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| Dreamweaver |
| "When night shadows fall and the moonlight gleams The dreamweaver comes with her sack full of dreams The dreamweaver collects her magical dreams and sprinkles dream-dust on all the sleepy baby jungle animals An enchanting bedtime story and exciting new territory for Claire Freedman author of the bestselling Aliens Love Underpants series With stunning illustrations from debut artist Carrie May"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Maps Special Edition" |
| "Explore the world with this lavish new edition of the bestselling Maps Released to mark the 10th anniversary of the very first edition this book features 16 brand new maps and has new material on every page Each highly illustrated map details not only geographical features and political borders but also places of interest iconic personalities native animals and plants local peoples cultural events and many more fascinating facts assorted with each region It's a celebration of the world from its immense mountains to its tiny insects - and everything in between!"
Price: 20.49 |
| "Jane Foster's London" |
| "A bold and stylish introduction to the iconic landmarks and sights of London by leading textile design Jane Foster With cheerful retro-inspired artwork this will make the perfect gift for a new baby or first birthday"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Real Boat" |
| "When the paper boat learns that there is such a place as the ocean he is determinded to go there so he can be a real boatOn his journey he meets all sorts of friends from the strong little tug boat to the glittering ocean liner But he also learns that the real ocean is huge and deep and full of dangersThe lyrical text and illustrations of this modern fable create a world of wonder"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Jane Foster's Animals cloth book" |
| "Babies will love exploring this soft cloth book whilst learning their first animal words From cats and dogs to fish and birds familiarise little ones with their first animals with Jane Foster's delightful artwork This book is the perfect size for little hands to hold on to and comes with a crinkle-effect front cover for extra sensory excitement With bold vibrant artwork by Jane Foster and beautifully presented in a gift box this cloth book makes an ideal present for newborns"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Tsar's Dragons : 1" |
| "The first of a trilogy based on the exploits of John Hughes who founded a city in Russia in the 1800sIn 1869 Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age He began by inviting Welsh businessman John Hughes to build an ironworks A charismatic visionary Hughes persuaded influential people to invest in his venture while concealing his greatest secret - he couldn't even write his own name Hughes recruited adventurers prepared to sacrifice everything to ensure the success of Hughesovka (Donetsk Ukraine) Young Welsh men and women fleeing violence in their home country Jews who have accepted Russian anti-Semitism as their fate and Russian aristocrats all see a future in the Welshman's plans In a place where murderers whores and illicit love affairs flourish The Tsar's Dragons is the story of a new beginning in Hughesovka a town of opportunity"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Pica : 1" |
| "Luke hates nature preferring the excitement of computer games to dull walks in the countryside but his view of the world around him drastically begins to change when enigmatic loner Guy for whom Luke is reluctantly made to feel responsible shows him some of the secrets that the very planet itself appears to be hiding from modern society Hidden behind the everyday screen of school family-life Luke tumbles into a fascinating world of magic and fantasy where transformations and shifting identities become second nature Luke gets caught up in an inescapable path that affects his very existence as the view of the world around him drastically begins to change"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Wanderlust : A History of Walking" |
| "What does it mean to be out walking in the world whether in a landscape or a metropolis on a pilgrimage or a protest march? In this first general history of walking Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political aesthetic and social meaning Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture from the peripatetic philosophers of ancient Greece to the poets of the Romantic Age from the perambulations of the Surrealists to the ascents of mountaineers With profiles of some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction - from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder from Rousseau to Argentina's Mother of the Plaza de Mayo from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja - Wanderlust offers a provocative and profound examination of the interplay between the body the imagination and the world around the walker"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Men Explain Things to Me : And Other Essays" |
| "Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement inspired the term 'mansplaining' and established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time - one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself along with the best of Solnit's feminist writingsFrom rape culture to mansplaining from French sex scandals to marriage and the nuclear family from Virginia Woolf to colonialism these essays are a fierce and incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as 'issues' at all With grace and energy and in the most exquisite and inviting of prose Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement and a radical humane thinker"
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| "The Story of My Teeth" |
