Barack Obama

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In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama’s beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. He charts the f …

Big Ideas

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A witty and indispensable guide to modern-day buzzwords.Big Ideas explains where concepts like ‘the long tail’, ‘urban tribes’ and ‘soft power’ came from, what they mean, and what their critics say ab …

Daddy's Girl

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She tells herself an hour is not so long to wait, and steps outside. The street is empty. Then she hears the car. Police Captain Riedwaan Faizal has just been told that his six-year-old daughter has b …

Facts are Subversive

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‘Timothy Garton Ash holds a mirror that magnifies… He writes masterfully and with compassion’ – Neal Ascherson, ObserverFor more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth teller …

Holidays in Heck

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Holidays in Heck takes the reader on a globe-trotting journey to far-reaching places including China, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and the Galapagos Islands. The collection begins after the Iraq War, when …

Holidays in Hell

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A re-issue of the original classic in which P.J. O’Rourke takes on the role of tour guide with hilarious resultsHolidays in Hell follows P. J. O’Rourke on a global fun-finding mission to the most desp …

Indelible Ink

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Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather privileged suburban existence. And though her three adult children have moved out, they are telling her what to wear, making her buy …

Magical Thinking

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A collection of autobiographical short stories, small vignettes of his life experiences, universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate and very funny.From the #1 bestselling author of Running wit …

Meltwater

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From the million-copy bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson, Anne Holt, and The Killing.”Michael Ridpath is on the war path, trouncing the Scandinavians on their home turf. This is int …

Plato's Republic

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Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who has ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect …

Sellevision

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The hilarious first novel by the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors, Dry, A Wolf at the Table, and You Better Not Cry, Sellevision is Augusten Burrough’s darkly funny and vastly entertaini …

Strindberg's Star

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Taklamakan desert, 1895A new Pompeii has come to light and, with it, two remarkable artefacts, found in a hidden burial chamber. A metal ankh and star – covered in strange inscriptions, feather-light …

The Best Game Ever

The remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants – considered by many to be the greatest American football game ever played – from Mark Bowden, bestselling autho …

The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy is a fugue and a black comedy. In delicious and bawdy detail, an unnamed narrator offers snapshots into the lives and loves of an astonishing cast of philanderers and fuckups while a …

The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

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Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as …

The Limit

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10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill – the firstAmerican to …