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Highlights Very Good Lives
A Spool of Blue Thread
Published for the first time in book form, this speech given at Harvard in 2008 touches on the fringe benefits of failure and the importance of using our imagination to better both ourselves and others.
“The Whitshank family is tragic, comic, absurd, absorbing - and lives on its illusions, as every family must.” (Helen Dunmore, Stylist)
Anne Tyler
J.K. Rowling
No one does family like Tyler does family - sink into the funny, true joy of her new novel.
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The Shepherd’s Life A tale of the Lake District James Rebanks
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ames Rebanks’ family has farmed in the same area of the Lake District for more than six hundred years. These modern dispatches from an ancient landscape tell the story of a deep-rooted attachment to place, offering a unique account of rural life and a fundamental connection with the land that most of us have lost. Hardback//320pp 9781846148545
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More Human
Steve Hilton
My New Roots Sarah Britton
Over 100 delicious veg-based recipes from Sarah Britton, author of the hugely popular healthy food blog My New Roots. Hardback//256pp 9781447290940
A manifesto and call to action for a more local, more accountable and more human way of living that will make us more productive, more fulfilled and ultimately happier, written by the former senior advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron. Hardback//384pp
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Bestsellers The Establishment
Germany
Jones exposes the revolving doors between the lobbies of Westminster, the newsrooms, boardrooms and trading rooms, showing how - in claiming to work on our behalf - the people at the top are doing the opposite.
“Neil MacGregor is our greatest cultural polymath ... an excellent book ... Anyone who wants to understand Germany should read this.” (Antony Beevor, Observer)
And how they get away with it Owen Jones
The memories of a nation Neil MacGregor
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The Chimp Paradox Dr Steve Peters
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he groundbreaking mind management programme for confidence, success and happiness. Prof Steve Peters explains the struggle that takes place within your mind and then shows how to apply this understanding to every area of your life to help you become a happy, confident, healthier and more successful person. Paperback//352pp
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The mind programme that helped me win my Olympic Golds Sir Chris Hoy
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The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro
Jamie’s 15-minute Meals Jamie Oliver Nutritious food that you can eat everyday of the week - and make in 15 minutes or less! “Simply brilliant cooking, and Jamie’s recipes are a joy.” (Nigel Slater) Hardback//288pp 9780718157807
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The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is declining into ruin. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. Hardback//352pp 9780571315031
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review // Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind work toward common goals. There were at least six other species of human walking the earth 100,000 years ago, and they were on the whole stronger and much better adapted to their environments than we sapiens. Yet they would ultimately be no match for the puny yet well organised apes which would come to overrun their territories. This advantage of being able to grasp abstract concepts was, and continues to be, our edge. itting here in the 21st Century tapping away at This evolving understanding of ourselves as just my computer keyboard I like to think that I am a single species of human within a wider genus relatively advanced. But truth be told, if I was presents a lot of uncomfortable philosophical dropped into a jungle without my possessions tomorrow questions as to what makes us so different from I’d be hard-pressed to fashion a serviceable flint tool, any other branch of the animal kingdom. When we let alone cobble together a MacBook are demonstrably rooted in nature, with which to write on here about this can we continue to justify our selfunexpected misfortune. image as somehow unique, and how As a species we have come a long way, yet should this inform our behavior as individuals we are still fundamentally and beliefs? These are the kinds the same Homo sapiens that migrated of questions that your mind keeps out of Africa 70,000 years ago. This unexpectedly stumbling upon as the period during which we developed author reasons our progress through new mental capabilities, the ‘Cognitive the aforementioned Cognitive Revolution’ as Harari describes it, is Revolution; the Agricultural, when the story of Man stopped being Scientific, Information Revolutions biological and became historical. A Brief and beyond into speculation on what History of Humankind is therefore the our future might hold for us. unfolding story of how these advances So, what originally triggered this have propelled us from being a badly sudden cognition driven ascent of evolved middle of the pack scavenger man back in the African Savannah: treading an extinction tightrope, into The Top 10 Sunday A mutant gene, a tantalising a form of life that has today come to Times bestseller forbidden apple, the introduction of believe that it has transcended the very Extraterrestrial DNA…? Whatever 9780099590088 RRP £8.99 natural world from whence it came. your belief system there’s something OUR PRICE £6.00 Whilst colloquial wisdom might strangely reassuring in a book that point to attributes like opposable thumbs, tool making at times feels like it’s dissecting our social constructs or the ability to make fire as advancements that have down to the nihilistic bare bones, when you read set us apart, they are not abilities original to sapiens the answer - “We don’t know”. Nonetheless, whilst – other humans had these attributes for hundreds of this book never claims to offer all the answers, it is a thousands, if not millions of years before our early fascinating glimpse into our past, as well as a thought ancestors reared their heads. Nor indeed is there much -provoking challenge as to how we, the last surviving evidence to suggest that we have become significantly humans, make sense of ourselves today. more intelligent over the ensuing millennia as you might naturally assume. Rather, what Yuval Noah Harari contends is unique and fundamental to our success has been our capacity to imagine. This has not only given us the ability to plan, but also to create myths, religions, companies, nations and other social structures within which large groups can cooperate, share knowledge and
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New Titles You Are Dead
Throne of the Caesars: Blood & Steel
Peter James
Harry Sidebottom The eleventh Roy Grace novel by number one bestselling crime author, Peter James. Hardback//400pp RRP £20.00
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From the bestselling author of Warrior of Rome comes the second book in an epic new series set in third century Rome. Hardback//448pp RRP £14.99
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In the Skin of a Jihadist Anna Erelle
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wenty year-old ‘Mélodie’, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has ‘fallen in love’ with her, calls her day and night, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria to enjoy a life of paradise – and join his jihad. The explosive international bestseller
Anna Erelle is the undercover journalist behind ‘Mélodie’. Created to investigate the powerful propaganda weapons of Islamic State, ‘Mélodie’ is soon sucked in by Bilel, right-hand man of the infamous Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Paperback//240pp 9780008139568
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Rain on the Dead
The Museum of Things Left Behind
Jack Higgins
Seni Glaister
A storm is coming for Sean Dillon and company in the mesmerising new thriller of murder, terrorism and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
A big-hearted and beautifully written novel. Vallerosa is every tourist’s dream. But hostile Americans, wise to the country’s financial potential, are circling like sharks...
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Fortress
State of Emergency
SAS trooper Tom Buckingham has taken down a renegade Afghan soldier. Instead of being proclaimed a hero, he’s made a scapegoat...
The third thrilling adventure in the bestselling Tom Buckingham series.
Andy McNab
Andy McNab
“Original and exciting... One of his best” (The Sun) Hardback//352pp
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Summer at Shell Cottage Lucy Diamond
Dante: The Divine Comedy Clive James
Another must-pack beach read from the bestselling author of The Beach Cafe.
Renowned critic and poet Clive James presents the crowning achievement of his career: a monumental translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
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Seveneves
Neal Stephenson
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hat would happen if the world were ending? When a catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb, it triggers a feverish race against the inevitable. An ambitious plan is devised to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere. But unforeseen dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain... “He makes reading so much fun it feels like a deadly sin” New York Times A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is at once extraordinary and eerily recognisable.
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Genius Time magazine
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New Titles The Year I Met You
Ghost Flight
Cecelia Ahern
Bear Grylls
Jasmine’s life is built around her career, so when she loses her job she’s forced to become acquainted with the house and neighbours she’s hardly seen, with surprising consequences...
Grylls’ action-packed debut novel is a hair-raising adventure; an extreme survival quest and a shocking mystery reaching back into the horrors of Nazi Germany.
