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How to cook almost anything

Simple tips to help you suck slightly less at cooking.

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Don’t look down

From The Resilience Project, four simple strategies to reclaim your attention and look up.

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Special K

From Against All Odds, Richard ‘Harry’ Harris seeks an outside opinion on a crazy idea.

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Growing up in Ghana

Fiona McIntosh on her colourful childhood in Africa and how this influenced The Diamond Hunter. 

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Bern’s makeup capsule collection

The bestselling author takes us through building a makeup capsule collection in her new book In Your Face.

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Meet Miracle Mutt Fergus

Multi-award-winning journalist, author and proud ‘crazy dog lady’ Laura Greaves tells the story of a survivor named Fergus.

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Switch off before you drift off

From The Magic of Sleep, five tips for cutting out smartphone distractions.

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Eternal advice for modern lives

Need a little help navigating the pitfalls of modern living? There are philosophers for that.

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History’s spoils

Geoffrey Robertson ponders the rights of nations to hoard the cultural identifiers of others.

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Gamblers R Us

Historical gambling notes from Titus O’Reily’s Please Gamble Irresponsibly.

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Gilead games

From the pages of Margaret Atwood's The Testaments, a chilling children's game from beneath the shadow of the Wall.

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Knowledge Encyclopedia series

The world as you've never seen it before

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An Anthology of Intriguing Animals

The stories behind your favourite creatures.

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Wonders of Nature

Unearth the stories behind the natural world

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The space between your ears

Bill Bryson explores the eighty-six billion neurons that make up your brain. 

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How to read more

Eight tips to make more time for reading.

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5 things to know about the new book from The Night Circus author Erin Morgenstern

Here’s everything you need to know about The Starless Sea, the spellbinding new novel from Erin Morgenstern.

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Ali Wong’s birthing tips

From Dear Girls, Ali Wong imparts invaluable wisdom for her daughters’ futures.

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The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy turns 40

DON’T PANIC! The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first book in a trilogy of five, celebrates its 40th anniversary on 12 October 2019.

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Your pelvic floor

In Up the Duff, Kaz Cooke explains the importance of pelvic-floor exercises. 

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Walking with William Buckley

Buckley’s Chance author Garry Linnell reflects on bringing a 200-year-old story to life.

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WHAM!: four facts

From Wham!, George & Me, Andrew Ridgely reveals four lesser-known facts about the 1980s pop sensation.

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Snapshots of a murky world

Four chilling facts from Kate McClymont’s Dead Man Walking.

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Reclaiming their future

Naomi Klein contemplates how younger generations will not abide our environmental sleepwalk.

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