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Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific

Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific

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Author: Nicholas Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books...
Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

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Author: Munroe Bergdorf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: POLITICS 'A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth...
Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves

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Author: Lucy Lethbridge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH* 'I really can't recommend this enough - especially if you are going on holiday' Tom...
They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

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Author: Alva Gotby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 They Call It Love is an examination of the work we call "love", who performs it, how it is organised, and...
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty

The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty

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Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The dramas of courtly love have captivated centuries of readers and dreamers. Yet it's too often dismissed as something which only...
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty

The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty

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Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman 'A riveting, pacy page-turner......
The Soul of a Woman

The Soul of a Woman

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Author: Isabel Allende Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 ** The wise, warm, defiant meditation on what it means to be a woman - from literary legend Isabel Allende **...
The Queen

The Queen

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Author: Matthew Dennison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of...
The Museum of the Wood Age

The Museum of the Wood Age

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Author: Max Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood - the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal...
The International Law of the Sea

The International Law of the Sea

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Author: Donald R Rothwell (Australian National University, Australia) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 The law of the sea provides for the regulation, management and governance of the ocean spaces...
The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

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Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen? Elizabeth gorged on...
The Book of Superstitions: Black Cats, Yellow Flowers, Broken Mirrors, Cracked Sidewalks, and More Cultural Behaviors and   Myths Explained

The Book of Superstitions: Black Cats, Yellow Flowers, Broken Mirrors, Cracked Sidewalks, and More Cultural Behaviors and Myths Explained

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Author: Shelby El Otmani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Learn the compelling cultural histories behind some of the world's supernatural beliefs with The Book of Superstitions. Friday the 13th;...
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback

Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback

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Author: Laurie Penny Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Captivating, emphatic and deeply inspiring, Sexual Revolution lifted me greatly by envisioning the possibilities of our moment' V (formerly Eve Ensler)...
Oscar: A Life

Oscar: A Life

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Author: Matthew Sturgis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 912 The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to...
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice

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Author: Cristina Rivera Garza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An astonishing work of creative non-fiction from one one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, that reignites the brilliant spark of...
Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies: Property & madness in eighteenth-century London

Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies: Property & madness in eighteenth-century London

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Author: Leo Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "In June 1701, a young widow, Mary Grosvenor wakes up in a hotel room in Paris and finds a man in...
Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World

Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World

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Author: Jess Scully Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 It's hard to be excited about the future right now. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is growing; politics is polarised; institutions...
Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe

Frontline Midwife: My Story of Survival and Keeping Others Safe

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Author: Anna Kent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Extraordinary, profoundly moving, all-consuming . . . I haven't stopped thinking about Frontline Midwife since I finished reading it' Oliver Burkeman,...
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

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Author: Arthur C. Brooks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The #1 New York Times Bestseller 'This book is amazing. We've all read it cover to cover. We couldn't put...
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani

Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani

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Author: Behrouz Boochani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 Over six years of imprisonment in Australia's offshore migrant detention centre, the Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani bore personal witness...
Espana: a Brief History of Spain

Espana: a Brief History of Spain

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Author: Giles Tremlett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief, accessible...
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets

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Author: Louise Willder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It's good to judge a book by its cover. Drawing on her 25 years writing blurbs for Penguin books, Louise Willder...
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

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Author: Huw Lemmey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past...
An Anthology Of Aesop's Animal Fables

An Anthology Of Aesop's Animal Fables

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Author: Helen Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Few stories have endured as long as the fables of Aesop. In this magnificent edition, award-winning illustrator Helen Ward has chosen...
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

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Author: Ruth Wilson Gilmore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of...
A Short History of Queer Women

A Short History of Queer Women

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Author: Kirsty Loehr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Female same-sex desire has been written out of history since, well, forever. Not anymore! From the first women's football team in...
Japan at a Glance

Japan at a Glance

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Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World: Quarterly Essay 52

Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World: Quarterly Essay 52

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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

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The Findhorn Garden Story: Inspired Color Photos Reveal the Magic

The Findhorn Garden Story: Inspired Color Photos Reveal the Magic

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The Rough Guide to the Brain

The Rough Guide to the Brain

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Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce

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The Goddess in Your Stars

The Goddess in Your Stars

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The English Garden: A Social History

The English Garden: A Social History

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Lennox Legacy: the History of the Csiro Laboratory At 343 Royal Parade Parkville

Lennox Legacy: the History of the Csiro Laboratory At 343 Royal Parade Parkville

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Human Error

Human Error

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Turbulent Skies: History of Commercial Aviation

Turbulent Skies: History of Commercial Aviation

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Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary

Osborn's Concise Law Dictionary

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The Invitation-Only Zone

The Invitation-Only Zone

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Asking for Trouble: The Memoirs of Sheridan Morley

Asking for Trouble: The Memoirs of Sheridan Morley

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The English Language: A Very Short Introduction

The English Language: A Very Short Introduction

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Interpreting Dreams

Interpreting Dreams

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Eating Animals

Eating Animals

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The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn

The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn

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Lazaris Interviews

Lazaris Interviews

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Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars

Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars

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The People's Force: a History of the Victoria Police

The People's Force: a History of the Victoria Police

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This Precious Earth

This Precious Earth

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