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2012 Longlist
Joseph Anton
By Salman Rushdie
Hardback
Published 18-Sep-2012
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On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, the author was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? This title tells the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech.
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Strindberg
By Sue Prideaux
Hardback
Published 21-Feb-2012
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Novelist, satirist, poet, photographer, painter, alchemist, and hellraiser - August Strindberg was all these, and yet he is principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as the mad inventor of modern theater. This title describes the eventful and complicated life of one of the great literary figures in world literature.
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Better Angels of Our Nature
By Steven Pinker
Hardback
Published 06-Oct-2011
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Reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has become progressively less violent, over millenia and decades. This title argues that modernity and its cultural institutions are actually making us better people. It shows how life has changed across the centuries and around the world.
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Grand Pursuit
By Sylvia Nasar
Hardback
Published 27-Oct-2011
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Sylvia Nasar, the author of the phenomenal bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through the epic story of the making of modern economics, and how it rescued mankind from squalor and deprivation by placing its material fate in its own hands, rather than in Fate.
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Inside The Centre
By Ray Monk
Hardback
Published 15-Nov-2012
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J Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.
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Old Ways
By Robert Macfarlane
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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Written by a nature writer who was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize 2012, this title offers an exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, of pilgrimage and ritual, and of songlines and their singers.
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Feathers
By Thor Hanson
Paperback
Published 16-Aug-2012
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Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, and beguiling. Their story begins in the Jurassic period and leads through the development of flight to high fashion. This book tells a sweeping natural history of feathers, as they've been used to fly, protect, attract and adorn through time and place.
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Into the Silence
By Wade Davis
Hardback
Published 06-Oct-2011
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Of the twenty-six British climbers who, on three expeditions (1921-24), walked 400 miles off the map to find and assault the highest mountain on Earth, all had endured the slaughter. This title asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest, but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day.
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One on One
By Craig Brown
Hardback
Published 22-Sep-2011
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101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
By Katherine Boo
Paperback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.
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