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| "Under Gemini by Rosamunde Pilcher (Paperback, 1989)" |
| "The classic bestseller by the acclaimed author of The Shell Seekers and Winter Solstice now available in a new edition No two women could have been more different No two women could have been closer Flora and Rose are identical twins who do not know of each other's existence Rose has been raised by her frivolous mother with the glossy international jet set Flora has spend her childhoold in the beauty and quiet of her father's Cornish cottage And then by chance they meet The encounter seems heaven-sent to Rose who longs to escape from a man she no longer desires Flora can free her and in taking her sister's place her uneventful life is changed forever She finds drama and danger - and glimpses a happiness beyond her wildest dreams"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The acclaimed international bestseller of the Tudor court during the years of Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn - and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed This chance for us Howards comes once in a century 1521 Henry VIII rules over a fashionable court alive with pageant and celebration the lack of a son his only threat When young Mary Boleyn arrives at court she becomes his new mistress an unwitting pawn in the ambitions of the powerful Boleyn and Howard families As Henry's interest begins to wane the Boleyns scheme to put forward Mary's sister Anne Yet Anne Boleyn newly returned from the French court won't agree to be Henry's mistress - only his wife Pitting the king's desperation for an heir against the advice of his powerful advisors Wolsey and Cromwell what follows will change the course of a country's history"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Salley Vicker's sensational debut novel Miss Garnet's Angel' is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any timeJulia Garnet is a teacher Just retired she is left a legacy which she uses by leaving her orderly life and going to live - in winter - in an apartment in Venice Its beauty its secret corners and treasures and its people overwhelm a lifetime of reserve and caution Above all she's touched by the all-prevalent spirit of the Angel RaphaelThe ancient tale of Tobias who travels to Media unaware he is accompanied by the Archangel Raphael unfolds alongside Julia Garnet's contemporary journeyThe two stories interweave with parents and landladies restorers and priests American tourists and ancient travellers aboundingThe result is an enormously satisfying journey of the spirit - and Julia Garnet is a character to treasure"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Shortlisted for the Booker Prize In a small East Anglian town Florence Green decides against polite but ruthless local opposition to open a bookshop Hardborough becomes a battleground Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done and as a result she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important but natural and even supernatural forces too Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "The million-copy bestseller which is a ground-breaking meditation on war memory imagination and the redemptive power of storytellingThe Things They Carried' is on its surface a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the Vietnam War; at the same time it has the cumulative power and unity of a novel with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and themeBut while Vietnam is central to The Things They Carried' it is not simply a book about war It is also a book about the human heart - about the terrible weight of those things we carry through our lives"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Anita and Me by Meera Syal (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach The story of nine-year-old Meena growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington It's 1972 Meena is nine years old and lives in the village of Tollington the jewel of the Black Country' She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village her daily struggle for independence is different from most She wants fishfingers and chips not chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities - but more than anything she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang Blonde cool aloof outrageous and sassy Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life but the arrival of a baby brother teenage hormones impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school and a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to turn Anita's salad days sour Anita and Me paints a comic poignant compassionate and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares power cuts glam rock decimalisation and Ted Heath It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies a childhood caught between two cultures each on the brink of change"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "They all broke the rules They all crossed into forbidden territory They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how And how much'This is the story of Rahel and Estha twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala Armed only with the innocence of youth they fashion a childhood in the shade of the wreck that is their family their lonely lovely mother their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron radical Marxist bottom-pincher) and their sworn enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun incumbent grand-aunt)Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit and magic"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Pulitzer-winning scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promiseA couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and while he awaits the arrival of his arranged-marriage wife from Bengal he finds his first bearings with the aid of the curious evening rituals that his centenarian landlady orchestrates; a schoolboy