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What you are looking for is in the library
When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city’s most compelling artists, Laing…
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Frozen in Time
Frozen in Time is a vibrant and richly detailed guide to fossils for readers with a passion for the natural world and those that inhabited it long ago. This is a book for those that want to learn to scan the beach for fossils, who love the simple pleasure of getting outside or those who…
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a dystopian classic. When a group of schoolboys are stranded on a desert island, what could go wrong? A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of schoolboys. By day, they discover fantastic wildlife and dazzling beaches, learning to survive; at night, they…
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Finding Endurance
Since the discovery of the wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance on the bed of the Antarctic ocean, the world has been enthralled anew by one of the greatest stories of all time. Acclaimed South African writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey, himself a Shackleton aficionado, revisits this dramatic event, which managed to sweep the tide of anger…
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Wales from the Air
This literal overview of the early history of Wales offers bird’s-eye views of the more striking and unusual constructions that can be seen in the landscape today. The monuments and structures range in date from c.400BC to AD 1500, and include burial mounds, stone circles, hillforts, boundary dykes, deserted farmsteads, churches, monasteries and castles.
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This Volcanic Isle
This Volcanic Isle is the previously untold story of how earthquakes and eruptions, plumes and plate boundaries, built the British Isles. From the natural geometry of the Giant’s Causeway to the sarsen slabs used to build Stonehenge, we are surrounded by evidence for the extraordinary geological forces that shaped the British Isles. Running coast to…
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Woman Who Brings the Rain
As precise and nuanced as Japanese calligraphy, the Woman Who Brings the Rain is a memoir of the author’s stay on the remote Hokkaido island in the far north of Japan, has at its heart the mountain, Yotei-san, the region’s iconic equivalent to Mount Fuji. As much about learning a language (with connotations of ‘reading’…
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Think Like an Engineer
Full of case studies and practical insights spanning the brilliant history of engineering, Think Like an Engineer is in equal parts personal, practical, and profound. It reveals how key engineering concepts can help you make better decisions and create innovative solutions in a complex world. Dubai’s Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest building – looks…
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Lunch with the FT: A Second Helping
Lunch with the FT has been a permanent fixture in the Financial Times for almost 30 years, featuring presidents, film stars, musical icons and business leaders from around the world. The column is now a well-established institution, which has reinvigorated the art of conversation in the convivial, intimate environment of a long and boozy lunch.…