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Pollyanna

Pollyanna

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Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition...
The Drowning Pool

The Drowning Pool

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A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for...
A Spy In The House Of Love

A Spy In The House Of Love

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads...
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2

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One of the most beloved translations of all time returns to Penguin Classics- Scott Moncrieff's masterful version of Proust Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth...
The Freedom to Be Free

The Freedom to Be Free

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'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without...
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards

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A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work- a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could be An icon of twentieth-century French philosophy, Simone Weil was described...
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

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Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism- that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He...
Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday

Teddy Boys: Post-War Britain and the First Youth Revolution: A Sunday

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'Enormously enjoyable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesExcellent ... illuminates a fascinating and still under-explored period in British youth culture and social history' Jon Savage, New StatesmanWith their draped suits, suede creepers...
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate

The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate

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The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. Among the spies were...
The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged

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...
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do

Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do

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'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write it than Jake Wallis Simons, both as ground-breaking Middle East...
Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files

Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files

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'GRIPPING . . . DISTURBING . . . INVIGORATING' OLIVIA LAING, GUARDIAN 'ASTOUNDING . . . DEVASTATING . . . COMPELLING' STUART JEFFRIES, OBSERVER 'It was exciting when it started,...
Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912

Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912

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Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China. Through telling the lives of one hundred significant individuals, this...
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer

1984: The Year Pop Went Queer

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'MAGNIFICENT!' CAITLIN MORAN 'A riveting read about a pop revolution hiding in plain sight' PETE PAPHIDES 'Very funny and very moving' JUDE ROGERS In 1984, pop came out of the...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

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Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Now a major documentary series

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Now a major documentary series

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The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A wondrous wonderful achievement' STEPHEN FRY Longlisted for The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositions on our...
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829

The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829

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The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth...
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown

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'A formidable freestyle book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' ROLLING STONE The...
Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide to Late

Volcanic Tongue: A Time-Travelling Evangelist's Guide to Late

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Volcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings. Keenan has been writing about music since publishing his first fanzine, inspired by The Pastels and...
Takeover

Takeover

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From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler's Private Library , a dramatic recounting of the six critical months before Adolf Hitler assumed power, when the Nazi leader teetered between triumph...
Picasso's Lovers: A famous artist. An aspiring writer. The lifetime of

Picasso's Lovers: A famous artist. An aspiring writer. The lifetime of

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'A bold, sumptuous portrait of a great artist and the women who inspired, frustrated, loved, and loathed him' Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author --- Paris, 1923. The city...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

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'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
The Last Letters from Villa Clara: A moving and sweeping story of

The Last Letters from Villa Clara: A moving and sweeping story of

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'A well-written and fascinating narrative about love and loss, courage and betrayal, the past and secrets, art and reproductions' Reader review, 'This is certainly a wow of a read ....
Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring

Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring

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Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and so has the skills and ability to talk to everyone from security guards to...
The Death of Dora Black: A Petticoat Police Mystery: Book 1

The Death of Dora Black: A Petticoat Police Mystery: Book 1

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The irresistibly charming and cosy first novel in the bestselling Petticoat Police Mystery series, inspired by the true story of Australia's pioneering policewoman, Kate Cocks 'An outstanding debut - funny,...
Murder on North Terrace: A Petticoat Police Mystery: Book 2

Murder on North Terrace: A Petticoat Police Mystery: Book 2

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The indomitable Miss Cocks and Ethel Bromley return for Book Two in the bestselling and charmingly cosy Petticoat Police Mystery Series, inspired by one of Australia's first policewomen. Adelaide, September...
The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict

The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict

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We thought connecting the world would bring lasting peace. Instead, it is driving us apart. In the three decades since the end of the Cold War, global leaders have been...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century

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Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...
The Beach Party

The Beach Party

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Six friends. The holiday of their dreams. One night that changed it all . . . 1989- The tunes are loud and the clothes are louder when a group of...
Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds

Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds

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A deeply moving and inspiring memoir that tells the remarkable life story of Baroness Young of Hornsey, from her childhood in foster care, to becoming one of the first Black...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989

Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989

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'A gripping and compelling account.... The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, Literary Review This...
Young Stalin

Young Stalin

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Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing...
The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century

The Future Is Asian: Global Order in the Twenty-first Century

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Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight...
Riding in the Zone Rouge: The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 -

Riding in the Zone Rouge: The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 -

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'An evocatively thoughtful wider history of the race, the war and the peace' GUARDIAN 'Occasionally funny and regularly poignant, brilliantly focused in its research . . . His drive, wit...
Golden State: The Making of California

Golden State: The Making of California

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, a definitive new history of California-from the Spanish conquistadors to the Gold Rush to the state's meteoric rise as a tech powerhouse and bulwark...
The Land in Winter: the 2025 Booker Prize-shortlisted 'word-of-mouth

The Land in Winter: the 2025 Booker Prize-shortlisted 'word-of-mouth

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor...
Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur

Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur

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"Jeff Pearlman breaks down Tupac's life like a veteran sportswriter examining a dynasty. This detailed look at his life is the work of a writer who understands the ego of...
Clint: The Man and the Movies

Clint: The Man and the Movies

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New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...
The Sword of Freedom: Israel, Mossad, and the Secret War

The Sword of Freedom: Israel, Mossad, and the Secret War

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Israel has always won. They are winning now. And they must always win in the future. In The Sword of Freedom , former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pulls back the...
Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS , THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION A Book of the Year in The Times; Daily Telegraph; Financial Times...
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into

The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into

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The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress 'David Rooney is...
The Secret Public: A Queer History of Pop

The Secret Public: A Queer History of Pop

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A GUARDIAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Fascinating.' NEIL TENNANT ' The missing story of the heart of pop.' JOHNNY MARR 'Superb.' Alexis Petridis 'Dazzling.' GUARDIAN 'So...
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster by New York Times-bestselling author Adam Higginbotham, based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting - a...
The Lack of Light: A Novel Of Georgia

The Lack of Light: A Novel Of Georgia

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A PEOPLE MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE WEEK "Catnip for Ferrante fans." - Boston Globe "Readers will find [ The Lack of Light ] irresistible." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A...
Japan and the United States: The Journey of a Defeated Nation - A Diplomat's Memoir by Yukio Okamoto

Japan and the United States: The Journey of a Defeated Nation - A Diplomat's Memoir by Yukio Okamoto

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Author: Yukio Okamoto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 388 'For me, Yukio was quite special. Prime Ministers sought his counsel, valued his advice, and were often guided by his views...
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister

After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister

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Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless strokes of luck, her own determination and the love and protection...
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the

On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the

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Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...