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As usual, all is abnormal in Dr Siri Paiboun's morgue in downtown Vientiane. Siri and his team are investigating the case of the Three Epees: three women skewered by a...

The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune,...

On India's south-western coast, between Goa and Calicut, lies Kittur - a small, nondescript everytown. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its...

Peppered with bouncers, expletives, and even the odd diplomatic incident, this is a rip-roaring journey through over a century of Ashes history. For a list of every Ashes century and...

Why did Uuq become Fl? Why is the sky blue? Why is the sky black? What is spaghettification? There's a problem with the typical pub quiz. It always features far...

A gripping account of the ingenious minds who gathered together the greatest technological inventions of our species to create a machine that can see into our planet's future with astonishing...

Estranged sisters Anne and Jess were never close as children and have drifted further apart over the years - living separate lives in different cities. But when their mother Jean...

A beautifully written evocation of lost world and a vanished childhood, by the author of Clouds of Glory. This utterely compelling memoir opens with a sceptical nine-year-old Bryan Magee being...

Verity Browne returns from Prague, where she is reporting for the New Gazette, with suspected tuberculosis. Lord Edward Corinth to whom she is engaged is naturally desperately anxious about her.The...

Queen's Inn is London's youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. On 29th February 1902, at a Feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has...

This work is a charming and informative account of renovating a property in France. When you fall in love common sense flies out of the window. This is how it...

It s dangerous...and that s the truth about love... A young man shields his terrible wounds from his mother; a husband believes he can love his grief-stricken wife back to...

Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy...

Could an incoming asteroid cause human beings to go the way of the dinosaurs? Will artificial intelligence make the world a better place-or make human beings obsolescent? Could a massive...

Berets, baguettes and strings of onions are all very well, but to really fit in across the Channel takes a certain...je ne sais quoi. The French might make it look...

'Deeply relatable' Nathanael Lessore 'Fresh, funny and full of heart' Lisa Williamson Alfie thinks Maya might be the One, and he's desperate to tell her ... until she reveals she's...

In the summer of 1877, Bridget is orphaned when her unreliable father succumbs to a snakebite asthey're crossing the Kansas prairie. Arriving in Dodge City as a penniless orphan, she's...

A self-empowerment gift book for woman of every age, these quotes and slogans are guaranteed to bring out your inner badass. Celebrating female power and potential, the sayings will inspire...

Maritime Logos is the second instalment in an ongoing series of pocket books dedicated to logo design. Following on from 'Architectural Logos' this title contains a wonderful selection of logos,...

Best-selling author/illustrator Marion Deuchars now takes her beloved bird through a daily workout in the natural sequel to Yoga for Stiff Birds . Marion Deuchars perfectly understands the difficult relationship...

Reveal the true potential of forty kitchen staples: sardines, chickpeas, lentils, oats, tahini and many more - with five easy and modern recipes for each. Everyone's kitchen has a cupboard...

Brew up your own wild concoctions to enjoy through the seasons. The book celebrates year-round foraging and feasting. Soothing winter warmers and delicate botanical teas join energy-boosting tonics and zingy...

A new fun and festive title in the 'Buster Laugh-a-Lot' series, this hilarious collection has hundreds of Christmassy jokes for kids to enjoy and share over the festive period. Why...

My little girl has vanished. And I can't tell anyone... My nine-year-old daughter Hollie should be leaving school smiling and laughing with all the other children but she's not here....

This is a beautiful guided journal for anyone who shares their life with a cat - and wants to celebrate that bond. Filled with questions and reflections that will help...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just...

** New from Mollie Walton, twice finalist for the Romantic Novelist Association's 'The Romantic Saga Award' ** Will she find love again? Ironbridge, 1892. When seventeen-year-old Maria Keay is offered...

With a new afterword. 'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying'-Philip Pullman...

From the sandals of Ancient Rome to the towering heels of Vivienne Westwood; a phenomenal frolic through footwear fashion. "They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God,...

The Wicked Wit of England is a celebration of British humour, featuring a collection of stories, anecdotes, quips and quotes that capture the various idiosyncrasies of the English character. If...

A Munch and Kr ger detective story, following the first case that bought together the brilliant, young police cadet Mia Kr ger and old-timer police chief Munch, as a new...

An novel poking fun at modern mores and delving into what we should really treasure in our precarious lives. From the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Sometimes we must...

Why do we think and do evil? What can science teach us about why humans do bad things? And what do our reactions to deviance teach us about ourselves? Drawing...

The Disturbing Inside Story of Women Who Are Driven to Kill Killer Women are the most disturbing yet compelling of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity and...

The Short Story of Photography is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of photography. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key photographs from the first experiments in the...

It's 1884 and 14-year-old Sunday Small has been in the Nuneaton workhouse since she was abandoned at birth. The regime is cruel, and if it were not for the lovely...

The body of a teenage boy is found weighted down in a lake. Karin Muller, newly appointed Major of the People's Police, is called to investigate. But her power will...

East Germany, 1975. Karin Muller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Simon Kernick, comes the thrilling second instalment in The Bone Field series. Featuring DI Ray Mason and PI Tina Boyd. Fans of David Baldacci,...

In this hyper-compact, fully illustrated guide to architecture, Susie Hodge outlines the history and theory of architecture from the earliest structures to the cutting-edge concepts of the present day. Along...

Damon Albarn was the frontman of Blur and the face of Britpop. While his peers have gradually fallen by the wayside, Albarn has survived Britpop to completely re-invent himself as...

The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished...

For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker have poked and prodded at biographical convention, gesturing towards the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. Here,...

Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...

The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of...

A fascinating look into the vibrant world of poetry, reminding you of all those wonderful verses you learnt at school, but have long since forgotten.

1969 Five years ago, teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered on her family farm. Her sister Helen Tozer will never forget. Returning home after quitting the Met Police, she brings with...

From Hanoi to Saigon, a tale of one woman's search for a better life - and a thriller that strikes to the merciless heart of post-civil war Vietnam. In the...