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Looking for the perfect Father’s Day gift? We’ve put together a selection of exciting reads for you to choose from!

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A lively history of the seaside holiday by train from Britain’s ‘Bard of the Buffer’

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The story of how football transformed the world, told through nine World Cups - by one of our most talented football writers

🏺 Talking Classics by Mary Beard 
The world’s most acclaimed classicist on whether and why the Classics still matter

📖 Crossing the Wine Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past

🌿 Grasslands by John Wright 
Discover the fascination and joy of grasslands with the bestselling author of The Forager’s Calendar

💿 Escaping Babylon by Jesse Bernard 
How thirty years of Black music reshaped Britain, from 1989 to the present

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Long before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, conflict was simmering on Europe’s borders. In overlooked territories in eastern Europe, the eastern Mediterranean and the Caucasus – from the Balkans and Cyprus to Abkhazia on the fringes of Georgia –local disputes spiral into regional crises, global alliances are forged and broken, and power is brokered while the West looks elsewhere.

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Eugenia Cheng explores the rich and rewarding interplay between sameness and difference, and offers us a new way to see the world based on the choices and interpretations we make. A glorious celebration of mathematics, #Unequal will change the way you think - in maths, and in life.

#Unequal is out in paperback this Thursday!
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