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On Travel and the Journey Through Life
This collection On Travel is clever, funny, provoking and confrontational by turn. In a pyrotechnic display of cracking one-liners, cynical…
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Big Ideas from History
A history of the world for You An engaging, alternative history of the world for children, which helps to make sense of today. The present c…
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Smelling the Breezes
A Journey through the High Lebanon in 1957 Smelling the Breezes is an inspiring adventure, that throws down a gauntlet about what can be ach…
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The History of Russia
From the Rus’ people to President Putin From monarchy to the world’s first socialist state, from Communism to Capitalism, from mass poverty…
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead
First revealed by a Tibetan monk in the 14th century, Bardo Thodol (“Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State”) – known more…
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Haywire SIGNED COPY
The Best of Craig Brown From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma’am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown’s…
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Ocean, Exploring the Marine World
Experience the force, mystery, and beauty of the ocean and seas through more than 300 images – featuring underwater photography, oceanograph…
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A Short History of Queer Women
No, they weren’t ‘just friends’! Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. ‘But historians famously care about wome…
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A Horse at Night
On Writing Without planning it, I wrote a diary of sorts. Lightly. A diary of fiction. Or is that not what this is? Essayistic inquiries com…
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Eliot’s Book of Bookish Lists
A sparkling miscellany of literary lists Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose…
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Thought for the Day
50 years of fascinating thoughts & reflections from the world’s religious thinkers ‘A daily taste of eternity in the midst of time’ BBC…
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The Most of Nora Ephron
The ultimate anthology of essays, articles and extracts from her greatest work, with a foreword by Candice Carty-Williams: Nora’s much-loved…
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Animal Vegetable Criminal
When Nature Breaks the Law What’s to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Follow Ma…
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How the World Really Works
A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know ho…
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This Is What It Sounds Like
What the Music You Love Says About You A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is…
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English Romantic Poets
‘All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings’ – William Wordsworth No generation of poets has felt more powerfully and en…
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River Poems
Rivers were the arteries of our first civilizations – the Tigris and Euphrates of Mesopotamia, India’s Ganges, Egypt’s Nile, the Yellow Rive…
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Hester
Edinburgh, early 1800s: Isobel, a seamstress, and her husband Edward set sail for New England, in flight from his opium addiction and mounti…
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The Romantic SIGNED COPY
Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and…
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Life Is Hard
How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Pain, Loneliness, Grief, Injustice … Hope? Life is hard – as the past few years have made painfull…
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The Tattoo Murder
Can you solve the mystery of the tattoo murder? Tokyo, 1947. At the first post-war meeting of the Edo Tattoo Society, Kinue Nomura reveals h…
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Sundial
You can’t escape the desert. You can’t escape Sundial. Rob fears for her daughters. For Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imag…
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The Mitford Vanishing
Jessica Mitford and the case of the disappearing sister A classic mystery starring the glamorous Mitford sisters and inspired real events, T…
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The Six Who Came to Dinner
Stories by Costa Award Shortlisted author of MEET ME AT THE MUSEUM The village cleaning lady who holds everyone’s house-keys opens a boot to…
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People from Bloomington
In the 1970s, Budi Darma – one of Indonesia’s most acclaimed writers – lived as a student in Bloomington, Indiana. His experiences formed th…
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Classic Ghost Stories
Spooky Tales from Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, M.R. James and many more Do you believe in ghosts? As the winter nights draw in and the cosy…
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Stories of Southern Italy
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cant…
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The War of Nerves
Inside the Cold War Mind More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty year…
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The Wolf Age
The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North…
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The Wordhord
Daily Life in Old English An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English, which il…
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Index, A History of the
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book – it’s just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an un…
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Nuclear Folly
A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a…
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Art Year by Year
A Visual History, from Cave Paintings to Street Art Travel through time to discover the paintings, sculptures, and decorative objects that e…
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Country Church Monuments
A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments – the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales. Deep in the countryside, a…
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Great Women Painters
A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book th…
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The Ruin of All Witches
Life and Death in the New World In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestoc…
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The Totally Football Book
The Totally Football Book will feature the best writing from the Totally Football Show regulars, who by happy coincidence also happen to be…
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The Indoor Garden
Get Started No Matter How Small Your Space User-friendly and highly accessible, this is a practical, fully illustrated and inspiring guide t…
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The Book of Phobias and Manias
A History of the World in 99 Obsessions A captivating A-Z from the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Do you recoil in arac…
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Turnips’ Edible Almanac
The Week-by-week Guide to Cooking with Seasonal Ingredients The time for fresh, seasonal, delicious food is now – Turnips’ Edible Almanac is…
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Wee Gallery Cloth Peekaboo Ocean
Peekaboo Ocean Open out the soft pages of this beautiful, sensory-rich organic cloth book to explore the world of the sea, and play peekaboo…
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Happy Stories for Nature Lovers
This cheerful compendium of true, narrative non-fiction stories show that when we give it a little bit of space and maybe a gentle helping h…
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Tales of Prehistoric World
Adventures from the Land of the Dinosaurs Travel back to the land before time to discover real dinosaur stories from the world of palaeontol…
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Dwayne Johnson
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the true story of Dway…
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Here We Go Again… Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph 14
In another surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, lett…
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Well Documented
The Essential Documentaries that Prove the Truth is More Fascinating than Fiction This fascinating book from veteran film journalist Ian Hay…
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Making A Masterpiece
The stories behind iconic artworks What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artw…
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An Atlas of Lost Kingdoms
Discover Mythical Lands, Lost Cities and Vanished Islands On this quest around the world, you will discover lost kingdoms, phantom islands a…
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The Shortest History of the Crown
Amidst the turbulence and invasions, upheaval and dissent that characterise British history, one thing has remained remarkably stable. Altho…
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The World for Sale
Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources The modern world is built on commodities – from the oil that fuels our cars to…
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A History of the Classical World
The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome Aims to present the general reader with a view of the Graeco-Roman world, its history and achievements.
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Fen, Bog and Swamp
A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx – whose novels are infuse…
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Animal
The Definitive Visual Guide This landmark photographic encyclopedia of the animal kingdom is revised with new species, images, and the lates…
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Not Without Laughter
Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. ‘White peoples may…
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The Ways of White Folks
One of the most important writers to emerge from the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes is best known as a pioneer of jazz poetry, but the…
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Home to Harlem
‘Why did I want to mix mahself up in a white folk’s war? It ain’t ever was any of black folks’ affair’ When Jake Brown joined the World War…
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Quicksand & Passing
Two Novellas Nella Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime, both of which are collected here. The first, Quicksand, follows a mixed-race wom…
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Hotel Splendide
In this uproariously funny memoir, Ludwig Bemelmans uncovers the fabulous world of the Hotel Splendide, the luxury New York hotel where he w…
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Oscar
A Life Oscar Wilde’s life – like his wit – was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and a victim of ‘celebrity culture’: famous…
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Keep Talking
A Broadcasting Life David Dimbleby has interviewed prime ministers and presidents, made award-winning documentaries, chaired Question Time f…
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The Flying Prince – Alexander Obolensky
The Rugby Hero Who Died Too Young Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky made his name on a cold January day at Twickenham in 1936, his achie…
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An Intimate History of Evolution
The Story of the Huxley Family In his early twenties, poor, racked with depression, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless surve…
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Diary of an Invasion
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine This journal of the invasion, a collection of Andrey Kurkov’s writings and broadcasts from Kyiv, is a remark…
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Queen Elizabeth II
A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures An official BBC book that celebrates the life of Queen Elizabeth II through photographs, som…
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Starry Messenger
Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Ast…
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Black British Lives Matter
A Clarion Call for Equality BLACK BRITISH LIVES MATTER is a clarion call for equality, from nineteen of the most prominent Black figures in…
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The Last Overland: Singapore to London
The Return Journey of the Iconic Land Rover Expedition It was this comment by Sir David Attenborough on the fiftieth anniversary of the icon…
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Ottolenghi Test Kitchen SIGNED
Extra Good Things Ottolenghify every meal. Flexible, flavour-packed dishes that all lend a little something ‘extra’ to your next meal. It’s…
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Abyss SIGNED COPY
The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear col…
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Ghosts from the Library
Lost Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (A Bodies from the Library special) A brand new anthology of previously unpublished and uncollecte…
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Blood Rights
In the 1980s, London is a melting pot of cultures, but race and class create sharp divisions. Black British journalist Sam Dean looks for st…
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The Late Candidate
In 1980s London, Black political leaders who can straddle the racial divide are a rarity. So when a rising Black politician, Aston Edwards,…
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The Christie Affair
The Christie Affair is a stunning novel which reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the wor…
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Even the Darkest Night
A Terra Alta Investigation Winner of Spain’s biggest literary prize – the Premio Planeta. When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific doub…
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Abyss
The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear col…
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The Library: A Fragile History
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with g…
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Honourable Misfits
A Brief History of Britain’s Weirdest, Unluckiest and Most Outrageous MPs Politicians are weird – we can all agree on that. But do you know…
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Black England
A Forgotten Georgian History Georgian England had a large and distinctive black community. Yet all of them, prosperous citizens or newly fre…
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BBC Sports Report
A Celebration of the World’s Longest-Running Sports Radio Programme Sports Report is as much a 75-year history of sport as a BBC radio insti…
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China After Mao
The Rise of a Superpower From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao’s Great Famine, a timely and compelling account of China in the…
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Architecture
From Prehistory to Climate Emergency A groundbreaking history of architecture told through the relationship between buildings and energy. Th…
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Devil-Land
England Under Siege, 1588-1688 A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, sevente…
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Personality and Power
Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of histor…
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Home Is Not a Place
A gorgeously produced, hugely original examination of Black Britishness in the 21st century. What is Black Britain? In 2021, award-winning p…
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The Journey
A Big Panda and Tiny Dragon Adventure ‘We shall go on a journey, across the river . . .’ Join Big Panda and Tiny Dragon as they set off on a…
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The Darkness Knows
A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjoekull glacier. The victim: a businessman missing for thirty years. The case: impossib…
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The Ultimate Book of Cocktails
Over 100 of the Best Drinks to Shake, Muddle and Stir In The Ultimate Book of Cocktails, bestselling cocktail author Dan Jones shares over 1…
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Bliss on Toast: 75 Simple Recipes
