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| "Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom: Heroes to the Rescue!" |
| "Join everyone's favourite Little Kingdom characters in an epic superhero adventure!Ben Holly and their friends play a game where they become superheroes and supervillains But Strawberry takes her role as the evil Ice Queen a little too far Can Ben and Holly thaw out the ice-covered Little Kingdom and save the day?"
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| "History of the Russian Revolution" |
| "'The greatest history of an event I know' - CLR JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history This book presents from the perspective of one of its central actors the profound liberating character of the early Russian RevolutionOriginally published in three parts Trotsky's masterpiece is collected here in a single volume It is still the most vital and inspiring record of the Russian Revolution ever published"
Price: 14.49 |
| "The Temple" |
| "A collectible new Penguin Classics series stunning clothbound editions of ten favourite poets which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set these slim A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers On his deathbed George Herbert entrusted the manuscript of The Temple to his friend Nicholas Ferrar asking him to publish it if he thought it was worthy Herbert died in 1633 and the collection was published the same year to great acclaim subsequently becoming one of the best-loved collections in the English language The Temple is an astounding collection of verse poems an extended meditation on man's relationship to God that is characterised by Herbert's clarity and directness of style It includes such favourites as 'The Collar' 'The Pearl' and 'Love' with its beautiful opening lines 'Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back Guilty of dust and sin'"
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| "A Ladybird Buggy Book: Animals" |
| "A first animal words buggy book for babies on the move containing ten stunning original illustrations from the vintage Ladybird archive With the image and the animal name on every page it's perfect first learning for busy babies!Comes with sturdy detachable cloth strap and plastic ring fastener perfect for attaching to buggies and prams when out and about"
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| "Spot Loves His Mum" |
| "Spot loves spending time with his mum They do lots of fun things together all during the course of one special day Spot loves Mum and Mum loves Spot!"
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| "The Rough Guide to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland" |
| "Discover South Africa Lesotho and Swaziland with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market Whether you plan to safari in Kruger National Park savour the fine wines of the Western Cape or explore the village where Nelson Mandela grew up The Rough Guide to South Africa Lesotho & Swaziland will show you ideal places to sleep eat drink and shop along the wayInside The Rough Guide to South Africa Lesotho & Swaziland- Independent trusted reviews written in Rough Guides&39; trademark blend of humour honesty and insight to help you get the most out of your visit with options to suit every budget Full-colour maps throughout - navigate Johannesburg&39;s downtown shopping streets or the beachfront of Port Elizabeth without needing to get onlineDetailed regional coverage - whether off the beaten track or in more mainstream tourist destinations this travel guide has in-depth practical advice for every step of the way Areas covered include Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula; The Western Cape; The Northern Cape; The Eastern Cape; the Garden Route; KwaZulu-Natal; Durban; Free State; Gauteng; Johannesburg; North West Province; Mpumalanga; Limpopo; Lesotho; Swaziland Attractions include Table Mountain; Robben Island; Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden; Stellenbosch; the Wild Coast; Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park; the Drakensberg mountains; Joburg&39;s Apartheid Museum; Blyde River Canyon; Kruger National Park Stunning inspirational images Itineraries - carefully planned routes to help you organize your tripBasics - essential pre-departure practical information including getting there local transport accommodation food and drink health the media festivals sports and outdoor activities crime and personal safety and more Background information - a Contexts chapter devoted to history music and books plus a handy language section and glossary Make the Most of Your Time on Earth with the Rough Guide to South Africa Lesotho & Swaziland"
Price: 12.99 |
| "The Rough Guide to Spain" |
| "Discover Spain with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market Whether you plan on exploring Andalucia&39;s White Towns sampling the legendary nightlife of Madrid or hiking in the Picos de Euuropa this new edition of The Rough Guide to Spain will show you the ideal places to sleep eat drink shop and visit along the wayInside The Rough Guide to Spain- Independent trusted reviews written with Rough Guides&39; trademark blend of humour honesty and insight to help you get the most out of your visit Full-colour maps throughout - navigate the backstreets of Barcelona or Granada&39;s Albaicin without needing to get online Stunning inspirational images - a rich collection of inspiring colour photography Things not to miss - Rough Guides&39; rundown of Spain&39;s best sights and experiences Itineraries - carefully planned routes to help you organize your trip Detailed city coverage - whether visiting the big sights or venturing off the tourist trail this travel guide has in-depth practical advice for every step of the way Areas covered include Madrid Segovia Toledo Castilla-La Mancha Extremadura Andalucia Castilla y Leon La Rioja the Pais Vasco Navarra Cantabria Asturias Galicia Aragon Barcelona Catalunya Valencia Murcia and the Balearics Attractions include Museo del Prado Reina Sofia El Escorial Merida the Alhambra La Mezquita Parque Nacional Coto de Donana Univeridad de Salamanca Burgos Cathedral Museo Guggenheim