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Kit
Author: Megan Barker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 'In both its open-throated exclamations and its concentrated meditations on myriad forms of pain and joy [...] Kit reaches places other...
Queen K: Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
Author: Sarah Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'An enjoyably voyeuristic drama of ambition, exploitation and betrayal, which illustrates how desire for acceptance can lead us to neglect others'...
George: A Magpie Memoir
Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
Common or Garden: Encounters with Britain's 50 Most Successful Wild Plants
Author: Ken Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 It's often imagined that rarity is special. We seek out uncommon plants or birds to tick them off our lists, but...
Chorus
Author: Rebecca Kauffman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'You don't have to go back. You will stay here at home, with me. This is where you belong.' One afternoon,...
My Emotions and Me: A Graphic Novel to Help You Understand Your Feelings
Author: Art-mella Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 A stunning and playful graphic novel exploring emotions and how to cope with them, for everyone from 7 to 107! Did you...
Star Wars: The Jedi Mind: Secrets From the Force for Balance and Peace
Author: Amy Ratcliffe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 The philosophical tenets that inform the Jedi Code are focused on peace, knowledge, serenity, and balance, and are applicable not just...
Finding Mindfulness in Nature: Simple Meditation Practices to Help Connect with the Natural World
Author: Dr Nina Smiley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Mindfulness experts Dr Nina Smiley and David Harp have created a simple little book that provides meaningful ways to nurture...
Human Being: Reclaim 12 Vital Skills We're Losing to Technology
Author: Graham Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Our increasing reliance on digital technology has had a profound impact on our own abilities as humans. What can we do...
1918: The Year of Victories
Author: Martin Marix Evans
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Presents the Allied and German experience of war, both militarily and at a personal level on the ground. Illustrated throughout.
Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling
Author: Peter Cossins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
The Genetic Age: Our Perilous Quest To Edit Life
Author: Professor Matthew Cobb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Brilliant .. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough' - Henry Marsh, New Statesman (about The Idea of the Brain)...
Why We're Polarized: A Barack Obama summer reading pick 2022
Author: Ezra Klein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Bill Gates Summer Pick for 2022 'Powerful [and] intelligent' - Fareed Zakaria, CNN 'Superbly researched and written' - Francis Fukuyama,...
Bliss & Blunder
Author: Victoria Gosling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of...
The Burning Boy
Author: Nicola White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A murder that no-one wants to solve... Dublin 1986. The murder of an off-duty officer in Phoenix Park should have brought...
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually Fix
Author: Rowan Hooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 If you had a trillion dollars and a year to spend it for the good of the world and the advancement...
Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals
Author: Stuart Heritage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Anxious? Angry? Waking up in the middle of the night to worry about plastic pollution, Brexit and why everything seems to...
The Story of the Brain in 101/2 Cells
Author: Richard Wingate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and...
The Making of You: A Journey from Cell to Human
Author: Katharina Vestre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Join Katharina Vestre on an adventure to relive your very first moments. From your first cell to your first breath, this...
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard...
She Believed She Could So She Did: A Modern Woman's Guide to Life
Author: Sam Lacey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Self-belief is the key to your greatness. Packed with useful tips, positive affirmations and bite-sized biographies on women who rock, this...
Gender Pioneers: A Celebration of Transgender, Non-Binary and Intersex Icons
Author: Philippa Punchard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 120 'A vital book' JUNO ROCHE 'Beautifully illustrated and fascinating' MEG-JOHN BARKER 'Fun and fact-filled' SUSAN STRYKER This inspiring collection of illustrated...
Tony and Susan
Author: Austin Wright (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The car shrieked and stopped. Around its red and white light a cloud of smoke rose and dissolved. A door...
The 50 Greatest Churches and Cathedrals
Author: Sue Dobson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Cathedrals and great churches are among the most iconic sights of the world's towns and cities. Visible from miles around, the...
Launched into Eternity: Crime and Punishment, Hitmen and Hangmen
Author: David Leslie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Launched Into Eternity is a fascinating account of crime and public punishment in Scotland; from bloody Viking penalties right through to...
Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII
Author: Martin Bowman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This book contains fourteen stirring accounts, each conveying an authentic sense of what it was really like to fly as a...
Biography of X
Author: Catherine Lacey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Author: Amy Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Operations in North Africa and The Middle East 1939 - 1942
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Despatches in this volume include that on operations in the Middle East August 1939 to November 1940 by General Sir Archibald...
Spilling the Beans on the Cat's Pyjamas: Popular Expressions - What They Mean and Where We Got Them
Author: Judy Parkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 From the bestselling author of 'I before E', this light-hearted book examines some of the more unusual phrases that litter the...
Triangle Trade
Author: Geoff Woodland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In 1804, Liverpool was the largest slave trading port in Great Britain, yet her influential traders felt threatened by the success,...
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Author: Laszlo Krasznahorkai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Baron Wenkcheim's Homecoming is a fitting capstone to Krasznahorkai's tetralogy, one of the supreme achievements of contemporary literature. Now seems as...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
Author: Professor Shoshana Zuboff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'Everyone needs to read this book as an act of digital self-defense.' - Naomi...
The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is?
Author: Nick Lane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'One of the most exciting science writers of our time.' - Independent Why is life the way it is? Bacteria evolved...
The Hanging Tree
Author: Paul Doherty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brother Athelstan must solve a theft from the royal treasure chamber and the murders of six executioners in this gripping medieval...
The Riverwoman's Dragon
Author: Candace Robb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When the wise woman Magda Digby is suspected of murder, Owen Archer sets out to prove her innocence in this intricately...
Dark Queen Waiting
Author: Paul Doherty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Christopher Urswicke must unmask the traitor lurking amongst Margaret Beaufort's supposedly loyal followers in this gripping medieval mystery. October, 1471. Edward...
The Liar in the Library
Author: Simon Brett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 When an author event at the local library ends in murder, Jude finds herself a suspect in the waspishly witty new...
The Well-Tempered Garden: A New Edition Of The Gardening Classic
Author: Christopher Lloyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 This is a classic work by a gardener who combines a passionate love of his subject with a critical intelligence and...
Manuka
Author: Cliff Van Eaton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Not so long ago, in a small island nation in the South Pacific, beekeepers produced a most peculiar honey. It...
Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated
Author: Craig Hoyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was...
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Author: Nedd Brockmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10...
The Strip
Author: Iain Ryan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'This is as hard-boiled as Australian crime fiction gets, and it's very good.' - Sydney Morning Herald 'tense and compelling' -...
Born for You
Author: Magdalena McGuire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Filled with humour and heart, Born for You charts the lives of women as they transition from self to mother, from...
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures
Author: Mikey Robins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey...
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams
Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'There are books you encounter as an adult that you wish you could press into the hands of your younger self....
The Turn of Midnight: A deadly plague is spreading across the land...
Author: Minette Walters Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A deadly plague is spreading across the land... __________________ As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course...