Natasha's Dance - A Cultural History of Russia

Orlando Figes

This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling "A People's Tragedy". The whole panorama of Russia's mighty culture is conjured up in a way that is fresh, intimate and immediate. Whether talking about music or novels, buildings or paintings...

The Aeneid (Penguin Classics) - Virgil - Translated by David West

Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil)

The Aeneid: Large Print By Virgil The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter. The first six of the poem...

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence

"Women in Love" is widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel. The novel continues where: "The Rainbow" left off with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. T...

Ill Fares the Land - A Treatise on Our Present Discontents

Tony Judt

'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever re...

Unbelievably Boring Bart

James Patterson; Duane Swierczynski

There's more than meets the eye in James Patterson's newest middle grade novel-a book so fun kids will actually put down their games to listen to it Invisible creatures are attacking the school, and 12-year-old Bartholomew Bean is the only one who can stop them Okay, so maybe Bart is only a hero in t...