Product Description: In the vein of Alain de Botton and Adam Phillips, a provocative and diverting book of short essays to get you thinking and talking—conversations to have with friends, partners, or just with yourself We've all known the heady thrill of a conversation that goes on all night...read more

Product Description: Josiah Horatio Nelson is born to unusual parents who met in a psychiatric hospital. The authorities are reprehensive of his unconventional upbringing and eventually remove Josiah from his parents' care. He is sent to a home where he finds little comfort, until he is befriended by his Latin tutor...read more

Patrick German has achieved all his life's ambitions: a lovely wife, a baby son and a prestigious job. So when, one day, he walks out on all he knows and loves, he is as perplexed as anyone. He runs away to become a primary school teacher in north Norfolk, where he is mesmerised by a ten-year-old girl in his class with an other-worldly authority.

Perdita Tree, the bored and beautiful wife of a Tory MP, believes that women should have a magic door through which they can walk into a different life. This book was featured at the Ways With Words Festival, Dartington, and the Chichester Festival, and was chosen for Waterstone's Summer Reads promotion, 2005.