John Murray

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  What if?

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  Fans of Randall Munroe ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain...

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  The Chibineko Kitchen

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  Follow the bank of the Koitogawa river until you reach the beach. From there a path of white seashells will lead you to the Chibineko Kitchen. Step inside, they’ll be expecting you. These are...

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  The race to the future

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  The world of 1907 is poised between the old and the new: communist regimes will replace imperial ones in China and Russia; the telegraph is transforming modern communication and the car will soon d...

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  A short history of the apocalypse

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  Covering subjects from gangs and government to bunkers and cannibalism, ‘A Short History of the Apocalypse’ is a journey into our impending and doomed future. Guided by Alonso Lamp, a t...

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  The secret lives of stones

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  From the hematite used in cave paintings to the moldavite that became a TikTok sensation; from the stolen sandstone of Scone to the unexpected acoustics of Stonehenge; from crystal balls to compass...

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  The world according to Cunk

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  Focusing on the inventions, art and brainboxes that made the modern world the unbearable place it is today, ‘The World According To Cunk’ is the history book to end all history books: m...

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  North woods

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  When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and inhuman characte...

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  A nasty little war

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  The untold history of the Western invasion of Soviet Russia – and the tragedy it created. In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted by a long, brutal war, 15 nations cobbled toge...

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  Promise

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  The people of Salt Point are afraid of the world beyond their rural town. Most of them are born, live and die never having gone more than twenty or thirty miles from houses that are crammed with ge...

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  Oh Miriam!

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  From declaring my love to Vanessa Redgrave to being fed cockroaches by Steve Buscemi, from turnip-based comedy with ‘Blackadder’ to being farted on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Graham...

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  Cinderella boys

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  In early 1943 Britain was engaged in a struggle for survival. As the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic, supply lines and shipping losses fell victim to the carnage. In despera...

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  Lost to the sea

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  Medieval kingdoms. Notorious pirate towns. Drowned churches. Crocodile-infested swamps. On a series of coastal walks, Lisa Woollett takes us on an illuminating journey, bringing to life the places ...

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  Einstein in time and space

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  His face is one of the most recognisable in history. His name is shorthand for ‘genius’. His fame is inextricable from his person. Today, he’s a figurehead as much as a man, symbo...

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  Panic

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  Jaleesa, Kai, Ilya and Dani are online best friends, and superfans of the hit TV show City Of Night. Fantasising about the show in their chatroom, they find an escape from their troubled small-town...

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  Every rising sun

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  Before she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn’t have. She told the king. She thought she was doing what was right....

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  Camp Zero

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  America, 2049: At a Cold War-era research station, a group of highly-trained women with the code-name White Alice are engaged in climate surveillance. But the terms of their employment become incre...

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  A nasty little war

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  The untold history of the Western invasion of Soviet Russia – and the tragedy it created. In the closing months of WW1, with the world exhausted by a long, brutal war, 15 nations cobbled toge...

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  Loney

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  If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney – that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr...

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  Betjeman’s England

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  For more than 50 years, Betjeman’s writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places. Betjeman is England’s greatest topologist: whether he’s talking about a townha...

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  Tennis Whites and Teacakes

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  Betjeman’s England is a place of patriotic poets and seaside coves, provincial cathedrals and eccentric dons. ‘Tennis Whites and Teacakes’ brings together the best of BetjemanR...

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  Trains & Buttered Toast

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  Eccentric, sentimental & homespun, John Betjeman’s passions were mostly self-taught. He saw his country being devastated by war & progress & he waged a private war to save it. ...

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  John Betjeman Collected Poems

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  This collection comprises all of John Betjeman’s poetry. His work is known both for its range and mastery of poetic form.

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  White Gold

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  In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and 52 of his comrades were captured at sea by the Barbary corsairs. Thousands of Europeans had been snatched from their homes and tak...

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