Bloomsbury Publishing (Uk) - Böcker

An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean. Think of a place where can you stand at the intersection of Christian and Arab cultures, at the crossroads of the British, Ottoman, Byzantine, Roman and Egyptian empires; a place ma...

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An entertaining guide to history's most influential philosophers - from Plato to Thomas Aquinas, and Confucius to Samuel Beckett - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions.

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An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets - from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara - and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us. How did the greatest poets in history make the wo...

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An entertaining collection of biographical portraits of history's most influential and inspiring economists - from Aristotle to Keynes, and Karl Marx to Friedrich Hayek - and what they can teach us about the world today. We all live in the economy...

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One man's account of the near-mythical ultrarunning event that is the Barkley Marathons Welcome to the Barkley Marathons, a fever dream of an ultra running event set deep in the Tennessee woods, inspired by James Earl Ray's prison break, heralded ...

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Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced. From centres of antiquity like Athens or Rome to modern met...

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An insider's look into how Generation Z's focus on ethics, climate change and purpose will change capitalism forever. In the next ten years there will be an unprecedented wealth transfer from the so-called 'baby boomer' generation to the young. Ne...

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For the first time, the 10 great speeches of Benedict XVI's pontificate are collected. From the first homily delivered as soon as he became pope to the last public hearing, these speeches reveal the depth of his theological reflection in simple la...

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"At once an elegy and an exhortation."-ELIZABETH KOLBERT A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems - an homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth. The stor...

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For fans of Spooks, Homeland and The Night Manager, the latest thriller in Stella Rimington's bestselling espionage series sees Liz Carlyle investigating a sinister Russian plot - tense, gripping and global in scope Liz Carlyle and her colleague P...

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FROM THE CO-HOST OF THE CHART-TOPPING EMPIRE PODCAST India was the forgotten heart of the ancient world For a millennium and a half, from about 250 BC to 1200 AD, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vas...

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A music journalist for over thirty years, Paul Morley had stopped being excited by modern pop music. But not wishing to retreat into dreary nostalgia, reflecting on the bands he wrote about in the past, he went searching for something new, rare an...

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A teenage girl lies on the floor of her dorm room and tells her friends about the businessman who gave her his hotel number on a 500 franc note. An ageing professor, brought back to life, flees with his newborn grandchild to the rooftop. Two siste...

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The day that marked the beginning of chaos, Elizabeth Penn waited at home, and her daughter wasn't there. The terror, she knew, was linked to the other time. Elizabeth Penn, an artist, lives on the Regent's Canal, in the dank, tree-shrouded no-man...

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Lara Feigel listens to birds outside her window - their circling, strident calls - and thinks of D.H. Lawrence. It is the spring of 2020, and as the pandemic takes hold she locks down with her partner, her two children, and that most mercurial of ...

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In this honest and provocative book Heidi Julavits examines gender, power and sexuality, engaging with a debate which has never been more relevant than it is today How can a mother know her son will not grow up to be a rapist? How can a mother kno...

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The spellbinding story of Lady Chatterley's Lover, and the society that put it on trial; the story of a novel and its ripple effects across half a century, and about the transformative and triumphant power of fiction itself. D. H. Lawrence is dyin...

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Take one grand English country house, one American divorcee, three rich wives, two tycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs and one butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny and wickedly sharp new novel from the bes...

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With a foreword by Barack Obama, this is the unfiltered story of a nation, told through the letters written to him during his presidency and the lives of those who wrote them 'The narrative was sloppy and urgent, America talking all at once. No fi...

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July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe - he hasn't decided yet. There's a lot Steven isn't sure about, like whether he hates himself or ...

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The extraordinary story of a 1930s ghost hunt, and the woman who confounded the world, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

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From the bestselling, prize-winning author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes, comes a powerful new novel about war, family and the things love makes us do An American pilot crash lands in the desert unprepared for any emergency that can't be solved w...

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Laconic, sharp and playful, 99 Nights in Logar is a stunning coming-of-age novel and a portrait of Afghanistan like no other, from an unforgettable new voice Me and Gul and Zia and Dawoud out on the roads of Logar, together, for the first time, ho...

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Fact: Ember and Ness are best friends. There's nothing more to say about it. It is what it is. It is what will always be. Ember and Ness. Then Ness dies. It is sudden and unexpected and leaves Ember completely empty. How can this be? When Ember fi...

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'A promising debut.' New Scientist Icy, rocky, sometimes dusty, always mysterious - comets and asteroids are among the Solar System's very oldest inhabitants, formed within a swirling cloud of gas and dust in the area of space that eventually host...

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