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This 'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son, immortalized in Philippa Gregory's bestselling novels Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth.
'An elegant primer on a mind-blowing technology that could change our lives out of all recognition... The story of how Adleman built the first primitive DNA computer is as compelling as anything by Isaac Asimov or Philip Dick.' Andrew Smith, Mail on Sunday
For the first time in over five hundred years, a reigning Dalai Lama speaks about the story of his land and people: 'The fourteenth Dalai Lama's fresh account of Tibetan myth and history is wonderful instruction and a great true pleasure.' --- Peter Matthiessen, author of The Snow Leopard
Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008
The sixth instalment of Robert Fabbri's bestselling Vespasian series. Vespasian's ascent to power continues: sent to defend Rome's interest in the East, Vespasian is imprisoned in the oldest city in the world...
The book of our time is now in paperback: Deception exposes the truth about how the West allowed Pakistan to bring nuclear arms to the very rogue states and terrorist organizations that today threaten to destabilize the entire world.
Now available in paperback, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, the book that created the field of economics, is transformed into a page-turner of global significance by America's sharpest political commentator writing in English today.
James Cracknell and Ben Fogle's hardback smash of Christmas 2006 becomes a massive paperback bestseller in summer 2007. 'Read this... Two very different men fight, play games and nearly lose their lives.' The Times
How did an ancient Hindu treatise come to be the world's best-known sex manual? Now available in paperback, The Book of Love is the first book to tell the story of the Kamasutra in full. 'A vastly entertaining and consistently intelligent guide to this misunderstood and vaguely disreputable book.' Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday
Slow-Tech is an impassioned argument for longevity, robustness, slowness and solidity - a timely response to the problems of our over-wound world
This A-format paperback of The Saladin Murders, the second Omar Yussef mystery, continues to build a major new crime franchise: 'Morse, Rebus and now Yussef.' Observer
Introducing a world literary figure: Sayed Kashua's Let It Be Morning is written with the moral clarity of Damon Galgut and the existential power of Albert Camus.
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential comes an insider's look into the cloistered world of classical music. Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal.
'Hardy's evident intimacy with and affection for the troubled landscape and people of her novel lend The Wonder House an air of distinction' - The Times
A collection of autobiographical short stories, small vignettes of his life experiences, universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate and very funny.
The first publication in Atlantic Books' exciting new Tuskar Rock imprint, Peace is a powerful novel about war, trust and salvation that begs to be read in a single sitting. 'Richard Bausch's Peace, set at the end of the Second World War in Italy, is a small masterpiece with the same emotional force and moral complexity as Conrad's Heart of Darkness.' Colm Toibin
"Seven Kings" is a vivid insight into the daily life of seven average teenagers over the course of a school year. What does their world look and feel like - and how will they shape our country in the future?
This is the last untold story of BletchleyPark. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.
The eagerly awaited paperback by the new star of psychological writing: 'Rich with disturbing images, eerie characters and wistful philosophical reflection... in terms of sheer prose ability he is a modern master.' Andrew Marr, Telegraph
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller'Electric... Outstanding.' GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the front line of the Falklands War.On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks, and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed nineteen of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within twenty minutes she had capsized. In her final moments, after all the survivors had been evacuated, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story.
Inside this small (but perfectly formed) hardback there lurks some of the most devilishly difficult mathematical brainteasers human beings have yet devised.
Proof that literary fiction and science fiction can be one and the same. An intelligent first novel from the winner of the prestigious 2009 Edge Hill Short Story competition, beating Anne Enright and Ali Smith.
A MANAGEMENT BOOKSHELF IN A BOOK... This essential book distills and summarizes the world's most important, influential and outstanding management books, revealing the wisdom that made them into classics.
'Dark Roots announces the arrival of a major talent... Cate Kennedy has a near pitch-perfect voice and a feeling for the precise moment when stars move in the cosmos.' Peter Temple, author of The Broken Shore
Winner of the O2 X Award'A new Heart of Darkness... it is unlikely that there will be a finer written fiction this year' Guardian'A shimmering tapestry, a truly networked work of fiction.' Dally Telegraph
Road Work brings together bestselling author Mark Bowden's shorter pieces into one brilliant collection.It includes an enthralling account of how a vast corruption ring inside the Philadelphia Police Department was broken.
The hungrily awaited paperback of Nick McDonell's sensational best-seller. Twelve has been adapted for film by Hollywood director Joel Schumacher starring Chace Crawford,Emma Roberts, and 50 Cent.
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