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An Economic History of the English Garden
Author: Roderick Floud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and only in-depth economic history of England's gardens, from 1660 to today At least since the seventeenth...
Civilization: The West and the Rest
Author: Niall Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 How the West's six 'killer apps' transformed the history of the world Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition
Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping. In 1850, China...
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
How Not to Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
Author: Jordan Ellenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 How a little mathematics goes a long way in helping you not to be wrong The maths we learn...
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Author: Pedro Domingos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos reveals how machine learning is remaking business, politics, science and war. And he...
How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain
Author: Stanislas Dehaene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An illuminating dive into the latest science of how we learn - and how we do it better than...
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
Author: Paul Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An astonishing new contribution to our ongoing quest for the secret of life itself When Darwin set out to...
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
Author: Norman Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures...
The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language
Author: Albert Costa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The definitive study of bilingualism from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet...
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
Author: Christopher Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
Author: Roderick Beaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient...
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
Author: Dr John Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 A uniquely ambitious study of the Bible's creation- how it came to be written, how its contents were...
The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit
Author: Helena Attlee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits The story of citrus runs through the...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physics
Author: Anthony Aguirre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A delightful intellectual adventure that brings together physics and ancient philosophy Could there be a civilization on a mote...
The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The neuroscientist and best-selling author of The Organized Mind explains what happens to our brains from womb to tomb....
The Science of Meditation: How to Change Your Brain, Mind and Body
Author: Daniel Goleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on...
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Author: Brene Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The sensational US bestseller that teaches us how to embrace vulnerability **Now on Netflix as The Call to Courage**...
Facebook: The Inside Story
Author: Steven Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the complete history of one of America's most controversial and successful companies Today,...
Hot Milk
Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016, a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth from the author...
Our Kind of Traitor
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Return of the master . . . Having plumbed the devious depths of the Cold War, le Carre...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The classic Cold War thriller, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time The Cold War is...
A Legacy of Spies
Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 For the first time in over 30 years, John le Carre returns to the Cold War in this...
Agent Running in the Field: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new...
A Delicate Truth
Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 THE paperback of 2014 - outstanding reviews, huge coverage, le Carre's most compelling novel in years A counter-terror...
Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem
Author: Philip Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he(1)d seen everything on the streets of 1930(1)s Berlin. But then he went freelance, and...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization Began
Author: Valerie Hansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled...
Of Love and Other Demons
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works...
The General in His Labyrinth
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first...
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A stunning new edition of one of the world's most beloved novels, ahead of the forthcoming Netflix adaptation...
Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A searing exploration of the transatlantic slave trade from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Imagine if...
The Monk of Mokha
Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
Author: Avni Doshi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild....
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The essential guide to surviving modern life - a crash course in emotional maturity from the bestselling author...
Boy: Tales of Childhood
Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
If I Had Your Face: 'Assured, bold, and electrifying' Taylor Jenkins Reid, bestselling author of MALIBU RISING
Author: Frances Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of South Korea If...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One
Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Author: Susan Cain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The little book with a very big idea that has everyone talking Quiet, the Sunday Times and New York...
The Charisma Myth: How to Engage, Influence and Motivate People
Author: Olivia Fox Cabane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 How to engage, influence, motivate and succeed with people What if charisma could be taught?What you'll find here...
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Bill Bryson's classicMother Tongueis a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language....
Troublesome Words
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With Troublesome Words, bestselling writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge...
The Power
Author: Naomi Alderman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 ***Winner of the Women's Prize For Fiction*** What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? Suddenly -...