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Seven Days In The Art World

Seven Days In The Art World

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From London to Beijing to New York, art sales are booming, and the art world receives the sort of breathless media attention once reserved for celebrities and royals. In Seven...
A-Z Great Modern Artists

A-Z Great Modern Artists

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A striking, design-led reference book, A-Z GREAT MODERN ARTISTS features Andy Tuohy's portraits of 52 key modern artists, rendered in each artist's own characteristic style - including Aleksandr Rodchenko in...
The Missing Sister: The spellbinding penultimate novel in the Seven

The Missing Sister: The spellbinding penultimate novel in the Seven

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They'll search the world to find her. From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Missing Sister is the seventh instalment in the multimillion-copy epic series The...
A Glasgow Girl: A memoir of growing up and finding your voice

A Glasgow Girl: A memoir of growing up and finding your voice

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SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION 'I loved this book . . . incredibly moving' Reverend Richard Coles 'A treasure of a book' Fern Britton 'Full of beauty,...
Global Strike: A Strike Back Novel (3)

Global Strike: A Strike Back Novel (3)

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If you love the Strikeback series, pre-order the thrilling new book, Red Strike , now. Coming February 2019. Charles Street was once a highly-respected agent working for MI6, until a...
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of

The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of

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When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this...
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

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The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship from Winston and FDR to Trump and Johnson

The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship from Winston and FDR to Trump and Johnson

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Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia

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El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

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

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

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Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy

Adam Smith: A Moral Philosopher and His Political Economy

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90s Playing Cards: Featuring the decade's most iconic people, objects and moments

90s Playing Cards: Featuring the decade's most iconic people, objects and moments

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Step back in time with the 90s Playing Cards, a throwback deck featuring some of the most iconic people, objects, and moments from the 1990s. Illustrated by Niki Fisher, these...
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...
Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard About China is Wrong

Chinese Whispers: Why Everything You've Heard About China is Wrong

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'Chu's smart, iconoclastic portrait dismantles seven misconceptions' [NEW STATESMEN] about modern China and offers a corrective to Western assumptions. THE CHINESE ARE THE MOST HARDWORKING PEOPLE ON EARTH... so why...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, now a Major Guy Ritchie Film: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth To Modern-Day Black Ops

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, now a Major Guy Ritchie Film: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth To Modern-Day Black Ops

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One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily Express In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, wartime leader...
The Warlock Effect: A highly entertaining, twisty adventure filled with magic, illusions and Cold War espionage

The Warlock Effect: A highly entertaining, twisty adventure filled with magic, illusions and Cold War espionage

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH* *A THE TIMES BEST THRILLER FOR APRIL* *OPTIONED FOR TELEVISION IN A SEVEN-WAY AUCTION* 'Delightful' THE TIMES 'Enthralling' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A serpentine...
Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression

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'I wanted to climb inside this book and live there' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Superb, sparky and reflective' The Spectator 'Gender...
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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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
The Hostage: Her survival depends on the last man she should trust . . .

The Hostage: Her survival depends on the last man she should trust . . .

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'Thrilling! The Hostage is an intense, white-knuckle ride from start to finish' LAURA GRIFFIN 'An action-packed, don't-blink-or-you'll-miss-something kind of novel, which makes it impossible to put down once you've started...
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...
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...
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...
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Put Astronauts on the Moon

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Put Astronauts on the Moon

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Winner of the information book category of the UKLA Book Awards 2020. Katherine Johnson is the mathematical genius who helped make the historic Apollo 11 moon landings possible and made...
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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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium...
The War That Never Ended: A Short History of the Korean War

The War That Never Ended: A Short History of the Korean War

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The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces...
Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will

Abolish the Monarchy: Why we should and how we will

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It's wrong in principle and it doesn't work in practice. (And no, it's not good for tourism.) It doesn't have to be this way. They say Britain should be proud...
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

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Drawing on fifty years of interviews and experience, Homelands tells the epic story of how Europe in the early twenty first century, having emerged from its wartime hell, recovered and...
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

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A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...
David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980

David Bowie Rainbowman: 1967-1980

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'This is a book unlike any other, the definitive analysis of David's music, told in a quiet natural way, but with absolute authenticity, by the people around him.' - Hermione...
Be Useful: Seven tools for life

Be Useful: Seven tools for life

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Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The seven rules...
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...
Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

Overground Railroad (The Young Adult Adaptation): The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

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Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book , which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America." For years, it was dangerous...
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...
The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood

The Poison Line: A True Story of Death, Deception and Infected Blood

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The shocking true story of how a miracle cure became a deadly poison, and the lengths that big pharma and government went to cover it up 'Essential reading' Jonathan Freedland,...
The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl

The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl

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An illuminating account of the war in Ukraine - its historical roots, its course, its possible outcomes - from the bestselling, award-winning author of Chernobyl On 24 February 2022, Russia...
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,...
The Secret Gate: a true story of courage and sacrifice during the collapse of Afghanistan

The Secret Gate: a true story of courage and sacrifice during the collapse of Afghanistan

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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...
Plough the Furrow

Plough the Furrow

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The first in her much-loved Fleethaven Trilogy, Margaret Dickinson's Plough the Furrow begins the story of Esther, and her determination and dedication to the Lincolnshire farm land. Lincolnshire, 1910. Shunned...
Home Fires and Spitfires

Home Fires and Spitfires

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A new heartwarming and engrossing tale from saga superstar Daisy Styles It is June 1940, and as the bombs fall the women at home must dig deep . . ....
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...
Adults in the Room

Adults in the Room

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A Number One Sunday Times Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishment? In Adults in the Room , the renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis...
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....