looks on while his childminder finds that the smallest dislocation can unbalance her new American life all too easily and send her spiralling into nostalgia for her homelandJhumpa Lahiri's prose is beautifully measured subtle and sober and she is a writer who leaves a lot unsaid but this work is rich in observational detail evocative of the yearnings of the exile (mostly Indians in Boston here) and full of emotional pull and reverberation"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "The Namesake' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes'For now the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name In a panic his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' - after his favourite writerBrought up as an Indian in suburban America Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents And so he sets off on his own path through life a path strewn with conflicting loyalties love and lossSpanning three decades and crossing continents Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling Elegant subtle and moving The Namesake' is for everyone who loved the clarity sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies'"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Dancing Bear by Michael Morpurgo (Paperback, 1994)" |
| "A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear told with great charm by a master storyteller High in the mountains in a tiny village an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child Soon they are inseparable beloved by the whole village - safe until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear"
Price: 4.49 |
| "The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAMA lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa and his lifelong friendship with a white lion All my life I'll think of you I promise I will I won't ever forget you Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus Bertie swears that one day they will see one another again but it is the butterfly lion which ensures that their friendship will never be forgotten"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Dear Olly by Michael Morpurgo (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A moving story of a brother a sister and a swallow and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines Olly's brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans through war in Africa He wants to be a clown and make them laugh His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university Hero a swallow has a journey to make too He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows His journey is difficult and fraught with danger Three separate stories are woven into one powerful and moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war and of landmines but also the endurance of the human spirit"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Cirque Du Freak (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 1) by Darren Shan (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "The chilling Saga of Darren Shan the ordinary schoolboy plunged into the vampire world Darren goes to a banned freak show with his best mate Steve It’s the wonderfully gothic Cirque Du Freak where weird frightening half humanhalf animals appear who interact terrifyingly with the audience Darren – a spider freak – ‘falls in love’ with Madam Octa – an enormous tarantala owned by Mr Crepsley Darren determines to steal the spider so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds But his daring theft goes horribly wrong and Darren finds himself having to make a bargain with a creature of the night Something out of the ordinary is set against the background of children’s normal lives to chilling effect Atmospheric funny realistic moving and… terrifying"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Vampire's Assistant (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 2) by Darren Shan (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Darren Shan has been made a half-vampire by Mr Crepsley but the Cirque Du Freak holds more unpleasant surprises for the vampire's assistant Darren joins the vampire Mr Crepsley as his assistant and they return to the Cirque Du Freak There Darren makes friends with the snake-boy Evra Von (who knows what Darren is) and a local boy Sam and RV an eco-warrior and animal lover (who do not) Darren begins to enjoy his life among the Cirque performers as the youngest half-vampire in existence but he defiantly refuses to drink human blood - the whole idea sickens him - and he tries desperately to cling on to the part of him which is human Darren comes face to face with pure evil in the form of Mr Tiny the leader of the Little People who join the Cirque Du Freak and who eat anything - including human flesh When he discovers animal bones RV frees the wolf-man from his cage - and no-one could possibly guess how truly terrible the whole effect would be"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Tunnels of Blood (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 3) by Darren Shan (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Darren Shan and Evra Von follow a trail of corpses and confront a foul creature of the night A new enemy or Mr Crepsley? When Mr Crepsley is called upon by the Vampire Generals Darren and the snake-boy Evra Von leave the Cirque Du Freak and travel with him to the city Whilst there Darren meets Debbie and his life as a Vampire's Assistant fades into the background - until corpes are found Corpses drained of blood Suspicious of Mr Crepsley's secretive bahaviour Darren and Evra shadow him across the city and confront a creature of the night who may be the end of them all"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Mixed Magics (The Chrestomanci Series, Book 5) by Diana Wynne Jones (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Glorious rejacket of the story collection set in the worlds of Chrestomanci The stories featured in this collection are Warlock