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Gallows Thief - Bernard Cornwell

1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was…

Letters from a Stoic - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of…

Dragonsong - Anne McCaffreyová

Let Anne McCaffrey, storyteller extraordinare and New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, take you on a journey to a whole new world: Pern. A world of dragons and…

Against the Grain - James C. Scott

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations  An Economist Best…

The Collector - Fiona Cummins

It’s time to go back to the beginning.A psychopath with a sinister obsession. A troubled teenager training as his apprentice. The search for Clara Foyle – and the detective…

Little Wolf’s Book of Badness - Ian Whybrow

A new edition of the first novel about much-loved character Little Wolf from the author of the MEERKAT MADNESS books and HARRY AND THE BUCKETFUL OF DINOSAURS.All Little Wolf wants…

Consider the Fork - Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the ''Kitchen Thinker'' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled!. Her charming and original new book,…

Summer at Mount Asama - Masashi Matsuie

Toru Sakanishi is a recent university graduate who joins a small, prestigious architecture firm founded by Shunsuke Murai, a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright. A sensitive and…

World Football Club Crests - Leonard Jagerskiold Nilsson

An illustrated exploration of the design, meaning and symbolism of world football club crests.Why is there a devil shown on the crest of Manchester United? Which club’s crest…

Lost in Music - Giles Smith

''In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered,…

The Skeleton Man - Jim Kelly

The Cambridgeshire hamlet of Jude''s Ferry is a lonely, forgotten spot. Requisitioned decades earlier by the Ministry of Defence for military training, one of its few claims to…

Titanic's Lifeboats - James W Bancroft

Foot by foot Titanic’s lifeboat No.11 slowly jerked its way down the sides of the great ocean liner as it slipped beneath the cold, dark waters of the Atlantic. For the fifty or…

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Tolstoy is said to have called Les Miserables the greatest novel ever written, and it exerted a powerful influence on the creation of War and Peace. At one level a detective story…

Sushi for Beginners - Marian Keyes

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2022***Dive into the blissfully funny No. 1 bestseller about three women who find themselves criss-crossing the…

The Pisces - Melissa Broder

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019''Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away'' DOLLY ALDERTON''Frank…