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The Taiwan story

When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949 two Chinas were born. Mao’s communists won and took China’s Mainland; Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalists fled to the island Taiwan....

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When Phyl, a young literature graduate, moves back home with her parents, she soon finds herself frustrated by the narrow horizons of English country life. But the chance discovery of a forgotten n...

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A Short History of British Architecture

£26.99

The architecture of Britain is an art gallery all around us. From our streets to squares, through our cities, suburbs and villages, we are surrounded by magnificent buildings of eclectic styles. &#...

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How to feed the world

£22.00

Vaclav Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today: Why are some of the world’s biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations? ...

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Karla’s Choice

£22.00

It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed...

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Grand Prix

£25.00

This is an illustrated history of Formula 1 racing, from its fascinating origins and inner workings to the top drivers of the twentieth century and today, by a celebrated motorsports broadcaster an...

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Tell me everything

£16.99

It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fal...

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A woman like me

£25.00

From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has seen it all. In this hones...

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We solve murders

£22.00

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favourite bench, his cat waiting for him when h...

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The siege

£25.00

On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and thre...

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Gabriel’s moon

£20.00

Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of his youth: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as a travel writ...

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There are rivers in the sky

£18.99

This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there li...

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Endgame 1944

£25.00

June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. The same month saw the Alli...

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Empireworld

£20.00

In ‘Empireworld’, award-winning author and journalist, Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain. Travelling the globe to trace its internatio...

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Lucy by the sea

£9.99

In March 2020 Lucy’s ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, ex...

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Bournville

£9.99

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For 11-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it’s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintl...

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One day I shall astonish the world

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Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of char...

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Are you happy now

£14.99

At a New York City wedding, in early summer, four people are trying to get their lives started. Yun has everything he ever wanted, but somehow it’s never enough. Emory is finally making her m...

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Empireland

£10.99

In his brilliantly illuminating book, Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consider to be modern Britain is actually rooted in our imperial past. In prose that is, at once, both cle...

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The Taiwan story

The proof of my innocence

A Short History of British Architecture

How to feed the world

Karla’s Choice

Grand Prix

Tell me everything

A woman like me

We solve murders

The siege

Gabriel’s moon

There are rivers in the sky

Endgame 1944

Empireworld

Lucy by the sea

Bournville

One day I shall astonish the world

Are you happy now

Empireland

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