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| "The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr" |
| "2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Dr King&39;s deathCompiled from his own words this history-making autobiography IS Martin Luther King the mild-mannered inquisitive child and student who rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who constantly questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom; the loving husband and father who sought to balance his family&39;s needs with those of a growing nationwide movement; and the reflective world-famous leader who was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere Relevant and insightful this Autobiography offers King&39;s seldom discussed views on some of the world&39;s greatest and most controversial figures including John F Kennedy Malcolm X Mahatma Gandhi and Richard Nixon This book brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues and still inspire our desires hopes and dreams"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference" |
| "'A wonderful page-turner about a fascinating idea that should affect the way every thinking person thinks about the world around him' Michael LewisIn this brilliant and original book Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point' that magic moment when ideas trends and social behaviour cross a threshold tip and spread like wildfire Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause rapid change"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Never Had it So Good : A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles" |
| "In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and decline between 1956 and 1963 Arguing that historians have until now been besotted by the supposed cultural revolution of the Sixties Sandbrook re-examines the myths of this controversial period and paints a more complicated picture of a society caught between conservatism and change He explores the growth of a modern consumer society the impact of immigration the invention of modern pop music and the British retreat from empire He tells the story of the colourful characters of the period like Harold Macmillan Kingsley Amis and Paul McCartney and brings to life the experience of the first post-imperial generation from the Notting Hill riots to the first Beatles hits from the Profumo scandal to the cult of James Bond In this strikingly impressive debut he combines academic verve and insight with colourful dramatic writing to produce a classic ground-breaking work that will change forever how we think about the Sixties"
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| "Attention All Shipping : A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast" |
| "This solemn rhythmic intonation of the shipping forecast on BBC radio is as familiar as the sound of Big Ben chiming the hour Since its first broadcast in the 1920s it has inspired poems songs and novels in addition to its intended objective of warning generations of seafarers of impending storms and galesSitting at home listening to the shipping forecast can be a cosily reassuring experience There's no danger of a westerly gale eight veering southwesterly increasing nine later (visibility poor) gusting through your average suburban living room blowing the Sunday papers all over the place and startling the catYet familiar though the sea areas are by name few people give much thought to where they are or what they contain In ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING Charlie Connelly wittily explores the places behind the voice those mysterious regions whose names seem often to bear no relation to conventional geography Armchair travel will never be the same again"
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| "Persian Fire : The First World Empire, Battle for the West" |
| "In 480 BC Xerxes the King of Persia led an invasion of mainland Greece Its success should have been a formality For seventy years victory - rapid spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire In the space of a single generation they had swept across the Near East shattering ancient kingdoms storming famous cities putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean As a result of those conquests Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet Yet somehow astonishingly against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out The Persians were turned back Greece remained free Had the Greeks been defeated at Salamis not only would the West have lost its first struggle for independence and survival but it is unlikely that there would ever have been such and entity as the West at allTom Holland's brilliant new book describes the very first 'clash of Empires' between East and West Once again he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own There is no competing popular book describing these events"
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| Shantaram |
| "A novel of high adventure great storytelling and moral purpose based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld'In the early 80s Gregory David Roberts an armed robber and heroin addict escaped from an Australian prison to India where he lived in a Bombay slum There he established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia working as a money launderer forger and street soldier He found time to learn Hindi and Marathi fall in love and spend time being worked over in an Indian jail Then in case anyone thought he was slacking he acted in Bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan Amazingly Roberts wrote Shantaram three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions It's a profound tribute to his willpower At once a high-kicking eye-gouging adventure a love saga and a savage yet tenderly lyrical fugitive vision' Time Out"
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| "This is Paradise! : My North Korean Childhood" |
| "Hyok Kang was eighteen when he escaped from North Korea a country locked away from the outside world This personal illustrated account of school days in a rigidly communist institution and everyday life with his family and community provides a rare glimpse of this secretive nation His shocking and moving portrayal bears witness to this spirited young boy's resilience and survival in a society forced to operate under the shadow of labour camps public executions and the deception of UN representatives by Korean officials When the famine comes so too does death by starvation of friends and close ones and Hyok Kang watches as his classmates drop out of school one by one too weak to attend All this is normal After all the propaganda North Koreans are fed by their government insists that compared to the rest of the world this is paradise! Hyok Kang's childhood and courageous escape through China Vietnam and Cambodia to South Korea is a remarkable story that goes to the heart of a nation living under a disturbing delusion of 'paradise'"
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| Naked |
| "A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the company of lunatics At this soulful and moving moment he brushes cigarette ashes from his pubic hair and wonders what it all meansThis remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self-effacement and a lifelong search for identity leaving himself both under suspicion and over dressed"
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| "The Undercover Economist" |
| "Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station? Why is it impossible to get a foot on the property ladder? How does the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don't? Who really benefits from immigration? How can China in just fifty years go from the world's worst famine to one of the greatest economic revolutions of all time lifting a million people out of poverty a month?Looking at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges Leaving behind textbook jargon and equations Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals and negotiations contests of strength and battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make"
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| "Crusoe's Daughter" |
| "In 1904 when she was six Polly Flint went to live with her two holy aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it seemed to toss like a ship so isolated that she might have been marooned on an island And there she stayed for eighty-one years while the century raged around her while lamplight and Victorian order became chaos and nuclear dred Crusoe's Daughter ambitious moving and wholly original is her story"
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| "Bit of a Blur : The Autobiography" |
| "I was the Fool-king of Soho and the number-one slag in the Groucho Club the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band This was no disaster though It was a dream coming true'For Alex James music had always been a door to a more eventful life But as bass player of Blur - one of the most successful British bands of all time - his journey was more exciting and extreme than he could ever have predicted In Bit of a Blur he chronicles his journey from a slug-infested flat in Camberwell to a world of screaming fans and private jets - and his eventual search to find meaning and happiness (and perhaps most importantly the perfect cheese) in an increasingly surreal world"
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| "Cold Steel : Lakshmi Mittal and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire" |
| "When the world's two largest steel producers went head to head in a bitter struggle for market domination an epic corporate battle ensued that sent shockwaves through the political corridors of Europe overheated the world's financial markets and transformed the steel industry Billions of dollars were at stakeAt the heart of the battle were two men Guy Dolle Chairman and CEO of Luxembourg-based Arcelor the world's largest steel producer by turnover and Lakshmi Mittal a self-made Indian industrialist and the richest man in Great Britain Only one could prevail"
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| "Infinite Jest" |
| "Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss 'Wallace's exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight and he has deep things to say about the hollowness of contemporary American pleasure sentences and whole pages are marvels of cosmic concentration Wallace is a superb comedian of culture' James Wood GUARDIAN"
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| "In The Shadow Of The Sword : The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World" |
| "In the 6th century AD the Near East was divided between two great empires the Persian and the Roman A hundred years on and one had vanished for ever while the other was a dismembered bleeding trunk In their place a new superpower had arisen the empire of the Arabs So profound was this upheaval that it spelled in effect the end of the ancient worldBut the changes that marked the period were more than merely political or even cultural there was also a transformation of human society with incalculable consequences for the future Today over half the world's population subscribes to one of the various religions that took on something like their final form during the last centuries of antiquity Wherever men or women are inspired by belief in a single god to think or behave in a certain way they bear witness to the abiding impact of this extraordinary convulsive age - though as Tom Holland demonstrates much of what Jews Christians and Muslims believe about the origins of their religion is open to debateIn the Shadow of the Sword explores how a succession of great empires came to identify themselves with a new and revolutionary understanding of the divine It is a story vivid with drama horror and startling achievement and stars many of the most remarkable rulers ever seen"
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| "The Brontes" |
| "The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone we all know about the half-mad repressive father the drunken drug-addicted wastrel of a brother wild romantic Emily unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte' Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes It demolishes myths yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family'As a work of scholarship it is briliant For those with a passion for the Brontes or for Victoriana or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae it is a stupendous read' INDPENDENT ON SUNDAY"
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| "The Forgotten Highlander : My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East" |
| "Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship He was taken to Japan and then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away This is the extraordinary story of a young men conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran survived not just one but three close encounters with death - encounters which killed nearly all his comrades"
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| "The Whisperer (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Six severed arms are discovered buried in a forest clearing They are arranged in a mysterious circle and appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of eight and thirteen But the rest of the bodies are nowhere to be foundCriminologist Goran Gavila is given the case A dishevelled instinctively rebellious man he is forced to work with young female police officer Mila Vasquez Lithe boyish answering to no one Mila has a reputation as a specialist in missing children She also has a tragic history of her own that has left her damaged unable to feel or to relate to othersTheirs is a fiery but strangely affecting working relationship - and as they uncover more secrets about the dark secrets in the forest their lives are increasingly in each other&39;s handsA gripping literary thriller that has taken Italy by storm The Whisperer has been as sensational a bestseller in Europe as the Stieg Larsson novels It is that rare creation a thought-provoking intelligent literary novel that is also utterly unputdownable"
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| "The Devotion Of Suspect X" |
| "Yasuko lives a quiet life working in a Tokyo bento shop a good mother to her only child But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day her comfortable world is shatteredWhen Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated Nothing quite makes sense and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crimeOne of the biggest-selling Japanese thrillers ever and the inspiration for a cult film The Devotion of Suspect X is now being discovered across the world Its blend of a page-turning story evocative Tokyo setting and utterly surprising ending make it a must-read for anyone interested in international fiction"
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| "Dynasty : The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar" |
| "Rome was first ruled by kings then became a republic But in the end after conquering the world the Republic collapsed Rome was drowned in blood So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace 'Augustus' their new master called himself 'The Divinely Favoured One'The lurid glamour of the dynasty founded by Augustus has never faded No other family can compare for sheer unsettling fascination with its gallery of leading characters Tiberius the great general who ended up a bitter recluse notorious for his perversions; Caligula the master of cruelty and humiliation who rode his chariot across the sea; Agrippina the mother of Nero manoeuvering to bring to power the son who would end up having her murdered; Nero himself racing in the Olympics marrying a eunuch and building a pleasure palace over the fire-gutted centre of his capitalNow in the sequel to Rubicon Tom Holland gives a dazzling portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty Dynasty traces the full astonishing story of its rule of the world both the brilliance of its allure and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes Ranging from the great capital rebuilt in marble by Augustus to the dank and barbarian-haunted forests of Germany it is populated by a spectacular cast murderers and metrosexuals adulterers and druids scheming grandmothers and reluctant gladiators Dynasty is the portrait of a family that transformed and stupefied Rome"
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| "Polly and the Puffin: The Stormy Day : Book 2" |
| "Polly and Neil are back in the second gorgeous children's book from Sunday Times bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan Perfect for reading aloud and including fun activities based on the storyThe boat masts jangled louder and louder Above their heads black clouds gathered Polly shivered and then the rain started to fall plop plop plopPolly is waiting for something important to happen But waiting is hard It's even harder when it's raining and you can't go outsideCan Polly find enough to do to keep busy ALL day? And what will happen when her puffin friend Neil decides to fly off into the storm?Perfect for bedtime stories and early readers From the author of The Little Beach Street BakeryContains recipes activities and rhymes in addition to the story"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Frankie's Magic Football: Team T. Rex : Book 14" |
| "Frankie and his team love playing football There&39;s always time for a game And now that they have their magical football they&39;re playing against teams they never imagined!While on holiday at a summer camp Frankie Charlie Louise and Max the dog are transported to a prehistoric land of dinosaurs Can they reunite a baby pterodactyl with its mum and avoid being eaten by a hungry T-Rex? The friends will need to use all their football skills to get home in one piece!"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Frankie's Magic Football: Deep Sea Dive : Book 15" |
| "Frankie and his team love playing football There's always time for a game And now that they have their magical football they're playing against teams they never imagined! During a visit to a holiday park Frankie and his friends discover a theme park with a difference - each ride is a portal into an amazing fantasy world This time the magic football takes them all on an underwater adventure that asks Max to swim his best doggy paddle and makes playing football a game against the tide!"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The Land of Stories: The Mother Goose Diaries" |
