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Renowned historian Richard Holmes brings his eye for illuminating detail to a biography of one of Britain's greatest leaders. Richard Holmess insightful new biography of one of Britains greatest leaders...

The number one bestseller, now in paperback... Birkenhead, 1973. The eighteen-year-old Paul O'Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out on the town. New white T-shirt, freshly ironed jeans,...

How our primeval impulses shape our modern lives. From caveman to modern man ... Few people doubt that humans are descended from the apes; fewer still consider, let alone accept,...

Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery...

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the...

Meet Quin Kincaid. Her legacy is . . . A calling. An honour. A lie. A new YA fantasy thriller perfect for fans of Mortal Instruments and the Hunger Games...

Second book in an action-packed thriller series from the bestselling author of BRAVO TWO ZERO, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers....

The breathtaking new race-against-the-clock thriller from the master of the triple cross Thirteen years ago, surgeon Edward Hammond performed a life-saving operation on Serbian gangster Dragan Gazi. Now Gazi is...

Lucilla Andrews was only eighteen when, as a volunteer nurse at the beginning of the second world war, she experienced the grim realities of wartime . Young, inexperienced and coming...

Winter 2018 Clementine Ford wonders whether the #MeToo movement represents a turning point for women, Anna Spargo-Ryan thinks not- 'In the wake of #MeToo, when women said 'this time it...

Medical science now allows us to live longer than ever before. So living with pain and dying well have become major concerns for the general community, health practitioners, church groups...

Roger Schank's influential book, Dynamic Memory, described how computers could learn based upon what was known about how people learn. Since that book's publication in 1982, Dr Schank has turned...

As personal computers have become more available, there has been a great deal of optimism for educational reform through wide computer use, both at school and in the home. Beyond...

In the first comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical...

Discover the myriad forms, habits and habitats of insects in 39 fascinating adventures guided by noted author and teacher. You ll encounter eggs that look like flowerpots, weevils like pebbles,...

This sweeping business history shows the dramatic movement of power from East to West, providing an expansive global view of choice moguls across various industries, including finance, transportation, communication, and...

Cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how...

With their long bodies and short legs, dachshunds catch the eye wherever they go. Be they standard, mini or tweeny', smooth, long-haired or wire-haired, these sausage-shaped, diminutive pups offer huge...

Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers--one of the...

In March 1997, the Association for Computing Machinery will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the electronic computer. To understand what an extraordinary fifty years the computer has had, you need...

One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where...

When an elderly lady is found inside her own house with her lungs full of river water, London's Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to search for a logical solution....

Seventeen years ago, when she adopted a neglected, orphaned thirty-year-old parrot named Tiko, the internationally renowned ornithologist Joanna Burger entered one of the most complex relationships of her life. Sullen...

Gathered here are essays by J. M. Coetzee on South Africa, Madison Smartt Bell on Haiti, Thomas Mallon on the New York Public Library, Ann Beattie on the Florida Keys,...

A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting...

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organisation was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became...

From the author of TikTok favourite, You Deserve Each Other , comes a charmingly festive romcom! Bettie Hughes once knew the comfort of luxury . . . before she lost...

'If you liked Bridget Jones's Diary , try this' BBC News 'So funny and sharp, yet tender and emotional too. I loved it!' Jill Mansell 'I adored The Last Romeo...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2021 McILVANNEY AWARD COMES ANOTHER GRIPPING, COMPLEX MASTERPIECE . . . 'Russell writes a pacy, ever-twisting mystery that will keep you turning the pages.' -...

Another fantastic, witty and incredibly original story from award-winning Lauren Child. Hubert Horatio or H for short is a genius at almost absolutely everything. His parents on the other hand...

When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered...

As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been...

Seventeen years after her death, the skeletal remains of an eleven-year-old girl are discovered buried deep in the caves of Derbyshire's Peak District. Close by the body lies a crudely-carved...

When David marries Tessa he feels life is starting all over again. He gets a transfer to a small police station in mid Wales, leaving behind the stresses of inner-London...

Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in a wintry, misty Venice to study Giorgione s painting 'The Tempest', the subject of his thesis and the centre of his...

From the author of POWER OF HER OWN and DYING TO SCORE, a new thriller featuring Detective Sergeant Kate Powers who finds herself in the middle of a messy case...