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Dan Brown New hardback featuring Dan Brown's renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. Set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's enduring... | Taiye Selasi Tells the story of a family who take generations to make a good life for themselves only to see it crumble in an evening. This title tells the story of... |
BBC The BBC Proms is the world's biggest and longest-running classical music festival and features many of the greatest artists and orchestras from the UK and around the world in over... | Rhian E. Jones Political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding 'chavs', has been accompanied by a similar restriction and... |
Brian Kimberling A birdwatcher's guide to the human heart - an unconventional coming of age story from an unforgettable new voice that will appeal to fans of David Vann and Annie Proulx. | Sheryl Sandberg The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour - of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of... |
Clive Stafford Smith A true story that reads like a thriller: how an innnocent man was convicted of murder and the horrifying flaws in American justice the case exposes. | John le Carre Gibraltar, 2008. A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign... |
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger; Kenneth... We are witnessing the beginnings of a revolution. Big data - the explosion of information that digitization has sparked - is changing our world in ways we are just starting... | Ian McEwan Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her into the... |
Stephen Collins On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless. Or at least it is until one famous day, when Dave... | Peter F. Hamilton St Libra is a paradise for Earth's mega-rich, until the killing begins. |
Jaron Lanier Shows how the new power paradigm operates, how it is conceived and controlled, and why it is leading to a collapse in living standards. Arguing that the 'information economy' ruins... | Caitlin Moran Including cultural, social and political issues which are usually left to hot-shot wonks and not a woman who sometimes keeps a falafel in her handbag, this title also deals with... |
Kate Morton The spellbinding new novel from the international bestselling author of The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden and The Distant Hours | Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter 1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where... |