Insights into the monuments, films, graveyards and poems that the Great War left behind - a moving, intriguing and illuminating de-coding.

Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end.

* A brilliant, personal and original view of photography

The ultimate slacker memoirs

In a series of fictional portraits, Dyer shows the heart of jazz, its pathos and lyricism, urgency and self-destruction: Charlie Mingus in New York; Art Pepper in prison; Lester Young in the Alvin; Bud Powell in Paris.

Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Venice Art Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, go to a lot of parties and drink too many bellinis. He's not expecting to meet the spellbinding Laura, who will completely transform his few days in the city. Another city, another assignment: this time on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi. Amid the crowds, ghats and chaos

When he became interested in literature at grammar school, it was D.H. Lawrence who fired Geoff Dyer's imagination and provided the inspiration for him to become a writer. In this work, Dyer retraces Lawrence's journeys, learning much about both Lawrence and matters close to his own heart.

Jeff Atman, a journalist, is in Venice to cover the opening of the Venice Art Biennale. He's expecting to see a load of art, and go to a lot of parties. Another city, another assignment: this time on the banks of the Ganges in Varanasi. Amid the crowds, ghats and chaos of India's holiest Hindu city a different kind of transformation lies in wait.

Avoiding any specialism, writing on whatever interested him, Geoff Dyer has achieved enviable freedom as an essayist, journalist and critic. This book brings together his best freelance work of the last 15 years.

In Paris, two couples form an intimacy that will change their lives forever. In the clubs and cafes of the 11th arrondissement, they become inseparable, united by deep convictions about dating strategies, tunnelling in POW films and, crucially, the role of the Styrofoam cup in American thrillers.

'The Goncourt Journal' is one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature.

Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays takes a look at his career. Berger's wide-ranging essays emphasise the continuities that have underpinned more than 40 years of tireless intellectual inquiry and political engagement.

A brilliant, personal and original view of photography.

A fabulous road-movie of a novel

A visual tale of two disparate cities, Paris and Los Angeles.

Presents over seventy colour photographs of Rodin's sculptures housed in the Musee Rodin. This title contains images that capture the beauty of the stone, the light from the grand windows and great wall mirrors, and the movement of visitors in the room.

A wonderful, nostalgic novel about youth in London in the 1980s