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The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It
The running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering...
Catherine de' Medici: The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Thoroughly researched.' Sunday Times 'To be devoured.' Philip Mansel 'This book is a treat for fans of well-told history.' Washington Post History is...
Marie Antoinette Style (The Official V&A Exhibition Book)
A fashion icon in her own time, the dress and interiors adopted by Marie Antoinette in the final decades of the 18th century have had a lasting influence over 250...
Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great
From the acclaimed author of The King's Painter, a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun. In the late autumn of...
The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration
'Impressively original and ingenious . . . Brings the talented women of the Restoration Court gracefully to life' OPHELIA FIELD, author of The Favourite A spellbinding work of history that...
Ordinary Monsters: The dark and dazzling Sunday Times bestseller and
* THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * 'An enthralling read' GUARDIAN 'A thrilling blend of fantasy and horror, richly imagined and masterfully executed' SFX 'Terrific . . . A book...
Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pelerin Society and the
Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pelerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von...
Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark...
Gunk: 'One of the year's standout books' SUNDAY TIMES
**Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize** **Finalist for the Nota Bene Prize** **Selected as a Book of the Summer 2025 by the Guardian, The Times , Sunday Times , independent.co.uk,...
Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker
Survivor. Rebel. Conspirator. Mother and grandmother of kings. Margaret Beaufort was one of the most remarkable and influential women of the Middle Ages. Margaret was born into a century of...
The Cook of Castamar
NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES SHE IS the daughter of a disgraced physician, forced to work in the kitchen of a great eighteenth-century Spanish house, hiding her intense agoraphobia from...
Taskmaster: 220 Extraordinary Tasks for Ordinary People
The bestselling tie-in to Dave's runaway hit series now in paperback, and with brand new tasks by creator Alex Horne. Build yourself a box and think outside of it. Your...
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Essential' Guardian 'Stephanie Kelton is an indispensable source of moral clarity ... the truths that she teaches about money, debt, and deficits give us the tools we...
Brother of the More Famous Jack: A 40th Anniversary Edition of the
**BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime** ________________________ A JOYFUL 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF A COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC ________________________ 'T here are few modern tales of first love and its disillusions that...
Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower: Their Lives and Music
Rory Gallagher, Steve Marriott, Rick Derringer and Robin Trower are guitar legends. The glue behind legendary barn-busting, hard-touring outfits like Taste, The Small Faces, Procol Harum and Humble Pie, and...
Empires of Violence: Massacre in a Revolutionary Age
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many...
Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
Strikingly original' The Times 'Absorbing' Wall Street Journal 'Just as a cello's voice is divided across four strings, each with its own colour and character, this is a journey in...
Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery
From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to Bombay, China to Australia, back to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, this is the story of the heiresses. Their assets, the product of...
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
This publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). Described in 1923 as 'the most important woman painter in Europe',...
Stolen: NOW A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION
**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM** **THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE-BESTSELLER** 'A coming-of-age-story to be loved everywhere in the world' FREDRIK BACKMAN, author of A MAN CALLED OVE ___________________________________________ The...
Skellig: the 25th anniversary illustrated edition
The bestselling story about love, loss and hope that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's...
Different Speeds, Same Furies: Powell, Proust and other Literary Forms
There are few writers about whom opinions diverge so widely as Anthony Powell, whose Dance to the Music of Time sequence is one of the most ambitious literary constructions in...
Collins Pocket Spanish Dictionary
With over 40,000 references and 70,000 translations, this dictionary provides up-to-date coverage of contemporary Spanish and English. It also contains special treatment of basic vocabulary items and puzzles and crosswords...
Spanish School Gem Dictionary: Trusted support for learning, in a
The favourite mini school dictionary for KS3 and GCSE Spanish, fully updated with new approved word lists for GCSE. This small and portable Collins Spanish School Dictionary is modern, up-to-date,...
Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: 20th Anniversary Edition
20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY FERGUS HENDERSON, CO- FOUNDER OF THE ST. JOHN RESTAURANT THE MAN BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, TONY , STARRING DOMINIC SESSA &...