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Synopsis Longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerising book that explores how ...

Synopsis In the days before low-fat this and zero-calorie that, and in an era when obesity only showed itself in the occasional family who were a l...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo. This book is both a survey of military history in Europe from the...

Synopsis Transport, Engineering and Architecture is the second book in a series which explores the relationship between engineering and architectur...

Synopsis When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a co...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller & A Times Book of The Year. Uncommon Type is a collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that tw...

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

Synopsis A chronological list of events in The Who's career. The introduction describes it like this: "Virtually every word in this book was spoken...

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 Think what is at stake. The right we have to speak and think freely . . . all that would be destroyed. That is worth fighting for, don’t y...

Synopsis Scotland's best-loved comedian heads off on the most famous highway in the world for an unforgettable journey through America. Having alwa...

Synopsis Life at the heart of New Labour. Mandelson's past is explored from his early days as a child and how his grandfather as a Labour politicia...

Synopsis Blood Simple, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, Hudsucker Proxy, and The Big Lebowski - moviegoers either love the C...

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 The Global Number 1 Bestseller. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller. Rachel catches the ...

Synopsis The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late...

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 In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the world o...

Synopsis One long novel - Joan and Peter - and three short stories, The Country of the Blind, Jimmy Goggles the God and Mr Brisher's Treasure. Deta...

Synopsis By Ronald Miller (Editor), Joy Tivy (Editor). The Glasgow Region - A General Survey 1958 - A Geographical & Social survey of the Glasg...

Synopsis Subtitled : Guide to Successful Modern Gardening Today's gardener wants a "green" garden; we are curious to grow new varieties of plants a...

Synopsis RAF Fighter Command, formed in 1936, did indeed play a vital role in the Second World War. During the Dunkirk evacuation its pilots flew 2...

Synopsis From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Ma...

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...