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Status Anxiety
In Status Anxiety, bestselling author Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal fear of failure - and how we might change. We all worry about what others think of us. We all long to succeed and fear failure. We all suffer - to a greater or lesser degree, usually privately and with embarrassme...
The Histories
"The Histories" describes how a small band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epic struggle forms the core of his work, Herodotus' natural curiosity frequently gives rise to colourful digressions: a description of the natural wonders of Egypt; an account...
Matilda (Colour Edition)
Roald Dahl's much-loved Matilda, now in a stunning large paperback format with Quentin Blake's original illustrations in full colour. Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the wo...
The Mars Room
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, friendship and incarceration. Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Fa...
A Woman
For a book that sent shock waves through the European literary establishment and, since its original publication in 1906 has gone through seven editions along with highly cclaimed translations into all th principal languages of Europe, A Woman (Una Donna) by Sibilla Aleramo (1876-1960) has remained curi...
Licence to Be Bad - How Economics Corrupted Us
'It is going to change the way in which we understand many modern debates about economics, politics, and society' Ha Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Over the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to ou...
Better off Dead
Jack Reacher returns, in the brand new thriller from bestselling authors Lee and Andrew Child. Relentless action, a gripping mystery and a host of new enemies who might soon be better off dead . . . Reacher never backs down from a problem. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, wh...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Br...
The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually
An emotional, poignant and atmospheric literary novel from a critically-acclaimed rising star in Irish fiction 'There's a crack in everything, it's how the light gets in' Leonard CohenOn an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family are poised for celebration - but are instead shattered by t...
Battle Mum: from the author of No One Likes a Fart
A hilarious new story from Zoe Foster Blake that celebrates children's love of play fighting and acting out imaginary battles, except this time it's Mum who wants to play and she never wants to stop! Ana and Louis are tired after a long day at school and kinder. They just want to watch TV . . . but Mum...
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