Smith of Wootton Major Fiction and an overview of the

and an overview of the subject ('Theory after "Theory"') which maps the arrival of new 'isms' since the second edition appeared in 2002 and the third edition in 2009

As their twisted cat-and-mouse game ratchets up to a violent clash of good versus evil

and the atomic ageExplores how geology is guiding us to an understanding of life's origins and whether there might be life elsewhere in the universe

Set across one weekend

Their combined story arc covers a transformative period - from when Britain's empire spanned nearly a quarter of the globe

Smith of Wootton Major Fiction and an overview of theA charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings. What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to suggest an early work by P. G. Wodehouse. Composed almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings, and when his lifelong occupation with the `Silmarillion' was