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Eversion
Author: Alastair Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and...
Wired For Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss and the Essence of Human Connection
Author: Stephanie Cacioppo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes the untold story of what happens in our brains when we are...
Bob Marley: The Untold Story
Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock'n'roll? How is that he...
Photography: The New Basics: Principles, Techniques and Practice
Author: Graham Diprose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 The definitive photography textbook for the digital age, The New Basics is packed with technical tips, practical exercises, contemporary images and...
Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries
Author: Peter Conrad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest opera composers of their time, represent diametrically opposed approaches to life and music,...
Epic Big Nate
Author: Lincoln Peirce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 If there's one word that Big Nate would use to describe himself, it would be E-P-I-C! And so is this slipcased,...
Contemporary Chinese Art: A History: 1970s-2000s
Author: Wu Hung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 456 From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution, contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force in a...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
Author: James Hanning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it...
Forever Ends on Friday
Author: Justin Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, returns with Forever Ends on Friday, another charming and powerful YA contemporary novel...
The Female Man
Author: Joanna Russ Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When they begin to travel to each other's worlds...
The Paris Library: the bestselling novel of courage and betrayal in Occupied Paris
Author: Janet Skeslien Charles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 HEROISM CAN BE FOUND IN THE QUIETEST PLACES - HOW LIBRARIANS DEFIED THE NAZIS THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND...
Chocolat
Author: Joanne Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 194 Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord...
Treasure Island
Author: Robert Ingpen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of pirates, treasure and swashbuckling action on the high seas is the archetypal ripping yarn and continues...
The Scorch Trials
Author: James Dashner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Thomas was sure that escape from the maze meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one...
The Sirens Of Titan: The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when...
Star Maker
Author: Olaf Stapledon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 One moment a man sits on a suburban hill, gazing curiously at the stars. The next, he is whirling through the...
The Stepford Wives: Introduction by Chuck Palanhiuk
Author: Ira Levin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The women of Stepford are not all that they seem... All the beautiful people live in idyllic Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent,...
People From My Neighbourhood
Author: Hiromi Kawakami (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand....
Go, Went, Gone
Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue Richard has spent his life as a university...
Gilead: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Author: Marilynne Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK In 1956,...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music
Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
A Short History of Disease: Plagues, Poxes and Civilisations
Author: Sean Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Using an interdisciplinary approach, Sean Martin's A Short History of Disease chronicles the historical and geographical evolution of infectious and non-infectious...
Islam
Author: Karen Armstrong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 One of the greatest of the world religions through the 1500 years of its existence, Islam has also been by far...
A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and...
The Needle's Eye
Author: Margaret Drabble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Simon Camish, a resentful insecure barrister in a stifling marriage, would not have particularly noticed Rose Vassiliou had he not been...
Jerusalem the Golden
Author: Margaret Drabble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and...
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
Author: Noah Strycker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 There are 10,000 species of birds in the world, in 2015 Noah Strycker spotted 6,042 of them entering the Guinness Book...
The Twyford Code: Winner of the Crime and Thriller British Book of the Year
Author: Janice Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, full of strange...
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news,...
Sweet Thames
Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the summer of 1849 cholera threatens the city and the people of London. The authorities send millions of gallons of...
Snowdrops
Author: A. D. Miller (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Snowdrops. That's what the Russians call them - the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw....
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death
Author: Peter Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the...
Surviving Execution: A Miscarriage of Justice and the Fight to End the Death Penalty
Author: Ian Woods Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Compelling... This is a captivating account of Glossip's fight for truth.' - Sir Richard Branson A tense mix of Dead Man...
The Girl Before
Author: J. P. Delaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 IF YOU ONLY READ ONE BOOK THIS YEAR, MAKE IT THE GIRL BEFORE... 'An outstanding debut that is more than...
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense
Author: Barney Shaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Smell is the most emotional and evocative of our senses: it can bring back memories faster and with more immediacy than...
Catch 22
Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity,...
Walking in the Woods: Go back to nature with the Japanese way of shinrin-yoku
Author: Yoshifumi Miyazaki Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'It is clear that our bodies still recognize nature as our home...' - Yoshifumi Miyazaki 'Forest bathing' or shinrin-yoku is a...
Write to the Point: How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page
Author: Sam Leith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It...
Miss Burma
Author: Charmaine Craig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny...
Lockdown: An incredibly prescient crime thriller from the author of The Lewis Trilogy
Author: Peter May Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY, THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERS AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF...
The Perfect Father: a compulsive and addictive psychological thriller with a shocking twist
Author: Charlotte Duckworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Compulsively readable and with an ending you will not see coming' WOMAN & HOME 'Masterful . . . a great twist'...
The Art of Reading Minds: Understand Others to Get What You Want
Author: Henrik Fexeus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A fascinating tour around the world of hidden signals and communication by Sweden's foremost mentalist. Use this wisely!' - Derren Brown...
Becoming the 0.1%: Thirty-four lessons from the diary of a Royal Marines Commando Recruit
Author: Gareth Timmins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A practical and no-nonsense guide on dealing with the toughest situations, from someone who has been there and done it.' --...
The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop
Author: Tristan Gooley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Telegraph Best Books of 2021 'Marvellous...Gooley's witty, conversational writing makes reading a joyful breeze' Geographical Magazine 'A sensitive study that combines...
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
Author: Robby Krieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the...
The Madness of Grief: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Author: Reverend Richard Coles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the author of MURDER BEFORE EVENSONG 'Immensely moving and disarmingly witty' Nigella Lawson 'Such...