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The Aeneid: A New Translation
Author: Shadi Bartsch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned. If his wishes had been obeyed,...
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...
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...
The Marshmallow Test: Understanding Self-control and How To Master It
Author: Walter Mischel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Self-control explained by the inventor of the famous 1960s marshmallow experiments A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a...
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...
The God Delusion
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,...
How Democracies Die
Author: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Donald Drumpf's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy...
Against the Fall of Night
Author: Sir Arthur C. Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see...
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival
Author: Amira Keidar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto by two courageous women. Holocaust Child is an inspirational story of...
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' *...
Children Of Dune: The Third Dune Novel
Author: Frank Herbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political...
The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: Wayfarers 4
Author: Becky Chambers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES* The stunning finale to the award-winning Wayfarers series...
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The Best of the SF Masterworks
Author: Philip K Dick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 World War Terminus devastated the Earth. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard searches for the renegade replicants he is...
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' AN ACCLAIMED WEST END THEATRE PRODUCTION ***** 'Neil Gaiman's entire body of work...
Someone Had To Do It
Author: Danielle Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A promising writing debut' Daily Mail Brandi Maxwell is living the fashion intern dream. Except, the dream looks more like living...
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis Almost seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the...
A Discovery of Witches: Now a major TV series (All Souls 1)
Author: Deborah Harkness Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully...
The First Man
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Of all Camus' works, this unfinished book has the most dramatic and extraordinary history - legend has it that the manuscript...
How to be Both
Author: Ali Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The runner-up for the Man Booker Prize and one of the top sellers on the shortlist - now in paperback Passionate,...
I Am Not Your Negro
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A selection of Oscar Wilde's best and most important plays - sharp, relevant and brilliant to this day A selection of...