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| "Content Provider : Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011-2016" |
| "Over the last five years often when David Mitchell has been on holiday the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain and his own place in it in a series of irregular newspaper columns Will Scotland become the Promised Land of the Left? Is it possible to live a life without crisps? Who was Grant Shapps? What does your Spotify playlist data say about you? Are Jeremy Corbyn and Stewart Lee really the new Christs? And so on Selected introduced and where necessary explained by the author and corrected by readers Content Provider is funny grumpy provocative confusing and brilliant"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist" |
| "Paul Kingsnorth was once an activist an ardent environmentalist He fought against rampant development and the depredations of a corporate world that seemed hell-bent on ignoring a looming climate crisis in its relentless pursuit of profit But as the environmental movement began to focus on 'sustainability' rather than the defence of wild places for their own sake and as global conditions worsened he grew disenchanted with the movement that he once embraced He gave up what he saw as the false hope that residents of the First World would ever make the kind of sacrifices that might avert the severe consequences of climate changeFull of grief and fury as well as passionate lyrical evocations of nature and the wild Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist gathers the wave-making essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth's thinking In them he articulates a new vision that he calls 'dark ecology' which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us and he argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds Provocative and urgent iconoclastic and fearless this ultimately hopeful book poses hard questions about how we have lived and should live"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Yuki chan in Bronte Country" |
| "'Unconventional highly readable often very funny and strangely touching it's the kind of book you can't stop reading but don't want to finish' Sue Gaisford Financial TimesThe new novel from Mick Jackson Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Underground Man and Ten Sorry Tales'They both stop and stare for a moment Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking about snow but when it starts even now it's always arresting bewildering Each snowflake skating along some invisible plane Always circuitous as if looking for the best place to land'Yukiko tragically lost her mother ten years ago After visiting her sister in London she goes on the run and heads for Haworth West Yorkshire the last place her mother visited before her death Against a cold winter Yorkshire landscape Yuki has to tackle the mystery of her mother's death her burgeoning friendship with a local girl the allure of the Brontes and her own sister's wrath"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands" |
| "I can confirm that should you ever find yourself on stage playing the bass guitar with three left hands it is usually the one in the middle that is the real one The other two are probably phantoms Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands tells the story of one of the most revered British bands of the 1980s Spacemen 3 As the decade turned and acid house hit the mainstream the band imploded spectacularly going their separate ways just as they were on the cusp of breakthrough success Here Will Carruthers tells the story of his time in a wholly dysfunctional yet hugely influential band in one of the funniest and most memorable music memoirs"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Crossing the Water" |
| "Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life Published posthumously in 1971 they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel the volume that made her reputation Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems - 'Childless Woman' 'Mirror' 'Insomniac' - while discovering those still overlooked including her radio play Three Women These two extraordinary volumes find their place alongside The Colossus and Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent'Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring the same feel of bits of frightened vibrant indignant consciousness translated instantly into words and images that blend close experienced horror and icy sardonic control' Alan Brownjohn New Statesman"
Price: 7.99 |
| Hystopia |
| "LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016At the bitter end of the 1960s after surviving multiple assassination attempts President John F Kennedy has created a vast federal agency the Psych Corps dedicated to maintaining the nation's mental hygiene by any means necessary Soldiers returning from Vietnam have their battlefield traumas enfolded-wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy-while veterans too damaged to be enfolded roam at will in Michigan evading the Psych Corps and reenacting atrocities on civiliansThis destabilized alternate version of American history is the vision of the twenty-two-year-old veteran Eugene Allen who has returned from Vietnam to write the book at the center of Hystopia the long-awaited first novel by David Means In Hystopia Means brings his full talent to bear on the crazy reality of trauma both national and personal Outlandish and tender funny and violent timely and historical Hystopia invites us to consider whether our traumas can ever be truly overcome The answers it offers are wildly inventive deeply rooted in its characters and wrung from the author's own heart"
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| "Highly Illogical Behaviour" |
| "Sixteen year old Solomon has agoraphobia He hasn't left his house in three years which is fine by him At home he is the master of his own kingdom--even if his kingdom doesn't extend outside of the houseAmbitious Lisa desperately wants to go to a top tier psychiatry program She'll do anything to get inWhen Lisa finds out about Solomon's solitary existence she comes up with a plan sure to net her a scholarship befriend Solomon Treat his condition And write a paper on her findings To earn Solomon's trust Lisa begins letting him into her life introducing him to her boyfriend Clark and telling him her secrets Soon Solomon begins to open up and expand his universe But all three teens have grown uncomfortably close and when their facades fall down their friendships threaten to collapse as well"