| "Gustavo 'Highway' Sanchez is a man with a mission he is planning to replace every last one of his unsightly teeth He has a few skills that might help him on his way he can imitate Janis Joplin after two rums he can interpret Chinese fortune cookies he can stand an egg upright on a table and he can float on his back And of course he is the world's best auction caller - although other people might not realise this because he is by nature very discreetStudying auctioneering under Grandmaster Oklahoma and the famous country singer Leroy Van Dyke Highway travels the world amassing his collection of 'Collectibles' and perfecting his own specialty the allegoric auction In his quest for a perfect set of pearly whites he finds unusual ways to raise the funds culminating in the sale of the jewels of his collection the teeth of the 'notorious infamous' - Plato Petrarch Chesterton Virginia Woolf et alWritten with elegance wit and exhilarating boldness Valeria Luiselli takes us on an idiosyncratic and hugely enjoyable journey that offers an insightful meditation on value worth and creation and the points at which they overlap"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Addlands Hardcover" |
| "Addlands is the story of two generations of the Hamer family working the Funnon Farm There is Idris stubborn strong a man of the plough and the prayer-sheet haunted by the war Then comes Oliver a near mythic giant bestriding the landscape a fighter a man of the hills as hard as the prehistoric stone Then there is Etty Oliver&39;s mother the centre of this close constellation watching new technologies and old ways converge on the farm and on the life of her son Addlands is instantly a classic of rural British fiction It is as vast and complex as a symphony but as pure and moving as a solo voice in an empty churchAs much a book about birdsong as it is about closing time brawls Addlands&39; beauty is in the clear truth of its language and the sheer humane depth of its inquiries It is a miraculous book which unfurls at the speed of life and bathes its reader in a rare golden light"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Islander : A Journey Around Our Archipelago Hardcover" |
| "The British Isles are an archipelago made up of two large islands and 6289 smaller ones Some like the Isle of Man resemble miniature nations with their own language and tax laws; others like Ray Island in Essex are abandoned and mysterious places haunted by myths ghosts and foxes There are resurgent islands such as Eigg which have been liberated from capricious owners to be run by their residents; holy islands like Bardsey the resting place of 20000 saints and still a site of spiritual questing; and deserted islands such as St Kilda famed for the evacuation of its human population and now dominated by wild sheep and seabirdsIn this evocative and vividly observed book Patrick Barkham explores some of the most beautiful landscapes in the British Isles as he travels to ever-smaller islands in search of their special magic Our small islands are both places of freedom and imprisonment party destinations and oases of peace strangely suburban and deeply wild They are places where the past is unusually present but they can also offer a vision of an alternative futureMeeting all kinds of islanders from nuns to puffins from local legends to rare subspecies of vole he seeks to discover what it is like to live on a small island and what it means to be an islander"
Price: 14.49 |
| "The Tidal Zone" |
| "Adam is a stay-at-home dad who is also working on a history of the bombing and rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral He is a good man and he is happy But one day he receives a call from his daughter's school to inform him that for no apparent reason fifteen-year-old Miriam has collapsed and stopped breathing In that moment he is plunged into a world of waiting agonising not knowing The story of his life and the lives of his family are rewritten and re-told around this shocking central event around a body that has inexplicably failedIn this exceptionally courageous and unflinching novel of contemporary life Sarah Moss goes where most of us wouldn't dare to look and the result is riveting - unbearably sad but also miraculously funny and ultimately hopeful The Tidal Zone explores parental love overwhelming fear illness and recovery It is about clever teenagers and the challenges of marriage It is about the NHS academia sex and gender in the twenty-first century the work-life juggle and the politics of packing lunches and loading dishwashers It confirms Sarah Moss as a unique voice in modern fiction and a writer of luminous intelligence"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Border : A Journey to the Edge of Europe Paperback" |
| "Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2017Winner of the 2017 Highland Book PrizeWinner of the Saltire Society Book of the Year 2017Shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2018Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2017Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award 2018Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017Shortlisted for the National Circle of Critics Award 2017When Kapka Kassabova was a child the borderzone between Bulgaria Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers spies and fugitives On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast she remembers playing on the beach only miles from where an electrified fence bristled its barbs pointing inwards toward the enemy the holiday-makers the potential escapees Today this densely forested landscape is no longer heavily militarised but it is scarred by its past In Border Kapka Kassabova sets out on a journey to meet the people of this triple border - Bulgarians Turks Greeks and the latest wave of refugees fleeing conflict further afield She discovers a region that has been shaped by the successive forces of history by its own past migration crises by communism by two World wars by the Ottoman Empire and - older still - by the ancient legacy of myths and legends As Kapka Kassabova explores this enigmatic region in the company of border guards and treasure hunters entrepreneurs and botanists psychic healers and ritual fire-walkers refugees and smugglers she traces the physical and psychological borders that criss-cross its villages and mountains and goes in search of the stories that will unlock its secrets Border is a sharply observed portrait of a little-known corner of Europe and a fascinating meditation on the borderlines that exist between countries between cultures between people and within each of us"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Strange Heart Beating" |
