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A More Perfect Union
Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape poverty and famine in Ireland, only to find anti-Irish prejudice awaiting him. Determined n…
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Geniuses at War
Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and eng…
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The Book Lover’s Bucket List
Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Bronte parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith…
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The Mad Women’s Ball
The Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been deemed mad or…
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The Shortest History of England
As Hawes journeys from Caesar to Brexit via Conquest, Empire and War, he tells a profound new tale of England. Our island fortress is riven…
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The Secret Life of the Savoy
“For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was serv…
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The White Ship
The sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120 is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions w…
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Black Water Sister
This mischievous Malaysian-set novel is an adventure featuring family, ghosts and local gods – from Hugo Award winning novelist Zen Cho. Her…
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The Mermaid of Black Conch
Escape to the ocean this summer with the entrancing, unforgettable winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020. ‘A unique talent’ Bernardine E…
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The Day I Fell Off My Island
The Day I Fell Off My Island tells the story of Erna Mullings, a teenage Jamaican girl uprooted from her island following the sudden death o…
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Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries
“Curiously enough,” said Dr. Manners, “I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance…
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The Really Incredible Science Book
Open pop-up pages, pull tabs, lift flaps, and be amazed! – young children learn about space, forces, plants, liquids, light, sound, and elec…
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Why the Germans Do it Better
Emerging from a collection of city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so much prosp…
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Paris Match
In Brooklyn, John von Sothen fell in love with Anais, a French waitress. And then, one night in Paris, on the Pont Neuf, she agreed to marry…
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God’s Shadow
A Times Literary Supplement and History Today Book of the Year ‘An astonishing and thrilling story.’ Stephen Greenblatt The Ottoman Empire w…
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The Moth and the Mountain
‘One of the best books ever written about the early attempts to conquer Everest. A fine, fine slice of history by a truly special writer who…
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A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom
Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them. It starts with a family,…
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The Mission House
Fleeing his demons and the dark undercurrents of life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a south Indian mission house next door to the…
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How Iceland Changed the World
The untold story of how one tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic has shaped the world for centuries. The history of Iceland began 1,200…
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Robot
The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time ‘We have given you life … so that…
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Tokyo Redux
A novel about one of history’s great unsolved mysteries, by one of Britain’s most original writers. ‘Typically brilliant … A murder myster…
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140 Artists’ Ideas for Planet Earth
Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, artists wh…
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Assembly
Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Step out into a world of Go Home vans. Go to Oxbridge, get an education…
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Why We’re Polarized
‘Powerful [and] intelligent’ – Fareed Zakaria, CNN ‘Superbly researched and written’ – Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post America’s polit…
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The Words of Every Song
‘A remarkable novel, elegant, wise, and beautifully constructed.’ Roddy Doyle Tommy Mays, Titan Records’ biggest act, is verging on a mid-li…
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt
‘You will be obsessed.’ LEILA SLIMANI ‘It will keep you firmly in its grips.’ OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE The Woman in the Purple Skirt is being wat…
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What Happened?
