Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

Peter Ackroyd

*** A Sunday Times Bestseller ***   In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria ('wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating perm...

Phone

Will Self

A five-hundred-quid worry bead - and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing . . . ' Dementia-addled, 78-year-old antipsychiatrist Dr Zack Busner, turfed out of his home by his ungrateful progeny, is no longer certain of anything - except the persistent ringing of the phone in his pocket. Meanwhil...

The Romantics

Pankaj Mishra

'If you buy one literary novel this year, make sure it's this' THE TIMES'The Romantics looks to Flaubert's Sentimental Education, to E.M. Forster, to Turgenev. But it is the product of a distinctive and sharp intelligence' HILARY MANTEL'Grips the reader as artfully and as compellingly as the first page ...

Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand The Future

Yung Pueblo

A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clarity & Connection "During the years when I had abandoned myself, my mind felt undeniably heavy. I knew I needed to find ...