1.
Series:
A Slip of the Keyboard
Reflections on Alzheimer's, Inspirations, Orangutans and Hats
Paperback
Terry Pratchett
9780552167727
$16.99
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Oct 27, 2015
A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day. With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series -- but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer's research and animal rights. A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett'...
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The Compleat Discworld Atlas
Of General & Descriptive Geography Which Together With New Maps and Gazetteer Forms a Compleat Guide to Our World & All It Encompasses
Hardcover
Terry Pratchett
9780857521309
$42.00
FICTION
Nov 24, 2015
Unseen University are proud to present the most comprehensive map and guide to the Disc yet produced.In this noble endeavour, drawing upon the hard won knowledge of many great and, inevitably, late explorers, one may locate on a detailed plan of our world such fabled realms as the Condiment Isles, trace the course of the River Kneck as it deposits silt and border disputes in equal abundance on the lands either side, and contemplate the vast deserts of Klatch and Howondaland - a salutary lesson in the perils of allowing ones goats to graz...
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Series:
Computing with Quantum Cats
From Colossus to Qubits
Paperback
John Gribbin
9780552779319
$21.99
SCIENCE
Aug 04, 2015
Pioneering study of the science behind quantum computing and what the new quantum reality will mean for mankind.The quantum computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Pioneering physicists are on the brink of unlocking a new quantum universe which provides a better representation of reality than our everyday experiences and common sense ever could. The birth of quantum computers—which, like Schrödinger’s famous ’dead and alive’ cat, rely on entities like electrons, photons or atoms existing in two states at the same time—is set to turn...
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Series:
Time and Time Again
Paperback
Ben Elton
9780552779999
$16.99
FICTION
Sep 02, 2015
If you had one chance to change history...Where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill? It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be. Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is alread...
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Series:
Reykjavík Nights
Murder in Reykjavík
Paperback
Arnaldur Indridason
9780099587699
$18.99
FICTION
Aug 04, 2015
The loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and is immediately drawn into the blackness of Reykjavik's underworld. THE LIVINGErlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer and immediately sinks into the darkness of Reykjavik's underworld. Working nights, he discovers the city is full of car crashes, robberies, drinkers and fighters. And sometimes an unexplained death. THE LOSTA homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home from a ...
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Series:
Oblivion
Paperback
Arnaldur Indridason
9781846559808
$27.99
FICTION
Aug 04, 2015
Detective Erlendur is back. In Oblivion Erlendur is a recently promoted detective. His world is dominated by drug-dealers, a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl, a CIA operative and the murky history of America's presence in Iceland. In the windswept volcanic landscape of south-west Iceland, a vast aircraft hangar rises behind the perimeter fence of the US naval air base. It is night. Inside the hangar, colossal scaffolding reaches to the roof where contractors have been working. There is a clang and a length of piping falls to the...
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Series:
Yanks and Limeys
Alliance Warfare in the Second World War
Hardcover
Niall Barr
9780224079228
$53.95
HISTORY
Sep 22, 2015
An enlightening history of the Anglo-American alliance in the Second World War, from high command down to the soldiers on the ground. In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past. Theirs was a history of protection and oppression, of rebellion and ultimately war. But then the shared crisis of World War Two brought Britain and America closer than ever before or since, and saw an unprecedented level of military cooperation. How was such a radical shift possible? To uncover how this histori...
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Series:
Beyond the Sea
Paperback
Melissa Bailey
9780099584957
$18.99
FICTION
Aug 10, 2015
The second novel from Melissa Bailey, author of The Medici Mirror. Perfect for fans of Kate Mosse and Barbara Erskine. One summer's day, Freya's husband and son disappeared on a boating trip. A year on, and struggling to cope, Freya returns to the lighthouse-keeper's cottage on a tiny island in the Hebrides where they spent so many happy times. Haunted by visions of the life she used to have, Freya finds comfort in the discovery of her son's diary, written in the weeks before he disappeared. Until a man, Daniel, is washed up on the shor...
