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| "Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism" |
| "You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism-its drive for example to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it it's imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consumption and its compulsion to exploit nature to the point of extinction These are the tensions which underpin the persistence of mass unemployment the downward spirals of Europe and Japan and the unstable lurches forward of China and India Not that the contradictions of capital are all bad they can lead to the innovations that make capitalism resilient and it seems permanent Yet appearances can deceive while many of capital's contradictions can be managed others will be fatal to our society This new book is both an incisive guide to the world around us and a manifesto for change"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Essex Serpent : The number one bestseller and British Book Awards Book of the Year" |
| "THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROverall Book of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2017 (Nibbies)Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for FictionThe Waterstones Book of the Year 2016Shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel AwardLondon 1893 When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness Along with her son Francis - a curious obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge On arrival rumours reach them that the mythical Essex Serpent once said to roam the marshes claiming lives has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter Cora a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for superstition is enthralled convinced that what the local people think is a magical beast may be a yet-undiscovered species As she sets out on its trail she is introduced to William Ransome Aldwinter's vicar who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours but thinks they are a distraction from true faith As he tries to calm his parishioners Will and Cora strike up an intense relationship and although they agree on absolutely nothing they find themselves at once drawn together and torn apart affecting each other in ways that surprise them both The Essex Serpent is a celebration of love and the many different shapes it can take"
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| "Night Trains : The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper" |
| "Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments gilded dining cars champagne bars and wealthy travellers Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes The reality could often be as thrilling early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot) In Night Trains Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents This is no simple matter The night trains have fallen on hard times and the services are disappearing one by one But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post the sun rising over the Riviera or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail By tracing the history of the sleeper trains he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times' with Brexit looming Against this tumultuous backdrop he experiences his own smaller dramas as he fails to find crucial connecting stations ponders the mystery of the compartment dog and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Fourth Doctor Adventures - The Eternal Battle : 6.2" |
| "This range of two-part audio dramas stars Tom Baker reprising his most popular role as the Fourth Doctor (from 1974 -1981) with a number of his original TV companions This fifth series reunites the Doctor with Romana (Lalla Ward) a fellow Time Lord for adventures across Time and Space! The TARDIS has landed in a war zone The Doctor Romana and K9 find themselves traipsing through an inhospitable battlefield Strange lights flicker in the sky and stranger creatures lurk in the darkness When rescued from an attack by a Sontaran tank the time-travellers discover they're facing a far more dangerous foe than the battle-hungry clones This terrifying fight has been going on longer than anyone can rememberand shows no signs of stopping With the TARDIS missing and their luck running thin the Doctor and his friends' only hope of survival is to uncover the truth about what is happening on this planet If they can discover the secret of the eternal battle they might just survivebut it might just mean the end of them all The sixth series in a Big Finish range which is hugely popular with fans young and old of the classic TV series Doctor Who This pairing of the Doctor and companion Romana harks back to the most-watched period of Doctor Who one that to a generation is the most loved and iconic and which broke the records for viewers of the show The monsters of this story - the Sontarans - are vicious war-obsessed creaturesand massive fan favourites! Guest star Dan Starkey has played a number of them in the new Doctor Who TV series CAST Tom Baker (The Doctor) Lalla Ward (Romana) John Leeson (K9) Dan Starkey (The Sontarans) John Banks (Brennan)"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Calm Birth Method : Your Complete Guide to a Positive Hypnobirthing Experience" |
| "Discover tried-and-tested techniques to help you relax during labour so that you can work with your body for an empowering positive birth Birth is a natural and normal event and while it can be unpredictable this book will show you how you can make it a gentle and enjoyable experience In The Calm Birth Method hypnobirthing expert Suzy Ashworth helps you to build confidence in your body and its abilities and shares practical techniques to support you so that no matter what happens you feel prepared Walking you and your birth partner through the whole process of birth preparation Suzy explores Why many women feel so scared of giving birth and how to eliminate these fears during pregnancy How relaxing your mind and body during birth transforms your physiology Practical tools and techniques to promote deep relaxation and mindfulness How to unify birth partners and care providers to ensure the birthing environment is stress-free and has the most conducive set up for a calm and relaxing birth Breathing techniques and visualizations to help with the sensations of birth Take the power back into your own hands so that you can learn to trust your body and look forward to welcoming your child into the world with confidence"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Saint's Blood : The Greatcoats Book 3" |
| "'High energy highly unique swashbuckling-cop-epic-noir story Buy it BUY IT NOW' Sam SykesThe Greatcoats are back - and this time it's personalHow do you kill a Saint? Falcio Brasti and Kest are about to find out as someone is doing just that and they've started with a friendThe Dukes were already looking for ways to weasel out of their promise to put Aline on her father's throne - but with Saints turning up dead and Church Inquistitors pushing for control - rumours are spreading that the Gods themselves oppose her ascensionThe only way Falcio can stop the country turning into a vicious theocracy is to find and stop the Saint-killer - but his only clue is the iron mask encasing the head of the Saint of Mercy which prevents her from speaking And even if he can find the murderer he will still have to face them in battle - and this may be a duel that no swordsman no matter how skilled can win"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Lonely City : Adventures in the Art of Being Alone" |
| "SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 GORDON BURN PRIZECHOSEN AS 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' BYObserverGuardianTelegraphIrish TimesNew StatesmanTimes Literary SupplementHeraldWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences she began to explore the lonely city by way of art Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most compelling artists Laing conducts an electric dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Not My Father's Son : A Family Memoir" |
| "'One of the most memorable heart-stopping autobiographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRYWINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2015THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERATTITUDE MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEARA beloved star of stage and screen Alan Cumming's life and career have been shaped by a complex and dark family past - full of troubled memories kept buried away But then an unexpected phone call from his long-estranged father brought the pain of the past hurtling back into the present and unravelled everything he thought he knew about himself Not My Father's Son is the story of his journey of discovery both a memoir of his childhood in Scotland and an investigation into his family history which would change him forever'Equal parts memoir whodunnit and manual for living beautifully written honest I was completely sucked in' NEIL GAIMAN"
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| Montaigne |
| "'He who thinks freely for himself honours all freedom on earth'Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found in a damp cellar a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation helping him make sense of his own life and his obsessions-with personal freedom with the sanctity of the individual Through his writings on suicide he would also finally lead Zweig to his deathWith the intense psychological acuity and elegant prose so characteristic of Zweig's fiction this account of Montaigne's life asks how we ought to think and how to live It is an intense and wonderful insight into both subject and biographer"
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| "The Tokyo Zodiac Murders" |
| "Japan 1936 An old eccentric artist living with seven women has been found dead- in a room locked from the inside His diaries reveal alchemy astrology and a complicated plan to kill all seven women Shortly afterwards the plan is carried out the women are found dismembered and buried across rural JapanBy 1979 these Tokyo Zodiac Murders have been obsessing a nation for decades but not one of them has been solved A mystery-obsessed illustrator and a talented astrologer set off around the country - and you follow carrying the enigma of the Zodiac murderer through madness missed leads and magic tricks You have all the clues but can you solve the mystery before they do?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig" |
| "A casual introduction a challenge to a simple game of chess a lovers' reunion a meaningless infidelity from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales-meditations on the fragility of love the limits of obsession the combustibility of secrets and betrayalTo read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection the power of his writing-which with its unabashed intensity and narrative drive made him one of the bestselling and most acclaimed authors in the world-is clear and irresistible Each of these stories is a bolt of experience unforgettable and unique"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Record of a Night Too Brief" |
