Strange Blooms
Jennifer PotterRRP: £16.99
In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of ‘curious’ gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son w …
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Noir
Olivier PauvertRRP: £8.99
A man wanders the streets of Paris haunted by the memory of a young woman’s bloodied corpse and tormented by the possibility that he was her murderer.He rushes home, but his wife recoils from him, the …
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The Philosophy Steamer
Lesley ChamberlainRRP: £22.50
‘Compelling, laudably unsentimental and deeply significant.’ — Frances Stonar Saunders, GuardianIn 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 220 ‘undesirable’ intellectuals to be deported in prep …
Sicilian Summer
Brian JohnstonRRP: £8.99
Travel writer Brian Johnston accepted an invitation to attend the confirmation of a friend’s god-daughter in Sicily, naively expecting little more than the chance to immerse himself in some genuine so …
Murder in Amsterdam
Ian BurumaRRP: £10.99
It was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-I …
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Swinesend: Britains Greatest Public School
DornanRRP: £8.99
Swinesend, hallowed public school and much loved home over the years to all sorts of boys (including girls) has long gone unnoticed by Britain’s authorities. But thanks to this fully updated guide tho …
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44 Things
Kirsty GunnA distinguished literary novelist celebrates marriage, friendship and motherhood in this rich and breathtakingly intimate treasury of stories, essays, poems and letters.In 44 Things, Kirsty Gunn celeb …
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Cobra II
Bernard TrainorRRP: £12.99
The definitive account of the war against Saddam: ‘By far the most authoritative and convincing account thus far of 2003’s military events… a shocking indictment.’ — Max Hastings, Sunday TelegraphT …
The Great Transformation
Karen ArmstrongRRP: £14.99
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man’s harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it i …
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My Mother’s Lovers
Christopher HopeRRP: £7.99
Once it seemed to Kathleen Healey that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big-game hunter and knitting devotee, she would land her plane wherever and whenever she chose. She w …
My Mother's Lovers
Christopher HopeRRP: £7.99
Once it seemed to Kathleen Healey that Africa was empty and all of it belonged to her. An aviator, big-game hunter and knitting devotee, she would land her plane wherever and whenever she chose. She w …
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The Dark Part of Me
Belinda BurnsRRP: £7.99
As the hot Brisbane summer unfurls, Rosie cannot help but lust after her ex-boyfriend, Scott, who has returned after two years abroad. Rosie’s mum says Scott is a man, and deep down all men are rotten …
The Great Wall
Julia LovellRRP: £9.99
Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, China’s Great Wall seems to be a confident physical statement made by an advanced civilization, anxious to draw a line between itself and the ‘barbari …
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret
Paul GannonRRP: £14.99
This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world’s first true computer, Colossus.Uncov …
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Let it be Morning
Sayed KashuaRRP: £23.00
Imagine your own home surrounded by roadblocks and tanks, your water turned off and the cashpoints empty. What would you do next? A young journalist, recently married with a new baby, is seeking a qui …
Keeping Mum
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
‘The prefect antidote to the ‘misery memior’.’ — The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for BiographyMum and Dad – Squibs and Bert – were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson, as he grew up in Cambridge a …
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