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Leading scholars combine their love of The Archers with their specialist subjects, in Custard, Culverts and Cake - a sometimes serious, but most of...

A surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society From TV's real housewives to The Wolf of Wall Stre...

Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark, and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinsel towns biggest films. Esoteric Hollyw...

It s no secret that the youth of the world buck conventional mainstream culture every chance they get, blazing countercultural trails in the proces...

In the realm of amusing, deadpan greetings cards, Cath Tate is the original and best. In her thirty-year career she has created thousands of witty,...

Margaret Atwood, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney and Salman Rushdie feature in this collection of over forty interviews with award-winning authors. Th...

This is the book for the 16 Million of us that woke up the day after the night before the EU referendum to find our Euro dreams in tatters. This is...

In many pop culture texts, monsters can be read as metaphors for marginalized Others in U.S. culture. This book applies the philosophical lens o...

''A grade, A list oral history'' The Sunday Times''Eminently, moreishly readable'' The New Statesmen''A rollicking read'' Mail on Sunday''Entertain...

Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A Must pick by Entertainment Weekly * An A.V. Club ...

''The future hasn''t happened yet. The idea that our civilisation is doomed is not established fact. It is a story we tell ourselves.''In the 1980s...

Just in time for Brexit, the sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit: an absurdist journey through...

Mod has its roots in in London with a group of young men in the late Fifties who were known as modernists because they listened to modern jazz. A P...