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| "Gothic Short Stories by Wordsworth Editions Ltd (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair University of Kent at Canterbury Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write Gothic' stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational the supernatural and the bizarre which had been neglected in the Age of Reason' This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost- and-horror-story Work by writers such as Poe Dickens Hawthorne Gaskell and M R James appears alongside that of anonymous writers from the start of the period and many lesser-known authors from Britain and America Some of these stories like the haunting The Lame Priest' are lost masterpieces' and several have never been anthologised before Together they cover the spectrum of Gothic story-telling - tales of madness and violence of shape-shifters and spectres that express some of the deepest fears of the human mind - insanity sexuality death and the often terrible power of the past to catch up with the present In a lively authoritative introduction David Blair provides fresh insights and a detailed commentary on the stories' place in the complex traditions of Gothic writing in British and American literature"
Price: 2.99 |
| "The Island of Doctor Moreau and Other Stories" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Emily Alder Lecturer in Literature and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University'Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain I say this time I will burn out all the animal this time I will make a rational creature of my own!' declares Doctor Moreau to hapless narrator Edward Prendick Moreau's highly controversial methods and ambitions conflict with the religious moral and scientific norms of his day and Wells later called The Island of Doctor Moreau 'a youthful exercise in blasphemy' Today his vivid depictions of the Beast People still strike modern readers with an uncanny glimpse of the animal in the human while the behaviour of humans leave us wondering who is the most monstrous after all This volume unites four of Wells' liveliest and most engaging tales of the strange evolution and behaviour of animals - including human beings The Island of Doctor Moreau is followed by three fantastic yet chillingly plausible short stories of human-animal encounters The Empire of the Ants is a darkly humorous account of intelligent Amazonian ants threatening to displace humans as 'the lords of the future and masters of the earth' In The Sea Raiders the south coast of England is terrorized by an unwelcome visit from deep-sea predator Haploteuthis ferox while AEpyornis Island provides a marooned egg collector with an unusual companion"
Price: 2.99 |
| "KS1 Maths Numeracy Workout Book - Year 1 by CGP Books (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "This CGP Workout Book is packed with enjoyable practice exercises for Year 1 KS1 Maths (ages 5-6) Presented in a fun and friendly style it's a great way to help make sure children have really got to grips with all the important topics Answers are included in a removable section so it's simple to find out how well they're progressing"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Rogue : Book 2 of the Traitor Spy" |
| "Kyralia is facing threats at home and abroad as a rogue killer stalks its capital's streets while the neighbouring kingdom of Sachaka is breeding a rebellion that could destabilise the entire regionHigh Lord Akkarin and Sonea's son Lorkin has a legacy of heroism to live up to but despite his good intentions his incarceration in Sachaka's rebel traitor stronghold could destroy the tenuous peace between the two countries Angered by Lorkin's seeming defection the Sachakans blame the Kyralian ambassador Danny--and they are a savage people when rousedAnd back home in the University two young novices are about to remind the Guild that sometimes their greatest enemy comes from within"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November) : The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks" |
| "'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain this book delivers them in easy to swallow bite-sized chunks' - Best of BritishA bestseller in 2008 Remember Remember has continued to enlighten and entertain readers wanting to brush up on their history Lively exciting full of great stories and humorous asides this book looks at the key events in British history covering all the important dates people and events Each subject is presented in short self-contained 'articles' designed to be dipped into on the readers whim Concise and authoritative Remember Remember makes history interesting and accessible for everyone once again"
Price: 5.49 |
| "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything Paperback" |
