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Inside Vogue: A Diary of My 100th Year [9780241978375]

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Radicals [9781785150371]

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Crack in Creation, A: The New Power to Control Evolution cover photo

Crack in Creation, A: The New Power to Control Evolution [9781847923813]

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The Smoking Hourglass [9780552572903]

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Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World cover photo

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World [9781910702376]

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Caravan: Dining All Day [9781910931233]

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The Little Black Book [9780008245115]

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Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist cover photo

Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist [9780593077504]

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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens cover photo

Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens [9780718181727]

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The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung cover photo

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung [9780141980720]

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Make Your Bed [9780718188863]

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United as One: Lorien Legacies Book 7 [9780718184896]

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Reality is Not What it Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity [9780141983219]

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No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need cover photo

No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need [9780241320884]

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Mad [9780718185695]

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The World's Worst Children 2 [9780008259624]

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Queen in 3-D [9780957424685]

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The Button Box [9780008137410]

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Cook. Eat. Love.

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by Fearne Cotton

Join bestselling author Fearne Cotton for over 100 healthy, easy and mouth-watering recipes. Whether you're after quick wins on weekdays, ideas to get more veg into your body, showstopping feasts to share with friends, or some nice and not-so-naughty treats, Cook. Eat. Love. has something for everyone.

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The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Winner Announced

The Man Booker International Prize 2017 - Winner Announced 15th June 2017

And the winner is... A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman (Israel), translated by Jessica Cohen (US).

The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Winner Announced 8th June 2017

Congratulations to Naomi Alderman, who won this year's Baileys Prize with 'The Power'. See the winner and the shortlisted titles here...

The British Book Awards - Winners Announced 9th May 2017

At last night's awards, which was one of the highlights of the book calendar, the Overall Book of the Year was awarded to 'The Essex Serpent' by Sarah Perry. See more winners...

Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist 5th April 2017

See this year's six shortlisted books here. (And watch out on 7th June when the winner will be announced.)

Author Interview: Keggie Carew 9th March 2017

We talked with Keggie Carew about her Coasta Award winning book, Dadland.

The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction - Longlist Announced 8th March 2017

Congratulations to these 16 authors. Then it's the shortlist and then the winner is announced on 7th June.

Costa Book of the Year announced 1st February 2017

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year is...

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The Man Booker Prize - Winner announced! 25th October 2016

Congratulations to Paul Beatty for his novel The Sellout - winner of the 2016 prize.

Free Book Friday! 14th October 2016

Follow us @agreatreaduk and retweet for a chance to win every Friday. This week: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Illustrated ed.

Bruce Springsteen: Born to be number one 7th October 2016

Bruce Springsteen's autobiography, Born to Run, has gone straight to number one in the UK's official book charts..

Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced 13th September 2016

Paul Beatty, Deborah Levy, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Szalay and Madeleine Thien who have been shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize..

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Sydney [9780241278680]

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Arizona & the Grand Canyon [9780241278659]

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Operation Trumpsformation [9780241978016]

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DK Children's Encyclopedia [9780241283868]

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Black: An Artist's Tribute [9789383145621]

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The Summer That Melted Everything [9781911344360]

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British Museum: The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Amazing Animals and Beautiful Birds cover photo

British Museum: The Colouring Book of Cards and Envelopes: Amazing Animals and Beautiful Birds [9781788000017]

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Lunchbox Salads: Recipes to Brighten Up Lunchtime and Fill You Up cover photo

Lunchbox Salads: Recipes to Brighten Up Lunchtime and Fill You Up [9781785035296]

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Zoe's Rescue Zoo: The Picky Puffin [9780857639837]

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100 Healthy Recipes: Healing Vegetarian Recipes: Delicious Recipes for Body and Mind cover photo

100 Healthy Recipes: Healing Vegetarian Recipes: Delicious Recipes for Body and Mind [9780753732229]

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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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Tools of Titans

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By Tim Ferriss

Subtitled 'The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers', this is from Tim Ferriss, bestselling author of 'The 4-Hour Work Week' and podcaster extraordinaire. On 'The Tim Ferriss Show' he's interviewd nearly 200 world class celebs and top performers, and this book contains all the tactics, tools and life lessons of these 'titans' for you to implement in your life straightaway.

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Dadland

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By Keggie Carew

Described by Helen Macdonald, author of 'H is for Hawk', as 'beautiful and fierce and brave', this is the well-deserved Costa Award Winner which tells the fascinating true story of Keggie's family, in particular her father who was an undercover agent during World War 2.

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