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Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth [9781784703479]

Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.From servants' children who became cl…

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Culloden: Battle & Aftermath [9781784704452]

'As vivid as the Ten O'Clock News... fascinating, detailed, meticulously researched... tremendous' Daily MailCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize…

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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: The story of two lives, one nation, and a century of art under tyranny [9781784701499]

In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through t…

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Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Relationship with the Orient [9781529110951]

A fresh perspective on British history from award-winning broadcaster Fatima ManjiDeep within the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, where British foreign…

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Intimacies: A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021 [9781529112078]

'She reminds me how high the moral stakes of fiction can be' Garth Greenwell' An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at th…

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The Dream of Europe: Travels in a Troubled Continent [9781529113044]

'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesHow did the great European dream turn sour? And where do we go from here?From the…

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Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life [9781784704377]

The first full and intimate biography of writer and bon viveur Sybille Bedford'A fantastic read' India Knight, Sunday Times'A wonderful biography' Sar…

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Retreat: Adventures in Search of Silence, Solitude and Renewal [9781529111309]

'Reads at times like Eat Pray Love as written by David Foster Wallace. A rich and almost eerily timely book' William Fiennes, author of The Snow Geese…

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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint [9781529113341]

*A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* 'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her …

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Change of Circumstance, A: The new Simon Serrailler novel from the million-copy bestselling author [9781529110531]

Simon Serrailler finds himself in devastating new territory as a sophisticated drugs' network sets its sights on Lafferton and the surrounding village…

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The Quarry [9781529198188]

AUTHOR: DAMON GALGUT is the author of nine novels. He won the Booker Prize 2021 for The Promise, having been shortlisted for the prize twice before (T…

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Small Circle of Beings [9781529198164]

AUTHOR: DAMON GALGUT is the author of nine novels. He won the Booker Prize 2021 for The Promise, having been shortlisted for the prize twice before (T…

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Let That Be a Lesson: A Teacher's Life in the Classroom [9781529113709]

'A frank, funny and long overdue ode to teachers and teaching' Adam Kay'Hilarious, inspiring and so terrifyingly true' Lucy KellawayThe malodorous hor…

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Men in My Situation [9781529111521]

A tender portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life going to pieces, this is the major new novel from the author of bestselling Out Stealing Horses.'Viv…

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Spider Woman: A Life - by the former President of the Supreme Court [9781529114041]

Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story. As 'a lit…

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My Monticello [9781529115055]

During a night of power outages, arson and gunfire, the diverse neighbourhood of 1st Street, Charlottesville comes under attack by a white supremacist…

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