William Blake: Poems (Vintage Classics)

William Blake; Patti Smith (Introduction by)

"William Blake is one of Britain s most fascinating writers, who, as well as being a groundbreaking poet, is also well known as a painter, engraver, radical and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source o...

The Fifth Elephant: (Discworld Novel 24)

Terry Pratchett

Sam Vimes is a man on the run. Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberwald.Now he has nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest t...

Snow Crash (PB)

Neal Stephenson

The 30th anniversary edition of the modern classic that popularised the term 'metaverse', exploring (in an eerily prescient way) computer science, the advance of technology, wealth inequality, politics and philosophyIn the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons - there is a new drug...