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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 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 Maid's Secret (A Molly the Maid mystery, Book 3)

The Maid's Secret (A Molly the Maid mystery, Book 3)

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Molly the Maid is used to being invisible. But it's time for her to shine in a brand new mystery... *THE SPARKLING NEW MYSTERY FROM THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF...
An Ethical Guide To Murder: The darkly twisted debut thriller of the

An Ethical Guide To Murder: The darkly twisted debut thriller of the

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If you had the power over life and death, what would you do? Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK An NPR Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence...
The Wedding Engagement

The Wedding Engagement

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' Delightful ... a heartwarming escape' 'Will have even the biggest cynic rooting for these two' 'I devoured every page ' 💖 It's not supposed to be her love story......
Social Class in the 21st Century

Social Class in the 21st Century

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A fresh take on social class from the experts behind 'The Great British Class Survey' Social class has re-emerged as a topic of enormous scholarly and public attention. In this...
Swiss Made: the Art of Falling Apart

Swiss Made: the Art of Falling Apart

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Swiss Made is devoted to the work of fifteen Swiss artists, each of whom has made a permanent impression in the field of contemporary art. Their work is included in...
How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark

How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark

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How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue...
Authors Take Sides On Iraq

Authors Take Sides On Iraq

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This book records the contemporary opinions and reactions of over 170 distinguished authors to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the...
Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

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*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism 2022* *Winner of the Premio Angelo Vassallo Award 2022*...
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,...
The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries, Book 3)

The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries, Book 3)

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The top 10 Sunday Times bestseller NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES. Season 2 out March 2025! 'I love the audacity of the Marlow gang, those ladies sure know how to...
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...
Solar Eclipses 2024-2027: Where and When to Experience Totality

Solar Eclipses 2024-2027: Where and When to Experience Totality

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Seeing a total solar eclipse ('totality' - when the sun is fully obscured by the moon) is a bucket-list event, generating a sense of wonder and even an 'end-of-the-world' sensation....
The Golden Library (Ben Hope, Book 29)

The Golden Library (Ben Hope, Book 29)

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Learn the secret - or die trying Has ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope finally got out of his depth? That's the question Ben faces when the hunt for a missing girl...
The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way

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Politics in the West has become unpredictable and tumultuous. In recent years, voters have deserted the political centre like never before. Whether it's Trump, Brexit, Le Pen, Tsipras, or even...
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...
The Utilita Football Yearbook 2023-2024

The Utilita Football Yearbook 2023-2024

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'The definitive chronicle of changing times for so many who love the sport' Ian Herbert, Daily Mail 'The Yearbook stands for authority and integrity' Martin Tyler 'The first reference book...
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...
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 the Taliban

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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...
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...
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...
The Unretirement

The Unretirement

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'Funny, uplifting and warm' Sunday Times bestselling author PHILLIPA ASHLEY 'Beautifully written, the characters leap from the page' Million-copy bestselling author SUE MOORCROFT The Unretirement is an uplifting story about...
The Golden Library (Ben Hope, Book 29)

The Golden Library (Ben Hope, Book 29)

$24.99 AUD$12.00 AUD
Learn the secret - or die trying Has ex-SAS soldier Ben Hope finally got out of his depth? That's the question Ben faces when the hunt for a missing girl...
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,...
Time Travelling with a Hamster

Time Travelling with a Hamster

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For readers who loved Wonder and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time this extraordinary debut will make you laugh and cry. A story that crosses time and...
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval

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An urgent investigation of the most underreported, seismic consequence of climate change- how it will force us to change where - and how - we live We are facing a...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

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Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an era of negligence and...
Good Half Gone

Good Half Gone

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'The ending shattered me in a way only Tarryn Fisher can!' Colleen Hoover, Sunday Times bestselling author An explosive new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Never Never...
The Midnight Conspiracy (Joe Mason, Book 3)

The Midnight Conspiracy (Joe Mason, Book 3)

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Don't miss the third adrenaline-filled, action-adventure in the Joe Mason series! When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives only...
The Marlow Murder Club (The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries, Book 1)

The Marlow Murder Club (The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries, Book 1)

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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES. Season 2 out March 2025! 'I want to be Judith Potts when I grow up' Reader review 'Read the whole thing in one day ....
Wayward

Wayward

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The second book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade It's the perfect town . . . as...
The Last Town

The Last Town

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The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade What's inside was a nightmare. What's outside is...
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...
I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

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With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin...
The Shadow Cabinet

The Shadow Cabinet

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The follow-up to the sensational #1 Sunday Times bestseller Her Majesty's Royal Coven All is not as it seems within the halls of Her Majesty's Royal Coven... Despite thinking they've...
In a Thousand Different Ways

In a Thousand Different Ways

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The gripping and emotional novel from the million-copy bestselling author of PS, I Love You She knows your secrets. Now discover hers... You've never met anyone like Alice. She sees...
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 beloved author, TV icon and Monty Python star

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THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIES A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year In this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its...