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The Coming Wave
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider
2024 || Hardcover || Mustafa Suleyman e.a. || Vintage Publishing
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On Freedom
2024 || Paperback || Timothy Snyder || Vintage Publishing
A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny.
Timothy Snyder has been called 'the leading interpreter of our dark times'. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public intellectual, he has turned that knowledge toward counsel and prediction, working against authoritarians.
His book On Tyranny has inspi...
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Memory Chalet
2024 || Paperback || Tony Judt || Vintage Publishing
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die.
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The Weather Machine
How We See Into the Future
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Blum || Vintage Publishing
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Genghis Khan
The Man Who Conquered the World
2024 || Paperback || Frank McLynn || Vintage Publishing
Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon?
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Talking to My Daughter
The Sunday Times Bestseller
2024 || Paperback || Yanis Varoufakis || Vintage Publishing
Born in Athens in 1961, Yanis Varoufakis was for many years a professor of economics in Britain, Australia and the USA before becoming finance minister of Greece in 2015. His memoir of his experiences in government, Adults In the Room: My Battle with Europe¿s Deep Establishment, was a number one bestseller in 2017. His previous book, And The Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability was a number one bestseller in 2016. He is currently Professor of Econo...
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Danube
2024 || Paperback || Claudio Magris || Vintage Publishing
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS
2024 || Paperback || Louis de Bernieres || Vintage Publishing
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'A true diamond of a novel, glinting with comedy and tragedy' Daily MailIt is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces.
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Keats
A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
2024 || Paperback || Lucasta Miller || Vintage Publishing
*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN*The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion.
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Sacred Nature
How we can recover our bond with the natural world
2024 || Paperback || Karen Armstrong || Vintage Publishing