Authors A-Z

 

A

Abbott, Elizabeth

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

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Abulafia, David

The Great Sea - A Human History of the Mediterranean

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Anonymous

A Woman in Berlin

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Atwood, Margaret

Oryx and Crake




B

Baker, Nicholson

Human Smoke

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Blythman, Joanna

Shopped - The Shocking Power of Britain's Supermarket's

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Boinod, Adam Jacot de

I Never Knew There Was A Word For It

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Bolton, Giles

Poor Story

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Brauen, Yangzom

Across Many Mountains

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Brink, Andre

Reinventing a Continent

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Bryson, Bill

At Home - A Short History of Private Life

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Bunting, Madeleine

Willing Slaves - How The Overwork Culture is Ruling Our Lives

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Burnie, David

Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife





C



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Chomsky, Noam

Hopes and Prospects

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Cohen, Jack

The Science of Discworld II - The Globe

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Connelly, Tony





D

Davies, Norman

God's Playground - A History of Poland, Vol. I
Vanished Kingdoms - The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

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Davis, Robert C.

Renaissance People

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Dawkins, Richard

The Magic of Reality

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Dizdarevic, Zlatko

Sarajevo - A War Journal

 

E

Everett, Daniel

Don't Sleep There Are Snakes


F

Ferguson, Niall

Civilization: The West and the Rest
The War of the World

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Figes, Orlando

Natasha's Dance -  A Cultural History of Russia

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Fisk, Robert

The Great War For Civilisation

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Fossier, Robert

The Axe and the Oath - Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages

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Frei, Matt

Only in America

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Friedman, Bruce Jay

Even The Rhinos Were Nymphos

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Friedman, Thomas

Longitudes & Attitudes
The World Is Flat




G

Gabriel, Sarah

Eating Pomegranates

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Galeano, Eduardo

Mirrors

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Gaiman, Neil

American Gods

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Gilbert, Elizabeth

Eat Pray Love

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Giovanni, Janine di

Madness Visible: A Memoir of a War
The Quick and the Dead

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Gleick, James

Chaos - The Amazing Science of The Unpredictable

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Goldhill, Simon

Love, Sex and Tragedy

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Gordimer, Nadine

Living in Hope and History: Notes from Our Century
The Essential Gesture - Writing, Politics and Places
The Pickup
Telling Times




H

Harris, Joanne

Runelight

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Haste, Cate


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Horwitz, Tony

Into The Blue: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before

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Hosking, Geoffrey

Russia and the Russians

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Huxley, Aldous

The Olive Tree and Other Essays




J

Jewett, Robert

The Myth of the American Superhero

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Jones, Judy

An Incomplete Education

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Jubber, Nicholas

The Prester Quest

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Judt, Tony

The Memory Chalet
Ill Fares the Land




K

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

The Emperor

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Keenan, Brigid

Diplomatic Baggage

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Kelly, Michael

Tales From The Home Farm

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Kennedy, Douglas

Chasing Mammon - Travels in the Pursuit of Money

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Knapp, Robert

Invisible Romans




L

Lacey, Robert

Great Tales From English History

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Lawrence, Felicity

Not On The Label

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Lawrence, John Shelton

The Myth of the American Superhero

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Lawson, Neal

All Consuming

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Lawson, Nigel

An Appeal To Reason - A Cool Look At Global Warming

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Lessing, Doris

African Laughter - Four Visits to Zimbabwe

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Lewis, Jon E.

The Mammoth Book of Pirates

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Lindsmith, Beth

Renaissance People

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Luke, Mary M.

Gloriana:  The Years of Elizabeth I

 

M

MacGregor, Neil

A History of the World in 100 Objects

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Mackey, Sandra

The Saudis: Inside The Desert Kingdom

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Malcolm, Noel

Bosnia - A Short History

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Manchester, William

A World Lit only by Fire

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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Living to Tell the Tale

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Marriott, Edward

The Plague Race

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McCullers, Carson

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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Melville, Herman

Moby Dick

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Mitchell, Adam

Street Player

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Mithen, Steven

After the Ice - A Global Human History 20,000-5,000 BC

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Moore, Michael

Dude, Where's My Country?

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Moran, Michael

A Country in the Moon:  Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland

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Morris, Jan

Travels
Hong Kong
Heaven's Command
50 Years of Europe - An Album
Contact! 

