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The Lieutenant | In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There h...

Under the Skin | With an introduction by David Mitchell. Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and ...

The Flame | The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from ...

A Field Guide To Getting Lost | In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjec...

Silk | In 1861 French silkworm merchant Herve Joncour travels to Japan, where he encounters the mysterious Hara Kei. He develops a painful longing for Keis beautiful concubine - but they cannot touch;...

Mr. Holmes | It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with ...

Orlando | A young man in the court of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, the beautiful Orlando seems to belong everywhere and nowhere. One morning, Orlando awakens transformed - transported into the eighte...

A Boy Called Cristmas | BELIEVE IN THE IMPOSSIBLE You are about to read THE TRUE STORY OF FATHER CHRISTMAS If you are one of those people who believe that some things are impossible, you should put th...

To Calais, In Ordinary Time | Three journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman in search of ...

The Crimson Petal and the White | So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet o...

Wait Until Spring, Bandini | For Arturo Bandini, oldest son of Italian immigrants living in small-town Colorado during the Great Depression, the winter proves harsh. When his father seemingly abandons...

Missionaries | Expansive, Explosive and Epic" Marlon James"Bold Book" New York Times Book Review" THE BOOK OF BARACK OBAMA 2020Neither Mason, a US special forces medic, nor Lizet, a foreign correspond...

Pimp. The story of my life | In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of ...

Book of mercy | The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition...

How Music Works | How Music Works is David Byrne's bestselling, buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lifetime thinking about. Drawing on his own work over the years with Talking Heads, Bria...

Drive | A book that will change how you think and transform how you live. Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people - at work, at school, at home. It is wrong. As Daniel H. P...

The Garden of Evening Mists | In the highlands of Malaya, a woman sets out to build a memorial to her sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese during the brutal Occupation of their country. Yun Lin...

Father Christmas and Me | Let the battle for Christmas begin… Amelia lives in the magical town of Elfhelm, newly adopted by Father Christmas and Mary Christmas. When the very jealous Easter Bunny laun...

Sharks in the Time of Saviours | At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws - only to return him, unharmed, to his parents. For the next thirty years Noa and his s...

Dreaming of Babylon. A Private Eye Novel 1942 | When you hire C. Card, you've scraped the bottom off the barrel of a private investigator. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he ne...

Stay With Me | SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION.SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE.Yejide is hoping for a m...

Almost Everything. Notes on Hope | Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest, Anne Lamott shows how we can rediscover t...

Things in Jars | London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. T...

The Radleys | Life with the Radleys: Radio 4, dinner parties with the Bishopthorpe neighbours and self-denial. Loads of self-denial. But all hell is about to break loose. When teenage daughter Clara g...

Ten Days | It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire.In ...

When | Timing is everything… How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test results? When should you have your first...

Born on the Fourth of July | Ron Kovic went to Vietnam dreaming of being an American hero. What he found there changed him profoundly, even before the severe battlefield injury that left him paralysed...

Ham on Rye | 'He brought everyone down to earth, even the angels' Leonard Cohen Charles Bukowski is one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. The autobiographical Ham on Rye is widely cons...

My Father's Notebook | On a holy mountain in the depths of Persia there is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving deep inside it. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute boy from the mountain, develops his own pri...

The Complete Short Stories | From the cruel irony of ‘A member of the Family’ to the fateful echoes of ‘The Go-Away Bird’ and the unexpectedly sinister ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’, in settings that ra...

The Art of Rest. How to Find Respite in the Modern Age | Shortlisted for the British Psychological Society Book Award for Popular Science Much of value has been written about sleep, but rest is differ...

One Moonlit Night | Named Wales’s Greatest Novel This outstanding novel tells of one boy’s journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness...

Unlikely Stories, Mostly | A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously like a face, then discovers he’s splitting in two. A bored student suggests digging a tunnel into the f...

Weight | Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to sh...

The Death of Bunny Munro | The world is a hard place to be good in... Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife's death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son i...

Stone Junction | When Daniel's mother dies, he is brought under the protection of the AMO: the Alliance of Magicians and Outlaws. It is an introduction to a world of revenge, revolution and mind-bendi...

L.A. Woman | Sophie, a twenty-something Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A., and Lola, a German immigrant who has settled in Hollywood, know that while Los Angeles is const...

Notes From Underground | 'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too …' In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and f...

The Book of Form and Emptiness | When a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it… After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The vo...

Lace | Which one of you bitches is my mother? 1980. In Manhattan's most exclusive hotel, four friends come face to face with a young, mega-watt film star. She has a question for them that has brought ...

Stories We Tell Ourselves. Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe | Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of our place in the universe. Richard Holloway takes us on...

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking | While cooking at Chez Panisse at the start of her career, Samin Nosrat noticed that amid the chaos of the kitchen there were four key pr...

Humans. An A-Z | DO YOU A) Know a human? B) Love a human? C) Have trouble dealing with humans? IF YOU’VE ANSWERED YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU Whether you are planning a high level of...

Reasons To Stay Alive | Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed ...

The Book of Strange New Things | OASIS, an Amazon Original Series, coming in 2017 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ...' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of ...

The Outrun | At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last d...

A Boy Called Christmas | Believe In The Impossible You are about to read The True Story Of Father Christmas If you are one of those people who believe that some things are impossible, you should put t...

Life of Pi | After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a ...

The Power of Regret. How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward | Everybody has regrets. They’re a fundamental part of our lives. In The Power of Regret, Pink explains how we can enlist our regrets to make...

The Bible. The Biography | The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in ...

The Automobile Club of Egypt | Cairo at the very end of Ottoman rule. Behind the doors of the Automobile Club of Egypt, Egyptian staff attend to the every need of Cairo's European elite - the way they...

The Midnight library | The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Worldwide Phenomenon Readers' Most Loved Book Of 2021 Winner Of The Goodreads Choice Award For Fiction 'Beautiful' Jodi Picoult, 'Uplifti...

My Name Is Why | At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was ...

The Comfort Book | The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims, memoir and the inspirational lives of other...

In His Own Write | I was bored on the 9th of Octover 1940 when, I believe, the Nasties were still booming us led by Madalf Heatlump (Who only had one). Anyway they didn't get me. I attended to varicou...

The Humans | There's no place like home. Or is there? After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling ...

Timecode of a Face | What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki’s mind as she challenges herself to spend th...

1982, Janine | Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasising about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from real...

My Year of Meats | In a single eye-opening year two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little lands a job producing a Japanese television show sponsored by a...

Lanark | Lanark, a modern vision of hell set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination, its playf...

Sum. Forty Tales from the Afterlives | In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you ...

The Expectation Effect. How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life | People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer. Lucky charms really do improve an athlete’s performance. Taking a placebo, even ...

We Are Electric. The New Science of Our Body’s Electrome | You may be familiar with the idea of our body’s biome – the bacterial fauna that populates our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. I...

Sex & Rage. Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time | It is the 1970s in LA, and Jacaranda Leven - child of sun and surf - is swept into the dazzling cultural milieu of the beautiful people. Floa...