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The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall Smith It's the most anticipated...

About the Author Alexander McCall Smith is the author of over one hundred books on a wide array of subjects, including the award-winning The N...

Elizabeth Glendinning QC has lost faith in the legal system. In an attempt to restore it, she has secretly devised a scheme to bring back to court ...

Review Welcome back to the wholesome world of Isabel Dalhousie. McCall Smith lifts the spirits with his delightful latest offering. The tale o...

Product Description Sunday Times Crime Book Club PickMail on Sunday Thriller of the Week 'A coldly brilliant exposé of the depths of human nature...

Review We have, in Von Schirach's ice-cool, effortlessly classy prose, an antihero accused of murder, who sees the world in too-vivid colour, ...

Product Description A Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Mail and Financial Times Best Book of 2020 Pick'A highly enjoyable story about female ...

Product Description 'A twisting spiral of lies and corruption' Val McDermid From the hilltop he could see London, stretched towards the hills of ...

Review THE ICE STORM is one of the wittiest books about family life ever written ― THE GUARDIAN A huge '70s nostalgia trip, a litany of kitsch, a...

Product Description THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIESThe one with the rival detective . . .Mma Ramotswe faces ...

Product Description A grandfather who learns to let go.A grandson who learns to love.Eighty-five years old, a rebel, a retired boxer, Napoleon Su...

Isabel Dalhousie, philosopher and amateur solver of other people's problems, meets an old foe, Minty Auchterlonie, at a birthday party attended by ...

Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation, by geopolitical tensions ...

Product Description THE MORAL ANIMAL examines the significance of this extraordinary shift in our perception of morality and what it means to be ...

Review Christopher Matthew is a comic genius ― Sandi Toksvig Product Description Daunted by the prospect of old age? Fearful of beco...

Review Once again Guillermo Martínez provides a winning combination of highbrow book chat and high jinks ― The TimesHighly entertaining ― Sund...

Product Description Stored in Whitehall's archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of d...

Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believe they have God in their pocket. She is a modern-day Florence Nightingale, alwa...

From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The Rich is the fascinating history of how economic elites from ancient Egypt to the ...

Review What Mary Renault did with Alexander the Great, Geraldine Brooks has done with King David: breathed life into an ancient hero. Haunting, ex...

The Bible was the first scientific textbook of all; and it got some things right (and plenty more wrong). Steve Jones' new book rewrites it in the ...

Product Description 'All you have to do is find out why Harry is prepared to blame an innocent man. That's the thread. Follow it. You'll reach th...

Review This is a remarkable novel, and puts Brodrick in the frame for prize-winning ― Sunday Times It is a wonderful book, it has a timeless qual...

The first in a new series of books by the author of THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - marking new territory - but familiar moral ground.

Product Description The second book in Alexander McCall Smith's new DETECTIVE VARG series . . .'Reading the novel feels like a form of meditation...

Review The question of Mary's marriage splinters English politics and these dynastic travails are the source of gossip and peril for ordinary ...

Review Dan Barber's new book, The Third Plate, is an eloquent and thoughtful look at the current state of our nation's food system and how it must...

A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, ec...

We call them the sleepers . . . At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of l...

Product Description Winner of an English PEN 'PEN Translates!' award. Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of it...

Review The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up -- Hilary Mantel ― Guardian A delicious book. Funny and happy, it's like the breat...

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize & the Orwell Prize for Fiction A Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year 'a serious accomplishment' Sun...

Review This is as good a diagnosis of America's failings as you will get ― Sunday Times Product Description On its present course, t...

Review James Le Fanu meticulously dissects the science, spin and unethical practices -- Gavin Francis ― The Times This is a profoundly disturbing...

'Original, tender, thoughtful and true' Reese Witherspoon 'Part tender coming of age story, part electrifying tale of political awakening, part he...

A pick for The Economist Books of the Year 2021 The UK is, at the same time, both one of the world's most successful economies and one of Europe's...

Review Wealth and Power offers everything readers might expect from its two eminent authors. It is both sweeping and specific, authoritative and l...

Product Description Is the devil merely the name we give the worst in ourselves? When private investigator Jasmine Sharp is hired to find Tess...

A landmark book that charts humanity's changing relationship with birds - from the ancient Egyptians to the twenty-first century 'A marvellously ...

By the author of international bestseller The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry. Aviva Grossman, an ambitious intern in Florida working for a politician, ...