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Synopsis At its zenith, the Royal Bank of Scotland was the world's biggest bank. It had assets of $3 trillion, employed over 200,000 people, had br...

Synopsis This updated guidebook is packed with information on the culture, history, architecture, and art of the continent, in addition to the best...

Synopsis The Rough Guide to Kenya is the ultimate guide to East Africa's best known destination. From the live music in Nairobi to the Turkana over...

Synopsis A highly innovative book that will appeal to experienced climbers and beginners alike. The author, who has unrivalled knowledge of the Sco...

Synopsis 1st book of the Kingsbridge Trilogy. Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bes...

Synopsis Two of Scotland's leading political voices vivisect Scotland's psyche. Tom Brown and Henry McLeish demand that a country in crisis take ra...

Synopsis The Pocket Encyclopedia series is a highly practical mini-reference library that covers every aspect of a wide range of popular topics. Al...

Synopsis In John Le Carré's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world. Br...

Synopsis The No' 1 Bestseller. Revised & Updated Edition featuring New Research & New Recipes. Subtitled : The Simple Secret of Intermitten...

Synopsis September 1939. England is at war with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most luxurious airliner - the legendary Pan Am clipper - ...

Synopsis This work embraces half a lifetime of travelling around the world by train: steaming down the Khyber Pass on the train's front buffers; an...

Synopsis Yambo, a sixty-ish rare-book dealer who lives in Milan, has suffered a loss of memory - he can remember the plot of every book he has ever...

Synopsis One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific...

Synopsis “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part o...

Synopsis The No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and adven...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with the Dalai Lama. This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tib...

Synopsis Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before...

Synopsis Subtitled : Why the world looks the way it does. Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, b...

Synopsis The critically acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling epic, a saga of land, blood and power, follows the rise of one unforgettable Texas fa...

Synopsis The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilisation at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalised and wealthy. What turned ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Survival Is The Only Law. A benchmark in modern SF. A sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of ...

Synopsis 'No Logo' was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For it’s 10th anniversary Naomi Klein has updated this...

Synopsis The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke’s brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this centur...

Synopsis Subtitled : A People's Passion. This is an excellent account of the history of one of world football's most famous clubs, FC Barcelona. In...