‘No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.’ – William Boyd Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Ku…
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Zennor in Darkness
It is spring 1917 in the Cornish coastal village of Zennor, and the young artist Clare Coyne is waking up to the world. Ignoring the whisper…
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We Play Ourselves
In the pursuit of fame, how do you know when you’ve gone too far? When Cass – a thirty-something, promising, queer playwright – receives a p…
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The Rain Heron
‘Astonishing… With the intensity of a perfect balance between the mythic and the real, The Rain Heron keeps turning and twisting, taking y…
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The Startup Wife
Selected as a Best Book of 2021 by the Observer, Stylist, Cosmopolitan, Red and the Daily Mail Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming…
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A Room Made of Leaves
It is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the arrogant and hot-headed soldier John Macarthur, she soon realises she has made a…
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The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border
Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase filled with her father’s papers. ‘If you open that suitcase you’ll never c…
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Under the Sea-Wind
Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery…
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The Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oc…
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Shyness and Dignity
Nothing in Elias’ measured life, in his whole career as a teacher of literature, in his marriage to the ‘indescribably beautiful’ Eva, fores…
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Surviving Autocracy
‘An indispensable voice of and for this moment’ Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny Many of us are consumed by news cycles reporting on Tru…
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Warm Worlds and Otherwise
‘Tiptree’s narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction’s most vivid and influential bodies of work’ The New Yor…
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Untouched By Human Hands
‘The greatest entertainer ever produced by science fiction’ J. G. Ballard These surreal, elegantly witty tales from one of the most esteemed…
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Star Maker
‘A prodigious novel … Stapledon’s literary imagination was boundless’ Jorge Luis Borges A lasting influence on successive generations of s…
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The New Wilderness
From an acclaimed Guardian First Book Award finalist comes a debut novel ‘brutal and beautiful in equal measure’ (Emily St. John Mandel) A G…
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October Child
From 2013 to 2017, Linda Boström Knausgård was periodically interned in a psychiatric ward where she was subjected to electroconvulsive ther…
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The Enchanted Life
Reclaiming the Wisdom and Magic of the Natural World A book of natural wonders, practical guidance and life-changing empowerment, by the aut…
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Portrait Of Humanity Vol 3
Following the success of Portrait of Britain and Portrait of Humanity, this second edition of the latter brings together 200 new portraits t…
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The Vanishing Half
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age…
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Smallpox
The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer With a New Introduction by Phillip K. Peterson, M.D., author of M…
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Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary
German poet Rainer Maria Rilke’s (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke’s personal re…
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The Wild Silence
‘It was the land, the earth, the deep humming background to my very being’ In 2016, days before they were unjustly evicted from their home,…
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What Artists Wear
‘A liberation and a joy, beautifully written and brilliantly thought. What Artists Wear is at once a revelatory account of how art is made a…
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The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations
Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021 ‘There is almost no issue of public interest which does not derive from taxes or end up w…
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George II Not Just a British Monarch
From the celebrated historian and author of Europe: A History, a new life of George II George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Elec…
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Checkmate in Berlin
Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Reichstag in the spring of 1945. Streets were choked with rubble, power…
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Battle of Britain
In Battle of Britain: The pilots and planes that made history, Ed Gorman and Simon Pearson paint a vivid picture of the men and their machin…
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Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
‘An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by th…
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Agent Sonya
THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF WW2’S MOST EXTRAORDINARY SPY – FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR From planning an assassin…
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Kay’s Anatomy
A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly…
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The Last Taxi Driver
Lou – a lapsed novelist and UFO enthusiast who has returned to his home state of Mississippi after decades away – drives for a ramshackle ta…
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Box 88
An organisation that doesn’t exist. A spy that can’t be caught. Years ago, a spy was born… 1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for B…
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Burning the Books
An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey – from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfir…
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A Vision of the World: Selected Short Stories
The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century’s most influential short story writer. SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JULIAN B…
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X Troop
‘This is Inglorious Basterds — but much better. Because it is the real story of clandestine Jewish fighters wreaking havoc against the Nazi…
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Strange Bliss: Essential Stories
Katherine Mansfield was one of the true pioneers of the short story. Her style shifts subtly between the comic and the tragic, as calm surfa…
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You Are a Champion: How to Be the Best You Can Be
It’s hard to know what is possible until you start. You have to be able to dream big and be prepared to work towards your dreams. I’ve achie…
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The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever
The No.1 bestselling series from the author of How to Train Your Dragon. Can Xar and Wish unite their worlds in time to save the Wildwoods?…
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More Women Than Men
As another term begins at her girls’ school, Josephine Napier reasserts her iron grip over her teachers and family. Her air of studied self-…
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Outbreak
The explosive new thriller featuring MI6 operative Luke Carlton on his most terrifying mission yet. Deep within the Arctic Circle, three sci…
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Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
