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Cunning Folk
life in the Era of Practical Magic
2024 || Paperback || Tabitha Stanmore || Bodley Head
‘A brilliant book, written with wit and vigour’ MALCOLM GASKILL
‘Absolutely fascinating’ IAN MORTIMER
Tabitha Stanmore transports us to a time when magic was used to navigate life's challenges and solve problems of both trivial and deadly importance.
It’s 1600 and you’ve lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they’ve been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you’re facing trial. Maybe you’re looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do?
In medieval and ea...
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Putin
his Life and Times
2022 || Paperback || Philip Short || Bodley Head
Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West.
Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbours, most recently Ukraine, meddles in western elections and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. The regime he heads is autocratic and corrupt.
Yet many Russians continue to support him. Despite western sanctions, the majority have been living better than at any time in the pas...
Meditations for Mortals
four weeks to embrace your limitations and finally make time for what counts
2024 || Paperback || Oliver Burkeman || Bodley Head
The Singularity is Nearer
when We Merge with Computers
2024 || Paperback || Ray Kurzweil || Bodley Head
‘Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence’ BILL GATES
By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence. During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure and enabling dramatic new interventions in our bodies. By 2045, we will be able to connect our brains directly with AI, enhancing our intelligence a millionfold and expanding our consciousness in way...
Lucky Loser
how Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
2024 || Paperback || Russ Buettner || Bodley Head