Charles Freeman
ISBN:9781845950071
'We authorise followers of this law to assume the title of orthodox Christians; but as for the others since, in our judgement, they are foolish madmen...
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Paul Strathern
ISBN:9780224081542
In this masterful study, Paul Strathern (author of "The Medici", and "Napoleon in Egypt") details the incidental convergence of three of Renaissance Italy's most brilliant minds. "The Artist...
Format:Hardback Pages:480
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Stefan Aust
ISBN:9781847920454
Rooted in the student movement of the 1960s, the story of the Baader-Meinhof group - or the Red Army Faction (RAF), as they called themselves - began in May 1970 with the freeing of Andreas Baader...
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Ron Leshem
ISBN:9780099516729
Beaufort, a remote and beautiful fort in southern Lebanon dating back to the Crusades, has been an outpost of the Israeli Defence Force for nearly twenty years...
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Anne Tyler
ISBN:9780099480112
By the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Breathing Lessons" this is the tale of Jeremy Pauling, a 38-year-old bachelor who has never left home...
Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Braungart andamp;McDonough
ISBN:9780099535478
'Reduce, reuse, and recycle' urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart point out in this provocative...
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Jose Saramago
ISBN:9780099502487
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there's no death...
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Salman Rushdie
ISBN:9780099421924
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself 'Mogor dell 'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal...
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Noam Chomsky
ISBN:9781847920645
For the past forty years, Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. Among the seminal figures in linguistic theory over the past century...
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John Barrow
ISBN:9781847920034
'If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is' - John von Neumann. Mathematics can tell you things about the world that can't be learned in any other way...
Format:Hardback Pages:304
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Philip Roth
ISBN:9780099516088
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain...
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Caryl Phillips
ISBN:9780099488859
Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death...
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Knelman andamp;Porter
ISBN:9780099503644
Whatever happened to the love letter? Has the written word lost its charm in our digitally obsessed, speed-dating age? In this inspired and unique collection of new fiction...
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Mark Garnett
ISBN:9781844135325
In 1975, Britons spent much of their time complaining - and for good reasons. A Labour government with a wafer-thin majority was struggling in vain against rampant inflation...
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Martin Rowson
ISBN:9780224084413
Award-winning cartoonist, Martin Rowson tells the story of Earth, from the Big Bang, the emergence of life, the death of the dinosaurs, the dawn of civilization...
Format:Hardback Pages:144
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Charles Dickens
ISBN:9780099518921
'Facts alone are wanted in life': the children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attention only to cold...
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Timothy Ryback
ISBN:9781847920812
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E Foley
ISBN:9780224082662
Don't know your isosceles from your equilateral? Forgotten what actually happened in 1066? Do you know when you've left a participle hanging? And are you left slack-jawed when your children ask you what 'quid pro quo' means? Bewildered already? Fret no longer...
Format:Hardback Pages:512
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James Wood
ISBN:9781845950934
In the tradition of E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel" and Milan Kundera's "The Art of the Novel", "How Fiction Works" is a scintillating and searching study of the main elements of fiction...
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Rudyard Kipling
ISBN:9780099511823
This book includes an introduction by Philip Pullman. Have you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling's witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant's Child...
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John Richardson
ISBN:9781845951290
Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the long-awaited third volume of the definitive biography...
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Misha Glenny
ISBN:9780099481256
In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. For three years...
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Compton MacKenzie
ISBN:9780099529545
Chester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle, to find out more about Carrie's Scottish ancestry. Their new 'relatives' turn out to be a little more authentically Scottish than they bargained for. Ben Nevis...
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Charles Dickens
ISBN:9780099518891
This title features an introduction by Matthew Pearl. The story of the fate of Edwin Drood is a mystery within a mystery. When young Edwin disappears after dinner on Christmas Eve and his watch and chain are later found in the nearby river...
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Jo Nesbo
ISBN:9780099505938
Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:720
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Charles Dickens
ISBN:9780099518884
"The Pickwick Papers" was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny...
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A A Milne
ISBN:9780099521266
Far from the gentle slopes of the "Hundred Acre Wood" lies The Red House", the setting for A.A Milne's only detective story, where secret passages...
Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Richard Yates
ISBN:9780099518785
Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, "Revolutionary Road" is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful...
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Amos Oz
ISBN:9780701182281
The novel centres around 8 hours in the life of the Author (unnamed), a literary celebrity in his forties, who is in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night to give a reading. Bored...
Format:Hardback Pages:160
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Daniel Defoe
ISBN:9780099511847
Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself alone on a remote desert island. He remains there many years...
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Anne Tyler
ISBN:9780099914709
When eighteen year old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart...
Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Virginia Woolf
ISBN:9780099518259
Virginia Woolf turned to her diary as to an intimate friend, to whom she could freely and spontaneously confide her thoughts on public events or the joys and trials of domestic life. Between 1st January 1915 and her death in 1941 she regularly recorded her thoughts with unfailing grace...
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Virginia Woolf
ISBN:9780099518242
The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvelous collection - spontaneous...
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Peter Ackroyd
ISBN:9780099422556
Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, "Thames: Sacred River" is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:512
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Tim Parks
ISBN:9780099513322
One of Britain's outstanding novelists, Tim Parks has also published two acclaimed essay collections, "Adultery and Other Diversions" and "Hell and Back". This new volume finds him as provocative and entertaining as ever. The title piece addresses D.H. Lawrence's fundamental belligerence and how all the significant relationships in his life...
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Richard Mabey
ISBN:9780701182533
Richard Mabey began experimenting with cooking as soon as he was big enough to clamber to the cupboard where the powdered chocolate was kept. At Scout camp he learned how to cook a Sussex Pond Pudding in a billy-can...
Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Andrey Kurkov
ISBN:9781846551178
When Kolia moves into a new flat in Kiev, he finds a book hidden within a volume of "War and Peace". Intrigued by the annotations that appear on every page...
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Yoko Ogawa
ISBN:9781846552502
He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury some seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper with a ten-year-old son...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
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Mark Doty
ISBN:9780224085281
In this, his eighth book of poetry, Mark Doty's subjects - our mortal situation, the evanescent beauty of the world, desire's transformative power and poetry's ability to give shape to human lives - echo and develop. The first poem...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:64
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Fred Vargas
ISBN:9780099507628
On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. It is assumed that this is a drug-related incident of the kind so often uncovered in that area of town. But Adamsberg is convinced that there is more to it. Anxious to keep control of the case...
Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Ian Mortimer
ISBN:9780224079945
The past is a foreign country. This is your guidebook. Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see? What would you smell? More to the point...
Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Mini Grey
ISBN:9780224070485
Traction Man is back! And so is Scrubbing Brush, his brave and rather bedraggled pet who stays by his side through thick and thin. But one night Scrubbing Brush mysteriously vanishes and in his place is the utterly hygienic Turbodog...
Format:Hardback Pages:32
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Robert Loius Stevenson
ISBN:9780099511298
This book contains an Introduction by Jake Arnott. When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure. He joins the crew setting sail to the Caribbean to seek out the booty and over the course of the voyage confronts mutiny...
Format:Paperback Pages:203
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Gerry Stergiopoulos
ISBN:9780224086172
'I look at the way some women behave when they're dating, and I'm sorry girls, but it's an absolute car crash. The rules of successful dating are simple...
Format:Hardback Pages:72
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Richard Flanagan
ISBN:9781741666687
THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW IN PAPERBACK! It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Leo Tolstoy
ISBN:9780099512240
Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:1296
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Kenneth Grahame
ISBN:9780099511830
The day that Mole abandons his spring-cleaning and sets out to enjoy the sunshine is the start of many adventures. Not only does he discover the river and the joys of messing around in boats...
Format:Paperback / softback Pages:193
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Franz Kafka
ISBN:9781846550096
Franz Kafka spent eight months at his sister's house in Zurau between September 1917 and April 1918, enduring the onset of tuberculosis. Illness paradoxically set him free to write...
Format:Hardback Pages:160
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Joe Simpson
ISBN:9780099511748
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon...
Format:Paperback Pages:224
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Umberto Eco
ISBN:9780099503682
After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's 'Great Game', we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Yellow Peril has been resurrected...
Format:Paperback Pages:384
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