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| "Light In August by William Faulkner (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "A landmark in American fiction Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme the nature of evil Joe Christmas - a man doomed deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity and a place in society After killing his perverted God-fearing lover it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob Yet after the sacrifice there is new life a determined ray of light in Faulkner's complex and tragic world"
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| "Our Man In Havana : An Introduction by Christopher Hitchens" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSWormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports But when his fake reports start coming true things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place"
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| "The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "In 1787 the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia An epic description of the brutal transportation of men women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia The Fatal Shore is the prize-winning scholarly brilliantly entertaining narrative that has given its true history to Australia"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Waiting For The Barbarians" |
| "For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire whose servant he is But when the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison branded as an enemy of the state Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency"
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| "In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako the closest of her colleagues For reasons of her own Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body The body parts are discovered the police start asking questions but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret and has a business proposition and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable"
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| "Island by Aldous Huxley (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation Its inhabitants live in a society where western science has been brought together with Eastern philosophy to create a paradise on earth When cynical journalist Will Farnaby arrives to research potential oil reserves on Pala he quickly falls in love with the way of life on the island Soon the need to complete his mission becomes an intolerable burden and he must make a difficult choice In counterpoint to Brave New World and Ape and Essence in Island Huxley gives us his vision of utopia WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION BY DAVID BRADSHAW"
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| "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"
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| "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"
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| "Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" |
| "First a horse in Brisbane falls ill fever swelling bloody froth Then thirteen others drop dead The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies What is going on?As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic In a journey that takes him from southern China to the Congo from Bangladesh to Australia David Quammen tracks these infections to their source and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth"
Price: 10.49 |
| "England, England" |
| "Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight Grotesque visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that He constructs on the island 'The Project' a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English' from Big Ben to Stonehenge from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover The project is monstrous risky and vastly successful In fact it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it One of Barnes's finest and funniest novels England England calls into question the idea of replicas truth vs fiction reality vs art nationhood myth-making and self-exploration"
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| "Hannibal: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Seven years have passed since Dr Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody Seven years since FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane The doctor is still at large but Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr Lecter and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still sounds in her dreams 'Quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller' Mirror'Addictive on every level' Express'Better than Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs' Stephen King"
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| "Friends In High Places: (Brunetti 9) by Donna Leon (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier his first reaction like any other Venetian is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department But when the bureaucrat rings Brunetti at work clearly scared and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding something is obviously going on that has implications greater than the fate of Brunetti's apartment"
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| "Suffer the Little Children: (Brunetti 16) by Donna Leon (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured he is confronted with more questions than answers Three men have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night attacked him and took his 18-month-old son - but why? As he investigates Brunetti finds infertility desperation and babies for sale Meanwhile Inspector Vianello uncovers a scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city And certain information about one's neighbours can lead to all kinds of corruption and all sorts of pain Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle and gripping as ever set in a beautifully realised Venice seething with small-town malice"
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| "The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "The past is a foreign country - this is your guide We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants diseases violence sexism and famine of the time?In this book Ian Mortimer reveals a country in which life expectancy is in the early thirties people still starve to death and Catholics are persecuted for their faith Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language some of the most magnificent architecture and sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America and circumnavigate the globe Welcome to a country that is in all its contradictions the very crucible of the modern world"
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| "The Cello Suites: In Search of a Baroque Masterpiece by Eric Siblin (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "One autumn evening not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love So began a quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery intrigue history politics and passion The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives the first features Bach and the missing manuscript of the suites; the next the legendary Spanish Catalan cellist Pablo Casals and his historic discovery of the music; and finally Eric Siblin's own infatuation From the back streets of Barcelona to archives festivals and conferences and even to cello lessons Siblin attempts to unravel the enigmas that continue to haunt this mesmerisingly beautiful music"
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| "Triptych : (Will Trent Series Book 1)" |
| "The first Will Trent novel from the No 1 Bestseller When Atlanta police detective Michael Ormewood is called out to a murder scene at the notorious Grady Homes he finds himself faced with one of the the most brutal killings of his career Aleesha Monroe is found in the stairwell in a pool of her own blood her body horribly mutilated As a one-off killing it's shocking but when it becomes clear that it's just the latest in a series of similar attacks the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are called in and Michael is forced into working with Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - a man he instinctively dislikes Twenty-four hours later the violence Michael sees around him every day explodes in his own back yard And it seems the mystery behind Monroe's death is inextricably entangled with a past that refuses to stay buried"
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| "The Forgotten Legion : (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 1)" |
| "The Forgotten Legion - fighting for honour freedom and revenge Romulus and Fabiola are twins born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman At thirteen years old they are sold - Romulus to gladiator school Fabiola into prostitution where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome Tarquinius is an Etruscan a warrior and soothsayer born enemy of Rome but doomed to fight for the Republic in the Forgotten Legion Brennus is a Gaul his entire family killed by the Romans and he rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day The lives of these characters are bound and interwoven in an odyssey which begins in a Rome riven by political corruption and violence but ends far away at the very border of the known world where the tattered remnants of a once-huge Roman army - the Forgotten Legion - will fight against overwhelming odds and the three men will meet their destiny Ben Kane was born in Kenya and raised there and in Ireland He studied veterinary medicine at University College Dublin but after that he travelled the world extensively indulging his passion for ancient history Now he lives in North Somerset where he researches writes and practices as a small animal vet The Forgotten Legion born of a lifelong fascination with military history in general and Roman history in particular is his first novel For more information please visit wwwbenkanenet"
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| "Deadly Decisions : (Temperance Brennan 3)" |
| "The third gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs the international no 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones A nine-year-old girl is killed in crossfire on her way to ballet class Soon afterwards the body of a teenager killed in North Carolina is found hundreds of miles away Forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan knows she must stay professional but when the young girl's body is wheeled into the morgue she cannot help but react And when an exhumation reveals the bones of yet another innocent in a hidden grave close to a biker gang headquarters Tempe begins a lone and risky investigation into the lawless underworld of organised crime"
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| "Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (Paperback, 2012)" |
| ""You saved your mistress&39;s life Beauty! yes you saved her life" Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows and spends many happy days under the apple trees with his friends Ginger and Merrylegs But this easy life comes to an end when Beauty is sold and goes from farm to inn to cabhorse in London enduring rough treatment from foolish and careless masters Beauty remains faithful hardworking and full of spirit despite his trials and through him we learn that all horses and humans alike deserve to be treated with kindness BACKSTORY Find out about the unusual author and learn some horsey vocabulary"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The White Road : a pilgrimage of sorts" |
| "A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller " Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise that mixed with the right materials it might survive the fire of the kiln and fuse into porcelain - translucent luminous white Acclaimed writer and potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest - a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China and travels on to Venice Versailles Dublin Dresden the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina and the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain Along the way he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired made rich or heartsick by it and the many whose livelihoods minds and bodies were broken by this obsession It spans a thousand years and reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times In these intimate and compelling encounters with the people and landscapes who made porcelain Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material the white gold&39; he has worked with for decades Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "&39;Surround yourself with human beings my dear James They are easier to fight for than principles&39; In "Casino Royale" the first of Fleming&39;s 007 adventures a game of cards is James Bond&39;s only chance to bring down the desperate SMERSH agent Le Chiffre But Bond soon discovers that there is far more at stake than money"
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| "Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANELopez's journey across our frozen planet is a celebration of the Arctic in all its guises A hostile landscape of ice freezing oceans and dazzling skyscapes Home to millions of diverse animals and people The stage to massive migrations by land sea and air The setting of epic exploratory voyages And in crystalline prose Lopez captures the magic of the Arctic - the essential mystery and beauty of a continent that has enchanted man's imagination and ambition for centuries"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The House by the Lake" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA passionate memoir' Neil MacGregorA superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen through the prism of a house which was lived in and lost by five different families A remarkable book' Tom HollandPersonal and panoramic heart-wrenching yet uplifting this is history at its most alive' AD Miller In 2013 Thomas Harding returned to his grandmother's house on the outskirts of Berlin which she had been forced to leave when the Nazis swept to power What was once her soul place' now stood empty and derelict A concrete footpath cut through the garden marking where the Berlin Wall had stood for nearly three decades In a bid to save the house from demolition Thomas began to unearth the history of the five families who had lived there a nobleman farmer a prosperous Jewish family a renowned Nazi composer a widow and her children and a Stasi informant Discovering stories of domestic joy and contentment of terrible grief and tragedy and of a hatred handed down through the generations a history of twentieth century Germany and the story of a nation emerged"
