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The Second World War
Iron Curtain
Blood Sisters
Merchant, Soldier, Sage
Antony Beevor
Anne Applebaum
Sarah Gristwood
David Priestland
A magisterial, singlevolume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.
This book explains how Communism was imposed on these previously free societies in the decade after the end of the Second World War.
The true story behind Philippa Gregory’s dramatic novels about fiery Queens and the perils of power.
Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way?
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Shakespeare’s Restless World Neil MacGregor
In this book, the author looks at twenty objects from Shakespeare’s life and times, and uncovers the stories behind them. RRP: £25.00
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps Jerry Brotton
Examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. RRP: £30.00
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A History of England volume II: Tudors
The Victorian City
And Man Created God
Nelson
A History of the World
Judith Flanders
Selina O’Grady
John Sugden
Andrew Marr
Peter Ackroyd
The second volume of Peter Ackroyd’s masterful history of England: the Tudors.
From the bestselling popular historian comes a magnificent recreation of Victorian London.
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And Man Created God is a sweeping exploration of the changing religions of the empires and peoples of the world at the time of Jesus.
We meet the fighting admiral in search of ultimate military victory, and the glory-hunter skillfully manipulating his public image.
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From the earliest civilizations to the twenty-first century: a global journey through human history, published alongside a landmark BBC One television series.
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HISTORY
Erasmus Darwin
Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
Vikings
The Secret Listeners
Westminster: a Biography
Neil Oliver
Sinclair McKay
Robert Shepherd
A tour of the late eighteenth century in the company of Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, who was expounding theories of evolution years before the birth of his more famous grandson.
Laurence Rees
Tells an extraordinary story of a people who, from the brink of destruction, reached a quarter of the way around the globe and built an empire that lasted nearly two hundred years.
Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret…
A biography of Britain’s centre of power and royal ceremony, evoking place, people and time.
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Patricia Fara
Hitler was an unlikely leader - fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues - and yet he commanded enormous support.
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The Pinecone Jenny Uglow
Destiny in the Desert
Former People
Black Count
Poor Robin’s Prophecies
The Secret Rooms
Jonathan Dimbleby
Douglas Smith
Tom Reiss
Benjamin Wardhaugh
Catherine Bailey
Describes the political and strategic realities that lay behind the battle, charting the nail-biting months that led to the victory at El Alamein in November 1942.
Drawing on private archives, Former People recounts the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Traces the almost unbelievable life of the man who inspired not only Monte Cristo, but all three of the Musketeers: the novelist’s own father.
Benjamin Wardaugh tells the story of the rumbustious ‘Poor Robin of Saffron Walden’, and the rise of popular science in Georgian England.
Bailey unravels a complex and compelling tale of love, honour and betrayal, played out in the grand salons of Britain’s stately homes at the turn of the twentieth century.
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In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical church in Victorian England. This book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh. RRP: £20.00
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urrent affairs c & economics
The Spanish Ambassador’s Suitcase
Ever the Diplomat
The Price of Inequality
Governing the World
The Revenge of History
Sherard Cowper-Coles
Joseph Stiglitz
Mark Mazower
Seumas Milne
Matthew Parris
In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world.
Providing evidence that investment - not austerity - is for productivity, and offering realistic solutions for levelling the playing field and increasing social mobility.
This book recreates two centuries of international government - the struggle to spread values and build institutions to bring order to an anarchic and dangerous state system.
One of Britain’s foremost political writers confronts ten years of murderous delusion.
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Based on a new BBC Radio 4 series, it shows our representatives in their best and worst lights: rude and sympathetic, clever and confused by turns.
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How Do We Fix This Mess? Robert Peston
With the same probing lucidity he brought to Who Runs Britain? Robert Peston takes us step-by-step towards a common sense way to fix this mess. RRP: £20.00
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Interventions
Education, Education, Education
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
The Invention of the Land of Israel
Chavs
With eloquence and immediacy, the author recounts the highs and lows of his years at the United Nations.
Andrew Adonis
Katherine Boo
Shlomo Sand
An essential book about a hot ticket issue by one of British politics’ genuine big-hitters.
Pioneering new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People.
Bestselling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain.
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A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.
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Kofi Annan
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Owen Jones
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science, philosophy & psychology
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Faith in the Public Square
Unapologetic
Higgs
The Scientists
Artur Domoslawski
Rowan Williams
Francis Spufford
Jim Baggott
Andrew Robinson
Definitive biography of one of the most significant journalists of the twentieth century.
Rowan Williams on critical contemporary issues in his final book as Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Presents an argument that Christianity is recognisable, drawing on the vocabulary of human feeling, and satisfying those who believe in it.
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The hunt for the Higgs particle has involved the biggest, most expensive experiment ever. Here, Baggott explains the science behind the discovery, and its implications.
Tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science; featuring articles that offer an account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.
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Bad Pharma Ben Goldacre
A Little History of Science
The Science Magpie
Antifragile
Philosophy Bites Back
Hallucinations
Simon Flynn
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Oliver Sacks
William F. Bynum
Fascinating lists, facts, stories, poems, drawings, diagrams - and even jokes - across the scientific disciplines and from science’s bejewelled history.
Provides a blueprint for how to live - and thrive - in a world we don’t understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to predict.
Nigel Warburton, David Edmonds
This book tells a great adventure story: the history of science. It takes readers to the stars through the telescope, as the sun replaces the earth at the centre of our universe.
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A sparkling, original tour through 2,500 years of Western thought, from Socrates to Derrida, from happiness and love in ancient Greece to truth and forgiveness in the twentieth century.
From the bestselling author, a provocative investigation into hallucinations. RRP: £18.99
Ben Goldacre puts the $600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess. RRP: £13.99
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atural history n & gardening
RHS Latin for Gardeners
Ancient Trees
Africa
Gossip from the Forest
The Great Barrier Reef
Lorraine Harrison
Anna Lewington
Michael Bright
Sara Maitland
Len Zell
This beautifully illustrated guide unlocks the mysteries of botanical Latin explaining what plant names mean and the descriptive clues they conceal.
A fascinating celebration of the some of the oldest living organisms on the planet, from the grand Oaks of Europe to Africa’s ‘upside-down’ Baobab tree.
A spectacular journey through this vast continent, with inspiring photography capturing wildlife behaviour, amazing new creatures and magical landscapes.
A magical exploration of the ancient landscape of forests and the ancient genre of fairytales, drawing fascinating and surprising connections between the two.
Takes you on a journey along 2,300 km of Australia’s north-eastern coastline, through the diverse range of habitats that make up this extraordinary water world.
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Weeds
In Defence of Dogs
Survivors
Richard Mabey
John Bradshaw
Richard Fortey
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
Mabey examines how we have tried to define weeds, explain their persistence, and draw moral lessons from them.
Overturning the most common myths about dogs’ emotions and behaviour, this book shows how we should really treat our pets, and stands up for dogdom!
An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures that have survived from earlier times.
The What on Earth? Wallbook of Natural History Christopher Lloyd
Contains a 4.5 billion year fold-out timeline which is crammed with over 1,000 illustrations and bite-size facts.
An entrancing and entertaining A-Z of the world’s oddest and most far-fetched creatures - a bestiary for the 21st century.
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The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane
Macfarlane offers an exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, of pilgrimage and ritual, and of songlines and their singers. RRP: £20.00
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Caspar Henderson
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art & architecture
Photography
Global Model Village
David Campany, Julie Hacking
Slinkachu
Offers an overview of photography, placing it in the context of the social and cultural developments that have taken place globally since its arrival.
The sequel to the international bestseller ‘Little People in the City’ RRP: £12.99
The Best of Punch Cartoons in Colour
The Art Book
The Art of Audubon
Phaidon Editors
John James Audubon
Helen Walasek
This updated and expanded edition is an accessible, informative and fun A-Z guide featuring artists from medieval times to the present day.
This boxed set contains 16 of the most sought after prints from Audubon’s masterpiece The Birds of America.
Brings together for the first time a stunning collection of over 400 vibrant colour cartoons, illustrations, covers and caricatures from the 1920s to the 1990s.
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What are You Looking At? Will Gompertz
Gaudi Pop-ups Courtney Watson McCarthy
This book celebrates the unique style of this visionary architect with pop-ups of some of Gaudi’s most famous creations.
My Wonderful World of Shoes
The Infinity of Lists
How to Build a Cathedral
Umberto Eco
Malcolm Hislop
Nina Chakrabarti
A lavishly illustrated celebration of lists in art and literature by one of Europe’s most influential writers and thinkers.
A visual exploration, from the groundplan to the topping of the spire. Illustrated with beautiful engravings, it looks at each element of the structure in turn.
Nina Chakrabarti once again dazzles us with her creative flair and inspires us to look at footwear with fresh eyes.
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The Mammoth Book of Street Art Jake
This title presents a collection that comprises photographs from the author’s personal archives and a selection of the world’s best street art from the artists themselves.
Suitable for sceptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year - and are confused, this book is a history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day. RRP: £20.00
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l anguage & literature
Grimm Tales
Dante in Love
Philip Pullman
A. N. Wilson
Pullman discusses how these stories have lasted so long, and become part of our collective storytelling imagination.
In Dante In Love, A. N. Wilson brings to life one of the western canon’s most enigmatic figures. RRP: £14.99
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Jabberwocky and Other Nonsense
Ted and I
Extreme Metaphors
Gerald Hughes
J. G. Ballard
Lewis Carroll
A major title, full of neverbefore-seen photos from the family archives and unpublished material on Ted Hughes.
A startling and at times unsettlingly prescient collection of J.G. Ballard’s greatest interviews.
Collects together the range of the author’s poetry, including nonsense verse, parodies, burlesques, and more.
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The Horologicon Mark Forsyth
The Horologicon - which means ‘a book of things appropriate to each hour - follows a day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words. RRP: £12.99
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The Seeds of Fiction
Inventing the Enemy
Artful
Both Flesh and Not
Spell it Out
Bernard Diederich
Umberto Eco
Ali Smith
David Foster Wallace
David Crystal
Major new biography focusing on the key years and experiences that inspired The Comedians.
These are essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsessions by one of the world’s most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, bestselling novelists.
Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form, Artful explores form, style, life, love, death, mortality, immortality and what art and writing can mean.
This title presents a fitting tribute to this writer who was never concerned with anything less important than what it means to be alive.
This is an enlightening tour of English spelling that untangles ‘stationery’ from ‘stationary’ - and explains why the ‘i before e except after c’ rule is so misleading.
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poetry & MUsic
The John Lennon Letters
Desert Island Discs
Waging Heavy Peace
Mick Jagger
John Lennon
Sean Magee
Neil Young
Philip Norman
First ever collection of the letters of John Lennon, an international publishing event.
Tells the story of one of “BBC Radio 4’s” favourite programmes that is chronicled through a special selection of castaways.
This title offers an overview of Young’s personal life and musical career, spanning his time in bands Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash.
The frontman of one of the most influential and controversial groups of all time. A musical genius with a career spanning over four decades.
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The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings Edward Greenfield, Ivan March
This title offers a treasury of music, whether you are just starting to build a collection or tracking down a particular favourite. RRP: £14.99
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A History of Opera Carolyn Abbate, Roger Parker
Nonsense
The Customs House
Christopher Reid
Andrew Motion
Christopher Reid’s new collection is a quartet of works for voice.
Motion presents a collection of war poems drawing on soldiers’ experiences of war from 1914 until today.
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The Death of King Arthur
Poems on the Underground
Simon Armitage
Armitage’s new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of storytelling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.
An anthology that includes 230 romantic, comic and sublime poems that explores such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music and the seasons.
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Peace, Love & Potatoes John Hegley
Poetry, prose and drawings on the themes closest to his heart, Hegley contemplates on subjects from painting, France and family to Daleks and of course potatoes.
The first new, full-length, single-volume “History of Opera” for more than a generation, tells the entire story of the world’s most extraordinary artistic medium of the last four hundred years. RRP: £30.00
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iography b
Mortality Christopher Hitchens
The world’s greatest contrarian confronts his own death in this brave and unforgettable book. RRP: £10.99
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My Animals and Other Family
David Mitchell: Back Story
Winter Journal
Vanished Years
Paul Auster
Rupert Everett
Clare Balding
David Mitchell
The running family joke was that women ain’t people. She had to prove them wrong. This book tells her story of selfdiscovery.
