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Gilded: 'The queen of fairy-tale retellings!' Booklist
Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times-bestselling author returns with a sensational reimagining of Rumpelstiltskin as you've never seen him before.
Invisible Romans
Review The task Knapp set himself was hugely ambitious, and it is a tribute that not only did he succeed, but that he managed to make the tell...
View full detailsA Thousand Moons
Product Description From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without EndEven when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end...
View full detailsA Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
Chrissie Wellington is the world's No 1 female Ironman triathlete, a four times World Champion, having recently won the her fourth title in October...
View full detailsLife's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Product Description Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough...
View full detailsSun King: The Life and Times of Sam Phillips, the Man Behind Sun Records
Product Description Music producer Sam Phillips and his landmark studio, Sun Records, hold a unique place in the history of rock 'n' roll - by...
View full detailsFour Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
The four beautiful, cultured and clever daughters of the Count and Countess of Provence made illustrious marriages and lived at the epicentre of po...
View full detailsHow Sugar Corrupted the World: From Slavery to Obesity
An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the ways that modernity'...
View full detailsHow To Tell Depression to Piss Off: 40 Ways to Get Your Life Back
Depression sucks, but you don't. Trying to manage the range of symptoms that depression throws at you is like navigating the dark ocean floor when...
View full detailsThe Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Review Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what what you would expect from Tim Harford -- Bill BrysonHarford is a fine, perce...
View full detailsTuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, a...
View full detailsThe Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton: Lady Whistledown’s Official Guide: Julia Quinn
Product Description From the Sunday Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes a highly designed, colourful collection of quotes, wit, and wi...
View full detailsTidings of Death at Honeychurch Hall
Product Description 'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. BeatonMistletoe and murder at Honeychurch Hall...It's ten days before Chri...
View full detailsObelix & Co.
Review A cartoon drawn with such supreme artistry, and a text layered with such glorious wordplay, satire and historical and political allusio...
View full detailsTruly Peculiar: Fantastic Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction
Review The Father Christmas of knowledge -- Giles CorenPraise for Go Figure:Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anyth...
View full detailsCrete: The Battle and the Resistance
The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical...
View full detailsA Brief History of Italy
'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week 'A remarkable mixture o...
View full detailsWrite to the Point: How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page
Review At last, a book on correct writing that is genuinely amusing - and not just for language nerds ... Informative and hugely entertaining,...
View full detailsA Tuscan Childhood
Kinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents' castle facing the Carrara mountains. She and her brother ran barefoot, expl...
View full detailsBlue Smoke (Tom Thorne Novels)
Product Description Somebody out there is waiting to kill ...Reena Hale has more reason than most to be afraid of fire. When she was a child, ...
View full detailsToxic Positivity
About the Author Whitney Goodman is the radically honest psychotherapist behind the popular Instagram account @sitwithwhit. She helps individu...
View full detailsConversations with God Book 3
When Neale Donald Walsch was experiencing a low point in his life, he decided to write a letter to God. What he did not expect was a response and t...
View full detailsThe Splinter King: The God-King Chronicles, Book 2
Book Description The second volume in the God-King Chronicles, The Splinter King is the sequel to The Black Coast, and tells an epic fantasy t...
View full detailsThe Problem with Men: When is it International Men's Day? (and why it matters)
Review Rich, you're a brilliant comedian and this is a great book but I think the last thing it needs is a quote by yet another man ― James Ac...
View full detailsThe Mitford Trial: Unity Mitford and the killing on the cruise ship (The Mitford Murders)
Review Full of surprises and secrets ― Woman's WayInspired by the larger-than-life Mitford family and a real-life murder, Fellowes delivers a ...
View full detailsThe Deadly Sisterhood: A story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance
Product Description The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.This book is one of...
View full detailsThe Colour Code: Why we see red, feel blue and go green
Review Such fun. An illuminating story for every stitch in your wardrobe and pigment on your wall -- Simon Garfield, author ― Just My TypeFun ...
View full detailsTables & Spreads: A Go-To Guide for Beautiful Snacks, Intimate Gatherings, and Inviting Feasts
Product Description From the author of the bestselling Platters & Boards comes a beautifully photographed recipe collection and styling gu...
View full detailsSpirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life
Product Description If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or she would not be u...
View full detailsFind Your Shine: How to Go from Self-Conscious to Self-Confident
Product Description Your journey from self-conscious to self-confident begins now!Take those first steps toward becoming more self-assured wit...
View full detailsBoys & Sex: Young Men on Hook-ups, Love, Porn, Consent and Navigating the New Masculinity
Review Full of information about what young men really think and do when it comes to sex ― TelegraphBlows your mind on every page -- Caitlin M...
View full detailsBlotto, Twinks and the Maharajah's Jewel
Product Description 'A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans' P. D. James'Murder most enjoyable' Colin DexterAnyone for cricket - and a...
View full detailsMurder in Miniature at Honeychurch Hall
Product Description 'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. BeatonWhen a body found on the Honeychurch Hall estate proves to be that of...
View full detailsDead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Product Description 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in...
View full detailsTestament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925 (Virago classic non-fiction)
With a new introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge. In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study...
View full detailsBetter: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance
Product Description The struggle to perform well is universal, but nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine. In his...
View full detailsHow to be Champion
Hilarious, heartwarming and inspirational, this is the number 1 Sunday Times bestselling autobiography by comedian Sarah Millican. The funniest boo...
View full detailsThe Complete Valley of the Kings: Tombs and Treasures of Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs: 0
Here is a paperback edition of the definitive account of the Valley of the Kings, visited by millions and famous throughout the world as the burial...
View full detailsA Killer in Winter
Product Description For the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Matthew Bartholomew series, Sphere is delighted to reissue all of the medie...
View full detailsCounterfeit Gods: When the Empty Promises of Love, Money and Power Let You Down
The issue of idolatry has been with the human race for thousands of years; the subtle temptation is always to take what is good and turn it into th...
View full detailsNorthbridge Rectory (VMC) (Virago Modern Classics)
Product Description As the war continues it brings its own set of trials to the the village of Northbridge. Eight officers of the Barsetshire Reg...
View full detailsGlobal Art
Product Description Jessica Lack introduces fifty pioneering modern and contemporary art movements born out of political engagement, decolonizati...
View full detailsEmperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne is a defining figure of both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. Crowned king of th...
View full detailsBetrayed
Product Description 'A cracking good read' JESSIE KEANEThe brand new gangland crime novel from bestseller Roberta Kray.IN THE EAST END OF LONDON,...
View full detailsMind Over Mother: Every mum's guide to worry and anxiety in the first years
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'With conversations on Maternal Mental Health on the rise, and more women speaking up about the way they feel, Anna Ma...
View full detailsThe Book of Tarot: A contemporary guide to finding your intuition and reading the tarot
Discover what the cards hold with this clear, inspiring guide to tarot. The Book of Tarot will help the modern tarot reader understand the spiritu...
View full detailsLA NY: Aerial Photographs of Los Angeles and New York
LA NY is a dazzling visual tale of two cities, Los Angeles and New York, photographed from the air, shooting straight down at a 90 degree angle to ...
View full detailsFreddie Mercury: The Biography
Review An outstanding biography . . . A fitting testament to the creative genius ― DAILY MAIL 'The definitive book of one of rock's greatest lege...
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