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Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most pow...

Review Breathtaking. Only terms like colossal, gigantic, titanic, unbelievable, gargantuan are properly descriptive ― Chicago Tribune Seethes wit...

Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived thr...

This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feuda...

Whirlwind is the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979: three weeks of fanaticism, passion, self-sacrifice and heartbreak. Caught between...

Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler - the Tai-Pan - of the most pow...

SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL NON-FICTION BOOK AWARD 2023 Today, there are more borders in the world than ever before in human history. In ...

Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in the final ...

Review Full of insight, empathy and wry laughter ― GuardianA joy to read . . . Like McGregor, Clarke is attuned to landscape in a way that is ...

Review Over 20 films. Over 40 years. What collaboration in any medium has lasted so long, been so successful, so personal, so happy? James Ivo...

Review 'Unlike most biographers of such heroes of black music, McBride writes from inside the culture, loosely entwining his own story with that o...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much as this one. It was very difficult...

Music, Magazines & Mayhem Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. I...

Talking About Detective Fiction is a celebration of the best in crime writing through the ages from P.D. James, the world's pre-eminent crime write...

'A joy to read' - SARA COX Growing up in Yorkshire and with farming blood in his genes, James Greenwood always knew he would end up as a vet. Ani...

Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of m...

Dave is in a recovery unit in New Orleans, where a Creole girl named Tee Jolie Melton visits him and leaves him an iPod with the country blues song...

1000-PIECE PUZZLE: Piece together the world of James Bond in this exciting jigsaw inspired by the iconic films. The perfect challenge for dedicated...