Santiago de Compostela&39;s cathedralSagrada Familia Fundacio Joan Miro Teatre-Museu Dali La Ciudad de las Artes y Ciencias and the Palma Cathedral Basics - essential pre-departure practical information including getting there local transport festivals culture and etiquette; sports and outdoor activities tourist information and moreBackground information - a Contexts chapter devoted to history wildlife flamenco and books and with a handy language section covering Castilian (Spanish) Catalan Basque and GalicianMake the Most of Your Time on Earth with The Rough Guide to Spain About Rough Guides Escape the everyday with Rough Guides We are a leading travel publisher known for our "tell it like it is" attitude up-to-date content and great writing Since 1982 we&39;ve published books covering more than 120 destinations around the globe with an ever-growing series of ebooks a range of beautiful inspirational reference titles and an award-winning website We pride ourselves on our accurate honest and informed travel guides"
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| "Ice (Penguin Modern Classics) Paperback" |
| "No one knows why the ice has come and no one can stop it Every day it creeps further across the earth covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path Through this bleached devastated world one man pursues the sylph-like silver-haired girl he loves as she keeps running - away from her husband; away from the sinister &39;warden&39; who seeks to control her; away from him &39;A raw brutal tale set in a frozen post-nuclear dystopia addictive and extremely entertaining&39; Guardian&39;There is nothing else quite like Ice&39; Doris Lessing&39;She is De Quincey&39;s heir and Kafka&39;s sister&39; Brian Aldiss"
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| "Lady Chatterley's Lover" |
| "'Connie was aware however of a growing restlessnessIt thrilled inside her body in her womb somewhere till she felt she must jump into water and swim to get away from it; a mad restlessness It made her heart beat violently for no reason'Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who is impotent Oppressed by her dreary life she is drawn to Mellors the gamekeeper Breaking out against the constraints of society she yields to her instinctive desire for him and discovers the transforming power of physical love which leads them both towards fulfilmentBanned for many years for its frank depiction of sex Lady Chatterley's Lover was first published by Penguin in 1960 and was at the centre of a sensational obscenity trial at the Old Bailey D H Lawrence himself called it 'the most improper novel in the world'"
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| "Wide Sargasso Sea" |
| "Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea inspired by Jane Eyre and winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range'There is no looking glass here and I don't know what I am like now Now they have taken everything away What am I doing in this place and who am I?'If Antoinette Cosway a spirited Creole heiress could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her she would not have married the young Englishman Initially drawn to her beauty and sensuality he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madnessSet against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica Jean Rhys's powerful haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester the mad wife in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre'Compelling painful and exquisite' Guardian'Brilliant A tale of dislocation and dispossession which Rhys writes with a kind of romantic cynicism desperate and pungent' The Times'Rhys turns a menacing cipher into a grieving plausible young woman and one whose story says whole worlds about global mixtures about the misunderstandings between the colonized the colonizers and the people who can't easily say which they are' TimeJean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1890 the daughter of a Welsh doctor and a white Creole mother and came to England when she was sixteen Her first book a collection of stories called The Left Bank was published in 1927 This was followed by Quartet (originally Postures 1928) After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930) Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Good Morning Midnight (1939) None of these books was particularly successful and with the outbreak of war they went out of print Jean Rhys dropped from sight until nearly twenty years later she was discovered living reclusively in Cornwall During those years she had accumulated the stories collected in Tigers are Better-Looking In 1966 she made a sensational reappearance with Wide Sargasso Sea which won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the W H Smith Award Her final collection of stories Sleep It Off Lady appeared in 1976 and Smile Please her unfinished autobiography was published posthumously in 1979 Jean Rhys died in 1979"
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| "The Secret Crusade : Assassin's Creed Book 3" |
| "Assassin's Creed The Secret Crusade is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game seriesNiccolo Polo father of Marco will finally reveal the story he has kept secret all his life - the story of Altair one of the brotherhood's most extraordinary Assassins Altair embarks on a formidable mission - one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed To demonstrate his commitment Altair must defeat nine deadly enemies including Templar leader Robert de Sable Altair's life story is told here for the first time a journey that will change the course of history; his ongoing battle with the Templar conspiracy; a family life that is as tragic as it is shocking; and the ultimate betrayal of an old friendAssassin's Creed The Secret Crusade is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist"
