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The Cellist of Sarajevo
Steven GallowayRRP: £9.99
‘A universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the most unimaginable horrors.’ Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite RunnerSnipers in the hills overl …
The Truth About Stress
Angela PatmoreRRP: £8.99
We seem to be living through an epidemic of stress. There are 15 million websites dedicated to the subject and Britain alone has over two million accredited therapists, counsellors and healers devoted …
Adam Resurrected
Yoram KaniukRRP: £7.99
Adam Stein is a holocaust survivor, a former circus clown spared the Nazi’s gas chambers so that he might entertain thousands of other Jews as they marched to their deaths. He now finds himself the ri …
The Man Who Was Thursday
G.K ChestertonRRP: £7.99
Gabriel Syme is dispatched by Scotland Yard on a secret mission to infiltrate the Central Anarchist Council – an organization plotting to bring down the existing social order. The seven members of the …
Bleak House
Charles DickensRRP: £8.99
The case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce – a dispute over a vast fortune left by a miser who died intestate – has occupied the Court of Chancery for years. When Lady Dedlock faints upon recognizing the handwr …
Boogie-Woogie
Danny MoynihanRRP: £7.99
A blackly hilarious satirical novel of great black humour, Boogie Woogie plunges deep into the dark excesses of the international art scene of the 1990s. Driven by the pursuit for a hugely valuable tw …
Raffles
Ernest William HornungRRP: £7.99
Raffles is a public-school cad and master burglar, with an aptitude for cricket and a passion for crime – a loveable rogue who steals from the rich not to give to the poor, but rather to subsidize his …
Encyclopaedia of an Ordinary Life
Amy Krouse RosenthalRRP: £7.99
What can you say about an ordinary life? Well, quite a lot actually. Most of us live them, complain about them, worry, laugh and cry about them. In a world saturated with stories of the extraordinary …
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John Stuart Mill
Richard ReevesRRP: £30.00
A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and on …
The Day of the Barbarians
Alessandro BarberoRRP: £8.99
On August 9, ad 378, outside Adrianople in the Roman province of Thrace, the Roman Empire began to fall. Two years earlier, an unexpected flood of refugees from the tribe known as the Goths had arrive …
Our Own Piece of Paris
Ellie NielsenRRP: £7.99
We had two weeks. There were two of us and nine million of them. The chances were not good… This delightful and compelling account of one couple’s attempt to buy their dream flat in Paris is a perfe …
Skylark Farm
Antonia ArslanRRP: £8.99
This novel of survival against all odds chronicles one family’s struggle during the Armenian genocide in Turkey in 1915.At the age of thirteen, Yerwant left his home in the Anatolian hills of Turkey t …
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Carl von Clausewitz’s On War
Hew StrachanRRP: £8.99
On War by Carl von Clausewitz was first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most significant treatises on military strategy ever written, it is still prescribed at various milit …
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Carl von Clausewitz's On War
Hew StrachanRRP: £16.99
On War by Carl von Clausewitz was first published in Germany after the Napoleonic Wars. One of the most significant treatises on military strategy ever written, it is still prescribed at various milit …
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Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
Alberto ManguelRRP: £8.99
The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by t …
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