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A voyage around the Queen
£25.00A voyage around the Queen
From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma’am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an unforgettable and fascinating biography.
THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Enthralling ? deliciously gossipy’ MAIL ON SUNDAY
‘A crown jewel among royal biographies’ OBSERVER
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Everything to play for
£16.99Everything to play for
An insider’s account of the videogame industry telling how gaming can become a force for good
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Fans
£20.00Fans
From the acclaimed science writer and author of Wayfinding, a journey into the world of superfans and an exploration of the psychology of fandom.
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Feeding the monster
£16.99Feeding the monster
Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more than ever before, with horror characters and aesthetics infecting TV, music videos and even TikTok trends. Yet even with the commercial and critical success of ‘The Babadook’, ‘Hereditary’, ‘Get Out’, ‘The Haunting of Hill House’, ‘Yellowjackets’ and countless other horror films and TV series over the last few years, loving the genre still prompts the question: what’s wrong with you? Implying, of course, that there is something not quite right about the people who make and consume it. In ‘Feeding the Monster’, Anna Bogutskaya dispels this notion once and for all by examining how horror responds to and fuels our feelings of fear, anxiety, pain, hunger, and power.
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Haunted states
£12.99Haunted states
A fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the darkhistory of the US and exploring how past horrors – from witch trials to slavery and genocide- continue to haunt the national consciousness.
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Let the light pour in
£12.99Let the light pour in
For the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the darkness and are fuelled with resilience and defiant joy. ‘Let the Light Pour In’ is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book celebrating his morning practice.
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Melancholy undercover
£20.00Melancholy undercover
Since interviewing the four members of ABBA for an article in 2013 – at which time they had not been interviewed for 30 years – a relationship was sparked between writer Jan Gradvall and the band, and he was granted unique access for the next decade. He has interviewed each of them exclusively for ‘Melancholy Undercover’, and they share their thoughts and opinions with him here more openly than ever before. Gradvall places ABBA at the centre of the musical universe, and alongside his fascinating interviews, he gives readers the socio-cultural context of how the band’s sound was formed – including the melancholic hints of Swedish folk music and the dansband culture of their formative years – and shows how the story of ABBA is also the story of Sweden and the internationalisation of pop culture.
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My love life and the apocalypse
£8.99My love life and the apocalypse
Humanoid Echo is a lonely teenage boy in a post-apocalyptic city of robots … Then, a space-pod crashes from the sky with a girl on board. Pandora. Can they find answers in their ended world – and new beginnings in each other?
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Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s
£14.99Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s
Now that’s what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.
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See what you’re missing
£20.00See what you’re missing
Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists – from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the world – to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.
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Stickerbomb
£20.00Stickerbomb
Fully revised and updated edition of the original, bestselling Stickerbomb with 30 brand-new stickers.
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Strangeland
£22.00Strangeland
At the beginning of 2022, after eight years of political reporting in the US, Jon Sopel returned home to the UK – and having spent almost a third of his career abroad, he found a very different place to the one he left. In ‘Strangeland’, his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents, he asks: What is the Britain he’s come home to?
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The stories of your life
£22.00The stories of your life
A fascinating rollercoaster through human psychology, outlining, explaining and exploring the masterplot narratives that we use to help us interpret and manipulate the world around us.
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Unapologetic expression
£25.00Unapologetic expression
Long before it was paired with wine and sold to the white middle-classes, jazz had been the ‘unapologetic expression’ of an oppressed people, a music defined as much by its rhythms and harmonies as it was by the transatlantic forces of slavery and imperialism which shaped it. Now, generations later, André Marmot charts the story of a new wave of British musicians who have reclaimed jazz for themselves and their communities, performing across the country and around the world. Countering austerity politics, gentrification and discrimination, and harnessing postcolonial diversity, intergenerational knowledge and new industry models, these artists have crafted a sound which reflects Britain as it is today – a sound connected to the very origins of the jazz itself.
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