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Be-Spoke

What the Most Important Fashion Designers in the World Told Only to Marylou Luther In her seventy-year career as a fashion journalist, newsp…
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Death of Mr Dodsley

A London Bibliomystery ‘A bookshop is a first-rate place for unobtrusive observation,’ he continued. ‘One can remain in it an indefinite tim…
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The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street

A Russian Adventure A thrilling escapade through the Soviet Union of the ’90s and early 2000s by a tour guide turned smuggler turned novelis…
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of t…
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Madame Fourcade’s Secret War

The daring young woman who led France’s largest spy network against Hitler The little-known true story of the woman who headed the largest s…
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The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century

A Celebration of Outstanding Travel Storytelling from Around the World Travel writing matters. Explore the world through this beautiful coll…
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BOOTH

In 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth – celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instability – moves to a…
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Art & Fear

Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Art & Fear is about the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn’t get made,…
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The Russian Doll

The Firm meets McMafia in Marina Palmer’s thrilling and exciting novel, which opens the door on the Russian high life in London and corrupti…
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Sarn Helen

A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future From the author of Addlands, and featuring illustrations by Jackie Morris, an immersive an…
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Otherlands

A World in the Making This is the past as we’ve never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us…
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Grounded

A Journey into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors For thousands of years, our ancestors held a close connection with the landscapes they lived…
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The Instant

Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. She rents a loftbed in a shar…
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One Thousand Shades of Green

A Year in Search of Britain’s Wild Plants An insightful assessment of the nation’s flora, following Mike Dilger’s quest to find 1,000 plant…
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Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature

The collected writings from one of the nation’s most celebrated nature writers. CAUGHT BY THE RIVER What is happening to nature? What are we…
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Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid

How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change A fascinating insight into climate change biology around the globe, as well as in our ow…
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Love Marriage

Staff Pick Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, a trainee doctor (following the family tradition) and engaged to charismatic, fellow doctor Joe. Ya…
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Why Beethoven

A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. Who was this titan of world culture? Through 100 recording…
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Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires

The Life of Patricia Highsmith ‘My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires,…
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Getting Better – SIGNED COPY

Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it In our lives, terrible things may happen. Michael Rosen has grieved the…
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The Palace Papers

‘Never again’, became Queen Elizabeth II’s mantra shortly after Diana’s death. More specifically, there could never be ‘another Diana’ – a m…
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Still Pictures

On Photography and Memory For decades, Janet Malcolm’s books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical conven…
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber

The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRA. She grew up in a Chelse…
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Metaphysical Animals

How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life Elizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and (eventua…
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Circus of Dreams

Adventures in the 1980s Literary World Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years,…
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We Need to Talk

Emily was in a restaurant, having lunch with her father – the next thing she remembers is waking up, naked, in a strange hotel room, next to…
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Freezing Order

Vladimir Putin, Russian Money Laundering and Murder – A True Story Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder…
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Some Answers Without Questions

Part memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an elegant, important and spirited work of self-investigation; the result of…
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This Way to the Universe

A Journey into Physics When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritat…
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Eight Improbable Possibilities

The Mystery of the Moon, and Other Implausible Scientific Truths A mind-warping excursion into the wildly improbable truths of science. Echo…
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Hybrid Humans

Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our un…
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The One Thing You Need to Know

The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science From gravity to black holes, special relativity to global warming, this aut…
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Butler to the World

How Britain became the servant of tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and criminals How did Britain become the servant of the world’s most pow…
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Get Rich or Lie Trying

Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy More than one fifth of children want to become influencers and it’s easy to understand why…
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Russia: Myths and Realities

With its attack on Ukraine, Russia’s future seems almost as uncertain as its past. The largest country in the world – with the largest arsen…
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Little Poems

Dip into this inspired assortment of concise masterpieces, and draw out – a fragment of Sappho from ancient Greece, a perfect haiku from Jap…
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Le Coq