You may know him for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show, or his online commenterbaiting in The Observer or just from That Mitchell and Webb Look; David Mitchell has written a book about his life.
Auster’s unorthodox, beautifully wrought examination of his own life, as seen through the history of his body.
This new memoir is filled with brand-new stories, from childhood to the present.
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Joseph Anton Salman Rushdie
In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. RRP: £25.00
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The Richard Burton Diaries
Camp David
The Yellow World
Kandak
Country Girl
David Walliams
Albert Espinosa
Patrick Hennessey
Edna O’Brien
Richard Burton
From his private, handwritten pages there emerges a different person. This volume publishes in their entirety the surviving diaries of Richard Burton.
Walliams is an actor, writer, active fundraiser and - above all - he’s a world class comedian who knows how to make us laugh. This title tells his story.
Albert Espinosa never wanted to write a book about surviving cancer, so he didn’t. He wrote a book instead about the Yellow World.
Kandak explores the reasons men pick up the sword, and how in the intensity of battle, unlikely alliances can be formed.
Lets us come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. This title provides encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom lend this life.
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gift & humour
Beauty, What it is and How to Retain it
The Gentleman’s Art of Dressing with Economy
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Moranthology
Private Eye Annual 2012
Caitlin Moran
Ian Hislop
A Lady
A Lounger at the Clubs
Jen Campbell
First published in 1873, this book rejects any notion that beauty of the physical body should be treated with indifference for fear of moral corruption
First published in 1876, The Gentleman’s Art of Dressing with Economy is an indispensable guide to how to look good on a budget.
Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?’ - this book includes top ‘Weird Things’ from bookshops around the world.
This book is a proof that she can actually be ‘quite chatty’ about other things, including cultural, social and political issues which are usually province of learned professors.
This year’s satirical look at world events.
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Simon’s Cat Vs. the World! Simon Tofield
Unexpected Item in the Bagging Area
Dictators in Quotes
Chris Martin
This book exposes the rhetoric, dictums and double standards of more than 65 dictators from around the world.
The perfect gift for those who find themselves shouting at a recorded voice on the phone, find themselves drowning in a sea of half-remembered passwords. RRP: £9.99
The Vacant Casualty
Warhorses of Letters
Sign Language 2
Patty O’Furniture
Marie Philips, Robert Hudson
The Telegraph
A brilliantly funny parody of the world’s most hotly anticipated new book, from the author of several Sunday Times bestselling humour titles
Spoof correspondence purporting to be the love letters exchanged between the warhorses of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington.
More Travels in Unfortunate English from the Readers of The Telegraph - a rib-tickling sequel to 2011’s humour bestseller.
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The latest humour bestseller from the nation’s favourite cat - bigger and more colourful than ever! RRP: £12.99 Also available as an eBook
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food & drink
Hugh’s Three Good Things
The Kitchen Diaries II
Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals
Nigellissima
Nigel Slater
Jamie Oliver
Nigella Lawson
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Recipes that put three good things together on a plate - to tie in with the primetime Channel 4 TV series
From one of our best-loved food writers, a beautiful and inspiring companion volume to his bestselling Kitchen Diaries.
Nigellissima takes inspiration from Italian cooking to bring the spirit of Italy into the kitchen and onto the plate, pronto.
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Offering super quick, tasty, nutritious food that you can eat everyday of the week, this book arms you with the skills to create wonderful meals, shockingly fast.
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Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book 2013 Hugh Johnson
The original and best, Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book is the ultimate compact guide, now in its 36th edition.
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Curry Nation
Leon Family & Friends
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Jerusalem Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi
Packed with beautiful food and gorgeous photography, Jerusalem showcases sumptuous Ottolenghi dishes in a dazzling setting. RRP: £27.00
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Salt Sugar Smoke
Mark Hix on Baking
Diana Henry
Mark Hix
This treasure trove of classic recipes is the only book on conserving you will ever need. Written by award-winning cookery writer Diana Henry.
In this exciting new book, Mark Hix applies his characteristic flair to a range of sweet and savoury recipes.