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Collins BTO Guide to British Birds Paul Sterry
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n a unique new collaboration, Collins have paired up with the respected British Trust for Ornithology, bringing together the most authoritative and up-to-date information in this new field guide to the common birds of Britain and Ireland. The book has been written and illustrated as much with the beginner in mind as the experienced birdwatcher. Designed to be used in the field, the text and photographs describe and illustrate the key features needed to identify a species with confidence, and to separate it from similar, or ‘confusion’, species. More than 1,200 photographs are featured and many are seen here for the first time. Also, relative abundance maps are shown for every species. Paperback//320pp
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Finding Audrey
Chestnut Street
Audrey can’t leave the house. She can’t even take off her dark glasses inside the house. Then her brother’s friend Linus stumbles into her life. Suddenly, finding her way back to the real world seems achievable.
New in paperback - a delightful collection of linked stories from number one bestselling author of A Week in Winter.
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Sophie Kinsella
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Maeve Binchy
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The Dandelion Years
The Paying Guests
From wartime Bletchley to a modern day Suffolk village, a tale of friendship and love from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Summer at the Lake.
The extraordinary author of The Night Watch and The Little Stranger turns to the 1920s in this bestselling novel.
Sarah Waters
Erica James
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Afternoon Tea at the Sunflower Café
No Safe House Linwood Barclay
Milly Johnson
What would you do to protect your daughter...? From the million-copy bestselling author of No Time for Goodbye.
Connie discovers that her husband’s been unfaithful and is determined to get revenge. Paperback//512pp
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The Lady from Zagreb Philip Kerr
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n 1942, there are many worse places to be than Zurich, and detective Bernie Gunther has seen his fair share of them. So when a superior asks him to track down a glamorous German actress believed to be hiding in Zurich, he takes the job. Not that he has much choice: the superior is Goebbels himself. Hardback//464pp 9781782065814
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Biography Clothes Music Boys
Universal Man
The seven lives of John Maynard Keynes Richard Davenport-Hines
Viv Albertine
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All I Know Now
Carrie Hope Fletcher
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he essential guide to navigating ‘the Teen Age’ by YouTube star Carrie Hope Fletcher. Growing up is hard to do, and sometimes the only thing that makes it better are the reassuring words of someone who has walked that bumpy road just a few steps ahead of you and somehow ended up as a fully-functioning adult. Carrie is that person! Hardback//352pp 9780751557510
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If every mum or dad buys this for their teenager they’ll be doing themselves a real favour Jill Mansell
Guy Martin: My Autobiography
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Sunday Times Bestseller
Viv was the guitarist in the hugely influential 1970s allgirl band The Slits. This is a raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv’s life post-punk.
The Fish Ladder Katharine Norbury
International road-racing legend, maverick star of the Isle of Man TT, truck mechanic and TV presenter. Guy lives on the edge, addicted to speed, thoroughly exhilarated by danger.
Part travelogue, part memoir, this deeply moving story of adoption, grief and marriage is destined to be a classic of memoir. “A beautiful, strange, intoxicating and utterly unique story.” (Philip Pullman)
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The Loyal Lieutenant
Shop Girl
The stunningly candid autobiography of one of cycling’s great names and the man who rode alongside Lance Armstrong for each of his now infamous seven Tour victories.
When the young Mary Newton takes to the camp and glamour of Harrods window dressing like a duck to water, ‘Mary, Queen of Shops’ is born. This is her memoir.
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Mary Portas
George Hincapie
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Sophia
Seneca: A Life
Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary Anita Anand
Emily Wilson
Wilson traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician who rose to dizzying heights of wealth and power before falling from favour.
Born into royalty in 1876, Sophia Duleep Singh managed to transcend her heritage to devote herself to battling injustice and inequality: particularly in the the fight for female suffrage.
