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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 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 The Million Copy Bestseller. 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the whole of the earth. Today there is just one. Us. ...

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 '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...

Synopsis The top ten bestseller from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day. Winner of the Man Booker Prize in literature. A Sund...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Orange & Booker prizes. First in a series of 3 novels. Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret ...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2001. The second novel from the critically-acclaimed author of Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas. In outward f...

Synopsis Weeding out vital components of Scottish identity from decades of political and social tangle is no mean task, but it's one journalist Les...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Journey with a Pilot. Sunday Times Bestseller. Book of the Week on Radio 4. A 2015 Book of the Year - The Economist, The New...

Synopsis Hailed as `authoritative' and `essential', Trump Revealed is the indispensable biography of the 45th president of the United States. Just ...

Synopsis Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2014, and called one of the best novels of 2014 by Stephen King. The novel won the 2015 World Fantasy...