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You Aren't What You Eat
By Steven Poole
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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An impassioned, researched and intelligent argument against the extraordinary power that celebrity chefs, food writers and restaurateurs have over our lives.
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Swerve
By Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. This book details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.
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Private Eye Annual 2012
By Ian Hislop
Hardback
Published 12-Oct-2012
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'Have You Seen...?'
By David Thomson
Paperback
Published 04-Mar-2010
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Looks at a century of cinema. This title is the author's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" to "Zabriskie Point", from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters.
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
By Susie Dent
Hardback
Published 31-Aug-2012
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Take the scenic route to knowledge.
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Gin
By Lesley Jacobs Solmonson
Hardback
Published 01-May-2012
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Gin: A Global History features many enticing recipes and images from the past and present of gin. The book will entice both cocktail aficionados and students of socio-political change, as it chronicles gin's evolution from humble berry to modern alcoholic marvel.
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Alone of All Her Sex
By Marina Warner
Hardback
Published 21-Mar-2013
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A polemical study about the most powerful divine woman in the history of the world.
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Constellation of Genius
By Kevin Jackson
Hardback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding everything that realistic fiction and Georgian poetry held dear.
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What it Means to be Human
By Joanna Bourke
Paperback
Published 01-Mar-2013
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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
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Published 11-Apr-2013
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The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden has been published every year since 1864. This 149th edition covers every first-class game in every cricket nation, and reports and scorecards for all Tests and ODIs. Trenchant opinion, compelling features and comprehensive records make it the cricketers' bible worldwide.
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