Books from Sceptre
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Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: the Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance
By Giles MiltonSmyrna was the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire, its vast wealth created over centuries. Its factories teemed with Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Jews--a majority Christian city...
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The Honourable Schoolboy
By John le CarréThe Honourable Schoolboy is remarkable and thrilling, one of three books (together with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People) to feature the legendary clash between Smiley and Karla, two brilliant spymasters on opposite sides of ...
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Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women's Rights - Then and Now
By Helen Pankhurst21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/11813571/GCSE-results-2015-Boys- ... also Helen Jones, Women in British Public Life, 1914–1950, p.226.
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Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity
By Nadia OwusuI have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and...
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American Fever
By Dur E. Aziz AmnaAmerican Fever
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Who Touched Base in My Thought Shower?: A Treasury of Unbearable Office Jargon
By Steven PooleA hilarious compendium, for fans of The Office and Eats, Shoots and Leaves, that rails against something that drives us all utterly mad: office jargon.
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Gossip From the Forest
By Thomas KeneallyIn this riveting combination of history, speculation and rumour, Thomas Keneally recreates the personalities, ideals, prejudices, arguments and desperate measures that resulted in the armistice which would shape the future of Europe.
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Searching for Schindler
By Thomas Keneally, ThomasIn 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life. For the owner, Leopold Pfefferberg, had a...
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The Widow and Her Hero
By Thomas KeneallyAs absorbing as it is thought-provoking, this timely novel poses unsettling questions about what drives men to battle and heroic deeds, and movingly conveys the life-long effect on those who survive them.
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Stop Reading the News: A Manifesto for a Happier, Calmer and Wiser Life
By Rolf DobelliSTOP READING THE NEWS is a vital toolkit for managing the upsetting coronavirus news cycle and finding equilibrium and calm at a time of chaos and uncertainty In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a roomful of journalists and proclaimed ...
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Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them...
By Hector TobarPulitzer-prize-winning journalist Hector Tobar offers the definitive account of a heart-stopping survival story: the 2010 collapse of the San Jose mine and the international rescue effort that somehow managed to save all 33 miners, who had ...
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ID
By Susan GreenfieldWhen I wrote Tomorrow's People not long after the millennium, discussion of new technologies and the lifestyle they could bring was far less rehearsed, and therefore seemed to me to be completely crucial to examine – which is what I did ...
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When All Is Said: Five Toasts, Five People, One Lifetime
By Anne GriffinThrough these stories - of unspoken joy and regret, a secret tragedy kept hidden, a fierce love that never found its voice - the life of one man will be powerfully and poignantly laid bare.
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The Quick and the Dead
By Willa MarshClarissa really falls in love with the house - a beautiful Tudor manor in the Welsh marches: marrying Thomas is simply the best way to get it.
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Masai Dreaming
By Justin Cartwright* WINNER OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN M-NET LITERARY AWARD * A tale of deception, misunderstanding, and betrayal set between modern-day Africa and Nazi-occupied France. Haunted by his dreams of the...
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Britt-Marie Was Here
By Fredrik BackmanThe number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie was Here is a funny, poignant and uplifting tale of love, community, and second chances.
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Ghostwritten
By David MitchellOr to a Mongolian gangster, a woman on a holy mountain who talks to a tree, and a late night New York DJ? Set at the fugitive edges of Asia and Europe, Ghostwritten weaves together a host of characters, their interconnected destinies ...
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The Number Bias: How Numbers Lead and Mislead Us
By Sanne BlauwSanne Blauw travels the world to unpick our relationship with numbers and demystify our misguided allegiance, from Florence Nightingale using statistics to petition for better conditions during the Crimean War to the manipulation of numbers ...
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The Devil's Paintbrush
By Jake Arnott. . Probing beneath the surface of Victorian conformity, this is an enthralling tale of imperialism, sexuality and the nature of belief, which captures a world on the brink of a brutal new era.
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Mister Roberts
By Alexei SayleAbove a small village in Spain, an English costume designer sees a bright shining star lurch abruptly across the sky. On Christmas Day a strong, silent man with blank eyes...