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The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking

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Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**...
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mercedes Barcha

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mercedes Barcha

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Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...
Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure and Swimming Iguana's in Charles Darwin's South America

Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure and Swimming Iguana's in Charles Darwin's South America

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Author: Eric Simons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed 'southernmost city in the world,' at the end of a long trip designed...
Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle

Pacific Exploration: Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle

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Author: Nigel Rigby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific...
Conquistadores

Conquistadores

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Author: Fernando Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers...
On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species

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Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...
At Home: A Short History of Private Life

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

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Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The irresistible book by Bill Bryson which does for the history of the way we live what A Short...
Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award

Mr Darley's Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life: A History of Racing in 25 Horses: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award

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Author: Christopher McGrath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award In 1704 a bankrupt English merchant sent home the colt...
The Blind Watchmaker

The Blind Watchmaker

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Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution written in the last hundred years, The Blind Watchmaker offers an...
God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath

God's Armies: Crusade and Jihad: Origins, History, Aftermath

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Author: Malcolm Lambert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Crusade and jihad are often reckoned to have represented two sides of the same coin: each resonated on the...
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans

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Author: David Abulafia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A titanic history of the three great oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian - and of...
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie 'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in...