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Synopsis Silence can be deafening. Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, an...

Synopsis A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? It's the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. We're ou...

Synopsis Soon after creating the experimental pop group, Pink Floyd, in 1966, Syd Barrett took to using hallucinogenic drugs, which led to schizoph...

Synopsis With introduction & chronology. Full of beautiful illustrations, this book is an indispensable guide to the rich mythical world of M...

Synopsis The bizarre and fascinating story of Alexander Cruden, who single-handedly compiled the monumental dictionary/index/gazetteer to the Bible...

Synopsis Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book ...

Synopsis The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currentl...

Synopsis "Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt down, exhausted, and stayed." Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abando...

Synopsis Previously published as : A Long Way Home - A Memoir. Now a major motion picture. When Saroo Brierley used Google Earth to find his long-l...

Synopsis Forty years in the future. The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tr...

Synopsis From career to relationships and grooming to gaming and more, the guys’ ultimate manual for living.  For every guy too intimidated to ask ...

Synopsis A Concise Guide to the Stars & Planets explores the ultimate questions raised by our enhanced understanding of the universe, and provi...

Synopsis When Anne Cholowo arrived on the remote west coast island there were only 17 inhabitants. Today there are only three. This book describes ...

Synopsis A Song of Ice & Fire (A Game of Thrones) - Book #3, Part 1. Winter approaches Westeros like an angry beast. The Seven Kingdoms are div...

Synopsis "All I did is marry him. You are the ones who gave him power." Quiet, bookish Alice Blackwell never dreamed of being First Lady. Much less...

Synopsis The 2nd Book of the Dark Materials Trilogy. Lyra has escaped Mrs. Coultar, she has escaped with her daemon (we would call it our spirit) i...

Synopsis One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper and her tendency to blame herself for h...

Synopsis 'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of...

Synopsis The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are declining. Meanwhile, growing nationalism is...

Synopsis While fashion is subject to seasonal change, the wardrobe of the man who dresses in classic style is marked by a distinctive continuity. A...

Synopsis Over the past two decades, archaeologists have made huge strides in their understanding of the pyramids. They have uncovered edifices buri...

Synopsis One of the great minds of the 19th Century, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was responsible for some of the most impressive engineering feats of h...

Synopsis Book of The Year - National Book Awards. Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of b...

Synopsis Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', `Love and War in the Apennines' is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from a...