Madhur Jaffrey
Jaffery reveals how it’s possible to sample virtually the whole of Indian cuisine without ever leaving the British Isles.
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Kay Plunkett-Hogge, John Vincent
Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Cookbook Good Housekeeping Institute
Shows you how to make the most of the time available to feed your family and celebrates the power of food to bring people together.
With over 650 techniques and 400 delicious, triple-tested recipes, this inspirational book is a must-have for every kitchen.
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travel & transport
Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Highway Code
Artemis Cooper
The authorized biography of the man widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times.
Suitable for motoring aficionados, this title takes you back to a vanished era of motor travel, when driving was rather exciting!
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London: A History in Maps
Dangerous Work
Everest 1953
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mick Conefrey
Peter Barber
This book features a facsimile of this remarkable diary, with a transcript, as well as several non-fiction and fiction pieces based on the experience.
Discover one of Britain’s greatest triumphs, drawing on never-before-seen diaries and exclusive interviews.
Side-by-side with the great, semi-official but sanitised images of the whole city, there are the more utilitarian maps and plans of the parts - actual and envisaged - which perhaps present a more truthful picture.
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Shakespeare’s Local Pete Brown
On the Map
Brazil
Climbing Everest
Into The Silence
On Wheels
Simon Garfield
Michael Palin
Wade Davis
Michael Holroyd
Suitable for mapophiles, this book offers narratives on everything from the challenge of mapping the oceans to the lay-out of a Monopoly board.
In a new series for BBC1 his first for five years - Palin explores in his inimitable way this vast and disparate nation.
George Leigh Mallory, Peter Gillman
As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moments of being alive.
For Michael Holroyd, learning to drive is no easy matter; this title traces his relationship with cars and driving.
First-ever collection of all of George Leigh Mallory’s writings on climbing. RRP: £9.99
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A history of Britain told through the story of one very special public house. RRP: £16.99
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iction f
Sweet Tooth
A Possible Life
Umbrella
Toby’s Room
NW
Ian McEwan
Sebastian Faulks
Will Self
Pat Barker
Zadie Smith
Serena finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services; the year is 1972. Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism.
Sebastian Faulks’ dazzling novel journeys across continents and time to explore the chaos created by love, separation and missed opportunities.
Umbrella is Will Self’s most extravagant and imaginative exercise in speculative fiction to date.
When Toby is reported ‘Missing, Believed Killed’, another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Ellen’s world.
Every city is like this. Cheek-by-jowl living. Separate worlds. This is the story of north-west city.
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Zoo Time
Merivel
Winter of the World
Telegraph Avenue
John Saturnall’s Feast
Howard Jacobson
Rose Tremain
Ken Follett
Michael Chabon
Lawrence Norfolk
Our funniest writer at his brilliant best, Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature, love of laughter.
Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his ability to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age.
On its own or read in sequence with Fall of Giants, this is a magnificent, spellbinding epic of global conflict and personal drama.
The bestselling author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay –returns with his first novel in five years, a lovingly painted pop-culture epic.
Lawrence Norfolk is back with an astounding novel of seventeeth-century life, love and war; the story of an orphan who becomes the greatest cook of his age.
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Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, continuing what began in Wolf Hall, we return to the court of Henry VIII. RRP: £20.00
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fiction
1356 Bernard Cornwell
A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical power - this is the remarkable new novel by Britain’s master storyteller. RRP: £18.99
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The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
The Jewels of Paradise
The Vanishing Point
The Hydrogen Sonata
Donna Leon
Val McDermid
Iain M. Banks
Alexander McCall Smith
A tale of intrigue, music and obsession, this is the latest bestseller from Leon.
The Vanishing Point is McDermid’s most accomplished standalone novel to date, a work of haunting brilliance.
It seems that the final days of the Gzilt civilization are likely to prove its most perilous.
Morals, it turns out, are like Scottish clouds: complex, changeable and tricky to get a firm grip on; they require a sharp observational eye, a philosophical mindset, and the habit of kindness.
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The Casual Vacancy J.K. Rowling
A Blink of the Screen
The Daylight Gate
Dolly
Boneland
Hobbitus Ille
Terry Pratchett
Jeanette Winterson
Susan Hill
Alan Garner
J. R. R. Tolkien
Here for the first time are Pratchett’s short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume.
