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Kathleen Lonsdale, Maria Popova
Is Peace Possible?Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist ...Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison ref... -
Jade Murray
The Indoor Garden : Get Started No Matter How Small Your SpaceUser-friendly and highly accessible, this is a ...User-friendly and highly accessible, this is a practical, fully illustrated and inspiring guide to indoor gardening by self-taught plant enthusiast Jade Murray. Here you will find invaluable tips a... -
Poppy Okotcha
A Wilder Way : How Gardens Grow UsA Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with...A Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with an ever-changing garden, of setting down roots and becoming embedded in nature, and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as indivi... -
Vincenzo Latronico
PerfectionMillennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living...Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish furn... -
Ian Green
ExtremophileMeet Charlie and Parker. Hard-thrashing punks b...Meet Charlie and Parker. Hard-thrashing punks by night, not-entirely-ethical biohackers by day. Give them your DNA and they’ll map the epigenetic topology of your genome to the grand procession of ... -
Bee Wilson
The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen ObjectsThis strikingly original account from award-win...This strikingly original account from award-winning food writer Bee Wilson charts how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings in all our lives. One ordinary day, the tin in which Bee Wils... -
William Rayfet Hunter
SunstruckIt’s summer and a young man walks through the g...It’s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the South of France. At the dinner table, the Blake siblings await him: Lily, his carefree friend from university; Dot,... -
Conn Iggulden
TyrantOn the wedding day of Emperor Claudius to Agrip...On the wedding day of Emperor Claudius to Agrippina, a senator lies dying in his own home. Yesterday, this senator was betrothed to Octavia, Claudius’s daughter. Now blood gushes from his slit wris... -
Sarah Moss
RipenessOn the brink of adulthood and just out of schoo...On the brink of adulthood and just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, th... -
Robert Harris
PrecipiceSummer 1914.A world on the brink of catastrophe...Summer 1914.A world on the brink of catastrophe. In London, 26-year-old Venetia Stanley – aristocratic, clever, bored, reckless – is having a love affair with the Prime Minister, H. H.Asquith, a ma... -
Robert Harris
ConclaveBehind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, ...Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, 118 cardinals are meeting in conclave to cast their votes in the world's most secretive election.They are holy men. But they are ambitious. And they h... -
David Attenborough, colin butfield
Ocean : Earth's Last WildernessFrom the icy seas of our poles to remote coral ...From the icy seas of our poles to remote coral islands, David Attenborough has filmed in every ocean habitat on planet earth. Now, with long-term collaborator Colin Butfield, he shares the story of...
