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| "Annie Rose Is My Little Sister by Shirley Hughes (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Annie Rose and Alfie have lots of games they like to play together like being scary monsters with Bernard or running their own shop But there are some things Annie Rose is too little to do and even some things Alfie would rather do without her But if Annie Rose is ever sad or cross there is only one person who can make her feel better her big brother This is Shirley Hughes at her best - warm and wonderfully observed illustrations and a touching text about the special bond between siblings"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "As extraordinary an achievement as Cryptonomicon Quicksilver is Neal Stephenson's first novel in his acclaimed Baroque Cycle Neal Stephenson follows his international bestseller the WWII thriller Cryptonomicon with a novel set in the 16th and 17th centuries in a world of war scientific religious and political turmoil With a cast of characters that includes Newton Leibniz Christopher Wren Charles II Cromwell and the young Benjamin Franklin Stephenson again shows his extraordinary ability to get inside a place and time; as he did for the futures of his science fiction (SnowcrashThe Diamond Age) and for WWII (Cryptonomicon) here he does for the England of the Civil War and the Europe of the Wars of Religion and the Scientific Revolution Quicksilver is yet another tour-de-force from a writer who is simply unique"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Beegu by Alexis Deacon (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Beegu is not supposed to be on Earth She is lost She is a friendly little creature but the Earth People don't seem very welcoming at all However so far she has only met the BIG ones The little ones are a different matter"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city Thames Sacred River is the biography of the river from sea to source Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world learning about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks weirs and embankments; bridges docks and palaces Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising and entertaining details and for writing about them in the most magisterial prose; the result is a wonderfully readable and captivating guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it"
Price: 17.49 |
| "London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Much of Peter Ackroyd&39;s work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here as a culmination is his definitive account of the city For him it is a living organism with its own laws of growth and change so London is a biography rather than a history It differs from other histories too in the range and diversity of its contentsAckroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century noting magnificence in both epochs but this is not a simple chronological record There are chapters on the history of silence and the history of light the history of childhood and the history of suicide the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written and confirms Ackroyd&39;s status as what one critic has called &39;our age&39;s greatest London imagination&39;"
Price: 17.49 |
| "Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "On buses donkey carts trains jeeps and camels Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thurbron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Augustus: A Novel by John Williams (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "By the author of Stoner the surprise international bestsellerAfter the brutal murder of his great-uncle Julius Caesar Octavian a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome He is destined despite vicious power struggles bloody wars and family strife to transform his realm and become the greatest ruler the western world had ever seen Augustus Caesar the first Roman Emperor Building on impeccable research John Williams brings the legendary figure of Augustus vividly to life and invests his characters with such profound humanity that we enter completely into the heat and danger of their lives and times"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Caesar's Women" |
| "Book four in the epic Masters of Rome series Rome 68 BC Julius Caesar has proved himself a brilliant general But when he returns to Rome he lays down arms only to take up another battle this time for political power This is a war waged with words plots schemes metaphotical assassinations - but also with seduction and guile Love is just another weapon in Caesar's political arsenal for the key to political glory lies with Rome's noblewomen powerful vindictive Servilia whose son Brutus deeply resents his mother's passionate destructive relationhshiop with Caesar; Rome's revered Vestal Virgins; and even Caesar's own daughter sacrificed on the altar of his ambition"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Arthur & George by Julian Barnes (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes Arsher Ali and Art MalikFrom the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mystery Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age while George remains in hard-working obscurity But as the new century begins they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages This is a novel about low crime and high spirituality guilt and innocence identity nationality and race Most of all it is a profound and moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe what we know and what we can prove"
Price: 8.49 |
| "We: Introduction by Will Self by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELFThe citizens of the One State live in a condition of 'mathematically infallible happiness' D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean blue city state where nature privacy and individual liberty have been eradicated But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable and illegal activities - love and rebellion Banned on its publication in Russia in1921 We is the first modern dystopian novel and a satire on state control that has once again become chillingly relevant"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Poems by William Blake (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY PATTI SMITHWilliam Blake is one of Britain's most fascinating writers who as well as being a groundbreaking poet is also well known as a painter engraver radical and mystic Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps In this collection Patti Smith has collected together her personal selection of Blake's poems including the complete poems from the famous Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience to give a singular picture of this unique genius"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Queen's Husband: (Queen Victoria: Book 3) by Jean Plaidy (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "From the time they were in their cradles Victoria and Albert were destined for each other However the passive Albert is well aware that marriage to a quick-tempered demonstrative young woman like Victoria could result in unnecessary scenes and stormy court feuds And he is right The young Queen as well has having to endure her constant pregnancies is in perpetual revolt against any encroachment on her position - and Albert is doing just that Despite attempts on her life and crises like the Crimean War and the Indian Mutiny her family - Albert and their nine children - is her prime concern The Victorian age is truly under way - but the real power behind the throne was the queen's husband"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Brunelleschi's Dome : The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence" |
| "Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation For over a century after work on the cathedral began in 1296 the proposed dome was regarded as all but impossible to build because of its enormous size The greatest architectural puzzle of its age when finally completed in 1436 the dome was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world It has gone down in history as a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture This book tells the extraordinary story of how the cupola was raised and of the dome&39;s architect the brilliant and volatile Filippo BrunelleschiDenounced as a madman at the start of his labours he was celebrated at their end as a great genius His life was one of ambition ingenuity rivalry and intrigue - a human drama set against the plagues wars political feuds and intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence the glorious era for which the dome remains the most compelling symbol Brunelleschi&39;s Dome was voted Non-Fiction Book of the Year by American Independent Booksellers"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Edgelands by Paul Farley, Michael Symmons Roberts (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The wilderness is much closer than you think Passed through negotiated unnamed unacknowledged the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills lakes and rivers poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits business parks and landfill sites taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious forgotten regions in our midst Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as 'wild' and allows our allotments railways motorways wasteland and water a presence in the world and a strange beauty all of their own"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Journey Into Cyprus by Colin Thubron (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The people their history and the beauty of an island on the brink of tragedy This is the account of a unique journey - a six-hundred-mile trek on foot around Cyprus in the last year of the island's peace Colin Thubron intertwines myth history and personal anecdote in a quest from which the characters and places architecture and landscape all spring vividly to the reader's eye"
Price: 8.99 |
| "How to Cure a Fanatic by Amos Oz (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Includes a new interview with Amos Oz Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism In How To Cure a Fanatic Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society By bringing us face to face with fanaticism he suggests ways in which we can all respond By the winner of the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize previous winners of which include Philip Roth Ivan Klima Elfriede Jelinek Harold Pinter and John Banville"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure by Cedric Villani (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "This man could plainly do for mathematics what Brian Cox has done for physics - Sunday TimesHow does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike?Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as he wrestles with the Boltzmann equation - a new theorem that will eventually win him the most coveted prize in mathematics and a place in the mathematical history books Along the way he encounters obstacles and setbacks losses of faith and even brushes with madness His story is one of courage and partnership doubt and anxiety elation and despair Of ordinary family life blurring with the abstract world of mathematical physics of theories and equations that haunt your dreams and seeking the elusive inspiration found only in a locked darkened room Blending science with history biography with myth Villani conjures up an inimitable cast the omnipresent Einstein mad genius Kurt Godel and Villani's personal hero John Nash Step inside the magical world of Cedric Villani"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Button Box : The Story of Women in the 20th Century Told Through the Clothes They Wore" |
| "A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight&39;s family - each one with its own tale to tell Tracing the story of women at home and in work from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning to the short skirts of the 1960s taking in suffragettes bachelor girls little dressmakers Biba and the hankering for vintage The Button Box lifts the lid on women&39;s lives and their clothes with elegance and wit"
Price: 6.49 |
| "My Life in Houses" |
