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The twelfth title in the bestselling Humphrey series.

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From the funniest voice in young fiction today, this is the festive fourth book in this fantastically successful new series for 4-6-year-old readers about Ava and her imaginary cat, in hilarious rhyming text with adorable illustrations. Told in full colour throughout, this is the perfect stepping stone from picture books to older fiction.

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The enthralling, tumultuous behind-the-scenes story of Michael Blakemore's time at the National Theatre, publishing for the theatre's 50th anniversary.

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This charming and insightful collection of writings forms an essential commentary on Michael Frayn's life and work.

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The thrilling story of one of twentieth century's most notorious political murders - the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

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A terrifying supernatural thriller for fans of Let the Right One In, The Passage, and Salem's Lot.

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A gripping and critically acclaimed biography of the most brilliant and misunderstood adventurer in the great age of exploration.

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Linda France's tenth collection is galvanising, comprising poems written from, and into, the fabric of the sixth mass extinction.

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A challenging look at the vast upheavals that have taken place in Britain and its theatre since the Second World War.

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The long poem is preceded by a section of shorter lyrics and leads into a third group of poems in which the poet's voice is at one with the voice of the legendary mad King Sweeney. 'Surpasses even what one might reasonably expect from this magnificently gifted poet.' John Carey, Sunday Times

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The definitive cultural history of female showrunners, starting with Roseanne Barr in the 1980s to contemporary icons such as Lena Dunham. Amy Schumer, and Tina Fey.

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A unique insight into the life and mind of Seamus Heaney.

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This is the second of two volumes of the collected plays of Steven Berkoff. the book includes "Decadence", "Kvetch", "Acapulco", "Harry's Christmas", "Brighton Beach Scumbags", "Darling You Were Marvellous", "Pitbull" and "Actor".

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This is a collection of three history plays, each displaying the sparkling muscularity of language that marks Berkoff out as one of the foremost wordsmiths in the English language. Finally, Berkoff offers a sharp and accessible adaptation of Sophocles's Oedipus tragedy.

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In this EP-style follow-up to How I Escaped My Certain Fate, Stewart Lee describes the events leading up to his show If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask For One.

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An epic exploration of the largest of the desolate, storm-lashed Aran islands, which have haunted generations of Irish writers.

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How did the Alps, Europe's lofty and majestic playground, become a crucial battleground in World War Two

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The director of Happiness has produced a characteristically scabrous dissection of the confused motives that can lie behind 'true-to-life' writing and documentary filmmaking.

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I went cos it's better goin for money than for a bunch of ungrateful swine who think, once you're in a body bag, you asked for it by joining up. When a mercenary goes missing en route to Iraq, his closest surviving friend embarks on a hunt across the post-war Middle East.

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Though never elected to office, he manipulated those who were through a mix of guile, charm and intimidation. Motivated at first by a determination to improve the lives of New York City's workers, he created new parks, new bridges and 627 miles of expressway to connect the people to the great outdoors.

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It started when Nicky Slopen came back from the dead.

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From the multi-award-winning author of the literary phenomenon A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing, an exquisitely rendered and emotionally devastating meditation on love, loneliness, grief - and the possibilities for renewal.

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On a trip to Greece, Alan Rosslyn discovers that a powerful clique within the British Special Intelligence Service is actively encouraging an attempt by a Greek billionaire to steal the Elgin Marbles. Why And what is the reason for bringing Rosslyn into the conspiracy - and killing his lover

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A hilariously weird, witty and unique travelogue from a dedicated 'anti-tourist', and author of Lost Cosmonaut.