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The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad 'Our greatest chronicler of the Seco

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The number of women my brother Matthew killed, so far as I can reckon it, is one hundred and six... 1645. When Alice Hopkins' husband dies in a tragic accident, she returns to the small Essex town of

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An explosion in space, a starship stranded, a group of strangers alone at the barren edge of the universe.Facing almost-certain death, the human survivors of a deep-space crash are determined to ignor

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The biggest economic debate of our time centres around one fundamental question: is the decreased growth in today's world economy a short-term glitch -- or is it part of a permanent spiral? Without an

What if doing the right thing meant betraying your family?Nineteen forty-seven, French Indochina. Since her mother's death, eighteen year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the

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In 1583 Elizabeth is fifty years old, past childbearing, but her greatest challenges are still to come: the Spanish Armada; the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots; relentless plotting among her courtie

New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch atte

In 1979, Jeremy Thorpe, the rising star of the Liberal Party, stood trial for conspiracy to murder. It was the first time that a leading British politician had stood trial on a murder charge. It was t

The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaire. With the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestsellerCapital in the Twenty-First

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A timely call to reshape government through technology, from Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah, two leading experts in the field. For many aspects of how our countries are run - from social security and

This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful wom

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Make your mark on this stunning collection of patterns from the Liberty archive In 1875, Arthur Lasenby Liberty began selling imported fabrics from a small shop on London's Regent Street. Today, Liber

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'Nothing but your own body will get you through; everything you have done in your life until the moment you cross the finishing line is connected to the effort' Two hours, to cover 26 miles and 385 ya

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Crime was everywhere, the government was broke and the city's infrastructure was collapsing, but between 1974 and 1978 virtually all forms of music were being recreated in New York City: disco and sal

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Iehuda, who was once Yehoshuah's friend, recalls how he came to lose his faith and find a place among the Romans. Caiaphas, the High Priest at the great Temple in Jerusalem, tries to hold the peace be

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