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BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlist 2010"
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TOO BIG TO FAIL (Paperback)
Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street
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An account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. It presents the story of some of the most powerful men and women in finance and politics g...
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TOO BIG TO FAIL (Paperback)
Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street
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They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. This book gives an account of the most powerful men and women at t...
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A GAMBLING MAN (Hardback)
Charles II and The Restoration
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Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. Exactly ten years later Charles would stand again on the shore at Dover, laying the greatest bet of his life in a secre...
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BLOOD KNOTS (Paperback)
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With this dark and dramatic memoir of an angler's life, Booker longlisted author Luke Jennings' new book places him in the front rank of British natural history writers.
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CATCHING FIRE (Paperback)
How Cooking Made Us Human
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Argues that it was cooking that caused the transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. This title focuses on the idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permit...
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A GAMBLING MAN (Electronic book text)
Charles II and the Restoration
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A portrait of a vibrant, violent, pulsing world, in which the risks King Charles II took forged the fate of the nation, on the brink of the modern world.
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Of Mice and Men
Streetwise George and his childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But do dreams come at a price!
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The Roald Dahl Treasury
A collection of some of the best-loved stories and characters from the Roald Dahl universe, including some unpublished poetry and letters. There are four themed sections: "Animals"; "Magic"; "Friends and Foes"; and "Matters of Importance".
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Z. for Zachariah
Nuclear war has devastated America, except for the valley where Ann Burden has been living alone - until Loomis, a scientist in a radiation-proof suit, arrives. She hopes they will be companions but his behaviour towards her becomes threatening as he attacks her and then cuts off her food supply and tries to bring her under his control.
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