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| "The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law Quiet and ordinary they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home The Franchise Unremarkable that is until the police turn up with a demure young woman on their doorstep Not only does Betty Kane accuse them of kidnap and abuse she can back up her claim with a detailed description of the attic room in which she was kept right down to the crack in its round window But there's something about Betty Kane's story that doesn't quite add up Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is stumped And it takes Robert Blair local solicitor turned amateur detective to solve the mystery that lies at the heart of The Franchise Affair"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Running Like a Girl" |
| "'If you've ever wept Why Do I Want To Run? your answer is here' Caitlin MoranAlexandra Heminsley had high hopes the arse of an athlete the waist of a supermodel the speed of a gazelle Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga she decided to run Her first attempt did not end well Six years later she has run five marathons in two continents But as her dad says you run with your head as much as with your legs So while this is a book about running it's not just about running You could say it's about ambition (yes getting out of bed on a rainy Sunday morning counts) relationships (including talking to the intimidating staff in the trainer shop) as well as your body (your boobs don't have to wobble when you run) But it's also about realising that you can do more than you ever thought possible Very funny very honest and very emotional whether you're in serious training or thinking about running for the bus this is a book for anyone who after wine and crisps for supper a few too many times thinks they might just might like to run like a girl"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began (Winner of the Pulitzer for Non-fiction 2012) by Stephen Greenblatt (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago a short genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf With excitement he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic On the Nature of Things by Lucretius and it changed the course of history He found a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas - that the universe functioned without the aid of gods that religious fear was damaging to human life and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion These ideas fuelled the Renaissance inspiring Botticelli shaping the thoughts of Montaigne Darwin and Einstein An innovative work of history by one of the world's most celebrated scholars and a thrilling story of discovery The Swerve details how one manuscript plucked from a thousand years of neglect made possible the world as we know it Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "&39;Password Emil!&39; Emil is excited to be taking the train on his own for the first time He doesn&39;t like the look of his fellow passenger the man in the bowler hat Emil will just have to keep his wits about him and his money in his pocket But Emil falls asleep and when he wakes up the man in the bowler hat is gone - and so is the money! Emil is determined to get it back He teams up with a gang of young detectives and so begins a hair-raising chase across Berlin to catch the dirty rotten thief BACKSTORY Learn all about the book&39;s brave author and find out just how good a sleuth you would be"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Therese Raquin by Emile Zola (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION BY ADAM THORPEAdam Thorpe's version deserves to become the standard English text' Daily TelegraphAdam Thorpe brings an unusual freshness and zip to the task which goes some way towards returning us to that sense of unnerving immediacy which the young Zola's novel would have given its readers in 1867' Times Literary SupplementMysterious disappearances domestic cases noiseless bloodless snuffings-out the law can look as deep as it likes but when the crime itself goes unsuspected oh yes there's many a murderer basking in the sun When Therese Raquin is forced to marry the sickly Camille she sees a bare life stretching out before her leading every evening to the same cold bed and every morning to the same empty day Escape comes in the form of her husband's friend Laurent and Therese throws herself headlong into an affair There seems only one obstacle to their happiness; Camille They plot to be rid of him But in destroying Camille they kill the very desire that connects them First published in 1867 Therese Raquin has lost none of its power to enthral Adam Thorpe's unflinching translation brings Zola's dark and shocking masterwork to life"
Price: 5.99 |
| "H is for Hawk" |
| "THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ETRANGERAs a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic books Years later when her father died and she was struck deeply by grief she became obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk She bought Mabel for GBP800 on a Scottish quayside and took her home to Cambridge ready to embark on the long strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals H is for Hawk is an unflinchingly honest account of Macdonald's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming This is a book about memory nature and nation and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Knowledge : How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse" |
