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Hannah Proctor Paperback 272 pages In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the fro...

Gillian Dooley Hardback 344 pages Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her bo...

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...

Annie Ernaux Paperback 72 pages On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux’s mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this l...

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...

Mark Lawrence Paperback The second volume in the bestselling, ground-breaking Library Trilogy, following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN.We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we wan...

Nigel Townson Paperback 608 pages SA revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to...

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...

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Paperback 208 pages These are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shotthrough with a fantastical sensibility, they of...

Kevin Jared Hosein Paperback 352 pages The music was still playing when Dalton Changoor vanished into thin air... On a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Ma...

Isabel Allende Hardback 528 pages As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her ...

Megan Nolan Paperback 240 pages It’s 1990 in London and, after the death of a young girl on an estate, the finger of suspicion is pointing at one reclusive Irish family: the Greens. At their h...

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...

Quinn Slobodian Paperback 352 pages Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globaliz...

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...

Sebastiao Salgado Hardback 192 pages Sebastião Salgado’s haunting black-and-white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of mo...

Chris Bryant Hardback 336 pages From award-winning historian and Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Bryant MP, James and John tells the story of what it meant to be gay in early 19th-century B...

Annie Jacobsen Paperback There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. It could start in as little as 26 minut...

Liz Nugent Paperback 384 pages Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died. N...

Alexander Lernet-Holenia Paperback 160 pages The war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sen...

Jonathan Buckley Paperback 200 pages Curtis Doyle, a self-made businessman and art collector, has vanished from his palatial home in the Scottish Highlands. In the wake of his disappearance, the...

Bibliotheca Universalis Hardback 760 pages The history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognized as a medium in its own right. Cologne's...

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...

Osamu Dazai Paperback 256 pages "Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishm...