Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925. What started as
Moffat is an indiscriminate killer and verbose criminal thriving in the underbelly of 19th-century London. When he unexpectedly inherits Gibbous House, an expansive estate in Northumbria, he heads nor
They are trees of life and trees of knowledge. They are wish-fulfillers ...rainforest royalty ...more precious than gold. They are the fig trees, and they have affected humanity in profound but little
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A comprehensive portrait of the remarkable Huw Wheldon -- one of the most influential media figures of the last century -- with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough.Written by his son, Kicking the Bar
David Wilson has been a gaucho, a teacher, an artist's agent, a documentary filmmaker and playwright, but above all, he has been a lifelong political activist. In the 60s he marched to Aldermaston. In
For more than 50 years, Alan Garner has enraptured generations of readers with works like The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, The Owl Service, Red Shift, and The Stone Book Quartet. Described by Philip Pul
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Rose Bretecher has OCD, but not as you know it. Pure is the true story of her life with intrusive sexual thoughts - a rampant but little-known symptom of the disorder. It tracks her farcical ten-year
Joshua Jones' life is falling apart: he's lost his job, his wife has left him for another woman, and he's been kicked out of his flat. On the precipice of homelessness and defeat, he has a chance enco
There have been many histories of Bletchley Park and the heroic work of Alan Turing and the code-breakers, work so important that it changed the course of the Second World War, shortening it by two ye
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This is a sensationally juicy novel about tabloid journalism, political scandal, spies, entrapments and sex. Quite a lot of sex, in fact. The story begins just a few days after the hacking trial of th
Having spent decades negotiating deals worth hundreds of millions of pounds, Hilary Gallo realised that bullying behaviour rarely got him or his clients the outcomes they were looking for. Over the ye
Everyone's heard of ET for the Atari 2600 and Superman for the Nintendo 64, but these are almost nothing next to the abject incompetence of Count Duckula 2 on the Amstrad CPC. This is an illustrated c
A unique memoir that celebrates not just one life, but all of the lives connected through the past ownership of second-hand books.Every second-hand book tells two stories: one within its pages and ano
Rose Bretecher has OCD, but not as you know it. Pure is the true story of her life with intrusive sexual thoughts - a rampant but little-known symptom of the disorder. It tracks her farcical ten-year
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