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'The best book on captaincy, written by an expert' - Mike Atherton Mike Brearley is one of the most successful cricket captains of all time, and, in 1981, he captained the England team to the momentous Ashes series victory against Australia. In The Art of Captaincy, his study on leadership and...

The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated...

A lively history seen through the fifty inventions that shaped it most profoundly, by the bestselling author of The Undercover Economist and Messy. Who thought up paper money? What was the secret element that made the Gutenberg printing press possible? And what is the connection between The Da...

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost Writer, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder—now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not...

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost Writer, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder—now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not...

Now a major film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, and Robin Wright. From John le Carré, this New York Times bestselling spy thriller is his “strongest, most powerful novel” (The New York Times Book Review). A half-starved young Russian man in a long black...

Tessa McWatt's breathtaking new novel explores love and endurance in the face of change and violence, and how people find wholeness and belonging when their own identities feel shattered. Northern India, 2009. Four travellers disembark from the Dhauladhar Express at the Pathankot train station...

In this brilliantly entertaining collection, Tim Moore swaps comfort for cobbles, mountain passes, and magnificent suffering as he retraces the routes of two of Europe's greatest cycling events. Armed with determination, glued-together bikes, and legs that are often less willing than his...

'Hailed as the new Bill Bryson, he is in fact a writer of considerably more substance and the jokes come thick and fast' - Irish Times Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very...

A 3,162 km race. A 48-year-old man. A 100-year-old bike. Made mostly of wood. That he built himself. Tim Moore sets off to recreate the most appalling bike race of all time. The notorious 1914 Giro d'Italia was an ordeal of 400-kilometre stages, cataclysmic night storms and relentless sabotage -...

'One of the funniest books about sport ever written' — Sunday Times 'Moore is a talented and funny writer, who, through a combination of slapstick, absurd simile and a healthy suspicion of French civilisation, gives us something to laugh at on every page' — Daily Telegraph 'Embarrassingly...

Before forensic laboratories and digital surveillance, there were detectives armed with little more than sharp observation, logical reasoning and an instinct for uncovering the truth. The Traditional Detectives Collection gathers seven of the greatest mystery novels ever written, introducing the legendary sleuths who laid the foundations of modern crime fiction. From fog-shrouded moors and country houses to bustling London streets and locked-room puzzles, these classic stories are filled with ingenious plots, memorable characters and satisfying twists.

A hilarious journey with Tom Sharpe's characteristic wit, adventure, and outrageous humour. Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as...

No one believed the invasion would come from Mars—until the first cylinder fell on Horsell Common. When strange objects begin crashing into the English countryside, curious onlookers gather to witness what appears to be an extraordinary astronomical event. Then the cylinders open. The beings...

With keen wisdom and a masterful understanding of history, Rabbi James Rudin, an acclaimed authority in the field of Jewish-Christian relations, provides the context necessary for Christians and Jews to recognize the critical challenges posed by the past—and the future—of their two religions.

Desde los desiertos de Egipto hasta la Biblioteca Vaticana, desde la Florencia de Dante hasta la celda de Catalina de Siena, Peter Jones nos presenta a pensadores, místicos y rebeldes que se enfrentaron a los mismos dilemas que nos inquietan hoy: cómo convivir con nuestros defectos, perdonarnos, analizar nuestros deseos y encontrar sentido en medio de la confusión. La Edad Media tenía más respuestas de las que imaginamos, y los siete pecados capitales nunca habían resultado tan actuales.

The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar. The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in...

In this fourth book, Alexander is still on the lookout for monsters. Now he thinks they're at school.... The lunch menu is NOT normal—instead of good-for-you meals, there's ice cream and pie every day. His whole class is crying. And his friend Rip goes missing. Alexander must battle giant meat-eating vegetables before the whole town becomes veggie dinner!

Mars will be the battleground for the fate of humanity—and the future of an alien civilization—in this gripping science-fiction suspense novel. Against all odds, Lt. Ryan Braeder has kept the colonists on Europa alive, forging the refugees into a community and the ice-covered moon into a...

Your mind is a living field. Every thought is a seed. Some grow into nourishing harvests. Others—the invasive, unchosen, and manipulative—take root, spread, and drain your energy without you realizing it. In today’s world, your attention is under constant cultivation—but not always by you. News cycles, social feeds, marketing campaigns, and even other people’s moods plant seeds in your mind. Over time, these “thought parasites” hijack your focus, exhaust your energy, and shape your reality. This book is your manual for taking the field back.