Samuel Pepys achieved fame as a naval administrator, a friend and colleague of the powerful and learned, a figure of substance. But for nearly ten years he kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London.

Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will. Based on Helen Fielding's diary in the Independent newspaper, this is a novel about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement and Inner Poise. First published in 1996.

The second volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The first volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The final volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The eighth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

A comprehensive edition of Samuel Pepys's diary transcripted by Robert Latham and William Matthews. An introduction to the diarist and the diary is included.

The sixth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The fifth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The fourth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

The third volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.

William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes were three great Englishmen. This work includes the biographies of these and other great Englishmen.

The lives of three women intersect in this novel about memory and loss, prejudice and unrequited love - not to mention literature and cooking as a cure for heartbreak. Their stories criss-cross between Paris in the 1890's at the height of the Dreyfus affair, France in 1942, and present-day Canada.

This work is a frank treatment of Rousseau's sexual and intellectual development. It offers a model for the reflective life: the solitary, uncompromising individual; the enemy of servitude and habit; and the selfish egoist who dedicates himself to a particular ideal.

From the author of Housekeeping, Gilead is the long-hoped- for second novel by one of America's finest writers. Chosen by the New York Times Book Review as one of the top 6 novels of 2004. 'A beautiful novel: wise, tender and perfectly measured' Sarah Wate

Evelyn was a scholar, a scientific amateur, a garden designer and architect, and a founder member of the Royal Society who published a magisterial book about trees, Sylva, and many pamphlets on assorted subjects. This work is a vivid portrait of the social, personal and political life of a society in ferment by one of its major players.

At the end of Bridget Jones's Diary , Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he doesn't do the washing up, not just the whole of this week, but ever.