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Dragonfly: NASA and the crisis aboard Mir

The inside story from the universe’s most outside habitation: the Mir Space Station, home since 1992 to astronauts and cosmonauts. In a white-knuckle narrative drama that is wholly space fact, not science fiction, sour Russians, intense Americans and one resourceful Briton battling to establish a pioneering homestead on the final frontier.

The Wrong Kind of Shirts 1998

Another bumper collection of footballing faux-pas and mangled manager-speak as the bestselling series enters its third season.

Harvey Nichols, The Fifth Floor Cookbook

A sumptuous collection of imaginative and accessible recipes from Henry Harris, chef at the Fifth Floor restaurant in Harvey Nichols – one of London’s most stylish restaurants.

Flushed with Pride

The extraordinary biography of Thomas Crapper, the man who revolutionised the nation’s water closet and was plumber By Appointment to Edward VII.

Nancy Lam Stirs It Up

` She’s rude, she’s crude, she’s good with food’ Andrew Billen, The Observer. Outrageous Nancy Lam, tv’s most eccentric far eastern chef and new star, cuts the crap and reveals how to create mouthwatering dishes from the kitchens of Enak Enak! (it means yum, yum), her famous Lavender Hill restaurant.

Not Yet Home: A South African Jour

A fascinating voyage into the culture, people and sport of the new South Africa by the highly acclaimed author of ‘Interior’ and ‘In Every Face I Meet’, short-listed for the 1995 Booker and Whitbread Prizes.

Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered

The latest of Tim Cahill’s fearless adventure travels, wholly in the spirit of Jaguars Ripped My Flesh and Pecked to Death by Ducks.

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