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by Armando Iannucci
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
A celebration of music from the creator of Alan Partridge, The Thick of It, Veep and The Death of Stalin.
All my days, I've felt pressurized by the anonymous Keepers of the Cool who tell us what we should be wearing this year, what digital boxsets we should bunker ourselves in to enjoy, what...
by Mary S. Lovell
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The legend of Betty Pack is simple enough. She was a beautiful American spy recruited first by the British Secret lntelligence Service in 1938 and later by the American OSS. Her method of obtaining information was singular: seduction. In Cast No Shadow Mary Lovell, author of Straight On Till Morning,...
The Great Race
The Race Between the English and the French to Complete the Map of Australia
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter. Englishman Matthew Flinders and Frenchman Nicolas Baudin had been sent by their governments on the same quest: to explore the uncharted coast of the great south land and find out whether...
Underneath the Lemon Tree
A Memoir of Depression and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
On paper, things looked good for Mark Rice-Oxley: wife, children, fulfilling job. But then, at his 40th birthday party, his whole world crumbled as he succumbed to depression...
How many men do you know who have been through periods when their lives haven't seemed right? How badly askew were...
Night Raid
The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
The loss of British bombers over Occupied Europe began to reach alarming levels in 1941. Could it be that the Germans were using a sophisticated form of radar to direct their night fighters and anti-aircraft guns at the British bombers? British aerial reconnaissance discovered what seemed to be a...
Breakdown
The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness.
When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a debate began in army and medical circles as to what it was, what had caused it and what could be...
The Savage Storm
Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Britain's defeat of Napoleon is one the great accomplishments in our history. And yet it was by no means certain that Britain itself would survive the revolutionary fervour of the age, let alone emerge victorious from such a vast conflict. From the late 1790s, the country was stricken by naval mutinies,...
Culloden
Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also...
Amazing Grace
The Man Who was W.G.
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.' should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening match of the season. But MCC did not want to...
Post-Truth
Why We Have Reached Peak Bullshit and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening Standard
Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us 'your...
How Good We Can Be
Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Britain is beset by a crisis of purpose. For a generation we have been told the route to universal well-being is to abandon the expense of justice and equity and so allow the judgments of the market to go unobstructed. What has been created is not an innovative, productive economy but instead a capitalism...
Cancel The Apocalypse
The New Path To Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out, well, even better than before? What if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies?
In...
by Iain Banks, Ken MacLeod
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981.
Banks...
by Justin Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
A Times Book of the Year 'A literary, intelligent read from a masterful storyteller'
In 1035, a young fifteen year old Viking is dragged wounded from the battle. Left for dead, for the next twenty years his adventures lead him over mountains, down the length of Russia and ultimately to Constantinople...