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Phil Hogan / a pleasure and a calling (Hardback)

You won't remember Mr Heming. He showed you round your comfortable home, suggested a sustainable financial package, negotiated a price with the owner and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the...

Karen Elizabeth Gordon / Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide (Hardback)

From the author of The Transitive Vampire, comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book—replete with illustrations of...

Adolfo García Ortega / Desolation Island (Hardback)

As the twentieth century draws to a close, a ship heads for Punta Arenas at Chile’s southern tip. On board is Oliver Griffin, who is fascinated by the island and spends his life drawing intricate maps of it. He is on an unusual quest, inspired by a...

Robert Wilton / The Emperor's Gold (Hardback)

July 1805. The armies of France have only to sail to England to complete Napoleon’s domination over Europe. Britain is militarily weak, politically divided, unsettled by her rioting poor. Into this feverish environment comes a dead man. Pulled...

Dan Simmons / Flashback (Hardback)

Ex-cop Nick Bottom is about to receive a proposition. Flashback dependency has taken his badge, his reputation, and the love of his son. All Nick has left are his memories of his dead wife, taken from him in a tragic car accident. Now powerful...

Jacqueline Winspear / Maisie Dobbs #2 Birds of a Feather (Hardback)

An eventful year has passed for Maisie Dobbs. Since starting a one-woman private investigation agency in 1929 London, she now has a professional office in Fitzroy Square and an assistant, the happy-go-lucky Billy Beale. She has proven herself as a...

David Beers / Blue Sky Dream (Hardback)

The personal story of a single family reflects the problems of contemporary America and considers such issues as corporate downsizing, middle-class anxiety, white male rage, and the loss of the American dream         All of...

Osbourne Sharon / Sharon Osbourne Extreme (Hardback)

A devoted wife and mother, businesswoman, TV star and award-winning producer, Sharon Osbourne has, in her own words, 'lived fifty lives in fifty years'. From her extraordinary childhood as the daughter of infamous rock manager Don Arden, to managing...

Michael Ashcroft / Special Ops Heroes (Hardback)

Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest of its kind in the world. The action-packed stories span some sixty years from the exploits of the newly-formed...

Sonia Allison / Fondues (Hardback)

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Julian Stockwin / Thomas Kydd #12 Conquest (Hardback)

Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar removed the spectre of invasion and England is now free to seek conquests and colonies in the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a strategic imperative to...

Marcus du Sautoy / The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics (Hardback)

Inthe tradition of Fermat’s Enigma and Pi , Marcus du Sautoy tells the illuminating, authoritative, and engagingstory of Bernhard Reimann and the ongoing quest tocapture the holy grail of mathematics—the formula to predict prime numbers...

Fred Kaplan / Dickens: A biography (Hardback)

Drawing on unpublished material brought to light in the 1980s, this portrait of the famous novelist explores the autobiographical significance of his greatest works and gives a frank account of his marriage and his relationship with his mistress...

Neil Sheehan / A Bright Shining Lie - America in Vietnam (Hardback)

This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures & disillusionment in SE Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became...

Thomas J. Craughwell / Great Books for Every Book Lover: 2002 Great Reading Suggestions for the Discriminating Bibliophile (Hardback)

Can't decide what to read? Imagine a list of the greatest books described in concise, insightful and witty profiles to browse in search of the next perfect read. 2002 Great Books for Every Book Lover offers all this and more, reviewing each book with...

Eric Scerri / A Tale of Seven Elements (Hardback)

In 1913, English physicist Henry Moseley established an elegant method for "counting" the elements based on atomic number, ranging them from hydrogen (#1) to uranium (#92). It soon became clear, however, that seven elements were mysteriously missing from...

James Gleick / Chaos (Hardback)

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Nicholson Baker / Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Hardback)

Since the 1950s, our country’s greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the...

