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Funny, irreverent and passionate, this opens the lid on two worlds - the glamorous and highly lucrative realm of the perfume makers, and the equally rivalrous domain of smell science.

The definitive biography of groundbreaking, Grammy Award-winning guitarist Bill Frisell.

Part of the 80th anniversary of Faber celebrations, with edited and corrected texts of all his works being reproduced.

First published in 1965. SEE NEW COVER EDITION (with Bertrams ISBN 0202007758).

This is now a BBC4 series showing in March 2012. When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the...

When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear - all have gone deaf, and their dissent becomes coordinated aby sign language.

David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation since the 1980's. When he tours, Byrne travels with a folding bicycle,...

Bernie Ecclestone gehört wohl zu den kontroversesten Personen der Formel 1. Aus ärmsten Verhältnissen stammend, hat er es im Laufe seiner Karriere geschafft, ein Vermögen anzuhäufen. Die...

When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to...

The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy...

Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence....

New edition of a cult classic that has never previously been published in the UK. It has been adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, who bring a dark and brilliant spin on the detective...

Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did Samuel Pepys never give his mistresses an orgasm? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two 'dirty...

An anthology of true stories, edited by Paul Auster and chosen from 4,000 entries sent in to his programme on National Public Radio, which come together to provide a hugely colourful and...

Subtitled, }The Ratcliffe Highway Murders, 1811{. Reissue of this only work of true crime from the novelist P.D. James, now with a new jacket for Christmas.

Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do...

Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of the 1980s. With the unexpected success of Nirvana's single 'Smells Like Teen...

bronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European...

I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to...

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain...Published in 1922, The Waste Land was the most revolutionary...

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years,...

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought...