The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

This is a new, complete edition of the seminal modern, and still finest, literary biography. All previous versions have been unsatisfactory and textually inaccurate. This will be the first to return to the manuscript and the first to collate systematically the early printed versions. It is the most corr...

Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins

Evelyn Waugh

In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...

Murtagh (#5 Inheritance Cycle)

Christopher Paolini

An epic new fantasy from the internationally bestselling author of ERAGONMaster storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. The world is no longer safe for the Dr...