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| "The Country Girls Trilogy : The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Married Bliss" |
| "The Country Girls and its sequels The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s and inspired generation after generation of readers and writers The passion artistry and courage of Edna O'Brien's vision in these three novels continue to resonate into the twenty-first century - and they are collected here with a new introduction from Eimear McBride"
Price: 8.49 |
| "This Is Memorial Device" |
| "A TELEGRAPH AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHRoss Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin are two fanboys dedicated to the Airdrie post-punk scene of the early '80s - the glory years - when anything and everything seemed possible Looking back on that time - the people the bands the underground legends - they piece together a story which has at its core Memorial Device the greatest band you've never heard of Featuring a cast of misfits artists drop-outs small-town visionaries and musicians This Is Memorial Device is a dark witty novel depicting a moment where art and the demands it makes are as serious as life itself"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Poetry Please: The Seasons" |
| "This new anthology of poems favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse moves with the seasons following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring' As the year changes so we change with it Since time out of mind our daily lives have been shaped and directed by the seasons and it is here that we find poems about harvest and hardship growth and new life the warmth of the life-giving sun Christmas and the closing of the year Poetry Please Seasonal Poems is a vital and generous gathering to treasure"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Soundscapes : A Musician's Journey through Life and Death" |
| "In 2008 the renowned violinist Paul Robertson suffered a ruptured aorta After dying momentarily on the operating table he remained in a coma for many weeks During this time he experienced visions which afforded him a profound insight into the relationship between music and the mind When he awoke he found his understanding of the world - and beyond - fundamentally alteredThis surprising and rewarding memoir offers a singular perspective on creative endeavour the rigours of learning the challenges of performance and the spiritual nourishment that drives us on It is a poignant and wise book that draws on a lifetime's experiences in both life and death"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Future Sex : A New Kind of Free Love" |
| "Emily Witt is single and in her thirties Until recently she had always imagined she would meet the right person and fall in love But as we all know things are more complicated than that Love is rare and frequently unreciprocated; sexual acquisitiveness is risky and can be hurtful Having experienced the familiar disappointments that come with online dating and one-night stands Witt decides to find her own path The result is an open-minded honest account of the contemporary pursuit of connection and pleasure - open forgiving and unafraid"
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| "Shiny Pippin and the Broken Forest" |
| "Permit me lovely readers to take you on a journey Firstly though wherever you are it is important that you should be comfy For example if you are in bed make sure there are no spiky pieces of Lego under your bum bum That sort of thing simply won't doPippin's just an ordinary little girl who lives with her ordinary little granny in the ordinary little town of Funsprings Or so she thinks When some rather terrible goings on start occurring Granny is forced to reveal a secret - she used to be a secret crime fighter! And on top of that Pippin has a special gift - she is Shiny and can talk to animals Hurray! But life's not all fun times and lemonade and monster munch for tea Not only has all the water gone the animals are disappearing too Someone as rotten as a pig fart in a jar must be behind all this and it's up to Pippin to find out who Armed with her new power and some new friends to boot Pippin will confront kidnappers evil scientists and would-be diamond thieves in this fantastic new series from Harry Heape (brilliantly illustrated by Rebecca Bagley too you lucky things!)"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Park Bench" |
| "'An incredibly lovely book Beautiful kind witty and calm' Max Porter author of Grief is the Thing With FeathersChaboute's enchanting story of a park bench was first published to critical acclaim in France in 2012 Faber now brings his work to the English-speaking world for the first timeThrough Chaboute's elegant graphic style we watch people pass stop meet return wait and play out the strange and funny choreography of life Fans of The Fox and the Star The Man Who Planted Trees and Richard Linklater's Boyhood will find this intimate graphic novel about a simple park bench - and the people who walk by or linger - poignant life-affirming and brilliantly original"
Price: 11.49 |
| "A Patient Fury" |
| "When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death Three bodies discovered - a family obliterated - their deaths all seem to point to one conclusion One mother one murderer But DC Childs determined as ever to discover the truth behind the tragedy realises it is the fourth body - the one they cannot find - that holds the key to the mystery at Cross Farm Lane What Connie Childs fails to spot is that her determination to unmask the real murderer might cost her more than her health - this time she could lose the thing she cares about most her career"
Price: 9.99 |
| "1,342 QI Facts To Leave You Flabbergasted" |