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Please, Mister Postman Alan Johnson
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oving, hilarious and unforgettable, Alan’s memoir paints a vivid picture of England in the 1970s. Paperback//336pp 9780552170659
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The best political testament I have ever read Peter Wilby New Statesman
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Award Winners H is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
A Costa Book of the Year
n unflinchingly honest account of the author’s struggle to come to terms with her father’s death during the difficult process of taming a goshawk. This is a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love. Paperback//320pp 9780099575450
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How To Be Both Ali Smith
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here’s a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life’s givens get given a second chance. Paperback//384pp 9780141025209
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Winner Goldsmith’s Prize
Family Life Akhil Sharma
F Winner Folio Prize
or eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, playing cricket in the street. But everything changes when their father finds a job in America. Life is exciting for the two brothers as they adjust to prosperity, until one hot, sultry day when everything falls apart... Paperback//224pp 9780571224548
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review // So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
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was giddy with joy. I was Braveheart striding through a field, at first alone, and then it becomes clear that hundreds are marching behind me. So says Ronson as he recounts the swelling of support he received from the Twittersphere during his own personal shaming of a group of academics trying to hijack his online identity. “The wonderful feeling overwhelmed me like a sedative”. Riding a wave of pubic righteousness could be positive and empowering, such as during the backlash against Jan Moir for her homophobic column about the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately. “These were great times. We hurt the Mail with a weapon they didn’t understand – a social media shaming”. But has the rise of information technology and social media simply created a platform for the democratisation of social justice; or is there a darker side? Has it actually mobilised 140-character fuelled lynch mobs in a worrying renaissance of long outmoded public punishments? Are these ground swells of public opinion punching up, down or even in the right direction, and how well informed are they in reality? As ever, answers won’t come via a straight path of reasoned argument. Rather we must set out on an investigative journey, observing events through a voyeuristic window into Ronson’s often neurotic mind as he takes another winding road trip through the ridiculous. Indeed it is this identifiably human approach to examining larger themes which sets the author apart from many of
his peers, lending humour and a sense of the absurd to often serious issues. Meeting along the way the likes of eccentric Texas judge Ted Poe who specialises in sentencing criminals to imaginative and cruel public punishments; FIA chief Max Mosley whose Nazi themed bondage games made tabloid headlines; bestselling plagiarist Jonah Lehrer, as well as the woman who tweeted a tasteless joke whilst boarding a plane and alighted 11 hours later to find her life ruined by widespread international vilification – we gain an insight into what it means in the 21st Century to be publicly shamed.
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History King John
The King’s Bed
Marc Morris
Don Jordan
This book offers a compelling portrait of an extraordinary king, whose reign marked a momentous turning point in the history of Britain and Europe.
The astonishing private life of Charles II reveals much about the man he was, and The King’s Bed tells the compelling story of a king ruled by his passion.
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Modernity Britain 1957-62 David Kynaston
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avid Kynaston’s history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from Austerity Britain and Family Britain. Now, Modernity Britain shows the transformation of Britain as it arrived at the brink of a new world. It is brilliantly told through diaries, letters, newspapers and a rich haul of other sources, and is published in one magnificent paperback volume for the first time.
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Kynaston is the most entertaining historian alive Spectator
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Now in Paperback
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Waterloo
24 Hours at Waterloo
Cornwell combines his storytelling skills with a meticulously researched history to give a riveting account of the battle that changed almost everything.
In this book, the author reveals the soldier’s view of this iconic battle: how they felt; what they saw, what they smelt and what they heard enduring this epic confrontation.
The history of four days, three armies and three battles Bernard Cornwell
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Food & Drink Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook
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A Modern Way to Eat
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Anna Jones
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“Simple, seasonal, veg-led fare that is as delicious as it is virtuous... Even if you’re a diehard carnivore... her subtle, beautiful, delectable dishes might just bring you round.” (Guardian)
The No.1 bestselling juicing author Jason Vale is back with over 100 recipes for delicious juices and smoothies. Paperback//192pp
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Thug Kitchen
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Food & Drink Eat Clean: Wok Yourself to Health
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TV botanist and bestselling author James Wong reveals his best tried-and-tested methods for growing your own fruit and veg.
