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The Wagner Group
£12.99“At once deeply researched and as readable as a thriller.”?Mark Galeotti ? “An important book about the world’s most dangerous mercenary outfit. Margolin unearths new details that will surprise readers.”?Sean McFate ? “Margolin takes readers deep into the shadowy underworld. . . . A must read.”?Clarissa Ward, CNN “A tale of violence and political intrigue that reads like a Tom Clancy novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.”?The Wall Street Journal ? “Riveting. . . . It’s a vital window onto the weird world of secretive, privatized modern warfare.”?Publishers Weekly (starred review) An eye-opening, terrifying history of this notorious and widely influential mercenary group.  This book exposes the history and the future of the Wagner Group, Russia’s notorious and secretive mercenary army, revealing details of their operations never documented before. Using extensive leaks, first-h
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May We Feed the King
£14.99She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King that the edges of her life begin to blur. He is a reluctant ruler with no hunger for power, rushed to the throne after the untimely deaths of his older brothers. But it isn’t long before whispers begin to fly around the court. And with the growing belief that the King is not fit for the throne comes the idea that another might rule in his stead.
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Gumshoe
£10.99In the hot, gossipy town of Stony Lonesome, shy eleven-year old Willa interacts with others the only way that feels right to her – the mail. She loves the mail so much that she hopes to become a mail carrier herself one day. But her dreams of delivering birthday cards, thank-you notes, and love letters come crashing down when she’s mistaken for the notorious Two Gum Tilly, a bandit rumoured to be stealing mail for as long as folks can recall. Now an outlaw herself, Willa realizes the only way to clear her name is to bring the real crook to justice. But when a chance encounter introduces her to the Gumshoe Gang, a group of runaways looking to right the wrongs of the letter-looting thief, she finds that human connection might be her only path to freedom. Can Willa clear her name and revive her dreams of postal glory, or has she stamped her last letter forever?
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The Persians
£9.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2025
‘Enormously entertaining’THE TIMES
‘Unputdownable’ HARPER'S BAZAAR
‘Funny, sharp and insightful … a triumph’ LAUREN LAVERNE
‘Magnificent’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO
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A Guardian and a Thief
£16.99In a near-future Kolkata beset by flooding and famine, Ma, her two-year-old daughter Mishti, and her elderly father Dadu are just days from leaving the collapsing city behind to join Ma’s husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan. After procuring long-awaited visas from the consulate, they pack their bags for the flight to America. But in the morning they awaken to discover that Ma’s purse, with all the treasured immigration documents within it, has been stolen.
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Belgrave Road
£16.99Mira’s days are filled with duty and light on freedom. In a new country, living with a husband she barely knows – and who she fears she’ll never love – Mira is desperate to discover all that her new life in England might offer. And then there’s Tahliil. The quiet, beautiful man she sees at work each day. With a depth in his eyes and a face full of questions. The first person in this new world who listens to Mira’s hopes for who she yearns to become. But beyond their lunchtime encounters, the pair couldn’t lead more different lives: the duties that bind them, the homes they are trying to build threaten to subsume them. As Mira and Tahliil navigate the deep and turbulent waters of their new worlds can they find a way to be together, and will finding each other set them free?
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Neptune’s Fortune
£25.00Roger Dooley wasn’t looking for the San Jose. But an accidental discovery in the dusty stacks of a Spanish archive in the 1980s led him to the story of a lifetime – the journey of a ship that had gathered a mountain of riches from the New World for a long-awaited delivery to the King of Spain nearly three centuries earlier. But that ship, the galleon San Jose, never reached its destination. Instead, the Spanish treasure fleet was drawn into a pitched battle with British ships of war off the coast of Cartagena. When the smoke cleared, the San Jose had disappeared into the ocean. Though a diver at heart, Dooley was an unlikely candidate to find the San Jose. Dooley had little in the way of serious credentials, yet his tenacity and single-minded devotion to finding the San Jose led him to breakthroughs once thought impossible.
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The Opposite of Murder
£22.00What if the only way you could prevent a murder was by confessing to it? Jemma Stelling has confessed to a murder. She is the police’s lead suspect. She couldn’t have committed the crime. She has an unshakeable alibi: at the time of Marianne Cass’s brutal murder, Jemma was at the police station, confessing to a murderous obsession with Marianne. Is Jemma Stelling innocent? Or is she an ingenious, cold-blooded killer? Can you be guilty of the opposite of murder?
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33 Place Brugmann
£9.99An unforgettable historical debut set in Second World War Brussels: exploring love, resistance and courage in all their forms – and the magical and myriad ways we are connected to each other
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
£18.99‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ is the most famous and enduringly popular Sherlock Holmes story of all. It is a landmark detective novel and a landmark in popular culture. It counterpoints the modern rational, scientific, medical, urban world of Holmes with the older local world of landscape, folklore, supernaturalism, and sense of place.
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How to Survive an Apocalypse
£10.99An illustrated guide to surviving all types of apocalypses that will have you hoping for the worst!
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Generation Desperation
£20.00In 2020, Alexander Hurst was 29 years old and broke, living as a writer in a cramped Paris flat-share. There were murmurs that a global pandemic was coming. Financial stability seemed unattainable, so far removed from his reality – the reality of the generation who came of age during the 2008 financial crisis. On a whim, he poured his meagre savings into highly risky options trading. Within a year this small set of stocks was worth $1.2 million. It was more money than Alexander – and his family – could ever have conceived of, set to turn his life on its head. And then, soon after, it was gone. He had lost it all. In exploring Alexander’s remarkable rise and fall from wealth, ‘Generation Desperation’ grapples with the vital questions of our age: what do class and status mean in a late-stage capitalist society?