
How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The maths we learn in school can seem like an abstract set of rules,...

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Read an exclusive interview with the author here 100,000 years ago, at least six human species...

The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
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-Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 This acclaimed book by Steven Pinker, author of The...

The Vital Question: Why is Life the Way it is?
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Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved into complex life just once in four billion years of...
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If I Built a Car
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If I built a car, it'd be totally new! Here are a few of the things that I'd do. . . . Jack has...

What is a Refugee?
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Who are refugees? Why are they called that word? Why do they need to leave their country? In this...

Stick Man
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
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"Stick Man lives in the family tree With his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three." But...

Treasure Island
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'We want that treasure, and we'll have it!' Jim Hawkins has discovered a terrible plot. Mutiny is in...

The Family Book
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The Family Book celebrates the love we feel for our families and all the different varieties they...

Teachings of Buddah
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This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese,...

The Art of Happiness
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The Art of Happiness is a highly accessible guide for a western audience, combining the Dalai Lama's...

The Power of Compassion
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This work is a selection of edited talks given by The Dalai Lama during his last visit to Britain....

The Divine Comedy
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Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, tracing Dante's journey from...
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A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat
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Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to friends as a self-published booklet, and soon...

On the Road
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Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally...

The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire and Anthony Mortimer
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Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as...

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and The Crusade for America
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In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman
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'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I...
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Collected Essays
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Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual...

Hamlet
William Shakespeare and Mark Norfolk
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For the first time in Britain, an all-black cast present Shakespeare's greatest tragedy.Remember...

Queer
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For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished...

On the Road
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Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally...

Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski and Roddy Doyle
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INTRODUCTION BY RODDY DOYLE 'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' LEONARD COHEN...
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
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**WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ** **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** ‘A riveting account of...

Americanah
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014. From the award-winning author of 'Half...

Saga
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Winner of the 2013 Hugo award for Best Graphic Story! When two soldiers from opposite sides of a...

A Life in Parts
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Bryan Cranston has created a cinematic record of how an actor shapes a career and an identity and a...
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This is a Book
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Demetri Martin is a Very Important Award-Winning Comedian, so spends a lot of his time time...

Mountains Beyond Mountains: One Doctor's Quest to Heal the World
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Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and...

Narrow Road to the Interior
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A beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature. Bash...

Rome and Jerusalem
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In Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations, Martin Goodman explores the history of a...

The Family Virtues Guide
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The Family Virtues Guide This wonderful book stresses 52 virtues--one for each week of the...
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The Sheltering Sky
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'The Sheltering Sky is a book about people on the edge of an alien space; somewhere where,...

As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner and Michael Gorra
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This Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1985 corrected text and is accompanied by detailed...

Midnight's Children
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Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s...
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2666
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Santa Teresa, on the Mexico US border, is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls. Among them are...

The Plot Against America
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When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin...