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Gene Eating: The Story of Human Appetite
Author: Dr Giles Yeo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST 'It is rare to find a book, written by a world-class...
A Brief History of the Crusades
Author: Geoffrey Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence?...
Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, STAR TREK celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health. Boldly going where...
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future
Author: Jill Lepore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Radio 4's Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey...
The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean
Author: David Bodanis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'David Bodanis is an enthralling storyteller. Prepare to be taken on a surprising, wide-ranging and ultimately inspiring journey to explore what...
Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic
Author: Hugh Brody Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 This is a book about silences. And land. Renowned anthropologist and film-maker Hugh Brody weaves a dazzling tapestry of personal memory...
The Book Of The New Sun: Volume 1: Shadow and Claw
Author: Gene Wolfe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 An extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, in the time of a dying sun, when our present culture...
Washington Black: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018
Author: Esi Edugyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner of the Giller Prize Finalist for the Carnegie medal and the Rogers Writers...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions...
Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man
Author: Fiona Gell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat...
On Learning Golf: A valuable guide to better golf
Author: Percy Boomer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Among the best books ever written on playing the game' Golf.com With a foreword by Edward, the late Duke of Windsor....
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change...
The Bookseller of Inverness: The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2023
Author: S.G. MacLean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN. 'This slice of historical fiction...
Parsnips, Buttered: Winner of the Comedy Game Changer Award
Author: Joe Lycett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Dear Reader, Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps...
The Gods Themselves
Author: Isaac Asimov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In the year 2100, the invention of the Electron Pump - an apparently inexhaustible supply of free energy - has enabled...
Red at the Bone: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Author: Jacqueline Woodson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE...
The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times 'One of the...
Greybeard
Author: Brian Aldiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Ecological disaster has left the English countryside a wasteland. Humanity faces extinction, unless Greybeard and his wife Martha are successful in...
Raft
Author: Stephen Baxter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel and the beginning of his stunning Xeelee Sequence finally enters the SF Masterwork series! A...
Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This is Going to Hurt'
Author: Adam Kay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW INCLUDING BRAND NEW MATERIAL THIS IS GOING TO HURT was the bestselling non-fiction...
The Seasoned Foodie: Nutritious Dishes for a Healthier, Longer Life
Author: Manju Malhi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Incredibly simple, delicious recipes that encourage healthy ageing and boost immunity, based on Manju Malhi's popular Open Age cookery classes. Whatever...
Two for Joy: The untold ways to enjoy the countryside
Author: Adam Henson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In Two for Joy, Adam Henson - much-loved and long-standing presenter of Countryfile and Lambing Live - goes on a journey...
The Magick of Matter: Crystals, Chaos and the Wizardry of Physics
Author: Felix Flicker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start The Week 'Felix Flicker brilliantly reveals the secrets behind the modern-day magic we call...
None of This Is Serious
Author: Catherine Prasifka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Extraordinary' -Naoise Dolan 'Seriously good' - Louise Nealon Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything...
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists,...
The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion
Author: Steven Isserlis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A unique Companion to J S Bach's iconic Cello Suites from internationally-renowned cellist Steven Isserlis. 'Isserlis is the master of the...
The Art Of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm
Author: Tom Kelley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 There isn't a business that doesn't want to be more creative in its thinking, products and processes. In The Art of...
The Shutter of Snow (Faber Editions): 'Extraordinary.' Lucy Ellmann
Author: Emily Holmes Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'Extraordinary. A fascinating and unexpected delight. Coleman shows howwomen might write if we were free - and how murderous we'd...
The Drowned And The Saved
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...
Ayoade on Ayoade
Author: Richard Ayoade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he...
Woken Furies: Netflix Altered Carbon book 3
Author: Richard Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author...
Cults: The World's Most Notorious Cults
Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless...
The Road of Bones: A Journey to the Dark Heart of Russia
Author: Jeremy Poolman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Road of Bonesis the story of Russia's greatest road. For over 200 years, the route of the Vladimirka Road has...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Author: David Foster Wallace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most...
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in...
The Summer Place: The perfect beach read
Author: Jennifer Weiner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'If you have time for only one book this summer, pick this one' New York Times 'An ambitious, immersive novel from...
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
Author: Jack Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do...
The Inheritors: Introduced by Ben Okri
Author: William Golding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 This was a different voice; not the voice of the people. It was the voice of other. When spring comes, the...
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How did an obscure academic idea pave the way to the Holocaust within just fifty years? Why does eugenics still loom...
Pleasantview
Author: Celeste Mohammed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction. Shortlisted for the Society of Authors' McKitterick Prize 2022. Finalist of the...
Lullaby Beach: 'A PORTRAIT OF SISTERHOOD ... POWERFUL, WISE, CELEBRATORY' Daily Mail
Author: Stella Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Faultless storytelling . . . Wise, generous, atmospheric' Observer Growing up after the war in Westmere, an English seaside town, Kitty...
Welcome to the Monkey House
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A diabolical government asserts control by eliminating orgasms. A scientist discovers the secret to unlocking instant happiness, with unexpected consequences. In an...
The Buried Giant
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the...
Reward System: 'A superb writer, by turns funny, graceful, acidly cynical, lyrical' GUARDIAN
Author: Jem Calder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you've been waiting for someone to close the gap on social distancing, to capture the furtive problems of social media,...
A Very Modern Dictionary: Over 600 words, phrases and abbreviations to keep your culture game on point.
Author: Tobias Anthony Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Do you know your 'bromance' from your 'dudevorce', your 'turnt' from your 'thirst trap'? How about 'bae' or 'doe'. Or 'Fomo',...
The Sea Lady
Author: Margaret Drabble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious;...
The Old Woman With the Knife
Author: Gu Byeong-mo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn't mind leaving this world through an untimely...
All Through the Night
Author: M.P. Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "It's quite simple Mr Ellington. When you find Fowler, just ask where we can find the truth." With these words, private...