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The Word Is Murder

The bestselling mystery from the author of Magpie Murders

by Anthony Horowitz ...

Series Book 1 - Hawthorne
She planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder? Buried secrets, murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's page-turning Hawthorne and Horowitz detective series.'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times‘An absolutely wonderful writer’ Richard Osman____________A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral.</... ... Read more

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She planned her own funeral. But did she arrange her own murder? Buried secrets, murder and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's page-turning Hawthorne and Horowitz detective series.'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times‘An absolutely wonderful writer’ Richard Osman____________A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral.</...
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I Am C-3PO - The Inside Story

Foreword by J.J. Abrams

by Anthony Daniels ...

"Gloriously witty, keen and spirited" J.J. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker"The odds of me ever writing a book were approximately... Oh, never mind. My golden companion worries about such things - I don't. I have indeed now written a book - telling my story, in my voice, not his - recognising that our voices and our stories are inextricably intertwined."When Star Wars burst on ... Read more

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"Gloriously witty, keen and spirited" J.J. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker"The odds of me ever writing a book were approximately... Oh, never mind. My golden companion worries about such things - I don't. I have indeed now written a book - telling my story, in my voice, not his - recognising that our voices and our stories are inextricably intertwined."When Star Wars burst on
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Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries

A classic Golden Age collection of locked room mysteries, perfect for fans of impossible and miraculous crime fiction

by Otto Penzler, Anthony Boucher, Fredric Brown, John Dickson Carr, Joseph Commings, Mignon G. Eberhart, Erle Stanley Gardner, MacKinlay Kantor, C. Daly King, Stuart Palmer, Ellery Queen, Clayton Rawson, Craig Rice, Manly Wade Wellman, Cornell Woolrich ...

Fourteen impossible mysteries from the masters of the Golden Age detective story.‘Lock your door and enjoy’ – KirkusLocked-room mysteries have baffled and delighted readers for generations. They present the reader with a seemingly impossible crime – a body found inside a windowless room that’s been locked from the inside, for example – before revealing an ingenious and satisfying solution.This ... Read more

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Fourteen impossible mysteries from the masters of the Golden Age detective story.‘Lock your door and enjoy’ – KirkusLocked-room mysteries have baffled and delighted readers for generations. They present the reader with a seemingly impossible crime – a body found inside a windowless room that’s been locked from the inside, for example – before revealing an ingenious and satisfying solution.This
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Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 1

by Anthony Powell ...

Series series A Dance to the Music of Time
_________________________Collects the first three volumes of Anthony Powell's remarkable DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME sequence: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING; A BUYER'S MARKET; THE ACCEPTANCE WORLDAnthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour ... Read more

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_________________________Collects the first three volumes of Anthony Powell's remarkable DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME sequence: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING; A BUYER'S MARKET; THE ACCEPTANCE WORLDAnthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour
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Covid By Numbers

Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data

by David Spiegelhalter, Anthony Masters ...

Series series Pelican Books
'I couldn't imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane' Tim HarfordHow many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of different vaccines? How does COVID-19 compare to the Spanish flu? How ... Read more

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'I couldn't imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane' Tim HarfordHow many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of different vaccines? How does COVID-19 compare to the Spanish flu? How
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The Big Book of Christmas:

140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols (Sanctuary Publishing)

by Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George MacDonald, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, G. K. Chesterton, F. Marion Crawford, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Washington Irving, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, H. P. Lovecraft, John Milton, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Saki, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony. Trollope, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Henry Van Dyke, Selma Lagerlöf, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clement C. Moore, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, Andrew Lang ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs.Inside you'll find:· Novels, ... Read more

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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs.Inside you'll find:· Novels,
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The Road of Storms

by Anthony Ryan ...

Series Book 6 - The Seven Swords
THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF ALCEDON, THE SUN-BLESSED REALM WHICH HAS KNOWN ONLY PEACE FOR GENERATIONS, NOW BESET BY BLOODY REBELLION SPARKED BY THE EMERGENCE OF AN ANCIENT EVIL…Into this troubled land comes Guyime, legendary ravager king of the north made immortal by the demonic sword he carries. Leading his band of sword bearers, Guyime must prevent the arch-demon Kalthraxis claiming the Warlord’s ... Read more

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THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF ALCEDON, THE SUN-BLESSED REALM WHICH HAS KNOWN ONLY PEACE FOR GENERATIONS, NOW BESET BY BLOODY REBELLION SPARKED BY THE EMERGENCE OF AN ANCIENT EVIL…Into this troubled land comes Guyime, legendary ravager king of the north made immortal by the demonic sword he carries. Leading his band of sword bearers, Guyime must prevent the arch-demon Kalthraxis claiming the Warlord’s
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A Dead Man In Deptford

by Anthony Burgess ...

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and ... Read more

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'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Irish TimesA Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and
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Railway Empire

How the British Gave Railways to the World

by Anthony Burton ...

The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence. It is often forgotten today that the British were responsible for the construction and management of a large proportion of ... Read more

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The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence. It is often forgotten today that the British were responsible for the construction and management of a large proportion of
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The Dream of Enlightenment

The Rise of Modern Philosophy

by Anthony Gottlieb ...

'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on ... ... Read more

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'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on ...
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Eureka

by Anthony Quinn ...

'Powered by a satisfactorily pacy plot and oiled by Quinn’s effortless prose, this is a book that slips down as easily as a gin-and-it' GuardianSummer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss.The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can’t see straight for ... Read more

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'Powered by a satisfactorily pacy plot and oiled by Quinn’s effortless prose, this is a book that slips down as easily as a gin-and-it' GuardianSummer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss.The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can’t see straight for
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Eureka

by Anthony Quinn ...

'Powered by a satisfactorily pacy plot and oiled by Quinn’s effortless prose, this is a book that slips down as easily as a gin-and-it' GuardianSummer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss.The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can’t see straight for ... Read more

£4.99

'Powered by a satisfactorily pacy plot and oiled by Quinn’s effortless prose, this is a book that slips down as easily as a gin-and-it' GuardianSummer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss.The screenwriter, Nat Fane, would do anything for a hit but can’t see straight for
... Read more