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Synopsis India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond is a book written by Shashi Tharoor that expresses the importance that India enjoys in t...

Synopsis Following on from the critically acclaimed Disunited Kingdom: How Westminster Won A Referendum But Lost Scotland, Iain MacWhirter casts hi...

Synopsis Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-panelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yo...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Fully Illustrated Guide to Freshwater Fishing. Hundreds of tips and illustrations help the novice or advanced angler select ...

Synopsis A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy begins George Smil...

Synopsis Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2011. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2011. A comprehensive history of cancer - one o...

Synopsis A scorching hot global thriller with more suspicion than Homeland and more twists and turns than Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . Red Sparro...

Synopsis Professor Stephen Hawking is generally considered to have been one of the world's greatest thinkers. Here, his phenomenal bestseller A Bri...

Synopsis Tracing its origins back to the great Somerled, Raymond Campbell Paterson charts the steady ascent of Clan Donald to the zenith of its pow...

Synopsis In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Bei...

Synopsis Porterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social...

Synopsis A special edition of le Carré's first post-Cold War novel, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston...

Synopsis Subtitled : Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon. Running to the limits of human endurance. For those who are not content to run mer...

Synopsis Border Trilogy #1. John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the...

Synopsis The novel that inspired the epic new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy. Hugh Glass isn't afraid to die. He's done it once alr...

Synopsis Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage flo...

Synopsis Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's vil...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize. In 49 B.C . . . the seven hundred and fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar cross...

Synopsis Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi. In Lisbon in 19...

Synopsis Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age of seven Morley has ...

Synopsis A breakneck race against time . . . and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying charac...

Synopsis From the classic Greek origins of the world map, through the elaborately decorated manuscript maps and printed maps of the seventeenth and...

Synopsis The Girls' Bicycle Handbook is for women cyclists everywhere who need practical no-nonsense advice and information on cycling, and cycling...

Synopsis Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It ...