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Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these ten stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight.

This is a vivid, action-packed and moving story of the Royal Naval squadron that patrolled the West African coast to stop the slave ships, after Britain passed the Abolition Act.

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A victim of time famine, 35 year-old Kate counts seconds like other women count calories. A comedy about failure, a tragedy about success, this novel is the untold story of the professional working mum at the start of the 21st century.

An exciting, original, and very welcome new voice" Donal RyanA sharp and insightful debut short story collection about the pitfalls of ordinary life A wife yearns to escape the tight-fisted confines of a package holiday.

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Some call it China's Wild West - a boom town on the border with Burma. In the new Chinese economy of the late 1980's, the frontier at Wanting is a magnet for outcasts and opportunists. Or the desperate - like Na Ga. To Na Ga, the town of Wanting represents not the beginning of a new life, but the end of the road. Will, her American lover, has thrown her out - as she always expected he would - leaving her with painful memories, a dollar bank ac...

With the humour and poignancy of her classic THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, Anne Tyler's brilliant new novel tells the story of Liam Pennywell, a man in his 61st year. Just 'let go' from his schoolteaching job he downsizes to a tiny little out of town apartment, where he goes to bed early and alone on the first night... and wakes up in hospital unable to recall how he got there. Obsessed with the gap in his memory, he sets out to uncover what happene...

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Ranging from the lochsides of Scotland to the slums of Clerkenwell, and from the gentlemen's clubs of St James's to the Yukon wilds, this is a Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get what they want.

This is the final instalment in the critically acclaimed "Max Camara" crime series.

We live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia (sitos = food, topos = place). Food, and how we search for and consume it, has defined our human journey. This visionary book shows us how food can help us build our future too.*How can we lead healthy and ethical lives in a world where cheap, poorly produced food is the norm?*How do we reform the production and distribution of food to avoid irrevocable climate change?*What role will mind-blowing te...

Shelley Klein looks back on growing up in a modernist open-plan 'See-Through House' with her design pioneer father Bernat Klein, and moving back to the aesthetically distinctive residence to care for her father thirty years later. Set to invite comparison with the appeal of both "Grand Designs" and "Who Do You Think You Are?".