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Superforecasting - Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner

What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. This book offers practical advice on how we can…

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman - Richard Phillips Feynman

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world''s greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into…

The Idiot Brain - Dean Burnett

''Compelling and wise and rational.'' - Jon Ronson''A wonderful introduction to neuroscience, and deserves to be widely read.'' - IndependentMotion sickness.Nightmares.Forgetting…

Out of My Mind - Sharon M. Draper

A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!“A gutsy, candid, and compelling story. It speaks volumes.” —School Library Journal (starred review)“Unflinching and…

The Acid House - Irvine Welsh

The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two…

Birds Without Wings - Louis de Berniéres

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and…

Things I've Been Silent About - Azar Nafisi

In Azar Nafisi's personal story of growing up in Iran, she shares her memories of a life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's…

An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears

''A fictional tour de force which combines erudition with mystery'' PD JamesOxford in the 1660s. Sarah Blundy stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College…

The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan

Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows…

Paradise - Toni Morrisonová

Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the…

The Butlerian Jihad - Kevin James Anderson, Brian Herbert

Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings.Decades after Herbert's original novels, the…

Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner

Winner of the Booker Prize''The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired,…

Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee

**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**''A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today'' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical…

Kurt Cobain - Cobain Kurt

The first publication of Kurt Cobain''s diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and candid, and suprisingly funny, pieces of writing…

The End of Faith - Sam Harris

This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today''s world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind''s…