Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!'A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to benefit m...

Marvel Monsters: Creatures Of The Marvel Universe Explored

DK

DK's Marvel anthology of monsters beautifully curates the best and the worst beasts of the Marvel multiverse in one luscious, illustrated volumeAll Super Heroes need a monster to fight, or a monstrous sidekick to help them. Some are even monsters themselves. This comprehensive field guide to Marvel flor...

An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

Alison Bashford

In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found o...