Biography: arts & entertainment

Comedian and broadcaster Paul Merton selects eighty of the funniest stories ever written, featuring inclusions from Anton Chekhov, Ali Smith, P. G. Wodehouse and Nora Ephron. 80 of the funniest stories ever written, selected and introduced by Paul Merton. From Anton Chekhov to Ali Smith, from P.G...

Paperback edition of the latest legal thriller from international bestseller John Grisham. Lawyer and minister Cullen Post takes on the case of Quincy Miller, who was sentenced to life 22 years ago for murder but who has always maintained his innocence. The Sunday Times bestseller from internatio...

Business at usual is the policy at the cosmetics factory despite the onset of war, with Renee, Lily and Esther finding themselves caught in secretive and challenging suituations back home to complicate this. A new series from bestselling author Kate Thompson.'Kate Thompson's wartime novels always...

When Elsie Munday arrives to take up position as housemaid to the Spencer family, her life quickly becomes entwined with the charming and irascible Stanley, his artist wife Hilda and their tiny daughter Shirin. Elsie does her best to keep the family together even when love, obsession and temptati...