What’s more comforting and satisfying than toast? And if you top it with a few cleverly paired ingredients, it can be a full meal, not to me…
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Motherland
A Jamaican Cookbook Motherland is a cookbook that charts the history of the people, influences and ingredients that uniquely united to creat…
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Ottolenghi Test Kitchen
Extra Good Things Ottolenghify every meal. Flexible, flavour-packed dishes that all lend a little something ‘extra’ to your next meal. It’s…
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Shrines of Gaiety INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITION
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho,…
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A Helping Hand
Staff Pick Comparisons to Roald Dahl, Muriel Spark and Stella Gibbons are a high mark to attain, but are more than surpassed in this tale of…
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Three Times a Countess
The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer Debutante of the year. Able politician. Femme fatale. Just some of the many labels attache…
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Written in Water
Keats’s final Journey On 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria C…
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Manifesto
A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became t…
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Poems in Progress
Drafts from Master Poets Ask two poets what their first drafts look like, and you’ll likely get wildly different answers. From typed pages w…
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Nights of Plague – SIGNED COPY
1901. Night draws in. With the stealth of a spy vessel, the royal ship Aziziye approaches the famous vistas of Mingheria. ‘An emerald build…
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The Franchise Affair
Their country house will soon play host to a nightmare… Marion Shape and her mother are quiet and ordinary villagers, enjoying a peaceful…
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Spectral Sounds
Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird From the ringing of a disconnected bell to footsteps in the halls of an abandoned house and the whisper of a…
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Charlotte’s Web
70th Anniversary Edition Wilbur the pig’s life has already been saved by Fern, but when he is sold to her uncle, he realises his life is in…
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Annie Leibovitz, Portraits 2005-2016
Influential photographer Annie Leibovitz presents her remarkable portraits in this re-issue of her acclaimed and bestselling collection. Wit…
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Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2023
The world’s best-selling annual wine guide. Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine – in…
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The British Cookbook
Authentic home cooking recipes from England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland ‘Staggeringly comprehensive and deeply researched, it’s a…
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The Mexican Vegetarian Cookbook
400 authentic everyday recipes for the home cook An essential guide to vibrant, vegetarian Mexican home cooking, including naturally vegan,…
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Getting Lost
Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attac…
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Faith, Hope and Carnage
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O’Hagan, i…
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Bambi
Newly retranslated, this elemental novel about danger, loss, and coming of age in the natural world was the source material for the classic…
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The Atlas of Atlases
Exploring the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them This beautiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at th…
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Don’t Worry, Just Cook
Delicious, Timeless Recipes for Comfort and Connection “I tell you not to worry because I’ve done all the worrying for you!” Bonnie Stern, b…
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Brilliant English Gardens
The enduring appeal of English gardens is beautifully realised by Clive Nichols, one of Europe’s leading garden photographers. From the gree…
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The Modern Bestiary
A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures From the familiar to the improbable, the gross to the endearing, The Modern Bestiary is a compend…
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Landlines
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth’s health is declining, getting worse by…
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Landlines – SIGNED COPY
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth’s health is declining, getting worse by…
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A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
Staff Pick The briefest of brief histories, considering the breadth of the topic, albeit a comprehensive introduction to life on Earth for t…
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The Accidental Duchess
From Farmer’s Daughter to Belvoir Castle Life in a castle isn’t always a fairytale, as the Duchess of Rutland vividly illustrates in her fas…
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Undoctored
This is Going to Hurt was the publishing phenomenon of the century, read by many millions, loved by at least fifty of them, and adapted into…
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Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders
It was said of the young Frank Sinatra that he came across as ‘St Francis of Assisi with a shoulder holster’. In Frank Sinatra and the Mafia…
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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
With an introduction by Arundhati Roy. Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon’s No Country for Eight-Spot Butte…
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Abominations
Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Noveli…
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Notes on Grief
A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. ‘Grief i…
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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1
Space, Time and Motion Knowledge is power… In this major trilogy, Sean Carroll opens up the world of physics and shows that you don’t nece…
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The Race Conversation
An essential guide to creating life-changing dialogue Is it possible not to be confused about race? Is it possible to respond authentically…
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The Fire of Joy
Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud Clive James read, learned and recited poetry aloud for most of his life. In this book, comple…
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London, Block by Block
An illustrated guide to the best of England’s capital For anyone who loves London – whether you’re visiting for the weekend or are a die-har…
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The Amur River
Between Russia and China A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. Rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing…
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Into Iraq
In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the wo…
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The Bullet That Missed SIGNED
A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from record-breaking, bestselling author Richard Osman. It is an…
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Colditz – SIGNED COPY
Prisoners of the Castle In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent…
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Stone Blind – SIGNED COPY
Natalie Haynes – the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships – brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her be…
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Marple
Twelve New Stories A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve…
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Vera Kelly Lost and Found
Spring 1971. Vera Kelly and her girlfriend, Max, leave their cosy Brooklyn apartment for an emergency visit to Max’s estranged family in Los…
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The Enigma of Room 622
LOVE TRIANGLE. A POWER STRUGGLE. AN IMPOSSIBLE TWIST FROM THE MASTER OF DECEPTION. It all starts with an innocuous curiosity: at the Hotel V…
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Good Reasons to Die
A haunting thriller set in the radioactive Chernobyl exclusion zone, Good Reasons to Die will keep readers hooked to the last page. In a vil…
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These Darkening Days
As autumn draws in, a series of unexplained vicious attacks occur in a small northern town renowned for being a bohemian backwater. As the n…
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The Bullet That Missed
A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from record-breaking, bestselling author Richard Osman. It is an…
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Black Voices on Britain
A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travel…
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Devil Dogs
First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic t…
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Diaghilev’s Empire
How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art for…
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Arnhem
The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy – made into the BAFTA award-winning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR. This book t…
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Soho
A Street Guide to Soho’s History, Architecture and People Soho – illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating…
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Hitler’s Tyranny
A History in Ten Chapters Hitler’s tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this book, Ralf Georg Reuth examines ten aspects of th…
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Broadcasting Britain
100 Years of the BBC Discover the BBC’s central role in reflecting our ever-changing world…. Created 100 years ago, on 18 October 1922, th…
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Colditz
Prisoners of the Castle In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent…
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Another Year of Wonder
Classical Music for Every Day ANOTHER YEAR OF WONDER IS A CAREFULLY CURATED COLLECTION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC OFFERING ONE PIECE TO LISTEN TO EV…
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Menopausing
The positive roadmap to your second spring Menopausing is more than just a book, it’s a movement. An uprising. Menopause affects every woman…
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The Making of Incarnation
The most ambition and exciting novel yet from the Booker shortlisted author of C and Satin Island. Bodies in motion. Birds, bees and bobslei…
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Oren
A Personal Collection of Recipes and Stories From Tel Aviv In Oren, Oded Oren celebrates Tel Aviv with simple, seasonal recipes which play t…
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River Cottage Good Comfort
Best-Loved Favourites Made Better for You A stunning collection of 100+ heart-warming recipes that also happen to be packed with good things…
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India Express
75 Fresh and Delicious Vegan, Vegetarian and Pescatarian Recipes for Every Day From quick snacks and weeknight curries to simple desserts, R…
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Ancient Egyptians imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you had to make to get to paradise – but it was quite a hazardous journey so y…
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London Thames Path
updated edition David Fathers presents a unique and richly illustrated guide to the London section of the Thames Path, newly updated to refl…
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At the Table of La Fortezza
The Enchantment of Tuscan Cooking From the Lunigiana Region Lunigiana is a rugged and untamed mountainous region of Tuscany, flanked by the…
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Death on the Down Beat
An Orchestral Fantasy of Detection During a performance of Strauss’ tone poem ‘A Hero’s Life’, the obnoxious conductor Sir Noel Grampian is…
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Final Acts
Theatrical Mysteries Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this…
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Seasons of Storm and Wonder
From Jim Crumley, the “pre-eminent Scottish nature-writer” (Guardian), this landmark volume documents the extraordinary natural life of the…
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Frozen Planet II
Find a world of wonder beyond the ice. ‘Looking down at our planet from space it may come as a surprise how much of it is blanketed in snow…
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Agatha Christie
A Very Elusive Woman Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was ‘just’ an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn’t?…
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ABBA at 50
An illustrated celebration of ABBA, from childhood through to the Voyage album After winning 1974’s Eurovision Song Contest with their song…
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The Boy Who Sat By the Window
The Story of the Queen of Soho “Enjoy this story. I already jumped to the parts about me.” – Boy George The extraordinary life story of Davi…
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon
The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon begins as the Second Wo…
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Command
The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine Throughout history, the concept of command — as both a way to achieve objectives…
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Who Are You Calling Vermin?
