Product Description: In 1916, famous poet Rubén Darío passed a victim of alcohol. His verses swept away the old lyrical norms that were still being used in both sides of the Atlantic. Through long and rigorous investigations, renowned biographer Ian Gibson tells us the truth about Darío’s tormented and fascinating life...read more

Product Description: Henry Spencer Ashbee (1834–1900) was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman, a family man who counted among his many friends the celebrated adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. But he was a gentleman with a secret—one so delicious that he rented a separate apartment to contain it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A contract for Boba Fett to recover a mysterious and powerful artefact leads to an awesome confrontation with the Sith Lord Supreme, Darth Vader. This promises to be a thoroughly wholesome tale of greed, treachery and backstabbing.

Drawing on extensive research and recently discovered sources, this ambitious biography of Salvador Dali traces the infamous artist's life from childhood to death, revealing his outlandish personality, paranoia, and sexual torment. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Back in print to coincide with the release of the upcoming motion picture Death in Granada on the life of Lorca, this "monumental biography" (New York Times) goes to the heart of his explosive genius. When, at the age of 38, Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by anti-republican rebels during the Spanish Civil War, he was already one of the world's most celebrated poets and playwrights...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Years before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio journeyed to the Kalarba system where they encountered the notorious Olag Greck for the first time. After Artoo and Threepio were acquired by the Pitareeze family, the droids found themselves in a series of misadventures with pirates, bounty-hunters, and rock monsters! These stories brim with the wonder and whimsy that made the characters so popular in the films, as Artoo and Threepio do their best to stick together in an often dangerous galaxy...read more

Product Description: The Irish famine of 1845-1851 killed a million people, mostly from disease resulting from months of slow starvation. Hundreds of thousands were evicted and left destitute, and another million and a half fled the country, taking with them the horrors of hunger, disease and despair...read more

Product Description: Years before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio journeyed to the Kalarba system where they encountered the notorious Olag Greck for the first time. After Artoo and Threepio were acquired by the Pitareeze family, the droids found themselves in a series of misadventures with pirates, bounty-hunters, and rock monsters! These stories brim with the wonder and whimsy that made the characters so popular in the films, as Artoo and Threepio do their best to stick together in an often dangerous galaxy...read more

Product Description: This volume explores Salvador Dali's work. It focusses on his art up to about 1930, aiming to throw light on Dali, and how greatly his later images, obsessions and attitudes were rooted in his youthful experiences in Catalonia and Spain...read more

Product Description: This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the village of Fuente Vaqueros to the site of his assassination, at the beginning of the Civil War, in the foothills outside the city...read more

Product Description: Back in print to coincide with the release of the upcoming motion picture Death in Granada on the life of Lorca, this "monumental biography" (New York Times) goes to the heart of his explosive genius. When, at the age of 38, Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by anti-republican rebels during the Spanish Civil War, he was already one of the world's most celebrated poets and playwrights...read more

Product Description: Sub-titled Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After, this is a serious study of flogging and flagellation in English society by the author of The Assassination of Garcia Lorca and biographer of Dali.

The author records his findings on the arrest and murder of the Granadine poet at the onset of the Spanish Civil War

Product Description: A serious study of flogging and flagellation in English society by the author of The Assassination of Garcia Lorca and biographer of Dali.