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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?
Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother …
Brilliant Maps in the Wild
Which nations have launched which animals into space?Which countries have no sea views? Where were our planet's now-extinct species last sighted?Who is behind the great avocado …
Luminaries
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense …
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A writer returns to his college town, where he is to conduct what will be the final published interview with Thomas, his ninety-year-old mentor. But after he drops his smartphone …
Train Dreams
Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West at the start of the twentieth century - an ordinary man in extraordinary times. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier …
May We Feed the King
AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST 2026She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a …
First Love
'A singular, devastating journey into the ungovernable reaches of the heart' ObserverSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017Neve is a writer in her mid-30s …
Real England
We see the signs around us every day: the chain caf,s and mobile phone outlets that dominate our high streets; the disappearance of knobbly carrots from our supermarket shelves; …
How To Read Hume
'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' David HumeDavid Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a …
Do You Think What You Think You Think?
Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? Really, it won't hurt a bit ... Is what you believe coherent and consistent? Or is it a jumble of contradictions? If …
Do It Like a Woman
Doing anything 'like a woman' used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a …
Beginning Comes After the End
'An old world is dying; a new world is being born; now is the time of monsters' Antonio GramschiSolnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've experienced …