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| "Innocent Traitor" |
| "Alison Weir our pre-eminent popular historian has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction She has chosen as her subject the bravest most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes she lived a life in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour Jane's astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history As a great-niece of Henry VIII and the cousin of Edward VI Mary I and Elizabeth I she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny Her honesty intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "INCLUDES RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIALIn the spring of 1860 Fabrizio the charismatic Prince of Salina still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people including his own numerous family in mingled splendour and squalor Then comes Garibaldi's landing in Sicily and the Prince must decide whether to resist the forces of change or come to terms with them"
Price: 7.49 |
| "A Void by Georges Perec (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Anton Vowl is missing Ransacking his Paris flat a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and insidiously a ghost from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow This virtuoso story chock-full of plots and subplots shows the skill of both author and translator who impart all the action without a crucial grammatical prop the letter 'e'"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Medici : Godfathers of the Renaissance" |
| "A dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power money and ambition Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage Strathern also follows the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings including Leonardo Michelangelo and Donatello; as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola; and the fortunes of those members of the Medici family who achieved success away from Florence including the two Medici popes and Catherine de&39; Medicis who became Queen of France and played a major role in that country through three turbulent reigns"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Girl in a Green Gown : The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait" |
| "The Arnolfini portrait painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434 is one of the world&39;s most famous paintings This haunting gem of medieval art a subtle and beautiful portrait of a wealthy Bruges merchant and his wife intrigues all who see it Is the painting the celebration of marriage or pregnancy a memorial to a wife who died in childbirth a fashion statement or a status symbol? Using her acclaimed forensic skills as an art historian Carola Hicks set out to decode the mysteryShe also tells the fascinating story of the painting&39;s survival through fire and battle and of its owners Uniquely for a masterpiece of its age its provenance can be tracked through every single owner - from the mysterious Mr Arnolfini via various monarchs to being an early star of the National Gallery in 1842- and these owners have a cameo appearance too in this enthralling story of how an artwork of genius can speak afresh to each new generation"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales by H. P. Lovecraft (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Between these pages you will find things that lurk things that scurry in the walls things that move unseen things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl unfathomable blackness unconquerable evil inhuman impulses abnormal bodies ancient rites nameless lands best left undiscovered thoughts best left unspoken doors best left closed names best forgotten You have been warned"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Mythologies by Roland Barthes (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture Taking subjects as diverse as wrestling films plastic and cars Barthes elegantly deciphers the symbols and signs embedded deep in familiar aspects of modern life unmasking the hidden ideologies and meanings which implicitly affect our thought and behaviour This early classic of semiotics from one of France's greatest thinkers may irrevocably change the way you view the world around you"
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| "Nature Cure by Richard Mabey (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "In the last year of the old millennium Richard Mabey Britain's foremost nature writer fell into a severe depression The natural world - which since childhood had been a source of joy and inspiration for him - became meaningless Then cared for by friends he moved to East Anglia and he started to write again Having left the cosseting woods of the Chiltern hills for the open flatlands of Norfolk Richard Mabey found exhilaration in discovering a whole new landscape and gained fresh insights into our place in nature Structured as intricately as a novel a joy to read truthful exquisite and questing Nature Cure is a book of hope not just for individuals but for our species"
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| "Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao The Unknown StoryIn this groundbreaking biography Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot andalso takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing's Forbidden City where she lived surrounded by eunuchs - with one of whom she fell in love with tragic consequences Packed with drama fast-paced and gripping it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman as the concubine to a monarch as the absolute ruler of a third of the world's population and as a unique stateswoman Powerful' Simon Sebag MontefioreTruly authoritative' New York TimesWonderful' Sunday TimesShortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous obstinate and ubiquitous in its search for truth Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news They skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news They reveal how issues are framed and topics chosen and contrast the double standards underlying accounts of free elections a free press and governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of Vietnam; between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government and genocide under Pol Pot What emerges from this groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way"
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| "The Captive Queen by Alison Weir (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman rides through France fleeing her crown her two young daughters and a shattered marriage Her husband Louis of France has been more monk than monarch and certainly not a lover Now Eleanor of Aquitaine has one sole purpose to return to her duchy and marry the man she loves Henry Plantagenet destined for greatness as King of England It will be a union founded on lust renowned as one of the most vicious marriages in history and it will go on to forge a great empire and a devilish brood This is a story of the making of nations and of passionate conflicts between Henry II and Thomas Becket; between Eleanor and Henry's formidable mother Matilda; between father and sons as Henry's children take up arms against him - and finally between Henry and Eleanor herself"
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| "A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history the Princes in the Tower Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy Newly pregnant she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin Queen Elizabeth I who sees her as a rival to her insecure throne Alone in her chamber in the Tower she finds old papers belonging to a kinswoman of hers Kate Plantagenet who forty years previously had embarked on a dangerous quest to find what really happened to her cousins the two young Princes who had last been seen as captives in the Tower But time is not on Kate's side - nor on Katherine's either"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Music Instinct: How Music Works and Why We Can't Do Without It by Philip Ball (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Why have all human cultures - today and throughout history - made music? Why does music excite such rich emotion? How do we make sense of musical sound? These are questions that have until recently remained mysterious Now The Music Instinct explores how the latest research in music psychology and brain science is piecing together the puzzle of how our minds understand and respond to music Ranging from Bach fugues to nursery rhymes to heavy rock Philip Ball interweaves philosophy mathematics history and neurology to reveal why music moves us in so many ways Without requiring any specialist knowledge The Music Instinct will both deepen your appreciation of the music you love and open doors to music that once seemed alien dull or daunting offering a passionate plea for the importance of music in education and in everyday life"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Maximum Ride: Manga Volume 8 by James Patterson (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Joining a scientific expedition gives Max and the flock a perfect opportunity to distance themselves from the heated debate in the antarctic! A powerful figure in the underworld has promised the super-human kids to the highest bidder - and he has the robotic army to ensure the goods are delivered!"
