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| "Alfie and the Big Boys by Shirley Hughes (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Alfie's Nursery School is right next door to the Big School Alfie wishes that he could be friends with the most popular big boy Ian Barger but Ian never takes any notice of the little kids One morning Mum takes Alfie to a Plant Pot Sale Alfie hasn't been there long when he spots Ian Barger screaming and yelling I want my mummy! Ian grabs Alfie's hand and holds onto him very tightly until his mum returns Alfie realizes that big boys don't always act so big after all!"
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| "Victoria Line, Central Line" |
| "Millions of people travel on London's tube every day yet we usually give our fellow passengers only a cursory glance But each one of these nameless passengers has their own story to tell At Notting Hill the mysterious secretary harbouring her secrets travels to work; at Highburyand Islington Adam has a sudden change of heart; and at Holborn a disastrous reunion is about to take place With her characteristic mix of compassionate humour and biting realism this vintage collection of stories is Maeve Binchy at her very best"
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| "The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHDorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous glamorous world of selfish luxury he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age But up in his attic hidden behind a curtain his portrait tells a different story"
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| "Cathedral by Raymond Carver (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair a window curtain a fork a stone a woman's earring - with immense even startling power' Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see Many view this story and indeed this collection as a watershed in the maturing of Carver's work to a more confidently poetic style"
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| "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "With this his first collection Carver breathed new life into the short story In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life"
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| "Slow Learner: Early Stories by Thomas Pynchon (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964 before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing The collection consists of five short stories 'The Small Rain' 'Lowlands' 'Entropy' 'Under the Rose' and 'The Secret Integration' as well as an introduction written by Pynchon himself for the 1984 publication The five stories were originally published individually in various literary magazines but in 1984 after Pynchon had achieved greater recognition Slow Learner was published to collect and copyright the stories into one volume The introduction also offers a rare insight into Pynchon's own views on his work and influences"
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| "The Client" |
| "An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know A US State Senator is dead and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family The killer wants him silenced forever Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years Only she can save Mark from these twin threats Together they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer"
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| "Worst. Person. Ever." |
| "A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man Worst Person Ever is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy side-splittingly funny and unforgettable novel Meet Raymond Gunt A decent chap who tries to do the right thing Or to put it another way the worst person ever a foul-mouthed misanthropic cameraman trailing creditors ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake Men dislike him women flee from him Worst Person Ever is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value Gunt in the words of the author is a living walking talking hot steaming pile of pure id He's a B-unit cameraman who enters an amusing downward failure spiral that takes him from London to Los Angeles and then on to an obscure island in the Pacific where a major American TV network is shooting a Survivor-style reality show Along the way Gunt suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment is forced to re-enact the Angry Dance' from the movie Billy Elliot and finds himself at the centre of a nuclear war We also meet Raymond's upwardly failing sidekick Neal as well as Raymond's ex-wife Fiona herself an atomic bomb of pain' Even though he really puts the anti' in anti-hero you may find Raymond Gunt an oddly likeable character"
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| "Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davis (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Set against the terrible struggle of the English Civil War and the dark plots of the Commonwealth Rebels and Traitors tells of soldiers adventurers aristocrats and kings tradesmen politicians radicals and scavengers - and the hopes and dreams that carried them through one of the most turbulent eras of English history Men who never imagined fighting a war gladly risk their lives; women strive to keep families and businesses together through years of deprivation; innocents are caught up in bloodshed and terror After years of struggle Gideon Jukes and Juliana Lovell on opposite sides of the ParliamentarianRoyalist divide are brought together by fate on one of the significant dates of the struggles and its aftermath After adversity and loss their mutual attraction may one day bring the comfort and companionship for which they both have yearned through a disastrous war But a dark shadow lurks over them and even in peace the past is not far behind Rebels and Traitors is an absolute epic masterpiece poignant and convincing characterisation and razor-sharp historical realism"
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| "Teach Us to Sit Still : A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing" |
| "Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body the hectic modern world and his life as a writer Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health"
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| "Blindsighted : (Grant County series 1)" |
