Bloomsbury

Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world. He is a warm person who knows a good friend when he sees one and is revered by all those with whom there has been mutual acceptance. This book contains his memories of many famous...

A favourite collection of short stories from the revered V. S. Pritchett...

"e;She's always too tired"e;"e;He's only interested in his career"e;"e;She never tries to seduce me"e;The truth is, in thousands of marriages and sexual relationships both partners feel they're not getting sex as often as they'd like. Now sex expert Graham Masterton shares with you the intimate real-life stories of lovers...

Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the Federal Theater Project managed to turn a WPA relief program into a platform for some of the most inventive and cutting-edge theater of its time. This daring experiment by the U.S. government in support of the arts electrified audiences with exciting, controversial...

Berlin, 1946. During one of the coldest winters on record, Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet General when a friend deposits the frozen body of a dead Russian spy in his apartment. So begins the race to take possession of the spy's secret, a race which threatens Pavel's...

The Queen goes AWOL. No one can find her: where is she going and why ?In this true-to-life account of the Queen’s disappearance, we learn of the monarch’s journey to the Caribbean island of St Lucia, where she has a house off-plan. Here, after more than half a century on the throne, she will recall the years of her reign in peace and...