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'This astonishing debut novel from young New Zealander Eleanor Catton is a cause for surprise and celebration: smart, playful and self-possessed, it has the glitter and mystery of the true literary original' Guardian

'A vital account of being a woman in the 20th century ... chronicles the growth of a woman from a privileged childhood of horses and country estates to a middle-class existence in Andre Deutsch's publishing house and love affairs, to a late contemplation on old age. The prose is breathtaking, and the honesty exhilarating' Independent on Sunday

A philosopher takes a second look at sayings, proverbs, and bits of homespun wisdom: ';Every society needs its guardian of good sense: Baggini is ours.' The Financial Times These short, stimulating, and entertaining capsules of philosophy delve into the familiar words that live in our consciousness yet are rarely examined. Should you really do as the Romans do when in Rome and practice what you preach? Is the grass always in fact greener on the other side of the fence, and is there ever smoke without fire? Is beauty always in the eye of the beholder and is it actually better to be safe than sorry? From the popular author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, cofounder of The Philosophers' Magazine, and academic director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, this is a witty, deeply thought-provoking reminder that we should never stop asking questions.

A witty, charming and beautifully written book on how to drink better, at all times of day and in every season.

Sloane Crosley's essays talk about the experience of being young and living in New York. Sparkling, witty, urbane, her book soared straight to the top of the US best-seller lists. Prepare to be amused and delighted and to laugh out loud.

An extraordinarily open and moving account of Susan Sontag's final months, written by her son and drawing on previously unpublished letters and journals.

'Fishing in Utopia [winner of the 2009 Orwell Prize] is a lament for a lost Eden. But it is more than that. Essentially it is a story of modern rootlessness and the search for something to believe in' Sunday Times

In Jew Town in India's Cochin, two small communities descended from 'a lost tribe of Israel' are living side by side, on the brink of extinction. When their last two members of child-bearing age refuse to marry, their fate is sealed. This is their story.

A revealing personal portrait of a little-known country perched on the eastern edge of Europe - captured by one of its most eloquent and engaging expats.

Banish bad arguments and woolly rhetoric! More addictive mental workouts from the author of the best-selling The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten. (Originally published as The Duck That Won the Lottery.)

From the author of the best-selling This Book Will Save Your Life, an intense, thrilling portrait of the patient-analyst relationship gone awry

A modern day Revolutionary Road; a suburban New York couple tear apart the life they've built together

'You should go out and buy The Smoking Diaries right now ... because you are unlikely to come across a funnier, cleverer, more painful book' Daily Telegraph

Rose George confronts the last taboo and takes us on an unprecedented tour through a world knee-deep in pestilential sewage - the most significant global issue about which few talk or think.

Gray's powerful and prescient polemic against extreme free-market capitalism, in a new edition, with a new section on the events of the last five years.

The story of how scientists are using the modern techniques to draw information out of the oldest rocks on Earth. This title also reveals the human story of the Altantis-seeking visionaries and madmen who have been imagining lost or undiscovered continents for centuries.

A passionate and informed look behind the scenes of the floral industry to discover the amazing and often draining journey flowers now make from seeds and bulbs to our shops, tables and vases.

David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist and a central figure of the Enlightenment. This book describes how Hume can be considered one of the earliest, and most successful, evolutionary psychologists.

Anna is on her way to the hospital where her brother has been sectioned when she falters, and, in that pause, her world splinters into a blazing display of memory and madness, of childhood security treasured and shattered, and of families blighted by psychological trauma - her brother's and that of her boyfriend's father, a Vietnam veteran.

A page-turning, spine-tingling novel about love and motherhood, and about loss and survival, that is also quite possibly a ghost story ...

In luminous prose, novelist and psychologist Charles Fernyhough explains how children develop from squalling babies into walking, talking toddlers.

An international best-seller that does for maths what Sophie's World did for philosophy.

An anthology of accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the North Pole.

A rousing and inclusive call to arms for anyone who would identify themselves as 'English' to fight against the forces of globalization.

'An urgent, riveting, fabulously entertaining road trip of a novel, Away grabs you by the throat from the first page to the last, breaks your heart and shakes all your senses awake' Emma Donoghue, author of The Rehearsal

An obese Russian hip-hop aficionado strives for love and a US visa in this exuberantly funny and tender book from one of America's most brilliant comic novelists.

'A new account of this critical time in medical history that is ... beautifully documented, highly informative ... [A] pleasure to read' Times Literary Supplement

An introduction to the thinkers who laid the basis of all Western philosophy.