| "Seb's beautiful beloved wife Leda has been killed by a swan Sorting through her belongings after her death he comes across a packet of unopened letters from Olaf a man whom Leda had never mentioned Floundering professionally and sunk by grief he decides to travel to Leda's home village in Latvia to patch her story together But with each new person that he turns to for answers Seb is met instead by more questions about Leda her past and their life togetherA darkly funny seductive novel that confronts the black undercurrent of possession inherent in love Strange Heart Beating is a breathtaking debut from an author whose vision is both acerbic and tender"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Cove Paperback" |
| "WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2017Out at sea in a sudden storm a man is struck by lightning When he wakes injured and adrift on a kayak his memory of who he is and how he came to be there is all but shattered Now he must pit himself against the pain and rely on his instincts to get back to shore and to the woman he dimly senses waiting for his return With its taut narrative and its wincingly visceral portrait of a man locked in an uneven struggle with the forces of nature this is a powerful new work from one of the most distinctive voices in British fiction"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Alarming Palsy of James Orr" |
| "James Orr - husband father reliable employee and all round model citizen - wakes one morning to find himself quite transformed There's no way he can go into the office and the doctors aren't able to help Waiting for the affliction to pass he wanders the idyllic estate where he lives with its pretty woodland uniform streets and perfectly manicured lawns But there are cracks in the veneer And as his orderly existence begins to unravel it appears that James himself may not be the man he thought he wasA story that consistently confounds expectations The Alarming Palsy of James Orr introduces a writer of extraordinary and disturbing talents"
Price: 8.99 |
| "The Wild Places" |
| "Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked farmed and built ourselves out of wildness?In his vital bewitching inspiring classic Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Mountains Of The Mind : A History Of A Fascination" |
| "WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDOnce we thought monsters lived there In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune with the sublime Soon we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride In this ground-breaking classic work Robert Macfarlane takes us up into the mountains to experience their shattering beauty the fear and risk of adventure and to explore the strange impulses that have for centuries lead us to the world's highest places"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Balkans, 1804-2012 : Nationalism, War and the Great Powers" |
| "In this celebrated landmark history of the Balkans Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the bloodshed invasions and nationalist fervour that have come to define our understanding of the south-eastern edge of Europe In doing so he reveals that groups we think of as implacable enemies have over the centuries formed unlikely alliances thereby disputing the idea that conflict in the Balkans is the ineluctable product of ancient grudges And he exposes the often-catastrophic relationship between the Balkans and the rest of Europe raising profound questions about recent Western interventionUpdated to cover the last decade's brutal conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia the surge of organised crime in the region the rise of Turkey and the rocky road to EU membership The Balkans remains the essential and peerless study of Europe's most complex and least understood region"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Psychoanalysis : The Impossible Profession" |
| "The process known as psychoanalysis is sometimes revered sometimes derided and most often misunderstood What good does it do? Can it help anyone? What risks does it pose to both patient and analyst? None of these questions can be easily answered but in Janet Malcolm's narrative in which all her skills as a reporter and interviewer come into play their complexity is limpidly revealed"
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| "Perfecting Sound Forever : The Story Of Recorded Music" |
| "From our CD collections to iPods bursting with MP3s to the hallowed vinyl of DJs recordings are the most common way we experience music Perfecting Sound Forever tells the story of recorded music introducing us to the innovators musicians and producers who have affected the way we hear our favourite songs from Thomas Edison to Phil Spector Exploring the balance that recordings strike between the real and the represented Greg Milner asks the questions which have divided sound recorders for the past century should a recording document reality as faithfully as possible or should it improve upon or somehow transcend the music it records? What does the perfect record sound like? The answers he uncovers will change the way we think about music"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Spring : An Anthology for the Changing Seasons" |
| "It is a time of awakening In our -fields hedgerows and woodlands our beaches cities and parks an almost imperceptible shift soon becomes a riot of sound and colour winter ends and life surges forth once more Whether in town or country we all share in this natural rhythm in the joy and anticipation of the changing year; In prose and poetry both old and new Spring mirrors the unfolding of the season inviting us to see what's around us with new eyes Featuring original writing by Rob Cowen Miriam Darlington and Stephen Moss classic extracts from the work of George Orwell Clare Leighton and H E Bates and fresh new voices from across the UK this is an original and inspiring collection of nature writing that brings the British springtime to life in all its vivid glory"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Prisoners of Geography : Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics" |
