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'Richard Osman, here's a bullet with your name on it' Times A government minister has vanished into thin air. The local police in the isolated is...

A woman hiding a deadly secret. And the man who went in search of adventure, but found himself in danger ... 'The Girl on the Train with a dash of...

Gazing into crystal balls is beyond the expertise of most scientists. Yet, as we look further into the 21st century, one does not have to be Nostra...

Review The dyspeptic Pepys from Yorkshire, Alan Bennett, master of the "absurd and inexplicable" moments of ordinary life, offers up a curation of...

Books; reading, collecting and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy - and stress - for centuries. Fascinated writers have tr...

A short and vivid biography, which deconstructs the Napoleonic myth and reveals the reality of his rule. Written with great wit and panache, this ...

Alan Turing: code-breaker, mathematician, father of modern computing. Award-winning children's author, Joanna Nadin, explores the extraordinary li...

'Deliciously funny and highly impudent' - Jon Culshaw FEATURES ILLUMINATING NEW MATERIAL about the original Partygate: a boozy shindig Boris threw...

Product Description Who had the most commercial success in their lifetime, Ernest Hemingway or Agatha Christie? Whose work has the most adaptatio...

*The memoirs of Boris Johnson, complete and unabridged, including all the great material he had to take out for being either too incendiary or too ...

A style icon, a trendsetter, a princess: Lady Diana epitomised 80s and 90s style. With a well-earned place in the fashion hall of fame, Diana's st...

A Comedian's Story: A Memoir of Resilience and Quiet Betrayal Comedian and actor Alan Davies revisits his 1970s boyhood with vivid insight and deva...

*** A BBC2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK *** 'A BLOOMING GOOD READ' - THE TIMES 'A MUST FOR LOVERS OF CRIME FICTION THAT'S JUST A BIT DIFFERE...

By 1700, France and Italy already had dictionaries of their own, and it became a matter of national pride that England should rival them. Dr Johnso...

Product Description A title that will appeal to those interested in book culture as well as furniture and interior design, Bookshelf is the first ...

'Joyous, moving, uplifting and fabulous' MILLY JOHNSON 'Poignant and big-hearted' HOLLY MILLER 'Uplifting and full of hope and love. An utter del...

Rosalind Franklin: air-raid warden, scientist, pioneer. Uncover fascinating facts about the extraordinary life of trailblazing scie...

Well yes and no. It's sexy, but pedestrian. Hieronymus Bosch in Smethwick. Hetty and I found a little alcove with our Sauvignon. Four couples gath...

When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures...

With 233 (to be exact) hints, tips and pieces of advice, Now Try Something Weirder shows those in the creative industry how to have great ideas (ev...

Taking military charter schools as her subject, and drawing on years of research at one school in particular, Brooke Johnson explores the underpini...