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Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Valley. Nothing ever happens to Richard, and really that's the way he likes it. One day, however, one of his older guests disappears, leaving behind a b...

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A life-changing journey from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection. If Women Rose Rooted has been described as both transformative and essential. Sharon Blackie leads the reader on a quest to find their place in ...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'You need to read this book' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment 'Cooper is a phenomenon' Max Hastings,¿Sunday Times **Based on the hit podcast with over 200 million streams** The world is full of ruins. From the...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'You need to read this book' Cal Flyn, author of Islands of Abandonment 'Cooper is a phenomenon' Max Hastings,¿Sunday Times **Based on the hit podcast with over 200 million streams** The world is full of ruins. From the...

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In his groundbreaking, perennially popular book that helped change the way we think about our health - now repackaged for a new generation of readers - Dr Sarno offers a guide to the range of psychosomatic (mindbody) disorders,¿ which can include ...

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'One of the most unforgettable books I have read in the last few years... What a writer! What a thinker! What a woman!' Fiammetta Rocco 'Lyrical, compassionate, and deeply original, it has stayed with me, and is the novel I have most enjoyed this ...

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The essential book on how¿not¿to be a doctor - and how to be a better one. Drawn from his popular medical columns over the years, John Launer shares fifty of his best-loved essays, covering topics from essentials skills they don't teach you in med...

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'Engaging and inspiring, Sharon Blackie's beautiful book will empower people to find wonder in everyday life' Clover Stroud The enchanted life has nothing to do with fantasy or escapism or magical thinking: it is founded on a vivid sense of belong...

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The classic guide to improving your memory at work, at school and at play. Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more...

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Beyond the booze and the bratwurst: what football really tells us about Germany Germany is one of the world's great footballing powers. Four-time World Cup winners, Euro 2024 hosts and home to clubs like Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, the co...

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Described as the Tony Hancock of journalism, for forty years Bernard wrote only about himself and the failures of his life - with women, drink, doctors, horses - which have become legendary. Low Life is an irresistible collection of the best of Be...

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'A fascinating book... well researched, packed with stories and bursting with lovely descriptions of the natural world. There's plenty in it to inspire women of every age' Christina Patterson,¿Sunday Times What is Hagitude? It means being at ease ...

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A sumptuous cookery book and the definitive guide to the life, times and tastes of the world's favourite Victorian cook, Mrs Crocombe. As seen on English Heritage's¿The Victorian Way¿YouTube series. This beautifully photographed book features full...

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In his now-classic and hugely influential exploration of the evolving union of human and machine, world-renowned inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the dawning of a new civilisation where humans will transcend our biological limitations a...

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Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan.¿ The document encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign. Yet hardly are the two of them airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern in...

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"If you make it across the border, get us help. Some of us care. Do you understand? ... The arrests grow insane." At the very hour this message is en route to the CIA, Mrs Pollifax is waiting for her night-blooming cereus flower to do its thing. S...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 (FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR) ------------ A club on the rise. A city in flux. This is Union Berlin. No football club in the world has fans like 1. FC Union Berlin. The underdogs from East Ber...

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The definitive book on the influence of LGBT performers on modern music: a Duckworth contemporary classic, beautifully repackaged for our 125th anniversary

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The Greek myths, refined by the great poets and playwrights of Ancient Greece, distil the essence of human life: its brief span, its pride, courage and insecurity, its anxious relationship with the natural world - earth, sea and sky, represented b...

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'The classic assertiveness bible' GUARDIAN Do you struggle to state what you want (or don't want)? Do tricky conversations go wrong? Does it seem easier to suffer in silence? This book has the solutions you need. Despite advances in gender equalit...

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Vincent van Gogh's paintings are amongst the most iconic and admired in the world. The trials of his life and health are endlessly discussed but the extraordinary richness of his writings and depth of his thinking on creativity, art and beauty is ...

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Mrs Pollifax undertakes perhaps her most high-stakes mission of all. After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA believes Amanda...

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When Julia Child arrived in Paris in 1948, 'a six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian', she barely spoke a word of French and didn't know the first thing about cooking. As she fell in love with French culture ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS FICTION WITH A SENSE OF PLACE AWARD 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 FINALIST FOR THE MAYA ANGELOU BOOK AWARD 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE DUB...

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Mrs Pollifax is sent on a safari to smoke out an international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. "Just take a lot of pictures of everyone on that safari," the CIA man told her. "One of them has to be our man." It sounded simpl...

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What strange passions seethe beneath the prosperous surface of Flaxborough town? Affable but diligent Detective Inspector Purbright is tasked with uncovering the darker underbelly of greed, corruption and crime. A classic British series of police ...

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Whatever can have happened to Lil? Flaxborough butcher Arthur Spain is worried that his sister-in-law hasn't been in touch lately, so he pays her a visit. But Lil's not at home, and by her porch door are a dozen bottles of curdling milk? Alarmed, ...

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"I am in great danger ? I know that murder is going to be the reward for my uncomplaining loyalty." This letter containing heartfelt and urgent pleas for help is received by three very eminent citizens of Flaxborough, including the Chief Constable...

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It was the considered view of the elderly residents at the posh retirement community on the California coast that the death by stabbing of Mrs Amy Kinseth (only six weeks after her arrival) occasioned no great loss. There'd be no more of her taste...

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'A book for all the wild women... Foxfire, Wolfskin is simply the most perfect thing. I love each and every placement of each word. Love the wildness, the shapeshifting, the fearsomeness of it' Jackie Morris, co-author of The Lost Words Charged wi...

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