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A furiously witty response to Tobias Smollett's curmudgeonly 'Travels through France and Italy', Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental...

Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something...

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea

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Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place...

The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England

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The Scorching New Thriller From The Bestselling Author Of The Girl On The Train And Into The Water

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Three women, connected by one brutal crime.
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A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer...

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the...

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the...

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'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'

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