| "Maybe it was a viral pandemic or an asteroid strike or perhaps nuclear war Whatever the cause the world as we know it has ended and you and the other survivors must start again What key knowledge would you need to start rebuilding civilisation from scratch? Once you've scavenged what you can how do you begin producing the essentials? How do you grow food generate power prepare medicines or get metal out of rocks? Could you avert another Dark Ages or take shortcuts to accelerate redevelopment? Living in the modern world we have become disconnected from the basic processes that support our lives as well as the beautiful fundamentals of science that enable you to relearn things for yourself The Knowledge is a journey of discovery a book which explains everything you need to know about everything This is a quickstart guide for rebooting civilisation which will transform your understanding of the world - and help you prepare for when it's no longer here httpthe-knowledgeorg"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle Book 4 by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "The fourth part of the sensational My Struggle series that has been hailed as perhaps the most significant literary enterprise of our times' (Guardian)Fresh out of high school Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter his sole aim is to save money and start writing All goes well to begin with but as the nights grow longer his life takes a darker turn Drinking causes him blackouts his repeated attempts at losing his virginity end in humiliation and to his own great distress he develops romantic feelings towards one of his 13-year-old students And all the while the shadow of his father looms large"
Price: 6.96 |
| "The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "'Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home home to his own beloved master'The Hunter children must go abroad for the summer so they reluctantly leave their three pets in the care of a friend But the faithful animals only know they must get home again somehow So the labrador the old bull terrier and the dainty Siamese cat set off on a perilous journey through the wilderness But how will domestic animals fare against river rapids hunger icy temperatures and ferocious wild beasts? And if they make it home will their owners be waiting for them?Includes exclusive material In the Backstory you can find out about some incredible real-life pet adventures! Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Levels of Life" |
| "You put together two things that have not been put together before And the world is changed In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then finally he gives us the story of his own grief unflinchingly observed This is a book of intense honesty and insight; it is at once a celebration of love and a profound examination of sorrow"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Second Sex (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID&39;Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex&39; GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote &39;One is not born but rather becomes a woman&39; In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity Liberation she argues entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and crucially in achieving economic independence Drawing on sociology anthropology and biology The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Sula by Toni Morrison (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVEDAs young girls Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married Ten years later Sula returns and no one least of all Nel trusts her Sula is a story of fear - the fear that traps us justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend Cast as a witch by the people who resent her strength Sula is a woman of uncompromising power a wayward force who challenges the smallness of a world that tries to hold her down Winner of the PENSaul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Harry The Dirty Dog by Gene Zion (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "Harry is a black and white dog who hates having a bath - so when he sees his owner with the dredded bath he runs away But in the end harry gets so dirty that his owners dont recognise him and so he has to beg for the thing he used to dread so much so they let him back into the houshold"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Read Write Inc. Home: Phonics Flashcards" |
| "Read Write Inc Phonics Flashcards are a great way to introduce the letters and sounds that make up words - the 'Speed Sounds' The cards feature all 31 Set 1 Speed Sounds and corresponding letters to enable children to learn phonics and decode words easily Full colour illustrations and picture cards place the sounds in context providing an enjoyable way to practise using the sounds they have learnt Parent notes offer guidance on how to use the cards and tips to support first steps in learning to read Read Write Inc developed by Ruth Miskin provides a structured and systematic approach to teaching literacy It is used by more than a quarter of the UK's primary schools and is designed to create fluent readers confident speakers and willing writers"
Price: 6.99 |
| "A Dictionary of Economics" |
| "This authoritative and comprehensive dictionary contains clear concise definitions of approximately 3500 key economic terms Covering all aspects of economics including economic theory and policy applied microeconomics and macroeconomics labour economics public economics and public finance monetary economics and environmental economics this is the essential reference work in this area The new edition of this dictionary has been updated to include entries on China India and South America to reflect the increase in prominence of these regions in the global economy There is strong coverage of international trade and many entries on economic organizations and institutions from around the world Fully revised to keep up to date with this fast-moving field this new edition expands the coverage to include entries such as austerity measures General Anti Abuse Rule propensity score matching and shadow bank Entries are supplemented by entry-level web links which are listed and regularly updated on a companion website giving the reader the opportunity to explore further the areas covered in the dictionary Useful appendices include a list of institutional acronyms and their affiliated websites a list of Nobel prize-winners in economics the Greek alphabet and a list of relevant websites As ideal for browsing as it is useful for quick reference this dictionary remains an essential guide for students and teachers of economics business and finance as well as for professional economists and anyone who has to deal with economic data"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Oxford