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A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond, from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined Beings.

Sweeping over the last 10,000 years of human history, this work addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Michael Cook explores the great forces that have shaped our past - natural disasters, human ingenuity, availability of resources - and along the way zooms in on some of the details of history.

An unconventional history of aerial bombing and the profound and terrible effects of its aftermath on the modern world.

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An insight into the complexities of post-apartheid South Africa that sees a former police colonel exploring his psyche with a member of the race he tried to annihilate.

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An illustrated study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signature album. Among the images published here for the first time are Coltrane's hand-written poem 'A Love Supreme' that was printed in the original album and in-studio photographs of Coltrane and his sidemen recording A Love Supreme in 1964.

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'[A] minor masterpiece of compression, intelligent selection and lucid analysis ... It provides an outstanding introduction to the history of Western Europe's least understood people' Spectator

An exhilarating and blackly funny exploration of migration and borders from an Albanian who grew up in Hoxha's madhouse, longing to cross to Greece, only to find another seam of absurdities and disappointments on his eventual arrival.

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A delicious, diabolical collection of short stories, from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night

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What does it mean to write about a killer From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notoriousdouble-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himselfentangled in this strange, true story.

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Expands and renews the key stories from the Bible in which angels - the intermediaries between the human and the divine - loom large: the expulsion from the garden; life in the land of Nod; Cain and Abel; Lot in Sodom; Noah's isolation and his brother's death and sister's elopement before the Flood; Ezekiel's prophesying; and the death of Christ.

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A fascinating scientific journey through the world's forests - revealing what they do for us, what we're doing to them, and how we can help nature repair the damage.

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A classic account of the fall of Saigon and other South East Asian conflicts.

It is almost universally accepted among writers on warfare that battle is a terrible experience, and that men who fight are at the very least sobered, and often deeply traumatized, by the horrors of combat. Bourke uses the letters, diaries, memoirs and reports of veterans from three conflicts to establish a different picture of the man-at-arms.

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The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the decades

Provides an imaginative, carefully researched account of how the human mind evolved.

The atlas of 1816 was littered with blanks. Where was the North Pole Was there a North-West Passage What lay at the heart of Africa Did Antarctica exist In his quest to find the answers to these questions John Barrow, Second Secretary to the Admiralty, launched a programme of exploration.

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How everyday Russians survive and thrive under Putin's rule, from The New Yorker's correspondent in Moscow.

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Felix was a quitter: he quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up his paper round, turned his back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. Dropped out of college, side-stepped the army, abandoned school. Got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit work.

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When a young Muslim woman goes missing, the trail leads to a quintessentially English family's tangled and dark connections with Empire, the Shah's Tehran and modern Bahrain, in this evocative and page-turning novel for readers of Maggie O'Farrell.

When Mala, old and notoriously crazy, arrives at the Paradise Alms House, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a gay male nurse, and an extraordinary relationship begins to develop.

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A book about one of the most important albums of all time, which reinvents music writing in the awesome scope of its exploration.

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Redolent with the sights, smells, and tastes of Paris, "Chez Moi" is a profound and tender novel about a woman's troubled past--and her enduring love of cooking.

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Children of the Sun is a story of England, which reveals a place at once familiar and new.