| "The Akutagawa Prize-winning stories from the author of Strange Weather in TokyoIn these three haunting and lyrical stories three young women experience unsettling loss and romanceIn a dreamlike adventure one woman travels through an apparently unending night with a porcelain girlfriend mist-monsters and villainous monkeys; a sister mourns her invisible brother whom only she can still see while the rest of her family welcome his would-be wife into their home; and an accident with a snake leads a shop girl to discover the snake-families everyone else seems to be concealingSensual yearning and filled with the tricks of memory and grief Record of a Night Too Brief is an atmospheric trio of unforgettable tales"
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| "Storm Singing and Other Tangled Tasks by Lari Don (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "A centaur a selkie a fairy and a phoenix -- Helen has unusual friends And in this incredible quest they face some even stranger opponents from mermaids to angry killer whales Helen must help Rona the selkie to win the most important contest of the ocean world and stop the deep sea powers from going to war But who is trying to sabotage the competition and why?Can Helen and the fabled beasts find the real villain and prevent the most devastating storm the world has ever seen?The third thrilling instalment of the bestselling Fabled Beast Chronicles an exciting four-book adventure series starring creatures from myth and legend introduces new fabled beasts from the wild north of Scotland"
Price: 5.49 |
| Trespassers |
| "Tristan and Dylan have escaped the afterlife But fate never meant for them to live Dylan should have been killed in a horrific train crash Tristan should still be a Ferryman an immortal Now living in bodies they have no right to inhabit they discover they're connected by something stronger than love Their souls are bound together Alone they'll die When they broke through the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead they defied the laws of the supernatural world and showed the way for others to escape Now they must face the consequences Can true love transcend destiny?Trespassers continues the epic love story of Dylan and Tristan in the stunning sequel to the truly original award-winning debut novel Ferryman This is a love story like no other beautifully told richly imagined and with a narrative as full of suspense and action as it is with intense emotion"
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| "The Teeger That Cam For His Tea : The Tiger Who Came to Tea in Scots" |
| "'There is a chap at the door jist as Sophie an her mum are sittin doon for their tea Wha could it be? They dinna think it's a muckle furry strippit teeger -- that's for shair!' No children's bookshelf is complete without the classic The Tiger Who Came to Tea but what if Sophie opened the door to find a teeger that's cam for his tea instead? Celebrating its 50th roaring anniversary in 2018 Judith Kerr's much-loved picture book is charmingly retold for the first time in Scots Keeping all the iconic elements of the story Scots expert Susan Rennie gives the words a lively Scots twist -- a plate of sandwiches becomes a 'hail plate o pieces' and the big furry stripy tiger becomes a 'muckle furry strippit teeger' This bright and bonnie take on a childhood favourite is perfect for reading aloud with young children"
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| "New A-Level Physics: Edexcel Year 2 Complete Revision & Practice with Online Edition by CGP Books (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "This superb Complete Revision & Practice book from CGP is perfect for revising every Year 2 topic from the Edexcel A-Level Physics course - and it's fully up-to-date for the new exam specifications for 2015 and beyond! Every topic is explained with clear concise notes helpful examples and full-colour diagrams and there are plenty of exam-style questions (with answers) to test you on what you've learned The book is rounded off with a section of advice on how to pick up top marks in the exams And finally a free Online Edition of the whole book is included - just use the code printed inside the book to access it on your PC Mac or tablet"
Price: 9.49 |
| "Dixie O'Day and the Haunted House by Shirley Hughes (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "A dark and stormy night a camping trip gone awry and an old house which looks like it might be haunted? Dixie and Percy need to stick together in this mysterious adventure full of scrapes peril and spooky goings-on!These first chapter books from mother-daughter pairing Shirley Hughes and Clara Vulliamy have one chapter for each night of the week and are full of maps and fun extra activities "A witty and beautifully designed series for emerging readers" THE SUNDAY TIMES"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Arena 13: The Prey" |
| "Following the first year of his apprenticeship as an Arena 13 combatant Leif seeks information from his late father's people There he learns more about the man who was the greatest arena fighter ever seen The man who came so close to destroying the demon Hob but paid a terrible price for every victory Leif returns to the fighting floor with a renewed hunger for revenge But can he remain focused on his training as his passion for his master's daughter Kwin grows? And will his place in his master's greater plan help or hinder him in his personal mission to defeat Hob in a fight to the death?The second instalment in the legend of ARENA 13 Books in the series1 ARENA 132 ARENA 13 THE PREY"
