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This dazzling and yet intimate book is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the...

The homes of the British Royal Family have a unique appeal. Each has enjoyed a rich history of royal patronage and they remain important centres for royal life today. Earl...

How to Make Better Cocktails is a book for anyone wanting to improve their drinks-making skills. No gimmicks, no pretensions - just the skills, techniques and principles used by the...

A delightful picture book with intricate lasercuts and beautiful illustrations. Holly loves to wander the city streets, collecting fallen leaves and stray flowers, tiny treasures that bring a spot of...

Why do some artists use elephant dung, eggshells and crushed cars to make their art? Who created sculptures from fluorescent lightbulbs? Are two giant hamburgers better than one? Does Rachel...

The very best of international trail running brought together in one spectacular showcase. Runners and races, new places and new faces: here is the very best of trail running brought...

An in-depth guide to pan pizza from baking authority Peter Reinhart, including achievable recipes for making Detroit-, Sicilian-, and Roman-style pan pizzas and focaccias in a home oven. An in-depth...

Henry James, Sr.'s children included William, the psychologist and philosopher; Henry Jr., the novelist; and Alice, author of a noted diary. What kind of father stood behind his epochally brilliant,...

Contrary to the claim that a diplomat is paid to lie for his country, former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd contends that from Machievelli to Metternich, from Sir Edward Grey to...

Four fantastical and funny tales with full colour illustrations, the perfect introduction for younger readers to the world of master storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett. Four STARRY tales of time travel,...

A satirical and philosophical set of space adventure stories from one of the best-loved science-fiction writers of the twentieth century Stanislaw Lem's set of short stories, written over a period...

Do you want to know when Duke Ellington was king of The Cotton Club? Have you ever wondered how old Miles Davis was when he got his first trumpet? From...

Peter Quennell has been fascinated by the subject of happiness since early childhood, when he first sought to understand its meaning, and to establish whether or not anyone ever actually...

The unsettling story of a young woman's descent into mental illness, from the author of The Haunting of Hill House Elizabeth Richmond is almost too quiet to be believed, with...

This latest edition of the best-selling guide to classical CDs is now being published in a new, larger format, and contains more entries than ever before. Ranging from long-established recordings...

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to...

This go-to guide is ideal for Web design, user experience, business students and any other students tasked with developing clear and consistent content in any medium. It provides guidelines for...

A dazzling set of maps, featuring original artwork from illustrator and cartographer Jonathan Roberts, transforms Martin's epic saga into a world as fully realized as the one around us. George...

Secondhand Science, Politics & Ideas Bargain Book Box SP2893 Twenty books for the curious non-fiction reader — politics, psychology, science, economics, and the history of human folly — from some...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2868 Eighteen memoirs and biographies as varied as the lives they describe — athletes and comedians, journalists and explorers, including a signed copy...

Secondhand Business & Self-Help Bargain Book Box SP2891 Twenty-one books on business, leadership, and the forces reshaping the world — technology, economics, innovation, and what organisations owe the people inside...

Secondhand Cookbooks Bargain Book Box SP2866 Twelve cookbooks from the Weber Q to the streets of Arabia — a beautifully varied collection covering Mediterranean cooking, Gordon Ramsay's fast food, Donna...

Secondhand Knitting, Crochet & Quilting Bargain Book Box SP2865 Fifteen craft books to fuel a year's worth of making — from French boutis to Cornish coastal knits, crochet mushroom sprites...

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 8-12) Bargain Book Box SP2867 Eighteen chapter books for the reader who devours them faster than you can supply them — school stories, spy adventures, vampire...

Secondhand Chapter Book (Age 8-12) Bargain Book Box SP2896 Twenty-four chapter books to keep a young reader away from the television for the rest of the school holidays — with...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2901 Literary fiction from six countries across three decades — twenty-one novels that take the full measure of contemporary life, from Margaret Drabble's collected...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2890 Serious literary fiction with real international range — twenty-one novels that take the form seriously, from a Costa Prize winner to Nadine Gordimer...

Secondhand Romance Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2900 Twenty novels for the reader who wants their fiction to feel true — love, loss, reinvention, and the particular texture of women's lives...

Secondhand Romance Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2849 From Janet Dailey's American ranches to Miranda Lee's Sydney penthouses and Judy Christenberry's Texas families — twenty-four novels of passion, misunderstanding, and the...

Secondhand Romance Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2613 Twenty-four novels dominated by Miranda Lee's distinctive Australian voice — Sydney millionaires, stubborn heroines, and the particular pleasure of watching people resist the...

Secondhand Biography & Memoir Bargain Book Box SP2899 From Harold Evans in Fleet Street to the Prince of Wales writing to his married mistress — eighteen lives at full volume,...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2892 A.J.P. Taylor appears twice — on Bismarck and on Hitler — and the company is equally serious: Dayan's memoir, Gorky's wartime diary,...

Secondhand History & Culture Bargain Book Box SP2887 Eight Past Masters from Oxford anchor the bottom of the box, with four Fontana History of Europe volumes, Pepys's Diary, and Galbraith,...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2898 Six countries, eighteen novels — Malouf and Koch on Australian identity, Franzen and Ozick from America, Banville from Ireland, Zakes Mda from South...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2889 The Penguin Classics run here is exceptional — Sophocles, Rabelais, Boccaccio, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche alongside Gissing, Waugh, two Laurie Lees, and Muriel Spark....

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2888 Winterson twice, Graham Greene three times, and both Malraux novels — with Byatt, Bowen, Gardam, and Mary McCarthy completing a box of serious...

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2885 Two Muriel Spark novels, Camus, Fitzgerald, Ibsen, and Euripides alongside Marlowe's complete plays and Tillyard on Shakespeare — this is literary fiction in...

Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2880 Fifteen Agatha Christie novels across two rows — Poirot, Miss Marple, and several standalone masterworks — joined by five Erle Stanley...

Secondhand Science & Ideas Bargain Book Box SP2873 The best popular science thinking of the twentieth century gathered in one box — from Attenborough on the living world to Gould...

Secondhand Literary Studies & Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2863 A literary critic's dream — a near-complete Pelican Guide to English Literature series alongside outstanding anthologies of English prose and verse...

Secondhand Drama & Poetry Bargain Book Box SP2875 A great extension to your Shakespeare library — fourteen Arden Shakespeare volumes alongside a rare Delacroix-illustrated Hamlet and two beautifully illustrated comedies....

Secondhand Literary Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2869 Twenty-one literary fiction titles spanning Booker winners, Nobel laureates, and some of the finest writing in English from the 1960s to the 1990s...