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£28.00
Nisha Katona’s warmth, authenticity and ability to conjure delicious flavour from just a handful of ingredients have led to her being one of our most trusted and recognisable voices in Indian cookery. In this book, Nisha has created the ultimate guide to curry, featuring delicious recipes from across India, streamlined to make them accessible and achievable for home cooks. Dishes range from definitive versions of curry house classics to homestyle curries that are rich with the warmth, intimacy and no-frills deliciousness of domestic cooking.
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£20.00
In the early days of the Covid pandemic, warehouse worker Chris Smalls and his colleagues continued showing up as the rest of the world was shutting down. A dedicated and experienced Amazon employee, increasingly frustrated by the inner workings of the retail giant, Smalls had already felt himself reaching breaking point. So when co-workers around him began falling ill, and with no assurances of safety coming from those at the top, he made the only choice left available to him. He staged a walkout with friend Derrick Palmer, eventually finding himself on the picket line without a job. This book is the riveting inside story of how a young Black man from Hackensack, NJ with little-to-no resources led a scrappy band of Staten Island warehouse workers in an improbable fight against Amazon – and won.
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£14.99
On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Until one fateful night, when they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret, and run away to be pirates and search for hidden treasure. But when Tom gets trapped in a cave with the murderer, he’ll need his wits about him to escape unharmed.
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£12.99
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a definitive history of the Western hemisphere, a sweeping five-century narrative of North and South America that redefines our understanding of both continents. The story of the United States’ unique sense of itself was forged facing south – no less than Latin America’s was indelibly stamped by the looming colossus to the north. In this reinterpretation of the New World, Greg Grandin reveals how the Americas emerged from constant, turbulent engagement with each other, shedding new light on well-known historical figures like Bartolomé de las Casas, Simón Bolívar and Woodrow Wilson, as well as lesser-known actors such as the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda, who almost lost his head in the French Revolution and conspired with Alexander Hamilton to free America from Spain.
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£16.99
‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen is a timeless novel about love, class and the courage to challenge first impressions. The narrative centres on the reluctance of the sharp-witted Elizabeth Bennet to be forced into a ‘suitable’ marriage, and her equally strong dislike for the enigmatic Mr Darcy, a haughty and unfeeling bachelor. His pride and her prejudices are tried in equal measure until true characters are revealed.
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£14.99
‘The Odyssey’ recounts the story of Odysseus’ return to Ithica from the Trojan war, where he encounters Athene, Poseidon, the Cyclops and others before he is reunited with his faithful wife, Penelope.
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£9.99
It’s summer and a young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the south of France. At the dinner table, the Blakes are waiting for him: Annie, the family matriarch and world-famous singer, her inscrutable husband David and their children, Dot, aloof and rebellious, Lily, the man’s carefree university friend, and their enigmatic older brother Felix. Between sun-drenched days spent lounging by the pool and nights blurring into endless, opulent parties far from the reality of life in London, a restless attraction grows between Felix and the man. The possibility to be part of a family – and an entire world – in which he doesn’t belong is suddenly within reach. But the idyllic haze of the summer slowly fades as they return to the city. While the man struggles with his troubled past and the challenges of navigating Felix’s world as a black, working-class person, Felix is tormented by demons of his own.
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£14.99
As a young orphan, Heidi is brought to live with her gruff grandfather in the Swiss Alps. There, the bright and cheerful girl soon wins his heart and befriends their neighbours, including the young goatherd, Peter.
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£16.99
Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley – but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mum back in London.
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£25.00
How did Christianity, starting out as a minor offshoot of Judaism, grow into an international faith that shaped the world as we know it? ‘Rome’s Age of Revolution’ corrects the triumphalist narrative that the Christian message was so persuasive, and indeed superior, that people converted in huge numbers, abandoning their pagan beliefs, thereby turning a small persecuted sect into the state religion of the Roman Empire. Tim Whitmarsh shows that Christianity would never have succeeded if it had not taken advantage of the infrastructure and culture of the Roman Empire; in turn the new religion was indelibly shaped and transformed by Roman beliefs and ideas, especially those circulating in the Greek-speaking, or Hellenistic, eastern parts of the empire. This radical transformation, Tim argues, can only be described as a revolution. The consequences are with us to this day.
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£11.99
In 2011, a young wolf named Slavc set out from Slovenia Tracked by GPS, he travelled a thousand miles through the Alps, arriving four months later on the Lessinian plateau, north of Verona. There had been no wolves in northern Italy for a century, but here he crossed paths with a female wolf on a walkabout of her own. A decade later and there are more than a hundred wolves back in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting. In ‘Lone Wolf’, Adam Weymouth walks Slavc’s path, examining the changes facing these wild corners of Europe. Here, the call to rewild meets the urge to preserve culture; nationalism and globalisation pull apart; climate change is radically changing lives; and migrants, too, are on the move. The result is a multifaceted account of a region caught in a moment of kaleidoscopic flux, from an award-winning writer with a uniquely perceptive eye for detail.
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£22.00
Drawing on examples from sport, diplomacy, business and more, the authors explore how strategic thinking can guide clear- sighted decision-making.
