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Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story (Voices #1)

Now or Never: A Dunkirk Story (Voices #1)

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A gripping adventure in an exciting new series reflecting the authentic, unsung stories of our past! "The superb Voices series takes unsung heroes of the past and imagines them recounting...
Red Menace

Red Menace

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**An Irish Times best book of 2024 so far**"A very early candidate for the crime novel of the year" IRISH TIMESLive Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of...
Tell Me How It Ends: Sixties glamour meets film noir in a gripping drama of long-buried secrets and dark revenge

Tell Me How It Ends: Sixties glamour meets film noir in a gripping

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'A spellbinding read ... the glamour of early Sixties showbiz' LOUISE CANDLISH'Mesmerising and powerful ... an extraordinary sense of time and place' ELLY GRIFFITHS'A stylish and page-turning mystery' RACHEL HORE'Gripping...
World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the

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A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it took place, lays out the case for why China's...
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

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'ASTONISHING' THE DAILY MAIL 'STRIKING' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'RADICAL' TATLER Described by The Telegraph as 'Edward's truth' Once a King is the never before seen and unfiltered story of King...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian

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'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.'...
The American Dream: pop to the present

The American Dream: pop to the present

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In the early 1960s, American printmaking experienced a dynamic resurgence that placed it at the heart of artistic practice. Such was the medium's attraction that by 1970 virtually every major...
Clare Woods: Strange Meetings

Clare Woods: Strange Meetings

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British artist Clare Woods is internationally regarded as one of the most significant painters working today. Her paintings and works on paper are found in important public and private collections...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple'James has a...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian

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'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.'...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern

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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
The Pianist

The Pianist

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The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds.'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the survival...
Six Motives for Murder

Six Motives for Murder

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'Frances Brody has made it to the top rank of crime writers' DAILY MAILA charming historical mystery set in 1960s Yorkshire, starring prisoner governor and amateur sleuth Nell Lewis. This...
Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike

Pride: The Unlikely Story of the True Heroes of the Miner's Strike

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Pride tells the inspiring true story of how two very different communities found common cause against overwhelming odds.In 1984, a small group of metropolitan gay mean and lesbian women stepped...
Vulcan Boys: From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber

Vulcan Boys: From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the

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The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape is...
The Trouble with Europe: Why the EU isn't Working, How it Can be Reformed, How Brexit Could Change Europe

The Trouble with Europe: Why the EU isn't Working, How it Can be

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'This is a credible plan for life outside Europe and deserves to be widely read' The Week - Business Books of the Year THE 2016 REFERENDUM EDITIONThe EU hasn't delivered...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents

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From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But,...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'

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'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

Memphis: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE'A rhapsodic hymn to Black women' New York Times Book Review'Epic yet intimate' Cosmopolitan'Ferocious and compassionate' Irish TimesFAMILY...
Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season

Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL's Only Perfect Season

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The 1972 Miami Dolphins had something to prove. Losers in the previous Super Bowl, a ragtag bunch of overlooked, underappreciated, or just plain old players, they were led by Don...
A Spy Alone: For fans of Damascus Station and Slow Horses

A Spy Alone: For fans of Damascus Station and Slow Horses

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'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC'This is first class' The Times | 'Excellent' Spectator'A highly accomplished novel from...
Operation Postern: The Battle to Recapture Lae from the Japanese, 1943

Operation Postern: The Battle to Recapture Lae from the Japanese, 1943

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Japanese troops seized and brutally occupied New Guinea's capital, Lae, for 18 months - until 16 September 1943. That day Australian soldiers retook the town against fierce resistance. Defeated, and...
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"

Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called

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This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career of an extraordinary hacker--a woman known only as Alien. When...
The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat and Me

The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat and Me

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Growing up in '60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, and...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them

Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them

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A Financial Times Economics Book of the YearA Times Business Book of the YearA Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year'People who like horror films will love this book' Financial...
One Day I Will Write About This Place

One Day I Will Write About This Place

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Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colourful sounds: the...
1950s Fashion Print

1950s Fashion Print

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A sourcebook of 1950s fashion print, this book covers the heyday of postwar design where an analytical approach to design, with a lightness and freshness, combined with whimsical imagery and...
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art

The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in

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This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, rivalry that emerges from admiration, friendship, love. The...
The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged Traitor Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis

The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged

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Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest-serving spy for the British Secret...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

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No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
Through the Leopard's Gaze

Through the Leopard's Gaze

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In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze, Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten to...
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

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No matter where you turn, it seems that the taut lines of borders are vibrating to - or even calling - the tune of global events.Today, there are more borders...
The Final Beat of the Drum

The Final Beat of the Drum

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DCI Monika Paniatowski is forced to think the unthinkable: could a good friend and long-standing colleague be guilty of murder?On the day of her official retirement from the Force, DCI...
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy.

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'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind....
The Little Princesses: The extraordinary story of the Queen's childhood by her Nanny

The Little Princesses: The extraordinary story of the Queen's

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In little more than fifty years the regard with which the Royal Family are held has changed out of all recognition. Their private lives are now the stuff of soap...
Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat you NEED!

Secrets in the Dark: THE glamorous blockbuster and the escapist treat

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The ultimate glamorous, escapist blockbuster - perfect for fans of Melanie Blake, Jackie Collins and Shirley Conran's Lace.'Just the kind of glamorous escapism we all desperately need right now. Compelling...
Vulcan Boys: From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the Iconic Delta V Bomber

Vulcan Boys: From the Cold War to the Falklands: True Tales of the

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The Vulcan, the second of the three V bombers built to guard the UK during the Cold War has become an aviation icon like the Spitfire, its delta shape is...
Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

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Rod Green explores the personal and political intrigues that have dogged the House of Windsor, including the Queen's fascinating relationships with prime ministers from Winston Churchill and Antony Eden to...
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

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The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries,...
Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

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"A true-crime masterpiece." -Don WinslowFrom the FBI's former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America's highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative's hunt for the...
Decoy

Decoy

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The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...
Mary Poppins in the Park

Mary Poppins in the Park

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Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Whether it's a lion loose in the park...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age

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The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
The German Messenger

The German Messenger

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Liverpool, 1940. "Where's George?" Ruth didn't realise that she had grabbed hold of the other woman's arms. "Where's my son?" Journalist Ruth Holt is struggling in the terror of the...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It

Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived

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FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Mary Poppins in the Park

Mary Poppins in the Park

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Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Whether it's a lion loose in the park...