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Moss, Michael

Salt Sugar Fat

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Murphy, Dervla

Through the Embers of Chaos
Through Siberia by Accident
Transylvania and Beyond
The Island that Dared
The Ukimwi Road - From Kenya to Zimbabwe
Silverland - A Winter Journey Beyond The Urals 
Visiting Rwanda 
Full Tilt - Ireland to India with a Bicycle 
On a Shoestring to Coorg 
A Place Apart  
Where The Indus Is Young 
One Foot In Laos 
Cameroon With Egbert
Wheels Within Wheels 
South From The Limpopo 
Tibetan Foothold  
The Waiting Land - A Spell in Nepal 
In Ethiopia With a Mule 
Eight Feet In The Andes
Muddling Through in Madagascar 
Race To The Finish? 



N


Naish, John

Enough - Breaking Free from the World of Excess

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Neale, J.E.

Queen Elizabeth I

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Nolan, Philip

 Ryanland

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Northcott, Michael

A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming




P

Palmer, Douglas

Earth in 100 Groundbreaking Discoveries

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Pamuk, Orhan

Other Colours

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Panati, Charles

Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things

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Paris, Erna

Long Shadows

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Patten, Chris

What Next?

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Perrin, Jim

Travels With The Flea

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Petti, Brian C.

Sister Mercedes and the Temple of Doom

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Plowden, Alison

Elizabeth Regina

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Pollan, Michael

In Defence of Food

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Politkovskaya, Anna

A Russian Diary

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Polman, Linda

We Did Nothing

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Pratchett, Terry

Snuff
The Folklore of Discworld
The Science of Discworld II - The Globe 
The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide 
A Blink of the Screen

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Pretor-Pinney, Gavin

The Cloudspotter's Guide




R

Rankin, Robert

Apocalypso

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Reid, Atka

Goodbye Sarajevo

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Rirdan, Daniel

 The Blueprint - Averting Global Collapse

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Roberts, Alice

The Incredible Human Journey

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Romier, Lucien

A History of France

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Ross, John

Orwell's Cough

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Rowse, A.L.

The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of The Society

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Rushdie, Salman

Step Across This Line




S

Samson, Vidya

Indian Maidens Bust Loose

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Scarsbrook, M. G.

Dream of the Dead

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Scarth, Alwyn

Vulcan's Fury:  Man Against The Volcano

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Schlosser, Eric

Fast Food Nation

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Schofield, Hana

Goodbye Sarajevo

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Seierstad, Asne

The Angel of Grozny
The Bookseller of Kabul
With Their Backs to the World

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Sen, Mala

Death by Fire

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Seraphine, Danny

Street Player

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Seung, Sebastian

Connectome - How The Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are

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Simpson, Jacqueline

The Folklore of Discworld

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Simpson, John

Not Quite World's End
The Wars Against Saddam

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Snowman, Daniel (editor)

Past Masters - The Best of History Today 

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Sobel, Dava

Galileo's Daughter

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Somerset, Anne

Elizabeth I

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Sontag, Susan

Where The Stress Falls

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Starkey, David

Elizabeth: Apprenticeship

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Stewart, Ian

The Science of Discworld II - The Globe

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Swift, Jonathan

 Gulliver's Travels




T

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

The Black Swan

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Theroux, Paul

The Tao of Travel
Fresh-Air Fiend

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Thomas, Susan Gregory

Buy, Buy Baby

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Thompson, Anita

Interviews with Hunter S. Thompson: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

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Thompson, Chuck

To Hellholes and Back:  Bribes, Lies and the Art of Extreme Tourism

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Thubron, Colin

To a Mountain in Tibet
The Lost Heart of Asia

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Tillinger Johansen, Lisa

Fast Food Vindication

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Tinniswood, Adrian

By Permission of Heaven - The Story of The Great Fire of London

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Took, Roger

Running with Reindeer - Encounters in Russian Lapland



U


Ugresic, Dubravka

Karaoke Culture


V

Various authors

Great Tours and Detours

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Verne, Jules

Paris in the Twentieth Century

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Vidal, Gore

The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal

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Vonnegut, Kurt

Armageddon in Retrospect



W

Wheen, Francis


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Wilkinson, Philip

The British Monarchy for Dummies

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Williams, Neville

The Life and Times of Elizabeth I

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Williams, Stanley

Surviving Galeras

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Wilson, William

An Incomplete Education

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Winterson, Jeanette

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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Woodman, Conor

Unfair Trade

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Wynne Jones, Diana

 Reflections - On The Magic of Writing


Y

Yunus, Muhammad

Banker to the Poor
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