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| "Our Songbirds : A songbird for every week of the year Hardcover" |
| "In this beautiful follow-up to 2012&39;s hit Our Garden Birds street artist Matt Sewell offers more watercolours and quirky descriptions of British songbirds In Matt&39;s world the peewit sings the blues and the bittern fills his neck &39;like a tweed pair of bellows&39; Distinctive and enchanting with a songbird for each week of the year this delightful gift book will appeal to birders children and adults and art and design fans alike"
Price: 7.49 |
| "NOPI: The Cookbook" |
| "NOPI THE COOKBOOK includes over 120 of the most popular dishes from Yotam's innovative Soho-based restaurant NOPI It's written with long-time collaborator and NOPI head chef Ramael Scully who brings his distinctive Asian twist to the Ottolenghi kitchen Whether you're a regular at the NOPI restaurant and want to know the secret to your favourite dish or are an Ottolenghi fan who wants to try out restaurant-style cooking this is a collection of recipes which will inspire challenge and delight All recipes have been adapted and made possible for the home cook to recreate at home They range in their degree of complexity so there is something for all cooks There are dishes that long-time Ottolenghi fans will be familiar with - a starter of aubergine with black garlic for example or the roasted squash with sweet tomatoes - as well as many dishes which will stretch the home cook as they produce some of the restaurant's signature dishes at home such as Beef brisket croquettes or Persian love rice With chapters for starters & sides fish meat & vegetable mains puddings brunch condiments and cocktails a menu can easily be devised for any occasion and purpose"
Price: 19.99 |
| "Eve Was Framed: Women and British Justice by Helena Kennedy (Paperback, 1993)" |
| "Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned personal critique of the British legal system Helena Kennedy focuses on the treatment of women in our courts - at the prejudices of judges the misconceptions of jurors the labyrinths of court procedures and the influence of the media But the inequities she uncovers could apply equally to any disadvantaged group - to those whose cases are subtly affected by race class poverty or politics or who are burdened even before they appear in court by misleading stereotypes"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Cod by Mark Kurlansky (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "The Cod Wars have been fought over it revolutions have been triggered by it national diets have been based on it economies and livelihoods have depended on it To the millions it has sustained it has been a treasure more precious that gold This book spans 1000 years and four continents From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye Mark Kurlansky introduces the explorers merchants writers chefs and fisherman whose lives have been interwoven with this prolific fish He chronicles the cod wars of the 16th and 20th centuries He blends in recipes and lore from the Middle Ages to the present In a story that brings world history and human passions into captivating focus he shows how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Human Factor" |
| "With a new introduction by Colm ToibinA leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS sparking off the inevitable security checks tensions and suspicions The sort of atmosphere perhaps where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle it is the end of the line anyway and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife Sarah To the lonely isolated neurotic world of the Secret Service Graham Greene brings his brilliance and perception laying bare a machine that sometimes overlooks the subtle and secret motivations that impel us"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Key by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "This is the diary of a middle-aged man who is deeply in love with his younger wife Ikuko In spite of that love the pair have grown physically apart each unsure of the other's desiresuntil the day Ikuko discovers her husband's diary with its desperate hints of jealousy and voyeurism Ikuko realises she has found the key to his very soul"
Price: 6.99 |
| "In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn Sodom and Gomorrah Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Highland Fling by Katie Fforde (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "A fine romance? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love A French Affair and The Perfect Match When 'Virtual Assistant' Jenny Porter's boyfriend accuses her of being impulsive soft-hearted and unbusinesslike dashing off to Scotland to sort out a failing mill for one of her clients may not be the best way of proving him wrong And promising to help run a mobile burger bar before she's even found her feet doesn't help matters When she finds herself determined to save the mill - whatever her client's wishes - it seems that Henry's accusations may have contained more than a grain of truth So when Jenny's awkward encounters with the abrasive but disconcertingly attractive Ross Grant develop into something more complicated - just as Henry arrives in Scotland to reclaim her - it's time for Jenny to make some decisions Should she do the sensible thing and follow Henry back to London? Or is her Highland adventure more than just a fling?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Engleby by Sebastian Faulks (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Mike Engleby has a secret This is the story of Mike Engleby a working-class boy who wins a place at an esteemed English university But with the disappearance of Jennifer the undergraduate Engleby admires from afar the story turns into a mystery of gripping power Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue unlike anything he has ever written before contemporary demotic heart-wrenching - and funny in the deepest shade of black"
Price: 6.49 |
| "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 |
| "Mystery Mile" |
