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Mohsin Hamid The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over... | Barbara Hulanicki Seamless from Biba is a sumptuous and beautifully designed pictorial celebration of every aspect of Barbara's work, designed by Barbara herself with all her well-known eye for colour and detail... |
John Coates Following Bob Diamond's resignation in the wake of the Libor rate-fixing scandal, Wall Street trader and neuroscientist John Coates investigates why our financiers are driven to take risks. In this... | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for... |
Will Hill Dracula is on the verge of coming into his full power. Department 19 is on the back foot. Ladies and gentlemen: welcome to war. The stakes? Mankind's very survival... | Jim Crace Over the course of seven days, Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade: the harvest blackened by smoke and fear, the new arrivals cruelly punished, and his neighbours held captive on... |
Kate Atkinson During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby... | Robert Macfarlane et al. These copies are signed by both authors, Robert Macfarlane and Dan Richards, and by illustrator Stanley Donwood. |
Tom Kitchin Scotland's hottest chef takes us into his home kitchen to show just how accessible, inexpensive and uncomplicated gourmet food can be. Tom draws on his experience of home cooking to... | Eoin Colfer The reluctant assassin is Riley, a Victorian boy who is suddenly plucked from his own time and whisked into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run. |
Amity Gaige Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric... | Susannah Calahan Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a sudden and mysterious illness put her on descent into... |
Oliver James Many, if not most, parents feel that their children may have missed out in some way during the early years. Offering a simple, relatively trouble-free self-help method for putting that... | April Bloomfield April Bloomfield takes us behind the scenes of her lauded restaurants - the Spotted Pig, the Breslin and the John Dory - and into her home kitchen. |
Anthony Quinn In "The Streets" Anthony Quinn reconstructs an unforgettable picture of Victorian London, encompassing the extremes of privilege and privation, from the baronial mansions of the rich to the 'whited tombs'... | Damian Barr A touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other side in spite of, and... |