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Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

Cables from Kabul: The Inside Story of the West's Afghanistan Campaign

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A frank and honest memoir by Britain's former ambassador to Kabul which provides a unique, high-level insight into Western policy in Afghanistan. For three years, from 2007 until 2010, Sherard...
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 Fashion Yearbook 2023: Best of campaigns, editorials and covers

The Fashion Yearbook 2023: Best of campaigns, editorials and covers

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The international fashion world is creative, expressive and impressive. And it is always fast moving. This book is devoted to the best fashion series and photos of the international fashion...
Le Mans Winning Colours: A Visual History of 100 Years of the 24-Hour

Le Mans Winning Colours: A Visual History of 100 Years of the 24-Hour

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The follow-on book to Mick Hill's successful Grand Prix's Winning Colours turns its attention to the Le Mans 24-hour race, once again showcasing his skillful artwork to present the cars,...
Zero Altitude: How I Learned to Fly Less and Travel More

Zero Altitude: How I Learned to Fly Less and Travel More

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How going flight-free can save the planet - and change how you see the world. In recent decades, quick and easy flights have bought far-flung destinations within the reach of...
Voyage to the Heart of Europe 1953-2009

Voyage to the Heart of Europe 1953-2009

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A History of the Christian-Democratic Group and the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament With an introduction by Hans-Gert Poettering and a foreword by Joseph Daul,...
World Press Photo 2022

World Press Photo 2022

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The renowned World Press Photo Foundation ("Connecting the world to the stories that matter") publishes a compilation of prizewinning press photographs each year. Carefully selected from thousands of entries, they...
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...
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China

At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China

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'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama'A splendid journey through eighty years of Chinese history ... Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China...
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...
Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny

Murder in the Gulag: The Life and Death of Alexei Navalny

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' Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, Telegraph The...
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...
Small Worlds

Small Worlds

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An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can...
Look Both Ways

Look Both Ways

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They think as one. They act as one. They kill as one. 'Look Both Ways is devilishly good - exciting, thrilling - Barclay at his best!' SHARI LAPENA, No. 1...
Both of You

Both of You

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In a marriage built on lies, the truth will destroy BOTH OF YOU. 'Absolutely gripping' Richard Osman 'Chilling ... and entirely unputdownable' Lisa Jewell 'Had me gasping at the twist'...
The Coffinmaker's Garden

The Coffinmaker's Garden

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A Sunday Times bestseller for the w/c 11th January 2021 A house of secrets... As a massive storm batters the Scottish coast, Gordon Smith's home is falling into the sea....
Lucky

Lucky

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It was never easy for Professor Green. Born into a tough Hackney estate and raised by his grandmother, the rapper was always learning the hard way - whether at school,...
Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

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THE SUNDAY TIME S BESTELLER 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back...
Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump

Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump

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How do you stop a rogue president? How do you protect our country from a man who lies, who obstructs justice, and who seeks to cheat with foreign powers to...
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023

The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023

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An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 In 1933, Keynes reflected on the crisis of the Great Depression that arose from individualistic capitalism- 'It is not intelligent,...
Time is a Mother: From the bestselling author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Time is a Mother: From the bestselling author of On Earth We're

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Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author...
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

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From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular...
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

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...
Pandora's Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television

Pandora's Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television

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From the author of the 'stone-cold classic' Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes a blockbuster follow-up- the inside story of television's epic transformation The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos...
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

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Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
Becoming

Becoming

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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir from the First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the...
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

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A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today A groundbreaking new history of the people at the centre of...
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

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A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are...
The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present

The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present

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A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical scholarship never before seen in English 'Spain is different,'...
This Land: The Struggle for the Left

This Land: The Struggle for the Left

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#1 Bestselling author of Chavs and The Establishment returns with an urgent analysis of where the Left - and Britain - goes next We live in an age of upheaval....
Democracy Rules

Democracy Rules

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One of our most essential political thinkers offers a vital account of democracy in the twenty-first century After the acrimony of Brexit, the shock of Trump, and the continued pull...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

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How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right The far right is on the rise across the...
Shattered

Shattered

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From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed 'A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but...
Scaffolding

Scaffolding

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The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse 'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah Levy The story of two couples who live in...
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...
Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic

Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic

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One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it 'We are able to imagine anything because we...
Training the Right Stuff: The Aircraft That Produced America's Jet Pilots

Training the Right Stuff: The Aircraft That Produced America's Jet

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A comprehensive study of the training aircraft used to transition the United States military into the jet age. At the end of World War II, high-performance jets with unfamiliar operating...
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...
Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night

Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night

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From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierras, trained wildland firefighter and photojournalist Stuart...
Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night

Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night

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From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierras, trained wildland firefighter and photojournalist Stuart...
There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the beloved author, TV icon and Monty Python star

There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the

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THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIESA new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about...
Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia

Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia

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DISCOVER THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MAFIA - FROM A MAN WHO'S SEEN IT ALL FROM THE INSIDEIn BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, former mafia member Louis Ferrante pulls back...
Before I Sleep

Before I Sleep

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The clock is ticking for DCI Slider when a woman goes missing. Can he find her - and does she even want to be found?"[Slider is] one of Britain's most...
The Deadliest Legacy

The Deadliest Legacy

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DCI David Vogel investigates a sudden death at a local book festival in this gripping police procedural: Agatha Christie with an edge!When Delia Day, the world's most successful living romantic...
Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood

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Killer secrets. Killer crimes - the unmissable new DS McAvoy thriller from the Sunday Times best-selling, Kindle chart-topping author."McAvoy is a true original" Mick HerronDS Aector McAvoy is on a...
There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the beloved author, TV icon and Monty Python star

There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the

$75.00 AUD$25.00 AUD
THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIESA new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about...
Bad Blood

Bad Blood

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Dark secrets are revealed when investigative journalist and horse expert Ben Copperfield is hired to find the long-lost heir of a dying millionaire in this gripping murder mystery.When freelance journalist...
Ice Islands

Ice Islands

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'Another outstanding geopolitical thriller in Hawksley's excellent Rake Ozenna series . . . carefully researched, action-packed, and suspenseful' -Booklist Starred ReviewMajor Rake Ozenna faces dangerous choices and deadly consequences in...