Victor Mollo / Destiny at Bay: The Latest from the Bridge Menagerie (Hardback)

I reckon that even by Mollo's standards, this is Superlative. All the characters are here, the Hog, Papa, the Rabbit, Karapet; outstanding deals, outstanding analysis, how Mollo can touch the human side of Bridge is unique...

Jim Debrosse, Colin Burke / The Secret in Building 26: The Untold Story of America's Ultra War Against the U-boat Enigma Codes (Hardback)

For the first time, the inside story of the brilliant American engineer who defeated Enigma and the Nazi code-mastersMuch has been written about the success of the British “Ultra” program in cracking the Germans’ Enigma code early in...

Eleanor Arnason / Ring of Swords (Hardback)

Eleanor Arnason's A Woman of the Iron People "will inevitably and appropriately be compared to the work of Ursula K. Le Guin," said Locus. It won both the Mythopoeic Award and one of the first annual James Tiptree Jr. Awards, and received widespread...

Michael E. Porter / Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (Hardback)

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world. Electrifying in its simplicity --...

Mario Livio / The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number (Hardback)

Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that phi , or 1...

Annabel Goldsmith / No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years (Hardback)

Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. The family fortunes were based on coal-mining. In her enthralling memoirs she told of her aristocratic upbringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with...

Gail Blanke / Between Trapezes: Flying into a New Life with the Greatest of Ease (Hardback)

With record unemployment, divorce rates and financial instability, more people than ever before will find themselves in transition. Most of us are afraid of the in-between times-those stretches between jobs, between lovers, between a past that is...

Carole Martinez / The Castle of Whispers (Hardback)

In 1187, on the day of her wedding, the beautiful 15-year-old Esclarmonde scandalizes the court when she refuses to accept the knight chosen by her father, the lord of the domain of Whispers. She defies her father’s wishes and vows to give...

Gabrielle Donnelly / The Girl in the Photograph (Hardback)

When she unearths a photograph of her mother, who had died when she was a child, inscribed to an unknown man, an Irish-American woman returns to Los Angeles to discover who her mother really was, only to meet with lies and deceptions...

Ruth Rendell / Perfectly Criminal 2: Whydunit? (Hardback)

Following on from the first CWA anthology, Perfectly Criminal, whose story Herbert in Motion by Ian Rankin won the 1996 CWA Short Story Dagger, this thrilling collection focuses on the elusive 'why?' behind the crime. This theme has inspired many...

Matt Lynn / Death Force #4 Ice Force (Hardback)

The fourth Death Force adventure plunges the elite squad of hardened mercenaries into a deadly battle for survival in the frozen wastelands of the Arctic  A plane carrying a Russian oil billionaire has crashed mysteriously in the Arctic in...

Jo Walton / What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading the Classics of Science Fiction & Fantasy (Hardback)

Jo Walton is an award-winning author of, inveterate reader of, and chronic re-reader of science fiction and fantasy books. What Makes This Book So Great is a selection of the best of her musings about her prodigious reading habit. Jo Walton's many...

Philip Hensher / The Mulberry Empire, or, The two virtuous journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan (Hardback)

Recounting an episode in the the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by Her Majesty's Empire, this novel has at its heart the relationship between Alexander Burnes, leader of the British expeditionary party, and the Afghani...

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles / Morland Dynasty #29 The Burning Roses (Hardback)

1915 - World War IThe euphoria of the first days of the war has faded, but the nation is more determined than ever to win. While the Morland men go overseas, the women play their part at home, but it is a strange and emotional time for all. And with the...

Alexander McCall Smith / What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (Hardback)

A stellar collection from Newbery medalists and bestselling authors written to benefit Darfuri refugeesWith contributions from some of the best talent writing for children today, What You Wish For is a compelling collection of affecting, inspiring,...

Richard Beard / Damascus (Hardback)

In his first novel, X 20: A Novel of (Not) Smoking , Richard Beard demonstrated his love for variations on a theme, examining obsession from many different perspectives. In Damascus , he rings his changes on the nature of time as his characters are...