| "A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERYAgatha Christie called her a shining light' Have you discovered Margery Allingham the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery?Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice an upstanding pillar of American society And now he's a man in deadly peril tailed across the Atlantic by the ruthless Simister gang Luckily for Judge Lobbett however he makes the acquaintance of one Albert Campion during his voyage to England The enigmatic amateur sleuth bundles the Judge off to the country house of Mystery Mile where it's a race against time to keep the Simister posse at bay - and to pinpoint the identity of the mastermind behind their criminal empire As urbane as Lord Wimseyas ingenious as Poirot Meet one of crime fiction's Great Detectives Mr Albert Campion"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Grayson Perry: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Girl by Wendy Jones, Grayson Perry (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "Every inch of Grayson&39;s childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes and every surface with models Fantasy took over his life in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear Alan Measles He grew up And in 2003 an acclaimed ceramic artist he accepted the Turner Prize as his alter-ego Clare wearing his best dress with a bow in his hair Now he tells his own story his voice beautifully caught by his friend the writer Wendy Jones Early childhood in Chelmsford Essex is a rural Eden that ends abruptly with the arrival of his stepfather leading to constant swerving between his parents&39; houses and between boys&39; and women&39;s clothes But as Grayson enters art college and discovers the world of London squats and New Romanticism he starts to find himself At last he steps out as a potter and transvestite"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition for both women prostitution meant power Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Signal Close Action : (Richard Bolitho: Book 14)" |
| "When in 1798 Richard Bolitho hoists his broad pendant as commodore of a small squadron and prepares to re-enter the Mediterranean he is soon made aware of his responsibility There are rumours of a massive French armada and of the latest type of artillery - and Bolitho's orders are to seek out the enemy and to discover the intentions of his growing force Without any British bases in the Mediterranean and unable to show favour to old friends Bolitho is well aware that there are others within his ships who are no less dangerous than the enemy - and during the weeks and months in which the squadron faces the hazards of the weather and French broadsides alike Bolitho knows that far more than his own future is at stake A fleet even a nation could depend on his decisions and when he places his squadron between the Nile and the power of France he must accept the price of the challenge"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Unseen World" |
| "'A staggeringly beautiful meditation on love legacy and the emotional necessities that make life worth living' Tea Obreht author of The Tiger's WifeBOSTON 1980Ada Sibelius is twelve years old and home-schooled Her days are spent in a lab with her father David a computer science professor and the brilliant minds of his colleagues David is widely regarded as one of best in his field That is until he starts to forget things When David is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Ada's world falls apart But when he leaves a floppy disk for his beloved daughter she has no idea that the coding within it holds the key to a past that her father refused to talk about Navigating her teenage years without his guidance will Ada be able to piece together the father she lost?"
Price: 7.99 |
| "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 |
| "A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history the Princes in the Tower Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy Newly pregnant she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin Queen Elizabeth I who sees her as a rival to her insecure throne Alone in her chamber in the Tower she finds old papers belonging to a kinswoman of hers Kate Plantagenet who forty years previously had embarked on a dangerous quest to find what really happened to her cousins the two young Princes who had last been seen as captives in the Tower But time is not on Kate's side - nor on Katherine's either"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Fifth Woman: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa A year later Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder - a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles Then another man is reported missing Once again Wallander's life is put on hold as he and his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked"
Price: 7.99 |
| "All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds It's just her her untamed companion Dog and a flock of sheep Which is how she wanted it to be But something is coming for the sheep - every few nights it picks one off leaves it in rags It could be anything There are foxes in the woods a strange boy and a strange man rumours of an obscure formidable beast And there is Jake's unknown past perhaps breaking into the present a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago in a landscape of different colour and sound a story held in the scars that stripe her back Winner of the Miles Franklin AwardWinner of the Encore AwardWinner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered AwardShortlisted for the Costa Novel PrizeShortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial PrizeLonglisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction"
Price: 7.49 |
| "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 |
| "Coot Club by Arthur Ransome (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!' Dick and Dorothea - also known as The Ds - arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to sail They couldn't hope for a better teacher than Tom Dudgeon But Tom is in a spot of trouble After seeing the beastly Margoletta moored clean across the nests of his beloved coots Tom set the motorcruiser adrift Now the enemy have offered a bounty on his head Can they save the birds' nest from almost certain destruction? Will they avoid being caught by the awful Hullabaloos? Only some brave friends and quick thinking stands between them and disaster Includes exclusive material In The Backstory' you can test your knowledge of the book learn about the adventurous author and get some handy facts about birds and boats Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Notes From the Blockade by Lydia Ginzburg (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of survival and resistance An estimated one million civilians died most of them from cold and starvation Lydia Ginzburg a respected literary scholar (who meanwhile wrote prose 'for the desk drawer' through seven decades of Soviet rule) survived Using her own using notes and sketches she wrote during the siege along with conversations and impressions collected over the years she distilled the collective experience of life under siege Through painful depiction of the harrowing conditions of that period Ginzburg created a paean to the dignity vitality and resilience of the human spirit This original translation by Alan Myers has been revised and annotated by Emily van Buskirk This edition includes A Story of Pity and Cruelty' a recently discovered documentary narrative translated into English for the first time by Angela Livingstone"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Story of Music" |