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Series:
The Bolt Supremacy
Inside Jamaica's Sprint Factory
Paperback
Richard Moore
9780224100052
$27.99
SPORTS & RECREATION
Jul 27, 2015
Award-winning writer Richard Moore uncovers the secrets of Usain Bolt and the Jamaican sprinting phenomenon. Beijing 2008, the 100 metres final: Usain Bolt slowing down, beating his chest, ten metres clear of his nearest rival, faced filled with the euphoria of a young man in utter thrall to his physical talent. It is one of the greatest moments in sports history. It is just the beginning. Of the ten fastest 100 metres times in history, eight belong to Jamaicans. How is it that a small Caribbean island has come to almost totally dominate th...
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Series:
Make My Wish Come True
Paperback
Katie Price
9780099598947
$15.99
FICTION
Aug 25, 2015
Take one showbiz reporter; one sexy TV chef; one creepy ex-boyfriend; plenty of sex and scandal and you have all the ingredients to Make My Wish Come True from the bestselling Katie Price. Storm always wanted to be a celebrity reporter. But when she lands the job of her dreams, it costs her her best friend. However, apart from her creepy ex-boyfriend, Storm loves the job. Until she's asked to go undercover to find out if sexy TV chef Nico Alvise is cheating on his girlfriend. Storm knows it's wrong but agrees because she likes him. A LOT. A...
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Series:
Reborn
Hardcover
Katie Price
9781780893464
$42.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 25, 2016
Katie Price is one of the most talked-about women in the UK, and she has had an explosive couple of years. Her new autobiography holds nothing back. In it she will talk about: • Her controversial marriage to stripper Kieran; • Their very public split after he slept with one of her oldest friends; • Her difficult pregnancy and the fear she felt giving birth to her fifth child prematurely; • The continued joy and challenges of looking after her severely disabled son, Harvey; • Her public battle with Peter Andre, and the truth be...
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The Best of Benn
Speeches, Diaries, Letters, and Other Writings
Paperback
Tony Benn
9781784750329
$21.99
LITERARY COLLECTIONS
Aug 05, 2015
The definitive collection of diaries, memeoirs, speeches, letters and other writings by Tony Benn. Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Best of Benn showcases his powers of original thinking and communication over seven decades. From 'the baby of the house' to a retired widower, he was a consistently radical campaigning voice on issues such as the death penalty, the case against the European Union, opposition to war and support of workers' rights. This volume brings together Tony Benn's electrif...
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Louis Van Gaal
The Biography
Paperback
Maarten Meijer
9780091960155
$16.99
SPORTS & RECREATION
Aug 04, 2015
The first definitive insider biography of the new Manchester United manager. So who is Louis van Gaal? An inflexible ex-PE teacher who only knows how to act like a dictator or a footballing visionary that has made him one of the greatest ever European managers? Wherever he has gone, Van Gaal has been accused of being a domineering disciplinarian and a control freak. He is certainly, by his own admission, a man who leaves nothing to chance. A disciple in the 1970s of Rinus Michels' Total Football philosophy, he is a fascinating contradic...
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Series:
O, Louis
In Search of Louis van Gaal
Paperback
Hugo Borst
9780224100045
$21.99
SPORTS & RECREATION
Oct 27, 2015
O, Louis is Hugo's attempt to get to grips with this larger-than-life character. Full of outrageous stories and unintentionally hilarious encounters, Borst details his quest to understand the man and the breakdown in their friendship. He interviews an array of experts who each interpret the great manager from the perspective of their own field -- a cleric, a politican, a psychiatrist, an impersonator, a theatre director, writers, poets and a trio of keen comic minds. Through these meetings as well as through his own encounters with Van Gaal, Bo...
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Series:
Nobody will Believe You
A Young Girl Abused by Her Stepfather. A True Story of Unbreakable Courage.
