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Greil Marcus's study of American rock and roll is universally acclaimed as the benchmark work of modern rock criticism. Using a handful of artists - a brace of bluesmen, The...

Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel and Winner of the PNBA Best Fiction Book of the Year "As thrilling as it is unnerving . . . Could have been written...

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A hip and entertaining book on famous and forgotten celluloid heroes: Patti Smith on Jeanne Moreau Malu Halasa on Robert Carlyle Ginny Dougary on Liz Taylor Greil Marcus on J.T....

An explosive thriller sees the Blindeye team take down a terrifying threat to UK national security from former MI5 officer, Tom Marcus, author of the bestselling Soldier Spy. When no...

A Vietnam sniper tells his story and reveals the battles he fought even after the war was over... In 1968, Gary Mitchell enlisted in the Army and was sent to...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: heavy; minor wear along the edges of the dj; boards clean and square; internally sound; clean and bright copy. From the...

After their successful book speculating on What Killed Jane Austen, Dr Jim Leavesley and Dr George Biro turn their attention to How Isaac Newton Lost His Marbles and more medical...

An extraordinary investigation, beginning with ancient parchments in Egypt and ending in Spain, casts an entirely new light on the fascinating mystery of the Holy Grail. Recently discovered parchments in...

'Engaging, honest and funny...Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime's dreams - and make it funny....

The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012 We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating...

'Francis combines the precision of science with a profound insight into the human condition' GUARDIAN FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADVENTURES IN HUMAN BEING AND RECOVERY Between a quarter and...

The definitive story of the greatest art theft in history.In a secret meeting in 1981, a low-level Boston thief gave career gangster Ralph Rossetti the tip of a lifetime: the...

The inside story of how the credit crunch unfolded by the first journalist to predict it. Falling house prices. Rising energy and food prices. Job losses. Paralysis over whether interest...

Come join Fred the Bear on a stunningly illustrated journey to be crowned the best bear in the wood and, just maybe, learn that there might be more to life...

'A perfect "lights off, punch the air" kinda read' - Loaded 'Perfection from T.F. Muir' - reader review ????? ______________ Glasgow, Scotland: When a man's body is pulled from the...

Angela Throgmorton decides it is high time that Old Tom helped around the house. But Old Tom has other ideas.... Who is that mysterious figure disappearing into the night? Join...

'The story told here is instrumental to your own' - Jared Lanier 'Timely, erudite, important' - Ayad Akhtar What happens when our cultural and artistic lives are dictated to us...

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young British writers took the literary novel into new realms...

A collection of the timeless, the priceless and the unforgettable, this beautiful compendium accompanies the beloved BBC One TV series. Antiques Roadshow has graced our screens for forty years and...

A tender look at queer love, coming-of-age and becoming a man in a hypermasculine world, perfect for fans of HEATED RIVALRY. 'A charming and tender look at love and the...

By the beginning of this century it was already commonplace to speak of the U. S. as a hyperpower, to talk of its military, political, and economic clout as unprecedented...

"Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime." With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich,...

Malcolm McLaren, Interviewed at The Eagle Gallery, London 1996 , prints for the first time a 1996 interview with the artist and pop impresario Malcolm McLaren. He reflects on punk...

In this story, the groovicorns visit Moanhattan city to try and cheer up the gray city gloomicorns, but the gloomicorns never look up from their phones! Adults and children alike...

Read the true story that inspired the major new film, The Iron Lady. John Campbell's magisterial biography is the political biography of Margaret Thatcher. 'An enormously useful achievement...every twist and...

A giddyingly magical fable of the power of unshackled desire, set in a North Sea fishing community. Maren abstains from salt, meat and sex on Saturdays. On the other days...

WHO WILL BE MADE TO PAY FOR THEIR CRIMES? 'Surpassed all my expectations' 'Fast, furious and full of emotion' 'Pulsating, riveting and addictive' 'Uncompromising, vivid, family-based drama' Readers are loving...

Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as...

The Great Wall is the most famous of China s monuments. Everyone has seen pictures of the line of stone snaking over mountains. Millions every year take the five mile...

"Enchanting, breathtaking and beautiful... If you need me, I'll be in Storyland" - Ben Miller DREAM OF THE HEROES AND MONSTERS RIGHT ON YOUR DOORSTEP. THIS IS WHERE WE BEGAN....

So this is surfing in Britain, I told myself as I grumpily walked up a slope of wet rocks and wispy beach grass, trying to keep a foothold as rain...

Robin Lane Fox's accessible and erudite life of Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on the living actuality of the man and...

Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows is a treasure of British Literature which has already been brought to screen and now has its first ever comic book interpretation. His...

An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. From the ancient Nile Valley to the savannas of medieval West Africa, the highlands...

Scaldingly honest, impeccably researched and movingly written, 'MAXED OUT' is, as 'FAST FOOD NATION' was to the food industry, the book the captains of the debt industry wish you would...

'The descriptions are sublime . . . Goodwin's eye - sharp, unforgiving - allows nothing to escape . . . His literary promise is savage' THE AUSTRALIAN 'Goodwin is a...

'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history' DAVID LAMMY, author...

The Milan-based interior design and architectural firm Studio Peregalli presents for the first time their breathtaking environments that capture the classic elegance of the past. Studio Peregalli is the master...

Ambition-the want, the hunger, the need to achieve-is woven into America's fabric from the first colonization to capitalism. From our first gold star assignment to acceptance at the "right" college...

The Superclass - politicians, military leaders, finance gurus, energy barons, media moguls and thought leaders - is the small group that currently plays the greatest role in shaping the progress...