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A new history of mankind's evolution

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Michael Frayn's masterful work, thirty years in the writing, is a search for an understanding of the big questions of life that will leave all who read it challenged, moved and wiser than before.

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A new play based on the critically acclaimed Danish film thriller Jagten, by Thomas Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm.

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The Ice Soldier is an action-packed adventure story set in Britain and the Alps in the aftermath of the Second World War

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Andrew O'Hagan's fifth novel is a beautiful, deeply charged story about love and memory, about modern war and the complications of fact.

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This stunning conclusion to the hilarious yet heartfelt Imagination Box series reinvents what it means to let your imagination run riot!

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Imagine if you had an Imagination Box! Anything you can imagine, you can create. Now imagine the trouble that might cause...Laugh-out-loud comedy in the hilarious sequel to The Imagination Box.

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William Atkins revives the great British tradition of travel writing by recording his journeys to the earth's most desolate, inspiring places: deserts.

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A poignant, intimate and compelling new novel about starting anew and leaving the familiar behind, from the author of Home, A Married Woman and Difficult Daughters.

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The Importance of Music to Girls is award-winning poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw's vivid and engaging portrait of what music means to us as we grow up.

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A heartwarming and hugely entertaining coming-of-age story set in the hazy days of the 1980s.

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A bitingly witty and compulsive crime novel about the bad behaviour of the rich and powerful from rising star Charlotte Vassell

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A bitingly witty and compulsive crime novel about the bad behaviour of the rich and powerful from rising star Charlotte Vassell

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The third of Sara Gran's unique and acclaimed Claire De Witt books, and a great introduction to her mesmeric series.

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Inspired by the novel Howards End by E.M. Forster.

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A richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose, taken from 50 years of writing, in the year that the great poet of page, stage and screen turns 80.

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Brilliant screenplay based on The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster.

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Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to the cult of the Nietzschean Superman, which found its ultimate exponent in Hitler. Carey's assault on the founders of modern culture caused consternation throughout the artistic and academic establishments when it was first published in 1992.

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'Stav Sherez is a master storyteller and a brilliant stylist . and Geneva Miller is fast becoming my favourite fictional female detective since Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison.' Erin Kelly

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Intends to recount the origins of the Second World War. This volume opens with the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1919, which excluded Germany from the community of nations, and with the answering but ill-fated attempt of the Locarno Treaties of 1925 to restore the torn fabric of Europe. It also evokes Weimar culture, and Hitler's rise to power.

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What is the truth about the mysterious Dr Cake Why, at his funeral, is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into his coffin-lid Andrew Motion, poet laureate, has wriiten a novel about poets and their afterlife.

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Tom Stoppard's new play is centered around A.E.Housman, poet and Classics scholar, whose most famous poem was A Shropshire Lad. This new play premiered at the Royal National Theatre in 1997, directed by Richard Eyre.

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A beautiful, unusual and profound fable .

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A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden's early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.