One midsummer's day, the Godleys gather at the family home to attend their father's bedside. Adam, the elder child, and Petra, only 19, find that relations with their mother and their dying father are as strained as ever. Little does they realize that the gods are capable of interposing themselves in the action.

When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before.

Examines the lives of the Cambridge spies, and in particular Anthony Blunt. The story is told by Blunt, in the form of a journal which starts on the first day of the new life . The author uses the secret life as a way to explore the darker realms of the 20th century and its hidden minds.

This is a collection of photographs of the beautiful and complex land of Ireland, by some of the greatest names at Magnum, the leading photographic agency of modern times.

The second volume in the Freddie Montgomery trilogy. An unnamed murderer has served his time in prison, then comes to live on a sparsely populated island with the enigmatic Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic companion, Licht. A party of castaways then arrives, with uneasy results.

Documents and celebrates the work of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, the significant force in Mexican photography and one of the foremost practitioners of visual arts in the 20th century. This title includes over 360 sumptuous tritone photographs which are arranged in chronological order and mark Alvarez Bravos remarkable 80-year career.

Max returns to the coastal town where he spent a holiday in his youth. The Grace family appear that long ago summer as if from another world. Drawn to the Grace twins, Chloe and Myles, he soon finds himself entangled in their lives. What ensues will haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that is to follow.

Introduction by John Banville. Translated from the German by H F Broch De Rothermann.

Originally published in 1895, this outstanding collection of Irish verse was part of Yeats' campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history.

Originally published in 1895, this outstanding collection of Irish verse was part of Yeats' campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history.

A historian, about to complete a book on Isaac Newton, rents a cottage in Ireland. His intention is to put the finishing touches to his manuscript. However, as the summer wears on, he becomes obsessed by his writing. By the author of The Book of Evidence , shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

The Grace family had appeared one summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace were unlike any adults Max had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, and what ensued haunted him for the rest of his years and shaped everything that was to follow.

The first in a trilogy with Ghosts and Athena . Freddie Montgomery is a gentleman first and a murderer second. He committed two crimes - he stole a painting from a wealthy family friend and he killed a chambermaid who caught him in the act. Here he tells his story.

Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradcany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. This book traces Prague's often tragic history and portrays the people who made it.

A comprehensive reference work consisting of a series of mini-essays, informed by Latin and Greek and a deep knowledge of the humanities. This book tells you where words and concepts came from, examining the myth or history that clings to them and how they acquired the meaning they now have.

Axel Vander, a celebrated academic, is living out his retirement on the west coast of America. For decades he has lived with the secret of a tragedy of which he was both perpetrator and victim. A letter arrives out of the blue hinting at knowledge of his past and his secret.

Alexander Cleave, actor, has left his career and his family behind and banished himself to his childhood home. He wants to retire from life, but finds this impossible in a house brimming with presences, some ghostly, some undeniably human.

Originally published in 1895, this outstanding collection of Irish verse was part of Yeats' campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history.

The third volume in a trilogy that began with The Book of Evidence and Ghosts . Morrow is at a loose end when, separately, two people beckon him upstairs in an empty Dublin house. One offers him work of a dubious kind, and the other offers him a kind of love.