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The Dark Hours

The Dark Hours

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' Subverted my expectations at almost every turn... Jordan shows how the aftermath of violence affects all those who witness it.' New York Times 'Immersive, atmospheric, heart-stopping - I tore...
Mediterranean The Complete Collection

Mediterranean The Complete Collection

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Mediterranean cooking is a real food approach to healthy eating that embraces variety, flavour and nutrient-rich foods. Based on the traditional cuisines of Spain, France, Italy and Greece as well...
Spy Hook

Spy Hook

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The long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. Working for...
The Dark Hours

The Dark Hours

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' Subverted my expectations at almost every turn... Jordan shows how the aftermath of violence affects all those who witness it.' New York Times 'Immersive, atmospheric, heart-stopping - I tore...
The Times Speed: The History of Formula 1 World Championships

The Times Speed: The History of Formula 1 World Championships

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'This book expertly captures the extraordinary events and legendary drivers who made the sport what it is today. A must-read for any F1 fan.' - Zak Brown, CEO, McLaren Racing,...
The Glass Palace

The Glass Palace

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A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his...
Garry Sobers: My Autobiography

Garry Sobers: My Autobiography

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Garry Sobers is a cricketing legend, the greatest all-rounder of all time; his feats with bat, ball or in the field are remarkable. In this revealing and honest autobiography, Sobers...
Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split

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One of the music world's pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event's...
Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)

Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics)

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A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters:...
Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins

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A beautiful new hardback special edition of an iconic and timeless classic, celebrating 90 years of the world's favourite Nanny. The original and classic story of the world's most famous...
Love in the Library

Love in the Library

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"A powerful must-read."- Booklist (starred review) Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans during WWII and based on true events, this moving love story...
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals

Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals

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A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world. For 150 years as a British colony, Hong Kong was a...
Kathryn Maple - A Year of Drawings

Kathryn Maple - A Year of Drawings

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Kathryn Maple (b. 1989, Canterbury) is an artist specialising in drawing and painting. Her large-scale paintings feature urban, suburban and rural landscapes which are frequently populated by human figures. Her...
How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

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The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

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Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem...
Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War

Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War

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The Imperial Russian government's efforts to procure much-needed military supplies in the American market before and after America's entry into World War I are the focus of this work. It...
Pierre Guariche

Pierre Guariche

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Pierre Guariche (1926-1995) was a leading interior architect, furniture, and lighting designer in postwar France. He created a prolific body of work during what is known as the Thirty Glorious...
Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950-1964

Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950-1964

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This intriguing monograph of painter and printmaker Robert Kipniss is an intimate look at a memorable period in his life and career. Robert Kipniss: Paintings and Poetry, 1950-1964 is the...
Only Time Will Tell

Only Time Will Tell

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Ambitious and addictive, Only Time Will Tell is the first novel in Jeffrey Archer's The Clifton Chronicles, beginning the epic tale of Harry Clifton, a working-class boy from the docks...
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction,

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction,

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An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

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When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal...
Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History

Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History

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South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

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A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

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An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
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 Twenty-First Century

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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...
The Naughty Nineties: The Decade that Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web

The Naughty Nineties: The Decade that Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web

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Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and...
Enigma: The Battle For The Code

Enigma: The Battle For The Code

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The complete story of how the German Enigma codes were broken. Perfect for fans of THE IMITATION GAME, the new film on Alan Turing's Enigma code, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Breaking...
The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914

The Age Of Empire: 1875-1914

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The splendid finale to Eric Hobsbawm's study of the nineteenth century, THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to...
Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life

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THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A marvellous book . . . I just loved it all,...
An Ocean Apart: Historical Fiction Inspired by Real Life Stories of the Windrush Generation

An Ocean Apart: Historical Fiction Inspired by Real Life Stories of the Windrush Generation

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Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother's own experiences as a nurse coming to Britain from the Caribbean, Sarah Lee's debut novel An Ocean Apart...
A Sister's Song (The Victory Sisters, Book 2)

A Sister's Song (The Victory Sisters, Book 2)

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Bestselling historical fiction author Molly Green is back with her most engrossing, heartfelt World War Two saga yet! Preorder The Wartime Librarian's Secret now! Her duty is to keep smiling...
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War

Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War

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A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards Russia is failing--and we'll never fix it until we...
Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942

Men at War: Australia, Syria, Java 1940-1942

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Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the Second World War. In 1941 and...
Murder on the Mauretania: A captivating Edwardian mystery

Murder on the Mauretania: A captivating Edwardian mystery

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November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool on the maiden voyage of the Mauretania. While posing as a passenger George is in fact an undercover detective hired...
Murder on the Lusitania: A gripping Edwardian whodunnit

Murder on the Lusitania: A gripping Edwardian whodunnit

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September 1907. George Dillman sets sail from Liverpool on the Lusitania's maiden voyage. While posing as a passenger George is in fact an undercover detective hired by the Cunard Line....
Love for a Soldier: A captivating romantic adventure set in WW1 that you won't want to put down

Love for a Soldier: A captivating romantic adventure set in WW1 that you won't want to put down

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Should she stay loyal to her country, or the man she loves? A must read for fans of Katie Flynn, Fiona Valpy and Kristin Hannah - this is an enthralling...
The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan

The Queen's Faithful Companion: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II and Her Beloved Corgi, Susan

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From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multi-narrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

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The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived...
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East

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"An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition of democratizing the Arab world and Iran while arrogating...
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century

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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War

I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian Civil War

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'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate' MARGO JEFFERSON An astonishing search for a missing person,...
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

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'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...
Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

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From one of the leading voices in aviation non-fiction, and the bestselling author of VULCAN 607, the untold story of the Falklands War and the iconic 809 Squadron. Perfect for...
Bravo Two Zero: The original SAS story

Bravo Two Zero: The original SAS story

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The original SAS story and a classic of modern war literature, McNab's story brought the knowledge, drama and danger of the SAS to the masses. Sergeant Andy McNab recounts the...
A Flat Place

A Flat Place

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Beautiful and haunting, a personal journey through Britain's flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories they contain Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller -- a dazzling story of rebellion and science In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, had retreated to the treeless, wind-battered island...