The Management Gurus

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The gurus in this book are world-class leaders and managers: they take management’s most important concepts and transform them into strategies, tips and techniques that can be utilized in the workplac …

The Other Anzacs

We know the story of the ANZACs-but what about the nurses who travelled with them to the front and cared for the injured and the dying? They were there for Gallipoli and the horror of the Western Fron …

Baking Cakes in Kigali

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Shortlisted for the 2010 McKitterick PrizeAngel Tungazara runs a small business, baking cakes for the parties and celebrations of her neighbours. As her customers tell her their stories, Angel comes t …

I Love You Beth Cooper

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The hilarious first novel from Simpsons writer Larry Doyle – and soon to be a major flim directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere.Denis Cooverman wanted to say something really import …

The China Lover

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When Sidney Vanoven is sent to occupied Japan, in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, it is his dream posting. By day, he works in the censor’s office watching Japanese films; at night he …

The File

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In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the …

Turned Out Nice Again

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With a cast of thousands, including Peter Cook, Ken Dodd, Dusty Springfield, Spike Milligan, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth and Reeves and Mortimer, Turned Out Nice Again reveals a world of comedians and …

Ultimatum

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HE HAS BECOME THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE WORLD… NOW HE HAS TO SAVE IT… ‘The heir to Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton? Ultimatum is better than either.’ EconomistJoe Benton has been elected the fo …

Alpha Dogs

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David Sawyer dreamed of a career as a film-maker; Scott Miller, the son of a shoe salesman, was a brilliant copywriter. Unlikely partners, together they became a political powerhouse. Directing democr …

Bad Elements

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Who speaks for China? Is it the old men of the politburo or activists like Wei Jingshsheng, who spent eighteen years in prison for writing a emocratic manifesto? Is China’s future to be fund amid the …

Confessions of a Mullah Warrior

Masood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in a then peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Fleeing across the border to Pakistan, Masood entered a …

Londongrad

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On the outskirts of New York, a child’s swing turns gently in the breeze. Resting on it, propped at an odd angle, is the body of a young woman: naked, mutilated, and bound in silver duct tape. In the …

Welcome to Life

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In politically correct middle-class Cambridge at the tail end of the 1980s, Freya’s nouveau riche parents are, well, different. Millie, her mum, doesn’t have a maternal bone in her body. Self-obsessed …

Winners and Losers

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Kieran Levis tells the stories of some of the most innovative businesses of recent times to explain how a few succeeded – when so many failed – in creating entirely new markets and dominating them. He …

Fieldwork

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Shortlisted for the National Book Award for FictionSet in Thailand, a brilliantly original and page-turning first novel of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murder, and o …

Kruger’s Alp

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Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an …