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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence

Human Rights: The Case for the Defence

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A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedoms Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to...
The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

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Drawn from rigorous research, this true crime title tells the story of Marilyn Monroe's extraordinary life and explores the shocking circumstances of her death. BORN IN THE SHADOWS. LIVED FOR...
Absolutely and Forever

Absolutely and Forever

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How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris from multiple bestseller, Rose Tremain 'Gorgeous' Observer...
A History of Burning

A History of Burning

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An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko- one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER...
A Town Called Solace

A Town Called Solace

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Set in the frozen north of Canada in 1972, this is a novel about childhood trauma, painful histories that need reckoning with and the moments in life when we can...
Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,

Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution: from the author of The Opera House,

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Eureka- The Unfinished Revolution ... history comes to life with Peter Fitzsimons. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Peter FitzSimons is an Australian phenomenon.' The Canberra Times In 1854, Victorian miners fought a...
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring

Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring

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A New York Times Bestseller, the real story of Damian Lewis's character in BILLIONS- The rise and fall of Steven Cohen and the largest insider trading investigation in the history...
The Predicament

The Predicament

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Gabriel Dax returns in this elegant, twisting mystery of espionage and obsession and takes the reader deep into one of history's most infamous assassinations. Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental...
Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Inspector Imanishi Investigates

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A thrilling crime classic, from the bestselling author of Tokyo Express Tokyo, 1960. As the first rays of morning light hit the rails at Kamata Station, a man's body is...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

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The essential translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers Dating from 1909 to 1923,...
The Light of Day

The Light of Day

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Ambler's electrifying Istanbul-set thriller from 1962, and the basis for the classic film Topkapi Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his...
Gabriel's Moon

Gabriel's Moon

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In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...
Bournville

Bournville

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A moving, brutally funny and true portrait of Britain told through four generations of one family In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old...
SS-GB

SS-GB

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A chilling alternative history of the Second World War, in which the Nazis have conquered Britain It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed...
The IPCRESS File

The IPCRESS File

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Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel which revolutionised the genre, now published in Penguin Classics for the first time A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency...
The Hong Kong Diaries

The Hong Kong Diaries

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The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in

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Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military...
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

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The untold story of Robert Cecil, the ultimate Tudor spy-master Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor...
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945

Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945

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A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark...
Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution

Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution

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Winner of the NCR Book Award. Number 1 bestseller in hb. World-wide best-seller. The book which made Schama's name The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French...
Aceh: The Australian Defence Force's Tsunami Relief Mission

Aceh: The Australian Defence Force's Tsunami Relief Mission

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Aceh : The Australian Defence Force's Tsunami Relief Mission (officially Operation Sumatra Assist) was the Australian Defence Force's (ADF) largest-ever overseas disaster relief mission, launched in response to the devastating...
The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall

The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall

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A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer...
Zeppelin

Zeppelin

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This new publication from Michael Belafi offers some truly intriguing content. Photographs of the mighty Zeppelin at all stages of development feature in a publication that aims to chart the...
Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships

Great White Fleet: Celebrating Canada Steamship Lines Passenger Ships

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For decades Canada Steamship Lines proclaimed itself as the world's largest transportation company operating on inland waters. Its passenger and freight vessels could be found on the Great Lakes as...
New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

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Now in paperback! With over 500 stunning colour illustrations New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century offers the most comprehensive, scholarly and in-depth survey yet of what is...
Matisse: Father & Son

Matisse: Father & Son

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The relationship between Henri Matisse and his son, the influential art dealer Pierre Matisse (1900-1989), is at the heart of this biography. Closely involved with great art from an early...