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One windy spring day in the Chilterns, Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD.
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Welcome to Lost River - and an unforgettable Christmas…
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One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. He has sold...

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a...

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It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in...

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M.R. James wrote his ghost stories to entertain friends on Christmas Eve, and they went on to both transform and modernise a...

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How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in...

Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free...

Doudna... , Sternberg...

Jennifer Doudna, the world-famous scientist behind CRISPR, 'one of the most monumental discoveries in biology' (New York Times),...

"Call me Ishmael." So begins the famous opening chapter of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Young sailor Ishmael is hired as a crew...

The original and best translation by Michael Glenny 50th Anniversary Edition Afterwards, when it was frankly too late,...

The original translation by Robert Chandler, updated and revised
The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an...

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