Religious strife, Glastonbury legends, the bones of King Arthur and the curse of the Tudors... can astrologer John Dee help the young Queen Elizabeth to avoid it? And can fans of C.J. Sansom afford to miss Phil Rickman's stunning new series of historical crime thrillers?
As read on Radio 4, an irresistibly joyful memoir of mothers and daughters, and the importance of home. 'The book is a joy... A bittersweet reminder to all Jamaica's exiles of what we have lost'. Independent
A novel that offers an adventure story about a young boy forced to square fantasy against reality.
The bestseller on the credit crunch. In this brilliant short book, Vince Cable, 'the sage of the credit crunch' (Daily Telegraph) explains how we got here and where we're going.
Strummer, Jones, Simonon & Headon. In their own words. For the first time. In paperback.
Combining natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, To Sea and Back is a dazzling portrait of a fish whose story is closely intertwined with our own.
Taro - Japanese fisherman's son and silent assassin trained in the arts of death - is back in a second thrilling novel of ancient curses, epic battles, scheming warlords... and blood-sucking ninjas. 'A fierce, stylish, brooding, relentless beast of a book. The night has a new hero.' DARREN SHAN on Blood Ninja
The candid autobiography from Britain's most trusted politician, now available in paperback.
The remarkable new novel from Nick McDonell, An Expensive Education cuts between the African bush and Harvard - taking its readers deep inside this iconic university and the inner workings of the American intelligence service. 'One of the most exciting new writers around.' Independent on Sunday
The third instalment in the Merrily Watkins series: Single mother and Diocesan Exorcist Merrily Watkins must keep the peace in rural Hereford, quelling a modern witch hunt, and a killer with an old tradition to guard...
In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries: Germany and Japan. 'A comparative study of great subtlety and intelligence' Spectator
Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. This title presents a portrait of the era of invention and glamour.
Timothy Garton Ash lived behind the Berlin Wall and joined the millions spied on by the Stasi. In 1993, he gained access to his Stasi file. Here he tells his story, in a classic memoir of dictatorship and betrayal. 'A chilling portrait of treachery and compromise... bravely and beautifully written' John le Carre
Pascal Mercier's haunting novel of the paths not taken, the choices not made, the lives not lived, Night Train to Lisbon has captured the hearts of readers across Europe, with over two million copies sold worldwide. 'A treat for the mind. One of the best books I have read in a long time.' Isabel Allende
As globalisation wobbles into world crisis, a vividly written, brilliantly original history of world trade, the first for a generation: 'A Splendid Exchange is a splendid book.' New York TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES / GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
Explores the astonishing range of activities that go on inside our heads, most of which are entirely beyond our control. Describing about the head and brain, this book demonstrates that not only does consciousness not reside between our ears, but that our heads are infinitely cleverer than we are.
During the Cultural Revolution Jan Wong studied in Beijing and reported a fellow student to the authorities. Over thirty years later, she returned to China to find out what happened to the woman she betrayed. Chinese Whispers tells her remarkable story. 'Wong points the way for the future of travel writing.' Book of the Week, The Times
The acclaimed second instalment of The John Dee Papers. Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts - brooding superstition leaves John Dee isolated in the land of his father...
Follow the adventures of the world's most sought-after postage stamps - from a tropical Indian Ocean island to the hushed atmosphere of the modern auction room - in this dramatic and passionate tale of the first stamp hunters.
Now in paperback: one of the world's greatest mathematicians explains his revolutionary hypothesis about the enigma at the heart of maths: omega (?). 'Chaitin comes across as a kind of mathematical Richard Feynman, intuitive and high-spirited, irreverent and plain-spoken.' Peter Pesic, TLS
This 'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son, immortalized in Philippa Gregory's bestselling novels Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth.
Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008
The sixth instalment of Robert Fabbri's bestselling Vespasian series. Vespasian's ascent to power continues: sent to defend Rome's interest in the East, Vespasian is imprisoned in the oldest city in the world...
The book of our time is now in paperback: Deception exposes the truth about how the West allowed Pakistan to bring nuclear arms to the very rogue states and terrorist organizations that today threaten to destabilize the entire world.
Now available in paperback, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, the book that created the field of economics, is transformed into a page-turner of global significance by America's sharpest political commentator writing in English today.
James Cracknell and Ben Fogle's hardback smash of Christmas 2006 becomes a massive paperback bestseller in summer 2007. 'Read this... Two very different men fight, play games and nearly lose their lives.' The Times
Introducing a world literary figure: Sayed Kashua's Let It Be Morning is written with the moral clarity of Damon Galgut and the existential power of Albert Camus.
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