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| "The Siege by Helen Dunmore (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 Leningrad September 1941 Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous desperate winter in its history For two pairs of lovers - Anna and Andrei Anna's novelist father and banned actress Marina - the siege becomes a battle for survival They will soon discover what it is like to be so hungry you boil shoe leather to make soup so cold you burn furniture and books But this is not just a struggle to exist it is also a fight to keep the spark of hope aliveA brilliantly imagined novel of war and the wounds it inflicts on ordinary people's lives and a profoundly moving celebration of love life and survival 'Remarkable affectingthere are few more interesting stories than this; and few writers who could have told it better' Rachel Cusk Daily Telegraph 'Literary writing of the highest order set against a background if suffering so intimately reconstructed it is hard to believe that Dunmore was not there' Richard Overy Sunday Telegraph 'Utterly convincing A deeply moving account of two love stories in terrible circumstances The story of their struggle to survive appears simple as all great literature should a world-class novel' Antony Beevor The Times Novelist and poet Helen Dunmore has achieved great critical acclaim since publishing her first adult novel the McKitterick Prize winning Zennor in Darkness Her novels Counting the Stars Your Blue-Eyed Boy With Your Crooked Heart Burning Bright House of Orphans Mourning Ruby A Spell of Winter and Talking to the Dead and her collection of short stories Love of Fat Men are all published by Penguin This edition includes the first chapter of Betrayal the sequel to The Siege"
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| "The Good Girl by Fiona Neill (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Scratch the surface of any family hard enough and you'll draw blood No one can believe it when straight A student Romy Field finds herself at the centre of a scandal least of all her mother Ailsa - who is also the head of her new schoolAilsa is quick to hold Romy's new boyfriend and his parents responsible for what has happened But as mother and daughter reveal their very different version of events a much darker truth emerges It soon becomes apparent that Romy isn't the only member of her family harbouring secrets and her disgrace becomes the catalyst for the unravelling of all those around herIt takes a split second to make a decision that can alter the course of your lifeAnd a lifetime to undo the consequencesBestselling author Fiona Neill is back with The Good Girl - a dark compelling and controversial novel of one family's darkest secretsPraise for Fiona Neill'The Good Girl raises all kinds of contemporary issues with wit and sensitivity' Times'Neill writes with verve honesty and breathtaking insight Utterly unputdownable' Helen Walsh author of The Lemon Grove'Neill's characters are so cleverly depicted you feel as if you've met at least one of them before' Vogue'Packed with observations of wince-making accuracy' The Times'Sometimes touching sometimes shocking this cautionary coming-of-age tale is a thought-provoking one' Daily Mail'The Good Girl is vivid and insightful and Neill has a trained eye for the pressures and poignancies of modern family life' Guardian'Clever grown-up and totally gripping' Lisa Jewell'A topical tense and addictive read' Good Housekeeping'Neill takes a light scalpel to online disaster in this exceptional dual-narrative' Grazia' Two families become embroiled in each other's lives and long buried secrets are unravelled Contemporary issues are tackled here with both humour and realism making for an engrossing read' My Weekly'Cracking' Prima 'The Slummy Mummy columnist is back - this time somewhat incongruously with a psychological thriller The Good Girl looks set to be the next Gone Girl with its dark compelling exploration of family secrets It tells the story of the relationship of two teenagers and their families when a chain of events leads to a scandal that affects them all A confronting look at the way that one moment of malice on social media can spiral out of control' Seven Books to Read House Seven"
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| "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible whatever remains however improbable must be the truth'Sherlock Holmes scourge of criminals everywhere whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion and his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve twelve breathtaking and perplexing mysteriesIn The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the first collection of the great consulting detective's cases we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems including A Scandal in Bohemia The Speckled Band The Red-Headed League The Blue Carbuncle The Five Orange Pips and The Man with the Twisted Lip"
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| "The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "'You are a wronged woman and shall have justice Do not bring police If you do all will be in vain Your unknown friend'When a beautiful young woman is sent a letter inviting her to a sinister assignation she immediately seeks the advice of the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes For this is not the first mysterious item Mary Marston has received in the post Every year for the last six years an anonymous benefactor has sent her a large lustrous pearl Now it appears the sender of the pearls would like to meet her to right a wrong But when Sherlock Holmes and his faithful sidekick Watson aiding Miss Marston attend the assignation they embark on a dark and mysterious adventure involving a one-legged ruffian some hidden treasure deadly poison darts and a thrilling race along the River Thames"
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| "Watership Down by Richard Adams (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams&39; picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits - Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of our timeSandleford Warren is in danger Hazel&39;s younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land but no one will listen And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent? So together Hazel and Fiver and a few other brave rabbits secretly leave behind the safety and strictures of the warren and hop tentatively out into a vast and strange worldChased by their former friends hunted by dogs and foxes avoiding farms and other human threats but making new friends Hazel and his fellow rabbits dream of a new life in the emerald embrace of Watership Down &39;A gripping story of rebellion in a rabbit warren and the subsequent adventures of the rebels Adams has a poetic eye and a gift for storytelling which will speak to readers of all ages for many years to come&39; Sunday Times&39;A masterpiece The best story about wild animals since The Wind in the Willows Very funny exciting often moving&39; Evening Standard&39;A great book A whole world is created perfectly real in itself yet constituting a deep incidental comment on human affairs&39; GuardianRichard Adams grew up in Berkshire the son of a country doctorAfter an education at Oxford he spent six years in the army and then went into the Civil Service He originally began telling the story of Watership Down to his two daughters and they insisted he publish it as a book It quickly became a huge success with both children and adults and won the Guardian Children&39;s Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1972Richard Adams has written many novels and short stories including Shardik and The Plague Dogs"
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| "Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the best-known novels of the 20th century the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range'Lolita light of my life fire of my loins My sin my soul Lo-lee-ta the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap at three on the teeth Lo Lee Ta'Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged frustrated college professor In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita he'll do anything to possess her Unable and unwilling to stop himself he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wantsIs he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Vanished: David Raker Missing Persons #3 by Tim Weaver (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "He got on the train He didn't get off So where did he go?For millions of Londoners the morning of 17 December is just like any other But not for Sam Wren An hour after leaving home he gets onto a tube train - and never gets off again No eyewitnesses No trace of him on security cameras Six months later he's still missingOut of options and desperate for answers Sam's wife Julia hires David Raker to track him down Raker has made a career out of finding the lost He knows how they think And in missing person cases the only certainty is that everyone has something to hideBut in this case the secrets go deeper than anyone imaginedFor as Raker starts to suspect that even the police are lying to him someone is watching Someone who knows what happened on the tube that day And with Raker in his sights he'll do anything to keep Sam's secrets to himself From the bestselling author behind the chart-topping podcast Missing this mystery is perfect for fans of Clare Mackintosh's I See You and Jo Nesbo's The Thirst'Weaver's books get better each time - tense complex written with flair as well as care' Guardian'A fluent and assured piece of crime fiction Tim Weaver ties in the apparently divergent events with convincing ease' Crime Fiction Lover"
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| "The Girl on the Cliff" |
| "A beautiful drama spanning decades from international Number One bestselling author Lucinda RileyWhy has a secret from 1914 caused a century of heartache?Troubled by recent loss Grania Ryan has returned to Ireland and the arms of her loving family And it is here on a cliff edge that she first meets a young girl Aurora who will profoundly change her life Mysteriously drawn to Aurora Grania discovers that the histories of their families are strangely and deeply entwined From a bittersweet romance in wartime London to a troubled relationship in contemporary New York from devotion to a foundling child to forgotten memories of a lost brother the Ryans and the Lisles past and present have been entangled for a century Ultimately it will be Aurora whose intuition and remarkable spirit help break the spell and unlock the chains of the pastHaunting uplifting and deeply moving Aurora's story tells of the triumph of hope over loss"
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| "The Hypnotist's Love Story" |