Paperback
Mary Manning
9781785030505
$15.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 04, 2015
The harrowing and truly shocking story of a young girl whose stepfather abused her. "Over and over again he warned me he would kill me if I told anyone. I was completely isolated. He made sure of that."Mary was a shy 10-year-old girl when she was first introduced to her new dad, Sean. From the very beginning he seemed to pay her special attention; praise for good behaviour, compliments about her clothes, help with school work. Mary trusted him. Why wouldn't she? He was an adult, her mother was an alcoholic and Sean was there to protect her....
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Series:
The Private Lives of the Saints
Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England
Hardcover
Janina Ramirez
9780753555606
$39.99
HISTORY
Oct 07, 2015
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints. The word 'saint' conjures a variety of associations in our modern minds. Some might connect it with suffering, charity and devotion to Christian values; others with miracles, martyrdom and heavenly gifts like the stigmata, while others still associate them with superstition, fanaticism and the power of the Papacy. But far from the one-dimensional pious figures we imagine, the saints were the power ...
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Series:
The Mechanism of Mind
Understand How Your Mind Works to Maximise Memory and Creative Potential
Paperback
Edward De Bono
9781785040085
$27.99
SELF-HELP
Aug 17, 2015
The classic bestseller presenting Edward de Bono's model of the mind. The Mechanism of Mind presents Edward de Bono's original theories on how the brain functions, processes information and organises it. It explains why the brain, the 'mechanism', can only work in certain ways and introduces the four basic types of thinking that have gone on to inform his life's work, namely 'natural thinking', 'logical thinking',' mathematical thinking' and 'lateral thinking'. De Bono also outlines his argument for introducing the word 'PO' as an alternati...
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Series:
In a Dark, Dark Wood
Paperback
Ruth Ware
9781846559594
$24.99
FICTION
Aug 04, 2015
When Nora Shaw is invited to the hen do of an old school friend she hasn’t seen in years, she’s delighted to have a chance to reconnect with her old friend. Little does she know something is about to go horribly wrong…In A Dark, Dark Wood marks the launch of a major new star in psychological fiction.Leonara Shaw, a writer in her mid-twenties, has been invited to the hen do of an old school friend. Nora hasn’t seen Clare in years but she’s looking forward to a chance to reconnect with her friend, even if she’s surprised not to be invited to the ...
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Series:
Physical
Cape Poetry
Paperback
Andrew McMillan
9780224102131
$21.99
POETRY
Aug 05, 2015
An extraordinary debut from a 26-year-old poet. Raw and urgent, these poems are hymns to the male body -- to male friendship and male love -- muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving. We are witness here to an almost religious celebration of the flesh: a flesh vital with the vulnerability of love and loss, to desire and its departure. In an extraordinary blend of McMillan's own colloquial Yorkshire rhythms with a sinewy, Metaphysical music and Thom Gunn's torque and speed -- 'your kiss was deep enough to stand in' -- the poems...
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Series:
Rainbow Dust
Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies
Hardcover
Peter Marren
9780224098656
$31.99
NATURE
Aug 25, 2015
A uniquely personal look about butterflies and about the people who love them -- which, surely, is most of us. Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies. Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies delight and inspire us all, naturalists and non-naturalists alike. In this uniquely eloquent and deeply personal book, naturalist Peter Marren explores the special place that butterflies hold in our hearts, in our cultural lives and in our imagination and recalls his own lifetime's obsession with these ephe...
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Series:
Thirst
Paperback
Kerry Hudson
9780099589891
$18.99
FICTION
Aug 17, 2015
An unconventional, will-they-won't-they love story, that takes us from London to Siberia, and from hope to heartbreak, and back again. The beginning of a relationship is usually all about getting to know each other, sharing stories far into the night, comparing experiences, triumphs and heartaches, until we know one another inside out. Not so for Dave and Alena. He's from London, she's from Siberia. They meet in a sleek Bond Street department store in the frayed heat of high summer, where she's up to no good and it's his job to catch her. ...
