Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012

The hilarious new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of DARKMANS, Nicola Barker.

"The Yips is a novel that's more than just odd." The Guardian.

It’s a story of professional golfer Stuart Ransom, described as an equ[...]

Real English for life beyond the classroom

As winner of the highly prestigious IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award, Wide Open beat out books by such masters as Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, and Michael Cunningham. It is truly extraordinary work of fiction, taking readers into a small English seaside town, and into the minds and hearts of[...]

They were the most horrific crimes of a new century: the murders of newborn innocents for which two British women were hanged at Holloway Prison in1903. Decades later, mystery writer Josephine Tey has decided to write a novel based on Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious "Finchley baby farme[...]

When seventeen-year-old Max Scott got her heart broken she didn't just sit at home sobbing into her ice cream and obsessing over her ex, Hugo's, latest Facebook postings. Well, actually she did. But she also decided that no girl should have to be tortured like that, so she read through all the psych[...]

An unexpected inheritance plunges beloved British mystery author Josephine Tey into a disturbing puzzle of dark secrets connecting the present and the past in this intriguing historical mystery brimming with psychological tension.When Josephine Tey unexpectedly inherits Red Barn Cottage from a godmo[...]

Here is a debut not to be missed - a ferocious, unusual, funny, exuberantly alive new voice in fiction, with a dark edge that's reminiscent of Lionel Shriver. For Pip, swimming is a necessity. With a hopeless mother, a drug-addled sister and a best friend more interested in her own love-life than in[...]

The English equity court of the nineteenth-century is satirized in Dickins' tale about the suit of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce.[...]

In the tradition of Waiter Rant, a saucy look at life behind the beverage cart
Ever since "Coffee, Tea or Me?"was first published in the swinging sixties, the reading public has been enamored with stewardesses. In "Cabin Fever," former Virgin Atlantic flight attendant Mandy Smith updates the gen[...]

Written by Teachit contributors and OCR examiners, GCSE English for OCR is the most comprehensive and accessible endorsed support package for the 2010 OCR GCSE English curriculum. This student book covers foundation and higher levels, delivering the controlled assessment and exam requirements in a w[...]

This book offers an empirically rich study of Chinese nuclear weapons behaviour and the impact of this behaviour on global nuclear politics since 1949. China's behaviour as a nuclear weapons state is a major determinant of global and regional security. For the United States, there is no other nuclea[...]

H L A Hart was the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the twentieth century. This is both an intellectual and a psychological biography, following his life from modest origins as the son of Jewish tailor parents in Yorkshire to worldwide fame as the most influential English-speaking legal theorist of [...]