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

Synopsis Subtitled : The Big Yin on the ultimate road trip. Scotland's best-loved comedian heads off on the most famous highway in the world for an...

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 ...

Synopsis A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you hav...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Bestseller. A richly moving novel - the first since the author’s Booker-Prize winning, internationally celebrated debut, Th...

Synopsis This hilarious collection of humorous quotations, full of wisecracks and wit, snappy comments and inspired fantasy, has been specially com...

Synopsis Longlisted for the Booker Prize. After the upheavals of the Second World War, the Richardson family - Sam, Ellen and their young son Joe -...

Synopsis An anthology of Scottish fiction, ranging from the traditional to the modern. James Kelman, Alasdair Gray and Candia McWilliam have been j...

Synopsis In Naomi Alderman’s The Power, the balance of the world is irrevocably altered overnight - women now dominate. The novel weaves four centr...

Synopsis It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straightforward, this is...

Synopsis First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literat...

Synopsis Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door wit...

Synopsis Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of...

Synopsis An excellent and well illustrated reference book on 20th Century football. Largely filled with details on football in each individual coun...