‘Maybe the polluters will purify our streams. Purify our waterways? In your bloomin’ dreams! All will be rewilded, all will be renewed, The…
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Black Lake Manor
A locked room. A brutal murder. And a killer who can turn back time… In the former mining town of Black Lake on the west coast of Canada,…
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The Virago Book Of Witches
Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves… Banshees – a howling night-witch and harbinger of dea…
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All the Knowledge in the World
The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholar…
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The Story of Art without Men
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baro…
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Inside, At Home with Great Designers
A stunning collection of the homes of sixty celebrated contemporary global designers and decorators The homes of interior designers are the…
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The Oracle of Night
The history and science of dreams What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use dreams? These questions are the starting…
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Moro Easy
Moro is the highly acclaimed home of bold, flavour-centered cooking using few ingredients, perfectly combined. Trailblazing chefs Sam and Sa…
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Afghan Napoleon
The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the forces of resistance were disparate and divided mujahideen…
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Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be ‘Italian’ or ‘English’, or both in a culture that prefers us…
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A Visible Man
The inspiring memoir from the first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue Edward Enninful has lived an extraordinary life. Here, for the fi…
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On Lying And Politics
A Library of America Special Publication More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest thre…
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What’s so unique about the houses of London? With row upon row of brick terraces, how do the capital’s most stylish people make their homes…
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Birds
Paintings of 100 British Birds Jim Moir loves birds. His popularity as a painter has soared in recent years and the simplicity and sincerity…
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Flights of Fancy
Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to th…
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Rising to the Surface
Rising to the Surface traces Lenny Henry’s career through the 80s and 90s. The 16-year-old who won a talent competition, now has to navigate…
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The Making of the Modern Middle East
Jeremy Bowen, the BBC’s Middle East Editor, has been covering the region since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and i…
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The Elephants of Thula Thula
‘Somehow, the elephants got into my soul, and it became my life’s work to see them safe and happy. There was no giving up on that vision, no…
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Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of hor…
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We Don’t Know Ourselves
A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 We Don’t Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O’Toole’…
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We Go High
How 30 Women of Colour Achieved Greatness against all Odds Follow the life lessons of 30 remarkable women of colour – past and present – who…
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Blurb Your Enthusiasm
An A-Z of Literary Persuasion This is the outside story of books. From blurbs to titles, quotes to (checks jacket) cute animal designs – via…
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Fried Eggs and Rioja
What to Drink with Absolutely Everything From sofa suppers and comfort food to celebration meals and festive feasts, Victoria Moore helps yo…
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A Home of One’s Own
As cities expand and rents rise, what does it really mean to have a home? ‘A vital work of courage and hope, by a truly remarkable individua…
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What Is History, Now?
This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who sh…
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East Side Voices
Essays celebrating East and Southeast Asian identity in Britain In this bold, first-of-its kind collection, East Side Voices invites us to e…
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Being You
A New Science of Consciousness Anil Seth’s radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing…
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A Brief History of Black Holes
And why nearly everything you know about them is wrong Right now, you are orbiting a black hole. The Earth goes around the Sun, and the Sun…
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Impossible, Possible, and Improbable
Science Stranger Than Fiction A scintillating collection of short essays that really does cover ‘life, the Universe, and everything’. From t…
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Nuclear Fusion
The Race to Build a Mini-Sun on Earth The thrilling scientific quest for almost limitless clean energy from nuclear fusion. Since the 1950s,…
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The Importance of Being Interested
Adventures in Scientific Curiosity Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated b…
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The Genetic Age
Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life A new gene editing technology, invented just seven years ago, has turned humanity into gods. Enabling us to…
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A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century
Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern w…
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The Universe in Bite-sized Chunks
Since the earliest humans walked the earth, the vast mysteries and wonders of the night sky have fascinated and beguiled us, as we’ve strugg…
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Helgoland
The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retr…
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What’s Eating the Universe?
And Other Cosmic Questions Celebrated physicist and global bestselling author Paul Davies tells the story of the universe in thirty cosmolog…
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What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and a powerful and deeply personal exploration of a divid…
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Our Biggest Experiment
A History of the Climate Crisis Did you know the link between carbon dioxide and global warming was first suggested in the 1850s? Climate ch…
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Democracy Rules
One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century. Everyone knows that democracy…
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The River in the Sky
Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In Senten…
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The Aeneid
A New Translation On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned. If his wishes had been obeyed, western liter…
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What We Owe The Future
A Million-Year View Humanity is in its infancy. Our future could last for millions of years – or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers…
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A Song of Comfortable Chairs
Grace Makutsi’s husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phu…
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The Hatter’s Ghosts
A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series. Not only had the rain in t…
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The Tudors in Love
The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year ‘One of the most important books to be written abo…
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Heaven on Earth
The Lives and Legacies of the World’s Greatest Cathedrals A glorious illustrated history of sixteen of the world’s greatest cathedrals, inte…
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Lion City
Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore – the world’s most successful city state. In…
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Word Perfect
Etymological Entertainment Every Day Welcome to a year of wonder with Susie Dent, lexicographer, logophile, and longtime queen of Countdown’…
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The Dawn of Language
The story of how we came to talk Who was “the first speaker” and what was their first message? An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully wri…
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Conclave 1559
Ippolito d’Este and the Papal Election of 1559 August 1559. As the long hot Italian summer draws to its close, so does the life of a rigidly…
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The Searchers
The Quest for the Lost of the First World War By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldier…
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The Story of Russia
From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country’s past – and how they can inform it…
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Eight Days in May
How Germany’s War Ended 1 May 1945. The world did not know it yet, but the final week of the Third Reich’s existence had begun. Hitler was d…
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Cultural Treasures of the World
From the Relics of Ancient Empires to Modern-Day Icons Take a guided tour through history and discover the most precious, iconic, and celebr…
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African and Caribbean People in Britain
A History A major new history of Britain that will transform our understanding of this country’s past. Despite the best efforts of researche…
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The Fashion Book
The iconic bestseller, showcasing more than 500 of fashion’s greatest names from A-Z Phaidon’s iconic global bestseller The Fashion Book tak…
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LRB Diary for 2023
’20 August. It’s one of my life’s regrets that I have never kept a donkey.’ Alan Bennett’s 1983 diary was the first that he published in the…
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DK Children’s Encyclopedia
The Book That Explains Everything The ultimate book of knowledge for kids aged 7 to 9, this all-encompassing children’s encyclopedia contain…
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A Loyal Traitor
A Richard Knox Spy Thriller Which would you betray? It’s 1966. London is swinging, and the Cold War is spiralling. Clear cut lines have fade…
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Act of Oblivion
‘From what is it they flee?’ He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, ‘They killed the King….
