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| "Blood Meridian" |
| "Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s it traces the fortunes of the Kid a fourteen-year-old Tennessean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Making of Modern Britain" |
| "In The Making of Modern Britain Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War the nation was shaken by war and peace The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile fads such as eugenics vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation while the popularity of the music hall soared It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state Beyond trenches flappers and Spitfires this is a story of strange cults and economic madness of revolutionaries and heroic inventors sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines From organic food to drugs nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays crooked bankers to sleazy politicians the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Dominion Paperback" |
| "At once a vivid haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain a gripping humane spy thriller and a poignant love story with Dominion C J Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel 1952 Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule the press radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House Defiance though is growing In Britain Winston Churchill&39;s Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government&39;s side And in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist Frank Muncaster may hold a secret that could change the balance of the world struggle for ever Civil Servant David Fitzgerald secretly acting as a spy for the Resistance is given the mission to rescue his old friend Frank and get him out of the country Before long he together with a disparate group of Resistance activists will find themselves fugitives in the midst of London&39;s Great Smog; as David&39;s wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying than she ever could have imagined And hard on their heels is Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth brilliant implacable hunter of men "
Price: 7.99 |
| Lamentation |
| "Matthew Shardlake is back in Lamentation from the number one bestselling author C J SansomSummer 1546King Henry VIII is slowly painfully dying His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor eight-year-old Prince Edward As heretics are hunted across London and the radical Protestant Anne Askew is burned at the stake the Catholic party focus their attack on Henry's sixth wife Matthew Shardlake's old mentor Queen Catherine ParrShardlake still haunted by events aboard the warship Mary Rose the year before is working on the Cotterstoke Will case a savage dispute between rival siblings Then unexpectedly he is summoned to Whitehall Palace and asked for help by his old patron the now beleaguered and desperate QueenFor Catherine Parr has a secret She has written a confessional book Lamentation of a Sinner so radically Protestant that if it came to the King's attention it could bring both her and her sympathizers crashing down But although the book was kept secret and hidden inside a locked chest in the Queen's private chamber it has - inexplicably - vanished Only one page has been found clutched in the hand of a murdered London printerShardlake's investigations take him on a trail that begins among the backstreet printshops of London but leads him and Jack Barak into the dark and labyrinthine world of the politics of the royal court; a world he had sworn never to enter again Loyalty to the Queen will drive him into a swirl of intrigue inside Whitehall Palace where Catholic enemies and Protestant friends can be equally dangerous and the political opportunists who will follow the wind wherever it blows more dangerous than either The theft of Queen Catherine's book proves to be connected to the terrible death of Anne Askew while his involvement with the Cotterstoke litigants threatens to bring Shardlake himself to the stakeThe previous books in the bestselling Shardlake series are Dissolution Dark Fire Sovereign Revelation and Heartstone"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Freddie and the Fairy" |
| "Freddie is desperate for a pet so when he rescues Bessie-Belle and she offers to grant his wishes he knows just what to ask for The only problem is that Bessie-Belle can't hear very well and Freddie tends to mumble Whatever can they do? Luckily the Fairy Queen is on hand to explain Illustrated by Karen George Freddie and the Fairy is a delightful tale full of Julia Donaldson's trademark rhyme and wit with a subtle message about hearing impairments"
Price: 5.99 |
| "No Country for Old Men" |
| "Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy author of The RoadLlewelyn Moss hunting antelope near the Rio Grande stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong Finding bullet-ridden bodies several kilos of heroin and a caseload of cash he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it or cut the money and run Choosing the latter he knows will change everything And so begins a terrifying chain of events in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Crossing" |
| "The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy's critically acclaimed Border Trilogy that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World War Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing follows the fortunes of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham and his younger brother Boyd Fascinated by an elusive wolf that has been marauding his family's property Billy captures the animal - but rather than kill it sets out impulsively for the mountains of Mexico to return it to where it came from When Billy comes back to his own home he finds himself and his world irrevocably changed His loss of innocence has come at a price and once again the border beckons with its desolate beauty and cruel promise"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Peace at Last Big Book" |
