Stefan Zweig's classic biography of one of British history's most fascinating figures, rereleased in a new edition to tie in with launch of the major new Hollywood film Mary Queen of Scots.

Gothic, fantasy-tinged historical fiction, delving back into the teenage years of Mary Shelley tofind the inspiration for Frankenstein

"First published in Japanese by Kodansha in 1962"--Title page verso.

An enthralling Sherlock Holmes-esque mystery set in Vienna from one of Austria's most highly regarded authors.

A memoir of childhood, the mother-daughter bond and the transformative power of swimming, by multi-award-winning French author Chantal Thomas.

A collection of essays and speeches by Stefan Zweig from the 1930s and 1940s on the theme of the need for European unity - of great relevance today.

A boy goes to the supermarket almost every day, just so he can look at the face of the woman who sells sandwiches. She is beautiful to him, and he calls her "Ms Ice Sandwich," and endlessly draws her portrait. When the boy's friend hears about this hesitant adoration, suddenly everything changes. His visits to Ms Ice Sandwich stop, and with them the last hopes of his childhood.

'One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' - Haruki Murakami