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Mr Cadmus
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The arrival of an enigmatic stranger wreaks havoc on the denizens of the idyllic English village of Little Camborne; most notably...
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics
Author: Dylan Jones (Editor) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and...
Spot the Mistake: Lands of Long Ago
Author: AJ Wood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 A fantastic introduction to the Stone Age, Medieval Europe, Ancient China, the Romans, the Vikings, the Mongols, the Aztecs and Incas...
Brilliant Ideas From Wonderful Women: 15 incredible inventions from inspiring women!
Author: Aitziber Lopez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Car heaters... Monopoly...Disposable diapers...The dishwasher...Kevlar...Maritime flares... Anti-reflective glass...Wifi...Syringes...Submarine periscopes...Diagnostic tests...Lifeboats... Windshield wipers...Ebooks... What do each of these revolutionary inventions have in...
The Best Sound in the World
Author: Cindy Wume Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 Roy is a lion and a sound catcher. He catches the sounds of the city and makes them into music, trying...
Pocket Guide to Whales, Dolphins and other Marine Mammals
Author: Alice Pattullo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Learn everything you ever wanted to know about marine mammals, in this handy pocket-sized guide. Written by a natural history expert,...
Urban Arboreal: A Modern Glossary of City Trees
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Trees are an important part of the life of many cities. Whether in avenues or parks they provide shade, a green...
Cult of Progress
Author: David Olusoga Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 What happened to art in the great Age of Discovery when civilisations encountered each other for the first time? In the...
How Could We Harness a Hurricane?
Author: Vicki Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Have you ever wondered how hurricanes become powerful enough to lift cars and level cities? In How Could We Harness a...
Seagrass Dreams: A Counting Book
Author: Kathleen Hanes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Seagrass Dreams is a unique counting book and introduction to marine life that stars animals who make their home in seagrass....
Portrait of an Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
Author: Alice Wietzel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Georgia O'Keeffe is known as the Mother of American Modernism, discover why in this first story book about Georgia O'Keeffe. From...
Angel and Bavar
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Author: Amy Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Taking inspiration from "Beauty and the Beast," Amy Wilson's second middle grade novel is a stunning modern fairy tale of magic,...
The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II
Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous...
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his...
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
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Author: John Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of...
The Dark
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Author: Valentina Giambanco Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 "compelling plot and very well written" --Reader 5-Star Review "fast-paced, well-balanced, masterfully structured" --Reader 5-Star Review Detective Alice Madison is determined...
Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic
Author: Ivan Krastev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through...
This Land: The Struggle for the Left
Author: Owen Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 #1 Bestselling author of Chavs and The Establishment returns with an urgent analysis of where the Left - and Britain -...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present
Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The extraordinary story of modern Europe on the move. A striking characteristic of modern Europe has been the extreme fluidity of...
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines
Author: George Dyson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Author: Fareed Zakaria Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the...
A Small Town in Germany
Author: John le Carre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A hardback series for le Carre collectors West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid...
Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
Author: Anatol Lieven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new book on why the most urgent issue confronting us all needs national solutions In the past two centuries...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years,...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century
Author: David Goodhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to...
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Author: Kate Manne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential philosopher who has been described as 'the Simone de Beauvoir of...
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent
Author: Owen Hatherley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A searching, timely account of the condition of contemporary Europe, told through the landscapes of its cities. Over the past twenty...
From Democrats to Kings: The Brutal Dawn of a New World from the Downfall of Athens to the Rise of Alexander the Great
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Author: Michael Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 294 A History Channel consultant explores how, in less than 100 years, ancient Greece went from a democratic city-state to an monarchical...
Colour of Maroc
Author: Rob Palmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Colour of Maroc unveils a Moroccan cuisine, both traditional and contemporary, brimming with flavour. For photographer Rob, Colour of Maroc is...
Antiquity Matters
Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man
Author: Siegfried Sassoon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs as we cross the bridge over...
The Sweet Indifference of the World
Author: Peter Stamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Christoph, an older man who is a writer, has a story to share with Lena, a younger woman who is an...
Crazy for Birds: Fascinating and Fabulous Facts
Author: Misha Maynerick Blaise Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A charming and quirky illustrated exploration of birds and the reasons we love them. From the Common Swift, which can...
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation
Author: David Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a...
Renzo Piano
Author: Aurora Cuito Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Renzo Piano (Genoa, 1937) studied architecture at the Polytechnic in Milan. Since winning the competition to design the Centre Pompidou in...
In the Name of God: A History of Christian and Muslim Intolerance
Author: Selina O'Grady Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Christianity is tolerant, Islam is not. Islam is an inherently violent, ossified religion which can never come to terms with the...
The Chef's Secret
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Author: Crystal King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A captivating novel of Renaissance Italy detailing the mysterious life of Bartolomeo Scappi, the legendary chef to several popes and author...
What to Read and Why
Author: Francine Prose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic,...
Everyone's an Artist (or at Least They Should Be): How Creativity Gives You the Edge in Everything You Do
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Author: Ron Tite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Can a Canali-clad million-dollar banker learn anything from a paint-stained artist? Definitely. Especially now. Clearly, succeeding in business is an art...
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2014
Author: Mx Eileen Myles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Eileen Myles' work is known for its blend of reality and fiction, the sublime and the ephemeral. Her poems open...
Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs
Author: Christopher Reid Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 I've rounded up a rowdy assembly Of my own Consequential Dogs As counterparts to Eliot's mogs. Mine are a rough and...
Deviation
Author: Luce D'Eramo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Sometimes when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come out on the other side.' Lucie was brought up by...
30-Second Climate: The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute
Author: Joanna D Haigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from...
Preaching, Building, and Burying: Friars in the Medieval City
Author: Caroline Bruzelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Friars transformed the relationship of the church to laymen by taking religion outside to public and domestic spaces. Mendicant commitment to...
Best in Show
Author: Dolly Faibyshev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 132 Best In Show is a collection of photographs of well-groomed and award-winning dogs by New York City-based photographer Dolly Faibyshev. Dolly's...
Minding Miss Manners: In an Era of Fake Etiquette
Author: Judith Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Minding Miss Manners: In an Era of Fake Etiquette is a modern guide to modern manners. Facing down the miscreants purveying...
Chasing the Rainbow: The story of road cycling's World Championships
Author: Giles Belbin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Chasing the Rainbow tells the history of both the men's and women's road World Cycling Championships, recounting the untold stories of...
JR: The Chronicles of New York City
Author: JR Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 JR is a groundbreaking figure in contemporary art. His oversize black-and-white portraits adorn walls, pavements, and rooftops from the suburbs of Paris...