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(Hardback)

By: Tim Bouverie

ISBN: 9781780725284
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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A book for anyone who wants to bring more classical music into their life and doesn't know where to start.


(Hardback)

By: Jordi Punti

ISBN: 9781780723730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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In 22 short essays, Punt explores the beauty, the hunger, the genius and the obsession of Messi he takes us from the near-mythical scenery of a South American footballing youth, where the world is an infinite football pitch, to the glory and the struggle of a life on the international stage.


(Hardback)

By: H. Sutcliffe

ISBN: 9781780724478
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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What is it about Her Majesty that inspires such admiration and respect This little book attempts to answer that big question.


(Paperback)

By: George Cooper

ISBN: 9781780721569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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This is an exciting new take on nutrition - showing how factors such as climate, time, environment and emotional wellbeing should all affect the way we eat. Combining age-old traditions of healthy eating with modern scientific research, clinician George Cooper shows you how to ignore the fads and eat right for yourself.


(Paperback)

By: Michele Kirsch

ISBN: 9781780723815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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This is a remarkable, powerful, and often unbearably funny memoir in which cleaning and getting clean intertwine as a strange and magical form of redemption.


(Paperback)

By: Zia Chaudhry

ISBN: 9781780722481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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Too often we see Islam and Muslims portrayed as fanatical jihadists or helpless victims of western oppression. This book provides a rare insight into what, as the book's title states, the average Muslim makes of it all.


(Hardback)

By: Kate Hubbard

ISBN: 9781780723235
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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Victoria was just 18 when she was crowned Queen in 1837 - a tiny figure, with a will of iron. Never was there so queenly a queen. She made Britain great and the people loved her for it.


(Hardback)

By: Colin Heber-Percy

ISBN: 9781780724973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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An uplifting, intelligent and often amusing meditation on life in a country parish during a curious year


(Paperback)

By: Jessica Lahey

ISBN: 9781780722443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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All of us want the best for our children. But are we going about it the right way In this fascinating book, packed with case studies and practical advice, Lahey proposes a gentle but vital shift in the way we parent.


(Hardback)

By: Charlotte Moore

ISBN: 9781780724263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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"Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach..."


(Paperback)

By: Tom Carver

ISBN: 9781906021924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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In November 1942 a young British army officer was captured. This gripping story tells of Richard's internment in a POW camp in northern Italy and of his subsequent escape.


(Hardback)

By: Rupert Christiansen

ISBN: 9781780721248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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In this poignant and perceptive portrait of his parents' catastrophically acrimonious divorce, Rupert Christiansen tells the story of a generation.


(Hardback)

By: Betsy Tobin

ISBN: 9781906021146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2008
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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Freya knows that her people are doomed. Warned by the fates of an impending catastrophe, she goes in search of a magnificent gold necklace that will save her people from destruction. But to obtain the necklace she must pay a terrible price and sell herself to the four brothers who created it.


(Hardback)

By: Merryn Somerset Webb

ISBN: 9781780725192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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A blueprint for reimagining capitalism in the post-Covid era, from the Editor-in-Chief of MoneyWeek Merryn Somerset Webb


(Hardback)

By: Sarah Sands

ISBN: 9781780724546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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Part travelogue, part spiritual self-help book; A modern-day pilgrimage to ten monasteries around the world.


(Paperback)

By: Nick Potter

ISBN: 9781780723907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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In this fascinating book, Nick Potter, experienced osteopath, takes us on a journey into biology, evolution and contemporary social behaviour and anthropology to examine our relationship with pain.


(Paperback)

By: Will Bynoe

ISBN: 9781780724430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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With a light touch, Matters of Lunch and Death distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a collection of fascinating arguments on life, death, laughter and laziness.


(Paperback)

By: Will Bynoe

ISBN: 9781780724454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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With a light touch, Logic and Monsters distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a collection of fascinating arguments on unicorns, sugar lumps, perforated socks and other puzzling objects.


(Hardback)

By: Juliet Rosenfeld

ISBN: 9781780723792
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Jessica Fox

ISBN: 9781780720364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
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A book for everyone who has ever thought "what if" a true story about grabbing life by the horns, and taking the plunge...