A Journey to the Heart of French Rugby From French rugby’s origins in Le Havre, (as an English export in the late nineteenth century) to the…
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Exiles – SIGNED COPIES

Critically acclaimed international bestseller Jane Harper returns. A mother disappears from a busy festival on a warm spring night. Her baby…
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Someone Else’s Shoes

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes? Meet Sam . . . She’s not got much, but she’s grateful for what she has: a j…
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Aristotle: Understanding the World’s Greatest Philosopher

Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today? The Lyceum in Ath…
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The Murder Game

A murder mystery party – and a real-life locked-room murder mystery – all take place in a crumbling country house. This is Tom Hindle’s fien…
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Into the Dark

Into the Dark is the new gripping crime thriller from Fiona Cummins about revenge, greed, ambition and the true cost of friendship. THE PLAC…
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The Second Cut

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auction…
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The Broken Afternoon

A SHOCKING DISAPPEARANCE: A four-year-old girl goes missing in plain sight outside her nursery in Oxford, a middle-class, affluent area, her…
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Lady Joker (Volume 2)

One of Japan’s great modern writers, this second half of Lady Joker brings Kaoru Takamura’s breathtaking masterpiece to a gripping conclusio…
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The Stasi Poetry Circle

The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War In 1982, East Germany’s fearsome secret police – convinced that writers were embed…
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Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage

The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA – women who helped create t…
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Espana

A Brief History of Spain Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today,…
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Colonialism

A Moral Reckoning A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed…
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Architects of Terror

Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Ter…
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The Get Things Done Book

41 Tools to Start, Stick With and Finish Things Every day we begin new projects, or try to find pleasure in the ones we’re working on – and…
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The Decision Book

Fifty models for strategic thinking (New Edition) Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? How can I get it? How can I…
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The Change Book

Fifty models to explain how things happen How do you make your way in a fast-changing world? Why do we have less and less time? Why are some…
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Brutes

In Falls Landing, Florida-a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers-something sinister lurks in the dee…
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Clara & Olivia

“Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?” Sadler’s Wells, 1933. I would kill to dance like her. Discip…
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Mouth to Mouth

Alone on the beach one morning, Jeff notices a swimmer drowning in the rough surf. He rescues and resuscitates the unconscious man, then qui…
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The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions)

Introduced by Claire-Louise Bennett, experience one new mother’s psychological journey in this lost 1930 foremother of Sylvia Plath’s The Be…
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Cold Nights of Childhood

The narrator of Cold Nights of Childhood grows up in a rapidly changing Turkey, where the atmosphere is nationalist, patriarchal, technocrat…
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A Table Full of Love

Recipes to Comfort, Seduce, Celebrate & Everything Else in Between Home cooked food can be used to nourish our loved ones, as well as ou…
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Thatcher’s Children

Thatcher’s Children was born out of a series first made in 1992 focusing on two parents and six children living in a hostel for homeless fam…
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The House of a Lifetime

A Collector’s Journey in Tangier Morocco is the antidote for anyone who has grown tired of minimalist design and beige interiors: saturated…
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If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal

What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, th…
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Beasts Before Us

The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed…
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Pegasus

The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware Pegasus is almost certainly the most powerful piece of spyware ever developed. Installed by…
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Haruko/Love Poems

In trailblazing poet, essayist, teacher and activist June Jordan’s poems, love is a vision of revolutionary solidarity, crossing borders bot…
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Nine Quarters of Jerusalem

A New Biography of the Old City In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. Maps divide the walled Old City into f…
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Becky – SIGNED COPIES

Becky Sharp is determined. Determined to get away from the dead-end town where she grew up, determined to make a place for herself in high s…
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Tough Guy

The Life of Norman Mailer The first biography to examine Mailer’s life as a twisted lens, offering a unique insight into the history of Amer…
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The Half Known Life

Finding Paradise in a Divided World It’s so easy, I thought, to place Paradise in the past or the future – anywhere but here. After half a c…
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Embroidering Her Truth

Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, want…
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Parisian Days

The Orient Express hurtles towards the promised land, and Banine is free for the first time in her life. She has fled her ruined homeland an…
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Au Revoir Now Darlint

The Letters of Edith Thompson A hundred years ago, on the night of 3 October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stab…
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This Mortal Coil:

A History of Death Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where di…
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Sunrise

Poems to Kick-Start Your Day If you struggle to get out of bed in the morning here’s a poetry collection that’s just right for you. Sunrise…
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

Open the safe deposit box. Inside you will find research material for a true crime book. You must read the documents, then make a decision….
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Needless Alley

Birmingham, 1933. Private enquiry agent William Garrett, a man damaged by a dark childhood spent on Birmingham’s canals, specialises in faci…
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Miss Aldridge Regrets

London, 1936 Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she…
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1942: Britain at the Brink

Eighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a string of military disasters engulfed Britain in rapid succession : the c…
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The Book of English Place Names

How Our Towns and Villages Got Their Names Take a journey down winding lanes and Roman roads in this witty and informative guide to the mean…
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Saturn Returns

Your cosmic coming of age What if there was a simple explanation for the turbulence and challenges of your twenties? What if every obstacle…
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Send Nudes

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradictions and complexities: growing up too q…
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Meditate Yourself Happy

Change Your Mood with 10 Minutes of Daily Meditation With Meditate Yourself Happy, learn to choose the thoughts you pay attention to. Becaus…
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The Other Half

You know how they live. This is how they die. The night before Rupert’s 30th is a black tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald’s – catered…
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Home

Someone has broken into Zoe’s flat. A man she thought she’d never have to see again. They call him the Hand of God. He knows about her job i…
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White Riot

1978: The National Front is gaining ground in Hackney. To counter their influence, anti-fascist groups launch the Carnival Against Racism in…
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Dreamer

Martin Luther King Jr is a political visionary, human rights activist, preacher, scholar and martyr. Chaym Smith is his dark mirror, a viole…
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The Birthday Party

Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quar…
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The Creative Act

A Way of Being Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for somet…
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1520

The Field of the Cloth of Gold 1520 explores the characters of two larger-than-life kings, whose rivalry and love-hate relations added a fei…
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My Friends, The Enemy

Life in Military Intelligence During the Falklands War ‘On the beach the Lieutenant asked if he could say a prayer before being shot. “Don’t…
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The Nature Chronicles Prize 1

The best of contemporary nature writing from the winners of the inaugural international Nature Chronicles Prize. The Nature Chronicles Prize…
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The Call of the Tribe

Essays In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over th…
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In Defence of Witches

Renowned journalist Mona Chollet recasts the witch as a powerful role model: an emblem of strength, free to exist beyond the narrow limits s…
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Whatever Gets You Through the Night

Most people travel to Corfu to escape the real world for a couple of weeks and embrace the fantasy of olive trees, sandy beaches, and little…
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Spare

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the wor…
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Death of an Author

‘I hate murders and I hate murderers, but I must admit that the discovery of a bearded corpse would give a fillip to my jaded mind.’ Vivian…
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Super Volcanoes

What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black…
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

In 1864, a young Austrian archduke by the name of Maximilian crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne. He had been lured into the voy…
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The Reactor

A Book about Grief and Repair After the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular, labyrinthine journey to understand…
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Spies and Traitors

Kim Philby, James Angleton and the Betrayal that Would Shape the Cold War Kim Philby’s life and career has inspired an entire literary genre…
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Nellie

The Life and Loves of a Diva Nellie Melba is remembered as a squarish, late middle-aged woman dressed in furs and large hats, an imperious D…
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The Vanished Collection

Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman’s quest for the truth A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a wom…
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Uncommon Wealth

Britain and the Aftermath of Empire Britain didn’t just put the empire back the way it had found it. In Uncommon Wealth, Kojo Koram traces t…
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The Generation Divide: Why We Can’t Agree and Why We Should