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| "The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD264 wood and ivory carvings none of them bigger than a matchbox Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great uncle Iggie&39;s Tokyo apartment When he later inherited the &39;netsuke&39; they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris from occupied Vienna to Tokyo Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke&39;s journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century&39;You have in your hands a masterpiece&39; Frances Wilson Sunday Times &39;The most brilliant book I&39;ve read for years A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human&39; Bettany Hughes Daily Telegraph Books of the Year&39;A complex and beautiful book&39; Diana Athill"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "The perfect gift for Valentine’s DayFrom the acclaimed translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak&39;s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece the first since the 1958 original Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have restored the rhythms tone precision and poetry of Pasternak&39;s original bringing this classic of world literature gloriously to life for a new generation of readers"
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| "Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-Metre Peak by Maurice Herzog (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "One of the great works of mountaineering literatureWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOE SIMPSONIn 1950 no mountain higher than 8000 meters had ever been climbed Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club resolved to try This is the enthralling story of the first conquest of Annapurna and the harrowing descent With breathtaking courage and grit manifest on every page Annapurna is one of the greatest adventure stories ever told As well as an introduction by Joe Simpson this new edition includes 16 pages of photographs which provide a remarkable visual record of this legendary expedition The distinguished French mountaineer Maurice Herzog was leader of the 1950 expedition to Annapurna He was one of the two climbers to reach the summit"
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| "Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World by Nicholas Shaxson (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "WITH NEW AND UPDATED MATERIALBillionaire Warren Buffet currently the third wealthiest man in the world paid the lowest rate of tax among his office staff including his receptionist In 2006 the world's three biggest banana companies did nearly GBP400 million worth of business in Britain but paid just GBP128000 in tax between them In January 2009 US law enforcement fined Lloyds TSB 350 million after it admitted secretly channelling Iranian and Sudanese money into the US banking system Tax havens are the most important single reason why poor people and poor countries stay poor They lie at the very heart of the global economy with over half the world trade processed through them They have been instrumental in nearly every major economic event in every big financial scandal and in every financial crisis since the 1970s including the latest global economic downturn In Treasure Islands Nicholas Shaxson shows how this happened and what this means for you"
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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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| "Barbarians At The Gate by John Helyar, Bryan Burrough (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988 which became the largest and most dramatic corporate takeover in American history sent shock-waves through the international business world and became a symbol of the greed excess and egotism of the eighties Barbarians at the Gate recounts this two-month battle with breathtaking pace and flair and transports back to the Wall Street empire before it crumbled through the boardroom doors into the midnight meetings the betrayals the deal makers and publicity flaks into a world where - as Nabisco CEO Ross Johnson put it - 'a few million dollars are lost in the sands of time' Twenty years on the world is once again recovering from a period of financial extravagance and irresponsibility This revised edition brings the ultimate business thriller up to date for a new generation of readers"
Price: 8.99 |
| "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"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Moonwalk by Michael Jackson (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Moonwalk is the only book about his life that Michael Jackson ever wrote It chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest his early days with the Jackson 5 and his unprecedented solo success Giving absolutely unrivalled insight into the King of Pop's life it details his songwriting process for hits like Beat It Rock With You Billie Jean and We Are the World; describes how he developed his signature dance style including the Moon Walk; and opens the door to his very private personal relationships with his family including sister Janet and stars like Diana Ross Berry Gordy Marlon Brando Quincy Jones Paul McCartney and Brooke Shields At the time of its original publication in 1988 MOONWALK broke the fiercely guarded barrier of silence that surrounded Michael Jackson Candidly and courageously Jackson talks openly about his wholly exceptional career and the crushing isolation of his fame as well as the unfair rumors that have surrounded it MOONWALK is illustrated with rare photographs from Jackson family albums and Michael's personal photographic archives as well as a drawing done by Michael exclusively for the book It reveals and celebrates as no other book can the life of this exceptional and beloved musician"
