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Pleasantville

Attica Locke
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- 15 April 2016
- 9781846689499
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS PRIZE 2016 It's 1996, Bill Clinton has just been re-elected and in Houston a mayoral election is looming. As usual the campaign focuses on Pleasantville -- the African-American neighbourhood of the city that has swung almost every race since it was founded to house a gro...
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CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKSELLER

Shaun Bythell
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- 15 August 2019
- 9781788162302
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also h...
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A Permanent Member Of The Family

Russell Banks
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- 7 November 2013
- 9781846689697
The first story collection in a decade from the great Russell Banks ...
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HOW TO STAY SANE IN AN AGE OF DIVISION

Elif Shafak
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- 15 July 2020
- 9781788165723
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The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett
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- 1 July 2008
- 9781846681332
Features none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people like the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. The consequ...
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Born to run

Christoph Mcdougall
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- 15 April 2010
- 9781861978776
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SEVEN TYPES OF PEOPLE YOU FIND IN BOOKSHOPS

Shaun Bythell
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- 31 October 2020
- 9781788166584
In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of h...
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Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Machado
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- 3 January 2019
- 9781781259535
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THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM - THE FIGHT FOR A HUMAN FUTURE AT THE NEW FRONTIER OF POWER

Shoshana Zuboff
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- 5 September 2019
- 9781781256855
THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi Klein, Author of No Logo , The Shock Doctrine , This Changes Everything and No is Not Enough The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed exami...
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WORLD HISTORY IN FIGURES

Peter Turchin, Dan Hoyer
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- 15 November 2019
- 9781788161923
What was history''s biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever? We are used to thinking...
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BABEL - AROUND THE WORLD IN 20 LANGUAGES

Gaston Dorren
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- 1 August 2019
- 9781781256411
If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel , you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues? Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these ...
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MINDF*CK - INSIDE CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA''S PLOT TO BREAK THE WORLD

Christopher Wylie
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- 17 September 2019
- 9781788165068
An upcoming book to be published by Profile Books. ...
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HAPPINESS, A MYSTERY - AND 66 WAYS TO SOLVE IT

Sophie Hannah
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- 9 April 2020
- 9781788162944
@00000400@Happiness is one of life's greatest mysteries. But what even @00000373@is @00000155@happiness? Why does it mean so many different things to different people? And how can we actually @00000373@be @00000155@happier? @00000341@@00000341@Drawing on decades of experience in crime writing, self-...
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THE FRENCH ART OF NOT TRYING TOO HARD

Ollivier Pourriol
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- 7 January 2021
- 9781788163279
Whether it's the Protestant work ethic, or the capitalist need for productivity, most of us in the English-speaking world believe that in order to achieve anything worthwhile, we must first expend huge amounts of effort. In fact, just the opposite is true. In The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard...
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THE LIVES OF THE STOICS

Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
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- 15 September 2020
- 9781788162609
For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of self-mastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control has much to offer those grappling with today''s ch...
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The origins of political order - from prehuman times to the french revolution

Francis Fukuyama
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- 15 May 2012
- 9781846682575
Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins.Francis Fukuyama examines the paths ...
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THE DIARY OF A BOOKSELLER

Shaun Bythell
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- 15 September 2018
- 9781781258637
Love, Nina meets Black Books : a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there 'The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bes...
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How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Mike Berners-Lee
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- 7 May 2020
- 9781788163811
How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, natu...
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IDENTITY

Francis Fukuyama
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- 15 October 2018
- 9781781259801
Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018 Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have built walls rather than bridges. The result: in...
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SERIOUSLY CURIOUS

Tom Standage
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- 15 November 2018
- 9781788161367
Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for answers. What can a president actually do? Why do cities sink into the ground? Why is Australia seemingly invulnerable to recessions? Why do people in couples do more h...
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THE IDEA OF THE BRAIN - A HISTORY

Matthew Cobb
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- 15 May 2019
- 9781781255896
Join Matthew Cobb on a journey through centuries of wild philosophical speculations, inspired mechanical insights and blood-curdling experiments, all aimed at fathoming the mysteries of the most complex object in the known universe: the three-pound organ between your ears. Along the way you'll meet...
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POCKET WORLD IN FIGURES 2020

Collectif
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- 15 August 2019
- 9781788162791
For more than 25 years, Pocket World in Figures has been the indispensable handbook on the state of the world, covering demographics, industry, politics, geography, culture and more. Where else would you find out, in a single volume, that Zambia is the most entrepreneurial country on earth, tha...
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MURDER AT CHRISTMAS - TEN CLASSIC CRIME STORIES FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON

Cecily (Editor) Gayford
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- 15 November 2019
- 9781788163392
Christmas is a season of overindulgence. For most of us, that means an extra mince pie, a second helping of turkey, or perhaps a third glass of mulled wine. But for some among us, the festive season is a time to settle old scores, dispatch new enemies and indulge ... in murder . Here, ten masters...
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PARIS MATCH - HOW TO BECOME A PARISIAN

John Von Sothen
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- 15 April 2020
- 9781788164597
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