This is the complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carre's bestselling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively or[...]

Born and bred on the estates of east London, the author's early life was marked by neglect and abuse, and his childhood gift for drawing was stamped out by the tough realities outside his front door. This title tells the true story of how one man turned his life around through the companionship of h[...]

Posthumously published in 1879, this is the autobiography of prolific Gothic Revival architect Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811-78).[...]

An authoritative chronicle of Pope John Paul II's life draws from comprehensive research and unusual access to the Pope and his associates to offer previously unknown information about his connections to historical events.[...]

George H. W. Bush is much too modest to brag about what he accomplished as the forty-first president of the United States. As a result, the conventional wisdom about his presidency misses many of his greatest achievements. Now this unique insider account by former chief of staff John H. Sununu final[...]

""Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards.""
George Smiley is no one's idea of a spy--which is perhaps why he's such a natural. But Smiley apparently made a mistake. After a routine security interview, he concluded that the affable Samuel Fennan had nothing to hide. W[...]

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "A Delicate Truth" and "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
""You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous.""
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all thing[...]

"James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognized as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. At the start of his lengthy career, Wyatt worked on designs for the Oxford Street Pantheon's neo-Classical interior as well as Dodington, the Graeco-Roman house that served as the[...]

George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions ab[...]

"Der Lang Verborgene Freund", or "The Long-Lost Friend", is perhaps the most influential and well-known of all the grimoires to originate in the New World. Originally published in Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1820, it has become an international bestseller. Llewellyn is pleased to present the most c[...]

Tomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In Comparing Mythologies he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the ways that Canadian culture today is shaped by the mixture of Aboriginal and Western mythologies. What interests him is not merely the differenc[...]