German Dictionary by Oxford Dictionaries (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "The Oxford German Dictionary provides authoritative coverage of German and English with over 320000 words and phrases and 520000 translations Essential grammatical information and language usage notes are provided for both languages This edition of the Oxford German Dictionary includes cultural notes providing interesting and helpful information on life in the German- and English-speaking world In addition there are boxed notes offering help with language usage and construction and a centre section covering essential correspondence with sample letters emails CVs and resumes and sections on using the telephone and writing text messages The colour design and ultra-clear layout make it even easier to find the translation you are looking for This is an essential reference tool for all serious students of German at university level and beyond and for those who need an authoritative and comprehensive guide to German"
Price: 23.49 |
| "Twenty Love Poems : And A Song Of Despair" |
| "The Chilean Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was probably the greatest and certainly the most prolific of twentieth-century Latin American poets He brought out his first collection at the age of seventeen and quickly developed an assured and distinctive poetic voice His third book Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desesperada - Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair- was published in 1924 and attracted international acclaim It remains one of the most celebrated and admired books of erotic poetry published in the last hundred years with over a million copies sold worldwide Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Marco Made Easy : A Three-Star Chef Makes It Simple" |
| "This book is all about creating beautiful and delicious foodwithout stress and without fuss Marco Pierre White serves up more than 100 recipes and shows the home cook how to get big flavours from store-cupboard ingredientsThe book has sections for starters shellfish fish meat poultry desserts and Marco uses bottles jars and packets to make divine sauces syrups and dressings Olive oil honey mustard soy sauce vinegar Hellmann's Heinz and Knorr - they are all on the lists of ingredients here And the three main ingredients of Marco Made Easy are Simple Fast and Fun 'It'll take longer to wash the dishes' he says 'than it will to make them'Tomato ketchup helps to make Salmon Ketchup; that bottle of Lea and Perrins brings life to the sauce for peppered steak; and beef casserole is transformed by a can (or two) of Guinness mixed with a carton of prune juice Desserts too require little skill Jamaican Mess made with bananas shop-bought custard and Carnation caramel sauce - is creamy rich and swee Who could say no? Beautiful photographs of each stunning dish enable the reader to copy the master chef?s presentation you don't need to be an artist As Marco says of this revolutionary cook book It's for anyone who loves food but hates aggro''"
Price: 14.49 |
| "The Battle of Hackham Heath (Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years Book 2)" |
| "THE SAME WORLD BRAND NEW STORIES The peace in Araluen is under threat and newly crowned King Duncan must prepare for war Morgarath is in hiding recruiting an army of savage beasts known as Wargals for his next attack Halt prepares for a seemingly impossible task - to scale the Mountains of Rain and Night to spy on the enemy and uncover their plans He knows that one wrong move could be deadly for at the Battle of Hackham Heath the fate of a kingdom will be decided THE ORIGIN STORY OF ARALUEN'S MOST FAMOUS RANGER BY JOHN FLANAGAN AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING RANGER'S APPRENTICE SERIES"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Islamic Geometric Design by Eric Broug (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "Islamic geometric designs are admired worldwide for their beauty and marvellous intricacy yet in truth they are seldom understood Indeed their complexity and artistry can seem almost beyond the powers of human ingenuity In this handsomely illustrated volume artist and teacher Eric Broug analyses and explains these complex designs in their historical and physical context His own original drawings accompany magnificent photographs of mosques madrasas palaces and tombs from the Islamic world ranging from North Africa to Iran and Uzbekistan and from the 8th to the 19th centuries Chapters are devoted to each of the main families of geometric design fourfold fivefold and sixfold and to the complex combined patterns Every design is carefully explained and illustrated with a wealth of stunning photographs and clear meticulously detailed drawings Readers can follow the design processes by which these patterns were created and even learn to reproduce and invent geometric patterns for themselves using exactly the same tools as the Islamic craftsmen of old a ruler and a pair of compasses"
Price: 25.99 |
| "I Shall Wear Midnight : (Discworld Novel 38) Paperback" |
| "As the witch of the Chalk Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy But someone – or something – is inciting fear generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches Tiffany must find the source of unrest and defeat the evil at its root Aided by the tiny-but-tough Wee Free Men Tiffany faces a dire challenge for if she falls the whole Chalk falls with her THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE TIFFANY ACHING SEQUENCE"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Thief Of Time : (Discworld Novel 26)" |
