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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...

Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news...

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what...

Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...

Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad...

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...

Author: Mark Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 BBC sports presenter Mark Chapman is no longer in his physical prime. There is an argument to suggest he...

Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting...

Author: Megan Cullis Format: Board book Number of Pages: 14 Open the flaps of this book and dive into a watery world full of amazing creatures. Explore coasts, coral reefs...

Author: David Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most...

Author: Irin Carmon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "A tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that does more than catalog her achievements; it conveys her spirit, one that will...

Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....

Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Audrey Hepburn is one of Hollywood's greatest icons, and still one of the world's most recognisable actresses. In addition to...

Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy...

Author: Anna Kendrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fearsome wit' Elle 'Charming' Buzzfeed 'Ridiculously entertaining' Associated Press 'Endearingly honest' Guardian A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by...

Author: Anna Wiener Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years...

Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears...

Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 'After reading The Good Hand...

Author: Royce Kurmelovs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This is a cautionary tale. About greed, irresponsibility and failing to learn from the past. Australia's mining boom is...

Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a...

Author: Chris West (Zoological Society of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF AMERICA THROUGH ITS BEAUTIFUL AND DIVERSE POSTAGE STAMPS IN THIS EXUBERANT AND...

Author: Richard Killeen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over...

Author: James Herriot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This collection of tales about the beloved veterinarian's encounters with various members of the animal kingdom is the perfect gift for...

Author: Chu-Sok O Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272

Author: Gordon Corera Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The computer was born to spy, and now computers are transforming espionage. But who are the spies and who...

Author: Andrea di Robilant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught...

Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Coco Chanel: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Icon is an illustrated biography of Coco's Chanel's life from the internationally reknown...

Author: Larry Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account by two fine journalists who conducted...

Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been...

Author: Sally Phipps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good...

Author: Chae Strathie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 A kid's life in ancient Egypt might sound like fun with all the cool pyramids and glorious sunny weather, but actually...

Author: Claire Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made...

Author: Mike Thomson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Yet it lives in another...

Author: Frank White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 Hodder published Frank White's There Was A Time, surely the last novel about the Second World War to be...

Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...

Author: Mende Nazer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her...

Author: Tony Garnett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary man' Ken Loach Tony Garnett's story begins in working-class, war-torn Birmingham where he...

Author: Martin Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson...

Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism...

Author: Vince Cable (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Through economics our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping...

Author: Adel Iskandar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 568 Edward W. Said (1935?2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary...

Author: Martin Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'A definitive study' (Financial Times) of Judaism, from its origins to the present Judaism is by some distance the...

Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 'Give me chastity, but not yet', Augustine famously prayed. His intimate spiritual masterpiece, The Confessions, has inspired millions...

Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...

Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge...

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...

Author: Li Cunxin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter...

Author: Robin de Crespigny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq...