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On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever:…

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The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of…

An erudite and affectionate history of the Basque people, a nation without a country, the origins of which go back to…

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new…

An intelligently provocative book about Darwin's 'other' theory discusses the curious ways in which sexual attraction has…

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky.…

Sebastian and Oskar have been friends since their days studying physics at university, when both were considered future…

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In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a…

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An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.…

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Provides the history of Damascus from the Amorites of the Bible to the revolution of 1966. In explaining how modern Damascus…

they have seen the countrified lanes of London's marshy south bank give way to a network of wharves, workshops and tenements…

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and…

'Perhaps the most readable history ever written' Time OutLords of the Horizons charts the Ottoman Empire's swirling epic…

There's a storm brewing in Drowntown, with Gina and Noiret at its heart... 'Flooded civilisations have long been a staple of…

Reminds you of what you were taught about women in history lessons at school, which is to say, not a lot. This book of…

Opening with a powerful and tender 'Ode to the Hymen', the author uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of…

The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars,…

\nThe updated edition of Julian Barnes\' best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays\'Flaubert…

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'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to…

Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of…

Semiology is the science of signs and symbols, and their role in culture and society. "Writing Degree Zero" is Barthes'…

They are Twirlymen. Having himself failed through a combination of injury and indolence to become a leg-spinner of renown,…

Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as…

The author spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf, as well as another month with the…

It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an…

An explanation of what happens to us when we die. The author, a surgeon with more than 30 years' experience, describes in…