| "I was born on 25th May 1938 in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road a house on the outer edges of Raffles a council estate I was a lucky girl&39; So begins Margaret Forster&39;s journey through the houses she&39;s lived in from that sparkling new council house to her beloved London home of today This is not a book about bricks and mortar thoughThis is a book about what houses are to us the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings Finally it is a gently insistent personal inquiry into the meaning of home"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Private Life Of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician by Zhisui Li (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "For the first time here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men and ruthless dictators who ever lived Mao Zedong had control over more people for a longer period than any other leader in history In this intimate biography we learn not only about the imperial grandeur of his life in a country racked by poverty and the vicious infighting at his court but also about his extraordinary personal habits that equal those of deceased Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il another infamous and idiosyncratic dictator equally deified and worshipped by his followers Mao's teeth turned black because he would only brush them with tea; he hardly ever bathed but then received Krushchev in his swimming pool where he obliged the Soviet President to join him Li's revealing account also chronicles Mao's voracious sexual appetite that led to the seduction of thousands of peasant women because he believed in the mythical healing power of sex Zhisui Li spent more time with Mao than perhaps any other person He witnessed first-hand the catastrophic events that Mao's dotage and paranoia sparked in a country that revered him as a demi-god The Private Life of Chairman Mao is a landmark biography as fascinating as it is important to the understanding of modern China and a must buy for fans of Wild Swans"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Love, Guilt and Reparation by The Melanie Klein Trust (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Love Guilt and Reparation shows the growth of Melanie Kleins work and ideas between 1921 and 1945 The earlier papers reveal her intense proccupation with the impact of infant anxieties upon child development She traces these influences on criminality and childhood psychosis symbol formation and intellectual inhibition and the early development of conscience In the final paper on the Oedipus complex Klein develops her theories of the earliest infant stages of development extending Freuds analysis of the Oedipus complex and laying a basis for her own subsequent conceptualising of the paranoid-schizoid position in the first six months of life The volume also contains a foreward by Dr Hanna Segal and explanatory notes by the Editorial Board of the Melanie Klein Trust"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Culture And Imperialism by Edward W. Said (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "Following his profoundly influential study Orientalism Edward Said now examines western culture From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War Culture and Imperialism is a broad fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Complete Turtletrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires by Michael W. Covel (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "This is the true story behind Wall Street legend Richard Dennis his disciples the Turtles and the trading techniques that made them millionairesWhat happens when ordinary people are taught a system to make extraordinary money? Richard Dennis made a fortune on Wall Street by investing according to a few simple rules Convinced that great trading was a skill that could be taught to anyone he made a bet with his partner and ran a classified ad in the Wall Street Journal looking for novices to train His recruits later known as the Turtles had anything but traditional Wall Street backgrounds; they included a professional blackjack player a pianist and a fantasy game designer For two weeks Dennis taught them his investment rules and philosophy and set them loose to start trading each with a million dollars of his money By the time the experiment ended Dennis had made a hundred million dollars from his Turtles and created one killer Wall Street legend In The Complete Turtle Trader Michael W Covel bestselling author of Trend Following and managing editor of TurtleTradercom the leading website on the Turtles tells their riveting story with the first ever on the record interviews with individual Turtles He describes how Dennis interviewed and selected his students details their education and experiences while working for him and breaks down the Turtle system and rules in full He reveals how they made astounding fortunes and follows their lives from the original experiment to the present day Some have grown even wealthier than ever and include some of today's top hedge fund managers Equally important are those who passed along their approach to a second generation of Turtles proving that the Turtles' system truly is reproducible and that anyone with the discipline and the desire to succeed can do as well as-or even better than-Wall Street's top hedge fund wizardsIn an era full of slapdash investing advice and promises of hot stock tips for the next big thing as popularized by pundits like Jim Cramer of Mad Money the easy-to-follow objective rules of the TurtleTrader stand out as a sound guide for truly making the most out of your money These rules worked-and still work today-for the Turtles and any other investor with the desire and commitment to learn from one of the greatest investing stories of all time"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha..." |
| "Sex at Dawn challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a big way By examining the prehistoric origins of human sexual behavior the authors are able to expose the fallacies and weaknesses of standard theories proposed by most experts This is a provocative entertaining and pioneering book I learned a lot from it and recommend it highly - Andrew Weil MD Sex at Dawn irrefutably shows that what is obvious-that human beings both male and female are lustful-is true and has always been so The more dubious its evidentiary basis and lack of connection with current reality the more ardently the scientific inevitability of monogamy is maintained-even as it falls away around us - Stanton Peele PhD A controversial idea-driven book that challenges everything you (think you) know about sex monogamy marriage and family In the words of Steve Taylor (The Fall Waking From Sleep) Sex at Dawn is a wonderfully provocative and well-written book which completely re-evaluates human sexual behavior and gets to the root of many of our social and psychological ills"
Price: 9.99 |
| "NLP: The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic Programming by Susan Sanders, Tom Hoobyar, Tom Dotz (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) has helped millions to overcome their fears increase their confidence and achieve greater success in their personal and professional lives and relationships Now from the company that created NLP The New Technology of Achievement-one of the bestselling NLP books of all time-comes NLP The Essential Guide to Neuro-Linguistic ProgrammingThis user-friendly guide written by three seasoned NLP Master Practitioners and coaches leads you on a personal journey in using and applying NLP in everyday life Through their real-life stories you will experience the NLP strategies you need to achieve specific results in business and in lifeAs you read NLP The Essential Guide you'll find yourself thinking in new ways and applying the techniques to your own personal challenges and opportunities for greater satisfaction"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Forager Handbook by Miles Irving (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "At any time in any place food is there for the taking - if only we knew how and where to look Miles Irving makes his living out of foraging - in this unique authentic guide he reveals the how why what and where of this lost art a way of life that is becoming increasingly popular as more and more of us pursue an eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle This ground-breaking handbook tells you how to recognise the rich variety of wild food that surround us whether in the city or countryside From wasteground to woodland from clifftop to coastland edible plants flourish year in year out Spring is when wild garlic flourishes in shady woodlands; summer is the time for marsh samphire in the salt-marshes; autumn heralds an abundance of fruits and nuts Many of these plants - nettles dandelions fat hen sorrel - grow so profusely they are considered a nuisance Yet they offer fantastic food possibilities and are rich in nutrients Assiduously researched packed with information and enlivened with anecdotes and more than 330 photographs The Forager Handbook is a milestone publication marking the way forward for the future of British food And for each plant family Miles gives ideas for using foraged ingredients in the kitchen With recipes from some of the most exciting chefs working in Britain today including Sam and Sam Clark Mark Hix and Richard Corrigan and coverage of techniques like drying pickling and making cordials this book will take readers on a voyage of discovery Foraging was something our ancestors did instinctively - this book truly connects us with our past and our future Discover a secret world of edible possibilities - all freely available"
Price: 20.49 |
| "Pass The Jam, Jim by Kaye Umansky (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "A rhyming picture book in which a group of children prepare for a party The bright action-packed illustrations feature all kinds of delicious food"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery deceit and - at St Albans Blore Hill and Towton - some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's soil Between 1455 and 1487 the royal coffers were bankrupted and the conflict resulted in the downfall of the houses of Lancaster and York and the emergence of the illustrious Tudor dynasty Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history on the people and personalities involved in the conflict At the centre of the book stands Henry VI the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos Richard Plantagenet Duke of York and Henry's rival and most important of all Margaret of Anjou Henry's wife who took up her arms in her husband's cause and battled for many years in a violent man's world"
Price: 9.49 |
| "From A Clear Blue Sky by Timothy Knatchbull (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "A powerful survivor's account of the IRA bomb that killed the author's 14-year-old twin brother his grandparents and a family friend published on the 30th anniversary of the atrocity Winner of the 2011 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Award and nominated for the 2009-2010 PENJR Ackerley prize On the August bank holiday weekend in 1979 14-year-old Timothy Knatchbull went out on a boat trip off the shore of Mullaghmore in County Sligo Ireland It was a trip that would cost four lives - and change his own for ever The IRA bomb that exploded in their boat killed Knatchbull's grandfather Lord Mountbatten his grandmother Lady Brabourne his twin brother Nicholas and local teenager Paul Maxwell In telling this story for the first time Knatchbull is not only revisiting the terrible events he and his family lived through but also writing an intensely personal account of human triumph over tragedy For thirty years Knatchbull has lived with the echoes of that day the death of the twin from whom he had been inseparable; the loss of his adored grandparents whose funerals along with his twin's he and his parents were too injured to attend; the recovery from physical wounds; and the emotional legacy that proved harder to endure In From A Clear Blue Sky Timothy Knatchbull delves into his past present and future and reveals a story of courage and fortitude as he his family and their English and Irish friends dealt with the shocking assassinations and their aftermath Taking place in Ireland at the height of the Troubles it gives a compelling insight into that period of Irish history But more importantly it brings home that although tragedy can strike at any moment the human spirit is able to recover and evolve over time This book about truth and reconciliation unflinching in its detail asks searching questions about why human beings inflict misery on others and holds lessons about how we can learn to forgive to heal and to move on It will resonate with readers the world over"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit by Wendy Doniger (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu who saves mankind from destruction and the mischievous child Krishna alongside stories of the minor gods demons rivers and animals including boars buffalo serpents and monkeys Immensely varied and bursting with colour and life they demonstrate the Hindu belief in the limitless possibilities of the world - from the teeming miracles of creation to the origins of the incarnation of Death who eventually touches them all"
Price: 7.99 |