| "From New York Times bestselling author Chris Colfer comes a new book about a beloved character Mother Goose Mother Goose's diary entries over the last five hundred years take readers on a journey to learn buried secrets A must-have for new and old fans alike"
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| "Everything I Never Told You" |
| "Amazoncom's no 1 Book of the Year 2014'No wonder it beat Hilary Mantel and Stephen King to win Amazon's book of the year' Stylist Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker in James's case that Lydia be popular at school a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio Her father is an American born of first-generation Chinese immigrants and his ethnicity and hers make them conspicuous in any setting When Lydia's body is found in the local lake James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage Marilyn devastated and vengeful is determined to make someone accountable no matter what the cost Lydia's older brother Nathan is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened And if you loved Everything I Never Told You don't miss Celeste Ng's second novel Little Fires Eveywhere now available"
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| "Nobody Told Me : Poetry and Parenthood" |
| "Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2016There were many things that Hollie McNish didn't know before she was pregnant How her family and friends would react; that Mr Whippy would be off the menu; how quickly ice can melt on a stomach These were on top of the many other things she didn't know about babies how to stand while holding one; how to do a poetry gig with your baby as a member of the audience; how drum'n'bass can make a great lullaby And that's before you even start on toddlers how to answer a question like 'is the world a jigsaw?'; dealing with a ten-hour train ride together; and how children can be caregivers tooBut Hollie learnedAnd she's still learning slowly Nobody Told Me is a collection of poems and stories taken from Hollie's diaries; one person's thoughts on raising a child in modern Britain of trying to become a parent in modern Britain of sex commercialism feeding gender and of finding secret places to scream once in a while"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Journey Under the Midnight Sun" |
| "A twenty-year-old murder A chain of unsolvable mysteries Can one detective solve this epic riddle?When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973 unflappable detective Sasagaki is assigned to the case He begins to piece together the connection of two young people who are inextricably linked to the crime; the dark taciturn son of the victim and the unexpectedly captivating daughter of the main suspect Over the next twenty years we follow their lives as Sasagaki pursues the case - which remains unsolved - to the point of obsession Stark intriguing and stylish Journey Under the Midnight Sun is an epic mystery by the bestselling Japanese author of The Devotion of Suspect X"
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| "Salvation of a Saint" |
| "When a man is discovered dead by poisoning in his empty home his beautiful wife Ayane immediately falls under suspicion All clues point to Ayane being the logical suspect but how could she have committed the crime when she was hundreds of miles away?As Tokyo police detective Kusanagi tries to unpick a seemingly unrelated sequence of events he finds himself falling for Ayane When his judgement becomes dangerously clouded his assistant must call on an old friend for help; it will take a genius to unravel the most spectacular web of deceit they have ever facedSALVATION OF A SAINT is a magnificently complex and page-turning thriller starring international crime fiction's most enigmatic sleuthThis is essential reading for all fans of exceptional crime fiction"
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| "The Wasp Factory" |
| "'Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda more or less on a whim That's my score to date Three I haven't killed anybody for years and don't intend to ever again It was just a stage I was going through' Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of Frank just sixteen and unconventional to say the least"
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| "Espedair Street" |
| "Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star Maybe still is At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever (however long that turns out to be) Daniel Weir has gone from rags to riches and back and managed to hold onto them both though not much else His friends all seem to be dead fed up with him or just disgusted - and who can blame them? And now Daniel Weir is all alone As he contemplates his life Daniel realises he only has two problems the past and the future He knows how bad the past has been But the future - well the future is something else"
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| "The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon" |
| "As Botswana awaits the familiar blessing of the rains and the resumption of the eternal cycle seismic upheaval is taking place at the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Not only is Mr J L B Matekoni attempting to reform himself into a modern husband but after her marriage to Phuti Radiphuti Mma Ramotswe's challenging but irreplaceable associate Mma Makutsi has joyful newsWith the arrival of an heir to the Double Comfort furniture empire and Mma Makutsi busy with motherhood Mma Ramotswe must tackle tea-making and detective work alone Well-known troublemaker Violet Sephotho may or not be behind a smear campaign against the Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon and a dispute over the will of a local dignitary points to a shocking family secret But the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is resilient and adaptable and change brings salutary lessons that our enemies are not always obvious that a snake under the bed may be an ally and that a mother's love conquers all"
Price: 6.49 |
