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Stephen Moss
Ten Birds That Changed the World£16.99For the whole of human history, we have lived a...For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them for food; venerated them in our mythologies, religion and rituals; exploited them for their natur... -
Thomas Halliday
Otherlands : A World in the Making£10.99This is the past as we've never seen it before....This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Awar... -
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James Cahill
Tiepolo Blue£9.99Exiled from his university position for an inex...Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is ... -
Shehan Karunatilaka
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida£9.99Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer,...Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet gay, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he... -
William Boyd
The Romantic£20.00Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. ...Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover. One man, many lives. Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected loss. Moving fr... -
Raynor Winn
Landlines : The remarkable story of a thousand-mile journey across Britain£20.00Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk ...Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband Moth's health is declining, getting worse by the day. She knows of only one cure. It worked once befo... -
John Lewis-Stempel
Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain After Dark£9.99At night, the normal rules of Nature do not app...At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the other way, tipped my cap, said hello. The animals do not expect us humans to be abroad in the dar... -
Robert Harris
Signed copy of Act of Oblivion£22.00'From what is it they flee?' 'He took a while t...'From what is it they flee?' 'He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.' 1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colon... -
Jeremy Bowen
Signed copy of The Making of the Modern Middle East : A Personal History£20.00Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East Editor, has...Jeremy Bowen, the BBC's Middle East Editor, has been covering the region since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle E...