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Famous comedian, funniest judge on Britain's Got Talent, irresistible ladykiller and high-achieving sportsman, the author is…

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Born on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall, as a child Judith Schalansky could travel only through the pages of an atlas. Now…

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Can one detective stop a war being lost just as it starts?August, 1914, the eve of WWI, and in New York the Van Dorn…

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The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a…

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Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and…

Featuring the secrets of healthy eating, this book presents a food IQ test to find out what your diet is doing to you. It…

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Moving from the West Coast of Africa to the northern tip of South America - and elsewhere - the author observes the…

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In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger,…

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky''s powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an…

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Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the…

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