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Category: Popular Culture

The Lives and Times of the Great Composers

Michael Steen

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Groovy Old Men

Nick Baker

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What is Myrrh Anyway?

Jonathan Green

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New World Order

Dixe Wills

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50 Facts You Need to Know – USA

Stephen Fender

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500 Reasons Why…

Malcolm Burgess

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Places to Hide

Dixe Wills

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The Science of Doctor Who

Paul Parsons

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Did David Hasselhoff End the Cold War?

Emma Hartley

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101 Facts You Should Know About Food

John Farndon

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These books believe in you - and the power of tiny acts to make your world a better place.
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101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World 🌎, and it’s predecessor 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten You Day ☀️, by @ailbhetross are the perfect little books for anyone who wants to celebrate and strengthen their relationships, overcome stress at work, help their mental health or make a more positive impact on the world we live in. Full of simple little tips, these two books will help bring the sunshine in, even on what feels like dark days! .
Swipe through for a peek at some of the beautiful illustrations from 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World from @beckybarnicomics ✍️ .
#bookstagram #newbooks #bookaddict #bookish #bookshelf #toread #toberead #readingforlife #instareads #readinglist #bookphotography

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Feeling hungry yet? Get your tastebuds ready for HUNGRY: Eating, Road-tripping and Risking it All with René Redzepi, the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordinier @thegordinier - published in the UK next week! .

Offered the chance to accompany René Redzepi @reneredzepinoma (whose brainchild Noma has repeatedly been voted ‘Best Restaurant in the World’ on an adventure in search of the planet’s most tantalising flavours, Jeff Gordinier didn’t need to think twice. Putting the rest of his life on hold, Jeff followed René on an inspiration fuelled intercontinental odyssey to find and refine the most powerful tastes in the world. .

Hungry is a memoir, a travelogue, a vivid portrait of a chef and a chronicle of the moment when daredevil cooking became one of the most exiting and groundbreaking forms of artistry.
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#noma #hungry #reneredzepi #food #bookstagram #foodie #nomacopenhagen #travel #worldsbestrestaurants #nomacph #foodstagram #newbook #amreading #toberead #chef

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It seems like Greenland has been in the news a lot recently, so it’s a good thing that this beautiful book, The Ice At the End of the World: Am Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and our Perilous Future, is published today! 🇬🇱
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Locked within that vast ‘white desert’ are some of our planet’s most profound secrets. As the Arctic climate warms, and Greenland’s ice melts at an accelerating rate, the island is evolving into an economic and climatological hub, on which the future of the world turns. .

Journalist and historian Jon Gertner reconstructs in vivid, thrilling detail the heroic efforts of the scientists and explorers who have visited Greenland over the past 150 years – on skis, sleds, and now with planes and satellites, utilising every tool available to uncover the pressing secrets revealed by the ice before, thanks to climate change, it’s too late. .
#newbooks #newbook #greenland #climatechange #bookstagram #toread #toberead

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Our amazing new catalogues are finding their way out into the world! From spy stories, and feminist art histories, to refugee stories, heartwarming beekeeping memoirs, and inspiring handbooks to rebellion, the first half of 2020 from Icon has all you’ll ever need 🤩 .
Plus, the cover for our new catalogue is inspired by our upcoming The Middle Ages: A Graphic Guide by Eleanor Janega (check her out at going-medieval.com) and illustrated by the amazing Neil Max Emmanuel. Mark your diaries for April 2020 - you won’t want to miss it! 👑
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We are delighted that Six Impossible Things by John Gribbin has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2019! @theroyalsociety .
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Happy publication day to Daniel Chapman, author of the brilliant ‘100 Years of Leeds United,’ published in association with Leeds United FC. This is the most comprehensive history to date, revealing the lesser-known stories from Leeds United’s first century. You can buy your copy now from Amazon and all good bookstores! Amazon link in bio! ⚽️🔵 #leeds #bookstagram #football #leedsunited #lufc #leeds100

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What is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudices? .
Feminism: A Graphic Guide is published next Thursday in all its glory! .
This unique, illustrated introduction explores the early history and ‘waves’ of feminism, and all the way up to present-day conversations surrounding MeToo, intersectional feminism and women’s rights in the Middle East. .
#newbooks #bookstagram #bookstoread #feminism #feminist #graphicnovel #toread #readingforlife #reading #bookshelf

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Happy publication day to Ben Aitken and the hilarious A Chip Shop in Poznan: My Unlikely Year in Poland! 🇵🇱
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Ben moved to Poland in 2016 to find out why the Poles were leaving. He flew to a place he’d never heard of and then accepted a job in a chip shop on minimum wage.
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What followed was a year of peeling potatoes, milking cows with Eurosceptic farmers, spending Christmas with strangers, Brexit, getting kicked out of a nunnery, and falling in love.
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And did we mention it’s hilarious? #PolandistheNewSweden
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#newbook #bookstagram #bookshelf #reading #tbr #toread #bookish #bibliophile #Poland #poznan #gdansk #europe #amreading #books

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To celebrate #IndieBookshopWeek we collaborated with the incredible @catherinedoart to create some beautiful illustrated window displays to make a buzz around BUZZ: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson in both @kewbookshop and @mrbsemporium 🐝🐝 How beautiful are these windows?? 😍😍😍 .
Go and pay a visit to these two amazing bookshops this week and take a look at the displays in person (and pick up a book! Or two. Or three) .
Check out @catherinedoart’s page for more absolutely incredible illustrations, and puns galore! Trust us, it’ll be one of your favourite new accounts 🤩 .
#IBW #independentbookshop #savethebees #windowdisplay #illustration #bookstagram

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