Are we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled ‘snowflakes’? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children’s futures…
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The Brexit Tapes

Brextorians had long suspected that at the time of the Brexit negotiations, a series of audio recordings were made by and of government offi…
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The Daughter of Time

Who really killed the princes in the tower? Was Richard III truly the ogre of legend and Shakespeare’s play. – a wicked uncle who murdered h…
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New Rome

The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 – 700 Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the…
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Accidental Gods

On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have b…
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Dirty Work

Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality A compelling investigation into the phenomenon of dirty work – labour that society consider…
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To Paradise

From Hanya Yanagihara, author of the modern classic A Little Life, To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three…
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I May Be Wrong

We like to think we can determine the path our life takes, but events rarely unfold the way we plan for or expect. In this international bes…
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Reasons to be Hopeful

What remains consoling, inspiring and beautiful An honest and accessible guide to finding light in the darkest of times. In a world that isn…
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The Gone and the Forgotten

Part psychological thriller, part coming-of-age novel from the author of People of Abandoned Character. An absent father. A missing girl. Bu…
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Stories of Books and Libraries

Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi’s enchanting ‘Books and Roses’); public and privat…
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Sparring Partners

Three thrilling stories of the law from the master of the legal thriller. Homecoming takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of…
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Stolen Focus

The Surprising Reason You Can’t Pay Attention Is your ability to focus and pay attention in free fall? You are one of many. The average offi…
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Healthier Planet, Healthier You

100 Sustainable, Nutritious and Delicious Recipes Award-winning recipe writer and registered nutritionist Annie Bell shows how you can minim…
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My Life in Sea Creatures

A young queer science writer on some of the ocean’s strangest creatures and what they can teach us about human empathy and survival. As a mi…
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The Wild Isles

An Anthology of the Best of British and Irish Nature Writing The very best of British and Irish nature writing selected by the natural histo…
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Elizabeth

An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years A personal account of the life and character of Britai…
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The French Revolution

A short, brilliant and controversial new interpretation of arguably the most important revolution of all time: the event that made the right…
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Persuasion

Jane Austen’s Persuasion is now available in a fine exclusive collector’s edition featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and…
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Grass

The Best of the SF Masterworks What could be more innocuous than grass? Or more idyllic than a world covered with a wind-whipped ocean of ve…
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Revelation Space

The Best of the SF Masterworks Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the humans now settling the Amarantin…
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The Translations of Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf (1999) was hailed as a masterpiece, alerting readers to his extraordinary ability to tune into other…
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Grave Intentions

SECRETS Seasoned detective Harith Athreya is back, this time to investigate suspicious incidences on a riverside dig in the heart of remote…
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The Wheel of Doll

When a wealthy young woman walks into Happy Doll’s office with a job for him up in Portland, LA’s most eccentric private eye is not in a pos…
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She Lights Out for the Territory

These women refuse to be civilized by societal norms and instead strike out on their own for lives of disobedience and adventure. Will you j…
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Uncanny Alley

These pocket-sized tales in clothbound Penguin Classics transformed the possibilities of storytelling. How weird are you willing to go? ‘Cos…
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The Fall of Boris Johnson

The Fall of Boris Johnson is the fascinating full account of how a prime minister lost his grip on power. Sebastian Payne, Whitehall Editor…
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A Message from Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s message to the world – a rallying cry for us all to stand up, support Ukraine and fight for democracy. The wo…
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Invasion

Russia’s Bloody War and Ukraine’s Fight for Survival The first book of reportage from the front line of the Ukraine war. This is a powerful,…
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A Revolution Betrayed

How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System There are few subjects these days that cause parents more stress than the education of…
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A Pocketful of Hope

An A-Z of Answers to Life’s Big Questions We live in an age where more and more people are saying something like, ‘I’m not religious, but I…
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Begars Abbey

A dark house filled with darker secrets… Winter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing…
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This Train

All aboard. It’s a countdown to murder… This Train races us through America’s heartland, carrying secrets. There is treasure in the cargo…
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Shortest Histories

