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An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous transparency activists and trans women. In 2010, Chelsea Manning was working as an intelligence analyst for the US Army in Iraq. She disclosed 720,000 classified m...

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Democracy is in bad health. Against Elections offers a new diagnosis - and an ancient remedy. Fear-mongering populists, distrust in the establishment, personality contests instead of reasoned debate: these are the results of the latest elections. ...

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* An essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist & Labour rising star Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic Rory Stewart Refreshingly optimistic The Times No one has done more to re-inject...

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Rosie the hen is going for a walk. But she'd better watch out - there's a sneaky fox on the prowl . . . This timeless classic is the perfect combination of funny, witty, child-friendly humour and iconic retro artwork. The spare text is c...

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world. 'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-a...

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Not so long ago the internet was a new and alien concept. Today, the world would collapse without it. Today, cryptocurrency is a new and little-used concept. Tomorrow, will the world collapse without it? We sit at the cusp of a revolution in globa...

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**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** 'Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin's personality, ideas, power...should read this outstanding biography' Ian Kershaw, author of Personality and Power This book is essential reading for anyone who ...

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'This fascinating book reveals the existence and origins of surely one of our species' greatest creations' (MARK VANHOENACKER, author of Skyfaring) - The Weather Machine is about a miraculous-but-overlooked invention that helps us through our dail...

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Professor Kevin Fong was flying with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, making split-second, life-or-death decisions in the most extreme circumstances. Then he was seconded to the NHS's Covid-19 Strategy Unit, tasked with leading the fight ...

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Professor Kevin Fong flies with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service, making split-second, life-or-death decisions in the most extreme circumstances. In this gripping blend of memoir and reportage, he confronts a disturbing truth: sometimes ev...

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**A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC, MAIL ON SUNDAY, ECONOMIST, DAILY EXPRESS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'Extraordinary, thrilling, immersive ... at times almost Tolstoyan in its emotional intelligence and literary power' Si...

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Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times, is the gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world. 'A cracking, essential rea...

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'A REMARKABLE BOOK... AN AMAZINGLY AUDACIOUS AND COMPLETELY INNOVATIVE WAY OF WRITING HISTORY... IMMEDIATE AND GRIPPING' - WILLIAM BOYD In Petrograd a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to the Urals. A rancorous Russian exile crosses war-torn Eur...

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'An excellent book' David Aaronovitch, The Times Was the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution. No era in r...

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Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city's most tumultuous century by its leading expert. In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a ci...

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The Cubans is a revelatory account of life in one of the most restrictive, isolated and misunderstood places in the world. *A Sunday Telegraph Best Foreign Affairs Book 2020* In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma r...

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*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Keep calm but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit except that it will be deeply damaging if it happens. Extricating Britain from Europe will be the greatest challenge this country has fa...

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A vastly entertaining and unique history of spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond. 'Perfect...read as you settle into James Bond on Christmas afternoon' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, t...

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"One of the most important and compelling books I've ever read, by one of Britain's most gifted writers. If you want to understand why we are in this crisis, listen to the voices all too often airbrushed from the political conversation" ...

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**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** One of the world's most celebrated cosmologists presents her breakthrough explanation of our origins in the multiverse. In recent years, Laura Mersini-Houghton's ground-breaking theory, spectac...

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One of the world's greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, argues that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact. One of the best scientist-writ...

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'A perfect blend of cutting-edge science and compelling storytelling. Daniel Davis has a rare knack for making complex science comprehensible and thrilling' BILL BRYSON Welcome to a revolution in the science of you. Recent and dramatic breakthroug...

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'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times 'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' Philippe Sands, author of Th...

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**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2023** A NEW YORK TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST, MAIL ON SUNDAY and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 From the prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Song of the Cell tells the vivid, t...

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*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK OF APRIL 2024* The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo 'So entertaining' The Times 'Cracking...

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**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** An explosive expos of the world's most prestigious and successful management consultancy. 'Panoramic, meticulously reported and ultimately devastating' Patrick Radden Keefe, a...

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The extraordinary story of one woman's ten-year odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional, and spiritual healing. With a play opening on Broadway, and every reason to smile, Sarah Ruhl has just survived a high-risk pregnancy when she ...

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**AN ECONOMIST AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** 'Essential and definitive' - CATHERINE BELTON, author of PUTIN'S PEOPLE We are in a new era. Since the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, authoritarian leader...

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Imperial Island shows how empire and its ever-present aftermath have divided and defined Britain over the last seventy years. 'Masterful ... you won't look at Britain in the same way ever again' OWEN JONES After the Second World War...

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'Enjoyable' New Scientist 'Delightfully well-written, accessible, surprisingly reflective and humorous' Irish Times 'Thoughtful' Irish Independent From neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the sci...

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