| "The first Grant County novel from the No 1 Bestseller The sleepy town of Heartsdale Georgia is jolted into panic when Sara Linton paediatrician and medical examiner finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner As well as being viciously raped Sibyl has been cut two deep knife wounds form a lethal cross over her stomach But it's only once Sara starts to perform the post-mortem that the full extent of the killer's brutality becomes clear Police chief Jeffrey Tolliver - Sara's ex-husband - is in charge of the investigation and when a second victim is found crucified only a few days later both Jeffrey and Sara have to face the fact that Sibyl's murder wasn't a one-off attack What they're dealing with is a seasoned sexual predator A violent serial killer"
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| "Kisscut : (Grant County series 2)" |
| "The second Grant County novel from the No 1 Bestseller When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out Sara Linton - paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy And what seems at first to be a terrible but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications when the autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse and ritualistic self-mutilation Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate but the children surrounding the victim close ranks The families turn their backs Then a young girl is abducted and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime And unless Sara and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide it's going to happen again"
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| "NYPD Red 2" |
| "NYPD Red - the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city -hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished The number of victims grows and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears Zach and Kylie have to find what's really behind this murderer's rampage while political and personal secrets of the highest order hang in the balance But Kylie has been acting strange recently - and Zach knows whatever she's hiding could threaten the biggest case of their careers"
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| "Dark Lies the Island" |
| "Winner of the Sunday Times short story prize Winner of the Edge Hill short story prizeA kiss that just won't happen A disco at the end of the world A teenage goth on a terror mission And OAP kiddie-snatchers and scouse real-ale enthusiasts and occult weirdness in the backwoods Dark Lies the Island is a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty crimes desperation and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years' Every page is shot through with the riotous humour sympathy and blistering language that mark Kevin Barry as a pure entertainer and a unique teller of tales"
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| "The Spy Who Loved Me" |
| "WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DOUGLAS KENNEDYYou take a wrong step play the wrong card in Fate's game and you're lost in a world you had never imagined against which you have no weapons No compass'Vivienne Michel is running away - from pain from rejection from humiliation When she stumbles into a criminal plot her life seems over until a chance encounter with James Bond turns her world upside down Ian Fleming's tenth 007 novel is a unique view of Bond through the eyes of a woman who loves him"
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| "The Life List by Lori Nelson Spielman (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern and Jojo Moyes a beautiful and moving story about the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter Brett's Life List1 Go to Paris2 Perform live on a super big stage3 Have a baby maybe two4 Fall in loveBrett Bohlinger seems to have it all a plum job a spacious loft an irresistibly handsome boyfriend All in all a charmed life That is until her beloved mother passes away leaving behind a will with one big stipulation In order to receive her inheritance Brett must first complete the life list of goals she'd written when she was a naive girl of fourteen Grief-stricken Brett can barely make sense of her mother's decision-her childhood dreams don't resemble her ambitions at age thirty-four in the slightest Some seem impossible How can she possibly have a relationship with a father who died seven years ago? Other goals (Be an awesome teacher!) would require her to reinvent her entire future As Brett reluctantly embarks on a perplexing journey in search of her adolescent dreams one thing becomes clear Sometimes life's sweetest gifts can be found in the most unexpected places"
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| "One Night in Winter by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "An epic adventure story set against the most awful war in history Ridiculously good' Dan SnowIf your children were forced to testify against you what terrible secrets would they reveal?Moscow 1945 As Stalin and his courtiers celebrate victory over Hitler shots ring out On a nearby bridge a teenage boy and girl lie dead But this is no ordinary tragedy and these are no ordinary teenagers but the children of Russia's most important leaders who attend the most exclusive school in Moscow Is it murder? A suicide pact? Or a conspiracy against the state? Directed by Stalin himself an investigation begins as children are arrested and forced to testify against their friends - and their parents This terrifying witch-hunt soon unveils illicit love affairs and family secrets in a hidden world where the smallest mistakes will be punished with death"
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| "Skyfaring : A Journey with a Pilot" |
| "Sunday Times BestsellerBook of the Week on Radio 4 'A beautiful book about a part of the modern world which remains genuinely magical' Mark Haddon'One of the most constantly fascinating but consistently under-appreciated aspects of modern life is the business of flying Mark Vanhoenacker has written the ideal book on the subject a description of what it's like to fly by a commercial pilot who is also a master prose stylist and a deeply sensitive human being This is a man who is at once a technical expert - he flies 747s across continents - and a poet of the skies This couldn't be more highly recommended' Alain de BottonThink back to when you first flew When you first left the Earth and travelled high and fast above its turning arc When you looked down on a new world captured simply and perfectly through a window fringed with ice When you descended towards a city and arrived from the sky as effortlessly as daybreak In Skyfaring airline pilot and flight romantic Mark Vanhoenacker shares his irrepressible love of flying on a journey from day to night from new ways of mapmaking and the poetry of physics to the names of winds and the nature of clouds Here anew is the simple wonder that remains at the heart of an experience which modern travellers armchair and otherwise all too easily take for granted the transcendent joy of motion and the remarkable new perspectives that height and distance bestow on everything we love A beautiful contemplative book What Skyfaring gives is something we need elevation; another perspective Normally when I find a volume where prose style and subject matter fuse so pleasingly I tear through it in a day Here I found myself pausing on almost every page as I absorbed its detail or phrasing' Nicholas Lezard GuardianA 2015 Book of the Year - The Economist The New York Times GQ and more"
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| "The Trains Now Departed : Sixteen Excursions into the Lost Delights of Britain's Railways" |
| "SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks or explore an old tunnel leading towell who knows where? Listen hard Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment?These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed They are the railway lines and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball Then there are the lost delights of train travel such as haute cuisine in the dining car the grand expresses with their evocative names and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them It is a journey into the soul of our railways summoning up a magic which although mired in time is fortunately not lost for ever THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS"
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| "Star Wars: A New Dawn" |
| "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away The war is over The Separatists have been defeated and the Jedi rebellion has been foiled We stand on the threshold of a new beginning-Emperor Palpatine Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the SithFor a thousand generations the Jedi Knights brought peace and order to the Galactic Republic aided by their connection to the mystical energy field known as the Force But they were betrayed-and the entire galaxy has paid the price It is the Age of the Empire Now Emperor Palpatine once Chancellor of the Republic and secretly a Sith follower of the dark side of the Force has brought his own peace and order to the galaxy Peace through brutal repression and order through increasing control of his subjects' lives But even as the Emperor tightens his iron grip others have begun to question his means and motives And still others whose lives were destroyed by Palpatine's machinations lay scattered about the galaxy like unexploded bombs waiting to go off"
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| "The Passion" |
| "Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man Meanwhile in Venice the city of chance and disguises Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she gambled her heart and lost As the soldier-chef's love for Napoleon turns to hate he finds the Venetian beauty and together they flee to the canals of darkness 'It's a fantasy a vivid dream inventive and brilliant' Guardian'As moving and funny as it is skilful and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life' Sunday Times'A book of great imaginative audacity and assurancebrilliantly physical (and funny) detail Times Literary Supplement'Its concentrated beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic their shrewd wit and brutalitya deeply imagined and beautiful book often arrestingly so' New York Times"
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| "Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis : The Vampire Chronicles 12" |
| "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In my dreams I saw a city fall into the sea I heard the cries of thousands I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven And all the world was shaken At the novel's centre the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt hero leader irresistible force irrepressible spirit battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has taken possession of his undead body and soul This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force history and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe It is through this spirit previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent -- and of how and why this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean And as we learn of the mighty powers of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya the lost realms of Atlantis we come to understand its secrets and how and why the vampire Lestat indeed all the vampires must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless all-powerful Atalantaya spirit"
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| "Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "Heroin&39;s father is the greatest of all storytellers His magical stories bring laughter to the sad city of Alifbay But one day something goes wrong and his father runs out of stories to tell Haroun is determined to return the storyteller&39;s gift to his father So he flies off on the back of the Hoopie bird to the Sea of Stories - and a fantastic adventure begins"
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| "Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Paperback, 1981)" |
| "Published in 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering good-hearted slave Uncle Tom it aimed to show how Christian love can overcome any human cruelty Uncle Tom's Cabin has remained controversial to this day seen as either a vital milestone in the anti-slavery cause or as a patronising stereotype of African-Americans yet it played a crucial role in the eventual abolition of slavery and remains one of the most important American novels ever written"
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| "The Runner's Handbook: The Best-selling Classic Fitness Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Runner by Bob Glover, Jack..." |
| "If you're a runner or would like to be one The Runner's Handbook will answer all your questions Fitness expert Bob Glover-who has trained thousands of runners-shows you how to devise a training program and keep at the top of your form"
