When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life'-Samuel Johnson. In fact Dr Johnson was only half right. There is in London much more than life-there is power. Enter a London where magicians ride the Last Train, implore favours of The Beggar Kind and interpret the insane wisdom of The Bag Lady.

"Despite being hailed as one of the best guitarists of his era, George Harrison, particularly in his early decades, battled feelings of inferiority. He was often the butt of jokes from his bandmates owing to his lower-class background and, typically, was allowed to contribute only one or two songs per Beatles album out of the dozens he wrote. Now, acclaimed Beatles biographer Philip Norman examines Harrison through the lens of his numerous self-contradictions....

"A posthumous collection of journalism and other writings by Hilary Mantel, revealing in spectacular breadth the beloved writer's cutting wit and singular voice on books, films, the royals, and her own life"-- "In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains....

More than 100 folktales gathered from the various Hispanic and indigenous peoples of North, South, and Central America. Presents more than one hundred folktales selected from the Hispanic and Indian peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean and includes stories of tricksters, witches, angels, aristocrats, peasants, and heroes and heroines.