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Packed with over 150 fun facts spanning the topics of ancient civilizations, animal behaviour, natural science, outer space, human accomplishments, pop culture, and more, 'How to Sound Smart at Parties' ensures you'll always have something clever to contribute to the conversation.

Join Ben Shephard as he journeys up and down Britain, celebrating the ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things.

Join Ben Shephard as he journeys up and down Britain, celebrating the ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things.

The world is shaped by complexity. In this enlightening book, Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work to show us how. It all starts with investigating the principles of physics by observing the sophisticated flight patterns of starlings. Studying t...

Celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work, starting with investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements of these communities, he has realized, proves an illuminating way into understanding...

This is a powerful collection of linked stories of the entwined lives of masters and servants set in Pakistan.

Whatever happened to the books that once existed and can no longer be found? Not the forgotten books, or those dreamed up by the author yet never written, but books that were completed, even read, before begin destroyed or vanishing into thin air. These are the mythical books that were burnt, tor...

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But here, hiding in plain sight, is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. This is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary every...

Tris has survived a brutal attack on her former home and family. But she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes ever more reckless as she struggles to accept her new future.

This novel tells the story of James who has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since his parents were eaten up outside London Zoo. Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are really horrible people and make poor James's life a misery.