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Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites Featuring all the recipes from the BBC Two TV series
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Ella’s Kitchen: The First Foods Book The purple one
Chicken recipes for every day Diana Henry
Covering every step of the weaning journey, The First Foods Book includes more than 130 recipes - from single-veg purees to exciting combinations and full meals.
In A Bird in the Hand, Diana Henry offers a host of new, easy, and not-sovery-well-known dishes for every day.
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A History of Food in 100 Recipes William Sitwell
Here are the techniques and tools that have shaped our love of food in this lavishly illustrated book. Paperback//352pp 9780007412006
My Simple Italian Theo Randall
This book offers over 100 recipes with simple methods that work in a home kitchen. Hardback//224pp 9780091929015
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Honestly Healthy
Pigs & Pork:
A refreshing cookbook and lifestyle guide that promotes healthy living.
Gill Meller shows how to keep pigs and cook with pork.
Natasha Corrett & Vicki Edgson
River Cottage Handbook #14 Gill Meller
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Eat. Nourish. Glow.
10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger and feeling healthier Amelia Freer “Working with Amelia changed my relationship with food, and in turn altered my relationship with myself and my work.” (Boy George)
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Fiction Wars of the Roses: Trinity
The Skull Throne Peter V. Brett
Conn Iggulden In the grand tradition of George R.R. Martin and Robert Jordan, Sunday Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett continues his critically acclaimed Demon Cycle with the next dramatic instalment: The Skull Throne.
King Henry VI’s fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband’s interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day know the love of his father...
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The Son Jo Nesbo
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The Novel Habits of Happiness
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As Isabel edits the ‘Happiness issue’ of the Review of Applied Ethics, she begins to appreciate, happiness, for most people, is not quite what it seems...
Forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date before he met Rosie. Now they have survived ten months and ten days of marriage. But then Rosie drops the mother of all bombshells.
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Written in My Own Heart’s Blood
The Darkest Hour Barbara Erskine
Diana Gabaldon
An epic tale of love and passion. The battle for Britain has just begun. But young Evie Lucas has eyes for no-one but dashing young pilot Tony...
The latest epic volume in the bestselling Outlander series. It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down.
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A Good Catch
Rome’s Lost Son: Vespasian VI
Fern Britton
Robert Fabbri
The new witty and warm novel from the bestselling author and TV presenter, Fern Britton. Perfect for fans of Katie Fforde, Carole Matthews and Jane Costello.
Vespasian’s ascent to power continues in this bestselling series. Sent to defend Rome’s interest in the East, Vespasian is imprisoned in the oldest city in the world. Hardback//368pp
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After the Crash Michel Bussi
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Fiction 22 Dead Little Bodies
The Liar
A short novel featuring Aberdeen’s finest investigative duo, Acting DI Logan McRae and DCI Robert Steel.
Betrayed by the man she loved. Can she ever trust again? The brand-new novel of love, drama and hope from legendary Nora Roberts.
Stuart MacBride
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Nora Roberts
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The Rats
James Herbert
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“The effectiveness of the gruesome set pieces and brilliant finale are all its own” (Sunday Times) It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood began to be realised by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years man and rats had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly, shockingly, horribly - the balance of power had shifted... Hardback//300pp
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The Faithful Couple A. D. Miller
Mark Billingham
Author of the bestselling Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Snowdrops. A brilliantly clever and insightful novel that deals with the most universal of themes.
The new gripping, brilliantly plotted Tom Thorne thriller from No.1 bestselling author Mark Billingham, who has twice won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Award for Best Crime Novel.
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Under a Cornish Sky
Without a Trace
For fans of Judy Finnigan and Rosamunde Pilcher, a spell-binding tale of romance and intrigue, set against the gorgeous Cornish coast.
Coronation Day, 1953. Molly Heywood slips away from the celebrations and makes a shocking discovery...
Liz Fenwick
Lesley Pearse
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Personal
Mightier than the Sword
The Number One bestseller, featuring Jack Reacher. Only Reacher can find the person who has taken a long-range shot at the French president.
