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Harry Styles
£9.99Harry Styles
‘Fascinating and authoritative’ The Daily Express
Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon: Harry Styles.
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Map of Hope and Sorrow
£12.99Map of Hope and Sorrow
Helen Benedict, award-winning British-American professor of journalism at Columbia University, teams up with Syrian writer and refugee, Eyad Awwadawnan, to present the stories of five refugees who have endured long and dangerous journeys from the Middle East and Africa to Greece.
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From Our Own Correspondent
£10.99From Our Own Correspondent
For over fifty years, ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ has been one of BBC Radio 4’s flagship programmes. Every week BBC foreign correspondents, journalists and writers reflect on current headlines, often bringing a personal perspective to them. There are few countries and subjects which have not featured on the programme – places as diverse as the Faroes, Moldova in Eastern Europe, the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and one of Africa’s smallest countries – Sao Tome and Principe. So many of the outlets that correspondents work for demand little more than writing to television pictures or covering the day’s events in one report of perhaps only a minute’s duration.
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Black Panther
£25.00Black Panther
‘The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection’ presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.
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Captain America
£25.00Captain America
‘The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection’ presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.
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The Amazing Spider-Man
£25.00The Amazing Spider-Man
‘The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection’ presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.
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The Book About Everything
£20.00The Book About Everything
To celebrate the centenary of Ulysses‘s publication, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers each respond to an episode of James Joyce’s classic modernist novel.
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The Prime Ministers
£12.99The Prime Ministers
It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert Walpole arguably became the first holder of the office of Prime Minister in 1721 – an office which today is under scrutiny like never before. ‘The Prime Ministers’ brings to life all 55 of Britain’s ‘First Among Equals’ with an essay for each office holder, written by key figures in British politics. From the obscure 18th-century figures like the Earl of Shelburne to 20th-century titans like Churchill and Thatcher, this book provides a much-needed reminder about their motivations, failures and achievements.
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Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman
£10.99Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into adventure. An artist, safecracker, practical joker and storyteller, Feynman’s life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence, unquenchable curiosity and eternal scepticism. Over a period of years, Feynman’s conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age.
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The Hong Kong Diaries
£30.00The Hong Kong Diaries
In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five years he kept this diary, which describes in detail how Hong Kong was run as a British colony and what happened as the handover approached. The book gives unprecedented insights into negotiating with the Chinese, about how the institutions of democracy in Hong Kong were (belatedly) strengthened and how Patten sought to ensure that a strong degree of self-government would continue after 1997.
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Theroux the Keyhole
£9.99Theroux the Keyhole
A funny, revealing and insightful take on the madness of living and working during a pandemic from the always entertaining Louis Theroux.
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The Interpreter’s Daughter
£20.00The Interpreter’s Daughter
In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim’s mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in the portrait who were still alive. The photo is mounted on cream card with the name of the studio stamped at the bottom in Chinese characters. The place and date on the back: Hong Kong, 1935. Teresa would often look at this photograph, enticed by the fierceness and beauty of her great-aunt Fanny looking back at her. But Fanny never seemed to feature in the told and retold family stories. Why? she wondered. This photograph set Teresa on a journey to uncover her own family history. Through detective work, serendipity, and the kindness of strangers she was guided to the fascinating, ordinary, extraordinary life of her great-aunt and her world of sworn spinsters, ghost husbands and the working-class feminists of 19th century south China.
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