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A Severed Head
Iris Murdoch; Miranda Seymour (Introduction by)
A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in love Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his wife, Antonia, suddenly leaves him for her psychoanalyst, Martin is plunged into an intensive emotional reeducation. He attempts to...
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Alice, a girl of seven years, is feeling bored and drowsy while sitting on the riverbank with her elder sister. She then notices a talking, clothed White Rabbit with a pocket watch run past. She follows it down a rabbit hole when suddenly she falls a long way to a curi...
Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook
My ideas start with a taste, a flavour, and a sketch in my kitchen notebook. Leaving behind her tiny kitchen in Paris to embark on new culinary adventures, Rachel Khoo keeps her notebook right by her side; it is where she records all her recipes, ideas, photographs and illustrations of food. The resulti...
The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form. This book comes with an introduction by Natalie Haynes. When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir's belief that 'On...
The Lost World
Before seeing Jurassic World this June, read the sequel to the multimillion copy number 1 bestselling thriller that inspired the first major motion picture Jurassic Park. It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination ca...
The Dirty Game: Uncovering the Scandal at FIFA
In The Dirty Game, investigative reporter and BBC Panorama presenter Andrew Jennings, who has been heralded around the world for his decade-long pursuit of this story, uncovers the eye-watering level of fraud and criminal activity at the heart of FIFA, which has been described as the biggest sporting sc...
Dad Magazine
This hilarious dad-centric satire is the first magazine written exclusively by dads, for dads! Complete with hard-hitting feature reporting ( What s Going On with Your Neighbor's Lawn? ), in-depth lifestyle articles ( How to Talk to Your Son About Growing A Beard ), fashion tips ( Buying Shoes on eBay: ...
The Red-Haired Woman
'She was looking at me as if she knew everything about me, as if she'd known me for years.' From the Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author Orhan Pamuk is The Red-Haired Woman, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul,...
The Penis Book: A Doctor's Complete Guide to the Penis - From Size to Function and Everything in Between
The Penis Book is the comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about the penis, for men and women alike. Written by Dr. Aaron Spitz-one of America's top urologists and a regular on The Doctors-the book is full of in-depth information, expert medical advice, and even humor to put the reader at ...
DC Comics Ultimate Character Guide
Is Superman the strongest Super Hero alive? Where is Wonder Woman from? Is Darkseid the most evil Super-Villain ever? Who is the fastest man alive? Who are Batman's allies?Have to know the answers to these questions? Look no further than the DC Comics Ultimate Character Guide- New Edition. Written by DC...
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
This is the first book to offer a comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music and to unravel the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to fo...
What to Watch When: 1,000 TV Shows for Every Mood and Moment
Answering the eternal question... WHAT TO WATCH NEXT? Looking for a box set to get your adrenaline racing or to escape to a different era? In need of a good laugh to lift your spirits? Hunting for a TV show that the whole family can watch together? If you're feeling indecisive about your next binge-wa...
The Moroccan Daughter
Morocco: a captivating country of honor and tradition. And, for these four women, a land of secrets and revelations. From the twisted alleyways of the ancient medina of Fès to a marriage festival high in the Atlas Mountains, Deborah Rodriguez’s entrancing new bestseller is a modern story of forbidden...
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020! Named Energy Writer of the Year for The New Map by the American Energy Society Pulitzer Prize-winning author and global energy expert, Daniel Yergin offers a revelatory new account of how energy revolutions, climate battles, and geopolit...
Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie? In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting itself as world’s best practice and its product as healthy and clean, grown in environmentally pristine conditions. What could be more appealing than the idea of Atlantic sal...
Feel Good: Quick and easy recipes for comfort and joy
Simple, healthy cooking from bestselling author and Telegraph columnist Melissa Hemsley. For fans of Melissa's Good + Simple (53k), Deliciously Ella Quick and Easy (53k), Diana Henry's A Change of Appetite (23k) and Anna Jones' One. 100 satisfying recipes for effortless everyday cooking, packed with ve...
Bournville
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four generations of one familyIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her famil...
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast,...
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