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Author: Claire Lynch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "Original, important, moving, witty and exquisitely-written. WHAT a feat." - BERNARDINE EVARISTO "Incredible... beautiful and funny and humane." - EMILIE PINE...
Pring's Photographer's Miscellany: Stories, Techniques, Tips & Trivia
Author: Roger Pring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 *** How did Kodak company get its name? Who invented the Minox spy camera? Were there really fax machines in the...
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
Author: Katie Hickman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A masterpiece of history' DAILY TELEGRAPH Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of...
Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian
Author: Richard Herring Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some...
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS
Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
Author: Ted Kessler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher Paper Cuts...
The Sanctuary
Author: Raymond Khoury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Portugal, 1705. In the dungeons of a Templar castle, a dying old man bequeaths an ancient, half-burnt book to his young...
Pole To Pole
Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'The cracked and fissured ice-pack offers no comfortable reassurance - no glimmer of any reward to the traveller who has made...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
The Jules Verne Prophecy
Author: Iva-Marie Palmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 When a mysterious book by the legendary writer Jules Verne falls into the hands of three unlikely friends, it sets off...
Zero-G
Author: Rob Boffard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'Never lets up, from the nerve-jangling beginning to the explosive end' James Douglas on Tracer Outer Earth is a giant space...
Gene Eating: The Story of Human Appetite
Author: Dr Giles Yeo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST 'It is rare to find a book, written by a world-class...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage
Author: Laura Huang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 There's power in owning the obstacles you might face. This book shows you how to unlock it. In an ideal world,...
Journey Within: Exploring the Path of Bhakti
Author: Radhanath Swami Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 With illuminating references to Western religions and ideologies, The Journey Within invites readers from all backgrounds to discover the simple truths...
Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen
Author: Chloe Cooper Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 'An exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do...
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The surprising story of Britain's economy from boom to bust and back again
Author: Duncan Weldon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Here's the history that really matters' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Pitch perfect, fast-moving, brilliantly well-judged' ADAM TOOZE 'A terrific achievement, covering clearly but...
Set Phasers to Stun: 50 Years of Star Trek
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Forty-seven years after NBC killed it off, STAR TREK celebrates its half-century in a state of rude health. Boldly going where...
The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean
Author: David Bodanis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'David Bodanis is an enthralling storyteller. Prepare to be taken on a surprising, wide-ranging and ultimately inspiring journey to explore what...
How to Find Your Happy Place: Quiet Spaces and Journal Pages for Busy Minds
Author: Alison Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 We all have a happy place that makes us feel safe and content in times of uncertainty ... sometimes we just...
An Orchestra of Minorities: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2019
Author: Chigozie Obioma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 From the Author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, THE FISHERMEN 'Obioma is truly the heir to...
The Diary of a Bookseller
Author: Shaun Bythell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving,...
Swan: Portrait of a Majestic Bird, from Mythical Meanings to the Modern Day
Author: Dan Keel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Book of the Month, Countryside magazine '[this] fascinating new book... provides a detailed insight into the snow-white species' Waterways World A...
Big Bang Theory Hardcover Ruled Journal
Author: Insight Editions Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Chronicle your own super-smart exploits with The Big Bang Theory Hardcover Ruled Journal, featuring fan-favorite images from the blockbuster television series....
Washington Black: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018
Author: Esi Edugyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 Winner of the Giller Prize Finalist for the Carnegie medal and the Rogers Writers...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions...
Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man
Author: Fiona Gell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat...
Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate
Author: Gail Carriger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble in the air is not her fault. When...
Mummies Exposed!: Creepy and True #1
Author: Kerrie Logan Hollihan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Just when you think that you know everything there is to know about mummies, new ones are discovered! Packed with...
Halfway: A chilling and twisted thriller for a dark winter night
Author: B. E. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Three women. One killer. No turning back. A chilling thriller set in isolated Welsh countryside, perfect for fans of In...
On Learning Golf: A valuable guide to better golf
Author: Percy Boomer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Among the best books ever written on playing the game' Golf.com With a foreword by Edward, the late Duke of Windsor....
Your Planet Needs You!: An everyday guide to saving the earth
Author: Bernadette Vallely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what...
Mine Boy: 'One of my all-time favourite novels' (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
Author: Peter Abrahams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'The first African novel in English to draw international attention.' New York Times'The...
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change...
Quiet: Silencing the brain chatter and believing that you're good enough
Author: Fearne Cotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Fearne Cotton and Frankie Bridge have encouraged fans to open up about their mental health issues in inspirational social media posts'...
The Bookseller of Inverness: The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2023
Author: S.G. MacLean Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN. 'This slice of historical fiction...
Parsnips, Buttered: Winner of the Comedy Game Changer Award
Author: Joe Lycett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Dear Reader, Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Everyman
Author: Carol Ann Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. Forced to abandon the life he has built, he...
Black Narcissus
Author: Rumer Godden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace,...
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Author: Hana Videen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Delightful ... a pleasure' - Guardian Old English is the language you think you know until you hear or see it....
A Brief History of Paris
Author: Cecil Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a...
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know
Author: Emily Oster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A groundbreaking guide to pregnancy: empowers women with the facts and allows them to make their own decisions. FREAKANOMICS meets WHAT...
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A wholly successful endeavour carried along by waves of infectious enthusiasm' Mojo 'Fascinating' New Statesman The '80s were about big ideas...
Red at the Bone: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020
Author: Jacqueline Woodson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE...
Dolores: From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists
Author: Lauren Aimee Curtis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 On a hot day in late June, a young girl kneels outside a convent, then falls on her face. When...