at the WheelStealer of SoulsCarol Oneir's Hundredth DreamThe Sage of Theare Everybody's favourite nine-lifed enchanter makes a guest appearance in each tale Plus man favourites from theChrestomanci novels - and a cast of thousands! With illustrations by Tim Stevens"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Trials of Death (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 5) by Darren Shan (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "This is the fifth title in the compelling and chilling saga of Darren Shan but the second part in a new trilogy following Darren's initiation into the vampire clan THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 5Compelled by his loyalty to Mr Crepsley Darren Shan the vampire's assistant agrees to prove his worthiness to the vampire clan by undertaking a series of trials Each Trial is set by the Vampire Princes to test agility cunning and intelligence Failure means death Whilst their attention is focused on Darren the vampire clan fail to notice that the vampaneze have infiltrated their mountain stronghold Who is the traitor helping the vampaneze and will Darren survive the trials to oust the vampire's greatest foes? Another atmospheric and terrifying tale from the author of Cirque Du Freak"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Vampire Mountain (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 4) by Darren Shan (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Darren Shan the vampire's assistant is forced to march to Vampire Mountain where he will be judged by the vampire princes Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley make a long and dangerous trek to the vampire's stronghold in the mountains The trek is a test of skill and endurance - one which sees Darren's vampire nature develop and a new understanding of the mysterious blue-robed servants of the sinister Mr Tiny Gavner Purl makes a welcome return when he joins Darren and Mr Crepsley but they face more than the cold on their way to the vampire princes - the vampaneze have been there before them Will Darren's meeting with the Vampire Princes restore his human nature or turn him further towards the darkness"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Vampire Prince (The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 6) by Darren Shan (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Darren Shan the vampire's assistant must clear his name and avenge the death of Gavner Purl Can a half-vampire outwit a Vampire Prince? Betrayed by Kurda and reeling from the brutal slaying of Gavner the vampire's assistant Darren Shan finds himself branded a traitor and hunted by the vampire clan Will Darren's failure to complete the Trials mean banishment for Mr Crepsley and execution for himself? Or can Darren return to the home of the damned and exact revenge? But Darren comes to realise that there is more than revenge at stake - the vampire clan must combat the rise of the Vampaneze Lord or see his ascension mark the end of thousands of years of vampire rule"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Atrocity Exhibition by J. G. Ballard (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J G Ballard the acclaimed author of Crash' and Super-Cannes' This edition includes explanatory notes from the authorThe irrational all-pervading violence of the modern world is the subject of this extraordinary tour de forceThe central character's dreams are haunted by images of John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe dead astronauts and car-crash victims as he traverses the screaming wastes of nervous breakdown Seeking his sanity he casts himself in a number of roles H-bomber pilot presidential assassin crash victim psychopath Finally through the black perverse magic of violence he transcends his psychic turmoil to find the key to a bizarre new sexualityIn this revised edition Ballard has added extensive annotation that help to unlock many of the mysteries of one of the most prophetic enigmatic and original works of the late twentieth centuryThis edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Neil Gaiman Iain Sinclair James Lever and Ali Smith) and brand-new cover designs"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years and the magical events described in CS Lewis's immortal prose have left many a lasting memory for adults and children alike All seven Chronicles are bound together in this new paperback edition (rebranded with HarperCollins logo) The Chronicles of Narnia have enchanted millions of readers over the last fifty years and the magical events described in CS Lewis's immortal prose have left many a lasting memory For here is a world where a witch decrees eternal winter; where there are more talking animals than people; and where battles are fought by Centaurs Giants and Fauns"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Murder on the Orient Express (Poirot) by Agatha Christie (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers Just after midnight a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year but by the morning it is one passenger fewer An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment stabbed a dozen times his door locked from the inside Isolated and with a killer in their midst detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Hitler's Daughter" |
| "&39;A prizewinning novel for readers of 8 – 12 told through the voice of a contemporary child as she weaves a story about a secret child of Hitler The bombs were falling the smoke was rising from the concentration camps but all Hitler’s daughter knew was lessons with Fraulein Gelber the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold and infrequent visits from her beloved Duffi her father Was it just a story? Did Hitler’s daughter really exist? If you were Hitler’s daughter would it all be your fault? Could you still love your own father if he had done what Hitler did? Mark a contemporary child starts to question his own beliefs as he listens to the story that Anna weaves A wonderfully sensitive and gripping time-slip novel that will sit well with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Number the Stars and Big Tom WW2 is a major historical topic studied in in UK primary and secondary schools but this novel also deals with questions children so often ask of the ‘What if?’ variety&39;"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Paddington in the Garden" |
