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  Between Two Enlightenments

  Hardback | Pub: 02 Sep 2021

  £7.99

  Have we been fooling ourselves? Has the almost complete takeover of culture by the thinking of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment come without a cost? The sequel to the Enlightenment, known as modern life, has expanded our horizons enormously but...

• Chased by Bulldogs

  Hardback | Pub: 19 Jun 2025

  £10.00

  This memoir of the author’s early years details the advantages of a weirdly dysfunctional family, a mysterious Irish ancestry, a violent and expensive prep school (where he failed to blow up the headmaster with gunpowder), some good teaching –...

• Taming the Beast

  Hardback | Pub: 11 Aug 2022

  £10.99

  When he was appointed Edinburgh University’s first professor of medical oncology at the age of 33, John Smyth was already making a name for himself in the world of cancer research. Over the next three decades, he led the development of cancer...