| "The hour was late and Mr Bear was tired But he could not sleep - however he tried and wherever he triedSnore snore went Mrs BearTick-tock tick-tock went the clockWould he never get to sleep? The familiar noises repetition and beautiful illustrations make Jill Murphy's delightful Peace at Last an all-time favourite bedtime story with children and adults everywhere Peace at Last Big Book is in an ideal format for classroom and group use"
Price: 17.49 |
| "Paths of Glory" |
| "Inspired by a true story Paths of Glory bring to life one of history's enduringly enigmatic figures Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them their place in history would be guaranteed Francis Drake Robert Scott Percy Fawcett Charles Lindbergh Amy Johnson Edmund Hillary and Neil Armstrong are among such individuals But what if one man had such a dream and when he'd fulfilled it there was no proof that he had achieved his ambition? Paths of Glory is the story of such a man But not until you've turned the last page of Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary novel will you be able to decide if George Mallory should be added to this list of legends because if he were another name would have to be removed"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Deliver Us From Evil" |
| "Evan Waller is a monster He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything and anyone In search of new opportunities Waller has just begun a new business venture one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe On Waller's trail is Shaw the mysterious operative from The Whole Truth who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal Shaw's one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places a serene bucolic village in Provence But Waller's depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shaw knows And now there is someone else pursuing Waller in Provence - Reggie Campion an agent for a secret vigilante group headquartered in a musty old English estate - and she has an agenda of her own Hunting the same man and unaware of each other's mission Shaw and Reggie will be caught in a deadly duel of nerve and wits Deliver Us From Evil is Hitchcockian in its intimate build-up of suspense and filled with the remarkable characters breathtaking plot turns and blockbuster finale that are David Baldacci's hallmarks"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Childhood's End Paperback" |
| "Earth has become a Utopia guided by a strange unseen people from outer space whose staggering powers have eradicated war cruelty poverty and racial inequality When the &39;Overlords&39; finally reveal themselves their horrific form makes little impression Then comes the sign that the Overlords have been waiting for A child begins to dream strangely - and develops remarkable powers Soon this happens to every child - and the truth of the Overlords&39; mission is finally revealed to the human race A classic of the science fiction genre Childhood&39;s End is an intelligent beautifully written exploration of what it means to be human from the inimitable Arthur C Clarke Now adapted as a three-part miniseries on Sky"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Ours are the Streets" |
| "Sunjeev Sahota's Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalizationWhen Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time to bury his father on his family's land near Lahore he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir and Afghanistan Once back in Yorkshire he writes through the night to his young wife Becka and baby daughter Noor and tries to explain in a story full of affection and yearning what has happened to him - and why he has a devastating new sense of home"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Dear Zoo Big Book" |
| "'I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet 'Rod Campbell's classic lift-the-flap book Dear Zoo has been a firm favourite with toddlers teachers and parents ever since it was first published in 1982Dear Zoo Big Book is a special extra-large edition that is perfect for classroom use Children will enjoy finding out who is hiding under the flaps and discovering the different animals the zoo has sent - all in search of the perfect pet With bright bold artwork a catchy refrain and a whole host of favourite animals Dear Zoo Big Book is a classic to come back to again and again and a must for every classroom"
Price: 17.49 |
| "The Whole Truth" |
| "'I need a war ' Nicolas Creel a super-rich arms dealer decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war - and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way As international tensions rise and the superpowers line up against each other the lives of three very different people will never be the same again As intelligence agent Shaw academic Anna Fischer and ambitious journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control?The Whole Truth by David Baldacci is a terrifying global thriller that delivers all the twists and turns emotional drama unforgettable characters and can't-put-it-down pacing that Baldacci fans expect - and still goes beyond anything he's written beforeThe Whole Truth is followed by a second Shaw and Katie James novel Deliver Us From Evil"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Kite Spirit" |
| "During the summer of her GCSEs Kite's world falls apart Her best friend Dawn commits suicide after a long struggle with feeling under pressure to achieve Kite's dad takes her to the Lake District to give her time and space to grieve In London Kite is a confident girl at home in the noisy bustling city but in the countryside she feels vulnerable and disorientated Kite senses Dawn's spirit around her and is consumed by powerful confusing emotions - anger guilt sadness and frustration all of which are locked inside It's not until she meets local boy Garth that Kite begins to open up - talking to a stranger is easier somehow Kite deeply misses her friend and would do anything to speak to Dawn just once more to understand why Otherwise how can she ever say goodbye?A potent story about grief friendship acceptance and making your heart whole again"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Room by Emma Donoghue (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "A major film starring Brie Larson winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Best Actress BAFTAShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize the Orange Prize and a Richard and Judy Book Club selectionJack is five He lives with his Ma They live in a single locked room They don&39;t have the key Jack and Ma are prisonersRoom by Emma Donoghue is an extraordinarily powerful story of a mother and child kept in isolation and the desire for and price of freedom"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Escape from Camp 14 : One man's remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the West" |
