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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson, read by John Sackville.Most history is hierarchical: it's about popes, presidents, and prime ministers. But what if that's simply because they create the histori...

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Brought to you by PenguinTHE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER TLS, OBSERVER, SUNDAY TIMES, FT, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is in...

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From the No. 1 bestseller and author of Richard & Judy pick The Savage Garden: a riveting tale of passion and murder set on the French Riviera in the 1930s for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Jed RubenfeldFrance, 1935: At the poor man?s end of the R...

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Marking the centenary of the Titanic disaster, Titanic Lives is an utterly compelling exploration of the lives on board the most famous ship in history.On the night of 14 April 1912, midway through her maiden voyage, the seemingly unsinkable Titan...

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From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP.From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched...

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?A heartwarming and thought-provoking story of grief, redemption and reinvention in our modern world.?¿Imogen Clark, bestselling author of Where The Story StartsYou can?t have a rainbow, without a little rain?When a stranger saves Luke?s life, he...

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?Haunting.? Jonathan Freedland?Powerful.? Daniel FinkelsteinThe profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family?s fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain.In November 1941, Peter Bradley''s...

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?[A] creative and original book on resilience through crises? DAVID MILIBAND ?[A] fascinating book is full of insights ? I highly recommend it? KATE RAWORTH, AUTHOR OF DOUGHNUT ECONOMICSFrom a leading international crisis management expert, a brea...

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Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong meets Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale in this moving and powerful novel about love, loss and the resilience of the human spirit.Scarred by his experiences in World War One, German doctor, Sebastian Braun lives a quiet ...

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?My favourite novel and one I wish I?d written.? ALAN BENNETTWinner of the McKitterick Prize for best first novel by an author aged over 40, and the Hawthornden Prize for imaginative literature.Everyone craves retirement from the Civil Service, do...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charles I: An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky, read by John Sackville. The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.A landmark book that completely transforms our understanding of the crisis of liberalism, from two pre-eminent intellectualsWhy did the West, after winning the Cold War, lose its political balance?In the early 1990s, hope...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Articulate, clear, a joy to read, this is a book that really needed written'' Joanna Blythman , author of Swallow This ''Highly persuasive ... a radical approach to weight'' Sunday Times _________________________________...

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Brought to you by Penguin.The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis's short fiction in a single volume for...

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Brought to you by Penguin.The King's English is Kingsley Amis's authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is ...

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Listen to the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the conflict that shaped the modern world.From the build-up to the fighting, through to the reverberations still felt in the aftermath, this i...

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Brought to you by PenguinHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research an...

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Brought to you by Penguin. Religion is both unique - as far as we can judge - and universal to humans. Our species diverged from the great apes about six to eight million years ago and since then, along with language, our propensity towards spirit...

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Brought to you by Penguin.The defining event of twentieth-century Europe - the extermination of millions of Jews - has been commemorated, institutionalised and embedded in our collective consciousness. But in this nuanced and perceptive new histor...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Turner by Franny Moyle, read by John Sackville. The extraordinary life of J. M. W Turner, one of Britain''s most admired, misunderstood and celebrated artists J. M. W. Turner is B...

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating by Charles Spence, read by John Sackville. A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for foodWhy ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrantsThis compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work - examines the two tyrants ...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, read by John Sackville. Everything in the universe is made of them, including you. Like you, the elements have personalities, attitudes, talents, shortcomings, sto...

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Brought to you by Penguin. One winter morning, Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - goes to keep a perfectly routine business appointment and finds a hanged man. A bad start to the day, by anyone's standar...

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Brought to you by Penguin.Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was 15-years-old.In his quiet village, he and other children ran in fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. Food was carefully apportione...

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Brought to you by Penguin. 50,000 years ago, we were not the only species of human in the world. There were at least four others, including the Neanderthals, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonesis and the Denisovans. At the forefront of the latter's gr...

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Brought to you by Penguin. From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness,...

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William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster's classic, published only after the author's de...

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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Scandal by Fredrik Backman, read by John Sackville. Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone elses fore...

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