Bloomsbury

In spring 1927 V.S Pritchett set out to walk 300 miles across Spain. The country was almost completely isolated, and Pritchett describes a timeless country on the cusp of being riven by civil war, populated by a wonderful selection of characters....

Mrs Robinson;s Disgracetogether with the classic Flaubert novelMadame Bovary, with a brand new introduction by Kate SummerscaleOn a mild winter;s evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh;s Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit by...

Here, Belloc writes of a trip through Sweden and Denmark in 1938, a nostalgic trip taken forty-three years after his first Scandanvian trip in 1895.This volume includes Belloc’s history and topography of the area....

John Piper's diary for Saturday December 7th read: Fritz Haupmann. Call 2.30 re factory insurance cover with Cresset. When Piper arrived at the house and saw his client lounging in an armchair listening to Mozart, he had no reason to think that this was one day he would never forget. It was not Haupmann's premonitions of disaster that so impressed...

Satirist Justin Racz, author of the wildly successful 50 Jobs Worse Than Yours, returns to the world of cubicles, water coolers, and boardrooms-this time targeting the workingman’s ultimate nemesis: his boss. From the bullies to the bureaucrats to the bunglers, bosses are as unavoidable as they are insufferable. Thankfully, 50 Bosses Worse...

When her mother suddenly disappears without a trace, Anaid is baffled. Taken in by friends, She learns a shocking truth-her mother is a witch, prophesied to be the chosen one who will end an ancient war between two clans of witches. As Anaid struggles with this discovery, she starts developing powers of her own, and sets out on a dangerous journey...