‘Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,’ says Thomas More, ‘and when you come back that night he’ll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks’ tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.’ England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne,...

In the eleventh century, a vast Christian army, summoned to holy war by the pope, rampaged through the Muslim world of the eastern Mediterranean, seizing possession of Jerusalem, a city revered by both faiths. Over the two hundred years that followed...

For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” and “The Canterville Ghost”; such well-known fairy tales as...

Please tell us when and why you set-up your bookshop The Gutter Bookshop opened its doors on the 3rd November 2009 in Dublin’s Temple Bar area and is currently being nursed through its infancy by the owner, me – Bob Johnston, the store manager Ann...

The collection of short stories by the Zimbabwean writer was selected by a celebrity judging panel, as well as by readers from five Waterstone’s reading groups. Guardian literary editor, Claire Armitstead, who chaired the judging panel, said: “I...