Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift's best known work and a classic of English literature. The book satirizes human nature and Swift claimed that he wrote it "to vex the world rather than divert it." The book follows Lemuel Gulliver and his fantastical travels to foreign lands where he encounters ...

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize"Black Spartacus is a tour de force: by far the most complete, authoritative and persuasive biography of Toussaint that we are likely to have for a long time . . . An extraordinarily gripping read." --David A. Bell,The GuardianA new interpretation of the life of ...

The Ink Dark Moon

Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu

Here is a collection of sexy, brief, fleeting poems about love, lust and longing. They originate from a time in Japanese history where aristocratic women of the Heian court were free to marry and conduct love affairs according to their desires. Education and refinement were so highly valued that the cou...