Amazon.co.uk's Choice
 The Best of 1999
You wouldn't be reading this if it weren't for Tim Berners-Lee, the author of Weaving
the Web. A decade ago, this visionary Oxford-trained computer consultant created the World Wide Web. He
talks to
John Naughton about how he began this quiet revolution.
In Literature & Fiction
The anti-romantic star of Roddy Doyle's A Star
Called Henry fights for Irish freedom and the workers' revolution. Finding the habit of murder hard to
break, Henry teaches guerrilla warfare to dairy farmers and clerks. Passionate, angry, wildly and darkly comic,
the book has something to offend everybody.
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 Interviews,
Articles and More
The comic strip that's become to the Open Source world what Dilbert is to Windows users, Illiad's User
Friendly goes between covers for the first time. Its creator is famously shy but, safe behind his computer
screen, he agreed to answer
Amazon.co.uk's questions about his cynical, hilarious team of hard-core cartoon geeks--and why he's called Illiad,
anyway?
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In Bestsellers
 Our favourite thirty-something singleton returns in the Edge
of Reason, continuing Bridget
Jones's Diary, where she lands the apparently perfect man, Mark Darcy. Bridget broadens her horizons from
muesli belt to palm-kissed shores in search of spiritual fulfilment and sexual nirvana.
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Editors Choose...
Catherine Taylor, History Editor:
"Pope Pius XII was one of the most controversial popes in history, who ruled the Catholic Church from the
eve of World War II until his death in 1958. John Cornwell's research into the life of Hitler's
Pope left him in a state of "moral shock" and the result is a portrait of a fascinating but repellent
figure, who fashioned an aura of saintliness in the pursuit of ever-greater power and authority."
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