| "The Hypnotist's Love Story is a gripping exploration of love and obsession from the bestselling author of the hit HBO series Big Little LiesHow far would you go to keep the man of your dreams?Hypnotherapist Ellen is fascinated by what makes people tick So when she falls in love with Patrick the fact that he has a stalker doesn't faze her in the slightest If anything it intrigues her and the more she hears about Saskia the more she wants to meet this woman But what Ellen doesn't know is that they've already met Saskia has been posing as one of Ellen's clients Unable to let go of the life she so abruptly lost she wants to know everything about the woman who took her place And the further she inches her way into Ellen's world the more trouble she stirs upEllen's love story is about to take an unexpected turn But it's not only Saskia who doesn't know where to stop Ellen also has to ask herself what lines she's prepared to cross to get the happy ending she's always wantedThought-provoking sympathetic and smart Liane Moriarty's The Hypnotist's Love Story is a novel for anyone who's ever loved lost or found it hard to let go'A complex nuanced look at relationships and the nature of romantic attachment' Telegraph Praise for Liane Moriarty'Highly addictive' She 'Fascinating and compassionate' Daily Telegraph 'Gripping acutely observed thought-provoking and funny' Marie Claire 'The writing is beautiful sometimes funny sometimes sad but always compelling' Good Housekeeping 'Captivating' Closer"
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| "Boy : Tales of Childhood" |
| "Boy is Roald Dahl&39;s extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life &39;An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details This is not an autobiography I would never write a history of myself On the other hand throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten &39;Boy is a funny insightful and at times grotesque glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl one of the world&39;s favourite authors We discover his experiences of the English public school system the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway the pleasures (and pains) of the sweetshop and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain&39;s favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War &39;A shimmering fabric of his yesterdays the magic and the hurt&39; Observer&39;As frightening and funny as his fiction&39; The New York Times Book Review&39;Superbly written A glimpse of a brilliant eccentric&39; New StatesmanRoald Dahl the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory James and the Giant Peach Matilda and many more classics for children also wrote scores of short stories for adults These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play Roald Dahl&39;s Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson Roald Dahl&39;s stories continue to make readers shiver today"
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| "Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories" |
| "Fourteen terrifying ghost stories chosen by the master of the macabre Roald Dahl'Spookiness is the real purpose of the ghost story It should give you the creeps and disturb your thoughts ' Who better to choose the ultimate in spine-chillers than Roald Dahl whose own sinister stories have teased and twisted the imagination of millions?Here are fourteen of his favourite ghost stories including Sheridan Le Fanu's The Ghost of a Hand Edith Wharton's Afterward Cynthia Asquith's The Corner Shop and Mary Treadgold's The TelephoneRoald Dahl the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory James and the Giant Peach Matilda and many more classics for children also wrote scores of short stories for adults These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today"
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| "Switch Bitch" |
| "In Switch Bitch four tales of seduction and suspense are told by the grand master of the short story Roald DahlTopping and tailing this collection are The Visitor and Bitch stories featuring Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald Hendryks Cornelius (or plain old Uncle Oswald) whose exploits are frequently as extraordinary as they are scandalous In the middle meanwhile are The Great Switcheroo and The Last Act two stories exploring a darker side of desire and pleasureIn the black comedies of Switch Bitch Roald Dahl brilliantly captures the ins and outs highs and lows of sex'Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable' Daily TelegraphRoald Dahl the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory James and the Giant Peach Matilda and many more classics for children also wrote scores of short stories for adults These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today"
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| "My Uncle Oswald" |
| "Meet Oswald Hendryks Cornelius Roald Dahl's most disgraceful and extraordinary character Aside from being thoroughly debauched strikingly attractive and astonishingly wealthy Uncle Oswald was the greatest bounder bon vivant and fornicator of all time In this instalment of his scorchingly frank memoirs he tells of his early career and erotic education at the hands of a number of enthusiastic teachers of discovering the invigorating properties of the Sudanese Blister Beetle and of the gorgeous Yasmin Howcomely his electrifying partner in a most unusual series of thefts 'Raunchy and cheeky entertainment' Sunday Express'Immense fun' Daily TelegraphRoald Dahl the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory James and the Giant Peach Matilda and many more classics for children also wrote scores of short stories for adults These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today"
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| "Over to You : Ten Stories of Flyers and Flying" |
