Bloomsbury

It is 1740 and Louise Fletcher, a young dairymaid on an Essex farm, has been warned of the lure of the sea for as long as she can remember - after all, it stole away her father and brother. But when she is offered work in the bustling naval port of Harwich, as maid to a wealthy captain's daughter, she leaps at the chance to see more of the...

Not a tooth is knocked out, not a kidney bashed in... an outstanding thriller that rests on less obvious grounds. The characters are odd but rarely violent. Their aims are bizarre and their methods usually unorthodox. Their story is one of strange and constantly maintained suspense, based on a journey from Dakar to the River Niger and up through...

The Most Iconic Styles of Our TimeFrom the Sack to the Sari, each dress makes a powerful statement about the woman who wears it. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes&' children&'s classic The Hundred Dresses, Erin McKean&'s classic-to-be by the same title, with chic illustrations by Donna Mehalko, is a definitive and witty look at what one hundred iconic...

Arly, an orphan in search of a home and a family, escapes from a brutal migrant labor camp, joins a traveling religious show, and battles a devastating Florida hurricane....

Hamlet&'s "e;To be or not to be"e; soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare. It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet&'s soliloquy in order to reveal how and why it...

Contemporary Critical PerspectivesSir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight&'s Children, is regularly cited as the &'Booker of Bookers&' and its impact is still being felt throughout in world literature. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, led to the &'Rushdie Affair&' certainly the...