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Contreras / The Hope of Living Cancer (Hardback)

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Hugh Stephenson / Secrets of the Setters (Hardback)

Packed with examples from the Guardian's celebrated compilers - from Araucaria and Rufus to Bunthorne and Janus - Secrets of the Setters explains how all the different types of cryptic clues work. It shows you how to unravel the elliptical language...

Ron Manager / Marvellous (Hardback)

Only now has Ron Manager decided the time is right to publish, because only now has he found a publisher with big enough brown envelopes. In this autobiography Ron Manager, the comic creation of Paul Whitehouse, lays down the law as only he can: what...

Jeremie / The 5 Voices (Hardback)

Discover your leadership voice and unlock your potential to influence others 5 Voices is the code for unlocking your capacity to have honest conversations and build deeper, more authentic relationships with your teams, your families and your friends. In...

Brown / To a Very Special Sister (To (Hardback)

Our "To-Give-And-To-Keep" "RM" series of giftbooks with their strong "Very Special..". titles is our most popular line. This new complementary series of Notebooks contains all of the elements that make...

Lesley Blume / Lets Bring Back (Hardback)

When was the last time you wore a cape to the opera, or white gloves to lunch? Whatever happened to cuckoo clocks, quizzing glasses, and zeppelins? Why does everyone remember Coco Chanel, but her one-time archrival, designer Elsa Schiaparelli, has faded...

Helen Exley / The Love Between Sisters (Hardback)

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Anne Ramsay / Girl in Blue (Hardback)

When she made the decision to join the police force, Anne Ramsay had imagined what she would look like in a police uniform. She hadn't for one moment envisaged herself dressed as a prostitute, walking the streets of Glasgow at night, retracing the...

David Lewis / The Man Who Invented Hitler (Hardback)

Throughout World War I, Hitler never rose above the rank of lance corporal, and beforehand had been an impoverished drifter. Yet within a few months of the end of the war, he had embarked on the path that was to lead Europe into years of war, terror and...

Hannah Pool / My Fathers' Daughter (Hardback)

Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage in Eritrea in 1974 and came to England, via Sudan and Norway, with her white adoptive father six years later. Then a brother she never suspected she had wrote to her from Eritrea. But Hannah hid the letter away,...

G. Bruce Knecht / Hooked (Hardback)

A history of the poaching of the Patagonian toothfish, otherwise known as the Chilean Sea Bass, documents how the fish came into global popularity while tracing the illegal activities of the fishing vessel Viarsa, in an account that discusses the...

Paul Theroux / Figures in a Landscape (Hardback)

The Sunday Times bestseller Paul Theroux collects a rich feast of his writing and essays - from travel to personal memoir - published all together here for the first time Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures...

Jill Duggar / Counting the Cost (Hardback)

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC’s hit show 19 Kids and Counting . Jill Duggar and her husband Derick are finally ready to share their story, revealing...

Mark Webber / Aussie Grit (Hardback)

Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One. In 2010, while racing for Red Bull, he and his team mate Sebastian Vettel went head to head for the World Championship. There could only be one winner...

John Hurley / Organisation and Scientific Discovery (Manchester Physics) (Hardback)

The book takes the view that discovery is the outcome of successful science, and that organisations play a central role in facilitating or inhibiting discovery. John Hurley argues against the theory that creativity only leads to scientific discovery and...

Heather Havrilesky / Disaster Preparedness (Hardback)

A perceptive, witty memoir about the transformative humiliations of childhood-and adulthood-from a unique, already-beloved voice. When Heather Havrilesky was a kid during the '70s, harrowing disaster films dominated every movie screen with...

M.E. McGuire / Cynthia Nolan (Hardback)

Cynthia Reed, single mother, psychiatric nurse, novelist and connoisseur, married Sidney Nolan in Sydney in 1948. England served as their home base from 1953 till her death in 1976, territory charted in her four travel books. This biography is drawn from...

Stephen Davis / Jim Morrison (Hardback)

Jim Morrison epitomized the late 1960s - the sex, drugs and rock n roll. He was the greatest American rock star and one of the most publicised celebrities of his era, but more than three decades later, his life, works and music have yet to yield all...

Gordon Thomas / Desire and Denial (Hardback)

Exploring the effect of the sexual revolution and Vatican II on the Catholic Church and featuring the confessions of three priests and two nuns, this book reveals that sexual rebellion is threatening the foundations of the church     This book...

Yves Balasko / The General Equilibrium Theory of Value (Hardback)

The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the behavior of supply, demand, and prices by showing that supply and demand exist in balance through pricing mechanisms. The mathematical tools and properties...

Brad Feld / Do More Faster (Hardback)

Practical advice from some of today's top early stage investors and entrepreneurs TechStars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator with operations in three U.S. cities. Once a year in each city, it funds about ten Internet startups with a small...

Jarski / Hollywood Wit: Classic Off (Hardback)

In "Wisecracks - Great Lines from the Classic Hollywood Movies", Rosmarie Jarski put together a compendium of both famous and rarely heard quips from the silver screen. Now as a companion piece to these on screen witticisms, she has put...

Alister E. McGrath / The Twilight of Atheism (Hardback)

The author challenges beliefs that the modern world is becoming more secular, presenting arguments that demonstrate why atheism cannot provide the moral and intellectual guidance necessary for coping with today's issues     This book is...

MCALEVEY / NO SHORTCUTS (Hardback)

A compelling call for progressive movements to change their organizing strategies     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title...

Patrick Faas / Around the Roman Table (Hardback)

A quirky and unusual historical cookery book, already a bestseller in Europe.Packed with fascinating anecdotes, and richly illustrated with witty quotes from classical authors, Around the Roman Table is a mouth-watering ride through the food of the...

