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Alis Hawkins Paperback 400 pages Amongst the scholars, secrets and soporifics of Victorian Oxford, the truth can be a bitter pill to swallow…Jesus College, Oxford, 1881. An undergraduate is fo...

Andrew Monaghan Paperback 224 pages This illuminating book explains how and why Russia’s relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of ‘great power competi...

Jonathan Healey Paperback 512 pages The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collaps...

Thomas Hertog paperback 336 pages sStephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the universe. Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried t...

Mark Haddon Paperback 288 pages Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but fi...

Paperback 353 pagina's In januari 1996 verrast Bart Moeyaert zijn zeventigjarige moeder met een verjaardagscadeau. Ze gaan samen drie dagen naar Parijs. Met deze citytrip als leidraad schetst Moey...

Jenny Hval Paperback 160 pages Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a roommate with no boundaries, and a home that seem...

Margaret Atwood Hardback 336 pages Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household o...

Kurt Vonnegut Hardback 192 pages A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century. 'A book to read and reread. He is a true artist' New ...

Julia Fine Paperback 304 pages Venice, 1717. Before Maddalena arrived at the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice's most illustrious music school, fifteen-year-old orphan Luisa has only wanted one th...

Venki Ramakrishnan Paperback How can science help us live better and longer? We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why...

Andre Aciman Hardback 176 pages We spend more time than we know trying to go back. We call it fantasising, we call it dreaming. . . but we're all crawling back, each in his or her own way. A g...

Paperback Brian Sanderson #1 New York Times Bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere Universe with a standalone adventure that will appeal to fans of The Princess Bri...

Jessie Jans Hardback 26 pagina's Een ondeugende babyaap nestelt zich nog wat dichter tegen mama, terwijl een speelse babybeer het niet kan weerstaan om mama te plagen. Volg mee hoe deze babyd...

F.Scott Fitzgerald Paperback 584 pages This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text of the novel. A full introduction, a note on the text and explanatory annotatio...

Pierre-Joseph Redouté Hardback 192 pages The revered tradition of botanical illustration dates back to the Renaissance. It emerged from the desire to catalog nature in its unpredictable splendor...

Plato Hardback 656 pages The Platonic ideal of government. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practit...

Mary Beard Paperback 336 pages What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the unco...

Sue Minix Paperback 336 pages She can write the perfect murder mystery… But can she solve one in real life? Meet Jen Dawson, mystery writer, coffee lover, and amateur detective? Crime writer J...

Chris Lintott Hardback 272 pages Our view of the Universe is changing. The timeless heavens, turning ceaselessly above us, have been revealed to be dynamic and ever-changing, requiring a new kind...

Susannah Nix Paperback 304 pages Opposites attract in this STEM romantic comedy when a super-intelligent geek girl meets a bad-boy billionaire. The last thing Melody expects when she interviews ...

C.S. Lewis Paperback 272 pages A voyage to the very ends of the world A beautiful paperback edition of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, book five in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of ...

Naoise Mac Sweeney Paperback 448 pages A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives. We tend to imagine W...

Elif Shafak Paperback 368 pages "Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough...