General Books
Dramatic Exchanges
edited by Daniel Rosenthal, National Theatre Letters and foreword by Helen Mirren
Format: Paperback
A unique collection of correspondence between the most celebrated actors, directors and playwrights of the past 50 years - now in paperback
Empress of the East
Leslie Peirce
Format: Paperback
The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.
Lab Rats
Dan Lyons
Format: Paperback
An hilarious and terrifying expose of the brave new world of work, explaining why it has all gone wrong and how we can regain our dignity.
Shark Arm
Phillip Roope and Kevin Meagher
Format: Paperback
Truth can be stranger than fiction. In a Coogee aquarium in 1935 a shark coughed up a man's tattooed arm. The authors of Shark Arm have unravelled an extraordinary tale of high class smuggling around Sydney harbour and police collusion that has eluded many investigations into this famous cold case.
Chamber Music
Will Ashon
Format: Paperback
A book about one of the most important albums of all time, which reinvents music writing in the awesome scope of its exploration
Salt Water
Andrew Motion
Format: Paperback
Andrew Motion's 1997 ambitious and accessible collection - reissued in Faber Poetry typographic series
Hungover: A History of the Morning After and One Man's Quest for a Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall
Format: Paperback
One intrepid reporter's quest to learn everything there is to know about hangovers, trying all of the cures he can find and explaining how (and if) they work, all so rest of us don't have to...
Sloths
William Hartston
Format: Paperback
A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.
Million Dollar Maths
Hugh Barker
Format: Paperback
A fun and comprehensive guide to give you the knowledge and inspiration to use maths for your own financial gain.
Realms of the Human Unconscious
Stanislav Grof
Format: Paperback
The classic book of a radical new psychology by one of the founding fathers of consciousness research
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