Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of writing that has made an everlasting impression on our literary heritage...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
Novels which transform our ideas about human possibilities, biographies which celebrate the achievements of extraordinary individuals, polemical works of non-fiction which oblige us to alter our views of the world or of human society: all of us can remember reading at least one book which made us think about the world anew. Here...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
When you're just finishing a novel that you've found hard to put down, deciding what to read next can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
Features more than 350 major authors both time-honoured and contemporary, from Margaret Atwood to Emile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley and Graham Swift...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
With 100,000 new books each year joining the enormous wealth of already published literature, finding more titles in the same fiction genre or non-fiction topic as that 'unputdownable' book can be difficult. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guidefeatures more than 350 major authors and 4...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
More than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Emile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley, and Graham Swift, are arranged in alphabetical order...more details Format:Paperback Pages:384
This guide features more than 350 major authors and 4000 books. For each author there is a short article on style, influences, settings, theme and salient works. This is then followed by a "Read On" section directing readers to similar books by other authors. For 12 of the most influential works of literature...more details Format:Hardback Pages:384
Covering every major crime fiction genre, from cosy crime to darkest noir, the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fictionwill help readers everywhere navigate their way through this plethora of great writing.220 of the best crime authors are included with a description of the themes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
London's distinctive blue plaques commemorate remarkable men and women who have lived in the capital. This guide describes the careers of nearly 800 individuals; well-known names such as Charles Dickens...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
Every day thousands of people worldwide consult "Roget's Thesaurus". How many stop to consider why that endlessly useful reference book is so called? Of those who know that it owes its name to the man who first devised it...more details Format:Hardback Pages:160
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. He and Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled streets of late 19th and early 20th century London...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
From his mysterious connections to the British criminal underworld to his early acquaintance with Dr Watson, Sherlock Holmes: the biography blends what we already know of Holmes's career with social history to answer the questions his admirers have long puzzled over...more details Format:Hardback Pages:298
In this new biography, Nick Rennison presents a new account of the life and times of the famous detective. "Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography" blends what we already know of the great sleuth's career with carefully documented social history to answer the questions admirers have long puzzled over...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304