Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City
By: Christian Wolmar
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The eminent transport historian Christian Wolmar describes how London's great railway terminuses we…
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1. The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)
By: Daniel Silva
3.89
Format: 432 pages,
When last we encountered Gabriel Allon, the master art restorer and sometime officer of Israeli int… read more
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2. La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
By: Philip Pullman
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, live with his parents at the Trout Inn near … read more
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3. Smiley's People
By: John Le Carré
3.33
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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4. A Murder of Quality
By: John Le Carré
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
John le Carre's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more
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5. On the Slow Train Again: Twelve Great British Railway Journeys
By: Michael Williams
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Michael Williams has spent the past year traveling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for… read more
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6. Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
By: Julian Glover
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Thomas Telford may have been born into poverty but he became one of Britain's most important engine… read more
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7. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
By: T.J. Stiles
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created mo… read more
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8. Pagan Britain
By: Ronald Hutton
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodt… read more
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9. The Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse: The End of the Battleship Era: The End of a Battleship Era?
By: Martin Middlebrook , Patrick Mahoney
4.15
Format: None pages,
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10. The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
By: John Buchan
3.60
Format: 100 pages, Paperback
Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life—un… read more
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"By God!' he whispered, drawing his breath in sharply, 'it is all pure Rider Haggard and Conan Doyle."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"If you’re going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place."-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
"All this was very loose guessing, and I don't pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn't any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions like thi…"-John Buchan, The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)
11. Act of Oblivion
By: Robert Harris
4.07
Format: 463 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more
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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion
12. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
13. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
14. The Magician
By: Colm Tóibín
4.02
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Colm Tóibín’s new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, whe… read more
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"...it is a grubby business writing novels. Composers can think about God and the ineffable. We have to imagine the buttons on a coat. [Thomas Mann, to Alma Mahler Werfel]"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"The Nazis, he realized, were not like the poets of the Munich Revolution. They were street fighters who had taken power without losing their sway over the streets. They managed to be both government …"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
"He [Thomas Mann] remembered this Beethoven quartet [his op. 132] as being sad, sometimes mournful. What was surprising now was that, while the undertone was melancholy, the way the instruments stoppe…"-Colm Tóibín, The Magician
15. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
By: Tom Holland
4.26
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more
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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
16. Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him … read more
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17. Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly
By: Jeremy Clarkson
4.14
Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition
Get tucked in to a third bestselling helping of Clarkson's Farm from our favourite wellie-wearing w… read more
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18. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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19. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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20. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
21. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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22. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
By: Rory Carroll
4.38
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more
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23. The Premonition
By: Banana Yoshimoto
3.43
Format: 133 pages, Hardcover
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and he… read more
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"I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this."-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
"Later, for the first time in a very long time, I heard my aunt play the piano. Its tone was soft, and just like I remembered it. At the kitchen window one overcast afternoon, I watched its beautiful …"-Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition
24. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
By: George Monbiot
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more
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"Charity is what happens when government fails."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet
25. Odd Boy Out
By: Gyles Brandreth
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and comi… read more
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26. London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City
By: Tom Chivers
3.94
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
What secrets lie beneath a city? Tom Chivers follows hidden pathways, explores lost islands and un… read more
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27. SBS – Silent Warriors: The Authorised Wartime History
By: Saul David
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorised history of the SBS. Britain’s SBS … read more
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28. Haven’t You Heard?: Gossip, Power, and How Politics Really Works
By: Marie Le Conte
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Haven't You Heard...? , Marie Le Conte looks at the role gossip plays in all areas of politics -… read more
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29. The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
By: Brett Christophers
4.34
Format: 565 pages, Kindle Edition
"Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be a… read more
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30. Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City
By: Christian Wolmar
4.16
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The eminent transport historian Christian Wolmar describes how London's great railway terminuses we… read more
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31. St Pancras Station (Wonders of the World)
By: Simon Bradley
3.88
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
St. Pancras station has long been an iconic landmark on the London landscape. The neo-Gothic spires… read more
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