| "God Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos Above all Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without &39;him&39;"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Birds And Other Stories by Daphne Du Maurier (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "How long he fought with them in the darkness he could not tell but at last the beating of the wings about him lessened and then withdrew 'A classic of alienation and horror 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world The mountain paradise of 'Monte Verita' promises immortality but at a terrible price; a neglected wife haunts her husband in the form of an apple tree; a professional photographer steps out from behind the camera and into his subject's life; a date with a cinema usherette leads to a walk in the cemetery; and a jealous father finds a remedy when three's a crowd"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont: A Virago Modern Classic by Elizabeth Taylor (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeA humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young manOn a rainy Sunday in January the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip Together upper lips stiffened they fight off their twin enemies boredom and the Grim Reaper Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer Ludo who sees her as inspiration for his novel"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Into the Forest by Anthony Browne (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "A shortcut through the forest to Grandma's house produces some eerie moments - and some oddly familiar characters - in a strikingly illustrated tale about facing fearsOne night a boy is woken by a terrible sound A storm is breaking lightning flashing across the sky In the morning Dad is gone and Mum doesn't seem to know when he'll be back The next day Mum asks her son to take a cake to his sick grandma Don't go into the forest she warns Go the long way round But for the first time the boy chooses to take the path into the forest where he meets a variety of fairy tale characters"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Beautiful Quilling Step-by-Step by Judy Cardinal, Janet Wilson, Jane Jenkins, Diane Boden Crane (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Four experienced paper crafters show you everything you need to make your own quilled characters wildflowers and motifs to decorate your craftwork A comprehensive source of innovative ideas each of the many projects is accompanied by full step-by-step techniques Start from the beginning with clear explanations of the basics of quilling and build up to make everything from chocolate drops to angels taking in frogs and hot air balloons along the way!"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Fifty Dead Men Walking: The Heroic True Story of a British Secret Agent Inside the IRA by Martin McGartland (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "For more than four years Martin McGartland lived the astonishing double life of a secret agent To the IRA he was a trusted Intelligence Office and an integral member of an active service unit To the British Government however he was known only as 'Agent Carol' Martin McGartland is credited by British Intelligence with saving the lives of at least fifty people Every time he tipped off the authorities he risjed detection and yet heroically and fearlessly he continued to pass on life-saving information Finally his cover was blown Martin was taken from Sinn Fein headquarters in Belfast to an IRA safehouse for questioning and almost certain execution Though guarded by armed men in a desperate bid for freedom he dived from a third floor windowThis breathtaking story is now a major film starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Augustus and His Smile" |
| "Augustus the tiger was sad He had lost his smile So he did a huge tigery stretch and set off to find it In this book the author and illustrator Catherine Rayner celebrates the beauty of the world and the simple happiness it brings us when we open our eyes to it"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Postcards from The New Yorker : One Hundred Covers from Ten Decades" |
| "The New Yorker was launched in 1925 and offers reporting criticism essays fiction poetry humour and cartoons From the very outset the founders Harold Ross and Jane Grant declared that their sophisticated magazine was 'not edited for the old lady in Dubuque' The New Yorker has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Cheever Roald Dahl Alice Munro Haruki Murakami Vladimir Nabokov J D Salinger and Shirley Jackson From the very first issue the now iconic monocled dandy Eustace Tilley made The New Yorker's covers unique and pointed These signature traits have continued right up to the present day in the striking and sometimes controversial covers from such artists as Peter Arno William Steig Saul Steinberg Jean-Jacques Sempe and Art SpiegelmanSelected by Francoise Mouly"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Fox and the Star Hardcover" |
| "Waterstones Book of the Year 2015From an award-winning designer comes an original fable about need and loss Once there was a Fox who lived in a deep dense forest For as long as Fox could remember his only friend had been Star who lit the forest paths each night But then one night Star was not there and Fox had to face the forest all alone The Fox and the Star is a work of prose and design each page thoughtfully created by Coralie Bickford-Smith"
Price: 11.99 |
| "Violence by Slavoj Zizek (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx Engel and Lacan as well as frequent references to popular culture he examines the real causes of violent outbreaks like those seen in Israel and Palestine and in terrorist acts around the world Ultimately he warns doing nothing is often the most violent course of action we can take"
Price: 6.99 |
| "What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful by Marshall Goldsmith (Paperback,..." |
