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Classics of epic fantasy, Peakes series of Gormenghast novels represents one of the most brilliantly sustained flights of Gothic imagination. For the first time in years, the first book in this timeless series is available in an individual paperba...

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The author of "13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear" transports readers to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinner finds himself marooned in the subterranean world of Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, where reading can be dangerous, and rut...

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Featuring the acclaimed novella The Old Woman and darkly humorous short prose sequence Events (Sluchai), Today I Wrote Nothing also includes dozens of short prose pieces, plays, and poems long admired in Russia, but never before available in Engli...

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As a child, the astonishing Joan Grant became aware of her uncanny "Far Memory," the ability to recall past incarnations who had lived in long-ago times and far-flung places. Her seven historical novels stand out for their vividness and ...

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Since its first publication in 2008, The Secret History of the World has sold over 250,000 copies and established itself as the authoritative text on the subject of esoteric belief systems and secret societies. Now, with The Illustrated Secret His...

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The second volume in the timeless fantasy trilogy that begins in "Titus Groan" is now available to a new generation of fantasy fans, who are sure to fall in love with this tour de force that ranks as one of the 20th centurys most remarka...

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People never learn. They make the same mistakes generation after generation. So here are the things that everyone should learn about life, then hope to remember. With a wry sense of humour, Rules for Ageing presents the most realistic, practical, ...

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Retired master spy Paul Christopher goes missing a day after a family dinner. Months later a Chinese official delivers his ashes to the American consulate in Beijing, and a memorial service is held in Washington. But the Old Boys of the CIA are no...

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Its an election year, and America is polarized between a lantern-jawed liberal and a far-right former businessman with deep ties to the energy industry. Meanwhile suicide bombers, led by an Arab prince made rich by oil, are using passenger airline...

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Kentucky-born Clay meets Roads, a beatnik college drop-out with pretensions of being the next Kerouac. Suddenly Clay doesnt want to stay in Owensboro, become a mechanic and marry a hick girl from town. He wants to be like Allen Ginsberg, Coltrane,...

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From the Bahamas and South Africa to Shanghai, sharks are the object of obsession: film stars go big-game fishing for them and sharks fin soup is a coveted status symbol in China. Elsewhere, people and sharks exist alongside each other: surfers to...

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Is it possible that major world events are affected by spirits even if one doesnt believe in them? Can it be that everything from decisions about peace and war to the food we eat and the gods we pray to may have roots in the disembodied voices whi...

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Henry Darger was utterly unknown during his lifetime, keeping a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicagos North Side. When he died his landlord discovered a treasure trove of more than three hundred canvases and more than 30,000 manuscrip...

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Englishman Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim, slips onto the Russian freighter Domatova as it quietly sails out of the Beirut harbour. A spy for the Soviet Union, he flees the Lebanese capital with just the clothes on his back and uncert...

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Classic master of natural history writing W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentiethcentury ecological movement. His most famous novel, Green Mansions, now resplendent in a glorious, fullcloth pac...

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The Facades is one of the most remarkable and talked-about debut novels in recent memory. Set in the once-great Midwestern city of Trude a treacherous maze of convoluted shopping malls, barricaded libraries and elitist assisted-living homes Eric L...

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1914. The outbreak of war. In the French city of Arras, a priest is brutally murdered. The Catholic Inquisition-still powerful, but now working in the shadows-sends its most determined and unhinged of Inquisitors, Poldek Tacit, to investigate: his...

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Sigmund Freud has inspired more fascination and controversy than any other intellectual in history. Despite the intense opposition he encountered during his life, this explorer of the unconscious exerted an irresistibly stimulating effect on conte...

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The year is 1965, and the City is a hulking shell of itself. Bohemians, crooks, and snarling anti-Communists have their run of the place, but if Nathan Canada has his way, all this decline and decadence will soon be nothing but a distant memory. H...

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So begins the latest thriller by horror master Dave Zeltserman. The setting is quiet Newton, Massachusetts, where nothing ever happens. Nothing, that is, until two months after Henry Dudlow's thirteenth birthday when his neighbour, Mr. Hanley...

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New York in the late 1980s. Ceinwen Reilly has just moved from Yazoo City, Mississippi, and she s never going back, minimum wage job and shabby apartment be damned. Who cares about earthly matters when Ceinwen can spend her days and her nights at ...

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The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young newspaperman who returns to his native Abkhazia and is soon caught up in the publicity campaign for a newly produced farm animal a cross between a goat and a West Caucasian tur. What follows is a ...

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An Ordinary Story describes the coming of age of Alexander Aduyev, a romantic young man from the provinces who moves to Petersburg in search of love and a career. Psychologically acute in its delineation of Aduyev s relationship with his successfu...

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Meet Freddy the Pig! Duckworth is delighted to be introducing UK readers to the American great, sure to melt the hearts of a new audience. With over one million copies sold worldwide, Freddy the Pig finally arrives to the UK in April 2016! Freddy ...

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Someone is wreaking havoc in Centerboro, destroying gardens, stealing bicycles breaking windows and one of the culprits appears to be...a pig? With the townspeople suspecting Freddy, he'll need the help of all his friends, including a fearsom...

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A skilled debater, a master of language, and a passionate defender of Israel, Abba Eban's diplomatic presence was in many ways a contradiction unlike any the world has seen since. While he was celebrated internationally for his exceptional wi...

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Stef Wertheimer's net worth is estimated at $5.6 million and his innovative mix of humanitarian and industrial development has seen him win the Israel Prize (the nation's highest honor), the Buber-Rosenzweig medal in Germany for his work...

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Set on the eve of the Cassius Clay Sonny Liston rematch and based on the friendship between the actor Stepin Fetchit and Clay soon to become Muhammad Ali Fetch Clay, Make Man explores how each handled a life in the public eye as black men in their...

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There's nothing special about the woman's death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman&...

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