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Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small

Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small

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Author: Clare Balding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bobbie the Wonder dog crossed more than 2,500 miles of plains, desert and mountains to find his way home - and...
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history

A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history

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Author: Annabelle Hirsch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from...
Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X

Warriors, Rebels and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X

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Author: Moshik Temkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Across the world, and throughout time, there have been people who have risen to the challenge of leading others. Sometimes their...
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

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Author: David Bellos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Fascinating' Telegraph 'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post 'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker '[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times...
Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind

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Author: Frank Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of a...
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination

Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination

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Author: Glyn Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A compelling, fully illustrated account of the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted in film, literature and art, and the...
Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic

Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic

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Author: Amy Jeffs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Storyland and Wild, comes a sweeping new legendary of miracles, magic, human frailty and...
Churchill & Son

Churchill & Son

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Author: Josh Ireland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of...
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

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Author: Jacob McHangama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 "The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made." --P.J. O'Rourke Hailed as...
Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

Republic of Wrath: How American Politics Turned Tribal, From George Washington to Donald Trump

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Author: James A. Morone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 American politics seems to be in an unprecedented uproar. But in this revelatory work of political history, James A. Morone...
A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World

A Trillion Trees: How We Can Reforest Our World

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Author: Fred Pearce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Trees keep our planet cool and breathable. They make the rain and sustain biodiversity. They are essential for nature and for...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

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Author: Adam Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their...
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

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Author: Rahul Bhatia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's...
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire

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Author: Michael Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional...
Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century

Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century

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Author: Josh Rogin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump's high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of...
The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America

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Author: Jim Sciutto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Are we losing a war few of us realize we're fighting Jim Sciutto, CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent, reveals the invisible...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage

Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage

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Author: Jane Eastoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as distinctive in style...
Older, Wiser, Fiercer: The Wit and Wisdom of Women

Older, Wiser, Fiercer: The Wit and Wisdom of Women

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Author: Virginia Wilde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 True wisdom comes with age, the saying goes. Of course it does - and this book proves it. Older, Wiser, Fiercer...
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs

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Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to...
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century

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Author: Daniel Treisman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 How a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracy Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence,...
Small Angels: 'A twisting gothic tale of darkness, intrigue, heartbreak and revenge' Jennifer Saint

Small Angels: 'A twisting gothic tale of darkness, intrigue, heartbreak and revenge' Jennifer Saint

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Author: Lauren Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'A twisting gothic tale of darkness, intrigue, heartbreak and revenge' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE ''This story of bewitchment and revenge...
This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

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Author: Various Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn...
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption

Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption

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Author: Patrick Alley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ***** 'Reads like a John le Carre novel but is, in fact, very real.' - The Big Issue 'Very Bad People...
Mother and Child Companion

Mother and Child Companion

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Author: Kate Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "A mother always has to think twice - once for herself and once for her child." This simple truth hides an...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

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Author: Peter Apps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT 'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE 'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAIL The history of the world's...
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture - 'A cracking read' (Val McDermid)

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture - 'A cracking read' (Val McDermid)

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Author: June Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important. A highly...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology

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Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution

The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution

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Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to...
DC: Women of Action

DC: Women of Action

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Author: Shea Fontana Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 For decades, Super Heroes have inspired us to reach new heights, find strength in adversity, and access our inner power. This...
Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator

Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator

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Author: Jung H. Pak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "The mysterious, brutal, and calculating Kim Jong Un has risen to become the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear rogue state....
Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere

Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate's Manosphere

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Author: Jamie Tahsin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'This gripping book is destined to become THE book about Andrew Tate' Jon Ronson 'This is the behind the scenes investigation...
Forgotten Women

Forgotten Women

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Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

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Author: Ric Prado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars...
How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider

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Author: Ian Dunt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER British politics is broken. Anyone sitting down to watch the news will get the sense that...
The Case against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent

The Case against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent

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Author: P. E. Moskowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 There's a critical debate taking place in this country over one of the most fundamental pillars of our democracy: free...
Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of the Music Press

Totally Wired: The Rise and Fall of the Music Press

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Author: Paul Gorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A raucous yet reflective look back at the evolution of the music press and the passionate rock and pop journalists who...
Why Do Elephants Have Big Ears?: Questions - and Surprising Answers - About Animals

Why Do Elephants Have Big Ears?: Questions - and Surprising Answers - About Animals

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Author: Steve Jenkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 Fascinating "Why" questions about animals, and plenty of new ones, take centre stage in the latest book by Caldecott Honor-winning duo...
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise

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Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand new volume that reframes the...
Politics, But Better: An A - Z Guide to Creating a More Hopeful Future

Politics, But Better: An A - Z Guide to Creating a More Hopeful Future

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Author: Tatton Spiller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Strikes across the country. A prime minister resigning after just forty-four days. Accusations of bullying in the House of Commons. Our...
Speaking and Being: How Language Binds and Frees Us

Speaking and Being: How Language Binds and Frees Us

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Author: Kubra Gumusay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Language opens up our world, and in the same instant, limits it. What does it mean to exist in a language...
The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine, to Keto, to Companionship, a User's Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter

The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine, to Keto, to Companionship, a User's Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter

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Author: Emily Willingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A candid and practical guide to the new frontier of brain customization Dozens of books promise to improve your brain function...
Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It

Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What To Do About It

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Author: Jake Wallis Simons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer. There's no one more qualified to write...
Death in the Blood: the most shocking scandal in NHS history from the journalist who has followed the story for over two decades

Death in the Blood: the most shocking scandal in NHS history from the journalist who has followed the story for over two decades

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Author: Caroline Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'This book should rock Whitehall to its foundations.' - Andy Burnham 'This is crusading journalism at its best.' - Lord Owen...
Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election

Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election

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Author: Michael Isikoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic...
The Hedgehog Diaries: 'The most poignant and heartwarming memoir of the year'

The Hedgehog Diaries: 'The most poignant and heartwarming memoir of

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"If you buy one book this year make sure it's this one... Enchanting."Daily Mail"This charming book weaves hedgehogs into our hearts, our lives and our national identity."John WitherowA few days...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

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Author: Barnes Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side...
Lawfare

Lawfare

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Author: Geoffrey Robertson, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney...
Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche

Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche

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Author: John Higgs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all...