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One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it
’We are able to imagine anything because we are being besieged by something that was considered unimaginable…’
Beneath the panic and bluster, beneath the confusing…
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’Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen’ Kai BirdBest-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear…
The instant Sunday Times bestseller — a beautiful story of rebellion and science
Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize
’A triumph. . . We are left in a world that is not disenchanted by science, but even more magical’ Financial TimesIn June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering…
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A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain’s best biographers How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells’ life shape the father of science fiction?
From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to educate himself at any cost, to the…
**A must-read thriller for lovers of The Passage, World War Z, The Martian or Interstellar**What happens when you make a discovery that changes everything?
Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly, the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees…
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Kategorier: Hälsa, sjukdom och missbruk: sociala aspekter Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala och etiska frågor
’A virtuoso feat … a book of panoramic breadth’ New York Times Book Review
’A devastating analysis … Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives’ The ObserverJust as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century’s first…
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Following his New York Times bestseller How the World Really Works, Vaclav Smil returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth (and beyond) – from microbes to economies and the expanding universe To answer the most important questions of our age, and secure our future, we must…
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’Vivid as fireworks … Both terrifying and exhilarating’ Doireann Ni Ghriofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat
’Funny and sharp … A hungry book, looking everywhere and seeing everything’ Observer
In a time more turbulent than any of us could have ever imagined, a woman is attempting to…
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EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY IS A KILLER. EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY IS A SUSPECT.BUT WHICH OF THEM IS A MURDERER?
’The best thing I’ve read in ages’ STUART MACBRIDE’Fun, witty and exciting. This is not one to miss!’ 5***** READER REVIEW’A must-read for every fan of the mystery genre’ JANE…
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Pre-order the latest beautifully illustrated tale from the bestselling author of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon, the story of a cat who taught zen…__________
Following the phenomenal international success of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon and The Journey, James Norbury’s latest book introduces readers to a very…
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THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
What happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception?
’Full of suspense and intriguing characters’ MY WEEKLY’A gritty, gripping drama’ WOMAN’S WEEKLY_______
No one wants to believe their mother is a liar . . .
After her mother’s…
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Kategorier: Genusvetenskap Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper
’Truly wonderful… Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.’ – Claire Tomalin
A BLAZING, GENRE-BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE WRITERS OF OUR TIME
Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George…
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’A tragicomic triumph. You won’t read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year’ Guardian
’Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life’ Financial Times
The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in…
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I’m the face of the NHL. The golden boy with quick hands and a million-dollar smile that the fans adore.
My contract is up at the end of the season, and with playoffs starting, I have to be on my best behaviour. Keep my head down and respect the press when they shove their microphones beneath my nose. This…
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From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science
’Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side, too. By its end, readers will feel they’ve made a…
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Our world is in a mess. The challenges of climate change, inequality and hunger mean our way of life seems more imperilled and society more divided than ever. But economics can help! From parenting to organ donation, housing to anti-social behaviour, economics provides the tools we need to fix the biggest issues of…
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How I Live Now is the powerful and engaging story of Daisy, the precocious New Yorker and her English cousin Edmond, torn apart as war breaks out in London, from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff. How I Live Now has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald, starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy and releases in…
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The Penguin English Library Edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson’All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil’
Published as a ’shilling shocker’, Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark…
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As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings…until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. For twenty-five years. This is…
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The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old WaysDiscover the hidden worlds beneath our feet… In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment. Taken together, these essays trace her twenty year journey from the Booker Prize-winning The God of…
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Kategorier: Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of Britain and other Western societies: thriving cities versus the provinces, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise…
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Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew risk everything to stop a cutthroat arms dealer from stealing a priceless ancient treasure in the thrilling new novel from the no. 1 Sunday Times-bestselling grand master of adventure.
In 1074 B.C., vast treasures disappear from the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs. In 1927, a daredevil…
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Kategorier: Barn och ungdom: skönlitteratur och sanna berättelser Barnböcker, ungdomsböcker och läromedel Skönlitteratur barn och ungdom: allmänt
Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero.
Normally when you turn sixteen you get a really cool present.
But, being sixteen and the son of Poseidon can never be that simple. So instead, I get a prophecy that says the fate of the entire world on my shoulders. Great.
On top of that, Kronos, Lord of the Titans, is attacking New York…
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Kategorier: Medicin och omvårdnad
In this riveting journey through the hidden realms of the human mind, a world-renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist explores the origins of human emotion, and examines what mental illnesses reveal about all of us – how the broken can illuminate the unbroken.
Why do we feel what we feel?
Mental illness is one…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a…
Coffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world’s most popular drug. The very word ’coffee’ is one of the most widespread on the planet. Augustine Sedgewick’s brilliant new history tells the hidden and surprising story of how this came to be,…
The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call exposing the alarming rise of anti-semitism — and explains what we can do to defeat it
On 27 October 2018 Bari Weiss’s childhood synagogue in Pittsburgh became the site of the deadliest attack on Jews in American history. For most of us,…
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A radical retelling of the history of science that challenges the Eurocentric narrative. We are told that modern science was invented in Europe, the product of great minds like Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. But this is wrong. The history of science is not, and has never been, a…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management
’By far the best book I’ve ever read on the how and why of scaling. If you care about changing the world, or just want to make better decisions in your own life, The Voltage Effect is for you.’ Angela Duckworth, CEO of Character Lab and New York Times bestselling author of Grit
Why do some ideas make…
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Kategorier: Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Karriär och framgång Självhjälp och praktiska råd
An upcoming title to be published by Penguin Random House UK.
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Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. With his signature flair and razor-sharp wit, Saki is an undisputed master of the short story. His tales are by turns hilarious,…
An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water
The one thing that can solve Stephen’s problems is dancing. Dancing at Church, with his parents and brother, the shimmer of Black hands raised in…
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Kategorier: Antologier Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form…and how it formed him!**In a new flexibound format with an updated afterword**
This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the…
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