"The Kamasutra" was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. This book provides a portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and women, for whom the book was written. It shows that the "Kamasutra" was always much more than a sex manual.

For fans of Bernard Cornwell and Sharon Penman, Antonia Senior brings medieval Scotland to life in The Winter Isles: a vivid, authentic tale of one man's quest to hear his name through the ages.

The stunning story of Russia's slide back into a dictatorship - and how the West is now paying the price for allowing it to happen.

Leading political writer Timothy Garton Ash presents ten guiding principles for freedom of expression in the digital age, which are the result of a unique global conversation on the website: www.freespeechdebate.com

A superb collection of taut and unsettling stories from one of America's literary giants

Interconnected through blogs, wikis, chat rooms, and personal broadcasting, the Web is being reinvented to provide the global platform for collaboration in history. This work offers an investigation into how small businesses can achieve success by using an ecosystem of partners to co-create and peer-produce value in the networked economy.

From Graham Rawle, author of 'the most wildly original novel produced in this country in the past decade... a work of genius' (The Times on Woman's World), comes a charming, surreal, visually stunning and utterly unforgettable new novel: The Card.

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.