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James Harkin / Everything to Play For: The QI Book of Sports (Hardback)

Hop, skip and jump into this wonderfully curious grand tour of the world of sports, brought to you by QI Elves and No Such Thing As a Fish  podcast hosts James Harkin and Anna Ptaszynski.From sport's weirdest rules to its most unlikely heroes, each...

Adam Blade / The Complete Book of Beasts (Hardback)

Every hero needs the Book of Beasts. This must-have handbook is packed with everything a Beast Quest fan needs to know about all the known Beasts featured in the series. Readers will gain secret knowledge, learn incredible facts, and...

Peter Riddell / Honest Opportunism (Hardback)

This is an account of how one climbs the greasy pole of politics to success and how one falls to failure and oblivion. This is a book for all Westminster-watchers and power-hungry careerists. Why out of a population of 57 million are 651 chosen to...

Adam Macqueen / The Prime Minister's Ironing Board and Other State Secrets (Hardback)

A remarkable collection of British state secrets—from Imelda Marcos and her son Bong Bong's trip to Buckingham Palace to President Eisenhower's particular problem with Winston Churchill's trousers Stored in Whitehall's archives are...

The Economist / Pocket World in Figures 2014 Edition (Hardback)

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Wendy Cope / The Orange and Other Poems (Hardback)

My heart has made its mind upAnd I'm afraid it's you.The Orange and Other Poems provides the perfect introduction to Wendy Cope, one of Britain's wittiest, best-selling, and best-loved poets.In poems that go from laugh-out-loud funny to deeply...

Lucy Dear / Mindbending Lateral Thinking Puzzles (Hardback)

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Bryan Gould / Socialism and Freedom (Hardback)

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David Carroll / Edinburgh (Hardback)

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown / Refusing the Veil (Hardback)

This topic divides people – and it will divide readers of this book too. Many Muslims worldwide either support or adopt religious veiling, and those who argue against it are often criticised, or worse.But, according to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, the...

Augusten Burroughs / You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas (Hardback)

A "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER about Christmases past and present from the #1 bestselling author of "Running with Scissors," "Dry," and" A Wolf at the Table"At eight years old, Augusten Burroughs profoundly misunderstood the meaning of Christmas. Now...

Peter Oborne / The Triumph of the Political Class (Hardback)

Both an extension of and a companion to his acclaimed expose of political mendacity, THE RISE OF POLITICAL LYING, Peter Oborne's new book reveals in devastating fashion just how far we have left behind us the idea of people going into politics for...

Philip Ziegler / Wilson (Hardback)

Harold Wilson was Prime Minister for almost eight years - the longest period spent in office this century until Mrs Thatcher. He fought five general elections and won four. While he was at Number Ten, Wilson held together the unruly elements of Left...

Anthony Sampson / The Oxford Book of Ages (Hardback)

This ingenious anthology brings together a kaleidoscope of opinions about every age of life from birth to a hundred. Anthony and Sally Sampson have collected the wit and wisdom of many remarkable figures of the past and present, as they pause to reflect...

Christina Ruse / The Cassell Dictionary of Literary and Language Terms (Hardback)

A guide to 1600 key terms required in studying English language and literature. Its features coverage of traditional and modern grammatical terminology from "abbreviation" to "zeugma"; descriptions of literary movements and historical contexts such...

Jonathan Fryer / Dylan: The Nine Lives of Dylan Thomas (Hardback)

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George E. Reedy / From the Ward to the White House (Hardback)

Reedy, former press secretary to Lyndon Johnson and an Irish-American, offers a warm anecdotal overview of the growth of Irish-American political power.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Miriam P. Hederman / The Clash of Ideas (Hardback)

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Greg Knight / Parliamentary Sauce (Hardback)

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Brian P. Murphy / John Chartres - Mystery Man of the Treaty (Hardback)

This book is an attempt to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding John Chartres, who was in British Intelligence in 1920, and was then secretary on the Irish side during the Treaty negotiations of 1921. Did he retain links with British...

Edwin Moore / Concise Dictionary of Art & Literature (Hardback)

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Francis Fukuyama / The Great Disruption (Hardback)

In the past thirty years, the United States has undergone a profound transformation in its social Crime has increased, trust has declined, families have broken down, and individualism has triumphed over community. Has the Great Disruption of recent...

George Pitcher / The Death of Spin (Hardback)

Charts the rise and fall of the spin culture of the last two decades...Every decade has its own identity, key values and needs. The 1990s were the age of spin, when the materialism of the 1980s, the desire for instant communication and soundbite...

Geoff Tibballs / Crap Teams (Hardback)

Crap Teams is the ultimate guide to the heartache, hilarity and humiliation of football, featuring the worst seasons and shock defeats of the UK's most popular clubs. Even the best clubs have the odd off-day and Crap Teams provides the searing...

Giles Gordon / Christmas Stories (Hardback)

A collection of stories about aspects of Christmas, or set during the Christmas season. The contributors include Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Katherine Mansfield, O. Henry, Stella Gibbons, Dylan Thomas, Leslie Thomas, Daphne du Maurier and Charles Dickens...

Monica Furlong / The Wisdom of Julian of Norwich (Hardback)

Julian of Norwich, the most popular of the English mystics, described her vision of God in "Revelations of Divine Love". Although afflicted by a long illness, Julian was given an intense experience of God's overflowing love - an experience she...

Iain Hollingshead / Has the World Gone Completely Mad...? (Hardback)

Readers of the Telegraph Letters Page will be fondly aware of the eclectic combination of learned wisdom, wistful nostalgia and robust good sense that characterise its correspondence. But what of the 95 per cent of the paper's huge postbag that never...

