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1980s Rio de Janeiro.

Theres only one king in this city and hes got the mullet, swagger and fake ID to prove it.

Introducing Carlos Henrique Raposo, known to all as KAISER.

This guys got more front than Copacabana beach.

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Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: the land of heroes. Ambition, lust, romance, birth and death can all be found within its pages, as well as the sampo, a mysterious talisman that brings great happiness to its possessor and over which great battles will be fought.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HORATIO CLARE

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Grayling, The Times

Wild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human.

Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer, Jack 'The Jew' Glickman, and a glamorous card-playing mother.

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For consenting adults only, this wickedly witty book only exposes its 30 exotic positions to the most persistent hands.

Put a little lead in your pencil and get stuck in. It's almost definitely the most fun you can have with your clothes on!

(Partner not included. Do try this at home.)

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How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources Where do these two questions meet Umberto Eco undertakes a series of explorations, starting from common sense, from which flow stories or fables, often with animals as protagonists, to expound a critique of Kant Heidegger and Pierce.

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Karoo is a professional fixer of other people's scripts and, by his own acknowledgement, he ruins them all. Calamity and comedy follows shambolic Saul Karoo as his life breaks down. He is a man prone to luck both good and bad, and when a young woman with a strange connection to his past shows up, the plot of his own life comes into sharp focus.

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Katherine Swynford was first the mistress, and later the wife, of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster. This book rescues Katherine from the footnotes of history, highlighting her key dynastic position within the English monarchy.

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*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN*

The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion.

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Volume 14 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Orwell wrote to his anarchist friend, George Woodcock in December 1942 arguing that 'by working inside an institution like the BBC one can perhaps deodorise it to some extent', and he concluded, 'I consider I have kept our little corner of it fairly clean'.

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Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room.

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When young David Balfour is orphaned he discovers some surprising truths about his family. His meeting with his uncle Ebenezer turns out to have disastrous consequences leading to kidnap and imprisonment on board a ship bound for the Carolinas. David finds himself in a daredevil chase across the Scottish Highlands.

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'For God's sake, hold on!'

On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test yet. But then the ship hits a reef, it's every man for himself, and David must battle against the raging sea itself!

BACKSTORY: Learn about the true stories that inspired this adventurous tale!

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'No summary can do this marvellous, rich and unforgettable novel anything like justice' Philip Pullman

Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore.

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The colourful and stylised kimono, the national garment of Japan, expresses not only Japanese fashion and design taste but also reveals something of the soul of Japan, and is seen by many as a symbol for all that is Japanese - simplicity, elegance and beauty.

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An unforgettable tale of slavery in the American South


Once I lived in a place where demons dwelled. Far from the paradise she was promised, this is a bleak place and her husband, Linus, a cruel master.

They helped me, but I never helped them.

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Neutral America is debating the proper response to the war in Europe. Increasingly involved in this debate is Henry Ford: inventor, industrialist, billionaire. He is against war - it is bad for business. Into his orbit comes Rosika Schwimmer, who persuades him that a Peace Ship filled with the great and the good should sail to Europe.

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I, Matt the First, appeal for your help in carrying out my reforms

Little Matt becomes King Matt when he is just a young boy.

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Tells the history of our journey into the heart of Kukuanaland; a trek into the interior of the dark continent to find a lost friend and discover the diamond mines of King Solomon.

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Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. The mark that this enigmatic and largely neglected royal mistress left on the society and culture of early Georgian England was to resonate well beyond the confines of the court, and can still be felt today.

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Alfred Kinsey was the twentieth century's first scientifically reputable and most influential researcher into sex.

For this remarkable biography - which forms the basis of a major film - Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has interviewed in depth Kinsey's remaining family, his close colleagues, friends and lovers.

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In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal.

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