| "'This is a story unlike any other' Barbara Demick author of Nothing to Envy Ordinary Lives in North KoreaNow a major documentary filmTwenty-seven years ago Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14 one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea Located about fifty-five miles north of Pyongyang the labor camp is a 'complete control district' a no-exit prison where the only sentence is lifeNo one born in Camp 14 or in any North Korean political prison camp has escaped No one except Shin This is his storyA gripping terrifying biography with a searing sense of place Escape from Camp 14 by journalist Blaine Harden will unlock through Shin a dark and secret nation taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Cave Baby" |
| "A hairy mammoth takes a cheeky little baby on a thrilling ride through a moonlit landscape populated by a sabre-toothed tiger a leaping hare a laughing hyena and even just maybe by a big brown bear But where are they going? And what has it to do with the baby's scribblings on the cave wall? Created by the critically acclaimed author Julia Donaldson and Kate Greenaway medal winner Emily Gravett Cave Baby is a brilliant picture book with a classic feel"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Oliver Sacks has become the world&39;s best-known neurologist His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness&39; Guardian In his most extraordinary book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted and yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents In Dr Sacks&39;s splendid and sympathetic telling each tale is a unique and deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity"
Price: 7.49 |
| Awakenings |
| "'The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time and the drug that catapulted them out of it' Guardian Hailed as a medical classic and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays and various TV documentaries Awakenings by Oliver Sacks is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War all twenty had spent forty years in hospital motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them but exhibiting no interest in it - until Dr Sacks administered the then-new drug L-DOPA which caused them temporarily to awake from their decades-long slumber"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Dark Intelligence" |
| "Dark Intelligence is the first novel in the Transformation series a no-holds-barred adventure set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universeOne man will transcend death to seek vengeance One woman will transform herself to gain power And no one will emerge unscathed Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital where he finds he's been brought back from the dead What's more he died in a human vs alien war which ended a whole century ago But when he relives his traumatic final moments he finds the spark to keep on living That spark is vengeance Trapped and desperate on a world surrounded by alien Prador forces Spear had seen a rescue ship arriving But instead of providing backup Penny Royal the AI within the destroyer turned rogue It annihilated friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction and years later it's still free Spear vows to track it across worlds and do whatever it takes to bring it downIsobel Satomi ran a successful crime syndicate But after competitors attacked she needed more power Yet she got more than she bargained for when she negotiated with Penny Royal She paid it to turn her part-AI herself but the upgrades hid a horrifying secret The Dark AI had triggered a transformation in Isobel that would turn her into a monster rapidly evolving into something far from humanSpear hires Isobel to take him to the Penny Royal AI's last known whereabouts But he cheats her in the process and he becomes a target for her vengeance And as she is evolves further into a monstrous predator rage soon wins over reason Will Spear finish his hunt before he becomes the hunted?"
Price: 7.99 |
| "War Factory" |
| "One seeks judgement another faces damnation and one man will have his revenge Thorvald Spear is losing his mind as he drowns in dark memories that aren't his own Penny Royal rogue artificial intelligence has linked Spear with the stored personalities of those it's murdered And whether the AI seeks redemption or has some more sinister motive Spear needs to destroy it He feels the anger of the dead and shares their pain As Spear tracks the AI across a hostile starscape he has company Sverl an alien prador has been warped by Penny Royal and hungers to confront it But will the AI's pursuers destroy each other or hunt it together? Sverl's prador enemies aren't far behind either They plan to use his transition to prove human meddling triggering a devastating new war Clues suggest Penny Royal's heading for the defective war factory that made it So allies and enemies converge heading for the biggest firestorm that sector of space has ever seen But will Spear secure vengeance for his unquiet dead?"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Infinity Engine" |