| "Your hard work is paying off You are doing well in your field But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement That something may just be one of your own annoying habitsPerhaps one small flaw - a behaviour you barely even recognise - is the only thing that's keeping you from where you want to be It may be that the very characteristic that you believe got you where you are - like the drive to win at all costs - is what's holding you back As this book explains people often do well in spite of certain habits rather than because of them-and need a to stop list rather than one listing what to do Marshall Goldsmith's expertise is in helping global leaders overcome their unconscious annoying habits and become more successful His one-on-one coaching comes with a six-figure price tag - but in this book you get his great advice for much less Recently named as one of the world's five most-respected executive coaches by Forbes he has worked with over 100 major CEOs and their management teams at the world's top businesses His clients include corporations such as Goldman Sachs Glaxo SmithKline Johnson and Johnson and GE"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Adventures of Odysseus" |
| "As Odysseus fights to find his way back home after the long and brutal Trojan War he has to endure harrowing ordeals and adventures and come to terms with devastating losses Storytellers Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden's graphic retelling breathes new life into this great classic"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Rugby Warrior: Back in School. Back in Sport. Back in Time by Gerard Siggins (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "It's a new school term and Eoin Madden has new responsibilities He's now captain of the Under 14s team and has to deal with friction between his friend Rory and new boy Dylan as they thrash it out for a place as scrum-half And away from the pitch Eoin has his hands full He starts work on a project about Irish-born All Black Dave Gallaher who died in World War I Then history becomes reality when an old book brings Eoin a lot closer to the rugby legend than he ever thought possible Fast-paced action mysterious spirits and feuding friends - it's a season to remember!"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Great Gatsby (Paperback/Softback, 2016)" |
| "Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion Nick Carraway a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage is intrigued by the mysterious host Jay Gatsby a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship details of Gatsby&39;s impossible love for a married woman emerge until events spiral into tragedyRegarded as Fitzgerald&39;s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the "Jazz Age" as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream"
Price: 4.49 |
| "Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have beenIn these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence a mixture of hope love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Werewolf Club Rules! : And Other Poems" |
| "Do not talk about Werewolf Club!You can howl about itBut never talkDo not walk to Werewolf Club!You can bound to it in moonlightBut never walkFind out the mysterious rules of Werewolf Club how to look like a rainbow what happens when puppies fall in love - and how to fold up your gran! This is an exciting debut poetry collection from a young poet who is already performing his work successfully at venues across the UK"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Grandad's Secret Giant Paperback" |
| "&39;Funny touching and visually stunning this really is a book to treasure&39; Daily Mail A GIANT story of belonging and friendship from David Litchfield author of the Waterstones Illustrated Book Prize 2016 winner The Bear and the Piano "He has hands the size of tables" Grandad said "legs as long as drainpipes and feet as big as rowing boats Do you know who I mean?" "Yes" sighed Billy "The Secret Giant But he&39;s not real!" Billy doesn&39;t believe his Grandad when he tells him there&39;s a giant living in his town doing good deeds for everyone He knows that a giant is too big to keep himself hidden And why would he WANT to keep himself a secret? But as time goes on Billy learns that some secrets are too BIG to stay secret for long This delightful heartfelt story of belonging and friendship teaches the importance of tolerance and acceptance to young children"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Classic Case Studies in Psychology by Geoff Rolls (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "The human mind is both extraordinary and compelling But this is more than a collection of case studies; it is a selection of stories that illustrate some of the most extreme forms of human behaviour From the leader who convinced his followers to kill themselves to the man who lost his memory; from the boy who was brought up as a girl to the woman with several personalities Geoff Rolls illustrates some of the most fundamental tenets of psychology Each case study has provided invaluable insights for scholars and researchers and amazed the public at large Several have been the inspiration for works of fiction for example the story of Kim Peek the real Rain Man This new edition features three new case studies including the story of Charles Decker who was tried for the attempted murder of two people but acquitted on the basis of a neurological condition and Dorothy Martin whose persisting belief in an impending alien invasion is an illuminating example of cognitive dissonance In addition each case study is contextualized with more typical behaviour while the latest thinking in each sub-field is also discussed Classic Case Studies in Psychology is accessibly written and requires no prior knowledge of psychology just an interest in the human condition It is a book that will amaze sometimes disturb but above all enlighten its readers"
Price: 23.99 |
