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Volume 4 in the bestselling Narutoseries.

Translations of the oldest written literature to have a known author: the Inanna poems by the Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna.

Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize, is a captivating novel penned by the talented Andrea Levy. Published in 2009 by the renowned Headline Publishing Group, this book has left an indelible mark in the literary world. The genre of the book is hard to pin down, as it skillfully intertwines elements of drama, history, and romance, creating a unique narrative that resonates with a wide range of readers. The story takes you on a journey, exploring themes of identity, race, and love, all set against the backdrop of post-war Britain. Levy's masterful storytelling and vivid character portrayals make this book a must-read. Immerse yourself in this award-winning novel, and experience the captivating world that Andrea Levy has so skillfully created.

A story of passion and political intrigue in which the young and impulsive Fabrizzio finds himself caught between the love of two women and the wars of their aristocratic factions. "The Charterhouse of Parma" is a study of disillusion and a testament to Stendhal's love-affair with Italy.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAWAnthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. Realising that his determined detachment from the world has been motivated not by intellectual honesty but by moral cowardice, Anthony attempts to find a new way to live.

On the island of Dragon's Claw Sam Solon, an Australian newspaper tycoon with an inferiority complex about his lack of knowledge of art, has kidnapped the world's leading art experts and keeps them prisoner to admire his collection of stolen art treasures. Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin come to the rescue.

Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives.

The third book in the Star Wars Art series, Illustration collects the very best artworks, as curated by George Lucas: more than three decades of book jackets, art from StarWars Insider magazine and role playing guides, limited edition prints, Topps' Star Wars Galaxy trading cards, marketing artwork from LucasArts video games and other one-of-a-kind works generated for collectible merchandise. Featuring previously unpublished, rarely seen, or fan favourite art.

In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.

The third novel in the epic Masters of Rome series. Fortune's Favourites witnesses the power, mastery and cunning of two enigmatic rulers of Rome - Sulla, returning from exile, and the 22-year-old Pompey, who designates himself Magnus 'the Great'.

A funny look at the social and political dynamic of French village life. Gabriel Chevallier's delightful novel Clochemerle satirizes the titanic confrontation of secular and religious forces in a small wine-growing village in Beaujolais.

The controversial, gripping novel from the bestselling, highly acclaimed author of ATOMISED and SEROTONIN. 'Essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of the contemporary world' DAILY MAIL

The evocative new novel from the author of the bestselling Snow Falling on Cedars

Now she's on a strict budget, she doesn't have a job - and worst of all her beloved Suze has a new best friend. hate shopping?Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella:"I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail"Hilarious . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan"Properly mood-altering .

From the love affair between a missionary and a drunkard to the mystery surrounding a death at sea, this collection gives a warm and humourous insight into life and history of life in the colonies and stands as a superbly entertaining and compelling testament to Maugham's skill and power as a short story writer.

Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were very much left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents' unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection of feckless 'guests'.

Stunning novel set in South Africa about forbidden love by the Nobel Prize-winning writer

He will open the last of a series of sealed vaults - the one that no other dared touch - and, in so doing, set free something so terrifying that the knowledge of its internment may have been systematically wiped from all history. Fortune hunters are also at work far to the south.

This selection made by E.E. Cummings himself from eleven books of poems constitutes a comprehensive introduction to his work.

The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; The Acid House is a bizarre, disturbing and hilarious collection from one of the most uncompromising and original writers around.

Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will.

Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Bangkok on legal business, where he is granted an audience with a young Thai princess - an encounter that radically alters the course of his life.

By the author of BLADE RUNNER and MINORITY REPORT

Twelfth-century anatomist, Adelia Aguilar must once again examine the dead as gruesome events are beginning to unfold...Henry II's favourite mistress, Rosamund Clifford, has been poisoned - and, rumour says, by his jealous wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. If Henry believes the stories, England will be torn apart as King battles Queen.

It's no more than a breath away... Everyone needs a place to relax after a long day, after all.

The trouble which begins with Gussie Fink-Nottle wandering the streets of London dressed as Mephistopheles reaches its awful climax in his drunken speech to the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School.

The definitive collection of short stories from the century's greatest science fiction writer.

The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him.

Reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army.