Based on the most notorious of English witchtrials, this is a tale of magic, superstition, conscience and ruthless murder.
Here is a perfect chiller: a story of two damaged children filled with unease, the supernatural and horror.
Fascinating for Latin learners and for Tolkien fans of all ages, The Hobbit has been translated into Latin for the first time since its publication 75 years ago.
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The crowning achievement of an astonishing career, ‘Boneland’ concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in ‘The Weirdstone of Brisingamen’.
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One of the most anticipated novel’s of the year, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other. RRP: £20.00
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classics & collections
The Fairy Doll and Other Tales from the Doll’s House
A Laureate’s Choice - 101 Poems for Children
Lavender’s Blue
Carol Ann Duffy
Rumer Godden
This collection will introduce a whole new generation of little girls to the magical secret life of dolls.
Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, has chosen her favourite poems for children for this stunning collection of classic and modern verse.
Satisfyingly large, brightly coloured, all-embracing this is the Nursery Rhyme book for every child.
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Room on the Broom Sound Book
The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Stories
Biggles WWII Collection
Bilbo’s Last Song
W.E. Johns
J. R. R. Tolkien
Julia Donaldson
Edward Lear
In this new compilation, fifteen of Edward Lear’s best-loved tales are presented alongside the original artworks that he produced.
Biggles is back in this omnibus edition of four stories.
Gives an introduction to the epic fantasy series of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings for younger readers.
David Walliams
The bestselling story from Julia Donaldson, now an interactive gift book with 10 amazing, magical sound effects!
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Kathleen Lines
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The Jolly Christmas Postman
Peter Rabbit Book and Toy
Allan Ahlberg, Janet Ahlberg
Beatrix Potter
Children can take each colourful gift out of its envelope and discover for themselves what wellknown fairy-tale characters are sending to one another for Christmas!
Contains Beatrix Potter’s Tale of Peter Rabbit and an soft and cuddly Peter, making this a perfect Christmas gift for a new baby or young child. RRP: £12.99
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The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit Emma Thompson
Peter’s adventures take him beyond the boundaries of Mr McGregor’s garden all the way to Scotland. RRP: £12.99
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The World of David Walliams Four hilarious and moving novels from bestselling, critically acclaimed author, David Walliams.
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3 for 2 on children’s christmas classics
The Snowman
Snowy Tracks
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Winter Wonderland Sticker Book
Christmas Carols Sticker Book
This is the perfect stocking filler for Thomas fans! It isn’t long before Gordon finds out that snow is much more dangerous than it looks.
Jane Ray
Fiona Watt
Jane Chisholm
With a sprinkling of festive, illustrative magic, Jane Ray has created a timeless version of this traditional Christmas verse.
Featuring 11 of the most popular carols, this title is illustrated with paintings of scenes from Christmas and the Nativity.
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With over 300 seasonal stickers to add to the wintery scenes, fill a frozen pond with skating woodland creatures, a magical ball with dancing mice and lots more!
Raymond Briggs
One winter’s night, a snowman comes to life and an unforgettable adventure begins. RRP: £7.99
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The Polar Express Chris Van Allsburg
Dear Santa Rod Campbell
The bestselling lift-the-flap Christmas board book, now available in an enlarged, cased format. RRP: £5.99
A Pirate’s Twelve Days of Christmas
Mog’s Christmas
Philip Yates
A wonderful Christmas story about everyone’s favourite family cat, complete with a gorgeous Mog print and stunning foiled cover for extra Christmas sparkle!
A brave cabin boy receives marvelously mysterious gifts for each of the 12 days he is left alone to guard the pirate ship: 12 cannons blastin’, 9 mermaids singin’…
Judith Kerr
Mrs Pepperpot’s Christmas
Father Christmas Needs a Wee
Alf Proysen
Nicholas Allan
In this lovely Christmassy adventure, Mrs Pepperpot is looking forward to the Christmas Market, and plans to buy lovely presents, but Mr Pepperpot isn’t so keen…
At each different house that he visits Father Christmas drinks and eats all the goodies left out for him. Before long he really needs a wee.