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
To Doctor Menka’s horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Alrea…
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Cooking
Simply and Well, for One or Many From a lifetime of cooking with some of the UK’s greatest chefs – as well as lessons from his cookery teach…
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Africana
A culinary expedition celebrating cooking from across the African continent. Africana travels the continent showcasing its vibrant and varie…
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The Italian Pantry
10 Ingredients, 100 Recipes – Showcasing the Best of Italian Home Cooking Elevate your cooking and eating the easy way with The Italian Pant…
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Simple One-Pan Wonders In ONE, Jamie Oliver will guide you through over 120 recipes for tasty, fuss-free and satisfying dishes cooked in jus…
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Nadiya’s Everyday Baking
From weeknight meals to celebration bakes, let your oven do the work for you Who says you can’t bake every day? Inside this book Nadiya show…
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Cook and Share
120 Delicious New Fuss-free Recipes Mary’s favourite fuss-free recipes… In this brand new tie-in to her new BBC series, Mary Berry shares…
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Rationality
What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding -…
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The Ink Black Heart
Another epic crime mystery featuring the magnetic detective duo of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, The Ink Black Heart is a compelling i…
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The Case of the Married Woman
Caroline Norton – A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women CAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century heroine who wanted justice for w…
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The Lottery
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
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Epic Annette SIGNED COPY
A Heroine’s Tale Could you put your beliefs before your family? Epic Annette is the extraordinary true story of Annette Beaumanoir: brillian…
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Dante
Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but romantic love and t…
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The Last Colony
A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights a…
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Future Stories
A user’s guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism, the f…
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The Long Knives
“Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story.” Ritchie Gull…
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Hell Screen
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Cosmicomics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Of Ghosts and Goblins
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Passing
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Lolly Willowes
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers,…
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Lady Susan
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The Sands of Dunkirk
Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podc…
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Russia
Myths and Realities Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this mult…
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Ten Poems about Journeys
This mini anthology is a celebration of the rich variety of ways in which we get ourselves from A to B. A long distance walk, a bike ride, a…
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Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
The book that brought pre-eminent Manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki to the English-speaking world. Kokopo, 1943. A platoon of soldiers is ordered into…
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical – and…
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Mad, Bad and Dead
A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme’s troubles aren’t over yet… Already struggl…
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Fathers and Children
A 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love, politics, family, and the tension between the new generation and the old world. Ivan Turgenev…
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Family Business
An Intimate History of John Lewis and the Partnership From Victoria Glendinning, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Prize…
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Without Warning and Only Sometimes
Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood From the award-winning author of MY NAME IS LEON comes a childhood memoir set to become a classic: st…
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The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
Benjamin Harris was a young shepherd from Dorset who joined the army in 1802 and later joined the dashing 95th Rifles. His battalion was ord…
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Black and Female
Being categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness….
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Sybil & Cyril
Cutting through Time In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews….