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| "The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "'There should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation'In this tale drawn from the note books of Dr Watson the deadly hand of Professor Moriarty once more reaches out to commit a vile and ingenious crime However a mole in Moriarty's frightening criminal organization alerts Sherlock Holmes of the evil deed by means of a cipher When Holmes and Watson arrive at a Sussex manor house they appear to be too late The discovery of a body suggests that Moriarty's henchmen have been at their work But there is much more to this tale of murder than at first meets the eye and Sherlock Holmes is determined to get to the bottom of it"
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| "Idoru by William Gibson (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Idoru - a gripping techno-thriller by William Gibson bestselling author of Neuromancer'Fast witty and cleverly politicized' GuardianTokyo post-eventAfter an attack of scruples Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan - avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way - and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo LoRez Rez has announced he's going to marry an 'idoru' by the name of Rei Toi - she exists only in virtual reality - and this creates complications that Laney a net runner is supposed to sort out But when Chai part of LoRez's fan club turns up unaware that she's carrying illegal nanoware for the Russian Kombinat Laney's scruples nudge him towards trouble all over again And this time lawyers'll be the least of his worries William Gibson is a prophet and a satirist a black comedian and an outstanding architect of cool Readers of Neal Stephenson Ray Bradbury and Iain M Banks will love this book Idoru is the second novel in the Bridge trilogy - read Virtual Light and All Tomorrow's Parties for more'Sharp fast bright a must' Arena'A classic technothriller lean evocative tense' Wired'Luxuriate in prose simultaneously as hard and laconic as Elmore Leonard's and as glacially poetic as JG Ballard's an exhilarating ride' New StatesmanWilliam Gibson's first novel Neuromancer has sold more than six million copies worldwide In an earlier story he had invented the term 'cyberspace'; a concept he developed in the novel creating an iconography for the Information Age long before the invention of the Internet The book won three major literary prizes He has since written nine further novels including Count Zero; Mona Lisa Overdrive; The Difference Engine; Virtual Light; Idoru; All Tomorrow's Parties; Pattern Recognition; Spook Country and most recently Zero History He is also the author of Distrust That Particular Flavor a collection of non-fiction writing"
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| Submarine |
| "Meet Oliver Tate 15 Convinced that his father is depressed (Depression comes in bouts Like boxing Dad is in the blue corner) and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher a hippy-looking twonk he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together Meanwhile he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out"
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| "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie" |
| "Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie features a schoolmistress you'll never forget in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition'Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life 'Passionate free-thinking and unconventional Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School They are the Brodie set the creme de la creme each famous for something - Monica for mathematics Eunice for swimming Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games and extracurricular activities they will never forget But the price they pay is their undivided loyalty The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a brilliantly comic novel featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in all literature'Muriel Spark's novels linger in the mind as brilliant shards' John Updike'Spark's most celebrated novel' Independent'There is no question about the quality and distinctiveness of her writing with its quirky concern with human nature and its comedy' William Boyd'A brilliant psychological figure' ObserverMuriel Spark was born and educated in Edinburgh She was active in the field of creative writing since 1950 when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer and her many subsequent novels include Memento Mori (1959) The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) The Girls of Slender Means (1963) and Aiding and Abetting (2000) She also wrote plays poems children's books and biographies She became Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1993 and died in 2006"
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| "Who Owns The Future?" |
| "As you read this thousands of remote computers are refining secret models of who you are using the information to make huge fortunes for a few people Does the future have to be this way? How can we change it? In this visionary book Jaron Lanier imagines an alternative where economic power is given back to creators Drawing on sources ranging from ancient philosophy to the latest technology he proposes a radical system that truly rewards endeavour - whether it's in the media or manufacturing - and ultimately preserves human dignity"
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| "Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?' : A Confrontation in the Desert" |
| "Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert is volume two of Spike Milligan's outrageous hilarious legendary War Memoirs'Keep talking Milligan I think I can get you out on Mental Grounds''That's how I got in sir''Didn't we all'The second volume of Spike Milligan's legendary recollections of life as a gunner in World War Two sees our hero into battle in North Africa - eventually First there is important preparation to be done extensive periods of loitering ('We had been standing by vehicles for an hour and nothing had happened but it happened frequently') psychological toughening ('If a man dies when you hang him keep hanging him until he gets used to it') and living dangerously ('no underwear!') At last the battle for Tunis is upon them'Desperately funny vivid vulgar' Sunday Times 'Milligan is the Great God to all of us' John Cleese 'The Godfather of Alternative Comedy' Eddie Izzard 'That absolutely glorious way of looking at things differently A great man' Stephen Fry Spike Milligan was one of the greatest and most influential comedians of the twentieth century Born in India in 1918 he served in the Royal Artillery during WWII in North Africa and Italy At the end of the war he forged a career as a jazz musician sketch-show writer and performer before joining forces with Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe to form the legendary Goon Show Until his death in 2002 he had success as on stage and screen and as the author of over eighty books of fiction memoir poetry plays cartoons and children's stories"
