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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick follows Ishmael, a sailor who joins the whaling ship Pequod under the command of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab.

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The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets sends Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon to Prague for a lecture by his partner, Katherine Solomon, a noetic scientist on the verge of publishing a groundbreaking book on human consciousness.

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Octopussy and The Living Daylights by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, the twelfth book in the James Bond series, Bond is a broken man, dealing with personal tragedy and a failing career.

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The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s final James Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun, the legendary 007 emerges from a presumed death, brainwashed by the Soviets and tasked with assassinating his own boss, M.

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You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s You Only Live Twice, the twelfth book in the James Bond series, Bond is a broken man, dealing with personal tragedy and a failing career.

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s eleventh James Bond novel, 007 goes on a mission that’s both personal and dangerous. He’s got to find Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the mastermind behind SPECTRE, in his Alpine hideout.

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The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me, the tenth book in the James Bond series, the story takes an interesting turn. It’s told from the perspective of Vivienne Michel, a young woman in a dangerous situation at a remote motel in the Adirondacks.

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Thunderball by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s thrilling adventure, James Bond, the legendary spy, finds himself in a heart-pounding mission to stop SPECTRE, a notorious criminal organisation led by the ruthless Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

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For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s eighth James Bond book, For Your Eyes Only, 007 embarks on a thrilling adventure through five short stories that showcase his incredible spy skills.

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Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger, the seventh James Bond book, Bond faces off against the super-cunning and flashy Auric Goldfinger. Goldfinger is a tycoon obsessed with gold and has a crazy plan to rob Fort Knox.

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Dr No by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s Dr. No, the sixth book in the James Bond series, 007 is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a British agent and his secretary.

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From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, the fifth book, From Russia with Love, takes Bond on a thrilling espionage mission. The Soviet organisation SMERSH sets a deadly game in motion, and Bond’s mission is to get a secret device called the Lektor.

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Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, Diamonds Are Forever, Bond gets into the wild world of diamond smuggling. The story takes Bond on a mission to infiltrate a criminal network that goes from Africa to the United States, run by the ruthless Spang brothers.

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Moonraker by Ian Fleming

In Ian Fleming’s James Bond series, the third book is Moonraker. Instead of a global chase, Bond investigates Sir Hugo Drax, a rich industrialist and national hero behind Britain’s secret Moonraker missile program.

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Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming

In this thrilling adventure, Bond travels to Harlem, Florida, and the Caribbean to take down Mr. Big, a ruthless crime lord with connections to the Soviet Union and a voodoo-inspired empire.

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Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, introduces us to the suave, ruthless, and brilliant British secret agent, 007.

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In Too Deep by Lee Child

In Too Deep, co-authored with Andrew Child, finds Reacher waking up amnesiac and handcuffed in Chicago, escaping to probe a mob’s artefact smuggling ring.

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The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour is a British motoring programme. It aired on Amazon Prime Video from 18 November 2016 to 13 September 2024. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May present it. The show picked up where their time on Top Gear left off.

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The Secret by Lee Child

The Secret, co-authored with Andrew Child, places Reacher on a 1992 task force hunting killers of scientists linked to a bioweapon project from the 1960s.

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Asterix and the White Iris by Jean-Yves Ferri

It is the fortieth book in the Asterix series. Caesar sends a wellness guru to the village. He spreads calm and positivity to weaken the Gauls from within.

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Ted Lasso

Ted Lasso is an American comedy drama series. It aired on Apple TV+ from 14 August 2020 to 31 May 2023. Bill Lawrence, Jason Sudeikis, Joe Kelly, and Brendan Hunt developed it. Jason Sudeikis plays Ted Lasso, an American college football coach hired to manage a professional football club in London despite knowing nothing about the sport.

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No Plan B by Lee Child

No Plan B, co-authored with Andrew Child, witnesses Reacher a 'suicide' that's murder, leading to a prison release scheme and organ harvesting.

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Better Off Dead by Lee Child

Better Off Dead, co-authored with Andrew Child, has Reacher searching for a missing twin in a desert town, clashing with a bomber plotting deadly attacks.

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Asterix and the Griffin by Jean-Yves Ferri

It is the thirty-ninth book in the Asterix series. The Gauls travel east to the frozen lands of the Sarmatians. They must protect a legendary griffin from Roman capture.

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Clarkson's Farm

Clarkson's Farm is a British documentary series. It came out on Amazon Prime Video on 11 June 2021. The show follows Jeremy Clarkson, known from car programmes, as he takes over running his 1000-acre farm in the Cotswolds after the old manager retires.

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