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| "The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy literature and classical music He is also a former SS intelligence officer and cold-blooded assassin He was an observer and then a participant in Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front he was present at the siege of Stalingrad at the death camps and finally caught up in the overthrow of the Nazis and the nightmarish fall of Berlin His world was peopled by Eichmann Himmler Goering Speer and of course Hitler himself Max is looking back at his life with cool-eyed precision; he is speaking out now to set the record straight"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Very Good, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P. G. Wodehouse (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "A Jeeves and Wooster collectionAn outstanding collection of Jeeves stories every one a winner in which Jeeves endeavours to give satisfaction By saving a grumpy cabinet minister from being marooned and attacked by a swan - in the process saving Bertie Wooster from his impending doomBy rescuing Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop from the soup (twice each)By arranging rather too many performances of the song 'Sonny Boy' to a not very appreciative audienceAnd by a variety of other sparkling stratagems that should reduce you to helpless laughter This early collection shows PGWodehouse at the top of his game writing with sublime wit and delicacy of plotting"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Joy in the Morning: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P. G. Wodehouse (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "A Jeeves and Wooster novelTrapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees For among those present were Florence Craye to whom Bertie had once been engaged and her new fiance 'Stilton' Cheesewright who sees Bertie as a snake in the grass And that biggest blot on the landscape Edwin the Boy Scout who is busy doing acts of kindness out of sheer malevolence All Bertie's forebodings are fully justified For in his efforts to oil the wheels of commerce promote the course of true love and avoid the consequences of a vendetta he becomes the prey of all and sundry In fact only Jeeves can save him"
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| "The Mating Season: (Jeeves & Wooster) by P. G. Wodehouse (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "A Jeeves and Wooster novelAt Deverill Hall an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of King's Deverill impostors are in the air The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled dip in the fountains of Trafalgar Square Bertie is of course one of nature's gentlemen but the stakes are high if all is revealed there's a danger that Gussie's simpering fiancee Madeline may turn her wide eyes on Bertie instead It's a brilliant plan - until Gussie himself turns up imitating Bertram Wooster After that only the massive brain of Jeeves (himself in disguise) can set things right"
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| "Something Fresh : (Blandings Castle)" |
| "This is the first Blandings novel In whuch PG Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth his bone-headed younger son the Hon Freddie Threepwood his log-suffering secretary the Efficient Baxter and Beach the Blandings butler As Wodehouse wrote 'without at least one imposter on the premises Blandings Castle is never itself' In Something Fresh there are two each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket But of course things get a lot more complicated than this"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Ring for Jeeves : (Jeeves & Wooster)" |
| "A Jeeves novelCaptain Biggar big-game hunter and all round tough guy should make short work of the two bookies who have absconded with his winnings after a freak double made him a fortune But on this occasion Honest Patch Perkins and his clerk are not as they seem In fact they're not bookies at all but the impoverished Bill Belfry Ninth Earl of Rowcester and his temporary butler Jeeves Bertie Wooster has gone away to a special school teaching the aristocracy to fend for itself 'in case the social revolution sets in with even greater severity' But Jeeves will prove just as resourceful without his young master and brilliant brainwork may yet square the impossible circle for all concerned"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Aunts Aren't Gentlemen : (Jeeves & Wooster)" |
| "A Jeeves and Wooster novelBertie Wooster has been overdoing metropolitan life a bit and the doctor orders fresh air in the depths of the country But after moving with Jeeves to his cottage at Maiden Eggesford Bertie soon finds himself surrounded by aunts - not only his redoubtable Aunt Dahlia but an aunt of Jeeves's too Add a hyper-sensitive racehorse a very important cat and a decidedly bossy fiancee - and all the ingredients are present for a plot in which aunts can exert their terrible authority But Jeeves of course can cope with everything - even aunts and even the country The final Jeeves and Wooster novel shows PG Wodehouse still able to delight well into his nineties"
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| "I, Alex Cross : (Alex Cross 16)" |
| "Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that his niece Caroline has been found brutally murdered Cross vows to hunt down the killer and soon learns that Caroline was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes And she was not this killer's only victim The hunt for her murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend Detective Brianna Stone to a place where every fantasy is possible if you have the credentials to get in Alex and Bree are soon facing down some very important very protected very dangerous people in levels of society where only one thing is certain - they will do anything to keep their secrets safe As Cross closes in on the killer he discovers evidence that points to the unimaginable - a revelation that could rock the entire world"
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| "Shadows In Bronze : (Falco 2)" |
| "I was the new boy so they saddled me with the worst jobs'Rome AD 71 Against his better judgement Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian then heads for the beautiful Bay of Naples with his best friend Petronius He conveniently forgets to mention to his companion that this will be no holiday They have been sent to investigate the murderous members of a failed coup now sunning themselves in luxurious villas and on fancy yachts The idyllic seaside location further complicates his seemingly doomed romance with Helena Justina The deeper he probes the more it seems Helena is inextricably connected to the elite plotters in ways that the smitten Falco cannot bear to contemplate"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Three Hands In The Fountain : (Falco 9)" |
| "The fountain was not working Nothing unusual in that'Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been blocked - by a gruesomely severed human hand Soon other body parts are being found in the aqueducts and sewers Public panic overcomes official indifference and the Aventine partners are commissioned to investigate Women are being abducted during festivals with the next Games only days away As the heat rises in the Circus Maximus Falco and Petro face a race against time and a strong test of their friendship They know the sadistic killerlurks somewhere on the festive streets of Rome - preparing to strike again"