| "In Over to You ten terrifying tales of life as a wartime fighter pilot are told by the master of the short story Roald DahlDuring the Second World War Roald Dahl served in the RAF and even suffered horrific injuries in an air crash in the Libyan desert Drawing on his own experiences as a fighter pilot Dahl crafted these ten spine-tingling stories of air battles in the sky; of the nightmare of being shot down; the infectious madness of conflict; and the nervy jollity of the Mess and Ops roomDahl brilliantly conveys the bizarre reality of a wartime pilot's daily existence where death is a constant companion and life is lived from one heartbeat to the next'One of the most widely read and influential writers of our generation' The Times'The great magician' SpectatorRoald Dahl the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory James and the Giant Peach Matilda and many more classics for children also wrote scores of short stories for adults These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today"
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| "This Changes Everything : Capitalism vs. the Climate" |
| "Naomi Klein's international bestseller This Changes Everything is a must-read on our future one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era Forget everything you think you know about global warming It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically betterOnce a decade Naomi Klein writes a book that redefines its era No Logo did so for globalization The Shock Doctrine changed the way we think about austerity In This Changes Everything her most provocative and optimistic book yet Naomi Klein has upended the debate about the stormy era already upon us exposing the myths that are clouding the climate debateYou have been told the market will save us when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it - it just requires breaking every rule in the free-market playbook You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge In fact all around the world the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiringIt's about changing the world before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe Either we leap - or we sink This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era'The most important book I've read all year - perhaps in a decade crucially she leaves the reader with a sense of optimism' Stephanie Merritt Observer Books of the Year'A book of such ambition and consequence it is almost unreviewable The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring' Rob Nixon The New York Times'Naomi is like a great doctor - she can diagnose problems nobody else sees' Alfonso Cuaron'Damn right this changes everything one of the greatest nonfiction works of all time not just a book It is a path of survival' D R Tucker Washington Monthly"
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| "The Big Sleep" |
| "The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of allLos Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family Old man Sternwood crippled and wheelchair-bound is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away But with Sternwood's two wild devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse 'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times'Chandler is an original stylist creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony BurgessBest-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959 Many of his books have been adapted for the screen and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction His books include The Big Sleep The Little Sister Farewell My Lovely The Long Good-bye The Lady in the Lake Playback Killer in the Rain The High Window and Trouble is My Business"
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| "Trouble is My Business" |
| "&39;I need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class but he&39;s got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel&39;In the first of the four cases in Trouble is My Business Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is offered a job that leaves a bad taste in the mouth smearing a girl who&39;s &39;got her hooks into a rich man&39;s pup&39; Before too long Marlowe&39;s up to his neck in corpses and cops and he&39;s taken pity on the girl There&39;s nothing like making trouble out of your business The four novellas collected here are quintessential Raymond Chandler slick crystal-clear writing that pins the reader to the seat and won&39;t let go until the last page is turned &39;Age does not wither Chandler&39;s prose&39; Literary Review&39;Chandler&39;s prose flies off the pages like a burst from a Tommy gun Chandler was perhaps the finest exponent of the fledgling genre now known as pulp fiction&39; Scottish Field&39;One of the greatest crime writers who set the standards others still try to attain&39; Sunday Times&39;Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf not even Faulkner An original A great artist&39; Boston Review&39;Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America and America has never looked the same to us since&39; Paul Auster"
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| "Killer in the Rain" |
| "Killer in the Rain collects together eight classic short stories by Raymond ChandlerIt was in the pulp detective magazines of the 1930s that Raymond Chandler's definitive take on the hard-boiled detective story first appeared Here then from the well-thumbed pages of 'Black Mask' and 'Dime Detective Magazine' are eight of his finest stories including 'The Man Who Liked Dogs' 'The Lady in the Lake' and 'Bay City Blues' Sharper than a hoodlum's switchblade more exciting than an unexpected red-head and stronger than a double shot of whisky they are packed full of the punchy poetry and laconic wit that makes Chandler the undisputed master of his genre'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times'Chandler is an original stylist creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony BurgessBest-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959 Many of his books have been adapted for the screen and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction His books include The Big Sleep The Little Sister Farewell My Lovely The Long Good-bye The Lady in the Lake Playback Killer in the Rain The High Window and Trouble is My Business"
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| "The Periodic Table" |
| "&39;So it happens therefore that every element says something to someone&39;Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath Levi reflects on the difficult course of his life in this heartfelt and deeply moving book"
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| "The Aftermath" |
| "Set in post-war Germany the international bestseller The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook is a stunning emotional thriller about our fiercest loyalties and our deepest desiresIn the bitter winter of 1946 Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city But as they set off for their new home Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an extraordinary decision they will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners a German widower and his troubled daughter In this charged atmosphere enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal'Profoundly moving beautifully written Ponders issues of decency guilt and forgiveness' Independent'Terrific Suspicion resentment and misunderstanding haunt this city Richly atmospheric' Sunday Telegraph'An extraordinary read' Daily Mail"
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| "The Sense of Style : The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century" |
| "Steven Pinker the bestselling author of The Language Instinct deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st centuryWhat is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny thoughtful book about the modern art of writing Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of styleMore than ever before the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written word from Twitter and texting to blogs e-readers and old-fashioned books But most style guides fail to prepare people for the challenges of writing in the 21st century portraying it as a minefield of grievous errors rather than a form of pleasurable mastery They fail to deal with an inescapable fact about language it changes over time adapted by millions of writers and speakers to their needs Confusing changes in the world with moral decline every generation believes the kids today are degrading society and taking language with it A guide for the new millennium writes Steven Pinker has to be differentDrawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of previous style guides with reason and evidence This thinking person's guide to good writing shows why style still matters in communicating effectively in enhancing the spread of ideas in earning a reader's trust and not least in adding beauty to the world Eye-opening mind-expanding and cheerful The Sense of Style shows that good style is part of what it means to be human"
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| "Start With Why : How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action" |
| "Simon Sinek's recent video on 'The Millennial Question' went viral with over 150 million views Start with Why is a global bestseller and the TED Talk based on it is the third most watched of all timeWhy are some people and organisations more inventive pioneering and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again?In business it doesn't matter what you do it matters WHY you do itStart with Why analyses leaders like Martin Luther King Jr and Steve Jobs and discovers that they all think in the same way - they all started with whySimon Sinek explains the framework needed for businesses to move past knowing what they do to how they do it and then to ask the more important question-WHY?Why do we do what we do? Why do we exist? Learning to ask these questions can unlock the secret to inspirational business Sinek explains what it truly takes to lead and inspire and how anyone can learn how to do it"
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| "Rachel's Holiday" |
| "Deliciously dark and fantastically funny Rachel's Holiday is the story of a young woman living life rather too well until the day she takes it too far endangering everything she cares about 'They said I was a drug addict But my occasional drug use was strictly recreational And hey surely drug addicts are skinny?'Rachel is living it up in New York City spending her nights talking her way into glamorous parties before heading home in the early hours to her hot boyfriend LukeThen her sensible older sister shows up and even though it seems like a bad joke she finds herself in actual rehabIt's there that she's supposed to kick her non-existent drug habit - and to get over losing Luke Luke's a fox; he's also strong and kind but he has had more than he can take of Rachel None of this was part of her plan and saying goodbye to fun will be hardBut not as hard as losing the man that too late she believes might be the love of her life 'Gloriously funny' Sunday Times'A born storyteller' Independent on Sunday'The voice of a generation' Daily Mirror"
