2005's "FORTHCOMING BOOKS" LISTINGS

DECEMBER 2005

FICTION

Sex Wars - Marge Piercy
Life is hard in post-Civil War New York, but change is in the air. Women are agitating for the vote and other rights. Russian immigrant Freydeh lives in a tiny tenement flat with eight others and works at as many jobs as she can handle. (£6.99)

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs - Tom Baker

A subversive horror/fantasy story about an evil little boy who hates everyone around him, until he goes too far and when he crosses swords with a pack of cannibal rats. From Tom Baker (ex-monk, ex-sailor, and the ultimate Doctor Who). (£5.99)

REISSUE

Friendly Young Ladies - Mary Renault

A witty and stylish social comedy written in 1943 partly in answer to the despair characteristic of Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness. A naive teenage girl runs away from home to live with her sister in London on a houseboat - with Helen. (£8.99)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Brother’s Journey - Richard B Pelzer
Richard, brother of Dave 'A Child Called It' Pelzer, tells his harrowing story of being physically abused by his mentally unstable mother. (£6.99)

HUMOUR

Field Guide to the Apocalypse - Meghann Marco

Movie Survival Skills for the End of the World (£6.99)

MBS

House of Tiny Tearaways - Dr Tanya Byron

The author is a Consultant Clinical psychologist who helps parents at the end of their tethers achieve remarkable transformations in their out-of-control offspring. (£12.99)

In Search of the Holy Grail - Veronica Ortenberg

How later ages learnt about and interpreted the Middle Ages, from Romanticism to the Nazis. (£19.99)

Underground! The Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilisations, Astonishing Archaeology and Hidden History - ed. Preston Peet

Peet and his all-star contributors (Hancock, Wilson, von Daniken ...) guide readers through exciting archaeological adventures and treasure hunts, ancient mysteries, lost or rediscovered technologies and assorted forteana, all the while using serious scientific studies and reports, scholarly research and some fringe material. (£15.99)

African Myths of Origin (£9.99)

Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg
Revised and expanded edition of the inspirational creative writing classic. (£9.99)

MUSIC

Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s - Mike Marqusee

Dylan’s "anti-political" songs resonate with political, social, and cultural concerns. "Tracing the thread that binds Dylan's restless art to its rapidly shifting environment is the book's primary purpose." (£10.99)

POLITICS

2005 Blogged - (ed.) Tim Worstall

2005 was the year of the 'bloggers', the amateur online journalists who post real-time reports on their websites. This book features the best writing from the world's most opinionated writers. (£8.99)

TRAVEL

Horseshoes & Holy Water - Mefo Phillips

On the Hoof to Santiago De Compostella - from Canterbury. (£7.99)

NOVEMBER 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Get a Life - Nadine Gordimer

An ecologist in Africa questions in life - and his wife’s work as an advertising executive - when his treatment for cancer makes him a danger to others and he retreats to his parents’ home. Bloomsbury are also reissuing Nadine Gordimer’s influential backlist titles: see below. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
From the author of "All the Pretty Horses", a gripping good guys/bad guys Western with a serious message - "the ongoing study of a burning American rage" says Annie Proulx. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Christ the Lord Out of Egypt - Anne Rice
"The book Anne Rice was born to write" - a novel about the childhood of Jesus from Alexandria to Judea in the turbulent first century. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

First Casualty - Ben Elton
Thought-provoking historical thriller set in 1917 Flanders. Not a funny one! (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Darkness of Wallis Simpson - Rose Tremain

Short stories from this excellent writer, including an imaginative and ironic take on Wallis Simpson who ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales

Fairy tales for adults, with lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world. Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq

'Who is it among you who deserves eternal life?' From "Europe’s most inflammatory writer" a novel which moves between Paris, Andalucia and Lanzarotte. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory

Historical novel about the early life of Katherine of Aragon, married to Arthur Prince of Wales before marrying his sunny but spoilt younger brother. From the author of "The Virgin’s Lover". (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson

Prize-winning Norwegian novel - a 67-year-old widower moves to an isolated part of Norway to live in solitude. A chance encounter brings back the fateful summer of 1948, when he was 15. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACKS

Grace & Truth - Jennifer Johnston
A successful actress returns from a European tour to discover her husband is leaving her. She turns to her grandfather, the frosty old Bishop she has never really known. (£7.99)

Not Married, Not Bothered - Carol Clewlow

Witty celebration of a woman's right to enjoy whichever lifestyle she chooses, at whatever age she is! (£6.99)

