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Tells us about how libraries are used and why they're important. This title describes libraries in the ancient world, and what a library looks like in 2020. Using memoir, history, polemic, short stories and some poetry too, it celebrates 'that place where they lend you books for ...
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What if following your heart takes you somewhere you just can't bear to go? Set in England and Africa, and opening during World War Two, this novel is about family, about love, about duty. It is about the people we miss and the secrets we keep. Above all though, it's about the ch ...
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One of the bestselling children's authors in the world, the creator of the Horrid Henry series, launches an exciting new novel for children aged 8+. This audiobook will be read by Simon Russell Beale.
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From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere - and they are fundamental to everyday life. In this book, the author sets out seventeen equations that have altered the course of human history. It is also a ...
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Freya is an ordinary girl living in modern Britain, but with a twist: people still worship the Viking gods. She's caught in her parents' divorce, and shuttling between bickering adults is no fun. One evening, stuck with her dad on his night shift at the British Museum, she is dra ...
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Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. This title tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and social norms have change ...
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The untold story of Vitruvian Man, the drawing that captured the spirit of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - and that still haunts our own
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A collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011. It features stories from twenty-five travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Derv ...
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Tells the story of a group of software engineers who lose their jobs due to an industry push to outsourcing. Desperate, and seeing their middle class lives crumbling apart, they come up with a brilliant plan to use their computing skills to rob a bank.
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The depression of the 1930s led people to desperate measures to survive. The marathon dance craze, which flourished at that time, seemed a simple way for people to earn extra money - dancing the hours away for cash, for weeks at a time. But the underside of that craze was filled ...
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