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The Magnificent Sons: a coming-of-age novel full of heart, humour and unforgettable characters
Author: Justin Myers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Funny, beautifully observed and moving' Adam Kay 'Tales Of The City for a new generation . . . smart, touching, razor-sharp...
The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day
Author: James Kakalios Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Most of us are clueless when it comes to the physics that makes our modern world so convenient. What's the simple...
The Weekend Effect: The Life-Changing Benefits of Taking Two Days Off
Author: Katrina Onstad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A powerful argument, and practical advice, on the importance of reclaiming your leisure time to live a happier and more fulfilling...
Berkmann's Pop Miscellany: Sex, Drugs and Cars in Swimming Pools
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Marcus Berkmann was for many years the pop critic of the Spectator, waiting like most freelances to get fired. He's also...
The Rule of Laws: A 4000-year Quest to Order the World
Author: Fernanda Pirie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those...
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Paul Stephenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' - The Times Long before Rome fell...
From CIA to CEO: Unconventional Life Lessons for Thinking Bigger, Leading Better and Being Bolder
Author: Rupal Patel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From CIA to CEO is an ops manual for entrepreneurs that reveals how the esoteric techniques of the CIA can help...
You Already Know How To Be Great: A simple way to remove interference and unlock your potential - at work and at home
Author: Alan Fine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 According to Alan Fine, every one of us has the capacity for greatness. So what is it that's stopping us from...
History of a Drowning Boy
Author: Dennis Nilsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 Dennis Nilsen was one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, jailed for life in 1983 after the murders of 12 men...
Behave :The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert Sapolsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that...
The Coming of the Dark
Author: Chris Humphreys Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Three lands. Each ruled in different ways by a decadent immortal elite for their own pleasure and power. They know nothing...
Bright Steel: Masters and Mages Book Three
Author: Miles Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Every war comes down to the flash of bright steel, even when the air is full of magic . . ....
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
The Bed Moved: A John Murray Original
Author: Rebecca Schiff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A New Yorker, trying not to be jaded, accompanies a cash-strapped pot grower to a 'Clothing Optional Resort' in California. A...
The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper
Author: Maxim Jakubowski (Bookseller/Editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Updated and expanded edition of the fullest ever collective investigation into Jack the Ripper and the Whitechapel Murders. This volume...
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A cult writer at his best Beginning in 1967, Bukowski wrote the column "Notes of A Dirty Old Man" for the...
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
Author: David Crystal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation...
Vera Brittain: A Life
Author: Mark Bostridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge. 'Riveting and...
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one...
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Geoffrey Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey...
The Age of Shakespeare
Author: Sir Frank Kermode Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Shakespeare made his unique contribution to British and world culture in the midst of Elizabeth's great reign. Here, the circumstances...
Overcoming Anxiety, 2nd Edition: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques
Author: Helen Kennerley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 HIGHLY COMMENDED for the British Medical Awards book prize for Popular Medicine Fully updated edition of the bestselling self-help book, now...
The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child
Author: Heather Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 'A biography as gripping as one of Lee Child's own bestsellers' Ian Rankin 'Very enjoyable' The Times 'Vivid and entertaining' Telegraph...
Awakenings
Author: Oliver Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays, and...
Rendezvous With Rama
Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Rama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System. A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long, spinning...
Need for the Bike
Author: Paul Fournel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'I ride to rest and to tire myself out; I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm.' ......
The Fountains Of Paradise
Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In the 22nd century visionary scientist Vannevar Morgan conceives the most grandiose engineering project of all time, and one...
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Author: Peter Turchin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
Achtung Panzer!
Author: Heinz Guderian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of study since his days on the German General Staff in World War...
Daughters of The Labyrinth
Author: Ruth Padel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times 'A moving, superbly written...
The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 '[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations...
We Know You Remember: The No. 1 International Bestseller
Author: Tove Alsterdal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Dark, disturbing, evocative and clever. We Know You Remember is masterfully plotted and intensely gripping' - Chris Whitaker The case was...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
The Get Things Done Book: 41 Tools to Start, Stick With and Finish Things
Author: Mikael Krogerus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 LEARN THE TECHNIQUES YOU NEED TO STOP PROCRASTINATING AND START GETTING THINGS DONE Every day we begin new projects, or try...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Author: Eric R. Kandel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Neurological and psychiatric disorders have long been regarded as fundamentally different, depending on whether they appear to affect the brain...
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
Author: Jim Baggott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 An account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall...
The Undercover Economist
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station Why is it impossible to...
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian...
The This
Author: Adam Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The This is the new social media platform everyone is talking about. Allow it to be injected into the roof of...
SAS Shadow Raiders: The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The incredible story of the radar wars - Britain's most secret battle In the winter of 1941 an alien-seeming object was...
Venus and Aphrodite
Author: Bettany Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Lively' THE TIMES 'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR 'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME 'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE Through ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological...
The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Waging war? Sex for pleasure? Creating art? Mastery of fire? In this thrilling tour of the animal...
Find Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a...
The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks
Author: Jacob F. Field Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History...
The Mortal Instruments 2: City of Ashes
Author: Cassandra Clare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Second in Cassandra Clare's internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series about the Shadowhunters. Discover more secrets about the Shadowhunters as they fight...