| "Time is a resource Everyone knows it has to be managed You mess with it at your peril You can let it move fast or slowly but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop On the Discworld time management is the job of the Monks of History who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like the underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where there's never enough time But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against well time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd Because it will stop time And when time stands still everything stops with it Then there really is no future"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "The girls are back - but they're not very happy! Ellie's glorious romance with Russell is teetering on the rocks Magda's lost her pet and is desperately upset (though the others didn't even know she had a hamster!) And Nadine is fed up with the other two lecturing her about the dangers of meeting someone from the internet IRL - she thinks the guy she's chatting to online is wonderful Buckets of tears are wept and hundreds of tissues are sniffled into - can the girls survive these testing times?Books in the series1 Girls In Love2 Girls Under Pressure3 Girls Out Late4 Girls In Tears"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Amy Bella Chloe Daisy and Emily are friends at school and have their own Alphabet Club (just look at their initials!) Daisy is the newest member and is desperate to fit in even though Chloe is very unfriendly to her at times When the girls begin planning sleepover parties for their birthdays Daisy is dreading her own - she doesn't know what her friends will make of her rather special older sister"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Animal Tales by Dick King-Smith (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "All Because of Jackson - Jackson is a very unusual rabbit - one who dreams of going to sea So one day he stows away on the Atalanta and sails off in search of a new life The Catlady - Muriel lives alone with lots and lots of cats But Muriel&39;s cats are no ordinary cats - they are people she once knew reincarnated in feline form! The Guard Dog - The story of a scruffy little mongrel with a grand ambition - to be a guard dog The other pups laugh at him Could such a small and scruffy dog really guard a home? Hairy Hezekiah - Hezekiah lives a quiet life and seems to be the only animal in the zoo without a friend So he decides to escape and go on the run! Horse Pie - Jenny the donkey finds herself unwelcome at the Old Horses&39; Home but when rustlers start looking for horses to make into pies it&39;s up to Jenny to save the day"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Magisterium: The Bronze Key by Holly Black, Cassandra Clare (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "Magic can save youMagic can kill youIt should be a time of celebration The Enemy of Death is dead; a severed head proof of his downfall The magical world has no reason to believe otherwise and Callum Tamara and Aaron are celebrated as heroes But at a party held in their honour things go horribly brutally wrong A fellow student is callously murdered and it seems Call's worst fears are confirmed there is a spy in the Magisterium No one is safe Now using the powerful magic they've been taught the trio must risk their lives to track down the killer But magic is dangerous - in the wrong hands it could bring terrible destruction And reveal the deadliest secret of all"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moira Fowley-Doyle (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "One stormy summer night Olive and her best friend Rose begin to lose things It starts with simple items like hair clips and jewellery but soon it's clear that Rose has lost something bigger; something she won't talk about Then Olive meets three wild mysterious strangers Ivy Hazel and Rowan Like Rose they're mourning losses - and holding tight to secrets When they discover the ancient spellbook full of hand-inked charms to conjure back lost things they realise it might be their chance to set everything right Unless it's leading them towards secrets that were never meant to be found"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Poetry Please by Various Poets (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world First aired in 1979 the programme a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever it is those poems that this anthology brings together here A showcase in effect for the nation's favourite verse Poetry Please is a treasure trove for our most requested and most listened to poems of all time It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate the verse that we care so much about from new readers to old from schools to reading groups this a book for giving a book for cherishing"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Families And How To Survive Them by Robin Skynner, John Cleese (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "What makes a family happy? Why do some marriages 'succeed' and others end in divorce? How can we free ourselves from the legacy of past mistakes and bring about positive change? Love sex and marriage and parenthood depression and sadness independence and experience are just a few of the many issues explored in conversation by family therapist Robin Skynner and his former patient and comedian John Cleese Guiding us through the daily issues that confront us all FAMILIES AND HOW TO SURVIVE THEM offers vital advice in helping each of us to maintain a happy healthy family life Looking candidly at everything from our relationships with our parents to why and how we choose our partners no emotional stone is left unturned jealousy rage fear envy love obsession hope and despair - all are featured-with practical advice on how to turn round a negative situation and bring about change for the better"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Troop Leader : A Tank Commander's Story" |
| "Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955 He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign landing in Normandy on D3 fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low Countries as a troop leader in Cromwell tanks and was latterly a member of the initial occupying force in Berlin in May 1945 Against the rules Bill kept diaries and notes of his experiences His account is fresh and open and his descriptions of battle are vivid He witnessed many of his contemporaries killed in action and this life-altering experience clearly informs his narrative The accounts of tank fighting in the leafy Normandy bocage in the height of summer or in the iron hard fields of Holland in winter are graphic and compelling"
Price: 9.49 |
