Features motivational quotes, proverbs, mantras and wry truths to help us through the recession, from such wits as Churchill, Disraeli and George Bernard Shaw.

A Unique Collection of Memories from Across the Decades. From earliest memories of infancy and growing up, through the powerful influence of family ties, first friends (and first kiss!), schooldays and holidays, to the first steps into the adult world, those early years shaped who we are and what we will become. Gervase Phinn, former teacher and school inspector and now bestselling author, brings

Explores some of the most famous speeches.

A collection of tales that can inspire you to live your dreams. It presents stories that demonstrate the best qualities we share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, generosity and faith and they share a collected wisdom on love, parenting, teaching, death and the overcoming of obstacles.

Celebrities - you've got to love them, haven't you? And there's no time you love them more than when they are having a dig at each other. This title records hundreds of the greatest jibes, put-downs and cheapest shots ever to spill forth from the over-privileged mouths of the nation's so-called VIPs.

Suitable for veteran grandmother and a granny-to-be, this collection of stories makes them laugh about the universal experiences of being a grandmother. It celebrates the memories we make and the times we cherish with grandmothers: the women who can both spoil and be stern; who provide unconditional love and invaluable wisdom.

A collection of author's stories, including Library of Babel .

An international selection of 15 short stories by distinguished modern writers including Peter Carey, Zadie Smith and Bernard Malamud. Featuring the theme of 'difference', each story has something to say about cultural encounters, often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting. With biographic and photographic portraits.

A collection of columns from Aimsir Eachainn, an array of unforgettable characters, eccentric scenarios, magnificent satire and enraged comment, giving voice to the Scottish Gael at the end of the 20th century.

Granta magazine has published some of the best writing about family relationships in the English language. Over the years its writers have dealt with the most difficult, the most important and the most personal relationships of their lives. This title collects together a variety of pieces about every member of the family.

Contains four essays, including a memoir of the author's father's working life in the saw-mills of the Pacific Northwest, a tribute to his mentor John Gardner, and an essay about the influences on his writing life; fifty poems; and, seven stories.

Over 700 years of literature about, or set in, Venice. Contains extracts from the works of poets, novelists, playwrights, historians and travellers. With city maps and an index.

Offers wisdom from writers, philosophers, politicians, actors, and others that demonstrate the power of the question 'What if?' to alter the way we think about our world, using these possibilities to bolster an argument or drive home a point.

Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age.

A collection of Doris Lessing's charming and celebrated writings about cats.

A selection of the author's critical writings, short fiction and poetry that demonstrates an intense interest in aesthetic issues and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind.

A delicious compendium of literary feuds, slights, spleen and venom, drawn from the Guardian newspaper column 'Writers on Writers'

A fantastic anthology of what the great Scottish writers of our time think about their country's independence