| "Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 In his dynamic tour through 40000 years of music from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened idea by idea so that each musical innovation - harmony notation sung theatre the orchestra dance music recording broadcasting - strikes us with its original force He focuses on what changed when and why picking out the discoveries that revolutionised man-made sound and bringing to life musical visionaries from the little-known Perotin to the colossus of Wagner Along the way he also gives refreshingly clear descriptions of what music is and how it works what scales are all about why some chords sound discordant and what all post-war pop songs have in common"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Europa Blues" |
| "A Greek gangster arrives in Stockholm only to be murdered in a macabre fashion at Skansen zoo his body consumed by animals As the Intercrime Unit - a team dedicated to solving international violent crime - investigate what brought him to Sweden eight Eastern European women vanish from a refugee centre outside of the city while an elderly professor the tattooed numbers on his arm hinting at his terrible past is executed at the Jewish cemetery Three cases one team of detectives and an investigation that will take them across Europe and back through history as they desperately search for answers and the identities of their killers"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Secret Water" |
| "'You'll start with a blank map that doesn't do more than show roughly what's water and what isn't'When the Walker family's holiday plans are ruined by Daddy having to work the whole summer seems lost at sea But a dull holiday for the children is too miserable to bear so their parents hatch a plan The Swallows are to be marooned on an island with only a blank map and a little sailing dinghy Their task? To explore and chart the area avoid the endless mud and survive And what do they discover? Well they might not be as alone as they first thought Includes exclusive content In the 'Backstory' you can find out about some real life explorers! Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds and the adults in their lives Discover timeless favourites from Peter Pan and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Blood on Snow Paperback" |
| "OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams But there are two problems She’s his boss’s wife And Olav’s just been hired to kill her From the bestselling author of BAFTA-nominated Headhunters comes Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Word by Word Picture Dictionary: English/Arabic Edition by Steven J. Molinsky, Bill Bliss (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Program HighlightsMore than 4000 vocabulary words are presented through vibrant illustrations and easy-to-use lessons Extensive coverage of important lifeskill competencies meets standards-based curriculum objectives A careful research-based sequence of lessons integrates development of grammar and vocabulary skills Expanded discussion questions encourage students to share their backgrounds experiences and opinions New WordSongs Music CD included with dictionary extends learning outside the classroom through motivating musical practice New bilingual editions for speakers of Arabic Brazilian Portuguese Chinese Haitian Kreyol Japanese Korean Polish Russian Spanish and Vietnamese Teacher s Guide and Lesson Planner with CD-ROM saves countless hours of planning with instructional support materials in two convenient formats as reproducible masters and on a CD-ROM"
Price: 21.99 |
| "The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "The 'Northern Crusades' inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War are less celebrated than those in the Middle East but they were also more successful vast new territories became and remain Christian such as Finland Estonia and Prussia Newly revised in the light of the recent developments in Baltic and Northern medieval research this authoritative overview provides a balanced and compelling account of a tumultuous era"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "From the award-winning author of The Whisperers Orlando Figes Natasha&39;s Dance A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia&39;s mighty culture Orlando Figes&39; enthralling richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia the lives of those who have shaped its culture and the enduring spirit of a people &39;Wonderfully rich magnificent and compelling a delight to read&39; Antony Beevor &39;A tour de force by the great storyteller of modern Russian historians Figes mobilizes a cast of serf harems dynasties politburos libertines filmmakers novelists composers poets tsars and tyrants superb flamboyant and masterful&39; Simon Sebag-Montefiore Financial Times &39;Awe-inspiring Natasha&39;s Dance has all the qualities of an epic tragedy&39; Mail on Sunday &39;It is so much fun to read that I hesitate to write too much for fear of spoiling the pleasures and surprises of the book&39; Sunday Telegraph &39;Magnificent Figes is at his exciting best&39; Guardian &39;Breathtaking The title of this masterly history comes from War and Peace when the aristocratic heroine Natasha Rostova finds herself intuitively picking up the rhythm of a peasant dance One of those books that at times makes you wonder how you have so far managed to do without it&39; Independent on Sunday &39;Thrilling dizzying I would defy any reader not to be captivated&39; Literary Review Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College University of London He is the author of Peasant Russia Civil War A People&39;s Tragedy Natasha&39;s Dance The Whisperers and Just Send Me Word His books have been translated into over twenty languages"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Vicar of Nibbleswicke by Roald Dahl (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "The Reverend Lee is suffering from a rare and acutely embarrassing condition Back-to-Front Dyslexia It affects only his speech and he doesn't realize he's doing it but the parishioners of Nibbleswicke are shocked and confused by his seemingly outrageous comments At last a cure is found and the mild-mannered vicar can resume normal service Or at least as normal as is possible for a man who must walk backwards to be sure of talking forwards!A highly comic tale in the best Dahl tradition of craziness written for the benefit of the Dyslexia Institute"
Price: 5.49 |
