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A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier
Diana Preston, Michael Preston
"William Dampier, (1651 -1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research. mong many extraordinary achievements Dampier mapped the winds and ...
A Happy Death
Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus' astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenti...
High Fidelity: Popular Penguins
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserabl...
Tandia
Half-African, half-Indian and beautiful, Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked and violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid and consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind and extrao...
Little Miss Helpful (Mr Men & Little Miss)
Little Miss Helpful tries to help everyone but ends up making things worse. The Mr Men and Little Miss series of titles now feature spine art. Collect the 33 Little Miss titles so the spine art reveals a picture when all titles are placed together in numbered order. ...
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
"Joshua Foer invents a new genre of nonfiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory."--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist On average, people squander forty days annuall...
The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (A4 Colour Edition)
Introducing the ladderless window-cleaning company. A Giraffe with a neck so long she can reach the highest windows, A Pelican with a bucket-sized beak, A Monkey to do the washing - and their new friend Billy. At last their big break has arrived! The richest man in England has given them a job that coul...
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available; there was no concept of progress; people looked for understanding to the past not the future. This book argues that the discovery of America demonstrated that new knowledge was possible- indeed it introduced the very concep...
Any Human Heart
Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and...
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith
From a top scientist and the creator of the hugely popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, a hilarious investigation into future technologies - from how to fling a ship into deep space on the cheap to 3-D organ printing. What will the world of tomorrow be like? How does progress happen? An...
The Memory Police
'A masterpiece' Guardian A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan's greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the i...
The Unsettling of Europe
Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize 2020 A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most challenging issues in modern Europe deserves to be widely read.' - Ian Kershaw Migrants have stood at the he...
The Grace Year
_____________________________________________A New York Times bestselling dark speculative feminist thriller in the vein of THE POWER and THE HANDMAID'S TALE.'An incredibly important and empowering read' Natasha NganNo one speaks of the grace year.It's forbidden.We're told we have the power to lure grow...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends
A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David Hare In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a commo...
Betty
A searing exploration of a woman's hidden destructive impulses from one of the great writers of the twentieth century'There was no longer that ambivalent inconsistency between her words and thoughts, no more fever, no more artificial heat, no more vagueness. Instead was the truth in all its rawness, in ...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by several more of the ve...
Vampire Dormitory 5
I'll do it! I'll become your thrall! A crossdressing girl and an otaku vampire find themselves entangled in a dangerous relationship. Don't miss this heart-pounding romance from the award-winning Ema Toyama, perfect for fans of Crimson Spell, Black Bird, and He's My Only Vampire! Mito, who has no fa...
The War Nurses
A moving and inspiring WWII novel of friendship and courage, based on the true events of the Bangka Island Massacre, by the bestselling author of The Drifter. In 1941, country girls Minnie Hodgson and Margot McNee set sail from Perth, Australia for Singapore in search of adventure, full of excitement an...
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