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Series:
Mother Island
Paperback
Bethan Roberts
9780099555261
$18.99
FICTION
Aug 31, 2015
A taut, powerful novel about a nanny who abducts the young child she looks after. How does it feel to come home from work one evening and find your two-year-old son gone? How does it feel to steal another woman's child? To take a boy from his mother, and try to make him yours, make things right? This is the story of two women, Nula and Maggie, joined by old family history and love for the same little boy.
23.
Series:
The Swimming Pool Library
Paperback
Alan Hollinghurst
9781784870317
$18.99
FICTION
Aug 04, 2015
"Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny." --Daily Telegraph Alan Hollinghurst's first novel is a tour de force: a darkly erotic work that centres on the friendship of William Beckwith, a young gay aristocrat who leads a life of privilege and promiscuity, and the elderly Lord Nantwich, who is searching for someone to write his biography.
24.
Series:
The Well of Loneliness
Paperback
Radclyffe Hall
9781784870324
$18.99
FICTION
Aug 31, 2015
A ground-breaking and moving lesbian novel that was banned in the UK on first publication. Stephen Gordon was a little girl who always felt different. A talent for sport, a hatred of dresses and a preference for horses and solitude was not considered appropriate for a young lady of the Victorian upper-classes. But when Stephen grows up and falls passionately in love with a woman, her standing in the county and her place at the home she loves become untenable. Stephen must set off to discover whether there is anywhere in the world that will ...
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Series:
Reunion
Paperback
Fred Uhlman
9780099596165
$15.99
FICTION
Aug 25, 2015
A delicate, daring novella about the loss of innocence in pre-war Germany.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL SEIFFERTMiddle-class, Jewish Hans finds himself charmed by Konradin, the young aristocrat in his class at school and they quickly become best friends. But it is 1932 and the boys live in a rapdily changing Germany. Readers across the world have been devastated and moved by the shocking denouement of this beautiful and profound exploration of the nature of friendship and the impact of history on human relationships.
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Series:
A Man Walks On to a Pitch
Stories from a Life in Football
Paperback
Harry Redknapp
9780091955533
$16.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Aug 04, 2015
Harry's tales and insight into the game he's lived and breathed for 50 years. 'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a chance something magic can happen, that's what keeps us coming back...' In A Man Walks On to a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime's experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first hand -- the good, the bad and the unbelievable. Harry started in an age where players were ordinary blokes who might live on the same street as you and earn a similar wage and now manages in an era of player po...
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Series:
Another Heartbeat in the House
Paperback
Kate Beaufoy
9781848271913
$16.99
FICTION
Aug 05, 2015
A dazzling, sumptuous historical novel from the author of Liberty Silk. A spellbinding story of two women one hundred years apart, brought together by the beautiful and haunting Irish home they both love. In 1936, Edie is stunned by the sudden and tragic death of her best friend Hilly. Seeking solace from the whirlwind of London society, she takes up the offer of packing up an old friend's house in Ireland, where she spent her happiest childhood holidays with Hilly. Surrounded by memories, Edie begins clearing out the attic, where she f...
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Series: INSPECTOR SEJER
The Murder of Harriet Krohn
Paperback
Karin Fossum
9780099587255
$18.99
FICTION
Sep 22, 2015
A brilliant why-dunit from Norway's 'Queen of Crime'. Charlo Torp has problems. He's grieving for his late wife, he's lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an elderly woman of her money and silverware. But Harriet Krohn fights back, and Charlo loses control. Wracked with guilt, Charlo attempts to rebuild his life. But the police are catching up with him, and Inspector Konrad Sejer has never lost a case yet. Told through the eyes of a killer, The Murder of H...
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Series:
The Fires of Autumn
Paperback
Irene Nemirovsky
9780099520368
$16.99
FICTION
Sep 22, 2015
The prequel to the internationally bestselling novel Suite Française: a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war. The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irène Némirovsky's life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naïv...
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Series:
Iza's Ballad
Paperback
Magda Szabo
9780099532385
$18.99
FICTION
Sep 22, 2015
A profoundly moving novel with the unforgettable power of Szabo's award-winning The Door. When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get it right. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, in her naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute in for tea. Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman w...
