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Summer reads for every adventure
29 July, 2024
Looking for the book that best fits your holiday? Find your next adventure in our series of four, hand-picked summer reading lists.
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Classic mysteries from the golden age of crime
08 December, 2022
The British Library's Crime Classics series reprints detective novels and stories that were first published during the golden age of crime writing. Discover a selection of titles from the series.
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The best books of 2022
07 November, 2022
The top fiction and non-fiction books of 2022. Our top picks for the best books of the year include Jennifer Egan, Ian McEwan, Kate Atkinson, Celeste Ng, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Brit Pop star Jarvis Cocker.
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The International Booker Prize: award winners
18 May, 2022
A complete list of the International Booker Prize-winning books since 2016. Find signed copies of the best modern novels.
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The Booker Prize winners
14 September, 2021
A complete list of the Booker-winning books since 1969. Find copies of the best modern novels.
I Seem to be a Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller
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Buckminster Fuller's I Seem to be a Verb: How the internet may have looked in 1970
By Richard Davies 30 August, 2021
The 100 bestselling used books from 2000 - 2015
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The 100 bestselling used books from 2000 - 2015
30 August, 2021
AbeBooks analysed sales information from 2000 - 2015 and found The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey topped the list ahead of numerous critically acclaimed examples of classic literature.
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Collectable classic car books
30 August, 2021
Few subjects garner more passionate aficionados than classic cars. Both book collectors and automotive enthusiasts recognize the cultural and historical significance of vintage maintenance manuals, promotional pamphlets, serious analyses of the automotive industry in its infancy, and riveting biographies of early race car drivers and the cars they drove.
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Military history - the forgotten books
By Richard Davies 29 August, 2021
Countless books about conflicts, soldiering and warfare have slipped into obscurity. This selection of forgotten gems includes a regimental history, memoirs from combatants, books from guerilla fighters, five-star generals and an Apache warrior, and even a contribution from Mrs. Custer.
The top 10 trilogies
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Three’s company - top 10 trilogies
By Richard Davies 28 August, 2021
Trilogies are the sign of a serious reader- people with true commitment to an author’s cause.
Devilish books
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The most devilish books
28 August, 2021
Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, the prince of darkness - call him what you will, but the devil is a such an intriguing force of evil that countless writers across many centuries have woven a devil, the devil or simply demonic themes into their work.
Bestselling books for the Twentieth century for every year
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Bestselling books for the Twentieth century for every year
28 August, 2021
Impress your friends & family - read the bestselling book for each year in the Twentieth century.
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All the colours of Penguin's rainbow
27 August, 2021
Penguin Books was founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with the purpose of inexpensively producing high quality, but affordable, paperbacks. One of Penguin's strategies was to implement standardised designs for book covers.
New Naturalist book series
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Naturally beautiful - the New Naturalist series
By Julie Oreskovich 27 August, 2021
The New Naturalist Series is an on-going series of books published by Collins that focuses on natural history. The series, famous for its dust jacket designs, began in 1945 with Butterflies by E.B. Ford and more than 100 titles have been published.
Andrew Lang's fairy books
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Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
27 August, 2021
Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic, but his enduring legacy is not his prodigious writing. Lang is best remembered for his contribution to folklore and storytelling thanks to his 12-volume 'Fairy Books' collection.
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Law textbooks
27 August, 2021
The study of law is detailed and varied. Regardless of whether you’re studying international law, criminal law, corporate law, or family law, textbooks can be expensive. However, with AbeBooks, law students can buy secondhand law textbooks for cheaper than at the campus bookshop. Buying secondhand textbooks on AbeBooks.co.uk saves students more than 50% off the list price.
Romance books by Georgette Heyer
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Georgette Heyer's romance, historical fiction, and thrillers
27 August, 2021
Georgette Heyer is one of AbeBooks’ top bestselling authors, over the entire history of this company.
Shattered Childhood
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10 books of shattered childhoods
27 August, 2021
In many ways, our childhood defines the rest of our life. Books about childhoods shattered by pain and suffering – both fiction and non–fiction – are commonplace today but they have a long history dating back to the English tale of the Babes in the Wood in the 16th century.
Train thrillers
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Murder on the literary express - top 10 train thrillers
27 August, 2021
For more than a century, mystery writers have been drawn to trains, railways and stations because they are wonderful places to set a crime. You may never make eye contact with a fellow train passenger again after reading some of these thrillers.