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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
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Author: Toby Ord Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all...
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
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Author: Johnjoe McFadden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe...
A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species
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Author: Rob Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "An arresting vision of this relentless natural world"--New York Times Book Review A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to...
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
Author: Dhun Sethna Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Inspired by Homer's description of the ebb and flow of the "wine dark sea," the ancient Greeks conceived a back-and-forth movement...
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Author: Bruce de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has...
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
Author: Benjamin Cunningham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely-they were both convinced he was working for the enemy. And...
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World--And Us
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Author: Patrick Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world"--Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees From the age...
The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India
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Author: Jon Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days...
The Italian Cooking Course
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Author: Katie Caldesi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 No-fuss Italian cooking packed with flavor and texture, perfect for beginners and experts alike. Katie has travelled the rice fields of...
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
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Author: Michael E Mann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have...
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide
Author: Bill McGuire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant's Guide provides a post-COP26 perspective on the climateemergency, acknowledging that it is now practically impossible to keep...
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
Author: John McManus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Just 70 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden...
The Imaginary Patient: How Diagnosis Gets Us Wrong
Author: Jules Montague Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A diagnosis - the label we give to a disease - is supposed to offer certainty: a system for classifying and...
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop
Author: Bob Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Let's Do It is the definitive history of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. The story begins in...
Bowlful: Fresh and vibrant dishes from Southeast Asia
Author: Norman Musa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 From crisp and zingy salads, to fresh and comforting rice bowls, and tangles of tasty noodles as well as plant-based bowls...
Smokescreen
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Author: Iris Johansen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In this pulse-pounding thriller from #1 New York Timesbestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
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Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the...
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857-1893
Author: Vanessa Finney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Trade Illustration Selection in the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020...
Dark Night: A Mystery
Author: Paige Shelton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Winter is falling in the remote town of Benedict, Alaska, and with the cold comes a mysterious guest. The dreaded "census...
The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as...
Unfortunately Yours: A Novel
Author: Tessa Bailey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with the hilarious follow-up to Secretly Yours, in which a down-on-her-luck Napa...
The Schoolhouse: 'Stylish, pacy and genuinely frightening' The Times
Author: Sophie Ward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2023 'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph 'A literary provocateur'...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...
Remain in Love
Author: Chris Frantz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book... one of the most potent examples of living the dream' Debbie...
The War for Gloria
Author: Atticus Lish Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Corey Goltz grows up in working-class Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose intellectual ambitions were derailed early. Corey, restless,...
The First 21: The New York Times Bestseller
Author: Nikki Sixx Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Nikki Sixx is one of the most respected, recognizable, and entrepreneurial icons in the music industry. As the founder of Motley...
The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Adam Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 An indispensable roadmap and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future: Award-winning New Yorker staff writer and brilliant creator of...
Catalyst: Using personal chemistry to convert contacts into contracts
Author: David Kean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Catalyst will transform your approach to networking, making it fun and infinitely more effective. A good business developer, prospector and networker...
Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I
Author: Stephen Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes to...
Daughters of Victory: A Novel
Author: Gabriella Saab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 From the acclaimed author of The Last Checkmate comes a brilliant novel spanning from the Russian Revolution to the...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is...
Explorer: The Quest for Adventure and the Great Unknown
Author: Benedict Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 What does it mean to be an explorer in the twenty-first century? Explorer is the story of what first led Benedict...
Rice Table: Korean Recipes and Stories to Feed the Soul
Author: Su Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A Korean living in the UK, Su Scott was thrown into a crisis of identity when motherhood dawned, one which she...
Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book
Author: Ayad Akhtar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 AN ECONOMIST, NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Outstanding... it is hard to convey the breadth and...
London, Burning: 'Richly pleasurable' Observer
Author: Anthony Quinn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation...
Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020
Author: Rob Halford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'The most hotly anticipated hard-rock autobiography of the year' 'Rob Halford has...
Stubborn Archivist: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
Author: Yara Rodrigues Fowler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Compelling . . . it should delight anyone looking for a thoughtful, witty successor to Sally Rooney' Observer...
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...
Norse Fairy & Folk Tales
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Author: Sir George Webbe Dasent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 There have been no end of Scandinavian trends in recent years and with this set to continue, these Norse...
A Treason of Thorns
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Author: Laura Weymouth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 An enchancting, lyrical novel from the acclaimed author of A Light Between Worlds! 'Weymouth's prose is lush and evocative, filled with...
The Last Assassin
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
Author: Boris Kavalerchik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 193 The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a...
A Brush with Love: As seen on TikTok! The sparkling new rom-com sensation you won't want to miss!
Author: Mazey Eddings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The new TikTok-hit rom-com! Adored The Love Hypothesis? You won't want to miss A Brush with Love, the most sparkling rom-com...
The Dark: A compelling, heart-racing, up-all-night thriller from Richard & Judy bestseller Sharon Bolton
Author: Sharon Bolton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 THE UNMISSABLE BRAND NEW THRILLER FROM RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLER SHARON BOLTON - POLICE OFFICER LACEY FLINT FACES HER MOST DANGEROUS...
Metro 2033: The novels that inspired the bestselling games
Author: Dmitry Glukhovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
Lies We Sing to the Sea
Author: Sarah Underwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A fantasy romance, by dazzling new talent Sarah Underwood, inspired by Greek mythology and the tale of Penelope's twelve hanged maids....