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| "How Pleasure Works: Why we like what we like by Paul Bloom (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "We are attracted whether we know it or not to the hidden aspects of things and people Some teenagers enjoy cutting themselves with razors Some men pay good money to be spanked by prostitutes The average Briton spends over a day a week watching television People slow their cars to look at gory accidents and go to sentimental movies that make them cry In this revealing and witty account Paul Bloom examines the science behind these curious desires attractions and tastes exploring one of the most fascinating and fundamental engines of human behaviour Drawing on insights from child development philosophy neuroscience and behavioural economics How Pleasure Works shows how certain universal habits of the human mind explain what we like and why we like it"
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| "May I Have Your Attention Please? by James Corden (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "So the story of my life I've often thought about this moment about what it would be like to write my memoirs I always thought it would make me feel important It doesn't If anything it makes me feel a little strange The truth is I should never have been this famous guy I wasn't the cool clever good-looking boy at school But I always dreamt of it hoped for it longed for it throughout school when I was disruptive in my teens when I tried to form my own boy band and through hundreds of auditions for parts which were met with constant rejection Until finally I co-wrote Gavin and Stacey And my whole life changed This is that story The story of how I found myself here talking to you"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERGIt's the year 2044 and the real world has become an ugly place We're out of oil We've wrecked the climate Famine poverty and disease are widespread Like most of humanity Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS a sprawling virtual utopia where you can be anything you want to be where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets And like most of humanity Wade is obsessed by the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this alternate reality OASIS founder James Halliday who dies with no heir has promised that control of the OASIS - and his massive fortune - will go to the person who can solve the riddles he has left scattered throughout his creation For years millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize knowing only that the riddles are based in the culture of the late twentieth century And then Wade stumbles onto the key to the first puzzle Suddenly he finds himself pitted against thousands of competitors in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize a chase that soon takes on terrifying real-world dimensions - and that will leave both Wade and his world profoundly changed"
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| "No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Ten years on from 911 much of the Muslim faith remains largely unknown and misunderstood in the West While there have been a number of successful books on the topic of Islamic history - from Karen Armstrong's Islam A Brief History to Bernard Lewis's The Crises of Islam - there is surprisingly no book for a popular audience about Islam as a religion let alone one by an author from an Islamic background No God But God fills that gap addressing issues of belief the difference between the Quran and the Bible the meaning of the Hajj the Muslim relationship with Jesus the Muslim attitude towards Jews equality between the sexes and more This revised and updated edition includes a wealth of new material and new chapters covering recent uprisings in Tunisia Egypt and Libya; the changing face of Islam in Europe and North Africa; and a number of topics of heated debate (the veil controversy; Islam & women; Iraq War as a Jihadi recruiting agent etc)"
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| "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO one of the most ambitious feats in scientific historySelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the Sunday Times'This is empirical poetry A fascinating tale of human curiosity beautifully told and with black holes and lasers too' Robin InceIn 1916 Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves miniscule ripples in the very fabric of spacetime generated by unfathomably powerful events If such vibrations could somehow be recorded we could observe our universe for the first time through sound the hissing of the Big Bang the low tones of merging galaxies the drumbeat of two black holes collapsing into one In 2016 a team of hundreds of scientists at work on a billion-dollar experiment made history when they announced the first ever detection of a gravitational wave confirming Einstein's prediction a century ago Based on complete access to LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the scientists who created it Black Hole Blues offers a first-hand account of this astonishing achievement an intimate story of cutting-edge science at its most awe-inspiring and ambitious"
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| "London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London Prize-winning historian novelist and broadcaster Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical geographical and imaginative - through the city of London Moving back and forth through time Ackroyd is an effortless exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence fire and floods crime and punishment and sex and theatre He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the city itself"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "In the summer of 1953 maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic patient named Henry Molaison But it was a catastrophic failure leaving Henry unable to create long-term memories Scoville's grandson Luke Dittrich takes us on an astonishing journey through the history of neuroscience from the first brain surgeries in ancient Egypt to the New England asylum where his grandfather developed a taste for human experimentation Dittrich's investigation confronts unsettling family secrets and reveals the dark roots of modern neuroscience raising troubling questions that echo into the present day"
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| "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 |