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Series:
Dumb House
Paperback
John Burnside
9781784870119
$18.99
FICTION
Sep 22, 2015
John Burnside's first novel, his profoundly disturbing and beautifully-written story of scientific curiousity gone awry. In Persian myth, it is said that Akbar the Great once built a palace which he filled with newborn children, attended only by mutes, in order to learn whether language is innate or aquired. As the year passed and the children grew into their silent and difficult world, this palace became known as the Gang Mahal, or Dumb House. In his first novel, John Burnside explores the possibilites inherent in a modern-day repetition o...
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Morvern Callar
Paperback
Alan Warner
9781784870102
$18.99
FICTION
Sep 22, 2015
Brutal, erotic, jarringly poetic and rich in a blood-dark humour, Morvern Callar was the spectacular debut of an utterly original Scottish writer and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern's laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling. WINNER OF THE SO...
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Series:
Where There's Smoke
Paperback
Simon Beckett
9780857502766
$15.99
FICTION
Dec 22, 2015
Sophisticated, dark, its pages seeping with menace, this stand-alone thriller by the bestselling author of the David Hunter series was originally published under the title Where There's Smoke and is now available once more. Some moments burn in the mind for ever. The landing is dark. Light comes from a window at the far end, enough to run by. Breath comes hard. From the stairs sound heavy footfalls in pursuit. The landing ends in a last doorway. There is no more running, only the need to hide. Imagine not knowing the father of your chil...
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Series:
Have I Said Too Much?
My Life in and Out of the Model Agency
Paperback
Carole White
9780099576693
$18.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 22, 2016
An inspirational and revealing memoir from Carole White, co-founder of highly successful Premier Model Management. There are model agents and there is Carole White... Every decade in Carole White's life has been extraordinary, from her childhood in Colonial Ghana, her rebellious teenage years and own modelling career, to spending 30 years at the helm of her iconic London agency Premier. Christy, Naomi, Linda, Claudia, Cindy... White has shaped the careers of the most superlative names ever to grace a catwalk and was at the centre of the 90s...
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Series:
London On Two Wheels
25 Handpicked Rides to Make the Most Out of the City
Paperback
Transport for London
9780091960230
$21.99
SPORTS & RECREATION
Sep 01, 2015
25 hand-picked rides in London to make the most out of the city. This charming yet practical pocket guide to cycling in London will treat you to 25 leisure routes across the city, allowing you to get the most out of London and the TFL 'Bike for Hire' scheme. With this book you will discover a fresh and healthy alternative to public transport which offers quirky and exciting pedaling routes across the city. With a range of routes taking cyclists through London's parks, along the River Thames and through much-loved cultural highlights, this b...
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Series:
All I Ever Wrote
The Complete Works
Paperback
Ronnie Barker
9780091951436
$42.95
HUMOR
Sep 22, 2015
The complete collection of Ronnie Barker's work from every stand of his career. Ronnie Barker has long been known as one of Britain's greatest comedy performers. But he was also responsible for writing much of the material he performed, often hiding the fact from the public by using a number of pen names. Showcasing the complete work of a true comic icon, All I Ever Wrote is a laugh-out-loud collection of sketches, monologues, songs, poems and scripts from every strand of Ronnie's long and brilliant career. With gems like 'Fork Handle'...
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Series:
Another Mother's Son
Hardcover
Janet Davey
9781784740221
$27.99
FICTION
Sep 22, 2015
"We're lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present." --Tessa Hadley on Janet Davey Lorna Parry lives with her three sons, each one lurching uncomfortably into adulthood. In the claustrophobic loneliness of her own home, Lorna orbits around her sons and struggles to talk to them; she's still angry at her ex-husband, uncomfortable around her father's new girlfriend, and works quietly as the only employee left in a deserted London archive. Life seems precariously balanced. Then a shocking and unexpected event occurs in the stat...