Mariana Mazzucato / The Value of Everything (Hardback)

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than...

Aaron Maree / Petits Fours (The Finishing Touch) (Hardback)

Offers a range of tiny delicacies. The book includes colour photographs and step-by-step instructions.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same...

Mary Laven / Virgins of Venice (Hardback)

Renaissance Venice had a convent on almost every corner, and nuns loomed large in the city's daily life. Far from being places of religious devotion, the convents were often little more than dumping-grounds for unmarried women from the upper ranks...

Peter Stanford / The death of a child (Hardback)

The death of a child is seldom discussed. This title offers a collection essays in which parents and siblings tell their own stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief. It ends with a reflection by...

Aubrey Dillon-Malone / Stranger Than Fiction (Hardback)

Did you know that Arnold Bennett died of typhoid after drinking a glass of Paris tap water to show that it was safe? That Voltaire would get rid of boring house guests by pretending to faint? Or that Raymond Chandler was inspired to write by watching his...

Kim Scott / Radical Candor (Hardback)

* New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller multiple years running * Translated into 20 languages, with more than half a million copies sold worldwide * A Hudson and Indigo Best Book of the Year * Recommended by Shona Brown, Rachel Hollis, Jeff...

Deepak Chopra / The Third Jesus (Hardback)

Who is Jesus Christ? In The Third Jesus , bestselling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless...

Deepak Chopra / Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul (Hardback)

Deepak Chopra presents ten lessons to help build awareness and change the distorted energy patterns that are the root cause of aging, infirmity, and disease. Fifteen years after his #1 New York Times bestseller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind , Deepak...

Mike Dooley / Infinite Possibilities (Hardback)

Infinite Possibilities is the masterwork from teacher, author, and featured speaker Mike Dooley. As the next step beyond his immensely popular Notes from the Universe trilogy, and his follow up, Choose them Wisely, this book contains even more enriching...

John Sutherland / How to be Well Read (Hardback)

As the annual flood of published novels grows ever greater, it’s a hard a job to keep up, let alone sort the wheat from the chaff. Fortunately, literary sleuth and academic John Sutherland is on hand to do precisely that. In the course of over 500...

Helmut Thielicke / Notes From a Wayfarer (Hardback)

The autobiography of the renowned German preacher, theologian and spiritual opponent of Nazism. Helmut Thielicke was one of the most read and most listened to theologians of our time. Like few other theologians, he repeatedly came down from the ivory...

John Fitzgerald / Prelude to Leadership (Hardback)

Prelude to Leadership is the private diary of John F. Kennedy when he was a 28-year-old reporter in Europe. It offers a short yet intimate look into the mind of the man who was to become the 35th President of the United States     This book is...

Robert Hughes / A Jerk on One End (Hardback)

"In some ways it's a ridiculous human passion," renowned author and art critic Robert Hughes confesses of his lifelong devotion to fishing. But it is a powerful, abiding passion nonetheless, one that Hughes shares with presidents and...

Alman Brian / Keep it off (Hardback)

A clinical psychologist explains how to utilize the power of self-hypnosis to lose weight and to keep it off, providing concise, four-part instructions for self-hypnosis and explaining how to use the process to heal the underlying issues that cause...

Bruce Milne / Know the Truth (Hardback)

'You will know the truth,' said Jesus, 'and the truth will set you free.' Christians have already begun to know God and his truth. This handbook assists in that liberating knowledge, as it opens up the great themes of God's Word...

Fritjof Capra / The Hidden Connections (Hardback)

A fierce attack on globalism – and a manifesto for change – by one of the world’s leading scientific writers Recent scientific discoveries indicate that all of life – from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states,...

Deepak Chopra / The Book of Secrets (Hardback)

If it weren't for the enormous effort we put into denial, repression, and doubt, life would be a constant revelation. It takes thousands of choices to keep the book of secrets closed, but it only takes a single breakthrough to open it again. The...

Alan Murphy / Scotland Highlands & Islands Footprint Handbook (Hardback)

When the rain stops falling and the mist clears there is no more beautiful place on earth than Scotland’s Highlands and Islands, Europe’s last great wilderness. Hailed as the best guidebook to the region, Footprint’s `Scotland Highlands and Islands’...

Andrew Cockburn / Saddam Hussein (Hardback)

"The idea of direct invasion is the greatest threat to Saddam. It avoids the problems of securing local allies, inside and outside Iraq, which bedevil any indirect approach to get rid of him. But it has one immense disadvantage from the US point of...

Colin Thubron / Behind the Wall (Hardback)

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Bryony Gordon / Mad Woman (Hardback)

'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony...

Andrew Keen / How to Fix the Future (Hardback)

Internet entrepreneur Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers that the Internet poses to our culture and society. His 2007 book The Cult of the Amateur was critical in helping advance the conversation around the Internet, which has...

Blake Morrison / And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Hardback)

This is Blake Morrison's memoir of his father, a story of loss, love and death, and the familiar "domineering old sod" that we recognize from so many of the books about fathers by their sons - Edmund Gosse, J.R. Ackerley, Franz Kafka,...

Frankie Boyle / Scotland's Jesus (Hardback)

Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her exploding...

Jo Brand / Look Back in Hunger (Hardback)

Jo Brand is one of Britain's funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice she tells her story for the first time. What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of...

John L Allen / The Future Church (Hardback)

One of the world?s foremost religion journalists offers an unexpected and provocative look at where the Catholic Church is headed ? and what the changes will mean for all of us. What will the Catholic Church be like in 100 years? Will there be a woman...

A. N. Wilson / Dante in Love (Hardback)

In Dante In Love, A N Wilson brings to life one of the western canon's most enigmatic figures. With a biographer's eye for detail and a novelist's comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and...