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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The classic Sunday Times bestseller
2004 || Paperback || Mark Haddon || Vintage Publishing
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome.
He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched.
He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrif...
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The Power of Art
2023 || Paperback || CBE Simon Schama || Vintage Publishing
* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality...' * With the same disarming force,...
The Sports Gene
Talent, Practice and the Truth About Success
2023 || Paperback || David Epstein || Vintage Publishing
Offers an exploration of athletic success. This book shows why some skills that we imagine are innate are not - like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball player - and why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like the motivation to practice, might in fact have important genetic components.
Foreigners: Three English Lives
2024 || Paperback || Caryl Phillips || Vintage Publishing
Presents the stories of Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson; Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer; and, David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice.
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The Coming Wave (Heruitgave)
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider
2024 || Paperback || Mustafa Suleyman e.a. || Vintage Publishing
The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider- the only book you need to read on this subject. AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY.
QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world.
From the ultimate AI insider, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google. 'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry'An excellent guide for...
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Kafka on the Shore
2012 || Paperback || Haruki Murakami || Vintage Publishing
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.
The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.
As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killin...
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Science Fictions
Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
2024 || Paperback || Stuart Ritchie || Vintage Publishing
'Required reading for everyone' Adam RutherfordMedicine, education, psychology, economics - wherever it really matters, we look to science for guidance.
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Designing Your Life
For Fans of Atomic Habits
2024 || Paperback || Bill Burnett e.a. || Vintage Publishing
Change your life in 2021 with the simple, scientifically proven method that has already worked for thousands of people. 'Life has questions.
Designing Your New Work Life
The #1 New York Times bestseller for building the perfect career
2023 || Paperback || Bill Burnett || Vintage Publishing
We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes.
But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world?
'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times
From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your Life
With this innovative and deeply empowering book, all of us can find answers to these challenging questions. It offers a fresh understanding of the politics and psychology of work and, by sharing the 'design thinking' principles th...
Beloved
1997 || Paperback || Toni Morrison || Vintage Publishing
Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to el...