| "The sock-blasting jaw-dropping side-swiping phenomenon that is QI serves up a sparkling new selection of 1342 facts to leave you flabbergastedTrees sleep at nightGoogle searches for 'How to put on a condom' peak at 1028pmThere is no word for time in any Aboriginal languageScotland has 421 words for snowEmoji is the fastest growing language in historyAstronauts wear belts to stop their trousers falling upThe name Donald means 'ruler of the world'Tanks are exempt from London's Congestion chargeThe anti-spam industry is worth more than the spam industryFlorida has more bear hunters than bearsSelfies kill more people than sharksTwo-thirds of deaths in the world go unrecordedOn each anniversary of its landing on Mars the Curiosity rover hums 'Happy Birthday' to itselfNostalgia was classified as a disease by the Royal College of Physicians until 18991 in 3 children pretend to believe in Santa Claus to keep their parents happyBlack coffee drinkers are more likely to be psychopathsWhen you blush so does the lining of your stomachQuidditch Digestive biscuits and overdrafts were all invented in EdinburghThe world's only Cornish pasty museum is in MexicoNobody knows why the Oscars are called the OscarsLas Vegas hosts an awards ceremony for people who make awardsIn 2015 America's 'National Hero Dog Award' was won by a catA group of unicorns is called a blessingIf there are any facts you don't believe or if you want to know more about them all the sources can be found on wwwqicom"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Polar Bear Explorers' Club" |
| "It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer - tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk - but Stella really really didn't want that to happen just the sameJoin Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come face-to-face with frost fairies snow queens outlaw hideouts unicorns pygmy dinosaurs and carnivorous cabbages When Stella and three other junior explorers get separated from their expedition can they cross the frozen wilderness and live to tell the tale?"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Say Nothing" |
| "A normal Wednesday afternoon and Judge Scott Sampson is preparing to pick up his six-year-old twins from school His wife Alison texts with a change of plan - she will be collecting them instead But when Alison arrives home later she is alone and denies any knowledge of the textThen the phone rings a voice warns them that if they want to see their children again Scott must do exactly what he is told in an upcoming court case and most importantly they must 'say nothing'"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Bone Gap" |
| "He'd been drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place that the bones of the world were a little looser here double-jointed twisting back on themselves leaving spaces one could slip into and hide Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps - gaps to trip you up gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever So when young beautiful Roza goes missing the people of Bone Gap aren't surprised After all it isn't the first time someone's slipped away and left Finn and Sean O'Sullivan on their own Finn knows that's not what happened with Roza He knows she was taken ripped from the cornfields by a man whose face he can't remember But no one believes him anymore Well almost no one Petey Willis the beekeeper's daughter suspects that lurking behind Finn's fearful shyness is a story worth uncovering But as we like Petey follow the stories of Finn Roza and the people of Bone Gap - their melancholy pasts their terrifying presents their uncertain futures - the truth about what happened to Roza is slowly revealed And it is stranger than you can possibly imagine"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Body and Other Stories" |
| "The Body is a dazzling collection of fiction from Hanif Kureishi beginning with a novella that delves into the concept of identity and its root in our physical being Adam is a middle-aged playwright who accepts a tempting offer to have his mind transported into a younger body for six months Youth restored he embarks on an odyssey of physical hedonism but must then face the dire consequences when he is loath to relinquish his new body"
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| "British Museum" |
| "Daljit Nagra possesses one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary English poetry British Museum is his third collection following his electrifying version of the epic Ramayana and marks a significant departure of style to something quieter more contemplative and inquisitive at times valedictory His political edge has been honed in a series of meditations and reflections upon our heritage our legacy and the institutions that define them the BBC Hadrian's Wall the Sikh gurdwaras of our towns the British Museum of the title poem With compassion and charisma Nagra explores the impact of the first wave of mass migration to our shores the Arab Spring the allure of extremism along with a series of personal poems about the pressures of growing up in a traditional community British Museum is a book that asks profound questions of our ethics and responsibilities at a time of great challenge to our sense of national identity"
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| "The Unaccompanied" |
| "'The most popular English poet since Larkin' Sunday TimesAfter more than a decade and following his celebrated adventures in drama translation travel writing and prose poetry Simon Armitage's eleventh collection of poems heralds a return to his trademark contemporary lyricism The pieces in this multi-textured and moving volume are set against a backdrop of economic recession and social division where mass media the mass market and globalisation have made alienation a commonplace experience and where the solitary imagination drifts and conjures The Unaccompanied documents a world on the brink a world of unreliable seasons and unstable coordinates where Odysseus stalks the aisles of cut-price supermarkets in search of direction where the star of Bethlehem rises over industrial Yorkshire and where alarm bells for ailing communities go unheeded or unheard Looking for certainty the mind gravitates to recollections of upbringing and family only to encounter more unrecoverable worlds shaped as ever through Armitage's gifts for clarity and detail as well as his characteristic dead-pan wit Insightful relevant and empathetic these poems confirm The Unaccompanied as a bold new statement of intent by one of our most respected and recognised living poets 'A writer who has had a game-changing influence on his contemporaries' Guardian'Armitage is that rare beast a poet whose work is ambitious accomplished and complex as well as popular' Sunday Telegraph'The best poet of his generation' Craig Raine Observer"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Never Let Me Go : With GCSE and A Level study guide" |