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| "Locked On by Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN Jack Ryan Jr returns in Locked On the gripping thriller from Tom Clancy The Ryans - father and son - are fighting on two fronts When a deadly terrorist alliance creates the potential to blackmail any world power into submission it's got to be stopped before it is too late That's just the trigger Jack Ryan Jr needs to take his work for shadowy intelligence agency The Campus from the back room to the sharp end black opsMeanwhile his father Jack Ryan Sr campaigning for re-election as US President is up against a privately funded vendetta to discredit him Caught at the heart of the conspiracy is former Navy SEAL John Clark And Ryan Sr soon discovers that being his friends could have deadly consequences With the breakneck speed and military action scenes that have made him the premier thriller writer of our time Tom Clancy delivers a novel of high-tech warfare in which the enemy within may be even more devastating than the enemy withoutLocked On follows the gripping Dead or Alive and The Teeth of the Tiger as the explosive third novel in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan Jr seriesPraise for Tom Clancy'Truly riveting a dazzling read' Sunday Express'A brilliantly constructed thriller' Daily Mail"
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| "Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem by Philip Kerr (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Ex-Policeman Bernie Gunther thought he'd seen everything on the streets of 1930's Berlin But then he went freelance and each case he tackled sucked him further into the grisly excesses of Nazi sub-culture And even after the war amidst the decayed imperial splendour of Vienna Bernie uncovered a legacy that made the wartime atrocities look lily-white in comparison"
Price: 12.49 |
| "The Dogs of Littlefield by Suzanne Berne (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014Littlefield Massachusetts home to psychologists college professors and their over-achieving children and recently lauded as one of the Ten Best Places to Live in America If happiness had a home it would be hereThen the first dog is poisoned At first there is shock and disbelief who would commit such a cruel act - and why? As more dogs die residents notice other signs that something's not right in their home the appearance of menacing grafitti the persistent triggering of fire alarms at the middle school and the haunted looks neighbours begin exchangingFor the Downings Margaret Bill and daughter Julia Littlefield's gathering darkness hints at flaws in their own lives What is wrong? What can save them?'Well-observed shrewd satire sharp funny and painful Berne takes the domestic and turns it into the majestic' Sunday Telegraph"
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| "The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the award-winning international bestseller by Mohsin HamidNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE HUDSON AND KIEFER SUTHERLANDSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2007'Excuse me sir but may I be of assistance? Ah I see I have alarmed you Do not be frightened by my beard I am a lover of America 'So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles Invited to join him for tea you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out For her is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated He knows the West better than you do And as he tells you his story of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him so the night darkens Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear Praise for The Reluctant Fundamentalist 'Beautifully written more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman'Admirably spare and amazingly exciting' Rachel Cooke New Statesman'Sharp relevant impressively intelligent entertains at the same time as it makes you think' Daily Telegraph'A cleverly constructed fable of infatuation and disenchantment Intelligent and highly engaging genuinely provocative' Guardian'A brilliant book' Kiran Desai'Prods the intellect quickens the pace and captures the imagination' Sunday TimesMohsin Hamid is the author of three novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages received numerous awards and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian The New York Times Financial Times Granta and Paris Review Born and mostly raised in Lahore he spent part of his childhood in California studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School and has since lived between Lahore London and New York"
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| "A Delicate Truth by John Le Carre (Paperback, 2006)" |
| "'With A Delicate Truth le Carre has in a sense come home And it's a splendid homecoming Satisfying subtle and compelling' The TimesA counter-terror operation codenamed Wildlife is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony Gibraltar Its purpose to capture a high-value jihadist arms-buyer Its authors an ambitious Foreign Office Minister and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's Private Secretary Toby Bell is not cleared for itThree years later when the horrifying truth behind Operation Wildlife is uncovered Toby will be forced to choose between his conscience and his duty to the Service If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing how can he keep silent?'A brilliant climax with sinister deaths casual torture wrecked lives and shameful compromises' Observer'This is writing of such quality that - as Robert Harris put it - it will be read in one hundred years' Daily Mail'Perhaps the most significant novelist of the second half of the twentieth century in Britain' Ian McEwan"