The fifth novel in the epic Clifton Chronicles series. Jeffrey Archer’s compelling narrative continues in his most accomplished novel to date.
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Kolymsky Heights
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Lionel Davidson
In a frozen Siberian hell, one desperate scientist sends a plea to the West in order to summon the one man alive who can achieve the impossible. Paperback//496pp
Falling in Love Donna Leon
Leon’s twenty-fourth novel in the bestselling Brunetti crime series quivers with the passion of opera and with the power of obsession. Hardback//272pp 9780434023585
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review // Elizabeth is Missing figure of ‘the mad woman’, who hides in hedges, shows her knickers to bus drivers and chases Maud home with her umbrella. Healey paints a vivid picture of the post-war period with its rationing, bombed-out streets and thriving black market, and deftly handles the switches from past to present and back again, so both strands of the story are equally engrossing. Maud is an immensely likeable protagonist - we emory loss is having a fictional moment, sympathise with her frustration at her failings and it seems. First there was S.J. Watson’s root for her in her quest to locate Elizabeth, at phenomenal bestseller Before I Go To Sleep, the same time as feeling for the put-upon Helen’s then came Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train, exasperation at having to explain the same thing both featuring amnesiac young women. However, over and over again, deal with her mother’s often Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing embarrassing behaviour and takes a slightly different approach come to terms with the fact that the heroine, Maud, is over eighty and increasingly, Maud does not even suffering from dementia. recognise her own daughter. Reliant on her carer, Carla; her The heartbreak of dementia daughter Helen and her ‘paper is clearly conveyed, but there’s memory’ - scribbled notes that she humour too. Granddaughter Katy finds in her handbag, pockets and all gently teases Maud for not liking over the house - Maud spends her time Vera Lynn (‘You’re a traitor to making tea that she leaves to go cold; your generation’) and the doctor, watching daytime television or popping trying to assess the progress of her to the shop to buy endless tins of peach condition, asks her to count down slices. She forgets to turn off the gas in sevens from a hundred: ‘So it hob; forgets why she’s called the doctor would be one hundred, ninety-three, £5.00 out and forgets her address. But she eighty-six, and so on. D’you see?’ ‘I can’t forget Elizabeth, her best friend see, Doctor, but I don’t think I could who has disappeared - though no one have done that even at your age’. else seems to care that she’s missing. Costa Book Awards Both an unconventional detective Maud, though, is determined, and novel and a poignant meditation Winner won’t be fobbed off with reassurances. on friendship, family, grief, loss 9780241968185 RRP £7.99 She is going to track down Elizabeth and love, Elizabeth is Missing has OUR PRICE £4.00 for if she does, perhaps she can solve received rave reviews and won the another mystery too: the mystery of what happened to Costa First Novel Award 2014. It deserves all the her sister, who vanished without a trace nearly seventy plaudits. The mystery of the double disappearances years ago. is compelling, and Maud’s struggle to keep a grip The story unfolds in two time zones: the present on her thoughts and her life is deeply moving... day and 1946, when Maud is fourteen and idolises Intriguing, immersive and haunting, this is one her sophisticated older sister Sukey, with her Victory memory-loss novel that you won’t forget in a hurry. Red lipstick, Evening in Paris perfume and Lana Turner hairstyle. Sukey has moved away to live with husband Frank, who has a furniture removal business and a shady reputation, and taking her place at home is lodger Douglas, a shy, awkward young man with a fondness for Americanisms, movies and gramophone records. Haunting the neighbourhood is the terrifying
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Young Adult Wreck This Journal
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To create is to destroy. Now with even more ways to wreck!
“Hegarty writes surely, unpretentiously and amusingly, drawing up beguiling characters and constructing a plot which simply skips along. Great for primary school children studying myths and legends.” (The Times)
Shane Hegarty
Keri Smith
A subversive collection of suggestions, asking readers to muster up their best mistake - and mess-making abilities to fill the pages of the book (and destroy them).
