An authoritative new edition of Marcel Proust's "The Captive and The Fugitive", published together as the fifth volume of the "In Search of Lost Time" series. Marcel Proust's monumental seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time" is considered by many...

A haunting novel that probes the enigmas of time and memory, by Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano revisits the places and events in his acclaimed semi-autobiographical novella Suspended Sentences:...

A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic's greatest living author. Tab, an itinerant Czech actor, travels around Europe on the theater circuit with his partner, Sońa, and their two young sons, at...

The first book to examine the transformation of sporting cultures in South America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "Sports in South America" follows the transformation of sporting cultures in South America leading up to Uruguay's hosting...

"He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul". "The Castle of Otranto" is a macabre tale that revolves around a haunted castle. Manfre...

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are". "The Prince" is generally labelled as a cynical and overly pragmatic account of gaining and retaining political power. It is a significant deviation from the righteous medita...

A very inspiring selection of what is happening in the world of auteur jewellery right now, particularly with regard to brooches. Edited by Nicolas Estrada, "New Brooches", now in paperback, focuses on brooches within an exploration of current innova...

Why does food matter? Historically, food has not always been considered a serious subject on par with, for instance, a performance art like opera or a humanities discipline like philosophy. Necessity, ubiquity, and repetition contribute to the appare...

A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world's great contemporary novelists. In rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers he...

The classic Grimms' fairy tale of the valiant little tailor, as you've never read it before. Once upon a time, there lived a valiant little tailor who killed seven flies with one blow – but who is this narrator who has abruptly inserted himself into...