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Samuel Johnson: A Life
Author: David Nokes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out...
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
Author: Jonathan Gruber Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen-and how we can do...
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times
Author: Meron Hadero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An enterprising young man on the verge of losing his home in Addis Ababa pursues an improbable opportunity to turn his...
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Life Murder Mystery from the Birth of the Movies
Author: Paul Fischer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'This extraordinary tale of rivalry and celluloid . . . has fascinated cineastes for years.' - Kathryn Hughes, Sunday Times'Illuminating and...
All the Things We Don't Talk About
Author: Amy Feltman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A "big-hearted, lively, and expansive portrait of a family" that follows a neurodivergent father, his nonbinary teenager, and the sudden, catastrophic...
Dylan Thomas Omnibus: Under Milk Wood, Poems, Stories and Broadcasts
Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A rich collection of Dylan Thomas' best-loved poems and stories, such as PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG, and...
Grown Ups
Author: Marie Aubert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Ida is a forty-year-old architect, single and struggling with the feeling of panic as she realises her chances of motherhood are...
Act of Grace
Author: Anna Krien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2020 'A novelist for our times' Anna Funder, author of Stasiland In this brilliant novel...
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Author: John Grindrod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Barratt homes. Spectacular skyscrapers. Millennium monuments. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. These icons of our age, be they modest...
Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home
Author: Susan Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she...
Prey
Author: James Carol Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The truth can set you free . . . Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter is in New York helping NYPD Sergeant Maria...
Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity
Author: Andrew Simms Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all...
A Corruption of Blood
Author: Ambrose Parry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 3 Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe...
Wild Green Wonders: A Life in Nature
Author: Patrick Barkham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Barkham is an outstanding author.' -CHRIS PACKHAM 'Wonder-filled . . . A treat. Patrick knows how...
Elsewhere: 'Wonderful writing' Sarah Hall
Author: Yan Ge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Full of depth. . . wonderful writing.' - SARAH HALL 'Dazzlingly good. . . crackling with playfulness and intelligence.' - DANIELLE...
At the Loch of the Green Corrie
Author: Andrew Greig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A homage to a remarkable poet and his world. 'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more...
When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections
Author: Roy Adkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the twenty-first century 'A marvellously...
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling
Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD 'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR 'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal...
The Nature of Sex: The Ins and Outs of Mating in the Animal Kingdom
Author: Dr Carin Bondar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Thought about sex today? Of course you have! It's about the most natural thing any animal can do. But have...
Pride and Passion: My Autobiography
Author: Warren Gatland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS. 'excellent' Donald McRae, The Guardian 'Gatland is...
Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century
Author: Prof A.C. Grayling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can - and does - change the world. And,...
Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian
Author: Richard Herring Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some...
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS
Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...
Scar Tissue
Author: Anthony Kiedis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story,...
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
Author: Ted Kessler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher Paper Cuts...
The Sanctuary
Author: Raymond Khoury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Portugal, 1705. In the dungeons of a Templar castle, a dying old man bequeaths an ancient, half-burnt book to his young...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Gene Eating: The Story of Human Appetite
Author: Dr Giles Yeo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST 'It is rare to find a book, written by a world-class...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage
Author: Laura Huang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 There's power in owning the obstacles you might face. This book shows you how to unlock it. In an ideal world,...
Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti
Author: Radhanath Swami Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 With illuminating references to Western religions and ideologies, The Journey Within invites readers from all backgrounds to discover the simple truths...
Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen
Author: Chloe Cooper Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 'An exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do...
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The surprising story of Britain's economy from boom to bust and back again
Author: Duncan Weldon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Here's the history that really matters' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Pitch perfect, fast-moving, brilliantly well-judged' ADAM TOOZE 'A terrific achievement, covering clearly but...
How to Find Your Happy Place: Quiet Spaces and Journal Pages for Busy Minds
Author: Alison Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 We all have a happy place that makes us feel safe and content in times of uncertainty ... sometimes we just...
An Orchestra of Minorities: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
Author: Chigozie Obioma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 From the Author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, THE FISHERMEN 'Obioma is truly the heir to...
Swan: Portrait of a Majestic Bird, from Mythical Meanings to the Modern Day
Author: Dan Keel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Book of the Month, Countryside magazine '[this] fascinating new book... provides a detailed insight into the snow-white species' Waterways World A...
Washington Black: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018
Author: Esi Edugyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner of the Giller Prize Finalist for the Carnegie medal and the Rogers Writers...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions...
Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man
Author: Fiona Gell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat...
Your Planet Needs You!: An everyday guide to saving the earth
Author: Bernadette Vallely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what...
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change...
Quiet: Silencing the brain chatter and believing that you're good enough
Author: Fearne Cotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Fearne Cotton and Frankie Bridge have encouraged fans to open up about their mental health issues in inspirational social media posts'...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Black Narcissus
Author: Rumer Godden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace,...
A Brief History of Paris
Author: Cecil Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a...
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A wholly successful endeavour carried along by waves of infectious enthusiasm' Mojo 'Fascinating' New Statesman The '80s were about big ideas...
Red at the Bone: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Author: Jacqueline Woodson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE...