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John O'Farrell An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain ENFollowing his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?'. An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain informs, elucidates and laughs at all the bizarre events, ridiculous characters and stupid decisions that have shaped Britain's story since 1945; leaving the Twenty-First Century reader…
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Shari Lapena An Unwanted GuestWe can’t choose the strangers we meet. As the guests arrive at beautiful, remote Mitchell’s Inn, they’re all looking forward to a relaxing weekend deep in the forest, miles from anywhere...
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Shari Lapena An Unwanted GuestWe can't choose the strangers we meet. As the guests arrive at beautiful, remote Mitchell's Inn, they're all looking forward to a relaxing weekend deep in the forest, miles from anywhere...
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Shari Lapena An Unwanted GuestThe twisty new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and A Stranger in the House. A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway ...
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Roxane Gay An Untamed State ENMireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti's richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father's Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille…
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Jostein Gaarder An Unreliable ManFrom the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder, author of modern classic Sophie's World, comes a novel about loneliness and the power of words. Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends ...
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Paul Thomas An Unreliable History of TattoosThe tattoo is an art form, a practice... for some, a ritual. Its history is long and colorful, dating back to the Neolithic, when our ancestors marked their bodies with symbolic lines derived from a carbon paste. Today, those same...
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Kay Redfield Jamison An Unquiet Mind ENWith an introduction by Andrew Solomon 'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty.' Oliver Sacks I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me: it mocked me for my vapid enthusiasms; it laughed at all of my foolish plans; it no longer found anything interesting or enjoyable or worthwhile. Dr Kay Redfield Jamison is one of…
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Ruth Rendell An Unkindness of RavensCornerstone: UNKINDNESS: the collective word for a group of ravens. They are not particularly predatory birds. . . but neither are they soft and submissive. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. And he certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide.
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Susanna Gregory An Unholy Alliance ENIn 1350 the people of Cambridge are struggling to overcome the effects of the Black Death. Bands of outlaws roam the land and the high death rate among priests and monks has left the people vulnerable to sinister cults that have grown up in the wake of the plague. At Michaelhouse Matthew Bartholomew is training new physicians to replace those who died of the pestilence. When the body of a friar is found in the…
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Stephen Halliday An Underground Guide to SewersLose yourself in the vast sewer networks that lie beneath the world's great cities - past and present. Let detailed archival plans, maps and photographs guide you through these subterranean labyrinths - previously accessible only to their builders...
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Amartya Sen, Jean Dréze An Uncertain Glory ENTwo of India's leading economists argue that, despite economic development, there must be a greater understanding of inequalities in India. When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial subjugation, it immediately - and quite successfully - adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech and extensive political rights. The famines that had been so…
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Václav Havel An Uncanny Era: Conversations Between Vaclav Havel and Adam MichnikThe first publication in book form of the historic postrevolution conversations between activist playwright and Czech president Vaclav Havel and Polish journalist Adam Michnik...
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Leonhard Lipka An Outline of English Lexicology ENLexical Structure, Word Semantics, and Word-Formation.
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Susanna Gregory An Order for Death ENBelievers in the theory of nominalism have set some Cambridge colleges at the throats of those who believe them to be heretics and Michael, the Senior Proctor, has his work cut out to keep the peace. When a nominalist is murdered during a riot Michael is certain he will easily find the killer amongst the Dominicans, but before he can get any sense out of them his junior proctor, Walcote, is found hanged and he…
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Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of MinoritiesA young farmer named Chinonso prevents a woman from falling to her death. Bonded by this strange night on the bridge, he and Ndali fall in love, but it is a mismatch according to her family who reject him because of his lowly status...
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Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of MinoritiesUmuahia, Nigeria. Chinonso, a young poultry farmer, sees a woman attempting to jump to her death from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his most ...
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Robert Harris An Officer and a Spy ENOn a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying 'Death to the Jew! 'The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army's youngest colonel and put in command of 'the Statistical Section' - the shadowy intelligence unit that tracked down…
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Julia Quinn An Offer From a Gentleman ENSophie Beckett never dreamed she`d be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton`s famed masquerade ball or that Prince Charming would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all…
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Daniel Mendelsohn An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an EpicFrom the award-winning, best-selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols in...
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Jenny Colgan An Island ChristmasChristmas on the remote Scottish island of Mure is bleak, stark - and incredibly beautiful. It's a time for hunkering down, getting cosy in front of whisky barrel wood fires, and enjoying a dram with the people you love ...
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