The magic of Tove Jansson's bestselling Moomin picture book has been re-crafted in English to launch Sort of Children's Classics (for readers four to infinity). Follow Moomin's adventures in verse...more details Format:Hardback Pages:28
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Pessoa Fernando
ISBN:9781846687358
Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees...more details Format:Paperback Pages:262
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McDougall Christopher
ISBN:9781846684227
At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Newman Andrea
ISBN:9781846687723
Peter Manson's apparently successful life is turned upside down when his beloved teenage daughter Prue reveals she's pregnant by her teacher...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:324
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Wrangham Richard
ISBN:9781846682865
At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Dixon Simon
ISBN:9781861977779
When Catherine II died in St Petersburg in 1796 the world sensed the loss of the most celebrated monarch of Europe - something no one would have predicted at the birth sixty-seven years before of an obscure German princess...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:416
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Salecl Renata
ISBN:9781846681929
We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Holmes Richard
ISBN:9781846682315
'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory. Built in 1938 as a temporary refuge in case of air raid attack...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Jansson Tove
ISBN:9780954899592
A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes and sea where birds fly upside down and wild things threaten to pounce. But she is not alone. Old friends from Moomin Valley - Hemulen...more details Format:Hardback Pages:28
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Mullin Chris
ISBN:9781846683992
Chris Mullin's bestselling A View from the Foothills provided a riveting insider's account of life as a junior minister. Laying bare the personalities...more details Format:Hardback Pages:416
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Mosley Walter
ISBN:9781846686832
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a war veteran just fired from his job. Drinking in a friend's bar, he wonders how to meet his mortgage when a white man in a linen suit walks in...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Scheijen Sjeng
ISBN:9781846681646
A major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionised ballet, bringing together composers like Stravinsky and Prokoviev...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:560
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Baker Bobby
ISBN:9781846683749
In 1996 the artist Bobby Baker was diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Her subsequent struggle to overcome severe mental and later physical illness lasted for 11 years...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:222
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Wills Clair
ISBN:9781846680618
It was taken over by the Irish Volunteers on Easter Monday 1916 and held for nearly a week. But the rebels finally surrendered the GPO to the Crown forces after heavy gun bombardment...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Rich Simon
ISBN:9781846687549
Seymour isn't cool, but he isn't a geek either. He's a lonely, obedient 8th grade loser at Glendale, a second tier prep school in Manhattan. His chubbiness has recently earned him the nick name 'Chunk Style' and he has resigned himself to a life of isolation...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Harvey David
ISBN:9781846683084
For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. Using his unrivalled knowledge of the subject...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Dumas Charles
ISBN:9781846684241
In his previous books, The Bill from the China Shop and China and America: A Time of Reckoning, Charles Dumas was the first to identify the existence and potential impact of the Eurasian Savings Glut - most importantly how it would push US mortgage borrowing to excess...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:277
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Berners-Lee Mike
ISBN:9781846688911
We always hear the same old green advice ... fly less, turn the thermostat down, drive a hybrid car. But what about all the other things we buy and do? Part green-lifestyle guide...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Lane David
ISBN:9781846681356
Lane shows how globalisation has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a local phenomenon. It describes in painful detail the daily accommodation to Mafia pressure endured by priests...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Ottolenghi Emanuele
ISBN:9781846684234
In August 2002, the National Council of the Resistance in Iran (NCRI) revealed in Washington to a stunned world how advanced Iran's nuclear programme was. And in September...more details Format:Paperback Pages:339
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Garfield Simon
ISBN:9781846683015
What's your type? Suddenly everyone's obsessed with fonts. Whether you're enraged by IKEA's Verdanagate, want to know what the Beach Boys have in common with an airline or why it's okay to like Comic Sans...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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El Hachmi Najat
ISBN:9781846687174
The Last Patriarch is narrated by the daughter of Mimoun Driouch - the patriarch of the title - from his birth to her entrance into university. Mimoun believes that life on his parents' land is not his destiny and so we follow his journey from rural Morocco to urban Cataluna. Mimoun's own violent nature and paranoia leads to frustration and rage...more details Format:Paperback Pages:310
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Willetts Paul
ISBN:9781846687150
