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The acclaimed BARCELONA PLATES revealed Alexei Sayle as a writer with an outstanding ability to describe contemporary life in an unusual way. Now, in his new collection THE DOG CATCHER,...

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...

Billions of dollars continue to be lost by companies and investors due to the pervasive impact of manipulative, self-serving executives. Financial scandals aren't unknown in U.S. business history, but today's...

At a meatpacking facility in Missouri, Dee-Dee and her coworkers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift. The work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut...

Despite his consistency, his achievements and more-so, his visibility, he has never written an autobiography and a biography has never been written about him. He remains an enigmatic figure. We...

'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age' Lynn Barber 'A golden writer' Andrew Marr A. A. Gill was rightly hailed as one of the greatest journalists of our...

AN EPIC LOVE STORY, A SOARING THRILLER, AND A SWEEPING COMING-OF-AGE TALE: A READING EXPERIENCE UNLIKE ANY OTHER... A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK - and selected for...

'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...

A practical guide on using the ancient healing system of reflexology to relieve existing health conditions and detect future ailments. Sonia Jones introduces the history and basics of this form...

London 1897 and a young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in the remote and sunny climes of India and finds being forced into corsets and...

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...

Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a celebrated modern novelist writes a series of letters to her reluctant niece, urging her...

EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight for equal pay, and how men and employers can help them....

In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting...

As she grows up, Charlotte longs for freedom, but her captivating innocence leads her into trouble. Sent to Ireland to hide a shameful pregnancy, she discovers that once again her...

In Uttar Pradesh-known as the "badlands" of India-a woman's life is not entirely her own. This is one explanation for how Sheelu, a seventeen-year-old girl, ended up in jail after...

A feminist exploration of single motherhood and a passionate call to reclaim the power of mothering. 'A brilliant book, fearlessly told.' Elinor Cleghorn, author of UNWELL WOMEN ''Lucid and liberating.'...

To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero - or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum...

FOR FANS OF THE BBC SERIES SAS ROGUE HEROES , THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story...

Meghna and Rani used to be friends. Now they're bitter rivals. Or are they? When Meghna fails to make it to the final round of a competition but her boyfriend...

In 1666 the Great Fire raveged much of the capital. After the flames had been put out and the dead buried, London was once more a blank canvas for builder...

'Endlessly captivating ' - Tracy Borman ' Tantalising ' - Gill Hornby ' More scandal than Bridgerton 's Lady Whistledown ' - Helena Kelly The carriages have rolled back into...

'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNab Sierra Leone, 2000. While on patrol as part of a peacekeeping mission, eleven British soldiers are kidnapped. The captors are a dangerous rebel...

Six short tales taken from The Wind in the Willows and rewritten for younger readers The ideal book for bedtime reading, all stories are designed to be read in about...

A brilliantly funny book about what happens when you say yes, from award-winning author Simon Philip and exciting illustrator Annabel Tempest Sometimes saying yes is a brilliant thing. You can...

The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph...

One of Fortune 's 'Best Books of 2021' When Ralph Waldo Emerson published his seminal essay on self-reliance in 1841, the United States was still reeling from the effects of...

During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can...

In all areas-from fashion to cuisine to the art of seduction-the French reign supreme in their ability to enjoy life to the fullest. So why do we love to hate...

The perfect brother. The perfect fiance. The perfect revenge. A thriller you won't be able to predict. For fans of reading group fiction and psychological suspense. 'I'm crazy in love...

Everyone loves Goldilocks' hilarious online videos, but in her quest to get more likes, more laughs and more hits, she tries something a little more daring- stealing porridge #pipinghot, breaking...

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have made it to the magical streets of Paris, baking a spectacular gingerbread Eiffel Tower for a VERY important art exhibition at 'Galerie Bonbon'. But...

A follow up to the bestselling The Great Nursery Rhyme Disaster. Fairytales have never been funnier than in this outrageously silly picture book! Once upon a time there lived an...

This hilarious picture book stars Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam, two hapless robber dogs who decide on a career-change after one bungled burglary too many. Tracey Corderoy's accomplished rhyme trips...

A stunning undersea tale of friendship, community and discovery from the bestselling creators of The Lion Inside . Under glittering waves of a vast ocean blue, a beautiful world is...

Tiger is upset. No one has remembered his birthday - or so he thinks. His friend, Miss Lollipop, takes him on a wonderful birthday adventure: with the refrain 'All change!',...

'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly' Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A...