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| "The Second Coming" |
| "God takes a look at the Earth around the time of the Renaissance and everything looks pretty good - so he takes a holiday In Heaven-time this is just a week's fishing trip but on Earth several hundred years go by When God returns he finds all hell has broken loose world wars holocausts famine capitalism and fucking Christians everywhere' There's only one thing for it They're sending the kid back JC reborn is a struggling musician in New York City trying to teach the one true commandment Be Nice! His best chance to win hearts and minds is to enter American Pop Star But the number one show in America is the unholy creation of a record executive who's more than a match for the Son of God Steven Stelfox"
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| "Eminent Hipsters" |
| "In Eminent Hipsters musician and songwriter Donald Fagen best known as the co-founder of the rock band Steely Dan presents an autobiographical portrait that touches on everything from the cultural figures that mattered the most to him as a teenager to his years in the late 1960s at Bard College to a hilarious account of a recent tour he made with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald Fagen begins by introducing the &39;eminent hipsters&39; that spoke to him as he was growing up (and desperately yearning to be hip) in suburban New Jersey in the late 1950s and early 1960s The figures who influenced him most were not the typical ones – Miles Davis say or Jack Kerouac – but rather people like Jean Shepherd whose manic acidic nightly radio broadcasts out of WOR-Radio had a tough realism about life and ‘enthralled a generation of alienated young people’; Henry Mancini whose chilled-out nourish soundtracks especially to films by Blake Edwards utilised the unconventional spare instrumentation associated with the cool jazz school; and Mort Fega the laid back knowledgeable all night jazz man at WEVD who was like ‘the cool uncle you always wished you had’ He writes of how growing up as a Cold War baby one of his primary doors of escape became reading science fiction by such authors as Philip K Dick and of his regular trips into New York City to hear jazz Other emblematic musical heroes Fagen writes about include Ray Charles Ike Turner and the Boswell Sisters a trio from the 1920s and 30s whose subversive musical genius included trick phrasing and way out harmony ‘Class of ’69’ recounts Fagen’s colourful tumultuous years at Bard College the progressive university north of New York City that attracted a strange mix of applicants including ‘desperate suburban misfits with impressive verbal skills but appalling high school records’ (like himself) It was at Bard that Fagen first met Walter Becker with whom he would later form Steely Dan The final section of the book ‘With the Dukes of September’ offers a day-by-day account of a tour Fagen undertook last summer across America with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald performing a programme of old R&B and soul tunes as well as some of each of their own hits Told in a weary cranky occasionally biting and always entertaining voice Fagen brings to life the ups and downs and various indignities and anxieties of being on the road – The Dukes were an admittedly ‘low-rent operation’ compared to a Steely Dan tour – as well as communicating the challenges and joy of playing every night to a different crowd in a different city"
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| "The Past" |
| "'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie SmithFour siblings meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long hot summer weeks But under the idyllic surface lie shattering tensions Roland has come with his new wife and his sisters don't like her Fran has brought her children who soon uncover an ugly secret in a ruined cottage in the woods Alice has invited Kasim an outsider who makes plans to seduce Roland's teenage daughter And Harriet the eldest finds her quiet self-possession ripped apart when passion erupts unexpectedly Over the course of the holiday a familiar way of life falls apart forever 'Exquisite' The Times 'Wonderful' Guardian 'Magnificent' Sunday Times"
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| "A Buzz in the Meadow" |
| "From the author of the Samuel Johnson Prize-shortlisted Sunday Times bestseller A Sting in the TaleIn 2003 Dave Goulson bought a derelict farm in the heart of rural France together with 33 acres of surrounding meadow Over the course of a decade he created a place for his beloved bumblebees to thrive along with myriad insects of every kind In this book you will learn how a deathwatch beetle finds its mate about the importance of houseflies why butterflies have spots on their wings about dragonfly sex bed-bugs and wasps But it is also a wake-up call urging us to cherish and protect life on earth in all its forms A Buzz in the Meadow is a captivating look at our natural world and a call to arms for nature-lovers everywhere Glorious' The Times Captivating' Independent"
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| "Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance : 40th Anniversary Edition" |
| "Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974 transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son the book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions of how to live Resonant with the confusions of existence Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a touching and transcendent book of life"
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| "The Man Who Listens To Horses by Monty Roberts (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "When Monty Roberts was thirteen years old he went off on his own to the deserts of Nevada to watch mustangs in the wild What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life forever The Man Who Listens to Horses reveals his deep love and understanding of horses We learn how through his relationship with various horses he gradually developed the methods which enabled him to communicate with horses in their own language a silent language of gestures similar to sign language the unique art of the horse whisperer According to Monty anyone can learn the language of the horse and anyone can learn his Join-Up (R) methods In this amazing true life book he tells you how This is the bestselling autobiography that spread Monty Roberts' message across the world and changed his life forever Unique and inspirational and with a message that resonates far wider than its application to horses it might change your life too"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Father Christmas Goes on Holiday by Raymond Briggs (Paperback, 1977)" |
| "In this hilarious sequel from Raymond Briggs author of The Snowman and inspiration for The Snowman and Snowdog a still rather grumpy Father Christmas decides to go on holiday No-one needs a holiday more than Father Christmas but where can such a well-known and easily recognized person go? Father Christmas sets off in search of his ideal holiday spot! France Scotland and Las Vegas are his chosen destinations but as Father Christmas discovers - there's nowhere like home"
Price: 6.49 |
