No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This first-ever compilation of Leonard's thirty Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre.

- Is Lisbeth the first true literary heroine of the 21st century? - What changes were made in the plots and translations of the novels after Larsson's death - and why?

A vintage title by Elmore Leonard - The New York Times bestselling author of Be Cool and Get Shorty

In this first ever biography of the sibling film-makers, Ronald Bergan traces the brothers' Jewish roots, their beginnings as film geeks in the suburbs of Minneapolis, their battles to get their first feature made and released.

Based on a series of lectures on translation, these essays are discussions on the difficulties of translating faithfully.

Bernadette Fox is notorious.

This literary biography of Marcel Proust provides readers with an insight into the recluse who lay all night long in his cork-lined room, obsessively rewriting his one massive work.

Lord Kinross writes of the intrigues of empires, the brutalities of civil war, personal courage - showing us Ataturk, the incarnation of glory - as well as of Kemal's youthful ambition, and his problems with his wife.

A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come.

Spence captures Mao in all his paradoxical grandeur and sheds light on the radical transformation he unleashed that still reverberates in China today.