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| "The Jupiter Myth : (Falco 14)" |
| "To find a drowned man head-first down a well was slightly unusual exciting maybe'For Falco a relaxed visit to Helena's relatives in Britain turns serious at the scene of a downtown murder The renegade henchman of Rome's vital ally King Togidubnus has been stuffed head-first down a barroom well - leading to a tricky diplomatic situation which Falco must defuse One murder leads to others Londinium now has a forum and an amphitheatre; the town is a magnet for legitimate traders - and for criminals from Rome With his vigiles pal Petronius Falco leads the hunt for gangsters who are intent on taking over This will bring unwelcome encounters with faces from the past and grave threats to their present relationships Danger and death lurk throughout their pursuit all the way from the brand new wharves beside the River Thames to the familiar old haunts of organised crime back home in Italy"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Brave New World" |
| "&39;The best science fiction book ever definitely the most prescient Looking at our present trajectory we are on the way to Brave New World&39; Yuval Noah Harari author of Sapiens and Homo Deus‘A masterpiece of speculation As vibrant fresh and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it’ Margaret AtwoodA grave warning Provoking stimulating shocking and dazzling&39; Observer&39;What Aldous Huxley presented as fiction with the human hatcheries of Brave New World has become fact The consequences are profound and if we don&39;t get it right deeply disturbing&39; John Humphries Sunday TimesWITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future the World Controllers have created the ideal society Through clever use of genetic engineering brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old imperfect life still continues may be the cure for his distress Huxley&39;s ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece"
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| "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" |
| "First published in 1962 a year after Revolutionary Road this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today Out of the lives of Manhattan office workers a cab driver seeking immortality frustrated would-be novelists suburban men and their yearning neglected women Richard Yates creates a haunting mosaic of the 1950s the era when the American dream was finally coming true - and just beginning to ring a little hollow"
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| "Revolutionary Road" |
| "Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban life and long to be extraordinary With heartbreaking compassion and clarity Richard Yates shows how Frank and April's decision to change their lives for the better leads to betrayal and tragedy"
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| "The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Imprisoned for a crime he didn&39;t commit Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learnt during his incarceration to mastermind an elaborate plan of revenge that will bring punishment to those he holds responsible for his fate No longer the naive sailor who disappeared into the dark fortress all those years ago he reinvents himself as the charming mysterious and powerful Count of Monte Cristo"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Origin of Species and the Voyage of the Beagle" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DARWIN'S GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER RUTH PADELWhen the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on board the HMS Beagle in 1836 he brought with him the notes and evidence which would form the basis of his landmark theory of evolution of species by a process of natural selection This theory published as The Origin of Species in 1859 is the basis of modern biology and the concept of biodiversity It also sparked a fierce scientific religious and philosophical debate which still continues today"
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| "The Talent Code : Greatness isn't born. It's grown" |
| "'Talent You've either got it or you haven't' Not true actually In The Talent Code award-winning journalist Daniel Coyle draws on cutting-edge research to reveal that far from being some abstract mystical power fixed at birth ability really can be created and nurtured In the process he considers talent at work in venues as diverse as a music school in Dallas and a tennis academy near Moscow to demostrate how the wiring of our brains can be transformed by the way we approach particular tasks He explains what is really going on when apparently unremarkable people suddenly make a major leap forward He reveals why some teaching methods are so much more effective than others Above all he shows how all of us can achieve our full potential if we set about training our brains in the right way"
Price: 6.99 |
| "American Caesars : Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush" |
| "The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century' Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands Now award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the lives of the twelve men from Franklin D Roosevelt to George W Bush who presided over America's imperial fortunes - the good the bad and the truly awful How did these American Caesars reach the White House? What were the challenges they faced when they got there and how did they meet them? And who were these men in their private lives?Compulsively readable packed with unforgettable characters as well as stories lessons and revelations American Caears is essential reading for our times"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Housekeeper and the Professor" |
| "He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him Each morning as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another a strange beautiful relationship blossoms between them The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast but his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son With each new equation the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers and a bond that runs deeper than memory"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic" |
| "First a horse in Brisbane falls ill fever swelling bloody froth Then thirteen others drop dead The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies What is going on?As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic In a journey that takes him from southern China to the Congo from Bangladesh to Australia David Quammen tracks these infections to their source and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth"
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| "Eleanor Of Aquitaine : By the Wrath of God, Queen of England" |