| "Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of Never Let Me Go with a comprehensive study guide Intended for individual study as well as class use Geoff Barton's guide- clearly introduces the context of the novel and its author;- examines in detail its themes characters and structure;- looks at the novel in the author's own words and at different critical receptions;- provides glossaries and test questions to prompt deeper thinkingIn one of the most memorable novels of recent years Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England Narrated by Kathy now thirty-one Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at a seemingly idyllic school Hailsham and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world A story of love friendship and memory Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The History Boys : With GCSE and A Level study guide" |
| "Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of The History Boys with a comprehensive study guide Highlights of Andrew Bruff's guide include- detailed analyses of character theme and structure;- a clear introduction to the context of the play and its author;- key quotations and activities both for the student working alone and in the classroomAn unruly bunch of bright funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex sport and a place at university A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher A headmaster obsessed with results; a history teacher who thinks he's a foolIn Alan Bennett's award-winning and hugely popular play staffroom rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it about education and its purpose"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Blankets Paperback" |
| "First UK publication for this modern classic&39;It&39;s beautifully written and drawn it&39;s very poetic and very romantic I highly recommend it&39; ELENA FAVILLI&39;Moving tender beautifully drawn painfully honest and probably the most important graphic novel since Jimmy Corrigan&39; NEIL GAIMAN&39;Blankets is a classic in every genre it touches&39; STEPHEN CHBOSKY author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower&39;One of the greatest love stories ever written and surely the best ever drawn&39; JOSS WHEDONWrapped in the snowfall of a blustery Midwestern winter Blankets is the tale of two brothers growing up in rural isolation and of the budding romance between two young lovers A tale of security and discovery of playfulness and tragedy of a fall from grace and the origins of faith Blankets is a profound and utterly beautiful work"
Price: 13.49 |
| "The Fountain in the Forest" |
| "When a brutally murdered man is found hanging in a theatre Detective Sergeant Rex King becomes obsessed with the case Who is this anonymous corpse and why has he been ritually mutilated? But as Rex explores the crime scene further the mystery deepens and he finds himself confronting his own secret history instead Who more importantly is Rex King? Shifting between Holborn Police Station an abandoned village in rural 1980s France and Stonehenge's Battle of the Beanfield The Fountain in the Forest transforms the traditional crime narrative into something dizzyingly unique At once an avant-garde linguistic experiment thrilling police procedural philosophical meditation on liberty and counter-culture bildungsroman this is an iconoclastic novel of unparalleled ambition"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Pixels of Paul Cezanne : And Reflections on Other Artists" |
| "The Pixels of Paul Cezanne is a collection of essays by Wim Wenders which he presents his observations and reflections on the fellow artists who have influenced shaped and inspired himHow are they doing it? is the key questions Wenders asks as he looks at the dance work of Pina Bausch the paintings of Cezanne Edward Hopper of Andrew Wyeth or the films of Ingmar Bergman Michelanelo Antonioni Ozu Anthony Mann Douglas Sirk and Sam FullerHe finds the answer by writing about them trying to understand their individual perspective and in the process revealing his own art of perception in texts of rare poignancy"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Hedda Gabler Paperback" |
| "Just married Bored already Hedda longs to be freeThis vital new version by Patrick Marber (Closer Three Days in the Country) opened at The National Theatre London in December 2016"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Dave Pigeon (Racer!)" |
| "Have you ever sat in a shoebox? Of course you have But have you ever sat in one when your best friend Dave has spread his feathery self out so wide that his cheesy feet are right up your beak and there also happens to be an old banana in the corner taking up the rest of the space? I didn't think so This is where our story begins Dave Pigeon and his best friend Skipper were living happily in the Human Lady's house but now they're travelling in a box to Pawsville Vets maybe Dave will finally get his broken wing fixed The pet shop is full of new friends Jet the dog Cricket Ball Face the hamster and with friendship comes a bit of healthy competition and what could be better that a race for a racing pigeon? But the only animal who thinks Dave is capable of going up against the infamous Mickey Lightning is Dave himself The third installment to this laugh-out-loud new series is fully illustrated throughout by the incredible Sheena Dempsey"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man" |
| "I can hear the creak of the saddle and the clop and clink of hoofs as we cross the bridge over the brook by Dundell Farm; there is a light burning in the farmhouse window and the evening star glitters above a broken drift of half-luminous cloud It is with a sigh that I remember simple moments such as those when I understood so little of the deepening sadness of life and only the strangeness of the spring was knocking at my heartIn the 1920s a young man grappling with the horrors of the war from which he had just returned decided to write about a happier time A time of cricket matches and fox-hunting the busyness of village life and the shyness of youthThat man was Siegfried Sassoon and this is his book Originally published anonymously it went on to become Faber & Faber's first bestseller A classic depiction of pre-First World War Britain Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man tells two mirrored stories about a boy coming of age and a country losing its innocence"
Price: 10.49 |