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| "Funny Girl by Nick Hornby (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "Funny Girl - the latest novel from Nick Hornby the million-copy bestselling author of About a BoyMake them laugh and they're yours forever Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964 but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen She only wants to make people laugh So she leaves her hometown behind takes herself off to London and lands a life-changing audition for a new BBC comedy series Overnight she becomes Sophie Straw charming gorgeous destined to win the nation's heartsFunny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes the writers Tony and Bill friends since national service and comedy obsessives; producer Dennis Oxbridge educated clever mild and not-so-secretly devoted to his star actress Sophie; and dashing male lead Clive who firmly believes he's destined for better things The show's success continues rocketing and the cast and crew are having the time of their lives But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home and life starts imitating art they all face a choice How long can they keep going before it's time to change the channel?Nick Hornby's novel is about popular culture and the swinging sixties Sophie Straw is learning about youth and old age fame and hard work class and collaboration Funny Girl offers a captivating portrait of youthful exuberance and freedom at a time when Britain itself was experiencing one of its most enduring creative bursts Hornby fans will love his latest book as will readers of David Nicholls Mark Haddon and William Boyd'Fans won't be disappointed by this new story endearing humorous and touching full of spot-on period detail all brought to vivid life by a cast of very human characters Hugely enjoyable' Sunday Mirror 'Resolutely winningly light-hearted' Observer 'Nick Hornby's funny winningly perceptive novel is a pleasure to read' Telegraph 'If you devoured About a Boy and whizzed through High Fidelity you're going to love Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel Hilarious and captivating this is a fabulous read' Take a Break 'There is something about Hornby's writing that is so simple so easy-to-read and yet so sensitive and profound at the same time that anything he writes turns out very special The premise of Funny Girl is like a lot of Nick Hornby's irritatingly genius ideas something so obvious you can't believe no one thought of it before' Independent 'Everything he writes is addictively readable and clever but with this one he just surpasses himself' Red 'Effortlessly engaging Hornby's writing is so fluid he has a great knack for capturing atmosphere and skewering a character with a killer phrase' - Evening Standard"
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| "Unravelling Oliver by Liz Nugent (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "WINNER - IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year'Truly excellent beautifully written strongly recommended' Sophie Hannah'Compelling clever and dark unlike any other psychological thriller you will have read before you'll gobble it up in one go' Heat Magazine'Incredibly brilliant' Marian Keyes'Gone Girl meets The Spinning Heart a great cracking read I couldn't put it down' Ryan Tubridy RTE'The compulsion to continue reading never wanes and most impressively the ending doesn't buckle under the weight of expectation a persistently satisfying read' Sunday Times 'A page-turning one-sitting read from a brand new master of psychological suspense' Sunday Independent'An ambitiously structured and compelling whydunnit' Daily Mail 'Formidable' Irish Times'Reminiscent of The Book of Evidence' RTE Guide'We read this in one sitting satisfyingly unnerving' Woman's Way'All I know is I stayed awake until 3am to finish it which I haven't done with a new novel for longer than I can remember' Irish Independent'The best opening line you'll read all year and you'll keep reading' Sinead Crowley RTE Arts Correspondent'Her writing is stylish the characters are vivid and the line of the story is all too real and plausible Can't recommend it highly enough' Rick O'Shea 2FM'A superb and compelling terrifying book' Sinead Desmond TV3'Just read a book in one sitting Last time I managed that was about twenty years ago The book was Liz Nugent's Unravelling Oliver' Declan Burke CrimeAlwaysPaysie'A kind of Irish Mr Ripley Gripping thought-provoking' Darragh McManus arts journalist'I read this book over a 24 hour period I seriously could not put it down' Writingie'Magnificent compulsively readable stunning shock and superb' Frank McGuinness'I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her'Liz Nugent's gripping novel of psychological suspense Unravelling Oliver is a complex and elegant study of the making of a sociopath in the tradition of Barbara Vine and Patricia HighsmithOliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story He lives in the suburbs with his wife Alice who illustrates his award-winning children's books and gives him her unstinting devotion Their life together is one of enviable privilege and ease - enviable until one evening after supper Oliver attacks Alice and beats her into a comaIn the aftermath as everyone tries to make sense of his astonishing act of savagery Oliver tells his story So do those whose paths he has crossed over five decades What unfolds is a story of shame envy breath-taking deception and masterful manipulationOnly Oliver knows the lengths to which he has had to go to get the life to which he felt entitled But even he is in for a shock when the past catches up with himLiz Nugent has worked in Irish film theatre and television for most of her adult life She is an award-winning writer of radio and television drama and has written short stories for children and adults Unravelling Oliver is her first novel"
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