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| "Why Shoot a Butler?" |
| "It is a complete mystery why anyone would choose to murder the trusted old butler of Norton Manor Barrister turned amateur detective Frank Amberley has reason to suspect that the shooting involves the nervy young lady discovered at the scene of the crime a snooping gentleman in the halls of Greythorne and then a second dead body A dramatic tale of upstairs downstairs and family secrets"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes : The Best of Anna Del Conte" |
| "As featured in a BBC documentaryIn this book Anna Del Conte has collected together the best of her delicious recipes along with tips anecdotes and reminiscences about her life in Italy and London Packed with inspiring information from the best way to make a tomato sauce and a tiramisu to more unusual dishes such as nettle risotto and chestnut mousse each chapter is devoted to a different ingredient As well as explaining the basics and introducing more surprising recipes Anna includes special additional chapters describing traditional regional and historical menus So whether you want to eat tagliatelle with ham and peas or rabbit with rosemary and tomato a Roman Late Supper or a Renaissance Dinner you will find what you need here"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Atonement (Reading Guide Edition) Paperback" |
| "The publication of Atonement cemented Ian McEwan&39;s reputation as one of the most exciting and accomplished writers of his generation From its breath-taking opening section telling the events of a fateful summer&39;s day in 1935 McEwan unravels a tale of love and war that breaks the heart even as the master novelist&39;s provocative twists of form dazzle the senses"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Signal Close Action : (Richard Bolitho: Book 14)" |
| "When in 1798 Richard Bolitho hoists his broad pendant as commodore of a small squadron and prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean he is soon made aware of his responsibility There are rumours of a massive French armada and of the latest type of artillery - and Bolitho's orders are to seek out the enemy and to discover the intentions of his growing force Without any British bases in the Mediterranean and unable to show favour to old friends Bolitho is well aware that there are others within his ships who are no less dangerous than the enemy - and during the weeks and months in which the squadron faces the hazards of the weather and French broadsides alike Bolitho knows that far more than his own future is at stake A fleet even a nation could depend on his decisions and when he places his squadron between the Nile and the power of France he must accept the price of the challenge"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Digging to America" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZEFriday August 15th 1997 Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families Every year on the anniversary of Arrival Day' the two families celebrate together with more and more elaborately competitive parties as little Susan and Jin-ho take roots and become American OVER A MILLION ANNE TYLER BOOKS SOLDShe's changed my perception on life' Anna Chancellor One of my favourite authors ' Liane MoriartyShe spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita ShreveMy favourite writer and the best line-and-length novelist in the world' Nick Hornby A masterly author' Sebastian Faulks Tyler is not merely good she is wickedly good' John UpdikeI love Anne Tyler' Anita Brookner Her fiction has strength of vision originality freshness unconquerable humour' Eudora Welty"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Going Dutch" |
| "Love isn't always plain sailing A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair and The Perfect Match Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge She's not even sure she likes boats But when her husband trades her in for a younger model she finds her options alarmingly limited Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding But as The Big Day approaches her cold feet show no signs of warming up - and accepting Jo's offer of refuge aboard The Three Sisters seems the only alternative As Jo and Dora embark on reorganising their muddled lives they realise they both need a practical way to keep themselves afloat But despite their certainty that they've sworn off men for good they haven't bargained for the persistent intervention of attractive but enigmatic Marcus and laid-back charming Tom who both seem determined to help them whether they like it or not"
Price: 7.99 |
| "A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers" |
| "Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself - Westerners cannot pronounce her name) arrives in London to spend a year learning English Struggling to find her way in the city and through the puzzles of tense verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain Xiaolu Guo was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Gathering" |
| "Winner of the Man Booker PrizeThe nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house in the winter of 1968 The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment about thwarted lust and limitless desire and how our fate is written in the body not in the stars"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Illegal Action : (Liz Carlyle 3)" |
| "ILLEGAL ACTION is the third thriller from the former head of MI5 and bestselling author Stella Rimington featuring MI5 officer Liz Carlyle When MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot to kill super-rich Nikita Brunovsky - a man who openly criticises the Putin regime from his London base - it's a race against time to track down the killer How the man is to be silenced is unclear but the Foreign Office dreads any kind of incident and Liz must work fast to protect him As she goes undercover desperately trying to find out who in Brunovsky's retinue might betray him Liz discovers that an illegal' Russian agent has arrived in London Is this the assassin she is seeking? Under an assumed name caught up in the high-octane world of the oligarchs Liz soon finds herself in terrible danger"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Brother Gardeners : Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession" |
| "One January morning in 1734 cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him but plants and seeds Over the next forty years Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession and change the gardens of Britain forever Philip Miller author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks and his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti and Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour This is the story of these men - friends rivals enemies united by a passion for plants Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire and the uncharted world beyond The Brother Gardeners tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail" |
