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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 Vespasian #1. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his bro...

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

Synopsis At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero...

Synopsis Humanity's Fire #3 The future hangs in the balance as conflict rages across the planet's surface and, in the skies above, interstellar pow...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. A Million Copy Best-Seller. Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell an...

Synopsis The bestselling self-help book of its generation - which has now sold over a million copies in the UK alone. Eckhart Tolle demonstrates ho...

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 The Stones - their story - the band's meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking...

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 Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a hi...

Synopsis Tailored to meet the needs of the first time bonsai owner, this book is an extensive directory of every major bonsai type. Bonsai Basics e...

Synopsis On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950's underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his h...

Synopsis Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel Award and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. ...

Synopsis Winner of The Bollinger Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction. Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction. A Short History of Tractors in Uk...

Synopsis The Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the 20th century. Over a strange three-year period between 1969 and 1...

Synopsis This book brings together his diaries for 1980-1995, with reminiscences and reviews. The diary he kept during the production of his very f...

Synopsis Tudor Saga #8. Jean Plaidy's Tudor series continues with the scandalous and heartbreaking story of Margaret Tudor, a princess who leaves E...

Synopsis Athlete, activist, rebel, poet, legend - Muhammad Ali stood larger than life in the imagination of hundreds of millions of people around t...

Synopsis Armando Iannucci cuts straight to the heart of the insanity and sherbet-headed nonsense of modern life. The Audacity of Hype brings togeth...

Synopsis Hotel du Lac is the classic Booker Prize winning novel by Anita Brookner. Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks E...