Time is very much of the essence with these indispensable narrative histories from Old Street Publishing. This collection features the paper…
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The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription

We need sleep to survive. It’s as essential as food, water, and oxygen. Without it, our bodies begin to shut down. So why is something that…
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Where Blood Runs Cold

Erik Amdahl and his spirited daughter, Sofia, have embarked on a long-promised cross-country ski trip deep into Norway’s arctic circle. For…
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Nocturnal Apparitions

Essential Stories The stories in this collection are rich, tangled, and suffused with mystery and wonder. In the narrowing, winding city str…
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End Zone

During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by…
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Underworld

Underworld opens – famously – at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and…
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The Names

Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes…
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Mao II

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive nove…
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Great Jones Street

Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants…
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Gateway

Wealth … or death. Those were the choices Gateway offered. Humans had discovered this artificial spaceport, full of working interstellar s…
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The Forever War

The Best of the SF Masterworks Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable a…
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Neuromancer

The Best of the SF Masterworks Henry Dorsett Case is a low-level hustler, former hack and ‘console cowboy’ who crashed and burned. His nerve…
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The Word for World is Forest

A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans fi…
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Provencal

Cook the simple and flavoursome food of the South of France with acclaimed chef Alex Jackson’s Provencal. Provencal is the stunning reissue…
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The Noel Coward Diaries

’19th February 1956. A A Milne has died. Lord Beaverbrook has not … Larry is going to make a movie of The Sleeping Prince with Marilyn Mon…
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Whatever Next?

Lessons from an Unexpected Life Anne Glenconner’s glittering life hasn’t always been golden. As she revealed in her astonishing bestselling…
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Lost to the World

A Memoir of Faith, Family and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity In late August of 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore,…
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator

What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks…
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Hollywood

The Oral History Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century. What makes this boo…
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Winter in the Air

This Christmas, bask in these ‘diminutive masterpieces’ (Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes. Decades after her divorce, a…
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Fingersmith

Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize. Filmed for the television and the inspiration for The Handmaiden London 1862. Sue Tri…
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The Bread Book

60 artisanal recipes for the home baker, from the author of The Larousse Book of Bread A bread-making masterclass for home bakers, featuring…
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British Prime Ministers in 100 Facts

Clive Pearson takes us on an engaging whirlwind tour of the fifty-two men and two women who have so far held the office of Prime Minister. W…
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The Light We Carry

Overcoming In Uncertain Times The powerful, inspiring follow-up to the critically acclaimed, multi-million #1 bestselling memoir Becoming In…
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A Book of Days

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More t…
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Inside the Whale

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his d…
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On Reading

Bookshop Memories, Good Bad Books, Nonsense Poetry, Books vs. Cigarettes and Confessions of a Book Reviewer George Orwell set out ‘to…
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The Making of England

From Rome to Reformation The Making of England places the history of early England firmly within the European sphere of influence. It draws…
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Thames Crossings Through Time

Amid peaceful countryside, past historic towns and through the heart of London, the River Thames flows in an easterly direction for some 346…
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Action Likely in Pacific

Secret Agent Kilsoo Haan, Pearl Harbor and the Creation of North Korea A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history an…
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Power Failure

The Rise and Fall of General Electric A magisterial history of the astounding rise – and unimaginable fall – of America’s most iconic corpor…
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The Trials of Life

A Natural History of Animal Behaviour The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covere…
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On Days Like These

Martin O’Neill is one of the most fascinating and respected figures in football. On Days Like These tells the story of his remarkable career…
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Elizabeth and Philip

A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy She was ‘sugar pink’ innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing throu…
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My Life in Food

In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we eat, cook and a…
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Wildeana

Oscar Wilde’s early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated – or mocked…
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Duplicity

A powerful, poignant and pacey adoption memoir which reads like a thriller. When her adoptive mother died in 2009 Donna Freed set out to tra…
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Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life

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