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Lies of Silence
2024 || Vintage || Brian Moore || Vintage Publishing
When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.
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Brave New World
2007 || Paperback || Aldous Huxley || Vintage Publishing
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of th...
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Every Man for Himself and God against All
A Memoir
2024 || Paperback || Werner Herzog || Vintage Publishing
Not the End of the World
Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth
2024 || Paperback || Hannah Ritchie || Vintage Publishing
'Truly essential' MARGARET ATWOOD'Eye-opening and essential' BILL GATES‘I find it hard to express how much I love this book’ RUTGER BREGMAN'The climate and environmental crisis now has its Hans Rosling' DAVID WALLACE-WELLS'An unmissable myth-busting book to save our planet – read it' TIM SPECTORFeeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our planet? This book will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems -- and how we can solve themWe are bombarded by doom...
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The Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)
2024 || Paperback || Simone de Beauvoir || Vintage Publishing
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series)
2019 || Paperback || Yukio Mishima || Vintage Publishing
'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'.
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
2024 || Paperback || Jeanette Winterson || Vintage Publishing
Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic. ‘I love her.’‘Then you do not love the Lord.’‘Yes, I love both of them.’‘You cannot.’'I do.''This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman al...
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Cryptocurrency
The ultimate go-to guide for the Bitcoin curious
2024 || Paperback || Paul Vigna e.a. || Vintage Publishing
From Silicon Valley to the streets of Beijing, this is a book about a revolution in the making, a story of human invention, and a guide to the future.
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Origins
How the Earth Shaped Human History
2024 || Paperback || Lewis Dartnell || Vintage Publishing
Read the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth’s awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations. ‘Stands comparison with Sapiens… Thrilling’ Sunday Times Human evolution in East Africa was driven by geological forces.
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Before the Big Bang
Our Origins in the Multiverse
2024 || Paperback || Laura Mersini-Houghton || Vintage Publishing