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An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago In early eighteenth-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left...

The classic inspirational work on how to live a meaningful life from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. 'The Dalai Lama is the most influential person in the world' Time In...

A detective and FBI agent join forces on a manhunt for a cold-blooded serial killer in this intense psychological thriller. From coastal California to upstate New York, a killer is...

Jack Morgan is battling to uncover a conspiracy that leads him all the way to Russia in the heart-stopping new thriller in the bestselling Private series An invitation from an...

A young tech genius is thrown in at the deep end on her first case with the FBI in a gripping new stand-alone from the world's bestselling thriller writer A...

A landmark account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on award-winning research, and recently discovered archival material. *A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of...

'Superb. . . These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society matrons. . . O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday...

A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in the Ottoman Empire, by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize. A surreal, chilling tale of rebellion and tyranny in...

The second volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of a bygone age. Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the...

'Death at Intervals is a delight- witty, clever, humane, light in tone, profoundly serious in matter' - Scotsman In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year,...

A stunning stand-alone thriller from the world's bestselling thriller writer The Store doesn't just want your money - it wants your soul. The Store is history's most powerful retailer. It...

The lives of two close-knit couples are irrevocably changed by an untimely death in this bestselling new novel from Tessa Hadley 'Unflinching, intelligent and fascinating' Marian Keyes The lives of...

An informal history of the English language in America by the inimitable Bill Bryson. 'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and...

Bill Bryson's hilarious return to live the American Dream. Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the...

Winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. Up to the minute brain science from a world class scientist. Sarah-Jayne...

'I was prime minister for three years and three days. Three years and three days of resilience. Three years and three days of changing the nation. Three years and three...

One America's Favorite Books, PBS's The Great American Read Nobel Prize-winning author- This classic of 20th-century literature chronicles the spiritual evolution of a man living in India at the time...

From the U.S. Vice President, the New York Times bestseller about the core truths that unite us and the shared values that will see us into the future. Read the...

An urgent and compelling new book from the bestselling author- his first major work of popular science and environmental activism - part love letter to the insect world, part elegy,...

The powerful memoir of a former undercover officer, telling the story of his journey through the force into elite undercover work via a shocking family revelation that takes his life,...

A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his...

We are living in an age overshadowed by war. We can't stop it, but we can survive it. Here are 10 rules for how. Everything you think you know about...

Roald Dahl's tales of trickery, deceit and cunning . . . How underhand could you be to get what you want? In these ten tales of dark and twisted trickery...

'I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.' - Elon Musk South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and...

A provocative and inspiring work on overcoming the obstacles facing women on the path to leadership Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become...

Let our favourite writer of narrative non-fiction take you back to a summer when America came of age and changed the world for ever. In summer 1927, America had a...

The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks- he conjures up an ancient people in...

The first popular history of The Amazons, the real warrior women of Central Asia, based on groundbreaking new research. Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated...

How Arif Naqvi Duped The Global Elite Arif Naqvi was a man with immeasurable dreams- to end world suffering, poverty and disease. His vision- capitalism for good; profit and progress....

Embrace your inner Picasso - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant...

Paul Theroux takes us on a riveting journey into the heart of the South, America's other country For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners...

A powerful autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Caribbean writers of the 20th century In a sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados, nine-year-old G. leads...

Arnold Bennett's superb London novel - both a story about one grim household and a panorama of the life of a great city Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has...

Scandinavia's best-loved children's classic from the first female writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who tortures animals and never listens to his...

Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq to become 'the Oskar Schindler of Asia'. Robin de Crespigny's The People...

With an introduction by Pankaj Mishra The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living...

A concise, yet wide-ranging inquiry into the roots of modernity and the turmoil of the present day. Tourists, terrorists, secularists, hackers, fundamentalists, transhumanists, algorithmicians- in this book Roberto Calasso considers...

The #1 bestselling author of The Future of the Mind brings us a stunning vision of our future in space Human civilization is on the verge of spreading beyond Earth....

The leading book on the short, radically Protestant reign of Edward VI, reissued for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation Although the young Edward VI's death in 1553 led to...

The essential book for understanding the history of Britain's place in Europe, from the Middle Ages to the present day Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in...

From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the surprising and profound story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky- the two men whose ideas changed...

The No. 1 New York Times bestseller on the secret to leading a good life We live in a Big Me culture- universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and...

'Fascinating, engaging, and practical . . . dispels the myth that our success can be divined by a simple number or average, whether a grade, a score in a standardized...

A spell-binding quest for the one algorithm capable of deriving all knowledge from data, including a cure for cancer Society is changing, one learning algorithm at a time, from search...

Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our characters. Taking us through every...

An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless...