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The Brilliant Abyss
True Tales of Exploring the Deep Sea, Discovering Hidden Life and Selling the Seabed
2024 || Paperback || Helen Scales || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on the planet. This is the story of how we imagine, explore and exploit it.
For centuries, myth-makers and storytellers have concocted imaginary monsters of the deep, and now scientists are looking there to find bizarre, unknown species, chemicals to make new medicines, and to gain a greater understanding of how this world of ours works. With an average depth of 12,000 feet and chasms that plunge much deeper, it forms a frontier for new discoveries.
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Into the Groove
The Story of Sound From Tin Foil to Vinyl
2024 || Paperback || Jonathan Scott || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Digital Republic
Taking Back Control of Technology
2024 || Paperback || Jamie Susskind || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ
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'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' - TONY BLAIR
'Original and hopeful . . . a unique guide to the great challenges of the digital age' - ANNE APPLEBAUM
'Lucid and persuasive' - NIALL FERGUSON
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The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?
Not long ago, t...
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Dictators
The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
2024 || Paperback || Frank Dikotter || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year
'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR
'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN
Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti.
No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyrant who can compel his own people to acclaim him will...
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Dirty Work
Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality
2024 || Paperback || Eyal Press || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A report from the front lines of 'dirty work' in the United States - labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.
The Weimar Years
Rise and Fall 1918–1933
2024 || Paperback || Frank McDonough || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The prequel to Frank McDonough's bestselling Hitler Years series, covering the dramatic period of German history that led to the rise of Hitler in 1933.
Established in the wake of Germany's catastrophic defeat in the First World War, the Weimar Republic ushered in widespread social reform, vibrant culture and the most democratic conditions the German people had ever lived under. At its beginning in 1919, it was a regime that held hope for democracy, stability and prosperity in German...
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Unquiet Women
From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment
2024 || Paperback || Max Adams || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In a fascinating journey of rediscovery, Max Adams brings to life the forgotten experiences – and voices – of some of the most extraordinary women in history.
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The First Kingdom
Britain in the age of Arthur
2024 || Paperback || Max Adams || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
2024 || Paperback || Khaled Hosseini || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
THE RICHARD & JUDY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'A suspenseful epic' Daily Telegraph
'A triumph' Financial Times
'Heartbreaking' Mail on Sunday
'Deeply moving' Sunday Times
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed. Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move ...
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Quit Like a Woman
The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
2024 || Paperback || Holly Glenn Whitaker || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
*The book that inspired Chrissy Teigen and Sex and The City's Miranda to quit drinking*
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'An incredible read' - Chrissy Teigen
'Has the power to change your relationship with your entire life' - Glennon Doyle
'This thoughtful, moving book will help a lot of people get to a healthier place' - Johann Hari
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We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at work events, lunches, book clubs and weddings. Yet no one ever questions alcohol's ubiquity. In fact, the only...