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| "Green Hills Of Africa" |
| "Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway&39;s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933 Hemingway&39;s well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was even then being threatened by the incursions of man"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Far From The Tree : Parents, Children and the Search for Identity" |
| "WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree But what happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families covering subjects including deafness dwarfs Down's Syndrome Autism Schizophrenia disability prodigies children born of rape children convicted of crime and transgender people Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courageous choices Difference is potentially isolating but Far from the Tree celebrates repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction and eleven other national awards Winner of the Green Carnation Prize"
Price: 13.99 |
| Underground |
| "In spite of the perpetrators' intentions the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day He also interviews members and ex-members of the doomsdays cult responsible in the hope that they might be able to explain the reason for the attack and how it was that their guru instilled such devotion in his followers"
Price: 7.49 |
| "How To Live Forever" |
| "Colin Thompson's books are mystical and complex they will appeal to children and adults alike and demand to be returned to as there is always a new image to see something more to catch the eye Peter and his family live among the Quinces in the cookery section of a mystical library and at night when the library comes to life Peter ventures out of his home to find a missing volume How To Live Forever"
Price: 5.99 |
| Money |
| "This is the story of John Self consumer extraordinaire Rolling around New York and London he makes deals spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites alcohol tobacco pills pornography a mountain of junk food and more Ceaselessly inventive and thrillingly savage this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money the terrible things it can do and the disasters it can precipitate"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Longest Memory" |
| "Written in taut poetic language THE LONGEST MEMORY is set on a Virginian plantation in the 19th century and tells the tragic story of a rebellious fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules in learning to read and write in falling in love with a white girl the daughter of his owner and finally in trying to escape and join her in the free North For his attempt to flee he is whipped to death in front of his family and this brutal event is the pivot around which the story evolves"
Price: 6.99 |
| "First Man In Rome" |
| "The first book in the epic Masters of Rome series Rome 110BC A city which is home to Gaius Marius prosperous but lowborn a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth It is also home to Lucius Cornelius Sulla a handsome young aristocrat corrupted by powerty a shameless pleasure seeker Two men of extraordinary vision men of ruthless ambition both blessed and cursed by the special favour of Fortune men fated to lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known and to play out a mighty struggle for power and glory - for Marius and Sulla share a formidable ambition to become First Man in Rome"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Time Traveler's Wife" |
| "This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty Impossible but true because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control Henry and Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Power of the Dog" |
| "Drug lord Miguel Angel Barrera is head of the Mexican drug federacion responsible for millions of dollars worth of cocaine traffic into the US and the torture of those who stand in its way His nephew Adan Barrera is his worthy successor Art Keller is a US government operative so determined to obtain revenge for a murdered colleague that his pursuit of the cartel veers dangerously towards an obsession outside the law This is a world characterised by its brutality yet all Winslow's incredibly varied cast - including a high class prostitute an Irish hitman and a charismatic Catholic priest - are all in their own ways searching for salvation Don Winslow's masterpiece is not only a page-turning thriller but also a rich and compelling novel in the league of an Ellroy or Delillo"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Regency Buck" |
| "It is in regrettable circumstances that beautiful Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine first encounter Julian St John Audley The man they both agree is an insufferably arrogant dandy But unfortunately for them he is also the Fifth Earl of Worth a friend of the Regent and quite by chance their legal guardian Delightfully witty and romantic Regency Buck shows all the skills which made Georgette Heyer the most widely read and loved author of historical romances in the world and which have made another generation fall in love with her all over again"
Price: 6.49 |
| Arabella |
| "An enchanting debutante and the eldest daughter of an impoverished country parson Arabella embarks on her first London season Armed with beauty virtue and a benevolent godmother (as well as a notoriously impetuous temper) she quickly runs afoul of Robert Beaumaris the most eligible Nonpareil of the day When he accuses her of being yet another pretty female after his wealth Arabella allows herself to be provoked - into a deceitful charade that might have quite unexpected consequences Arabelle is a tale of Regency romance from the creator - and still the best writer - of this beloved genre"
Price: 6.49 |
| Venetia |
| "In all her twenty-five years lovely Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate nor enjoyed the attentions of any but her two wearisomely persistent suitors Then in one extraordinary encounter she meets a neighbour she only knows by reputation - the infamous Lord Damerel - and before she knows better is egging on a libertine whose way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of the most successful and best-loved romantic novelists of her age and why her popularity endures to this day"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Devil's Cub" |
| "The excesses of the young Marquis of Vidal are even wilder than his father's before him Not for nothing is the reckless duellist and gamester called 'the Devil's Cub' But when he is forced to leave the country Mary Challoner discovers his fiendish plan to abduct her sister And only by daring to impersonate her can Mary save her sibling from certain ruin Georgette Heyer's wonderful characters and stories made her the undisputed queen of the historical romance and an international bestseller still loved today by a huge readership"
Price: 6.49 |
| Trainspotting |
| "The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle's hit filmChoose us Choose life Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth Choose rotting away pishing and shiteing yersel in a home a total fuckin embarrassment tae the selfish fucked-up brats ye've produced Choose life"
Price: 6.49 |
| "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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| "The Name Of The Rose" |
| "The year is 1327 Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigateWhen his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths Brother William turns detective He collects evidence deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the over of night A spectacular popular and critical success The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Understanding Power : The Indispensable Chomsky" |
