Nancy Mitford’s brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence.

Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his…

In this latest memoir, Alan Cumming reveals himself as entirely human–a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage. An entertaining, but entirely thoughtful, memoir of a…

In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets…

Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector–author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation–the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to…

From the creation myth of Izanagi and Izanami designed to explain the origins of the island of Japan, to the hundreds of kami (gods or spirits) and monsters, Japanese legends…

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the role of full service and extended schools - those offering new services to students, families and communities beyond regular school…