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Acting Class
Every single person has something unique to them which is impossible to re-create, without exception. – John Smith, acting coach. From the a…
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Endurance
100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales…
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When My Brother Was an Aztec
FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY. When My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention – one that foregrounds…
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Faber Poetry Diary 2023
The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty ye…
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Liberty Faber Poetry Diary 2023
The Faber poetry list, originally founded in the 1920s, was shaped by the taste of T.S. Eliot, who was its guiding light for nearly forty ye…
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The Twist of a Knife
A locked room mystery from the Sunday Times bestselling author. ‘Our deal is over.’ That’s what reluctant author Anthony Horowitz tells ex-d…
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There Are No Happy Loves
The third in Olguin’s Buenos Aires thriller series starring the gutsy, raunchy investigative reporter Veronica Rosenthal. Haunted by nightma…
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The Horned God
Weird Tales of the Great God Pan In 1894, Arthur Machen’s landmark novella The Great God Pan was published, sparking a resurgence of literar…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde’s only novel is the dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Now, distinctively packaged…
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Day of the Assassins
A History of Political Murder In Day of the Assassins, acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh examines assassination as a special category of…
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Agatha Christie
Since her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder m…
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Broken Icarus
The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of…
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The Invisible Universe
Staff Pick A nice chunk of unostentatious cosmology, with just the right amount of historical background to keep the wonder flowing without…
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Two Brothers
Two Brothers tells the story of a great sporting family, uncovering new details, exposing myths and placing Jack and Bobby Charlton in their…
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Belonging
Natural histories of place, identity and home Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to…
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World of Wonders
In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments Aimee Nezhukumatathil has had many homes, but wherever she was – however awkwar…
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The Color Purple
A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A story about Black women living in the intersections of racialized a…
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Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black
Collected Stories Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black is the only story collection from the legendary writer, actress, ex-bi…
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The Crossing
The Crossing forms the second part of Cormac McCarthy’s critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, a story that began with All the Pretty Horses a…
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Cities of the Plain
In Cities of the Plain, two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together, between their…
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No Country for Old Men
Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy…
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The Road
The post-apocalyptic modern classic with an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk…
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One Kensington
Tales from the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough in Britain Kensington and Chelsea – one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth – is al…
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Glittering a Turd
Kris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-year-old: travelling the world, falling in love, making plans. However, when she fou…
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The Passengers
An original and profound portrait of contemporary Britain told through the testimonies of its inhabitants. Between October 2018 and March 20…
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Allegorizings
Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary life, witnessing such seminal moments as the first as…
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Saving Freud
A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London London, March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of f…
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The Chief
The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain’s Greatest Press Baron A definitive and compelling biography of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcl…
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What’s the Use?
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics Many people think mathematics is useless. They’re wrong. In the UK, the 2.8 million people emp…
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The Edge of the Plain
How Borders Make and Break Our World Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in human history. In this book James Crawfo…
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Something Out of Place
Women & Disgust The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing *As heard on…
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The Arctic
‘The Arctic’ in Don Paterson’s powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The…
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Cry of the Kalahari
Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa,…
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The Night Ship SIGNED COPY
1628. Embarking on a journey in search of her father, a young girl called Mayken boards the Batavia, the most impressive sea vessel of the a…
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Trust
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 Can one person change the course of history? ‘Genius’ Lauren Groff A sweeping, breathtakingly ambitious…
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The Wrong Goodbye
A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond Chandler. The Wrong Goodbye pits homicide det…
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A Corruption of Blood
A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame…
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A Land More Kind Than Home
Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger and a New York Times Notable Book, 2012. They said Pastor Chamblis was a good man. They said…
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Bad Kids
One beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws off a remote mountain. It’s the perfect crime. Or so he thinks. For Zhang…
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Sunset Swing
Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . . A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desper…
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The Emperor’s Tomb
The Emperor’s Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time…
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Job
The Story of a Simple Man ‘Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordina…
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What I Saw
Reports From Berlin 1920-33 In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the W…
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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness
Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme The little-known story of Hitler’s war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the fir…
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The Pathfinders
The Elite RAF Force that Turned the Tide of WWII Military History Matters Book of the Year Bronze Award Winner. The incredible story of the…
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Henrietta Maria
Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the…
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Two Wheels Good
The History and Mystery of the Bicycle The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and…
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The Rule of Laws
A 4000-year Quest to Order the World The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in th…
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Children of the Night
The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania A vivid, brilliant, darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators t…
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Scenes from Prehistoric Life
From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans An invigorating journey through Britain’s prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives…
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A Woman’s World, 1850-1960
The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series. A Woman’s World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles – domestic, social, cultu…
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Photography
The Definitive Visual History A beautiful illustrated history of photography from the first black and white images to celebrated examples of…
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The Last House on the Street
This family’s secret won’t stay hidden for ever… 2010. Grieving widow Kayla Carter moves into the beautiful home she and her husband desig…
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This Might Hurt
Natalie Collins always has a plan. Her troubled younger sister Kit rarely does. Until Kit finds Wisewood, a secretive self-help retreat on a…
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The Only Woman
A compelling gallery of women who made their way into a man’s world, shown through group portraits each featuring a lone woman An original a…
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Black Earth
A Journey through Ukraine ‘Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.’ Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoi…
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Animal Joy
A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unc…
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Telluria
In the warring, neo-feudal society of this cross-genre novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson, the greatest treasure is a dose…
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The Shortest History of War
Acclaimed historian and military expert Gwynne Dyer tells the story of war from its earliest origins up to the present age of atom bombs and…
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A History of the 20th Century
Conflict, Technology and Revolution A comprehensive history of a tumultuous century by one of the world’s leading historians.
