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

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

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The hilarious, heartwarming and - unbelievably - true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the World's Worst GolferWhen 46-year-old…

Records the dichotomy of human experience. This book deals with break-up, depression, illness and death. It also reveals an…

In the tiny borderlands of Istria and Italy, from the forests of Monte Nevoso, to the hidden valleys of the Tyrol, to a…

Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with an new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in…

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A Guardian / Herald Scotland Book of the YearWinner of the 2017 PEN Pinter prize Shortlisted for the 2017 Forward PrizeA…

Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to write this…

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Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. But through the…

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\nThese are people who have gone on to leave an important but often hidden trace in the moral and cultural life of Britain…

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Winner of the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, this title shows the author's fascination with human experience. It…

The creator of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Henry VIII and Captain Bligh, Charles Laughton's career spans 50 films and 40…

Studies the relationship between the environment and human history. This book examines world civilizations from Sumeria to…

In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary…

Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in…

Of the 81 who rolled out of Milan, only eight made it back. Committed to total authenticity, Tim acquires the ruined husk of…

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the…

'Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.' First published in 1955 and an instant…

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\nWe visit Civil War America, Tsarist Russia and fin de siecle Paris where some writers, actors and entertainers become…

The colourful and stylised kimono, the national garment of Japan, expresses not only Japanese fashion and design taste but…

'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling…

From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands…

Continuing where he left off in "A Spillage of Mercury", this collection of poetry from Neil Rollinson delves again into the…

Includes poems which takes into a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals.…

Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, this book is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and…

A matchmaker finds love for a would-be rabbi; a shopkeeper dies because he cannot afford a doctor; a little girl steals…

In it, the Archbishop shows how important it is that, even as we face the harsh realities of our individual lives and global…