| "Infinity Engine is the third and final novel in the Transformation series by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher following Dark Intelligence and War FactoryA man battles for his life two AIs vie for supremacy and a civilization hangs in the balance Several forces now pursue rogue artificial intelligence Penny Royal hungry for revenge or redemption And the Brockle is the most dangerous of all This criminal swarm-robot AI has escaped confinement and is upgrading itself becoming ever more powerful in anticipation of a showdownEvents also escalate aboard the war factory Here Thorvald Spear alien prador and an assassin drone struggle to stay alive battling insane AIs and technology gone wild Then the Weaver arrives - last remnant of a race that died out two million years ago But what could it contribute to Penny Royal's tortuous plans?And beyond the war factory a black hole conceals a tantalizing secret which could destroy the Polity As AIs humans and prador clash at its boundary will anything survive their explosive final confrontation?"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Falling Man" |
| "Falling Man begins on September 11 in the smoke and ash of the burning towers In the days and the years following we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals Theirs are lives choreographed by loss by grief and by the enormous force of history From these intimate portraits Don DeLillo shifts to an extrapolated vision he charts the way the events have reconfigured our emotional landscape our memory and our perception of the world Falling Man is an unforgettable novel at once cathartic and beautiful and heartbreaking"
Price: 7.49 |
| "A Life to Kill" |
| "From the bestselling author of the Coroner Jenny Cooper series comes A Life to Kill Matthew Hall's most gripping moving and timely thriller to dateIf they're hiding something we've got a right to know We've got a right to know what Kenny died for The day they've all been waiting for is at hand The last British combat soldiers in Helmand are counting the minutes until their departure for home For their excited families in Highcliffe it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait But in the final hours disaster strikes Nineteen-year-old Private Pete 'Skippy' Lyons is abducted and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed One killed two injured One still missing in action Their loved ones are left desperate for answers the Army won't provide How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post? And why are officers trying to disguise what happened during the mission to save him?Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried along with the boy soldiers But in a town filled with secrets and rumours it's not only the Army that has something to hideA Life to Kill is the seventh installment in the Coroner Jenny Cooper series"
Price: 6.99 |
| "American Psycho Paperback" |
| "Bret Easton Ellis&39;s American Psycho is a cult classic adapted into a film starring Christian Bale Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome sophisticated charming and intelligent He is also a psychopath Taking us to a head-on collision with America’s greatest dream – and its worst nightmare – American Psycho is a bleak bitter black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time - a multimillion-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic"
Price: 7.49 |
| Glamorama |
| "The centre of the world 1990s Manhattan Victor Ward a model with perfect abs and all the right friends is seen and photographed everywhere even in places he hasn't been and with people he doesn't know On the eve of opening the trendiest nightclub in New York history he's living with one beautiful model and having an affair with another Now it's time to move to the next stage But the future he gets is not the one he had in mindIn Glamorama Bret Easton Ellis shows us a shadowy looking-glass world the juncture where fame and fashion terror and mayhem meet and then begin to resemble the familiar surface of our lives"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Rules of Attraction" |
| "Incisive controversial and startlingly funny The Rules of Attraction examines a group of affluent students at a small self-consciously bohemian liberal-arts college on America's East Coast Lauren who changes the man in her bed even more often than she changes course is dating Victor but sleeping with Sean Sean - cool ambivalent and deeply cynical - might be in love with Lauren but he's not going to let that stop him from bedding Paul Paul as shrewd as he is passionate is Lauren's ex-lover and the final point in this curious triangle From the author of American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis's The Rules of Attraction is a breathtaking tale of sex expectation desire and frustration"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Muddle Earth" |
| "Where would you find a perfumed bog filled with pink sticky hogs and exploding gas frogs? A place that's home to a wizard with only one spell an ogre who cries a lot and a very sarcastic budgie? Welcome to Muddle Earth A place where anything can happen - and usually does Joe Jefferson an ordinary schoolboy from ordinary earth is about to find his life changed forever Prepare for a great battle of good evil and sort of OKPaul Stewart and Chris Riddell's Muddle Earth is a wonderfully funny fantasy adventure with unforgettable characters and beautiful illustrations throughout"
Price: 6.49 |
| Malice |
| "Called a 'Hell of a debut' by bestselling author Conn Iggulden Malice by John Gwynne is the first in The Faithful and the Fallen seriesYoung Corban watches enviously as boys become warriors learning the art of war He yearns to wield his sword and spear to protect his king's realm But that day will come all too soon Only when he loses those he loves will he learn the true price of courage The Banished Lands has a violent past where armies of men and giants clashed in battle the earth running dark with their heartsblood Although the giant-clans were broken in ages past their ruined fortresses still scar the land But now giants stir anew the very stones weep blood and there are sightings of giant wyrms Those who can still read the signs see a threat far greater than the ancient wars Sorrow will darken the world as angels and demons make it their battlefield Then there will be a war to end all wars High King Aquilus summons his fellow kings to council seeking an alliance in this time of need Prophesy indicates darkness and light will demand two champions the Black Sun and the Bright Star They would be wise to seek out both for if the Black Sun gains ascendancy mankind's hopes and dreams will fall to dust"
Price: 8.99 |