| "A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments secret societies the Knights Templar the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1300 years ago The author's conclusions are persuasive at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith It involves nothing less than the Holy Grail"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Travels With Boogie : 500 Mile Walkies and Boogie Up the River in One Volume" |
| "Travels with Boogie is the story of two city slickers - one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell the other the long-suffering author - and how they came to terms with England's countryside and waterways First they had to survive against all odds as they embarked on a heroic journey up hill and down dale with rucksacks full of Kennomeat along Britain's longest coastal footpath - from Somerset to Devon from Cornwall to Dorset And they did it Then undaunted they took on the treacherous waters of the Thames Not exactly as Mark had planned however this time his companion was to be the delectable Jennifer - but she was held up at the office and when Boogie was dropped off at the kennels the other dogs complained Travels with Boogie is a witty and fascinating account of a mismatched couple and of the people they meet and places they visit"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Swallows And Amazons (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "The ultimate children&39;s classic - long summer days filled with adventure John Susan Titty and Roger sail their boat Swallow to a deserted island for a summer camping trip Exploring and playing sailors is an adventure in itself but the island holds more excitement in store Two fierce Amazon pirates Nancy and Peggy challenge them to war and a summer of battles and alliances ensues &39;My childhood simply would not have been the same without this book It created a whole world to explore one that lasted long in the imagination after the final page had been read&39; - Marcus Sedgwick"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Possession : A Romance" |
| "The perfect gift for Valentine's DayPossession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets Following a trail of letters journals and poems they uncover a web of passion deceit and tragedy and their quest becomes a battle against time"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Eric Clapton: The Autobiography" |
| "Eric Clapton is far more than a rock star Like Dylan and McCartney he is an icon and a living legend He has sold tens of millions of records played sell-out concerts all over the world and been central to the significant musical developments of his era His guitar playing has seen him hailed as 'God' Now for the first time Eric tells the story of his personal and professional journeys in this pungent witty and painfully honest autobiography These are the memoirs of a survivor someone who has reached the pinnacle of success who has had it all but whose demons have never left him Eric tells his story as it is hiding nothing with a directness and searing honesty that will make this book one of the most compelling memoirs of our time"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)" |
| "Life and Fate is an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family the Shaposhnikovs As the battle of Stalingrad looms Grossman's characters must work out their destiniesin a world torn by ideological tyranny and war Completed in 1960 and then confiscated by the KGB this sweeping panorama of Soviet Society remained unpublished until it was smuggled into the West in 1980 where it was hailed as a masterpiece"
Price: 8.99 |
| "After Dark" |
| "Eyes mark the shape of the cityThe midnight hour approaches in an almost-empty diner Mari sips her coffee and reads a book but soon her solitude is disturbed a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville hotel and needs Mari's help Meanwhile Mari's beautiful sister Eri lies in a deep heavy sleep that is 'too perfect too pure' to be normal; it has lasted for two months But tonight as the digital clock displays 0000 a hint of life flickers across the television screen in her room even though it's plug has been pulled out Strange nocturnal happenings or a trick of the night?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Ode Less Travelled : Unlocking the Poet within" |
| "Stephen Fry believes that if you can speak and read English you can write poetry But it is no fun if you don't know where to start or have been led to believe that Anything Goes Stephen who has long written poems and indeed has written long poems for his own private pleasure invites you to discover the incomparable delights of metre rhyme and verse forms Whether you want to write a Petrarchan sonnet for your lover's birthday an epithalamion for your sister's wedding or a villanelle excoriating the government's housing policy The Ode Less Travelled will give you the tools and the confidence to do so Brimful of enjoyable exercises witty insights and simple step-by-step advice The Ode Less Travelled guides the reader towards mastery and confidence in the Mother of the Arts"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Winter of Frankie Machine" |
| "Frank Machianno is the guy a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront That's when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his long board He's a beloved fixture of the community a stand-up businessman a devoted father to his daughter Frank's also a hit man Well a retired hit man Back in the day when he was one of the most feared members of the West Coast mob he was known as Frankie Machine Years ago Frank consigned his mob ties to the past which is where he wants them to stay But a favour called in by the local boss is one Frank simply can't refuse and before he knows it he's sucked back into the treacherous currents of his former life Someone from his past wants him dead and he has to figure out who and why and he has to do it fast The problem is that the list of candidates is about the size of his local phone book and Frank's rapidly running out of time"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Year of Living Biblically" |
| "Avoiding shellfish was easy The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone? Even that could be grounds for accusations of assault especially with female adulterers in Manhattan So what's a good Bible-reading boy to do?Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world AJ Jacobs decides to dive in head first and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicized rules The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound reverent and irreverent personal and universal and will make you see history's most influential book with new eyes"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Bit Rot" |
