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Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life in the Universe - by Louisa Preston - £9.99
Today we know of only a single planet that hosts life: the Earth. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion possibly habitable worlds, surely our planet isn't the only one that, like the porridge Goldilocks sought, is just right for life?
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The Meaning of Birds - by Simon Barnes - £10.00
One of our most eloquent nature writers offers a passionate and informative celebration of birds and their ability to help us understand the world we live in. As well as exploring how birds achieve the miracle of flight; why birds sing; what they tel ... more
Orwell on Freedom - by George Orwell - £9.99
With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie.
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‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’
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George Orwell is one of the world’s most famous writers and social commentators. Through his wr ... more
The Classic University Challenge Quiz Book - by Steve Tribe - £9.99
University Challenge has been dazzling, delighting and puzzling viewers with its fiercely intelligent questions since 1962. From Bobby Seagull to Gail Trimble, the show has produced some iconic contestants and continues to be as popular as ever. This ... more
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers - by Ann Pettifor - £8.99
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?Â
In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettif ... more
A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World - by Julian Baggini - £8.99
The thinking person's tonic for our troubling times.
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How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex histor ... more
Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2018 - by Tim Benson - £12.99
A blockbuster collection of the year’s funniest political cartoons, featuring the work of Mac, Steve Bell, Peter Brookes and many more...
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2018 was the year that Brexit got serious, royals got married, football got (briefly) feverish, and Trump ... more
Private Eye Annual 2018 - by Ian Hislop - £9.99
The Private Eye Annual 2018 present's the year's best cartoons, jokes and spoofs from the UK's best selling satirical magazine. Illustrated in colour throughout with cartoons, sketches and photo-bubbles.
The Private Eye Annual remains both ... more
Eve Was Shamed: How British Justice is Failing Women - by Helena Kennedy - £20.00
What comes after #MeToo? One of our most eminent lawyers and defenders of human rights answers with this urgent, authoritative and deeply shocking look at British justice.
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In Eve Was Shamed Helena Kennedy forensically examines the pressing new e ... more
Things Can Only Get Worse? Twenty Confusing Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter - by John O'Farrell - £8.99
"Hilarious, insightful and has that rare quality of making politics fun. A brilliant book everyone should read, whoever you vote for."(Owen Jones, author of The Establishment)
From the giddy heights of New Labour's landslide victory in 1997 to the ... more
Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago - by Patrick Barkham - £9.99
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2018
Shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Country Book of the Year 2018
The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6,289 smaller ones. Some, like ... more
Repeal the 8th - by Una Mullally (Editor) - £9.99
Abortion is illegal in almost every circumstance in Ireland, making it the only democracy in the western world to have such a constitutional ban. This anthology, a national bestseller, is the definitive collection of the writing and art inspired by t ... more
Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress - by David Olusoga - £15.00
A companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon Schama
Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right? In Civilisations, David Olusoga tr ... more
A Treasury of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe - by Dee Dee Chainey - £12.99
An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present.
Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon’s feathers could not die? Or that green ... more
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from my Bipolar Life - by Ellen Forney - £16.99
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life is the eagerly awaited companion book to Forney’s 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder, Rock S ... more
Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters - by Various artists - £21.99
The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, and the environment. In the midst of this turmoil, nearly 300 designers from around the wo ... more
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - by Roxane Gay - £8.99
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
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'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, ... more
Women in Battle - by Marta Breen & Jenny Jordahl - £9.99
Freedom. Equality. Sisterhood. Women in Battle is the book for anyone who wants to learn as much as possible about the history of feminism in as short a time as possible.Â
Presented as a graphic novel and spanning 150 years of recent history, Women ... more
Flesh and Blood: A History of My Family in Seven Sicknesses - by Stephen McGann - £8.99
His family survived famine-ravaged Ireland in the 1850s.  His ancestors settled in poverty-rife Victorian Liverpool, working to survive and thrive. Some of them became soldiers serving on the Western Front.  One would be the last man to step off ... more
The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers - by Adam Nicolson, illustrated by Kate Boxer - £10.99
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017
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The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they f ... more
National Geographic Almanac 2019 - by National Geographic Society - £12.99
A one-of-a-kind annual featuring surprising facts, stunning color photos, arresting infographics, and illuminating maps that present the world in a whole new way.