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World’s Greatest Beers
250 Unmissable Ales & Lagers Selected by a Team of Experts This book is the definitive guide to the 250 best beers in the world today, s…
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Hothouse Earth
An Inhabitant’s Guide We inhabit a planet in peril. Our once temperate world is locked on course to become a hothouse entirely of our own ma…
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Social Warming
How Social Media Polarises Us All Nobody meant for this to happen. Facebook didn’t mean to facilitate a genocide. Twitter didn’t want to be…
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Daughters and Sons
Sabine Ponsonby presides over her large household with despotic force, rivalled only by her imperious daughter, Hetta. As her needling cruel…
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Behind Closed Doors
The Secret Life of London Private Members’ Clubs With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thevoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story…
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The Fall of the Ottomans
The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 The final destruction of the Ottoman Empire – one of the great epics of the First World War, fro…
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The Tablet of Destinies
‘The Flood didn’t come suddenly as a big surprise. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. Men just went on multiplying and the noise…
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The Forgery
A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very i…
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Malice in Wonderland
My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton’s authorised biographer during his many fas…
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Never Mind, Comrade
Life Behind the Iron Curtain 1982-89 “I live at the edge of a world called GDR, in a village surrounded by hills, valleys and thick forests….
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On Animals
‘How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age of six, whe…
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Meantime
Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety’s best friend Marina is found murdered in the local park, he goes looking for answers to qu…
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Lightning Often Strikes Twice
The 50 Biggest Misconceptions in Science A revealing and entertaining guide through some of the biggest misconceptions in science that many…
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The Spirit Engineer SIGNED COPY
Belfast, 1914. Two years after the sinking of the Titanic, high society has become obsessed with spiritualism, attending seances in the hope…
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Bruno’s Challenge & Other Dordogne Tales
A bumper collection of delightful stories featuring Bruno, Chief of Police and France’s favourite cop, all set in the beautiful Dordogne val…
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Operation Jubilee
Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice On the warm night of 18 August 1942, a flotilla pushed out into the flat water of the Channel. The…
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Femina
A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It ‘I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of…
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We, the Oppressors
An eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support the status of those in power at the destructive expense of those without it….
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Killer in the Kremlin
A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin’s tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasi…
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Interiors
The Greatest Rooms of the Century Black Edition The acclaimed and stunning collection of the best living spaces created and commissioned by…
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Dark Horse
THE HERO Evan Smoak: former off-the-books assassin – code name Orphan X. His world is divided into those who deserve his help and those who’…
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The Retreat
An eco-wellness retreat has opened on an island off the coast of Devon, promising rest and relaxation – but the island itself, known locally…
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Ten Poems about Wildlife
Hedgehogs and hares, dragonflies and deer… This mini anthology is a celebration of the wild creatures that flutter, slither, swim or stride…
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British Traitors
Betrayal and Treachery in the Twentieth Century Capital punishment for murder was suspended in Great Britain in 1965, an Act finally made pe…
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Swan
Portrait of a Majestic Bird, from Mythical Meanings to the Modern Day A wildlife writer and photographer’s celebration of the mute swan, Bri…
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The Art of Resilience
The Lessons of Aeneas From the international bestselling author of The Ingenious Language, a fascinating portrait of antiquity’s most misund…
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Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn’t quite fit into human socie…
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Life Ceremony
From the author of international bestseller Convenience Store Woman comes a collection of short fiction: weird, out of this world and like n…
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Crook o’ Lune
A Lancashire Mystery It all began with sheep-stealing. A hateful act among the shepherds of the fells, and yet not a matter of life and deat…
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My Turn to Make the Tea
INTRODUCED BY LISSA EVANS Poppy, newly recruited cub reporter at the Downingham Post, is determined to prove to the editor that he’s wrong i…
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Solar
‘Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril – that moronic word again – but because someone was telling him…
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The Last Quarter of the Moon
‘A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them.’ At…
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The Man with the Compound Eyes
‘You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love’ On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second son must leave on the day he t…
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The Overstory
‘This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.’ This is the story of a group of strangers,…
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The Tusk That Did the Damage
‘There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other bank with…
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The Man Who Planted Trees
‘And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns.’ In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley i…
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The Mermaid of Black Conch
‘His stomach trembled with desire and fear and wonder because he knew what he’d seen. A woman. Right there, in the water.’ Near the island o…
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The Wall
‘The air trembled, gold and green and clear, at the edges of the forest.’ A woman goes to the Austrian mountains to spend a few days in a hu…
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Paul
Staff Pick I was instantly compelled by this hazy, languorous novel and its seemingly passive protagonist. Paul examines old themes of power…
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Wanderlust
Staff Pick At once a humanist essay on the history of walking and a wide-ranging examination of the activity as escape, protest and creative…
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Going with the Boys
Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line Going with the Boys follows six intrepid women as their lives and careers intertwined on…
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Orwell’s Roses
Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening – George Orwell Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell is s…
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