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Alastair is the mastermind behind the software you don’t see - the operational engine that keeps Book Hero running smoothly and gets books picked, packed, and shipped fast. Always working and a committed runner, audiobooks are his format of choice, though he still makes it home in time for bedtime stories with his daughter, Lexi. A lifelong learner, Alastair is a trained paramedic, pilot and software engineer. He’s also responsible for Book Hero’s overinvestment in Italian coffee machines - and for keeping the office very, very well caffeinated.

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  • The Art of the Hobbit
    A sumptuous full colour art book containing the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings, and maps created by J.R.R. Tolkien for The Hobbit. When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrations for his book while it was still in manuscript. The Hobbit, as first printed, had ten black and...
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  • Foreign Bodies
    ‘This splendid and often moving work of history… Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides’ Daily Telegraph ‘Superb’ Observer ‘Extraordinary… A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period… Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past’ Guardian ‘This is history of the best sort –...
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  • Science of Running
    Explains the hard science that will help people of all abilities to run faster, endure for longer, and avoid injury. Science of Running goes further than any other running book to interrogate the muscle groups and bodily systems involved in being an effective runner, and shows how to apply insights gained to train for optimal performance. The book examines the...
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  • Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon
    This is a deeply practical and readable book, which will take you on an expedition through the anatomy of the most fascinating - and mysterious - of organs. World-leading neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Dr Rahul Jandial draws on his years of work with patients suffering from the most extreme cases of brain damage, disorders and illnesses to reveal what they can...
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  • My First Book of Coffee
    I love you a latte! Coffee culture is lovingly and humorously featured in this hip and timely board book featuring babies and toddlers and their coffee-loving grown-up. From the My Cool Family board book series. I love you a latte! Coffee culture is lovingly and humorously celebrated in this hip and timely board book featuring babies and toddlers and their...
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  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
    This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien’s own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. 'Tom was here before the river and the trees…. He made paths before the Big People and saw the little People arriving. He was here before the Kings and the graves and the Barrow-wights. When...
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  • You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here
    A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from 'the Adam Kay of mental healthcare' (THE TIMES) THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from 'the Adam Kay of mental healthcare' (THE TIMES) 'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent' — HENRY MARSH 'This is honestly my dream book....
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  • Leviathan Falls
    The biggest SF series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S. A. Corey's Hugo Award-winning Expanse series. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES FROM AMAZON PRIME HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES 'Interplanetary adventure the way it ought to be written' - George R. R. Martin The Laconian Empire has fallen,...
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  • Death Masks
    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. It turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things—most of which don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Harry Dresden should be happy that business is good—it makes a change. But now he's getting more than he bargained for: a duel with the Red...
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  • Blood Rites
    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things – and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Harry's had worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going toe-to-leaf with...
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  • Nemesis Games
    NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIES Nemesis Games is the fifth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series, written by James S. A. Corey. A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land-rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave the solar system to settle new planets, the established power...
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  • Hunted
    For a two-thousand-year-old Druid, Atticus O'Sullivan is a pretty fast runner. Good thing, because he's being chased by not one but two goddesses of the hunt—Artemis and Diana—for messing with one of their own. Dodging their slings and arrows, Atticus, Granuaile, and his wolfhound Oberon are making a mad dash across modern-day Europe to seek help from a friend of...
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  • Besieged
    The New York Times Bestselling Series The ancient gods are alive and well in the modern world in this action-packed collection of short stories - including seven original tales - featuring Atticus O'Sullivan, the tattooed, handsome, two-thousand-year-old Irishman with extraordinary powers from Kevin Hearne's New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles. 'Atticus and his crew are a breath of fresh...
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  • The Olympian Affair
    The fate of the Cinder Spires may be decided by crossed swords in the next exhilarating fantasy adventure in the New York Times bestselling series of noble families, swordplay, and airships. For centuries the Cinder Spires have safeguarded humanity, rising far above the deadly surface world. Within their halls, aristocratic houses rule, developing scientific marvels and building fleets of airships...
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  • Summer Knight
    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry's been down and out. He can't pay his rent....
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  • Skin Game
    Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day. As Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it's something awful. This time, it's worse than that. Mab's involved Harry in a smash-and-grab heist run by one of his most despised...
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  • Proven Guilty
    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things – and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Harry has no friends on the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash and undisciplined (and they may have a point). However, now...
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  • Grave Peril
    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things—and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Harry has faced some terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you're the only wizard in...
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  • Fool Moon
    Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. It turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things — and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Business has been slow lately for Harry Dresden. Okay, business has been dead. Not undead — just dead. You would think Chicago would...
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  • Cold Days
    You can't keep a good wizard down—even when he wants to stay that way. For years, Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional wizard, but a bargain made in desperation with the Queen of Air and Darkness has forced him into a new job: professional killer. Mab, the mother of wicked faeries, has restored the mostly-dead wizard to health and...
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  • Brief Cases
    Magic. It can get a guy killed. Return to the world of the Dresden Files with Harry Dresden (the only wizard in the Chicago phone book) and friends as they solve supernatural mysteries, protect the helpless, and fight evil. Brief Cases is a new collection of Dresden Files stories which will include an original novella, from international bestseller Jim Butcher....
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  • Lonely Planet's Global Coffee Tour
    This follow-up to our hugely popular Global Beer Tour is packed with 150 coffee experiences from over 35 countries, from its birthplace in East Africa, to modern-day Cuba, the United States, Australia, and the UK. It includes legendary espresso bars, plantation tours, urban roasteries, and must-visit cafes, as well as illustrated spreads on roasting coffee, festivals, cocktails, brewing techniques and...
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  • 34 Patients
    A profoundly moving portrait of one doctor's life and work in the NHS, told with vivid compassion through 34 of his most memorable cases. We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he'll die tomorrow. To help a man who doesn't want to live. To look into a parent's...
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  • Jim Butcher's Dresden Files - 20th Anniversary Box Set
    To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Storm Front's release, this box set brings together the first five novels in Jim Butcher's No. 1 Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series. Meet Harry Dresden, Chicago's first (and only) Wizard P.I. Turns out the 'everyday' world is full of strange and magical things - and most of...
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  • Children of Time
    WINNER OF THE 2016 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped Earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers? WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home...
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  • The Name of the Wind
    The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss is a spellbinding narrative that entices readers into a world rich with magic, music, and mystique. The story follows Kvothe, a legendary figure in the world of Temerant, who recounts his life's journey from humble beginnings to becoming a figure of myth and legend. Kvothe’s tale begins with his childhood as a...
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  • The Immune Mind
    Delving into the recent discovery of the brain's immune system, Dr Monty Lyman reveals the extraordinary implications for our physical and mental health. Until a decade ago, we misunderstood a fundamental aspect of human health. Although the brain and the body have always been viewed as separate entities—treated in separate hospitals—science now shows that they are intimately linked. Startlingly, we...
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  • The Emperor of All Maladies
    The Emperor of All Maladies is a gripping, in-depth exploration of cancer, one of humanity's most enduring and devastating adversaries. Author Siddhartha Mukherjee, a pioneering oncologist and esteemed science writer, brings to life the intricate history and ongoing struggle against this formidable disease. With an approach that intertwines the precision of a cellular biologist, the breadth of a historian, and...
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