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| "Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "'Effortlessly hilarious Brilliant satire and tragedy' The TimesCelebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of THE EIGHTH and FINAL BOOK in his diaries as Adrian continues to struggle with his love life endures a painfully awkward school play and contemplates the unsettling prospect of applying genital poultice--------------------------- Sunday 1st July NO SMOKING DAY A momentous day! Smoking in a public place or place of work is forbidden in England Though if you a lunatic a prisoner an MP or a member of the Royal Family you are exempt Adrian Mole is thirty-nine and a quarter He lives in the country in a semi-detached converted pigsty with his wife Daisy and their daughter His parents George and Pauline live in the adjoining pigsty But all is not well The secondhand bookshop in which Adrian works is threatened with closure The spark has fizzled out of his marriage His mother is threatening to write her autobiography (A Girl Called Shit) And Adrian's nightly trips to the lavatory have become alarmingly frequent 'A tour de force by a comic genius and if it isn't the best book published this year I'll eat my bookshelf' Daily Mail Books of the Year 'Hilarious Comic gold' Sunday Times 'The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran"
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| "The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Paperback/softback, 2013)" |
| "A beautiful new edition of F Scott Fitzgerald&39;s classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann&39;s film&39;There was music from my neighbour&39;s house through the summer nights In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars&39;Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby&39;s mansion in West Egg east of New York The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden coolly debating Gatsby&39;s origins and mysterious past None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that &39;he killed a man&39; A detached onlooker Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates but always seems to be watching and waiting though no one knows what forAs writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit Gatsby&39;s destructive dreams and passions are revealed leading to disturbing and tragic consequences&39;Not only a page turner and heartbreaker it&39;s one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written&39; TimeF Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul Minnesota in 1896 He studied at Princeton University before joining the army in 1917 In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre Their traumatic relationship and subsequent breakdowns became a major influence on his writing Among his publications were five novels This Side of Paradise The Great Gatsby The Beautiful and the Damned Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up a selection of autobiographical pieces F Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940"
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| "The Separation by Dinah Jefferies (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE The Separation Dinah Jefferies' stunning debut novel is the heartbreaking tale of a family fractured by lies and one mother's love reaching across the distance of years and continentsA country at war with itselfa family divided and betrayeda bond that can never be brokenMalaya 1955 Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house The servants are gone The phone is dead Where is her husband Alec? Her young daughters Emma and Fleur? Fearful and desperate she contacts the British District Officer and learns that Alec has been posted up country But why didn't he wait? Why did he leave no message? Lydia's search takes her on a hazardous journey through war-torn jungle Forced to turn to Jack Harding a man she'd vowed to leave in her past she sacrifices everything to be reunited with her familyAnd while carrying her own secrets Lydia will soon face a devastating betrayal which may be more than she can bear"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Number 11" |
| "This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us allIt's about the legacy of war and the end of innocenceIt's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have wonIt's about how 140 characters can make fools of us allIt's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the streetIt is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best -- showing us how we live now'Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times' Observer"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Our Kind of Traitor" |
| "In John le Carre's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial worldBritain is in the depths of recession A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch He also has a tattoo on his right thumb and wants a game of tennisWhat else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment'If you want to know about the state of Britain today forget the Booker shortlist Just read John le Carre's latest thriller' Evening Standard'Few recent plays have had dialogue as good and few recent literary novels can boast a set of characters so vividly imagined Our Kind of Traitor is a teasing beguiling masterly performance' Sunday Times"
Price: 7.99 |
| Slam |
| "'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up'Sam is sixteen and a skater Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings skating skateboarding There's no ice Life is ticking along nicely for Sam his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend he's thinking about college and he's met someone AliciaThen a little accident happens One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life Sam can't run (let alone skate) away from this one He's a boy facing a man's problems and the question is - has he got what it takes to confront them?"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Circle" |
| "When Mae is hired to work for the Circle the world's most powerful internet company she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime Run out of a sprawling California campus the Circle links users' personal emails social media and finances with their universal operating system resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Path : A New Way to Think About Everything" |
| "The Sunday Times Top 10 and International Bestseller Ancient Chinese philosophy for modern life from Harvard's most popular professor The first book of its kind The Path offers a profound guide to living well through making small changes to our everyday routines Covering subjects from decision-making to relationships it shows how actions from greeting others and playing with children to running meetings can be opportunities to become happier and more productive The authors show that we live well not by finding ourselves and slavishly following a grand plan as so much of Western thought would have us believe but rather through a path of self-cultivation and engagement with the world Believing in a true self only restricts what we can become - and tiny changes from how we think about careers to how we talk to our family can start to have powerful effects that will open up constellations of new possibilitiesProfessor Michael Puett's course in Chinese philosophy has taken Harvard by storm In The Path he and journalist Christine Gross-Loh make this timeless wisdom accessible to everyone for the first time"
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| "A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century" |
| "The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry glittering cathedrals and grand castles It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony a world of chaos and the plagueHere Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the age examining the great rhythms of history and the grain and texture of domestic life as it was lived what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money taxes and war dominated the lives of serf noble and clergy alikeGranting her subjects their loyalties treacheries and guilty passions Tuchman recreates the lives of proud cardinals university scholars grocers and clerks saints and mystics lawyers and mercenaries and above all knights The result is an astonishing reflection of medieval Europe a historical tour de force"
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| "At the Edge : Riding for My Life" |
| "I checked my balance and peered apprehensively at the sheer drop below Once I felt comfortable I radioed down to Stu &39;I&39;m just gonna unclip quickly&39; I said My walkie-talkie crackled straight away Stu sounded pretty stressed &39;Dude keep the rope on!&39;I edged forward my hands and feet scoping out the summit for any loose rock The ridge pinnacle was still only a meter wide if that but I felt pretty stable &39;This bit&39;s fine&39; I said &39;The rope makes it harder for me&39;Danny MacAskill lives on the edge The cyclist is legendary for his YouTube viral videos like The Ridge Cascadia and Imaginate nerve-racking montages of stunts which scale everything from mountain peaks rooftops ghost towns and movie sets His life is one of thrills bloody spills and millions of online hits It hasn&39;t been an easy ride Doubt stress and the &39;what if?&39; factor circle every trailblazing trick which require imagination fearlessness groundbreaking techniques and an eye for a good camera angle He has spent his life pushing the extremes; somehow he&39;s still around to tell the tale In this unflinching memoir of mayhem Danny shares his anarchic childhood on the Isle of Skye and early days as a street trials rider takes us behind the scenes of his training and videos shares never-seen-before sketches from his personal notebook and reveals what it takes to go the next level - both mentally and physically Join Danny for a nerve-shredding ride Just be sure to bring a crash helmet"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Colm TóibÃn Brooklyn" |
| "It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey as for so many young Irish girls opportunities are scarce So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York Eilis knows she must go leaving behind her family and her home for the first time Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed She is far from home - and homesick And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship and perhaps something more Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Before the Rains" |
| "A romantic heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author1930 Rajputana India Since her husband's death 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza's only companion has been her camera When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family she's determined to make a name for herselfBut when Eliza arrives at the palace she meets Jay the Prince's handsome brooding brother While Eliza awakens Jay to the poverty of his people he awakens her to the injustices of British rule Soon Jay and Eliza find they have more in common than they think But their families - and society - think otherwise Eventually they will have to make a choice between doing what's expected or following their hearts"
Price: 7.99 |
| "A Kestrel for a Knave" |
| "The classic book that inspired Kes the famous film now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968 and was made into one of the key British films of the sixties Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother ignored by his mother and failing at school He seems destined for a hard miserable life down the pits but for a brief time he finds one pleasure in life a wild kestrel that he has raised and tamed himself"
Price: 6.49 |
