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Reveals why it is that: too much science is bad for our health '70s rock music is nothing to be ashamed of Hunting foxes while drunk and wearing night-sights is neither big nor clever; we must work harder to get rid of cricket; and the author likes the Germans (well, sometimes).

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Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With personal insights, this book serves as a testament to the author's role in the Great War's conduct and outcome and demonstrates his brilliance as a historian.

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A title, in which the author argues that sex is at the heart of his writing because it is at the heart of life - a vital force as essential as bread, money, work or play.

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With their energy, imagination and delight in sharing their vision the authors have made vegetables sexy. In this cookbook, they share how the Happy Pear vision has spread out from their restaurant and how they in turn are constantly inspired by their multinational team. It is full of delicious, healthy and original recipes for all the family.

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Train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line. The railroad hires the Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their best man, Isaac Bell. He discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited from down-and-outs - who are killed afterward.

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A mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel.

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Victorian London is in the grip of a wave of crime and murder, with its citizens no longer able to trust the police to protect them. The newly formed Murder Squad of Scotland Yard, made up of just twelve detectives, battles in vain against the tide of violence and cruelty.

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An account of the tumultuous nine weeks in which the famous nineteenth century artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin shared a house in the small French town of Arles. It is an exploration of a fragile friendship, art, madness, genius behind a shocking act of self-mutilation that the world has sought to explain.

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Presents the horror story scandalized nineteenth-century readers with its portrayal of a woman who loses her mind because she has literally nothing to do.

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What is the yellow world The yellow world is a world that's within everyone's reach, a world the colour of sun. It is the name of a way of living, of seeing life, of nourishing yourself with lessons that you learn from good moments as well as bad ones. In this title, the author shows us how to connect daily reality with our most distant dreams.

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The seventeen-year-old Hornblower became notorious as soon as he stepped on board ship - as the midshipman who was seasick in Spithead. But he was soon to gain his sea legs. Amid battle, action and adventure he proves himself time and time again - courageous in danger, resourceful in moments of difficulty and decisive in times of trouble.

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An omnibus edition comprising three of C. S. Forester's seafaring tales featuring Horatio Hornblower. This edition offers the opportunity to collect the three early adventures, Mr Midshipman, Lieutenant Hornblower, and Hornblower and the Hotspur.

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They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about.

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A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face.

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The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, this title is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices of our age.