| "THE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER; All leaders are constrained by geography Their choices are limited by mountains rivers seas and concrete Yes to understand world events you need to understand people ideas and movementsbut if you don't know geography you'll never have the full picture; To understand Putin's actions for example it is essential to consider that to be a world power Russia must have a navy And if its ports freeze for six months each year then it must have access to a warm water port - hence the annexation of Crimea was the only option for Putin To understand the Middle East it is crucial to know that geography is the reason why countries have logically been shaped as they are - and this is why invented countries (eg Syria Iraq Libya) will not survive as nation states;Spread over ten chapters (covering Russia; China; the USA; Latin America; the Middle East; Africa; India and Pakistan; Europe; Japan and Korea; and Greenland and the Arctic) using maps essays and occasionally the personal experiences of the widely travelled author Prisoners of Geography looks at the past present and future to offer an essential guide to one of the major determining factors in world history"
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| "Summer : An Anthology for the Changing Seasons" |
| "Summer is a season of richness gold against blue; sun dazzle on water; sweet fragrance and the sound of insects filling the air We feel the sand between our toes or the grass beneath our feet In these long warm days languid and sensual we reconnect with the natural world revelling in light and scent and colour once more; Capturing the high point of the year's progress Summer presents prose and poetry spanning eight hundred years Featuring new contributions by Simon Barnes Michael McCarthy and Esther Woolfson classic extracts from the work of Charles Dickens Mary Webb and Philip Larkin and diverse new nature writing from across the UK this vibrant and evocative collection will inspire you to go out and enjoy the pleasures of summer"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Worth Dying for : The Power and Politics of Flags Paperback" |
| "When you see your nation&39;s flag fluttering in the breeze what do you feel?; For thousands of years flags have represented our hopes and dreams We wave them Burn them March under their colours And still in the 21st century we die for them Flags fly at the UN on the Arab street from front porches in Texas They represent the politics of high power as well as the politics of the mob; From the renewed sense of nationalism in China to troubled identities in Europe and the USA to the terrifying rise of Islamic State the world is a confusing place right now and we need to understand the symbols old and new that people are rallying round; In nine chapters (covering the USA UK Europe Middle East Asia Africa Latin America international flags and flags of terror) Tim Marshall draws on more than twenty-five years of global reporting experience to reveal the histories the power and the politics of the symbols that unite us - and divide us"
Price: 7.49 |
| "That Glimpse of Truth : The 100 Finest Short Stories Ever Written" |
| "Profound lyrical shocking wise the short story is capable of almost anything This collection of 100 of the finest stories ever written ranges from the essential to the unexpected the traditional to the surreal Wide in scope both beautiful and vast this is the perfect companion for any fiction lover Here are childhood favourites and neglected masters twenty-first century wits and national treasures Man Booker Prize winners and Nobel Laureates Featuring an all-star cast of authors including Kate Atkinson Julian Barnes Angela Carter Anton Chekhov Richmal Crompton Charles Dickens Roald Dahl Penelope Fitzgerald Gustave Flaubert Rudyard Kipling Somerset Maugham Ian McEwan Alice Munro VS Pritchett Thomas Pynchon Muriel Spark and Colm Toibin THAT GLIMPSE OF TRUTH is the biggest most handsome collection of short fiction in print today"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Lives of Tudor Women" |
| "The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract not a matter for love and the education of women was minimal at best Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and characterful women in a way that no era had been before Elizabeth Norton explores the seven ages of the Tudor woman from childhood to old age through the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor Henry VIII's sister who died in infancy; Cecily Burbage Elizabeth's wet nurse; Mary Howard widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth Boleyn mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton a peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess Their stories are interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to contraception to witchcraft painting a portrait of the lives of queens and serving maids nuns and harlots widows and chaperones"
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| "No More Champagne : Churchill and his Money" |
| "The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances - and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years The popular image of Churchill - grandson of a duke drinking champagne and smoking a cigar - conjures up a man of wealth and substance The reality is that Britain's most celebrated 20th-century statesman lived for most of his life on a financial cliff-edge Only fragments of information about his finances or their impact on his public life have previously emerged With the help of unprecedented access to Churchill's private records David Lough creates the first fully researched narrative of Churchill's private finances and business affairs As he reveals the scale of Churchill's financial risk-taking combined with an ability to talk or write himself out of the tightest of corners the links between the private man and public figure become clear"
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| "The Angels Of Lovely Lane : 1" |
| "It is 1953 and five very different girls are arriving at the nurses' home in Lovely Lane Liverpool to start their training at St Angelus Hospital Dana has escaped from her family farm on the west coast of Ireland Victoria is running away from a debt-ridden aristocratic background Beth is an army brat and throws her lot in with bitchy Celia Forsyth And Pammy has come from quite the wrong side of the tracks in Liverpool The world in which they now find themselves is complicated and hierarchical with rules that must be obeyed Everyone has their place at St Angelus and woe betide anyone who strays from it But when an unknown girl is admitted after a botched late abortion in a backstreet kitchen a tragedy begins to unfold which will rock the world of St Angelus to its foundations"
Price: 6.99 |
