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Over the last four years Bruce Parry has lived for a month at a time with 15 different tribes, in some of the world’s most remote regions, for the BBC television series Tribe. This is an unforgettable journey in words and pictures.

This anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over 60 years, from Isaac Asimov’s ‘Nightfall’ (1941) to the 2007 story ‘Friends in Need’ by Eliza Blair.

In this subtle and atmospheric exploration of Shakespeare at forty, we see him not from the viewpoint of literary greatness, but in the humdrum and very human context of Silver Street, where to the maid of the house he was merely ‘one Mr. Shakespeare,’ renting the room upstairs.

Here Freud becomes at once more remarkable as a writer, and more ordinary as a person, a figure to be reckoned with rather than to revere. There has not been a better book on why Freud might matter now.

In this disturbing examination of the ‘Other India’ the author combines political history, extensive interviews and individual case histories as he travels to the heart of Maoist zones in the country. What emerges is a sobering picture of a deeply divided society and the dangers ahead for India.

Here is a unique insight into the life of a woman who has challenged and transformed the stereotypical notions of beauty and now balances cover shoots and catwalk shows with a dedication to refocus the world’s attention on those she left behind.

This book brings together some of the world’s best-loved poems, to inspire, comfort and delight you for a lifetime. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, Emily Dickinson this book offers something for each moment of life.

This volume presents an engrossing account of Greene’s life constructed out of his own words. Carefully chosen and annotated this selection of letters allows an entirely new perspective on an eventful life.

This book profiles influential military leaders from 3500 B.C.E to the present. It presents stories of the military leaders whose actions precipitated change in and beyond their era. This dictionary will serve as an indispensable guide to the student and military buff.

In this fascinating book the author provides a vivid panorama of the city’s left-wing writing milieu into which the young Miller graduated in the 1930s. Absorption in a male ethos and unease about feminine dominion, give Miller’s plays their special colour, force and intensity. This well-researched book makes us appreciate this afresh. This is a definitive biography, remarkable and revelatory.

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