The Coddling of the American Mind - How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Greg Lukianoff; Jonathan Haidt

The New York Times bestseller Financial Times, TLS, Evening Standard, New Statesman Books of the Year'Excellent, their advice is sound . . . liberal parents, in particular, should read it' Financial TimesHave good intentions, over-parenting and the decline in unsupervised play led to the emergence of mo...

Islands of Mercy

Rose Tremain

An audacious novel about destiny and desire from the incomparable Rose TremainAll must gamble with their fate. But not all can win...In the city of Bath, in the year 1865 Jane Adeane, renowned for her restorative skills, is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. But when she ...

Decline and Fall (HB)

Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, now in a wonderful new hardback editionSent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, rascals and fools...