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  • Murderous Contagion

    A Human History of Disease

    by Mary Dobson ...
    Disease is the true serial killer of human history: the horrors of bubonic plague, cholera, syphilis, smallpox, tuberculosis and the like have claimed more lives and caused more misery than the depredations of warfare, famine and natural disasters combined.Murderous Contagion tells the compelling and at times unbearably moving story of the devastating impact of diseases on humankind - from the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Planets

    ‘So staggering you go “whoa!” every few seconds’ Guardian‘Really impressive’ Eamonn Holmes, ITV This MorningA companion book to the critically acclaimed BBC series.The bestselling authors of Wonders of the Universe are back with another blockbuster, a groundbreaking exploration of our Solar System as it has never been seen before.Mercury, a lifeless victim of the Sun’s expanding power. Venus, once ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • The Universe

    The book of the BBC TV series presented by Professor Brian Cox

    by Andrew Cohen ...
    Every night, above our heads, a drama of epic proportions is playing out. Diamond planets, zombie stars, black holes heavier than a billion Suns. The cast of characters is extraordinary, and each one has its own incredible story to tell.We once thought of our Earth as unique, but we have now discovered thousands of alien planets, and that’s barely a fraction of the worlds that are out there. And ... Read more

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  • The Earth Wire

    by Joel Lane ...
    'A poet of misfits, outsiders and the forsaken, his empathy for their suffering ever poignant.'– Adam Nevill, author of The RitualJoel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UK's foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects of human nature. With a tight focus on the post-industrial Black Country and his home city of Birmingham, he created a ... Read more

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  • Scar City

    by Joel Lane ...
    'One of the best British post-war writers of horror and the weird.'– Adam Nevill, author of The RitualJoel Lane (1963-2013) was one of the UK's foremost writers of dark, unsettling fiction, a frank explorer of sexuality and the transgressive aspects of human nature. With a tight focus on the post-industrial Black Country and his home city of Birmingham, he created a distinct form of British urban ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quickening

    by Rhiannon Ward ...
    'If you like gothic mystery, buckle up! This atmospheric read has it all'Woman magazine'An historical novel dripping with menace'Shari Lapena, author of The End of Her***********England, 1925. Louisa Drew lost her husband in the First World War and her six-year-old twin sons in the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. Newly re-married and seven months pregnant, Louisa is asked by her employe... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Extreme Economies

    What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future

    A New Statesman best book of the year | New York Times Editors' Choice pickA Financial Times best economics book of 2019An accessible, story-driven look at the future of the global economy, written by a leading expertTo predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Human Universe

    Top ten Sunday Times Bestseller‘Engaging, ambitious and creative’ GuardianWhere are we? Are we alone? Who are we? Why are we here? What is our future?Human Universe tackles some of the greatest questions that humans have asked to try and understand the very nature of ourselves and the Universe in which we live.Through the endless leaps of human minds, it explores the extraordinary ... ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Court Number One

    The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain

    by Thomas Grant ...
    A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Superbly told' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'A hamper of treats' Sunday Telegraph '[Grant employs] scholarship and depth of evidence' London Review of Books 'These tales of eleven trials are shocking, squalid, tit... ... Read more

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  • The Story of England

    by Michael Wood ...
    A VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH HISTORYThe village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Children Act

    by Ian McEwan ...
    **A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement about a leading High Court judge who must resolve an urgent case—as well as her crumbling marriage.One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, BookRiot“Fantastically pleasurable.... Anything we want a novelist to do, he can do.... Unsurpassable.” —Chicago Tribune* ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North

    A novel

    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York ... Read more

    $11.99 USD