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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... |
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... | Hilary Mantel Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the 2012 Costa Book of the Year. |
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... | 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... |
Peter F. Hamilton St Libra is a paradise for Earth's mega-rich, until the killing begins. | 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... |
Khaled Hosseini So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of... | Michael Sandel Should we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons... |