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A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise - OLD FILTH is now reissued with a new cover.Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fos

The witty and sparkling new novel from Jane Gardam, bestselling author of Old Filth. Old Filth and The Man in the Wooden Hat told with bristling tenderness and black humour the stories of that Titan o

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A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and a companion novel to OLD FILTH.Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon a

Niche is an eye-opening analysis of why big business has failed to sell to the mainstream, in the tradition of Chris Anderson's The Long Tail As high street and main street businesses continue to suf

For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more exciting life—a way to travel, meet new people, and, hopefully, pick up girls. But as bass player of Blur—one of the most successful

★ 一杯卡布奇諾，揭開全球經濟的祕密規則★ 用日常故事破解房價、貧富差距與黑市經濟★ 不用公式也能懂的經濟學入門經典★ 橫掃全球暢銷榜，最會說故事的經濟學書為什麼早晨在車站買一杯咖啡，真正賺最多的不是你以為的人？為什麼努力工作，卻還是買不起房？同樣是非法生意，為何黑手黨能從洗衣業獲利，街頭幫派卻只能靠毒品維生？提姆．哈福德以敏銳觀察與幽默筆觸，帶領讀者從日常生活出發，看見隱藏在背後的經濟邏輯。從倫敦街頭到上海摩天大樓，再到歐洲小鎮的運河，他拆解市場運作的祕密：價格如何形成？誰掌握權力？資訊如何影響選擇？這不是艱澀的教科書，而是一場充滿智慧與洞察的探索之旅。當你看懂這些「看不見的規則」，就會發現——經濟學，其實早已深深影響我們的每一個決定。Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don’t? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China, in just fifty years, go from the world’s worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time, lifting a million people out of poverty a month?Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrape

A fascinating look at a world in which we have become obsessed with economic growth at theexpense of quality of life, and what we can do to changeEver get the feeling that things are falling apart? Yo

From Emmy Award?winning comedian Rich Hall, a hilarious short story collection From the grouchy, deadpan, comic genius and brilliantly witty author of Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society and Things Sno

From the grouchy, deadpan, comic genius and brilliantly witty author of Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society and Things Snowball comes this wonderful new collection of stories of magnificent bastards an

Celebrated bestselling author Sun-mi Hwang is back with a heartwarming new novel about renewal and friendship.This is the story of a man named Kang Dae-su. His whole life is a miracle, rising from pov

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of

The most thrilling novel I've read all year' Kate Atkinson I LOVED YOUI HATED YOUI NEVER KNEW YOU... Rachel's husband adores her. When she hit rock bottom, he was there with her every step of the way

'Complex, tense, compelling' Lee Child 'Hitchcockian...with characteristically twisty action and crackling dialogue' Guardian Best Crime & Thriller Books of 2017 On a Tuesday in May, in her thirty

'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening Standard Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with th

Widely considered the greatest genius of all time, Albert Einstein revolutionised our understanding of the cosmos with his general theory of relativity and helped to lead us into the atomic age. Yet i

Growing up in Zagreb in the summer of 1991, 10-year-old Ana Juric is a carefree tomboy; she runs the streets with her best friend, Luka, helps take care of her baby sister, Rahela, and idolizes her fa

Young people growing up in Britain today face a narrowing job market, high housing costs and the prospect of a lifetime of hard work with less reward. The ideas of social responsibility that arose aft

Originally published as The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry. The little book with the big heart - the New York Times bestseller that has won passionate fans around the world.

A story of great human triumph in the life of the much loved Winston Churchill on the fiftieth anniversary of his death1953 is synonymous in the British memory with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth I

A remarkable collection of British state secrets—from Imelda Marcos and her son Bong Bong's trip to Buckingham Palace to President Eisenhower's particular problem with Winston Churchill's trousers Sto

An explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation - now with a groundbreaking new afterword.

A reissue of Iain Banks' second novel—three separate stories which unfold to come intricately and masterfully together Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from t

In a remote corner of rural Essex, when ploughs were drawn by heavy horses and children walked shoeless to school, young Spike Mays lived with his family in a two-up, two-down cottage, where there was

A reissue of?Iain Banks'?second novel?three separate stories which unfold to?come intricately?and masterfully?together?Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from t

As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict—against Himmler's fanatical "Hitler Youth" SS Division. It ended with the capture o

Personal clashes with professional for Michele Ferrara in the second book in the series of?compelling and authentic Italian police procedurals?In the picturesque Tuscan hill town of Scandicci, the bod

House-sitting in Boston one winter, Will Randall falls in with one of his more disreputable acquaintances, Jack J. Makepeace, who introduces Randall to his current employers, Chestnut Investigations.

From the similarities between US gun laws and British drinking hours, to what cryptic crosswrods really tell us about the British psyche, American in London Rich Hall casts a keen eye on the lunatic

The second volume of William Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundry and luckily gets a job. Eventually he decides to "g

在《The Tipping Point》中，Malcolm Gladwell探討社會變化的關鍵時刻——那個使觀念、潮流或行為「臨界轉折」的瞬間。當影響力跨越某個閾值，就能像野火般迅速蔓延。作者以簡潔有力的筆調，結合心理學與社會學觀點，解釋為何某些現象能在短時間內擴散開來，無論是流行文化、疾病傳播，或社會運動。本書啟發讀者重新理解「改變」的運作機制，也思考如何善用這股力量。'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael LewisIn this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change. 'Hip and hopeful, THE TIPPING POINT is like the idea it describes: concise, elegant but packed with social power.A book for anyone who cares about how society works and how we can make it better' George Stephanopoulos

Bill Drummond is known variously as wayward genius, art terrorist, a hoaxer with integrity, and the ex-pop star who broke up his band, the KLF, at the height of its success to wage an idiosyncratic w

This is the story of two remarkable men, one of whom conquered empires with apparent ease and one of whom struggled with the day-to-day problems of a small provincial town. The first was Alexander the

A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead, recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers, and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcas

One day, the man in front of Luke at the post office drops down dead in line. Instinctively, Luke's hand snakes out and slips the corpse's unposted letter into his pocket. With this impulsive act, he

A special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Katherine Dunn's extraordinary cult classic, with a new introduction by the author.

'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is

'Man, there's nothing like being told you're dying to make you feel alive.' Wilko Johnson In 2013, Dr Feelgood founder, Blockheads member and musical legend Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal c