In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. In the grand tradition of Stein and Hemingway, Gopnik planned to walk the paths of the Tuilleries, to lead the fabled life of an American in Paris. This is a memoir of his five years as an American family man in Paris.

Told through a series of letters, this is set on the fictional island of Nollop, home to the great Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'. The islanders erect a statue to their hero, but one day the letter 'z' falls from the inscription. To the despair of the residents, the council interprets the falling tile as Nollop's message from beyond the grave ..

Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley and began a new life. This work lets you discover the joys of French rural living.

Set in ancient Japan, this story is a haunting fable of ill-fated love and dream-eating monsters, told in an illustrated text format, and painted by Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano.

Taoist philosophy explained using examples from A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.

From the pages of The Sandman graphic novels, Morpheus' sister, Death, returns for a second solo outing in a haunting tale of music, mortality, friendship and the power of love. The volume includes a gallery of renderings of Death by such artists as Dave McKean and Bill Sienkiewicz.