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Synopsis Academically rigorous yet welcoming and fully attuned to the needs of the student reader, Chris Bevan's 'Land Law' represents a new bree...

Synopsis Shortlisted for Adventure Travel Book of the Year. In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his la...

Synopsis The beautiful and heart-rending first novel from the author of Plainsong. The Tie That Binds is a novel by Kent Haruf. It is the story of ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Essays On Modern Life. Modern life is full of choices. But how do we know what our best life looks like? And what if we get ...

Synopsis The Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1851: James Chance, of the glass-making firm Chance Brothers, is nervously showcasing a new lens, ...

Synopsis Underbelly - [n.] singular. The soft underside or abdomen of a mammal.An area vulnerable to attack.A dark, hidden part of society. Lo an...

Synopsis MaddAddam #2 The Year of the Flood is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the second book of her dystopian trilogy, released on Se...

Synopsis The Birdwatcher's Logbook by Dominic Couzens. Many birdwatchers keep a species list of some sort and at any level, it is a useful aide m...

Synopsis Using diet, nutritional supplements, exercise and other lifestyle changes, Dr Whitaker shows how to prevent or manage high blood pressur...

Synopsis Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule ...

Synopsis Rich, complex, affecting and beautiful, Wonderstruck is a staggering achievement from a uniquely gifted artist. In this groundbreaking t...

Synopsis The Romans In Scotland looks at the history of the Roman army in Britain - the first of many attempts at total conquest by a stronger so...

Synopsis Subtitled : Inside The Isle of Man TT - the world's most dangerous race. As seen through the eyes of Cummins, Martin, McGuinness and Dun...

Synopsis Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020. Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled t...

Synopsis Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house wi...

Synopsis Featuring over 100 locations. A fully illustrated guide to the glorious riches of London's museums and galleries, drawing on the cream o...

Synopsis Subtitled : A life of post-war Scotland 1945-1975. Kenneth Roy's panorama of post-war Scottish life begins with the VE night celebration...

Synopsis The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1964 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula A...

Synopsis When everything is lost, it's our stories that survive . . . How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unf...

Synopsis Written by : Campbell Guy. Illustrated by Simon Ecob When everyone around you is panicking, it's time to take control and be everyone's ...

Synopsis Subtitled : How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History. Startling new fossil finds are the lifeblood of modern palaeobiology. Gian...

Synopsis Within forty-eight hours in the fall of 2014, buyers in the Sotheby's and Christie's New York auction houses spent $1.7 billion on conte...

Synopsis In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Ita...

Synopsis Trawl through centuries of tattooing in this eye-popping history of the art of body decoration. From modest, discreet symbols to astonis...