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The gripping true story of the Israeli-led hunt for the men responsible for the massacre...

For Astrid Varnay, one of the world's greatest dramatic sopranos, opera was the family business....

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Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly...

A moving and life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from...

'This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.' - Erik Larson'A must...

Biomimetics literally means emulating biology - and in a broader sense the term covers technological...

Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story of recovery, hope and courage as one injured...

The kingdom of fungi has survived all five major extinction events. They are the architects...

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In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find...

Capital and country: the Federation years 1900-1913 celebrates the art of the newly-federated Australia alongside...

'Entertainingly written history . . . ravishingly beautiful photographs.' The Times Bamber Gascoigne's classic book...

Electricity was the scientific fashion of the Enlightenment, 'an Entertainment for Angels, rather than for...

For years Miranda viewed dog owners with some suspicion. She was bored by the way...

Novelist, journalist and activist Katharine Susannah Prichard won fame for vivid novels that broke new...

'A terrific read, bubbling with anecdotes and insight' Daily Mail, 2021's best biographies 'Bayley, the...

In the 80s and 90s, surf culture was toxic, especially towards women. But Pauline Menczer...

'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.'...

A compelling yet tragic portrait of one of the most important, yet least understood, spies...

Life isn't a sort of practice run, something you can afford to play around with....

In the hamlets and villages of Vietnam, America waged a little-known war to serve and...

Sometimes CJ was asked if she had ever been hit by lightning or if she...

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For half a century, the case of Isaiah Oggins, a 1920s New York intellectual brutally...