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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...
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020

The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020

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Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...
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...
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

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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...
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...
Dying Fall

Dying Fall

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Power, money, murder . . . Investigating a seemingly accidental death leads DCI Bill Slider and his team down a dark path in this gripping British police procedural.The woman lies...
An Eye for an Eye (William Warwick Novels)

An Eye for an Eye (William Warwick Novels)

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The unputdownable new rollercoaster read from Sunday Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer - one of the must read books of 2024! 'An absolute page-turner' reader review'Impossible to put down' reader review'So...
Out of Albania: From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy

Out of Albania: From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy

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Analysing the dynamics of the post-1990 Albanian migration to Italy, this book is the first major study of one of Europe's newest, most dramatic yet least understood migrations. It takes...
The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995

The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995

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Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of...
The Privatisation Classes: A Pictorial Survey of Diesel and Electric Locomotives and Units Since 1994

The Privatisation Classes: A Pictorial Survey of Diesel and Electric

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Post Privatisation Diesels and Electrics is an album of photographs taken by David Cable, a well-regarded author of several books covering trains throughout much of the world. This book looks...
Twenty First Century Narrow Gauge: A Pictorial Journey

Twenty First Century Narrow Gauge: A Pictorial Journey

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James Waite has been a skilled railway photographer for many years. In this book he has brought together photographs of many of the world's steam-worked narrow gauge railways in the...
Going Home: One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024

Going Home: One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024

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'A spirit-lifting debut'DAVID MITCHELL'I will never forget these characters: so pained and funny, so brilliantly drawn, wrestled with and forgiven'HELEN GARNER'Meltingly warm'OBSERVERLocal boy Teo Erskine is back in the north...
Going Home: One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024

Going Home: One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024

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'A spirit-lifting debut'DAVID MITCHELL'I will never forget these characters: so pained and funny, so brilliantly drawn, wrestled with and forgiven'HELEN GARNER'Meltingly warm'OBSERVERLocal boy Teo Erskine is back in the north...
Sister Nature: The Education of an Optimistic Beekeeper

Sister Nature: The Education of an Optimistic Beekeeper

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The revolution will not take place indoors.Kenyan beekeeper-turned-farmer Jess de Boer embarks upon a decade-long journey to find purpose and potential in the explosive world of regenerative agriculture.From honey hunting...
Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race

Biracial Britain: What It Means To Be Mixed Race

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*The Times 100 best books to read for summer 2021*'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life...
The Enlightenment Project

The Enlightenment Project

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Cutting-edge science meets demonic possession: the long-awaited new supernatural thriller from award-winning author Lynn Hightower."A spooky, suspenseful masterpiece. Super-recommended!" - LEE CHILD, #1 international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher...
Waste of a Life

Waste of a Life

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Ellen Curtis is about to have her own life thrown into chaos in this third light-hearted decluttering mystery!"Brett layers the old-fashioned puzzle with deep psychological insights . . . Not...
The Borgia Portrait

The Borgia Portrait

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A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson.When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into...
Spirits of the Dead

Spirits of the Dead

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What would you do to save someone you loved? Husband and father Jon Levande has to ask himself that very question when his daughter is on the brink of death....
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban

The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from

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The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
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

$49.99 AUD$17.50 AUD
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...
The Mistletoe Mystery

The Mistletoe Mystery

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There's a 5* Christmas mystery unfolding at The Regency Grand Hotel... Full of charm and feel-good festive cheer, The Mistletoe Mystery short story is the perfect stocking-filler this Christmas!____It's the...
Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese

Rachel Jones: say cheeeeese

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Artist Rachel Jones's first publication, say cheeeeese, is published to accompany her new commission at Chisenhale Gallery, London, in spring 2022. For her first solo exhibition in an institution, she...
The Boys of Winter: The Perfect Rugby Book for Father's Day

The Boys of Winter: The Perfect Rugby Book for Father's Day

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England have been in four Rugby World Cup finals and only won one of them. In 2003, this team was the one that did it.Nearly 20 years on, with their...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard on BBC Radio 4

A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard

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It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with a small bridge that could change the course of...
The Boys of Winter: The Perfect Rugby Book for Father's Day

The Boys of Winter: The Perfect Rugby Book for Father's Day

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England have been in four Rugby World Cup finals and only won one of them. In 2003, this team was the one that did it.Nearly 20 years on, with their...
Tinseltown: Hollywood and the Beautiful Game - a Match Made in Wrexham

Tinseltown: Hollywood and the Beautiful Game - a Match Made in Wrexham

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*** SHORTLISTED IN THE SPORTS WRITING CATEGORY AT THE 2024 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ****** ONE OF THE DAILY...
The Kind to Kill

The Kind to Kill

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A missing tourist spells trouble for Senior Investigator Shana Merchant in this page-turning twisty mystery set in an atmospheric island community with a small-town vibe.Former NYPD detective Shana Merchant is...
The Borgia Portrait

The Borgia Portrait

$39.99 AUD$31.99 AUD
A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson.When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into...
Tinseltown: Hollywood and the Beautiful Game - a Match Made in Wrexham

Tinseltown: Hollywood and the Beautiful Game - a Match Made in Wrexham

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*** SHORTLISTED IN THE SPORTS WRITING CATEGORY AT THE 2024 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ****** ONE OF THE DAILY...
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, TelegraphThe gripping sequel...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban

The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages [...]

$55.00 AUD$44.00 AUD
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
Icons of Style - Harry Styles

Icons of Style - Harry Styles

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A genius of fluid fashion, Harry Styles is redefining fashion for all genders. From his moment on the 2019 Met Gala red carpet that broke the internet and appearing on...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

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From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as...
Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

Iran, Islam and Democracy: The Politics of Managing Change

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The surprise election of Hasan Rouhani in 2013 has refocused attention on the dynamics between Islam and democracy in Iran after the hiatus of the Ahmadinejad presidency. With comparisons being...
The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for Reform in Revolutionary Iran

The Dissident Mullah: Ayatollah Montazeri and the Struggle for [...]

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The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9. Yet at the time...
An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye

$39.99 AUD$15.00 AUD
The unputdownable new rollercoaster read from Sunday Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer - one of the must read books of 2024! 'An absolute page-turner' reader review'Impossible to put down' reader review'So...