Roger Scruton / The West and the Rest (Hardback)

Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. Scruton reveals the philosophical and theological roots of the...

Fred Inglis / People`s Witness (Hardback)

Now, more than ever, political journalists are central figures in the titanic struggles of modern history, not only telling us about events but also interpreting them and shaping our views. This engrossing book explores the relationship between...

Paul Murray / The Bee Sting (Hardback)

The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by...

Mark Billingham / Their Little Secret (Hardback)

Tom Thorne #16   When DI Tom Thorne is called to conduct a routine assessment at the site of a suicide, he expects to be in and out in no time. But when he arrives at the metro station, where a woman named Philippa Goodwin threw herself in...

Tim Spector / Food for Life (Hardback)

From the author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new science of nutrition, drawing on Tim Spector's cutting-edge research as one of the world's leading experts in food science.- Food for health- Food for your microbes- Food...

Robin Neillands / The Great War Generals On The Western Front, 1914-1918 (Hardback)

On the basis of the evidence … it is surely not possible for any reasonable, fair- minded person to sustain the accusation that the British generals, as a group, were entirely to blame for the tragic losses on the Western Front. Neillands'...

Steven Johnson / How We Got to Now (Hardback)

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history...

Sharon Blackie / Hagitude (Hardback)

The highly anticipated new book by the author of the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, empowering women in the second half of life.'In the oldest known cosmology of my native lands, it wasn't a sky-bound old man with a beard who made and shaped this...

Jean Vanier / Jesus, The Gift Of Love (Hardback)

Not since Fulton Sheen's majestic A Life of Christ has a writer captured for his time the beauty, the power, and the holiness of Jesus. But more than this, Jean Vanier writes with a go-to-the-heart simplicity that makes the man Jesus come alive in all...

Harry Hill / Tim the Tiny Horse at Large (Hardback)

Tim The Tiny Horse #2   In his new book of adventures, Tim the tiny horse has to deal with some BIG things. He falls in love for the first time with a lady fly who doesn't appreciate him, so he acquires a pet greenfly (called George) to...

Andrew Rawson / The Arras Campaign (Hardback)

This is an account of the British Expeditionary Force's actions during the spring of 1917\. It begins with the Allied plans for the New Year and shows how they were undone by the German decision to withdraw to a pre-prepared defensive line. The story...

Anthony Tucker-Jones / Battle of the Cities (Hardback)

The Stalingrad battle and the Leningrad siege were just two of the brutal, devastating urban conflicts that marked the awful struggle between Germany and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The cities were strategic fixed points in the sweeping...

Gordon Corrigan / Loos 1915: The Unwanted Battle (Hardback)

This book looks at the major British offensive of the forgotten year -- 1915 -- and examines how the necessity of demonstrating Allied solidarity in a coalition war, where the British were the junior partners on land, persuaded the British government to...

Rick Atkinson / The Long Gray Line (Hardback)

Studies the effects of the Vietnam War on West Point's class of 1966 and on the academy, recounting the loss of idealism that prompted many to leave their military career       This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

Harry Yeide / The Longest Battle (Hardback)

In the early afternoon of September 12, 1944, an American patrol entered Nazi Germany southwest of the ancient city of Aachen. Three months after the landing at Normandy, the Allies were finally within reach of the enemy on his home turf. Among the...

Stuart MacBride / No Less The Devil (Hardback)

'We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.'It's been seventeen months since the Bloodsmith butchered his first victim and Operation Maypole is still no nearer to catching him. The media is whipping up a storm, the top brass are...

Joseph Wheelan / Bitter Peleliu (Hardback)

The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu – a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.In late 1944, as a precursor to the invasion of the Philippines, U.S. military analysts decided to seize the small...

Enid Blyton / Famous Five 1-3 (Hardback)

- Five On Treasure Island- Five Go Adventuring Again- Five Run Away Together       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...

Peter de Rosa / Blessed Among Women: The Book of Mary (Hardback)

A look at the world-wide phenomenon of the adoration of the Virgin Mary       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...

Richard Killeen / Pocket Michael Collins (Hardback)

The year 2022 sees the 100th anniversary of the death of solider and politician Michael Collins, the legendary leader of Irish republicanism.Born in Clonakilty, County Cork, in 1890, Collins joined Sinn Fein at age 18 and later took part in the 1916...

Enid Blyton / Well, Really, Mr. Twiddle! (Hardback)

Mr. Twiddle #3   Mr Twiddle is a kind soul with the best intentions, but he is extremely forgetful, very lazy and more than a little bit silly. One day he thinks he is in for a bit of luck when he finds a new suit under a bush and convinces...

Tomáš Halík / I Want You to Be: On the God of Love (Hardback)

In his two previous books translated into English, Patience with God and Night of the Confessor , best-selling Czech author and theologian Tomáš Halík focused on the relationship between faith and hope. Now, in I Want You to Be ,...

Sali Hughes / Pretty Honest (Hardback)

A witty, wise and truthful beauty handbook for real women on what works in real life from Sali Hughes, beloved journalist and broadcaster.“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together” Elizabeth TaylorBeauty books...

Kate Muir / Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (Hardback)

An eye-opening, no-holds-barred guide to the perimenopause and menopause written by campaigner, journalist and documentary-maker Kate Muir.Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (and were too afraid to ask) is the thinking woman’s...

Michael Lenihan / Hidden Cork (Hardback)

Lenihan delves into the rich tapestry of Cork history to reveal some of its most bizarre events and strangest characters. From quack doctor Baron Spolasco, to the outlaw Art O Laoghaire, Cork has seen some eccentric, wonderful and downright nasty...