| "A funny picture book about Paddington the beloved classic bear from darkest Peru - soon to be a major movie star! For Paddington one of the nicest things about being a bear and living with the Brown family is being able to share their lovely garden But gardens don't just happen and the one at number thirty-two Windsor Gardens keeps the whole family busy so Paddington is only too pleased to lend a paw when they give him a chance He may not have green fingers' but the fact that paws and marmalade are never far apart leads to some unexpectedly colourful results during National Garden Week!"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Owl Service" |
| "Winner of both the Guardian Award and the Carnegie Medal this is an all-time classic combining mystery adventure history and a complex set of human relationships Featuring a new introduction by Philip Pullman It all begins with the scratching in the ceiling From the moment Alison discovers the dinner service in the attic with its curious pattern of floral owls a chain of events is set in progress that is to effect everybody's lives Relentlessly Alison her step-brother Roger and Welsh boy Gwyn are drawn into the replay of a tragic Welsh legend - a modern drama played out against a background of ancient jealousies As the tension mounts it becomes apparent that only by accepting and facing the situation can it be resolved"
Price: 5.49 |
| Cool! |
| "Michael Morpurgo's inspiring new story of Robbie a boy in a coma - victim of a car accident Locked inside his own head able to hear but not move or speak Robbie tries to keep himself from slipping ever deeper into unconsciousness Robbie football fan and animal lover runs after his dog Lucky one day when he chases a cat and is hit by a car Unconscious Robbie lies in hospital unable to speak move or eat But he can hear; he is aware even though his family and friends don't know this Inside his head we hear Robbie's thoughts; on his Mum and sister why his parents are separated His friends and family try desperately to reach him - even Zola his favourite Chelsea footballer comes to see him And still Robbie can't wake up' Until one day against hospital rules Dad brings Lucky into the hospital Can Lucky bring Robbie back to life?"
Price: 4.99 |
| "C. S. Lewis Essay Collection : Faith, Christianity and the Church" |
| "The definitive collection of religious essays by CS Lewis plus a selection of letters brought together in a substantial paperback volume As well as his many books letters and poems CS Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defence of faith but also on various ethical issues and on the nature of literature and story-telling This second volume (of two) collects together all Lewis's religious essays Grouped together by topic there are over 50 essays covering The Search for God Aspects of Faith The Christian in the World The Church and also a selection of his Letters on the subject of Christianity"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Wellington : The Iron Duke" |
| "Richard Holmes highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes' superb skill in this compelling book Richard Holmes charts Wellington's stellar military career from India to Europe and in the process rediscovers the reasons Queen Victoria called him the greatest man the nineteenth century had produced Combining his astute historical analysis with a semi-biographical examination of Wellington Holmes artfully illustrates the rapid evolution in military and political thinking of the time Wellington is a brilliant figure idealistic in politics cynical in love a wit a beau a man of enormous courage often sickened by war As Richard Holmes charts his progress from a shy indolent boy to commander-in-chief of the allied forces he also exposes the Iron Duke as a philanderer and a man who sometimes despised the men that he led and was not always in control of his soldiers Particularly infamous is the bestial rampage of his men after the capture of Cuidad Rodgrigo and Badajoz THE IRON DUKE is a beautifully produced book complete with stunning illustrations and colour plates Richard Holmes' TV series to accompany THE IRON DUKE will be lavishly constructed in four parts and filmed on location in Britain India Spain Portugal France and Belgium"
Price: 8.99 |
| "A Small Person Far Away" |
| "Partly autobiographical this is the third title in Judith Kerr's internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany to London during the Blitz and her return to Berlin to discover the past Berlin is where Anna lived before Hitler when she was still a German child; before she spoke a word of English before her family had all become refugees Long before her happy new existence in London But Mama is there dangerously ill Anna is forced to go back to deal with questions of life and death to face old fears and to discover the past which she has so long shut away"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Forest of Secrets : 3" |
| "The third of six titles set in a thrilling world of wild cats where epic battles for territory and honour are played out Allegiances are shifting among the Clans of warrior cats that roam the forest With tensions so delicately balanced former friends can become enemies overnight and some cats are willing to kill to get what they want Fireheart is determined to find out the truth about the mysterious death of brave ThunderClan warrior Redtail But as he searches for answers he uncovers secrets that some believe would be better left hidden"
Price: 5.49 |
