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Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface (The ABC of Fonts)
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of...
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor)
Author: Virginia Cowles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Paris as it fell to the Nazis London on the first day of the Blitz Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland...
The Marshmallow Test
Author: Walter Mischel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Self-control explained by the inventor of the famous 1960s marshmallow experiments A child is presented with a marshmallow and given a choice-...
The Snail on the Slope
Author: Arkady Strugatsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 ENTER THE ADMINISTRATION Peretz spends his days navigating the bureaucracy of the Administration, the institute tasked with governing the Forest below....
Freedom Song
Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a...
A New World
Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young...
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference
Author: Dr William MacAskill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Almost all of us want to make a difference. So we volunteer, donate to charity, recycle or try to cut...
Watering the Soul
Author: Courtney Peppernell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Poetry and prose to encourage us to grow. Watering the Soul is a timeless reminder that everyone needs time, love, and...
The World's Wife
Author: Carol Ann Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 What did Mrs Midas think? Or Queen Kong? Read all about it in Carol Ann Duffy's hugely successful, tender and...
Did I Say That Out Loud?: Notes on the Chuff of Life
Author: Fi Glover Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much.' Elizabeth Day 'The two funniest women on planet...
Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on this tiny Mediterranean...
The Fix
Author: David Baldacci Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 Amos Decker, David Baldacci's unique special agent, who suffered a head injury that resulted in giving him the gift of a...
Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) wrote that Latin America was the only region of the world outside Europe which he felt he knew...
Fade Away: A gripping thriller from the #1 bestselling creator of hit Netflix show Fool Me Once
Author: Harlan Coben Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Myron Bolitar once had a promising career as a sportsman, until an accident forced him to quit. After a spell in...
The Geometer Lobachevsky: Shortlisted for the 2023 Walter Scott Prize and the 2023 Kerry Group Novel of the Year
Author: Adrian Duncan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'When I was sent by the Soviet state to London to further my studies in calculus, knowing I would never become...
When Shadows Fall: Book 17 in the Sunday Times bestselling crime series
Author: Alex Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 ***Discover your next reading obsession with Alex Gray's Sunday Times bestselling Scottish detective series*** ***Don't miss the latest from Alex Gray....
How We Fall Apart
Author: Katie Zhao Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In a YA thriller that is Crazy Rich Asians meets One of Us is Lying, students at an elite prep school...
A Brief History of the British Army
Author: John Lewis-Stempel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Author: Mildred Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The Mississippi of the 1930s was a hard place for a black child to grow up in, but still Cassie didn't...
Mostly Veggies: Easy Make-Ahead Meals for Healthy Living
Author: Brittany Mullins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Plant-focused meal prep means a fridge stocked with healthy snacks ready to grab on your way out of the door; it...
We Move: Winner of the 2023 Somerset Maugham Award
Author: Gurnaik Johal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A debut collection of such precocity and aplomb that it stands comparison to the likes of Junot Diaz and Bryan Washington'...
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Author: Patrick Ness Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable. Award-winning writer...
The Colony: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
Author: Audrey Magee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 He handed the easel to the boatman, reaching down the pier wall towards the sea. Mr Lloyd has decided to travel...
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest
Author: Will Ashon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly...
Hidden Pictures: 'The boldest double twist of the year' The Times
Author: Jason Rekulak Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'I read Hidden Pictures and loved it. The surprises really surprise and it has that hard-to-achieve propulsiveness that won't let you...
The Eagle's Conquest (Eagles of the Empire 2)
Author: Simon Scarrow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! THE EAGLE'S CONQUEST is the thrilling second novel in Simon Scarrow's...
A Book of American Martyrs
Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the...
Bush Tukka Guide 2nd edition
Author: Samantha Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 In this second, refreshed edition of Samantha Martin's bestselling Bush Tukka Guide, readers will discover additional bush foods, recipes and updated...
Finding your Element
Author: Ken Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The Element has inspired readers all over the world to change their lives and this new companion is a practical guide containing...
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon: Mead Mishaps 1
Author: Kimberly Lemming Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I'm sorry? A fantasy romcom that is ACTUALLY funny and has a Black woman lead? And there's buckets of nachos? And...
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
Author: Helen Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all those...
The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis
Author: Sigmund Freud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The definitive collection of writing from the great founder of psycho-analysis. The Essentials of Psycho-analysis is the definitive collection of Sigmund Freud's...
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the...
The Schoolhouse: 'Stylish, pacy and genuinely frightening' The Times
Author: Sophie Ward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A compelling, fast-moving narrative . . . delivers real emotional impact' Telegraph 'A literary provocateur' Guardian SHORTLISTED for the POLARI PRIZE...
The Lathe Of Heaven
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 George Orr is in most respects a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant...
Power Systems
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Explores the immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the...
Awesomely Austen - Illustrated and Retold: Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Author: Eglantine Ceulemans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's best-known story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Elizabeth Bennet is...
Trespass
Author: Clare Clark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When your past is a lie, who are you? 'Provocative, moving and timely' Mail on Sunday 'Angry and engaged' Sunday Times...
China: An Epic Novel
Author: Edward Rutherfurd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 784 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Bravo; this is a big, complex and utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China' THE TIMES The internationally bestselling...
The Lady in the Lake
Author: Raymond Chandler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The classic Chandler mystery, reissued in B format Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and...
Eat More Greens: Eat More Plants with Over 65 Quick and Easy Recipes
Author: Fern Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 We all know that we need to eat more fruit and veg as part of a varied diet, but how many...
In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation
Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In...
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before...
Beloved
Author: Toni Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until...
Shaping Surf History: Tom Curren and Al Merrick, California 1980-1983
Author: Jimmy Metyko Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Metyko captures an era-defining snapshot of one of the most fertile and influential moments in California's surf history. The dramatic action...
Forward the Foundation (The Foundation Series: Prequels, Book 2)
Author: Isaac Asimov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 DISCOVER THE SAGA BEHIND THE APPLE TV+ ORIGINAL SERIES From a grand master of science fiction comes the long awaited final...
Blood Heir (Blood Heir Trilogy, Book 1)
Author: Amelie Wen Zhao Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 BLOOD HEIR is the first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the...