Salem Falls - Jodi Picoult
A teacher and soccer coach tries to pick up the pieces of his life after a false accusation ruins his career - but is faced with another witch hunt. (£6.99)

The Norwegian Feeling for Real (Leopard VI) - (ed.) H Bach-Wiig

To celebrate the centenary of Norway's secession from Sweden, a collection of 28 short stories produced over the past four decades by Norwegian writers. (£16.99)

Swan Music - Sarah Harrison
Bryn Mancini celebrates his silver wedding: he rejoices in a beautiful wife, handsome grown-up children and the house of his dreams overlooking a bend in the river. But something dreadful is drifting downstream to his door... (£6.99)

Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg

A tale of enchantment and miracles at Christmas, in a mellow Alabama community of misfits, from the author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe". (£6.99)

Virago Book of Christmas - (ed.) Michelle Lovric

A sparkling seasonal collection of letters, diaries, poems and stories by contemporary authors including Jane Gardam, Laurie Graham and U A Fanthorpe, and well-loved classic writers such as E Nesbit, Stella Gibbons, Nancy Mitford and Elizabeth Gaskell. (£8.99)

Hornet’s Nest - Jimmy Carter

It’s not often we get a novel from a President of the United States: this is a big sweeping historical novel of the American South and the War of Independence. (But we promise not to stock any of Bush’s oeuvre.) (£7.99)

Broker - John Grisham
An outgoing President grants a pardon, under pressure, to a notorious Washington power broker. (£6.99)

Shadow Family - Miyuki Miyabe

A murder mystery focusing on the dark world of internet chat rooms. Since you all like Japanese novels so much, let’s try this one. (£6.99)

Southwesterly Wind - Luiz A Garcia-Roza

Hailed by critics as the Raymond Chandler of Rio, this is Garcia-Roza's third novel in his atmospheric, exotic Inspector Espinosa series. Another experiment. (£7.99)

REISSUES

Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer
A rich white farmer loses first his family, then his farm: 1974 Booker Prize-winner. (£7.99)

July’s People - Nadine Gordimer

A liberal white family are rescued from the terror of a deteriorating situation in South Africa by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. "An unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites." First published 1981. (£7.99)

Confessions of a Crap Artist - Philip K Dick

A "collector of crackpot ideas and worthless objects" is rescued by his sister and brother-in-law, with tragic consequences.The only one of Philip K Dick's mainstream novels to be published during his lifetime. (£7.99)

Inside Bleak House - John Sutherland

"A Guide for the Modern Dickensian". Fills in the gaps and draws out the tantalising puzzles for viewers of the television adaptation. (£5.99)

Seven Basic Plots - Christopher Booker
"Why We Tell Stories." Examines the basis of storytelling in literature, film, and libretto. (£12.99)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Said and Done - Roger McGough

The extraordinary life story of the 'patron saint of poetry', Roger McGough who visited Hebden Bridge during the 2001 Arts Festival. (£17.99) Also three CDs, running time 180 minutes, read by Roger McGough, £13.99.

Book of Life - (ed.) Eve Claxton

Anthology of the finest memoir writing through the centuries - from the world's greatest writers, artists, poets, scientists, showmen, statesmen, saints, swindlers and superstars. (£20)

Teacher Man - Frank McCourt

A third memoir from the author of 'Angela's Ashes' and 'Tis'. Frank McCourt details his rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City. (£18.99)

C S Lewis - A N Wilson

C S Lewis was a deeply complex man, capable of inspiring both great devotion and great hostility. Charts the progess of the clever child from the 'Little End Room' of his Ulster childhood and adult life, exploring Lewis's unwilling conversion to Christianity, the genesis of his writing, and the web of his relationships. (£8.99)

Twilight Children - Torey Hayden

"Three Voices No One Heard Until Someone Listened." A startling and poignant memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse - and their heartbreaking but ultimately successful steps to recovery. (£12.99)

Lindsay Anderson Diaries - (ed.) Paul Hutton
The extraordinary and revealing diaries of the revolutionary British film and theatre director who became one of the major cultural figures of his time. Now in paperback. (£8.99)

Scenes from My Life - Judi Dench

Dame Judi Dench opens her personal photograph albums publicly for the first time. (£20)

Pitching My Tent - Anita Diamant
"On Marriage, Motherhood, Friendship, and Other Leaps of Faith." From the author of 'The Red Tent'. (£7.99)

