Science(ish)

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A Sunday Times Book of the YearA New Scientist Gift Pick”Bright, nerdy and funny! Of course I loved it.” Dara Ó BriainCan we resurrect dinosaurs? Is a Martian holiday good for your health? Can we buil …

The Grade Cricketer

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‘A sequel to The Grade Cricketer? It’s like junk time in a second innings – something you just have to be part of.’ Gideon Haigh.Is life without cricket worth living? It’s a question asked and answere …

Island Nurses

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Leonie Howie and Adele Robertson live and work on remote Great Barrier Island – so called because it faces the full brunt of the wild Pacific weather and acts as a barrier for the mainland about 100 k …

The Art of Not Falling Apart

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New Statesman’s Best Books of the Year, 2018Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year, 2018We plan, as the old proverb says, and God laughs. But most of us don’t find it all that funny when things go wrong. M …

The Cafe de Move-on Blues

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Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize,2019’Hope writes with extraordinary exuberance and invention.’ – Literary ReviewIn White Boy Running, Christopher Hope explored how it felt and looked to grow up …

The Murdoch Method

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An exclusive, insider viewpoint on the “Murdoch Method” from his right-hand man and adviser, Irwin Stelzer.Rupert Murdoch is one of the most notorious and successful businessmen of our age. Now, for t …

White Boy Running

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In the run up to the 1987 election Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a twelve-year absence. The nature of that year’s whites-only election and the bitter defeat of the liberal …

Meltdown

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‘Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more fun than a book about failure has any right to be.’ – Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit A groundbreaking exploration of how complexit …

No!

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We like to get along, at home or in the workplace. We don’t want to hurt people or offend. Therefore, it is no surprise that numerous famous psychological experiments have proven that we don’t tend to …

Hired

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Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018’A very discomforting bo …

How to Fix the Future

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Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping ad …

Mrs D is Going Within

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Despite outward appearances three years after getting sober Lotta is struggling to deal with life in the raw. It’s becoming abundantly clear what people mean when they say putting down the drink is ju …

Running – A Love Story

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Dom Harvey is a hugely popular radio DJ. He’s known for his funny gags, and has been described as a shock-jock.So it might come as a surprise to find out that Dom is also seriously into running – mara …

The Road to Sparta

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In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. He was hailed as a hero and his run stands enduringly as one of greate …

The Raw and the Cooked

A classic collection full of salty wisdom, from ‘the Henry Miller of food writing’ (Wall Street Journal) and author of Legends of the Fall.Food is an extreme sport for Jim Harrison. As a seven-month o …

And Then You're Dead

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“Entertaining – if harrowing.” – New York Times Book ReviewWhat would happen if you took a swim outside a deep-sea submarine wearing only Speedos? How long could you last if you stood on the surface o …