| "Eleanor Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial She was beautiful intelligent and wilful and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance She had been reared in a relaxed and licentious court where the arts of the troubadours flourished and was even said to have presided over the fabled Courts of Love Eleanor married in turn Louis VII of France and Henry II of England and was the mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John She lived to be 82 but it was only in old age that she triumphed over the adversities and tragedies of her earlier years and became virtual ruler of England Eleanor has exerted a fascination over writers and biographers for 800 years but the prevailing myths and legends that attach to her name still tend to obscure the truth By careful research Alison Weir has produced a vivid biography with a fresh and provocative perspective on this extraordinary woman"
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| "The Six Wives Of Henry VIII" |
| "One of the most powerful monarchs in British history Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour In this remarkable composite biography Alison Weir brings Henry&39;s six wives vividly to life revealing each as a distinct and compelling personality in her own right Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition treason and violence"
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| "Nothing To Be Frightened Of" |
| "'I don't believe in God but I miss Him' Julian Barnes' new book is among many things a family memoir an exchange with his philosopher brother a meditation on mortality and the fear of death a celebration of art an argument with and about God and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography' the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Love Letters" |
| "Has Laura found her leading man? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair and The Perfect Match With the bookshop where she works about to close hopeless romantic Laura Horsley in a moment of uncharacteristic recklessness finds herself agreeing to help organise a literary festival deep in the heart of the English countryside But her initial excitement is rapidly followed by a mounting sense of panic when reality sinks in and she realises just how much work is involved - especially when an innocent mistake leads the festival committee to mistakenly believe that Laura is a personal friend of the author at the top of their wish-list Laura might have been secretly infatuated with the infamous Dermot Flynn ever since she studied him at university but travelling to Ireland to persuade the notorious recluse to come out of hiding is another matter Determined to rise to the challenge she sets off to meet her literary hero But all too soon she's confronted with more than she bargained for - Dermot the man is maddening temperamental and up to his ears in a nasty case of writer's block But he's also infuriatingly attractive - and apparently out to add Laura to his list of conquests"
Price: 7.99 |
| "A Perfect Proposal" |
| "Love honour - and obey? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair and The Perfect Match Sophie Apperly has spent her whole life pleasing others - but when she realises her family see her less as indispensable treasure and more as general dogsbody she decides she's had enough So when an old friend offers her the chance of a lifetime she decides to swap Little England for the Big Apple and heads off to the land of opportunity From the moment Sophie hits the bright lights of Manhattan she's determined to enjoy every minute of her big adventure And when fate throws her together with Matilda a spirited grande dame of New York society who invites her to Connecticut for Thanksgiving she willingly accepts English-born Matilda is delighted with her new friend - though her grandson Luke undeniably attractive but infuriatingly arrogant is anything but welcoming When Luke arrives in England a few weeks later Sophie hardly expects him to seek her out But Matilda has hatched some complicated plans of her own - and so Luke has a proposal to make"
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| "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" |
| "In 1982 having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing Murakami began running to keep fit A year later he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon and now after dozens of such races he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing Equal parts travelogue training log and reminiscence this revealing memoir covers his four-month preparation for the 2005 New York City Marathon and settings ranging from Tokyo's Jingu Gaien gardens where he once shared the course with an Olympian to the Charles River in Boston By turns funny and sobering playful and philosophical this is a must-read for fans of this masterful yet private writer as well as for the exploding population of athletes who find similar satisfaction in distance running"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee : An Indian History of the American West" |
| "The American West 1860-1890 years of broken promises disillusionment war and massacre Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land lives and liberty to white settlers pushing westward Woven into a an engrossing saga of cruelty treachery and violence are the fascinating stories of such legendary figures as Sitting Bull Cochise Crazy Horse and Geronimo First published in 1970 Dee Brown's brutal and compelling narrative changed the way people thought about the original inhabitants of America and focused attention on a national disgrace"
Price: 8.99 |
| "England, England" |
| "Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction As every schoolboy knows you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of Wight Grotesque visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that He constructs on the island 'The Project' a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English' from Big Ben to Stonehenge from Manchester United to the white cliffs of Dover The project is monstrous risky and vastly successful In fact it gradually begins to rival 'Old' England and even threatens to supersede it One of Barnes's finest and funniest novels England England calls into question the idea of replicas truth vs fiction reality vs art nationhood myth-making and self-exploration"
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| "Revolution In The Head : The Beatles Records and the Sixties" |
| "As dazzling as the decade they dominated The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it Today their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis and Blur Eloquently giving voice to their time The Beatles quite simply changed the world Fully updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series this acclaimed book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records Drawing on a unique resource of knowledge and experience to 'read' their 241 tracks - chronologically from their first amateur efforts in 1957 to 'Real Love' their final 'reunion' recording in 1995 - Ian MacDonald has created an engrossing classic of popular criticism in which the extraordinary songs of The Beatles remain a central and continually surprising presence"
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| "The Ghost by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Britain's former prime minister is holed up in a remote ocean-front house in America struggling to finish his memoirs when his long-term assistant drowns A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project - a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill Robert Harris is once again at his gripping best with the most controversial new thriller of the decade"
Price: 7.99 |
