Paris Apartment
Book
Once in France, April quickly learns the apartment is not merely some rich hoarder's repository....

The Goldfinch
Book
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014 Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother...

The Rising
Book
They called me Jax. That was the name given by those who built me and enslaved me. But a miracle has...

The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
Book
In this novel based on the extraordinary life of the gay brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell...

My Own Dear Brother
Book
It is 1944, and war has taken the men in Nazi-controlled Austria to the front line. For...

Nocturnes at Nohant: The Decade of Chopin and Sand
Book
'Today, I shall have a few guests, Madame Sand amongst them.' It's December 1836, Paris. Chopin is...

Katrina
Book
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina narrowly missed New Orleans. The resulting storms breached rotting...

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Movie Watch
Stanley Kubrick's daring last film is a bracing psychosexual journey, a riveting suspense tale and a...

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
Book
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from...