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| "Where The Wild Things Are" |
| "Read-along with the story in this book and CD edition! One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king and then the wild rumpus begins But when Max has sent the monsters to bed and everything is quiet he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all"
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| "The Paper Time Machine : Colouring the Past" |
| "The Paper Time Machine is a book that will change the way you think about the past It contains 124 historical black-and-white photographs reconstructed in colour and introduced by Wolfgang Wild - creator and curator of the Retronaut website The site has become a global phenomenon collecting images that collapse the distance between the past and present and tear a hole in our map of time The Paper Time Machine goes even further Early photographic technology lacked a crucial ingredient - colour As early as the invention of the medium skilled artisans applied colour to photographs by hand attempting to convey the vibrancy and immediacy of life in vivid detail In most cases this was crude and unconvincing Until now The time-bending images in The Paper Time Machine have been painstakingly restored and rendered in full and accurate colour by Jordan Lloyd of Dynamichrome a company that has taken the craft of colour reconstruction to a new level Each element of every photograph has been researched and colour-checked for historical authenticity Behold American child labourers from the early twentieth century alongside the construction of the Statue of Liberty Marvel at crisp photographs from the Crimean War in 1855 balanced with never-before-seen pictures from the Walt Disney archive As the layers of colour build up the effect is disorientingly real and the decades and centuries fall away It is as though we are standing at the original photographer&39;s elbow This is a landmark photographic book - a collection of historical remixes&39; that exist alongside the original photographs but draw out qualities textures and details that have hitherto remained hidden Let The Paper Time Machine transport you It is as close to time travel as we are ever likely to get"
Price: 19.99 |
| "Snow (Mini Gift Edition)" |
| "Every child loves a snow day - no school and snowball fights galore! But Sam has to wait for his Grandad Trying to hurry him up Sam tells Grandad all the other kids have gone to the park and all the local dogs and all the zoo animals! Only when they finally arrive does Grandad see Sam was telling the truth - and both of them get stuck in having fun on their snow day!"
Price: 5.49 |
| Rain |
| "Sam wants to go out but it's pouring with rain so he and Grandpa decide to stay inside until the rain stops Sam drinks hot chocolate and reads his books and dreams of adventures while Grandpa gets on with his important paperwork Grandpa seems to have a VERY important letter to write Then that very important letter has to be posted despite the rain and floods As they finally go outside Sam and Grandpa have a magical adventure Rain is the follow-up to the acclaimed Snow; and is the second title in a four-book series based on the weather"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Botanicum Activity Book" |
| "Following the incredible Botanicum Katie Scott returns with a companion activity book Bursting with fascinating facts and puzzles this book offers hours of entertainment to artists and nature lovers Beautiful and inspiring the myriad activities in this book challenge the reader to discover something new and use their imagination to draw decorate and design on every pull-out page"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Foxes Unearthed : A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain Paperback" |
| "Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2017 As one of the largest predators left in Britain the fox is captivating a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns Yet no other animal attracts such controversy has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries perceived variously as a beautiful animal a cunning rogue a vicious pest and a worthy foe As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals it is also the least understood In Foxes Unearthed Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes in a media landscape that often carries complex agendas Delving into fact fiction folklore and her own family history Lucy travels the length of Britain to find out first-hand why these animals incite such passionate emotions revealing our rich and complex relationship with one of our most loved - and most vilified - wild animals This compelling narrative adds much-needed depth to the debate on foxes asking what our attitudes towards the red fox say about us and ultimately about our relationship with the natural world"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Clean Break (Quick Reads 2018) Paperback" |
| "Marriage is complicated especially for Kate Her husband Jack has a temper on him and has been an absent father for years Kate knows it&39;s time for a divorce The trouble is Jack refuses And now that he has found out Kate has met another man his jealous rages escalate Can Kate rid herself of her jealous husband before it&39;s too late?"