With his pencil thin moustache, gold jewellery and trademark fur coat, Paul Raymond was, for many poeple, the brash personification of nouveau riche vulgarity...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Jah Wobble
ISBN:9781846687204
Written in his own unmistakable voice, this is a frank and fascinating account of a geezer's life in the music business. Jah Wobble begins by offering the most authentic insider's account of the beginning of punk rock yet written...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:344
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Moran Joe
ISBN:9781846680601
In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain's favourite cultural historians reveals how a relatively simple road system turned into a maze-like pattern of roundabouts...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Dave Zeltserman
ISBN:9781846687327
A classic heist thriller pitched somewhere between Ocean's Eleven and Dog Day Afternoon, it's the story of a group of software engineers who lose their jobs due to an industry push to outsourcing. Desperate...more details Format:Paperback Pages:312
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Beard Mary
ISBN:9781846683497
The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Fenlon Iain
ISBN:9781861978851
Piazza San Marco is a dynamic open space organically connected to the buildings which frame it. It shows how much is lost if the ensemble is divided into the individual structures of Doges' Palace...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Economist
ISBN:9781846683725
The 2011 edition of this perennial favourite has been completely updated and revised, and expanded with many new features. Full of facts and figures about the world today on subjects as diverse as geography...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Shukman David
ISBN:9781846688874
When frontline BBC news reporter David Shukman switched beat from world affairs to environment in 2003, he feared he might be in for a dull life. He couldn't have been more wrong. His new job has taken him to every corner of the earth: journeying up the fabled North West Passage in the Arctic...more details Format:Paperback Pages:307
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SHEHADEH RAJA
ISBN:9781846683305
Raja Shehadeh is the most celebrated Palestinian writer working today. To his surprise, when researching his family history, he discovered a great uncle who had also been a writer entangled with the authorities...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Watkin David
ISBN:9781861978059
There can be few more historic places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. Napoleon celebrated his Festival of Liberty there. David Watkin's Forum is the site as it was famous for centuries...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Carrere Emmanuel
ISBN:9781846680854
In work after work, the critically acclaimed author Emmanuel Carrere has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they fight a losing battle with that most fearsome of adversaries - the self. Now...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Foster Russell
ISBN:9781861979698
The natural world is full of rhythms. How do birds know when to return to their nesting grounds? What effect do the seasons have on our wellbeing...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:320
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Kohan Martin
ISBN:9781846686375
New York, 1923, the Argentine Luis Angel Firpo, called the Wild Bull of the Pampas, knocks out of the ring the American Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world. In Buenos Aires...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:249
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Shoneyin Lola
ISBN:9781846687488
To the dismay of her overbearingly ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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van Vugt Mark
ISBN:9781846683275
We are all leaders or followers - or both. We can recognise leadership in almost every area of life: in the workplace, among friends, within families...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Pelecanos George
ISBN:9781846687365
Constantine is a drifter with a lot of miles behind him, a lot more ahead and plenty of jobs in between that never showed up on anyone's books. Back in his home town...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Hill Susan
ISBN:9781846682360
The chilling tale of a man in the grip of a small, invisible hand ... Returning home from a visit to a client late one summer's evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow takes a wrong turning and stumbles across the derelict old White House. Compelled by curiosity...more details Format:Hardback Pages:160
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Stewart Chris
ISBN:9780956003843
If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:180
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MacMillan Margaret
ISBN:9781846682100
The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Davidson Ian
ISBN:9781846682261
Davidson tells the whole, rich story of Voltaire's life (1694-1778) - his early imprisonment in the Bastille; exile in England and his mastery of English; an obsession with money...more details Format:Hardback Pages:500
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Nicholls Henry
ISBN:9781846683688
In a most original book, science writer Henry Nicholls uses the rich and curious story of the panda from its 'discovery' 150 years ago in the...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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NEW SCIENTIST
ISBN:9781846683985
What's the storage capacity of the human brain in gigabytes? What's the farthest point on land from the sea? Why is frozen milk yellow? And why do flamingos stand on one leg?...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Okwonga Musa
ISBN:9781846687242
Bloody obvious isn't it: tell the defenders to route one out to Drogba That's what they've been doing all night and look where it's got them The final ball has just not been weighted enough; in any case...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:248