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As a specialist in creativity, Edward de Bono - whose instruction has been sought by corporations such as IBM, DuPont, and Ford, and by the governments of the US, Brazil,...

With the imminent arrival of her third child, veterinary surgeon, Gillian Hick, decides to abandon the perils of mixed animal practice, in a favour of setting up a small animal...

YOU'D DIE FOR THEM. THEY'D KILL FOR YOU. . . An intoxicating upmarket thriller with shades of The Secret History for the Me Too eraClare arrives at the University of...

THE THIRD BOOK IN THE PSAMMEAD TRILOGY, FOLLOWING FIVE CHILDREN AND IT AND THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET'My all-time favourite classic children's author' JACQUELINE WILSON 'I love her books, particularly...

Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Novel AwardCecilia Banks has a great deal on her plate. But when her son Ian turns up on her doostep with the unexpected consequence of...

Eddie Chapman: rogue, criminal, confidence trickster, hero to both sides and betrayer of all. At the start of the Second World War, Chapman was recruited by the German Secret Service....

Flanders, June 1917: a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English...

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Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B. Cook Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Following the success of Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby was hailed as a comic triumph and...

Face to face with the mightiest and most majestic predator in the jungle, Elsie is in awe of the tiger's beauty. She's on a mission to have the adventure of...

An honest, funny and feminist take on living with your period (and hormones!), by the award-winning sex education and body positivity champion, and author of Doing It!, Hannah Witton. When...

'The Girl with All The Gifts meets To Kill A Mockingbird' Claire North, author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August'It's quite rare to find a story with this...

An extraordinary family and an unrelenting landscape combine to create an epic story of survival and redemption.Spring, 1938. Teodor returns home after nearly two years spent in prison for the...

70,000 years ago, the human race almost went extinct. We survived, but no one knows how. Now the next stage of human evolution is beginning. Will we survive this time?...

No matter how fast you run, the past always catches up with you. 'A gripping and tense thriller' - Heat 'A must have' - Sunday Express Dr Maria Martinez is...

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEDo you ever feel like you're not speaking the same language?Swedish immigrant Kristin won't talk about her pregnancy. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend Ciaran won't speak...

A landmark in travel writing, this is the incredible true story of Heinrich Harrer's escape across the Himalayas to Tibet, set against the backdrop of the Second World War. Heinrich...

Inspired by true events... 'Moving and authentic' Dinah Jefferies'Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful' Jenny Ashcroft'A beautiful, tender and fascinating story' Sinead Moriarty 'Deeply moving. Be prepared - have handkerchiefs...

Sometimes I feel as big as a bear . . .But there will always be someone bigger than me.There are lots of ways that we can feel, so many emotions...

For three decades, until the day he collapsed in the Brazilian surf in 1979, Josef Mengele, the Angel of Death who performed horrific experiments on the prisoners of Auschwitz, floated...

A bumper collection of Ireland's favourite legends for children.Included are: The Children of Lir, The Brown Bull of Cooley, Deirdre of the Sorrows, The Salmon of Knowledge and a host...

Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury.Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels. It is certainly...

WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.Reproduction tells a crooked love story which...

Geralt the Witcher has fought monsters and demons across the land, but even he may not be prepared for what is happening to his world. The kings and armies are...

The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we're following the...

Hong Kong, August 2017. On the eve of a crisis summit for world economic leaders, two Chinese Methodist ministers are killed in an apparently motiveless execution in Hong Kong's financial...

'Terrific fun' David Walsh, Sunday Times * * 'Thoroughly engaging' Washington Post A frank and revealing biography of legendary golf champion Phil Mickelson - who has led a big, controversial...

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAmory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his...

'Unflinching, unforgettable . . . a step up for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid' - The Bookseller'Totally absorbing and evocative' - Kate Riordan, bestselling author of The Heat WaveWhat happens...

Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is the foundation of...

A heartbreaking new novel of grief, family and the enduring power of love from the author of We Must Be Brave When I open my eyes I see a small...

Urbane. Brilliant. Brave. Funny. Famous. Handsome. Nigel Havers is the real-life charmer you might expect.In a career that has taken him from a schoolboy production of A Midsummer Night's Dream...

Do you feel like we're in a permacrisis? Chances are you feel some anxiety about the state of the world. Gordon Brown, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence certainly did....

'These days, watching television is like sitting in the back of Travis Bickle's taxicab, staring through the window at a world of relentless, churning shod . . .'Cruel, acerbic, impassioned,...

Will Buckingham travelled to Tanimbar Islands (Indonesia) as a trainee anthropologist to meet three remarkable sculptors: the crippled Matias Fatruan, the buffalo hunter Abraham Amelwatin, and Damianus Masele, who was...