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Half Wild
Skulduggery Pleasant
In a parallel universe occupied by witches, where good and evil are in continuous flux, one witch: Nathan must find his place in the world...
The final shocking, heartwrenching book in the jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series.
“Teens rejoice: the inheritor to Stephenie Meyer’s crown has arrived” (The Times)
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The Dying of the Light Derek landy
Sally Green
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All That Glitters
Holly Smale
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Harriet has high hopes for the new school year: she’s a Sixth Former now, and things are going to be different... But will that prove to be a good thing? Book four in the Geek Girl series. Hardback//400pp 9780007574582
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Non-fiction Naked at the Albert Hall
The Organized Mind
Tracey Thorn, musician and author of the bestselling Bedsit Disco Queen, offers an insider’s take on the art of singing: why and how we sing, and the voice’s power to captivate.
Levitin investigates the modern day phenomenon of information overload and the effect it has on us, analysing how and why our brains are struggling to keep up with the demands of the digital age.
Daniel J. Levitin
Tracey Thorn
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Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane
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joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Hardback//400pp 9780241146538
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The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters Adam Nicolson
Nicolson shows how Homer’s epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty. Paperback//336pp
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The Edge
Is the military dominance of the West coming to an end? Mark Urban A groundbreaking and tightly argued polemic about the state of the western world and its defences. “Concise and cogently argued, Urban’s book deserves a wide readership” (Michael Burleigh, The Times) Hardback//176pp 9781408705834
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The Looting Machine
Daring Greatly
An investigative journey into the ways the resource trade is systematically stealing Africa’s wealth - involving warlords, tycoons, smugglers, and big business.
Dr Brene Brown offers a powerful new vision of how having the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead.
Tom Burgis
Brene Brown
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Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
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The Brain’s Way of Healing Norman Doidge
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A whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. The answer lies in the two ways we make choices: fast, intuitive thinking, and slow, rational thinking.
Gain fascinating insight into the human brain’s ‘neuroplasticity’ via these stories of remarkable recoveries and discoveries. Hardback//432pp
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Lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises New York Times The Internet is Not the Answer Andrew Keen In this controversial book, Keen argues that the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives - and outlines what we must do to change it, before it’s too late. Hardback//288pp 9781782393405
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Quiet
The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking Susan Cain Susan Cain gives introverts the tools to better understand themselves and take full advantage of their strengths. Paperback//352pp 9780141029191
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Non-fiction Barging Round Britain
Yes Please Amy Poehler
John Sergeant & David Bartley
Charming and hilarious, this is a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much).
A beautifully-illustrated guide to a unique and fascinating part of our history: the canal network. Hardback//352pp
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Chris Packham’s Back Garden Nature Reserve
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This comprehensive book explains the best ways to attract wildlife to gardens and encourage it to stay there. Features attractive photos and illustrations.
Transform your home into a permanently clear and clutter-free space with the incredible KonMari Method. Japan’s expert declutterer will help you tidy your rooms once and for all with her step-by-step method.
Marie Kondo
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Poldark’s Cornwall Winston Graham
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The World of Ice & Fire George R. R. Martin
6 book mega-box-set
Six hilarious novels: Demon Dentist Ratburger - Gangsta Granny - Billionaire Boy - Mr Stink - The Boy in the Dress.
This lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms providing the back story to the Game of Thrones saga.
Paperbacks//1874pp
Hardback//336pp
9780007589036
RRP £41.94
OUR PRICE £20.00
9780007580910
RRP £30.00
OUR PRICE £15.00
Game of Thrones: A Pop-up Guide to Westeros Matthew Reinhart
F
eaturing stunning pop-up recreations of several key locations from the series, including the formidable castle of Winterfell, the lavish capital city King’s Landing, and the Wall’s stark majesty, this book takes readers into the world of Game of Thrones like never before. Hardback//10pp
9780593073452
RRP £40.00
OUR PRICE £20.00
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