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'A breathtakingly hilarious and absorbing portrait of one of the most brilliant, dotty, dippy delirious yet ultimately inspiring eccentrics in British history . . . A remarkable story of cultural...

An esthetician and single mother with no connections, Anastasia Soare risked her life escaping communist Romania to come to America. Raising Brows tells the remarkable story of how she built...

The Irish weather. Subject of endless conversations, the saviour of small talk and famously unreliable. We all know it well, as a constant, if capricious, backdrop to our lives. But...

'Quintessentially indispensable ... brimming with generosity and love of life. I want to share this book with everyone I love and those I don't ... in the conviction that Home...

How do you rebuild yourself when your whole world changes overnight?Thrust onto the public stage at fifteen years old after the Taliban’s brutal attack on her life, Malala quickly became...

"Modern History" completes, with "Ancient History" (published in 2004), a new two-volume illustrated edition, completely revised and fully updated, of the late J.M. Roberts' "History of the World", first published...

Step inside the historic homes of the Guinness family and enter a world of power, privilege and palatial living. The Guinnesses became famous as brewers, philanthropists and socialites, but they...

A nation on the cusp of war. A king ousted from his capital by the people. A society on the brink of collapse. From Jonathan Healey comes a thrilling history...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERShortlisted for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards for 2019'A beautifully textured tour around the cheeseboard' Simon Garfield'Full of flavour' Sunday Times'A delightful...

Tells the story of an incredible leader and legend, John F. Kennedy. In this groundbreaking new series, DK brings together fresh voices and DK design values to give readers the...

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Pocket Berlin is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden...

The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos - A Financial Times, Guardian and Daily Express Book of the...

Whether you are travelling first class or on a limited budget, this Eyewitness Top 10 guide will lead you straight to the very best Madrid has to offer. Dozens of...

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Barcelona will lead you straight to the very best on offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10...

DK's Family Guide Rome, from the groundbreaking family travel series, is written by parents and guarantees the entire family will enjoy their trip. With child-friendly sleeping and eating options, detailed...

This book examines the circumstances and ideas that are currently shaping the new management. The book is divided into two sections. Part one looks at the ways in which change...

From international bestselling author, Jim Champy, and rising star at Harvard Business School, Nitin Nohria, comes a provocative and inspirational approach to the art of management. . In businessor in...

Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The...

Most of us are only too aware that, whatever roles we have in today's fast-moving world, much of our success lies in getting others to say 'Yes' to our requests....

Written over 30 years, these essays range over the field of Anglo-Irish literature from Yeats, Joyce and Synge through Patrick Kavanagh and Mary Lavin to Brendan Kennelly and Eavan Boland.

Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying that most of these leaders are men.In this timely and provocative book, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic...

This volume collects 50 stories of gardening invention, innovation and discovery. Among them is that of Thomas Hyl, who in 1577 devised the first water sprinkler; Nathaniel Ward who began...

A memoir chronicling the early personal and political life of the current Prime Minster of Italy. "I have heard too many people talk about me and my ideas not to...

The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political upheavals which spanned the British Isles in the mid-seventeenth century. It was fought on a wide range of...

In Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing...

In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than...