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Late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. RRP: £6.99
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picture books
Peppa Pig: Hooray! Says Peppa Cheer along with Peppa and share her day of fun in this sturdy book, featuring a soft finger puppet to really bring the story to life!
Where’s Dogmatix?
Up and Down
Uderzo Goscinny
Oliver Jeffers
This Moose Belongs to Me
Winnie’s Dinosaur Day
This fabulous sequel to “Where’s Asterix?” features the loveable Dogmatix and his friends in a variety of fun, action-packed scenes.
A miniature hardback edition of this fantastic sequel to Lost and Found, by internationally bestselling author/ illustrator Oliver Jeffers.
Oliver Jeffers
Winnie waves her magic wand to transport herself and Wilbur back into the time of the dinosaurs …
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An exquisite, thoughtprovoking new book, featuring a boy and his moose, Marcel, exploring the concept of ownership.
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Valerie Thomas
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Superworm Julia Donaldson
Superworm is super-long. Superworm is super-strong. Watch him wiggle! See him squirm! There’s no other worm like SUPERWORM! RRP: £10.99
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Gruffalo: Latin Edition
Pirates Love Underpants
Red Cat, Blue Cat
The Paper Dolls
The Great Granny Gang
Julia Donaldson
Claire Freedman
Jenni Desmond
Julia Donaldson
Judith Kerr
Set in forty-six elegiac couplets, the translation draws on the language and style of the classical poets to brilliantly capture the rhythm and mischievous spirit of the original story.
Even pirates love underpants - especially golden ones!
Fur flies and feline friendships form as two cats of different colours find that, with a little effort, they can be themselves and make a perfect blend.
A stunning, rhythmical story of childhood, memory and the power of imagination from Julia Donaldson
Here comes the fearless granny gang, The youngest eighty-two. They leap down from their granny van, And there’s nothing they can’t do!
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vintage children’s classics
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Little Women
Lewis Carroll
Though they may be poor, life for the four March sisters is rich with colour as they play games, put on wild theatricals, make new friends, argue, grapple with their vices and learn from their mistakes.
It certainly seems a remarkable sight to Alice and, full of curiosity, she follows him down a rabbithole into a very strange world RRP: £5.99
Louisa May Alcott
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Secret Garden
John Boyne
Mary is pale, spoilt and contrary. But she is also horribly lonely. Then one day she hears about a garden…
The moving modern classic as Bruno meets the boy on the other side of the fence. RRP: £6.99
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon
A contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. RRP: £7.99
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Peter Pan J. M. Barrie
Emil and the Detectives
Five Children and it
Swallows and Amazons
The Silver Sword
Treasure Island
Erich Kastner
E. Nesbit
Arthur Ransome
Ian Serraillier
Robert Louis Stevenson
Emil teams up with a gang of young detectives and so begins a hair-raising chase across Berlin to catch the dirty rotten thief...
E Nesbit’s cautionary tale as the children learn how much trouble a Sand-fairy and a wish can cause!
A summer of adventure as the Walker children encouter the the Blackett sisters - the Amazon Pirates!
Alone and fending for themselves in a Poland devastated by World War II, Jan and his three homeless friends cling to the silver sword as a symbol of hope.
Can brave young Jim Hawkins outwit the most infamous pirate ever to sail the high seas, Long John Silver?
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The magical tale of Wendy and the Darling children meeting Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. RRP: £5.99
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children’s paperbacks of 2012
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children’s paperbacks of 2012
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9 - 12
Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian
Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena
Ratburger
Four Children and It
Emerald Star
David Walliams
Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson
Eoin Colfer
Rick Riordan
The thrilling climax to this globally bestselling series - but will it all end happily ever after?
Can Percy Jackson and the “Half-blood” Heroes succeed on their quest to find “The Doors of Death” or will the Greek Gods of chaos win their battle to stop them.
Hot on the heels of bestselling Gangsta Granny comes another hilarious, action-packed and touching novel.
Echoing the classic E. Nesbit novel “Five Children and It”, this is the story of four children who discover a way to make wishes come true.
This is a fantastic new adventure for brave, feisty Hetty Feather - one of Jacqueline Wilson’s most well-loved characters.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: the Third Wheel Jeff Kinney
The hilarious next book in the brilliant, bestselling and award-winning “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” series. This time love is in the air, but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? RRP: £12.99
Blackwell’s Price: £9.99
Heroes of Olympus: the Demigod Diaries
Gods and Warriors
A Medal for Leroy
Michelle Paver
Michael Morpurgo
Rick Riordan
Three never-before-seen short stories that provide vital back-story to the Heroes of Olympus and Percy Jackson books.
The first book in a breathtaking adventure series set in the Greek Bronze Age: a time when the lowliest goatherd could rise to become a hero
Inspired by the true story of Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British army. A new novel about identity and loss by the award-winning author of War Horse.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time Frank Cottrell Boyce
The second official sequel to Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, written by one of the country’s favourite authors.
Ghost Knight Cornelia Funke
Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft never expected to enjoy boarding school. He never expected to be confronted by a pack of vengeful ghosts either. RRP: £9.99
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young adult
The Sacrifice
Dodger
Guardian Angel
Charlie Higson
Terry Pratchett
Robert Muchamore
The next terrifying part of Charlie Higson’s bestselling Enemy series
Dodger is a tosher - a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn’t.
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked
Take Your Last Breath
Guardian Angel is the second book in a brand-new CHERUB series featuring a new cast of characters - just as compelling as the first
Derek Landy
Everyone’s favourite girl detective is back for a second mind-blowing instalment.
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The seventh instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horroradventure series in the universe!
Lauren Child
RRP: £12.99
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One Shot Kill Robert Muchamore
Missing Me
Zom-B
Eve and Adam
Eleven Eleven
The Raven Boys
Sophie McKenzie
Darren Shan
Paul Dowswell
Maggie Stiefvater
The gripping conclusion to the bestselling thriller trilogy which started with Girl, Missing.
The exciting new series from the master of teen horror, about a zombie apocalypse. It combines classic Shan action with a fiendishly twisting plot.
Michael Grant, Katherine Applegate
A nail-biting thriller about a boy who escapes East Berlin, but not the reach of the Stasi - chilling, pageturning junior le Carre.
This is the first book in a brand new series from bestselling author, Maggie Stiefvater.
RRP: £10.99
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This is a stunning new mystery-thriller from the bestselling writers of “Animorphs” and “GONE”. It is an exceptional pageturner.
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The sixth adventure in the Henderson’s Boys series: find out how CHERUB began! RRP: £6.99
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Children’s Non-Fiction & Novelty
A Bee in a Cathedral Joel Levy
Prepare to be amazed and educated! A Bee in a Cathedral explains basic scientific truths and principles using the power of analogy. RRP: £12.99
Blackwell’s Price: £10.99
A Picture History of Britain
The Christmas Activity Book
Horrible Christmas
Clarke Hutton
Ellen Bailey, Tracey Turner
The history of Britain from its early days until the 1950s is described here, largely in pictures.
A festive, bumper activity book stuffed with seriously seasonal fun to keep children occupied for hours on end.
Horrible Christmas tells you all the festive facts you ever wanted to find out but were too stuffed full of mince pies to ask.
Terry Deary
100 More Paper Planes to Fold & Fly Features new planes based on four different layouts, each decorated with its own unique colours, motifs and patterns.
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Playbook Farm
Doll’s House
Fantastic Mr Dahl
Jim Pipe
Michael Rosen
The Night Pirates Pop-up Adventure
The date is 1888. This is an extraordinary house, with many rooms and plenty going on - and even more to play with.
Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? This title provides answers to these questions.
Peter Harris, Deborah Allwright
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The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins
See the wonder of science come alive in this beautifully illustrated guide to the greatest questions on earth - and some of the answers to them. RRP: £14.99
Blackwell’s Price: £12.99 Also available as an eBook
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LEGO Friends Brickmaster This title lets you join the Friends on their journey and follow the fun photo scrapbook. It features a minifigure, over 100 bricks, and an adventure to go on.
This is the perfect novelty package for pre-school children - it is bright, vibrant, sturdy and will provide hours of play before being stored safely away in its own carry case.
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This is a pop-up edition of the bestselling picture book. All aboard for a POP-UP adventure!
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