An almanac like you've never seen before, this arresting volume features key i ... more
And Then God Created the Middle East and Said 'Let There Be Breaking News' - by Karl reMarks - £6.99
'You may wonder why the Middle East gets so much airtime. Well, regions of the world were competing to host the apocalypse and the Middle East won.’
Online sensation Karl reMarks disagreed with the idea that reality had become too strange ... more
I Can't Breathe: The Killing that Started a Movement - by Matt Taibbi - £9.99
The incredible story of the death of Eric Garner, the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement and the new fault lines of race, protest, policing and the power of the people.
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On July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner d ... more
2,024 QI Facts To Stop You In Your Tracks - by John Lloyd, James Harkin and Anne Miller - £9.99
QI is the smartest comedy show on British television. Here creator John Lloyd and QI elves James Harkin and Anne Miller bring together 2,024 brain-tickling brand new facts to stop you in your tracks...
Humans glow in the dark.
The P ... more
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves - by Glory Edim - £16.99
Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the rest of their lives--but not everyone regularly sees themselves in the pages of a book. In this time ... more
Imagine John Yoko - by John Lennon and Yoko Ono - £35.00
In 1971, John Lennon & Yoko Ono conceived and recorded the critically acclaimed album Imagine at their Georgian country home, Tittenhurst Park, in Berkshire, England, in the state-of-the-art studio they built in the grounds, and at the Record Plant i ... more
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy - by Noam Chomsky, with David Barsamian - £8.99
Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectual
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What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode ... more
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to be Calm in a Busy World - by Haemin Sunim - £8.99
The Times Top 10 Bestseller
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLDÂ
'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?'
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The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to m ... more
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 - by Simon Schama - £10.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
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Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jewsâ ... more
Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It - by Angela Saini - £9.99
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.
 Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psych ... more
CND At 60: Britain's Most Enduring Mass Movement - by Kate Hudson - £12.95
Kate Hudson’s new book charts the inside story of CND over six decades, as it became a byword for protest and radicalism.
This book is timed to coincide with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s 60th anniversary, drawing on archive m ... more
k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016) - by Mark Fisher, edited by Darren Ambrose - £25.00
Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds, this comprehensive collection brings together the very best work of acclaimed blogger, writer, publisher, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk) who died in 2017. ... more
War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939-1948 - by Stephen Bourne - £12.99
From the author of Black Poppies, Fighting Proud and Evelyn Dove comes a timely new account exploring Britain’s diverse history from the Second World War to the Empire Windrush and beyond, told through the experiences of black British women.
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October: The Story of the Russian Revolution - by China Miéville - £9.99
Award-winning author China Miéville plunges us into the year the world was turned upside down.
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On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, China Miéville tells the extraordinary story of this pivotal moment in history.
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In February of 19 ... more
Zen Pencils - Creative Struggle: Illustrated Advice from Masters of Creativity - by Gavin Aung Than - £8.99
Gavin Aung Than, creator of the innovative Zen Pencils, shares his passion for creativity and reveals how you, too, can live a creative life.
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Zen Pencils: Creative Struggle is a call to wake up the creative spirit inside you. Through Zen Penci ... more
Black Tudors: The Untold Story - by Miranda Kaufmann - £9.99
A Book of the Year for the Evening Standard and the Observer.
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A black porter publicly whips a white Englishman in the hall of a Gloucestershire manor house. A Moroccan woman is baptised in a London church. Henry VIII dispatches a Mauritanian div ... more
Women & Power: A Manifesto - by Mary Beard - £8.99
Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on ... more
When The Clyde Ran Red: A Social History of Red Clydeside - by Maggie Craig - £9.99
When the Clyde Ran Red paints a vivid picture of the heady days when revolution was in the air on Clydeside. Through the bitter strike at the huge Singer Sewing machine plant in Clydebank in 1911, Bloody Friday in Glasgow’s George Square in 1919, t ... more
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