Patricia Bosworth / Marlon Brando (Hardback)

From moody Omaha teenager to Method-trained star with the face of a poet to eccentric recluse in his later years, Marlon Brando offers a penetrating look at Brando's evolving persona and legendary the volcanic Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named...

David Meerman Scott / World Wide Rave: Creating Triggers that Get Millions of People to Spread Your Ideas and Share Your Stories (Hardback)

A World Wide Rave ! What the heck is that ? A World Wide Rave is when people around the world are talking about you, your company, and your products. It's when communities eagerly link to your stuff on the Web. It's when online buzz drives buyers to...

Patrick McGrath / Asylum (Hardback)

In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic...

Elizabeth Chadwick / The Coming of the Wolf (Hardback)

The long-awaited prequel to Elizabeth Chadwick's bestselling and beloved first-novel The Wild Hunt. The Welsh Borders, 1069. When Ashdyke Manor is attacked, Lady Christen is forced to witness her husband's murder and the pillaging of her lands...

Richard Flanagan / Wanting (Hardback)

Internationally acclaimed and profoundly moving, Richard Flanagan's Wanting is a stunning tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. It links two icons of Western civilization through a legendarily disastrous arctic...

Trudy Nan Boyce / Detective Sarah Alt #2 Old Bones (Hardback)

A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community—set in a city at its boiling point—from an author who’s been in the trenches and seen it all.A senseless act of violence.During a vigil...

Margaret Frazer / Sister Frevisse #3 The Outlaw's Tale (Hardback)

ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF MURDERLeaving the safety of her nunnery walls behind, Dame Frevisse is drawn into an unholy web of treachery and deceit. Waylaid on the King's Highway by a band of outlaws, Frevisse is shocked to discover that their leader is her...

Colin Evans / Murder Two: The Second Casebook of Forensic Detection (Hardback)

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Jean Rowden / Thorny Deepbriar #5 Gone Astray (Hardback)

It’s every policeman’s worst nightmare: a little girl has been abducted and Falbrough CID can find no trace of her. The department’s newest detective, Constable “Thorny” Deepbriar, one-time village bobby, already has his...

Tom Harper / Black River (Hardback)

Tom Harper has taken you to the underworld. He's taken you to the Arctic. Now he's taking you to the deadliest jungle on earth. When Kel MacDonald joins an expedition looking for a legendary lost city in the Peruvian Amazon, he's expecting the...

Barry Forshaw / The Man Who Left Too Soon (Hardback)

The stranger-than-fiction life story of the author of  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo   His three novels are violent, terrifying, brilliantly written, and have sold millions of copies around the world, but Stieg...

Gavin Esler / The United States of Anger: People and the American Dream (Hardback)

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Sergio Kun Aguero / Born to Rise - My Story (Hardback)

Sergio Aguero is one of the top strikers in world football. The book features a foreword from his best friend, Lionel Messi, and includes colourful dressing room revelations about his fellow countryman and a revealing insight into the greatest...

Lynda La Plante / Anna Travis #5 Silent Scream (Hardback)

Film star Amanda Delany has the world at her feet. Never one for the quiet life, she has had a string of affairs with the hottest actors around. Then, coming home late from a night shoot, Amanda puts the key in her front door for the very last time. The...

Nick Danziger / Danziger's Britain: A Journey To The Edge (Hardback)

Nick Danziger began his journey in June 1994, as newspapers and magazines throughout the land commemorated the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings and recalled the Allies' war aims (to "afford assurance that all men in all lands may live out their...

Curtis Sittenfeld / Rodham (Hardback)

What if Hillary Rodham had turned down Bill Clinton's proposal of marriage?‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus...

Bruce Schneier / Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World (Hardback)

Bestselling author Bruce Schneier offers his expert guidance on achieving security on a networkInternationally recognized computer security expert Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks...

D.C. Thomson / The Best of My Weekly 2005 (Hardback)

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