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How to Argue With a Racist: History, Science, Race and Reality
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK --- THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Seriously important' BILL BRYSON 'A book...
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion
Author: Eliot Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg,...
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
Author: Jack Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question:...
The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth We live in a society in which...
The Hero
Author: Lee Child Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read...
Atlas of Imagined Cities: Who lives where in TV, books, games and movies?
Author: Matt Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Explore the fictional topography of the most inspiring world cities - including London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo -...
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Author: Caroline Criado Perez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The smash-hit bestseller which exposes the invisible bias in our everyday lives - 'HELL YES. This is one...
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women's Rights
Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Why are so few people talking about the eruption of sexual violence and harassment in Europe's cities No...
When the Dust Settles: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'A marvellous book' -- Rev Richard Coles
Author: Lucy Easthope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring... ________________...
Popism
Author: Andy Warhol & Pat Hackett Format:Paperback Number of Pages: A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre...
Night Sky
Author: Rola Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What stories, mysteries and secrets can you find in the stars? A wonderful illustrated tour of the night sky for children...
The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - a fresh look for Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths Including many of...
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Author: Angela Saini Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book' Sathnam Sanghera In this bold and radical...
The Second Sex
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes.A long awaited, highly acclaimed new translation...
At Christmas We Feast: Festive Food Through the Ages
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A joy to immerse oneself in' - Andi Oliver 'In the field of food history, Annie Gray leads the pack' -...
Himalaya: A Human History
Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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Author: Jon Ronson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one...
Sister Outsider
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
Treasure Palaces: Great Writers Visit Great Museums
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Author: The Economist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In this exuberant celebration of the world's museums, great and small, revered writers like Ann Patchett, Julian Barnes, Ali...
A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne
Author: Robyn Annear Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This is a book about the making - and remaking - of a city. The demolition firm of Whelan...
The Missing Ingredient: The Curious Role of Time in Food and Flavour
Author: Jenny Linford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A delightful epicurean adventure through the most essential yet overlooked of culinary ingredients- time. The Missing Ingredient is about...
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series
Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic
Author: Christina Lamb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's'...
The Female Eunuch
Author: Germaine Greer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 436 The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. 'The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation;...
Places I've Taken My Body
Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: X Malcolm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them...
Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World
Author: Will Sommer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 How did a conspiracy theory reshape global politics? How did it tear families apart, inspire an insurrection and convince...
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
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Author: Daniel Markovits Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom...
The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change
Author: Bee Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 We never snacked like this and we never binged like this. We never had so many superfoods, or so...
Ten Survival Skills for a World in Flux
Author: Tom Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Original and thought provoking' Gordon Brown 'Challenging and hopeful: a groundbreaking guide to the future' Valerie Amos To thrive...
Space Between
Author: Nico Tortorella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Actor and LGTBQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella's narrative investigation of love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through the lens of...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the last years of the millennium, bestselling author Michael Lewis sets out to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur,...
Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World
Author: Ece Temelkuran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'If I had to choose just one book that I want everybody of any age to read at this moment in...
The Celestial Hunter
Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
Fears to Fierce: A Woman's Guide to Owning Her Power
Author: Brita Fernandez Schmidt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A feminist Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by leading voice in female empowerment Find Meaning Own...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Author: Naomi Klein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United...
Notes of a Native Son
Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during...
The Woman They Could Not Silence: Elizabeth Packard's incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear
Author: Kate Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 From the internationally bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes a dark but ultimately uplifting tale of a woman...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
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Author: Richard Sennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement...
The First Stone
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Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ
Author: Annie Nightingale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'I loved this book. Annie Nightingale is my heroine. The woman is a legend' Irvine Welsh 'A joy to read' Guardian...