| "Noam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the pre-eminent public intellectuals of the modern era Over the past thirty years broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sell-out lectures Now in Understanding Power Peter R Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's talks on the past present and future of the politics of power In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions - published here for the first time - Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades covering topics from foreign policy during the Vietnam War to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration And as he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and social inequalities at home Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change With an eye to political activism and the media's role in popular struggle as well as US foreign and domestic policy Understanding Power is definitive Chomsky"
Price: 12.49 |
| "Black Moth" |
| "Jack Carstares the disgraced Earl of Wyncham left England seven long years ago sacrificing his honour for that of his brother when he was accused of cheating at cards Now he is back roaming his beloved South Country in the disguise of a highwayman Not long after his return he encounters his old adversary the libertine Duke of Andover just in time to dispute at the point of his sword the attempted abduction of a society beauty But foiled once the 'Black Moth' has no intention of failing again With this peerlessly romantic and dashing story shows Georgette Heyer's great skills fully formed even at an incredibly young age - and how she was set to work over the hearts of readers around the world"
Price: 6.49 |
| "To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "THE ORIGINAL TEXT&39;Shoot all the Bluejays you want if you can hit &39;em but remember it&39;s a sin to kill a Mockingbird&39; Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of this classic novel - a black man charged with attacking a white girl Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch Lee explores the issues of race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s with compassion and humour She also creates one of the great heroes of literature in their father whose lone struggle for justice pricks the conscience of a town steeped in prejudice and hypocrisy Read the sequel to this book Go Set a Watchman"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Foundling" |
| "The shy young Duke of Sale has never known his parents Instead his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware (Gilly for short) has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling form his uncle and valet But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit So when Gilly hears of Belinda the beautiful foundling who appears to be blackmailing his cousin he absconds with glee No sooner has he entered this new and dangerous world than he is plunged into a frenzy of intrigue kidnap and adventure For over fifty years Georgette Heyer was the undisputed queen of historical romantic fiction The Foundling shows all of her wonderful talents at their best and how she won a huge audience that continues to this day"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Earthly Powers" |
| "Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties In this epic masterpiece Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it"
Price: 8.99 |
| Saturday |
| "Saturday February 15 2003 Henry Perowne a successful neurosurgeon stands at his bedroom window before dawn and watches a plane - ablaze with fire like a meteor - arcing across the London sky Over the course of the following day unease gathers about Perowne as he moves amongst hundreds of thousands of anti-war protestors in the post-911 streets A minor car accident brings him into confrontation with Baxter a fidgety aggressive man who to Perowne's professional eye appears to be profoundly unwell But it is not until Baxter makes a sudden appearance at the Perowne family home that Henry's earlier fears seem about to be realised"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Don Quixote Paperback / softback" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD BLOOMWidely regarded as the world&39;s first modern novel and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire Sancho Panza as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain Unless you read Spanish you&39;ve never read Don Quixote"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Sophie's Choice" |
| "In this extraordinary novel Stingo an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb There he meets Nathan a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic Stingo is drawn into the heart of their passionate and destructive relationship as witness confidant and supplicant Ultimately he arrives at the dark core of Sophie's past her memories of pre-war Poland the concentration camp and - the essence of her terrible secret - her choice"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "This title is presented with introductions by Valentine Cunningham And Carol Ann Duffy In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman&39;s life Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she is to give that evening As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) Paperback" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSONSet in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him Joseph Heller&39;s bestselling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness and the tale of one man&39;s efforts to survive it"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Collector" |
| "Withdrawn uneducated and unloved Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs He is obsessed with a beautiful stranger the art student Miranda When he wins the pools he buys a remote Sussex house and calmly abducts Miranda believing she will grow to love him in time Alone and desperate Miranda must struggle to overcome her own prejudices and contempt if she is understand her captor and so gain her freedom"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Daydreamer (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Peter Fortune is a daydreamer He&39;s a quiet ten year old who can&39;t help himself from dropping out of reality and into the amazing world of his vivid imagination His daydreams are fantastic and fascinating - only in the bizarre and disturbing world of dreams can he swap bodies with the family cat and his baby cousin Kenneth or wipe out his entire family with vanishing cream"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Stars' Tennis Balls" |
| "Ned Maddstone has the world at his feet He is handsome talented and about to go to Cambridge after which he is expected to follow his father into politics But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school results in a prank that goes badly wrong and suddenly he's incarcerated - without chance of release So begins a year long process of torment and hopelessness which will destroy his very identity until almost nothing remains of him but this unquenchable desire for revenge Inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo Fry's psychological thriller is written with the pace wit and shrewd insight that we have come to expect from one of our finest novelists"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Runaway (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite collection Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro&39;s writing Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love about lost children lost chances There is pain and desolation beneath the surface like a needle in the heart which makes these stories more powerful and compelling than anything she has written before Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009"
Price: 7.49 |
