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'David Bodanis is an enthralling storyteller. Prepare to be taken on a surprising, wide-ranging and ultimately inspiring journey to explore what makes us human' Tim Harford Can you succeed without...

Sea Wolves is the story of the crews who bravely manned British submarines in the Second World War. This small band of highly trained and highly skilled individuals fought in...

Chitra Divakaruni is well known for her highly acclaimed novel THE MISTRESS OF SPICES and her award winning short story collection ARRANGED MARRIAGE. In this new collection she weaves tales...

Quiet and reliable, Douglas Ashburner has never been much of a womaniser. So when he begins an extra-marital affair with Nina, a bossy, temperamental artist with a penchant for risky...

In a book sure to stir argument for years to come, Robert Wright challen+ges the conventional view that biological evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory -...

Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which...

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris 'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day...

'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent, infused at every turn with her life-long passion for the Classics' Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe The...

The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century. *One of the TLS Books of the...

The first of two volumes of the letters of Muriel Spark, one of the greatest and most fascinating writers of the twentieth century. *One of the TLS Books of the...

A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother. 'Page-turning and profoundly...

Only when she's locked away does the truth begin to escape... Seventeen-year-old Hannah Gold has always been treated like a grown up. As the only child of two New York...

Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin - and has influenced the modern world to a...

"Terrifically intelligent, moving, and entertaining." -The New York Sun "With snappy dialogue [and] intelligent prose . . . Begley paints a memorable portrait of lasting friendship and of the strength...

"An uplifting family saga . . . [Marianne] Fredriksson provides a satisfyingly complex . . . chronicle of women and the burdens imposed by their family history, their gender and...

Desperately tired after months living rough with Italian partisans, Richard makes a mistake behind enemy lines that results in devastating tragedy. Rose, performing for the troops crossing France, at last...

It is 1942. The theatres of war are North Africa and Italy. All eyes follow the front, but behind the scenes a messier war continues, an improvised game of snatched...

Do you want to read Indian classics in the original Do you want to progress quickly beyond the basics Do you want to reach a high standard `Teach Yourself Sanskrit'...

January, 1941. Dark days for Britain, standing alone against the menace of Nazi Germany, and for four friends fighting their own personal battles . . . When Rose Taylor receives...

Gianluca has to admit his life is empty. His high-pressure City job, his seven-figure income, his glossy girlfriends all have long ceased to satisfy him. His marriage is over and...

The Second World War is over when Jock moves his family to Quebec, where he lives with his wife, Maura, and their three children in a small bungalow, complains about...

When his grandmother dies, and his grandfather is removed to a home, fifteen-year-old Danny determines to look after their elderly pig and ramshackle garden. Here, on the ragged edge of...

Joseph Tallantire has hope and ambition - like his father before him he is determined to make something of himself and improve his lot. But life is not easy for...

Landscape painter J.M.W. Turner was reticent about his private life. In this blend of biography and art history, the author introduces Turner to a new generation, scotches many Turner myths,...

Two days after the start of the 1941 invasion of Malaya, Captain Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan, a New Zealander serving in the Indian Army, was caught sending secret codes to...

Originally published in 1983, this book tells the story of the two Moscow merchants, Sergey Shchukin and Ivan Morozov, who between them amassed the greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist...

From the beginning of 1948 the Russians gradually mounted a siege against the Western sectors of Berlin occupied by American, British and French troops since the end of the war...

By comparing Larkin's work with that of his contemporaries, including Gunn, Enright, Amis and Wain, this study provides a novel approach for understanding and assessing the current state of English...

It's the searing hot summer of 1989 and revolution is in the air - though not just for the Prys family... In 1989, the year of news, as London bakes...

An astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter. V.S. Naipaul's first written novel, already displaying his humour, endless inventiveness and imaginative brilliance, won the Somerset Maugham Award on its...

I was thinking; my mind was running at top speed, scanning and sorting my options. They ranged all the way from Dumb and Dangerous to Crazy, Evil, and utterly wrong...

Within a fading papyrus, nearly four thousand years old, lie the clues to a fabulous treasure from an almost forgotten time...a riddle that becomes a savage battle across the unforgiving...

The book titled Jackdaws by the author Ken Follett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In Australia we believe that we are clever - an innately inventive and original people. Yet in recent years an extraordinary pessimism has grown within the national psyche - that...

A delicate and poignant love story set in London and an Irish seaside town.It is the 1960s and trainloads of holiday-makers spill out into the rain-washed sunshine of Portnew. When...

A first novel set in contemporary India, this book describes how Samar, a young Brahmin, escapes a future of small-town jobs to live in Benares, losing himself in books and...

The eleventh Inspector Morse novel begins when a body is discovered in a set of rooms off a prestigious staircase in the most famous Oxford college of them all. Colin...

The book titled Wilt by the author Tom Sharpe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Slave of the Passions by the author Deirdre Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled This Moment is Forever - 3 by the author Nan Witcomb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The conquest of the air at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on 17 December 1903 was one of the supreme achievements of the 20th century. Two unknown American bicycle mechanics, Wilbur...

Inspector John Rebus has messed up badly this time, so badly that he's been sent to a kind of reform school for damaged cops. While there among the last-chancers known...