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World history
Sweet Tooth
By Ian McEwan
Paperback
Published 09-May-2013
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Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her into the world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom?
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China's War with Japan, 1937-1945
By Rana Mitter
Hardback
Published 27-Jun-2013
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Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and Japan into a conflict of extraordinary duration and ferocity. This title draws on a range of sources to recreate this terrible conflict.
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Wave
By Sonali Deraniyagala
Hardback
Published 12-Mar-2013
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A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived.
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Invention of the Land of Israel
By Shlomo Sand
Hardback
Published 20-Dec-2012
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Pioneering new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People
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Fractured Times
By Eric Hobsbawm
Hardback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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1913: The Last Year
By Charles Emmerson
Hardback
Published 25-Apr-2013
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A title that presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai and from Los Angeles to Jerusalem.
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Flappers
By Judith Mackrell
Hardback
Published 23-May-2013
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A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s
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Red Nile
By Robert Twigger
Hardback
Published 23-May-2013
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An intimate biography of one of the world's natural wonders
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Goodwood
By Ian Daglish
Hardback
Published 30-Mar-2005
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Return of a King
By William Dalrymple
Hardback
Published 04-Feb-2013
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A towering history of the first Afghan War by bestselling historian William Dalrymple
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