A collaborative book on the works of Charles Dickens that takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors. The literary conversation prioritizes the act of live reading and…

Peter, a young City of London high-flyer, is approached and recruited by a secret society. He finds out that his father and his grandfather have all worked for the same…

This book is for anyone curious about the Bible: what it is, and what modern research reveals about it.

Poets, novelists and critics committed to creative thinking join together in this collection of essays to say what serious reading really means to them as individuals.

A stunning collection of images which provide astonishing insight into the capital’s history, from the earliest photograph of London taken in 1839 through to the 1920s. The images are accompanied…

This new biography of George Eliot is not just the story of her life. It gives an account of what it means to become a novelist, and to think like…

This is an introduction to the key concepts and issues in intelligence. It covers general ideas, methods, problems and debates in the field, using examples from a range of national…

A guide to the theory of how default and failure of individual financial institutions can turn into a crisis for a whole financial system. The theory is related to the…