| "The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember by Nicholas Carr (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "In this ground-breaking and compelling book Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology The Shallows draws on the latest research to show that the Net is literally re-wiring our brains inducing only superficial understanding As a consequence there are profound changes in the way we live and communicate remember and socialise - even in our very conception of ourselves By moving from the depths of thought to the shallows of distraction the web it seems is actually fostering ignorance The Shallows is not a manifesto for luddites nor does it seek to turn back the clock Rather it is a revelatory reminder of how far the Internet has become enmeshed in our daily existence and is affecting the way we think This landmark book compels us all to look anew at our dependence on this all-pervasive technology"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Dragon Stew by Steve Smallman (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Five bored vikings went out hiking Looking for adventure for something bold and new So they thought they'd hunt a dragon and then tie it to their wagon Take it home and chop it up to make a dragon stew!' But when the Vikings find their dragon they get a great BIG surprise! A wonderfully funny rhyming picture book from the author of Poo in the Zoo Steve Smallman With hilarious illustrations from Lee Wildish (Pizza for Pirates and Spaghetti with the Yeti) this is the perfect story book for young children - and guaranteed to become a family favourite!"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Grammar: Know Your Shit or Know You're Shit by Joanne Adams (Hardback, 2015)" |
| "Let's eat Grandma' OR Let's eat Grandma'?This fun yet informative book offers bite-sized tips and advice on everything you need to know about grammar - including common misspellings how to use punctuation correctly applying the right tense - and will turn you from a logophobe to a grammarphile in no time!"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Gardening at Longmeadow" |
| "Monty Don made a triumphant return to our screens as presenter of Gardeners' World A firm favourite with viewers Monty's infectious enthusiasm for plants attention to the finer details of gardening technique and easy charm have seen the ratings soar Here Monty invites us into the garden at Longmeadow to show us how he created this beautiful garden and how we can do the same in our own Following the cycle of the seasons Gardening at Longmeadow will introduce readers to the garden from the earliest snowdrops of January through the first splashes of colour in the Spring Garden the electric summer displays of the Jewel Garden the autumn harvest in the orchard and on to a Christmas feast sourced from the vegetable gardens Describing the magic of each area at different times of the year Monty will explain the basics of what to do when and how to get the most from each plant He'll talk through the essential techniques and more complex processes accompanied by easy-to-follow step-by-step photography Longmeadow is a gardeners' garden but this will be a book for gardening enthusiasts of all skill levels who have been inspired by what they've seen and who would like to achieve something similar for themselves"
Price: 17.99 |
| "Slow Stitch : Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art" |
| "The pleasures to be had from slowing down can be many with connections to sustainability simplicity reflection and tuning into traditional and other multicultural textile traditions Slow Stitch is a much-needed guide to adopting a less-is-more approach valuing quality over quantity and bringing a meaningful and thoughtful approach to textile practice Claire Wellesley-Smith introduces a range of ways in which you can slow your textile work down includingUsing simple techniques inspired by traditional practice (including hand-stitch rhythms)Reusing and re-inventing materials (reuse even old textile projects)Limiting your equipmentMending revisited (practical and decorative techniques)Project ideas and resources that help towards making a more sustainable textile practiceRichly illustrated throughout and showcasing work from the best textile artists who work in this way this is a truly inspirational book for those looking to reconnect with their craft and to find a new way of working"
Price: 15.99 |
| "The Little Dictionary of Fashion : A Guide to Dress Sense for Every Woman" |
| "This is the bestselling fashion classic now available in cloth-bound special edition Illustrated with delightful photographs and drawings this beautiful book is the perfect gift for both the style-conscious and the desperately in need! Christian Dior reveals the secrets of style in his indispensable guide that covers everything from what to wear to a wedding and how to tie a scarf to how to walk with grace"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Les Miserables Volume One by Victor Hugo (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Clark University of Kent at Canterbury Translation by Charles E Wilbour (1862) One of the great classics of western literature Les Miserables is a magisterial work which is rich in both character portrayal and meticulous historical description Characters such as the absurdly criminalised Valjean the street urchin Gavroche the rascal Thenardier the implacable detective Javert and the pitiful figure of the prostitute Fantine and her daughter Cosette have entered the pantheon of literary dramatis personae The reader is also treated to the unforgettable descriptions of the Battle of Waterloo and Valjean's flight through the Paris sewers Volume 1 of 2"
Price: 3.99 |
