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A darkly compelling novel of childhood, morality, innocence and guilt.

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Ted Hughes' classic creation tales for young children accompanied by stunning illustrations from the award-winning artist Jackie Morris.

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How to be a Movie Star is a different kind of book about Elizabeth Taylor: an intimate up-close look at a girl who grew up with fame, who learned early how to be famous and how that fame was used and constructed to carry her through more than sixty years of public life.

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A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.

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An epic look at the true cost of principles and how we live now.

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A hilarious look at what's really going on in Twitterworld from journalist, TV commentator and author Grace Dent.

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How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.

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A funny, clear and brilliantly entertaining guide to the world of finance by John Lanchester, bestselling author of Capital and Whoops!

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From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today.

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Distinguished biologist Lewis Wolpert explains how cells provide the answers to fundamental questions about our lives.

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Patrick Marber's blackly comic play about a hard-nosed and successful Jewish showbiz agent dealing with a mid-life crisis follows his Dealer's Choice and Closer to complete a loose trilogy set in contemporary London.

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The hard-hitting new poetry collection from 'Ireland's most ingenious poet' (Telegraph).

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A charming and acclaimed debut novel by the author of The Inheritance of Loss, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2006.

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A newest collection of poems from Nobel Prize winning writer Seamus Heaney.

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Felix is an astrophysicist who discovers that solving the riddle of his emotional life is considerably more challenging than the quest for a unified string theory. Charlotte Jones' family comedy won the Critics' Circle Best New Play Award following its premiere at the National Theatre, London, in 2001.

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Amazing activities and rollicking riddles from everybody's favourite hamster - Humphrey!

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The perfect gift, this new edition of Humphrey's Ho-Ho-Ho Book of Stories, from Betty G. Birney's bestselling series, brings together three more stories about Humphrey the classroom hamster. Discover the wisdom, wit and brilliance of the nation's best-loved furry friend as he tells you everything about School, Mysteries and Christmas, all according to his Humphreyness!

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Humphrey the hamster is already the star of several books. Here, he brings another funny, heartwarming adventure to a younger audience as Room 26 ventures out on a little camping adventure.

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In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the king.

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The epic and acclaimed history series reaches its third volume in paperback.

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From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers' tales concerning black-maned ape-men as Theodore Hull - octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps - entices him onto the trail of the Gugu.

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A bitingly funny historical novel, following Brother Diggory on an eerily prescient journey through fourteenth-century England.

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In this sweeping debut, Asha Bromfield takes readers to the heart of Jamaica, and into the soul of a girl coming to terms with her family, and herself, set against the backdrop of a hurricane.

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Together, they describe the community Lawrence came from with fierce tenderness, evoking a now-vanished world of manual labour and working-class pride.On the cracked border of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire stands the village of Eastwood.