| "In Bit Rot Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded and creates a gem of the digital age Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix you can't stop with just one Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose As Coupland writes bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000 as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones' Bit Rot the book explores the ways humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness Coupland just like the Internet mixes forms to achieve his ends Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland's legion of fans hungry for his observations about our world For almost three decades his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction and his phrase-making Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit surprise and delight"
Price: 8.49 |
| Testimony |
| "Robbie Robertson's singular contributions to popular music have made him one of the most beloved songwriters and guitarists of his time With songs like The Weight' The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' and Up on Cripple Creek' he and his partners in the Band fashioned a music that has endured for decades influencing countless musicians In this captivating memoir written over five years of reflection Robbie employs his unique storyteller's voice to weave together the journey that led him to some of the most pivotal events in music history He recounts the adventures of his half-Jewish half-Mohawk upbringing on the Six Nations Indian Reserve and on the gritty streets of Toronto; his odyssey at sixteen to the Mississippi Delta the fountainhead of American music; the wild early years on the road with rockabilly legend Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks; his unexpected ties to the Cosa Nostra underworld; the gripping trial-by-fire of 'going electric' with Bob Dylan on his 1966 world tour and their ensuing celebrated collaborations; the formation of the Band and the forging of their unique sound culminating with history's most famous farewell concert brought to life for all time in Martin Scorsese's great movie The Last Waltz This is the story of a time and place - the moment when rock 'n' roll became life when legends like Buddy Holly and Bo Diddley crisscrossed the circuit of clubs and roadhouses from Texas to Toronto when the Beatles Hendrix the Stones and Warhol moved through the same streets and hotel rooms It's the story of exciting change as the world tumbled through the '60s and early '70s and a generation came of age built on music love and freedom Above all it's the moving story of the profound friendship among five young men who together created a new kind of popular music Testimony is Robbie Robertson's story lyrical and true as only he could tell it"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Ulysses by James Joyce (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Set entirely on one day 16 June 1904 Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom and Stephen Daedalus as they go about their daily business in Dublin From this starting point James Joyce constructs a novel of extraordinary imaginative richness and depth Unique in the history of literature Ulysses is one of the most important and enjoyable works of the twentieth century After its first publication in Paris in 1922 Ulysses was published in Great Britain by The Bodley Head in 1936 These editions as well as the subsequent resettings of 1960 in Great britain and of 1961 in the US included an increasing number of transmission and printing errors In 1977 a team of scholars led by Professor Hans Walter Gabler began to study manuscript evidence typescripts and proofs in an attempt to reconstruct Joyce's creative process in order to come up with a more accurate text This edition uses the revised 1993 text of Gabler's version"
Price: 8.99 |
| "North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JENNY UGLOWMilton is a sooty noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants Arriving from a rural idyll in the south Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new hometown However as she begins to befriend her neighbours and her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops she starts to see Milton in a different light"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIESOffred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead She has only one function to breed If she deviates she will like dissenters be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs Brilliantly conceived and executed this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America explores a world in which oppression of women and repression of the truth have become justified 'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT FISK Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an unusual and rich work It encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history politics adventure and drama It is also a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'Lawrence is a fascinating and controversial figure and his talent as a vivid and imaginative writer shines through on every page of this his masterpiece Seven Pillars of Wisdom provides a unique portrait of this extraordinary man and an insight into the birth of the Arab nation"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence Saleem Sinai is a special child However this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for telepathic powers connect him with 1000 other 'midnight's children' all of whom are endowed with unusual gifts Inextricably linked to his nation Saleem's story is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious"
Price: 8.49 |
| "War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "'If you've never read it now is the moment This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace you live it' The TimesTolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships His heroes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov his ambitious friend Prince Andrei and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them the enchanting Natasha Rostov"
Price: 8.49 |
| "On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "It is July 1962 Edward and Florence young innocents married that morning arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come"
Price: 6.49 |
| "We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans Not all of them return - and those who do will never be the same Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas Spanning four generations two world wars and a hundred years We The Drowned is an epic tale of adventure ruthlessness and passion"
Price: 8.99 |
