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Synopsis A Penguin Special. On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed li...

Synopsis The inspiration for the film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, winner of the Best Picture Oscar & the BAFTA for Best Film. From ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations With David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings & The Challenges To US Empire. This book explores imme...

Synopsis Subtitled : Life in The Post-Human Landscape. Shortlisted for The Ballie Gifford Prize & The Wainwright Prize. In Chernobyl, followi...

Synopsis In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Ita...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Story of British Climbing. Unjustifiable Risk was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker prize in 2011. To the impartial ob...

Synopsis In a world of Google Earth, in which it is easy to believe that every discovery has been made and every adventure already had, Off the M...

Synopsis Subtitled : Selected Journalism & Other Writings. First collected in this volume 2014. Edited with an introduction by Peter Davison. G...

Synopsis This is the extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology and his contribution to society. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stai...

Synopsis The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, trac...

Synopsis The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the ...

Synopsis International Bestseller. The extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study...

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

Synopsis Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of ...

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...