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Synopsis A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the author of Atonement & Amsterdam. Now a major film adaption. The title is a reference...

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 Subtitled : Divided by War. United by Love. This is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a major film starring T...

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 dazzling novel from the acclaimed author of the groundbreaking MARS trilogy follows Galileo on an amazing journey from the dawn of the...

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

Synopsis The phenomenal international bestseller - 2 million copies sold - that will change the way you make decisions. Why are judges more likely ...

Synopsis When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a ...

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

Synopsis In The Future, Declassified, Burrows - for the first time - has expanded the most recent Global Trends report into a full-length narrative...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Day-by-Day Story. A chronological list of events in The Who's career. The introduction describes it like this: "Virtually ...

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 Subtitled : The Essential Guide To The Scottish Referendum. A truly important book. It offers a huge sweep of history and deals with recen...

Synopsis Sub-Titled : The Zoo Quest Expeditions. The Sunday Times Bestseller. In 1954, a young television presenter named David Attenborough was of...

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...

Synopsis The Observer's Book of Soccer 1980 by Albert Sewell. These books were essential reading for youngsters of the era, in this case for lovers...

Synopsis Antonia Fraser - Editor. In this work 40 leading writers explain what first made them interested in reading. They describe the comics and...

Synopsis Patricia Nicol - Sucking Eggs . . . What your wartime granny could teach you about diet, thrift & going green. In our age of globalisa...

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...