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My Search for Warren Harding

Rodney Elliot Wiener, a young historian intent on writing a shockingly intimate book about America's twenty-ninth president, must persuade Harding's senile and reclusive one-time mistress to share her…

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Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain

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The Passenger

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I’m Not as Well as I Thought I Was

Checking into a psychiatric institution wasn't exactly on Ruby Wax's agenda for 2022 - writing about it wasn't either, but here we are. These days, trying to stay sane in a completely chaotic world ma…

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Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer

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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (D.O.D.O., #1)

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, …

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The Whale Tattoo

Cruelly beautiful, utterly authentic – introducing a searingly talented new Queer writer.

When a giant sperm whale washes up on the local beach it tells Joe Gunner that death will follow him wherever h…

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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific mystery to globe-spanning infrastructure, and an essential investigation into how it has remade our ent…

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Under the Net

Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher.

Jake, hack writer and sponger, now penniless flat-hunter, seeks out an old girlfriend, Anna Quentin, and her glamorous actres…

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The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

A thrilling tick-tock recounting one of the most harrowing hostage situations and daring rescue attempts of our time—from true-life espionage master and New York Times bestselling author of Operation …

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Some Men in London: Queer Life, 1960–1967

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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undispute…

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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancien…

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The Library: A Fragile History

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Gabriel's Moon

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London to the sun-soaked cobbles of Cadiz and the frosty squares of Warsaw, as an …

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