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| "Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs by Giles Andreae (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Giles Andreae and Russell Ayto's super-fun Captain Flinn and the Pirate DinosaursFlinn is at school looking in the art cupboard for some coloured pens to finish off his dinosaur drawing when he stumbles upon Captain Stubble a real live Pirate Captain! He tells Flinn that his ship the Acorn has been stolen and that he needs Flinn to help him rescue it back Stubble makes Flinn the captain and they sail away on an old pirate shipthey finally find the Acorn but to their horror realise it's been stolen by PIRATE DINOSAURS! Captain Flinn and his crew attack the dinosaurs and after much fighting seize control of the ship once more Flinn and his friends then sail back to the harbour clambering through the boatshed door and back into the art cupboard without the teacher even noticing they've been gone!Giles Andreae is an award-winning children's author and has written both fiction titles and best-selling picture books His picture book The Lion Who Wanted to Dance won The Federation of Children's Book Award in the best picture book category in 1998 However he is probably most famous as the creator of the phenomenally successful Purple Ronnie Britain's favourite stickman Giles lives in Notting Hill with his wife and three young childrenRussell has illustrated books by prolific children's authors such as Ian Whybrow and Cressida Cowell The Witch's Children was shortlisted for the Greenaway last year and this year The Witch's Children and the Queen is on the Smarties shortlist Russell lives in Penzance CornwallDon't miss the other Captain Flinn picture books - they're all rip-roaring fun!Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Missing Treasure!; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs Smugglers Bay!; Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs The Magic CutlassAnd Giles Andreae's brilliant book with illustrator Korky Paul Sir Scallywag and the Golden Underpants"
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| "Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The new book from Larry Siedentop acclaimed author of Democracy in Europe Inventing the Individual is a highly original rethinking of how our moral beliefs were formed and their impact on western society today'Magisterial timeless beautifully written Siedentop has achieved something quite extraordinary He has explained us to ourselves' SpectatorThis ambitious and stimulating book describes how a moral revolution in the first centuries AD - the discovery of human freedom and its universal potential - led to a social revolution in the west The invention of a new equal social role the individual gradually displaced the claims of family tribe and caste as the basis of social organisation Larry Siedentop asks us to rethink the evolution of the ideas on which modern societies and government are built and argues that the core of what is now our system of beliefs emerged much earlier than we think The roots of liberalism - belief in individual liberty in the fundamental moral equality of individuals that equality should be the basis of a legal system and that only a representative form of government is fitting for such a society - all these Siedentop argues were pioneered by Christian thinkers of the Middle Ages who drew on the moral revolution carried out by the early church It was the arguments of canon lawyers theologians and philosophers from the eleventh to the fourteenth century rather than the Renaissance that laid the foundation for liberal democracyThere are large parts of the world where other beliefs flourish - fundamentalist Islam which denies the equality of women and is often ambiguous about individual rights and representative institutions; quasi-capitalist China where a form of utilitarianism enshrines state interests even at the expense of justice and liberty Such beliefs may foster populist forms of democracy But they are not liberal In the face of these challenges Siedentop urges that understanding the origins of our own liberal ideas is more than ever an important part of knowing who we areLARRY SIEDENTOP was appointed to the first post in intellectual history ever established in Britain at Sussex University in the 1970's From there he moved to Oxford becoming Faculty Lecturer in Political Thought and a Fellow of Keble College His writings include a study of Tocqueville an edition of Guizot's History of Civilization in Europe and Democracy in Europe which has been translated into a dozen languages Siedentop was made CBE in 2004PRAISE FOR THE BOOK'One of the most stimulating books of political theory to have appeared in many years a refreshingly unorthodox account of the roots of modern liberalism in medieval Christian thinking' John Gray Literary Review'A brave brilliant and beautifully written defence of the western tradition' Paul Lay History Today'An engrossing book of ideas illuminating beautifully written and rigorously argued' Kenan Malik Independent'A most impressive work of philosophical history' Robert Skidelsky"
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| "After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John Darwin (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Tamerlane the Ottomans the Mughals the Manchus the British the Soviets the Japanese and the NazisAll built empires they hoped would last forever all were destined to fail But as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book their empire building created the world we know today From the death of Tamerlane in 1405 last of the world conquerors' to the rise and fall of European empires and from America's growing colonial presence to the resurgence of India and China as global economic powers After Tamerlane provides a wonderfully intriguing perspective on the past present and future of empires"
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| "Kurt Cobain: Journals by Kurt Cobain (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries which were found after his death in 1994 Genuinely moving provocative and candid and suprisingly funny pieces of writing which as a whole provide a unique account of the rise and fall of a greatpopular artist and icon"
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| "Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam PhillipsWe all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt us In Missing Out acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips delves into the gap between who we are and who we are not to discover whether not getting what we want may be the unlikely key to the fully lived lifePraise for Adam Phillips'Phillipsian would evoke a vivid paradoxical style that led you to think that you had picked up an idea by the head only to find you were holding it by the tail' Lisa Appignanesi Guardian'He's brilliant' John Carey'Phillips radiates infectious charm' Sunday TimesAdam Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of several previous books all widely acclaimed including On Kissing Tickling and Being Bored Going Sane and Side Effects His most recent book is On Kindness which was co-written with historian Barbara Taylor"
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