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The landmark book on air pollution: a major threat to the health and longevity of each and every one of us.

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A wondrous tale of bonds forged when two men are pitted against each other on a remote island during the Highland Clearances, from the prize-winning author of West.

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The final work from the brilliant and bestselling playwright and memoirist of The Smoking Diaries.

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The secrets hidden in an overgrown plot of land in the centre of Bangkok reveal the politics, society and culture of contemporary Thailand; in an authentic and luminous debut novel for readers of Jennifer Egan and Jonathan Coe.

September 1932. Gerasimovka, Western Siberia. Two children are found dead in the forest outside a remote village, both have been repeatedly stabbed - a crime that was never solved. Catriona Kelly asks how it was that Stalin's regime turned one of the victims into a hero of the Soviet Empire.

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Explores the fascination and romance that horses hold for girls and women. Melissa Pierson writes about the obsession with tackle and boots, the willingness to get dirty, to live with manure and hay, to polish leather until it shines. The book is also a fine piece of writing about the horse and its history with humans.

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Admired by critics, adored by readers, Dept. of Speculation is an annihilating, electrifying account of marriage and motherhood, love and madness.

In the first half of the twentieth century, European writers plunged into the stony, baking expanse of the Sahara, drawn by their own strange dreams. What did they hope to find And what was really there

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Patricia Storace here explores modern-day Greece from its past to its difficult Balkan present.

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A dozen quizzes that will reveal what you really think

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People are unfair to the car. They criticise what it has done to society, without giving due recognition to what is has done for society- which was effectively to liberate it.

A fascinating account of the eccentric men and women and who laid the foundations for the computerized world we now live in and the machines they built, vividly recreating the atmosphere of those early days.

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A vivacious and moving portrait of a lost era and a lost grandmother, pieced together from an inherited book of handwritten lists.

These stories range across a series of backgrounds: from a Chinese son gambling with professional mourners to a couple who experience a close encounter with an alien. The characters share an instantly recognizable sense of displacement - these are children of one century, adults of the next.

A gripping and beguiling blend of travel writing, memoir, and art history which delves into the mysteries and meanings of Las Meninas, Velzquez's iconic masterpiece

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Taking its title from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", this study traces Europe's dark history in Africa. It is written both in the form of a travel diary and as a historical examination of European imperialism and rascism over the past two centuries.

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An explosive insider's account of racism, homophobia and wrongdoing in today's police force and his fight for change.

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of the 'Greatest Generation'. In Franklin and Winston, Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two men who piloted the free world to victory in the Second World War.

In the early 1970s, Ian Frazier left a small town in Ohio to move to a loft in lower Manhattan. This book is his account of the city over thirty years - where every block is an event and where the denizens are larger than life.

This collection of essays features the theme of what people wanted as children. The contributing writers include: Doris Lessing, Paul Auster, Brian MacKinnon and Nell Stroud. There are also pieces by George Steiner, J.M. Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, John Biguenet and Peter Walker.

Over the past two decades India has produced a dazzling variety of new writing in English. 'India Calling' showcases some of this talent, Amit Chaudhuri and Arundhati Roy, alongside contributions from long celebrated writers such as R.K. Narayan, V.S. Naipaul, Nirad Chaudhuri and Ved Mehta.

This issue of "Granta" is devoted to pieces of fiction, reportage, memoir and photography about London. Contributors include Julian Barnes, Amit Chaudhuri, Doris Lessing, Penelope Lively, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Graham Swift and Howard Hodgkin.