Planet Google

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Google has a dream: to manage the entire world’s information. The company wants to access every single bit of it it can – from news, to financial and historical data; from the content of books, films …

The Girl with Glass Feet

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Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize (2010)Shortlisted for the Costa Book Award Nominee for First Novel (2009)Longlisted for Guardian First Book Award (2009)Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize (2010) …

Too Many Mothers

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‘I was born in a sideboard.’ So begins Roberta Taylor’s bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera.It’s Boxing Day, 1956 in E …

A Fighter's Heart

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After a series of adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, cash-rich and with time on his hands to spend it. It occurred to him that he could finally explore a long- …

Blue Mauritius

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In September 1847 coloured squares of paper were stuck to envelopes and used to send out admission cards to a fancy-dress ball on the tropical island of Mauritius. No-one at the party would have guess …

Man Gone Down

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WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARDThe classic novel from the author of acclaimed memoir The Broken KingOn the eve of this thirty-fifth birthday, the unnamed black narrator of Man Gone Down finds himself …

One of a Kind

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From the moment he first stepped onto a test pitch, cricket fans around the world were dazzled by Doug Walters’ red-blooded strokes, his immaculate timing and his great enjoyment of the game. But they …

Peace Kills

In this latest collection of adventures, P. J. O’Rourke casts his mordant eye on America’s recent forays into warfare. Imperialism has never been more fun. O’Rourke first travels to Kosovo, where he m …

Peace Kills

‘A hilarious, no-holds-barred tour of the new world order, from ‘America’s greatest prose comedian’ – Sunday TimesPeace Kills is an eye-opening look at a world much changed since O’Rourke wrote his be …

Playing the Enemy

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Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final of …

The View from Here

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Built loosely on her much-loved Guardian column – Just 70The View from Here is Bakewell’s discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond. A household name and a popular radio and TV broa …

Inside Steve’s Brain

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It is hard to believe that the same man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ’80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and put digital music on the map in t …

Night Train To Lisbon

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A huge international bestseller, with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, Night Train to Lisbon is an utterly compelling novel about one man’s escape from a humdrum life in search of passion and spo …

The Dolphin People

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In 1946 a young German widow and her two sons arrive in Venezuela to begin a new life. Helga will marry her brother-in-law, Klaus, a doctor, and her boys, Erich and Zeppi, will accept him as their ste …

Bring on the Apocalypse

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‘A dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people… I never miss reading him.’ — Naomi KleinIn these incendiary essays, George Monbiot tears apart the fictions of religious conservativ …

Lady Audley's Secret

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Miss Lucy Graham is a newcomer to the parish of Audley. She may be an impoverished governess, but she is also kind and ineffably beautiful. When Sir Michael Audley sets eyes upon her he finds himself …