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The Mayor of Uglyvilles Dilemma
In this small (but perfectly formed) hardback book, Ian Stewart introduces some of the most devilishly difficult mathematical brainteasers human beings have ever devised. Along the way, he transports us...
Lightning Striking
'A true testimonial and epic love letter to the soul saving power of rock & roll . . . Read it and be inspired, as I was' Bobby Gillespie'Lenny Kaye...
The Seaside: England's Love Affair
A vivid journey around England's great seaside resorts, exploring their history and current struggle, and what they reveal about England, from the award-winning author of Love of CountryEngland's seaside is...
Beautiful Trauma: A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing
Late one night, Rebecca Fogg's hand is partially amputated in an explosion in her flat. Quick thinking saves her life, but the journey to recovery is a slow one. As...
In the Shadow of the Bull
In a world of Goddess worship, sacred snakes and sacrifice, human jealousy, resentment and betrayal still run wild . . .Ancient Crete, 1450 BC. When her sister Arge drops to...
The Borgia Portrait
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...
Nuts and Bolts: How Tiny Inventions Make Our World Work
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023**AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK, OFF AIR WITH FI AND JANE AND 99% INVISIBLE*'Delightful' TIM HARFORD, FINANCIAL TIMES'Appeals to...
The Death and Life of Benny Brooks: Sort of a Memoir
Benny's life is slowly unravelling. His parents are newly divorced, his mom chooses to move away, and Benny and his brother and sister are left with their chain-smoking dad, who...
Blade of Dream: The Kithamar Trilogy Book 2
***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES***'ATMOSPHERIC AND FASCINATING' Joe Abercrombie on Age of Ash'Spectacular' Django Wexler on Age of AshFrom the Sunday Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author Daniel Abraham, co-author...
GamesMaster: The Oral History
The definitive history of the iconic '90s videogame TV show, written by host Dominik Diamond. GamesMaster: An Oral History charts the highs and lows of Channel 4's anarchic UK videogames...
America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the
The remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians,...
Tika the Iggy: Lessons in Life, Love, and Fashion
Tika the Iggy is the fashion model of the 21st century with millions of fans on social media. She is an Italian Greyhound from Canada, as well as a fashionista,...
Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World
If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains-eating, pooping, and dying along the way-are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus...
Wolfish: The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature - vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for...
Le Fric: Family, Power and Money: The Business of the Tour de France
The fascinating and unknown story of the Tour de France's ever-changing relationship with money and power - and the enigmatic family behind it all.It started with a cash drop by...
Adventures in Volcanoland: What Volcanoes Tell Us About the World and
Adventures in Volcanoland charts journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the world's most important volcanoes, from Nicaragua to Hawaii, Santorini to Ethiopia, exploring Tamsin...
Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in...
Glass Houses: 'A devastatingly compelling new voice in literary
'Through a dewy sheen of teen nostalgia, Reece deftly explores the weight of political events on individual lives. Her supple, visceral prose evokes North Wales in all its complexity, beautifully...
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the 'Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was by no means a certain path for Henry VIII's...
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens...
High: Soar to New Heights
From the author and illustrator of Deep, the winner of the 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Award Eve Pownall AwardWhat wonders are soaring far above your head? Come on...
La Patisserie des Reves
La Patisserie des Reves (translating literally as The Patisserie of Dreams) is the name of the world famous French pastry shops; the brainchild of pastry chef Philippe Conticini and entrepreneur...
Somewhere for Little Bear
A thoughtful and beautifully illustrated story about opening our homes and our hearts to those in need of a warm welcome. Little Bear lives happily in his cosy cave deep...
Why in the World: Why do People Move Home?
Why in the World introduces citizenship topics in a sensitive way with heartfelt illustrations, helping to connect children's own experiences to larger issues in the worldEveryone has a home. Other...
Healthy Habits: Koala's Guide to Sleep
Koala likes to sleep all day - he knows the sleep will give him the energy he needs to move around at night, when its cool. This book follows the...
Stupendous and Tremendous Technology: Terrific and Trailblazing
Welcome to the jet-set world of transport with this fast-fact-packed exploration of ways to travel. It's the perfect way for children aged 9 plus to brush up on their S.T.E.M....
Only in New York: Weird and Wonderful Facts About The Empire State
The next in this state-by-state strand of the best-selling 50 States series, Only in New York explores the most amazing sites, cities, history and natural landscapes of the Empire State....
Team Up: John Lennon & Yoko Ono
London, 1966. Pop music has transformed England's cultural landscape, and rock'n'roll has propelled The Beatles to the very top of the music charts.One day, lead singer and founder of the...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea
'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...
The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter,
Much has been written about the challenges tech presents to equality and democracy. But we can either criticize big data and automation or steer it to do better. Lobel makes...
The Sea Cemetery: Secrets and lies in a bestselling Norwegian family
"A windswept, wave-tossed, altogether irresistible novel of literary suspense - I truly didn't want it to end" A. J. FINN"In its scale, scope and ambition, The Sea Cemetery is truly...
A Plague of Serpents
K.J. Maitland's gripping Jacobean historical thriller series comes to a dramatic conclusion...'What a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMESLondon, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King's enemies prepare...
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First
'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth,...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Hera: The dazzling story of the Queen of Mount Olympus from
The enthralling tale of a powerful Greek goddess maligned in both myth and ancient history, as told by Sunday Times bestselling author Jennifer Saint.'An exceptional achievement' ELODIE HARPER 'A very...
Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land:
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR'S BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE CONVERSATION'S 5...
Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami
Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps...
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture - 'An
Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important.A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of
The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest
'Ui Chionna shines a light on an extraordinary woman who literally changed the course of history' - Suzannah LipscombWhen the history of British codebreaking is told, the story is often...
When I Died for the First Time
'What a ride this is! A big wide book. An amazingly vivid piece of writing, from the hilarious to the horrifying and everything in between' BRIAN ENOMeet Seth Brakes. Musician....
Which Way Round the Galaxy: The 'out-of-this-world' new series from
From the bestselling author of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON comes book 2 in an out-of-this-world new series packed with epic adventure, thrilling space travel and forbidden Magic - perfect...
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow's Music
Simon Reynolds's first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music's future - the vanguard genres and...
Run For Cover: 'I READ IT IN A DAY. GREAT CHARACTERS, GREAT
HE WANTS THE TRUTH. THEY WANT HIM DEAD.'I READ IT IN A DAY. GREAT CHARACTERS, GREAT STORYTELLING.' JAMES PATTERSON, world's bestselling author.From the number one bestselling co-author of James Patterson's...
Practice
Six o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out end of January. In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student...
Right Thing, Right Now: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
If we do what is right, everything else will follow: happiness, success, meaning, reputation, love. This is central to Stoic wisdom. The path isn't always easy, but it is essential,...
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta
'Deeply researched and written with verve... thoughtful as well as action packed' The Times'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie RubenholdThis is...
Answered Prayers: England and the 1966 World Cup
'Magnificent, moving, often funny and deeply researched account . . . Is this just a book for those who know football? Far from it: this is a story of glory...