Price: 1.99 |
| "Cured : The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys" |
| "The inside story of The Cure'Beautifully realised' Irish TimesComing of age in Thatcher's Britain in the late 70s and early 80s was really tough especially if you lived in Crawley But against the grinding austerity social unrest and suburban boredom the spark of rebellion that was punk set alight three young men who would become one of the most revered and successful bands of their generation The CureCured is a memoir by Lol Tolhurst one of the founding imaginary boys who met Robert Smith when they were five Lol threads the genesis of The Cure through his schoolboy years with Smith the iconic leader of the group and the band's most successful era in the 1980s He takes us up to the present day a riveting forty years since the band's inceptionThe band's journey to worldwide success is woven into a story not only of great highs and lows but also of love friendship pain forgiveness and ultimately redemption on a beach in HawaiiCured highlights those parts of the creative journey that are not normally revealed to fans incorporating many first-hand recollections around Lol's personal odyssey From suburban London to the Mojave desert Cured brings an acute eye for the times to bear on a lifelong friendship with tales of addiction and despair along the way Cured is the story of a timeless band and a life truly lived"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Other Side of Silence : Bernie Gunther Thriller 11" |
| "The French Riviera 1956 A world-weary Bernie Gunther is working under a false name as a hotel concierge His attempts to keep his nose clean go horribly awry when a wartime acquaintance sucks him into a blackmail plot involving one of the most famous British writers of the 20th century and the notorious Cambridge SpiesBernie is missing his old detective life when his past walks through the door in the shape of Harold Hennig a former captain in the Nazi security service - the man who in 1945 was responsible for the deaths of thousands among them a woman Bernie loved Hennig now enjoys a lucrative career as a blackmailer Hennig's target on the Cote d'Azur is a famous resident with a dark past and plenty to hide - the writer Somerset Maugham A shared love of bridge draws Bernie to Maugham's magnificent villa where Maugham tells him of the existence of a very compromising photograph Taken in 1937 it shows Maugham among a group of naked men beside a swimming pool - one of whom is the infamous spy and homosexual Guy Burgess who with Donald Maclean has recently defected to Moscow Hennig has the photograph and is demanding 50000 for its release Bernie is reluctant to become Maugham's agent but his former life has made him as vulnerable to blackmail as Maugham himself Not only that - he has a massive score to settle with Hennig"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Start of Something : The Selected Stories of Stuart Dybek" |
| "'One of the most soulful writers in America and a national treasure' George SaundersNineteen tales of growing up wising up and falling in love spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North American master of the short storyThe Start of Something is a visionary work following the lovelorn beatniks hard-boiled gangsters and jaded academics of America journeying through a haze of drugs dreams and lucid memory Seductive and freewheeling each story glittering with the found poetry of the street this is the definitive introduction to a life's work by a writer who has re-enchanted short fiction with every new collection"
Price: 8.49 |
| "A Sting in the Tale (The Birds and the Bees) by Dave Goulson (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The Birds and the Bees series was designed for Vintage Classics by Timorous Beasties the Scottish studio famous for their designs inspired by the natural worldAs a small boy Dave Goulson was obsessed with wildlife - from his childhood menagerie of exotic pets to his ill-fated experiments with taxidermy But it was the bumblebee that fascinated him the most Once commonly found in the marshes of Kent the short-haired bumblebee was driven to extinction in Britain by intensive farming practices With ground-breaking research into these curious creatures A Sting in the Tale tells the story of Goulson's passionate drive to reintroduce them to their native land SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Swimming : Vintage Minis" |
| "Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain a frog's-eye view of the country's best bathing holes - the rivers rock pools lakes ponds lochs and sea that define a watery island Charming funny inspiring an assertion of the native swimmer's right to roam a celebration of the magic of water - this book will indeed make you want to strip off and leap in Selected from the book Waterlog by Roger DeakinVINTAGE MINIS GREAT MINDS BIG IDEAS LITTLE BOOKS A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us humanAlso in the Vintage Minis seriesEating by Nigella LawsonLiberty by Virginia WoolfSummer by Laurie LeeDesire by Haruki Murakami"
Price: 3.49 |