From ‘Best of the Booker’ winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that tak…
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Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World
After darkness, there is always light In a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global ‘reset moment’, wi…
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The Hospital Dog
Written by the brilliant Julia Donaldson and stunningly illustrated by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie, The Hospital Dog is a big-hearted tal…
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Mexico Set
‘Deighton is a marvel … a tale told by an author at the height of his power’ Chicago Tribune World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing co…
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London Match
‘Spying at its most captivating and intricate’ The Times ‘Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing ch…
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Latitude: The Astonishing Adventure that Shaped the World
The year is 1735. Twelve unruly men board ships bound for South America. Their mission? To discover the true shape of the earth. They will b…
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The Fortune Men
Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish…
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Island Reich
An unlikely spy. July 1940. As Britain braces itself for invasion, ex-Tommy and safecracker Bill O’Hagan is glad to have escaped the battlef…
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Black Buck
My goal is to teach you how to sell. And if I’m half the salesman every newspaper, blog, and hustler in New York City says I am, then you ar…
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The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig
A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers’ reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig bring…
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The Complete Illustrated Guide to Zen
An introduction to Zen unlike any you’ve seen before–inspired by manga and graphic novels.With dynamic, detailed illustrations and a semi-n…
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Berlin Game
‘Masterly … dazzlingly intelligent and subtle’ Sunday Times ‘Deighton’s best novel to date – sharp, witty and sour, like Raymond Chandler…
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Super Fly
The Unexpected Lives of the World’s Most Successful Insects For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they’re annoying, and…
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Insignificance
Joseph is trying to focus on a plumbing job he is doing for his wife’s friend, but is distracted by the terrible things that have been happe…
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The High-Rise Diver
For readers of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Circle, and Brave New World comes a chilling and distressingly plausible dystopia which creates a wo…
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Afro Vegan
Family recipes from a British-Nigerian kitchen Introducing Zoe Alakija, a london-based cook, whose rich recipes blend modern British flavour…
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Summertime, All the Cats Are Bored
A COMPELLING AND ADDICTIVE PAGETURNER TO IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THIS SUMMER “He waits joylessly, patiently, and lets himself go. The stone hous…
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The Anglo-Saxons
Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left…
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The History of Magic
Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic – the idea that we have a conne…
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Facing The Mountain
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that f…
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Tom Stuart-Smith: Drawn from the Land
Landscape architect and designer Tom Stuart-Smith began his practice in London in 1998. Known for contrasting built forms with naturalistic…
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The Thursday Murder Club
THE FIRST BOOK IN THE #1 BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY TV PRESENTER RICHARD OSMAN In a peaceful retirement village, four unlike…
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The Harpy
Staff Pick A short, compulsive, breathless little novel, strange and compelling in its mythologizing of an everyday woman’s internal unravel…
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Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths
‘Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!’…
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The gripping and shocking story of three generations of the Sackler family and their roles in the stories of Valium and Oxycontin, by the pr…
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Operation Pedestal
In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill ma…
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The Gospel of the Eels
‘I can’t recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can’t remem…
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year ‘Hugely, highly and happily recom…
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Notes on Grief
A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow…
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Utopia Avenue
Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf…
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Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient world to create an empire that stretched from the Adria…
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Mog’s Birthday
Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat… A special birthday story to celebrate fifty years of MOG, everyone’s favourite family cat…
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The Chiffon Trenches
Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the world of high fashion in this detailed, storied memoir from style icon, bestselling aut…
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Prisoners of History
‘Inspired … Lowe’s sensitive, disturbing book should be compulsory reading for both statue builders and statue topplers’ MAX HASTINGS, SUN…
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Noah’s Gold
Packed with mystery, adventure and laughs, Noah’s Gold is the exciting novel from the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Millions an…
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Hotel Raphael
Hotel Raphael, Rachael Boast’s fourth collection, charts a journey through heat, drought and pain, and describes not only the reality of chr…
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The Age of Dinosaurs
Discover the mind-blowing truth behind their REAL prehistoric story, told to you by the world’s ultimate dinosaur professor. The Age of the…
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Aunt Amelia’s House
From the award-winning Rebecca Cobb, illustrator of The Paper Dolls and The Everywhere Bear, comes another lively tale about the very unusua…
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The Shortest History Of War
In this timely addition to the bestselling shortest history series, acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer tells the story of war from its prehisto…
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Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer
The surprising story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life, from the bestselling author of How We Got to Now and Where Good Ide…
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The Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily
A wonderful story for children and an allegory for adults about the absurdity of war, presented here with an introduction and guide to the t…
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A Hundred Million Years and a Day
Jean-Baptiste Andrea
One man’s obsession with a mythical dinosaur fossil takes him and his team to the very edge of the world, and of life itself.
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