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An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century.

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From the author of Kairos, winner of the International Booker Prize: an exquisitely crafted, haunting story of a house and its inhabitants, and a country and its ghosts.

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A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers.

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The spellbinding debut novel from the winner of the National Book Award: three brothers come of age in a poverty stricken town in upstate New York

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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort as it plays out in these times of environmental and political turbulence

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From the publishers of Brilliant Maps, here is a cartographic journey through our planet's weirdest and most wonderful phenomena.

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'Enriches and enlarges our own sense of the world we thought we knew' Marilynne Robinson

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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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A gripping and groundbreaking book that tells the inside story of how the men and women we dispatch to fight our battles adapt to life outside the combat zone.

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The first thorough investigation of the demagogue who is the face of the new South African politics.

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A tale of two brothers in desperate straits and one high-stakes poaching trip in Yellowstone from a Dylan Thomas Prize shortlisted author.

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From a prize-winning Italian author comes a brilliantly inventive novel about the final years of Charlie Chaplin's life, which is both a vivacious portrait of a comic legend and a love letter to the era of silent cinema.

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From the acclaimed New Yorker writer, here is a compelling chronicle of the Egyptian Revolution, from Mubarak's downfall to Morsi's, told through the stories of Egyptians, the activists and those who were indifferent, thugs and elites, liberals and Islamists.

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Slavery in Britain did not end with William Wilberforce. They may be largely invisible to us, but living in our midst are thousands of slaves. This book seeks out five escapees and persuades them to tell us their stories.

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A masterwork of Gothic fiction, and a deeply affecting evocation of the experience of those who seek asylum, by one of Italy's most important writers.

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The definitive study of the wars in Afghanistan by the veteran reporter who has had exclusive access to all the key players over the last 30 years there from Gorbachev to WikiLeaks.

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The third in the Best of Young British Novelists series, which revealed the emerging literary landscape of a new millenium.

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Examines Descartes' remarkable attempt to construct a new basis for scientific understanding, his famous first principle: I am thinking, therefore I exist , and his notorious and often misunderstood account of the relation between mind and body.

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A lucid introduction to the crude but clear system of thought of the most notorious anti-Semite in history.

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A bold and original novel about John Humble, the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer.

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A visceral and muscular state-of-the-nation novel about a modern day cowboy searching for meaning in America, during the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Veteran worrier, author of To Be a Machine and father-of-two, Mark O'Connell, meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich who are preparing for the end of days.

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Wry, warm, and sprinkled with Yiddish humour, this is the novel Woody Allen might have written - had he grown up in Sweden during the Intifada.

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An introduction to philosophy in short, accessible chapters