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Gayle Forman If I StayA special anniversary edition of Gayle Forman's breakout bestseller, If I Stay, in a brand new look and with an additional chapter to Mia's story! Everything can change in an instant...
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Albert Espinosa If You Tell Me to Come, I'll Drop Everything, Just Tell Me to Come ENDani has devoted his life to finding missing children. One day, as his girlfriend starts packing her bags to leave him, he gets a phone call from a distraught father asking for help. It's a strange case, one that Dani wouldn't usually take on. But, when he hears his girlfriend slam the front door, and his apartment falls into silence, he realizes it's one he can't turn down. His journey to find the lost boy takes…
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Jeremy Clarkson If You’d Just Let Me Finish!Clarkson is back with a brand new book of hilarious stories and observations about our gone-wrong world. In November 2016 we woke up to the news that the forthright presenter of a popular television programme had become ...
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Adam Haslett Imagine Me GoneSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017. Universal and essential, the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy Michael is a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music...
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Stefan Zweig Impatience of the Heart ENThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Impatience of the Heart, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings. Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the edge of the empire, is invited to a party at the home of a rich local landowner, a world away from the dreary routine of…
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Jonathan Losos Improbable DestiniesA dazzling tour of evolution in action that sheds light on one of the greatest debates in science. The natural world is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved ...
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John Bradshaw In Defence of Dogs ENWhat would dogs ask for, if they knew how? In the Sunday Times bestseller In Defence of Dogs John Bradshaw, an anthropologist at Bristol University who has been at the centre of the latest research into what makes dogs tick, gives us the answers. Overturning the most common myths about dogs' emotions and behaviour, this book shows how we should really treat our pets, and stands up for dogdom: not the wolf in canine…
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Michael Pollan In Defence of Food ENThese simple words get to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. Humans used to know how to eat well, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through the generations have become confused, complicated and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists and journalists, all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result we face today a complex culinary…
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Gabriel García Márquez In Evil Hour ENMoments later, César is arrested by police who clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. But César is not the only man riled the rumours spread in his hometown - someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. Paranoia seeps through the town - can the perpetrator be uncovered before leaving the inhabitants' sanity in tatters? In Evil Hour is re-issued on Gabriel García…
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Alfred Hayes In Love ENHayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a pretty girl a story: of how he fell into a relationship with a lonely young divorcee; of how one night she was offered a thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Alfred Hayes's exquisite novella,…
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Sue Roe In Montmartre ENThe real revolution in the arts first took place not, as is commonly supposed, in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston, black jazz and mint juleps but more quietly and intimately, in the shadow of the windmills - artificial and real - and in the cafes and cabarets of Montmartre during the first decade of the century. The cross-fertilization of painting, writing, music and dance produced a panorama of…
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Sue Roe In MontparnasseDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbourhood of Montparnasse, a unique flowering of avant-garde artistic creativity became the cradle of Dada and Surrealism. In this crowd biography, Sue Roe tells the story - from Duchamp to Dali, ...
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Lucy Kellaway In Office HoursStella Bradberry and Bella Chambers work at the same high-achieving, high-end London firm. They embark on affairs with male colleagues they wouldn't look twice at outside work...
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Stephen Vizinczey In Praise of Older Women EN'You cannot put it down: witty, moving and it's all about sex' - Margaret Drabble. 'A masterpiece ...dazzling ...like all great novels, it shows the truth about life' - Le Monde. 'At the basis of pleasure, of eroticism, Vizinczey places consciousness. His novel consists of scenes which you can see ...Stupefying: it leaves you breathless with excitement. Here, everything is living ardour, inexhaustible fervour' -…
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Colin Thubron In Siberia ENIn the early 80s Colin Thubron wrote a bestselling book about his travels around the Soviet Union in an old Morris Minor. In the late 90s, post Soviet Union, he decided to explore Siberia - this time by truck, by bus, by boat. The result is a wonderfully readable and evocative account of an extraordinary region. He travels through exotic cities and deserted villages, meets nostalgic old Stalinists and aggressive…
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Hisham Matar In the Country of Men ENOn a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business — but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street … From a breathtaking new talent comes an utterly gripping, emotional novel told from the point of view of a young boy growing up in a terrifying and bewildering world where his best…
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Sylvia Day In the Flesh ENFor five years, Sapphire has been the King of Sari's most treasured concubine. Independent at last, she refuses to put herself in anyone's control again. But now another's scheming has led her into the path of proud, arrogant Wulfric, Crown Prince of the rival kingdom of D'Ashier, a man who is dangerous to her in every way. The daughter of Wulfric's fiercest opponent, Sapphire is a prized warrior in her own right…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Incerto (Box Set)Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don't understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books...
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Richard Eaton India in the Persianate AgeA sweeping, magisterial new history of India from the middle ages to the arrival of the British...
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Dante Alighieri Inferno ENDiscover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate figures are condemned to eternal damnation for committing one or more of seven deadly sins. As he descends through nine concentric circles of increasingly agonising torture, Dante encounters many doomed souls before he…
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Kiran Desai Inheritance of Loss ENAt the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook's son trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy. When a Nepalese insurgency threatens Sai's blossoming romance with her handsome tutor they are forced to consider their colliding…
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Roald Dahl Innocence ENThere's a whole world of Dahl still to discover in a newly collected book of his deliciously dark tales for adults. What makes us innocent and how do we come to lose it? Featuring the autobiographical stories telling of Roald Dahl's boyhood and youth as well as four further tales of innocence betrayed, Dahl touches on the joys and horrors of growing up. Among other stories, you'll read about the wager that destroys…
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Gabriel García Márquez Innocent Erendira and Other Stories ENInnocent Erendira and Other Stories is a collection of short stories from the Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'Erendira was bathing her grandmother when the wind of misfortune began to blow' While her grotesque and demanding grandmother retires to bed, Erendira still has floors to wash, sheets to iron, and a peacock to feed. The…