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Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II
When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next 50 years, in Britain and around the world. In "Our Times", A.N. Wilson takes the reader on an exhilarating journey ...
Sixty Stories
With these sixty audacious and blackly witty stories, Donald Barthelme depicts a rich miscellany of the absurdities of life. Surreal events abound ? a thirty-five year old man finds himself back in sixth grade due to a baffling error; King Kong, now an adjunct professor of art history, climbs through a ...
Salt to the Sea
A New York Times BestsellerThis masterful work of historical fiction is inspired by the real-life tragedy that was the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff -- the greatest maritime disaster in history. As she did in Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys unearths a shockingly little-known casualty of a gruesom...
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam
'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's political future' Guardian 'Powerful and compelling. Vietnam will be of growing importance in the twenty-first-century world, particularly as China and the US rethink...
The Holidays
The summer holidays were here. I had the garden, the fields, the lake and the sun all to myself! And then Grandfather brought something home that tipped everything out of balance... Country: France...
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Izzard is one of the funniest people alive, a talented actor, a sharp cross-dresser, an experienced marathon runner, and a great writer. You will have to read this if only to find out what a jazz chicken is."--The Philadelphia Inquirer With his brand of keenly inte...
Before You Know It - The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do
'John Bargh's Before You Know It moves our understanding of the mysteries of human behaviour one giant step forward. A brilliant and convincing book.' - Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink and David and Goliath How much of what we say, feel and do is under our conscious control? How much is not? And most ...
Personal Impressions
The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal Impressions Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova: Isaiah Berlin's Personal Impressions collects the essayist and inte...
The Testaments
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades.When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead.With The Testaments, the wait is o...
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