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Here is the book that is currently missing from our kitchen shelves: a brilliantly intuitive handbook for matching food and wine, from the author of the bestselling How to Drink.

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A triumphant love story that follows the life of one woman from the chaos of Nigeria's 1968 civil war through forbidden first love, loss, marriage and motherhood.

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From the author of Kairos, winner of the International Booker Prize: an exquisitely crafted, haunting story of a house and its inhabitants, and a country and its ghosts.

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A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befall one family

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Shortlisted for the Folio Prize and internationally celebrated by critics and readers alike, here is a dazzling and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire.

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'Enriches and enlarges our own sense of the world we thought we knew' Marilynne Robinson

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A gripping and groundbreaking book that tells the inside story of how the men and women we dispatch to fight our battles adapt to life outside the combat zone.

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The first thorough investigation of the demagogue who is the face of the new South African politics.

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One of the most celebrated books of the year: a vivid journey through the haunted borderlands that once made up the easternmost stretch of the old Iron Curtain and today mark the outer reaches of Europe.

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From a prize-winning Italian author comes a brilliantly inventive novel about the final years of Charlie Chaplin's life, which is both a vivacious portrait of a comic legend and a love letter to the era of silent cinema.

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From the acclaimed New Yorker writer, here is a compelling chronicle of the Egyptian Revolution, from Mubarak's downfall to Morsi's, told through the stories of Egyptians, the activists and those who were indifferent, thugs and elites, liberals and Islamists.

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Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. This book seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories.

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A masterwork of Gothic fiction, and a deeply affecting evocation of the experience of those who seek asylum, by one of Italy's most important writers.

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The definitive study of the wars in Afghanistan by the veteran reporter who has had exclusive access to all the key players over the last 30 years there from Gorbachev to WikiLeaks.

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The third in the Best of Young British Novelists series, which revealed the emerging literary landscape of a new millenium.

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Examines Descartes' remarkable attempt to construct a new basis for scientific understanding, his famous first principle: I am thinking, therefore I exist , and his notorious and often misunderstood account of the relation between mind and body.

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A lucid introduction to the crude but clear system of thought of the most notorious anti-Semite in history.

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A bold and original novel about John Humble, the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer.

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A visceral and muscular state-of-the-nation novel about a modern day cowboy searching for meaning in America, during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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A story of three polar bears: a memoirist who flees the Soviet Union; a dancer in an East Berlin circus; and Knut, a baby bear born in Berlin Zoo at the beginning of the 21st Century

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Wry, warm, and sprinkled with Yiddish humour, this is the novel Woody Allen might have written - had he grown up in Sweden during the Intifada.

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An introduction to philosophy in short, accessible chapters

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A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference, and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist

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Describes Suad Amiry s experience of living on the West Bank from the early eighties to the present.