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Series:
Pillow Man
Hardcover
nick Coleman
9780224099813
$37.99
FICTION
Sep 22, 2015
An odd romance that begins among the Egyptian cotton sheets and goosedown pillows of an Oxford Street department store. William has a good, steady job in retail. He works in the bedlinen department of an Oxford Street store. He knows everything there is to know about comfy. Lucy has a portfolio career which, in her view, is no kind of career at all. Her life is a mess, her love life even more unsatisfactory than that. She wouldn't be comfortable if she sat on a sofa in Heal's. Unable to sleep, she thinks a new pillow might be the answer. Wi...
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Series:
The Pillbox
Hardcover
David Hughes
9780224098397
$35.99
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sep 22, 2015
On holiday in Suffolk, a boy and his dog discover a World War II pillbox half buried on a deserted beach. When he returns the next day with his parents, the pillbox has disappeared. They learn that there had been a pillbox there and a boy had once been found in it, dead. 1945, another boy, another dog, the same pillbox... and an American serviceman from the local base. Murder, treachery, a terrible secret... David Hughes' second graphic novel is a haunting ghost story -- dark, disturbing and -- as always with Hughes -- stunningly drawn.
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Series:
Gimson's Kings & Queens
Brief Lives of the Monarchs Since 1066
Hardcover
Andrew Gimson
9780224101196
$22.99
HISTORY
Sep 22, 2015
A short, lively and informative survey of the forty kings and queens of England, from the heroic to the hopeless and from William the Conqueror to the present. There have been many popular 'stuff you learned at school'-type books, of course, but none that has dealt with the Royal Family in such a sweep and certainly none written with such élan. Gimson's Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs, to tell a tale of bastardy, courage, conquest, brutality, vanity, vulgarity, corruption, anarchy, absenteeism, piety, nobility, ...
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Series:
Chasing Lost Time
The Life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy and Translator
Paperback
Jean Findlay
9780099507086
$22.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 22, 2015
The first ever biography of the man who made Proust a legend, his celebrated translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's celebrated translation of Proust's A La Recherche du Temps Perdu was first published in 1922 and was a work which would exhaust and consume the translator, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. Joseph Conrad told him, 'I was more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation': some literary figures even felt it was an improvement on the original. From the outside an...
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Series:
The Old Wives' Tale
Paperback
Arnold Bennett
9780099595359
$21.99
FICTION
Sep 22, 2015
A long-neglected twentieth century masterpiece about the lives of two sisters, spanning seventy years of hte nineteenth century form Northern England to Paris.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SATHNAM SANGHERA.You might find it hard to imagine that those stout ageing spinsters living quietly in small English towns ever led lives of passion or hardship, that they ever possessed beauty or romantic ideals. In The Old Wives’ Tale, Arnold Bennett tells the story of two such old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth, through marriage, heartbreak, tri...
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Series:
Swing Hammer Swing!
Paperback
Jeff Torrington
9781784870126
$18.99
FICTION
Oct 15, 2015
"Swing Hammer Swing! is a seriously good novel. Critics have rightly claimed that he does for Glasgow what James Joyce did for Dublin." --Stephen Pile, Daily Telegraph Following Tam Clay around the Gorbals slums of 1960s Glasgow, Torrington combines lyrical verve with dark comedy in this modern odyssey of self-discovery. Direct, aggressive, with an eye for a witty pun and an ear for Glaswegian dialect, Torrington bends language to his uncompromising will. A riotous urban picaresque, Jeff Torrington's comic novel marked a milestone in Scotti...
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Series:
The House of Lancaster
Hardcover
Neil Squires
9780224100007
$41.00
SPORTS & RECREATION
Sep 22, 2015
The inside story of Stuart Lancaster's England Rugby team. Over the three years since England's farcical appearance at the 2011 World Cup in New Zealand (dubbed in some corners as 'Mike Tindall's stag party'), England have been building a team with the work ethic, humility, skill and confidence to compare with that all-conquering, World Cup winning 2003 side. Much of this is down to their coach, former burger-flipper and PE teacher, Stuart Lancaster. But how, with seemingly little relevant experience, has Lancaster turned this team around? ...
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