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He comes, he sees, he plays with the gadgets...Boris Johnson has been behind the wheel of some of the world's fastest, most luxurious cars. He's taken the Jaguar XKR-R for a spin around a posh public school; roared through Islington in the AC Cobr...

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Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horrors of this devastating war.We Were Young And At ...

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A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73 recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted extracts, and two unpublished Poirot stories.When Agatha Christie died in 1976, aged 85, she had become the world's m...

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The literary debut from the author of 'Little Children', 'Election' and 'The Abstinence Teacher'.Tom Perrotta's first novel takes readers to semi-fictional 'Cranwood', in small-town New Jersey. Set between fall 1969 and the summer of 1980, 'Bad Ha...

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The ?bible? for dice living ? for everyone who has been inspired by the cult classic THE DICE MAN.From the author of the cult bestsellers THE DICE MAN and SEARCH FOR THE DICE MAN comes a new book, guaranteed to appeal to the hundreds of thousands ...

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The final classic installment in the excellent Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the o...

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A razor-sharp and achingly funny memoir of the men and movies that shaped one woman's life...A unique memoir, 'Madame Depardieu and the Beautiful Strangers' is the story of how a young female film critic's love-life is affected and nearly ruined b...

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From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and other abominations.In between writing Flashman novels, George MacDonald Fraser spent thirty year...

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'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John KeeganLife and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with...

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SPECIAL PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIMEThe bestselling author of MAN AND BOY turns his acute eye and pen to the biggest personal issues that face us - as well as the annoying grit in the eye of everyday life.'If a young lover breaks your heart, or if you...

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Ever wondered what it is like to work in a war zone? 'We live more in one year than most people do in a lifetime,' is Danny Lowenstein's simple retort. Set in a world where life is cheap, vengeance is long and betrayals can be deadly, "e;Sands...

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One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, 'Mere Christianity' has sold millions of copies worldwide.The book brings together C.S. Lewis's legendary radio broadcasts during the war years, in which he se...

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For centuries people have been tormented by one question above all ? ?If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?? And what of the suffering of animals, who neither deserve pain nor can be improved by it?The gr...

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A collection of 365 readings containing the best and most compelling writing culled from more than 4,000 pages of C.S.Lewis?s famous published letters.Thoughout his life, C.S. Lewis ? ?Jack? to his friends ? spent a good portion of each day writin...

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'The central miracle asserted by Christians is the Incarnation. They say that God became Man. Every other miracle prepares the way for this, or results from this.'This is the key statement of 'Miracles', in which C. S. Lewis shows that a Christian...

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C.S. Lewis's famous inspirational work on the nature of love.'The Four Loves' divides love into four categories: Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity. The first three are loves which come naturally to the human race. Charity, however, the Gift-...

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This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis?s letters ? some published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this is the first volume covering Family Letters: 1905-1931.C.S. Lewis was a most prolific letter writer and his...

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This three-volume collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis?s letters ? some published for the first time. This second volume covers the years from 1931?1949, charting Lewis? emergence as a great Christian thinker and apologist.C.S. Lewis ...

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This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis?s letters, many published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this final volume covers the years 1950 ? the year ?The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? was published ? through...

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In a memoir of staggering power and candour, award-winning journalist Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal.During his years of reporting from the world's most savage and tur...

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'My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.'It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) 'Mutt and Jeff'. So Phyllida began to write out the day's gossip at the k...

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So as not to seem completely self-indulgent to his friends and family, Conor started his year-long trip around the world with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What began as a cover story changed C...

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Burdened with a face only a mother could love, Stan Cattermole determined to find a woman. Lugging his man-boobs along for the ride, Stan shows Bridget Jones how it''s done in this hilarious, heart-wrenching and often outrageous account of his que...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEEThe previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer ? full of wit, feeling and illumination.Penelope Fitzgerald was a prolific letter writer. She avoided the phone if she could, never even cont...

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The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.Arranged on a day-to-day basis, spread throughout an entire year, these di...

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101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.Life ...

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How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you? Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childhood. She didn't stand a chance. All too soon hop...

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Michael Chabon, author of WONDER BOYS and the Pulitzer Prize-wining THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, has written an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful and powerful as his novels.In these insightful, provocative, slyly int...

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One of the great hidden gems of the past decade.Written in brief entries from 'Ambition' to 'Zzzzz' Salway's confident debut novel chronicles the existential ups and downs of British 20-something Verity Bell.The alphabetically arranged mini-chapte...

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One woman's passion for books and search for romance lie at the heart of this touching and funny novel about literature and longing in Los Angeles.'Women do different things when they're depressed. Some smoke, others drink, some call their therapi...

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