Memories of John Lennon - (ed.) Yoko Ono

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of John Lennon's death, memories from fans, friends and colleagues, including contributions from Peter Gabriel, Bono, Cilla Black, Mick Jagger, Elton John, Annie Liebovitz and Pete Townshend. (£16.99)

Bob Dylan: a Portrait of the Artist’s Early Years - Daniel Kramer

The author was Bob Dylan’s photographer for two years, and these may be the best photographs of the star ever published. (£12.99)

FOOD & DRINK

Richard & Judy Wine Guide (£16.99)

AA Truckstop and Roadside Cafe Guide (£7.99)

AA Britain’s Best Afternoon Tea 2006 (£9.99)

Eating Out in Pubs 2006 - Michelin (£14.99)

Egon Ronay’s 2006 Guide to the Best Restaurants and Gastropubs in the UK (£14.99)

GARDENING

My Roots - Monty Don

Taken from Monty's Observer column, this is a decade in gardening, as recorded by the nation's head gardener. (£14.99) Also on 2 CDs, read by the author, at £14.99

Garden Book

From Phaidon, an A-Z survey of 500 of the most important and beautiful gardens around the world. (£14.95)

HISTORY

Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad - Barnaby Rogerson

"The Two Paths of Islam" This is the sequel to the author’s 'The Prophet Muhammad', with the story of two rivals: Muhammad's wife Aisha, an impetuous, political Bedouin woman, linked with the Sunnis, and his son-in-law Ali, a principled devout man and originator of the Shiites, against whom Aisha led an armed rebellion. (£17.99)

Court of the Caliphs - Hugh Kennedy

"When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World." Intrigue, debauchery and seduction in the palaces of the Middle East, a sweeping narrative history of the rise and fall of a great dynasty. (£8.99)

Last Post - (ed.) Max Arthur
"The Final Word from Our First World War Soldiers." (£16.99)

Social History of the Third Reich - Richard Grunberger

Reissue of one of the most devastating portraits ever drawn of a human society, drawn from original sources, contemporary newspapers, chronicles, letters, books and many previously unpublished accounts. (£10.99)

White Cities - Joseph Roth

"Reports from France 1925-1939." Joseph Roth, the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925 and, as an Austrian Jew, was exiled there for the rest of his life. Collected together here for the first time in English, these exhilarating pieces evoke a world of suppleness, beauty and promise. (£9.99)

HOBBIES

75 Years of The Times Crossword (£9.99)

101 Things to Do in a Shed - Rob Beattie
Welcome to the sanctuary of the shed! Beautifully illustrated with good old fashioned line drawings and brimming with bright ideas to keep men entertained for hours. (£9.99)

Pocket Guide to Nuts & Bolts (£3.50)

Little Book of the Mini (£6.99)

(Ferrari and Porsche also available ...)

HUMOUR

The Hamster That Loved Puccini - Simon Hoggart
"The Seven Modern Sins of Christmas Round-robin Letters", including boastfulness, smugness and over-sharing. Sequel to "The Cat That Could Open the Fridge". (£9.99)

Wayne in a Manger - Gervase Phinn

Hilarious compilation of school Nativity play anecdotes. (£10) Also audio CD, read by the author, £10.99.

Bullshit Bingo - Graham Edmonds

Swamped by bullshit words and phrases, lies, innuendo, boring meetings, two-faced colleagues and dodgy management? Liven up the dreariest office meeting with Bullshit Bingo game cards! (£6.99)

Devil’s Dandruff Guide to Nightlife - Neil Boorman & Daniel Pemberton
This is a book for anyone who loves going out. It’s also a book for anyone who hates going out. And for those people who haven’t made their minds up. It’s got some nice pictures. (£7.99)

Don’t Get Me Wrong But ...: The Book of Rants

Find out what really grates on the nerves of a celebrity chef or gets actors acting-out in this compilation of gripes and grumbles from some of our most well-known celebrity moaners and shakers. (£7.99)

Jim - Steven Appleby

"The Nine Lives of a Dysfunctional Cat." (£5.99)

I Hate Christmas - Daniel Blythe

"A Manifesto for the Modern-day Scrooge." (£5.99)

Worst Case Scenario Extreme Edition - Joshua Piven

Returns to the intense survival situations that made the original so compelling and a bestselling phenomenon, but turning it up a couple of notches. (£9.99)

Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit - Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur

You don't have to be old to be grumpy. The authors write about music and politics for various newspapers. (£9.99)

Joke Book
500 classic jokes to entertain adults. (£4.99)

One Hundred Great Books in Haiku - David Bader

From ‘The Iliad' to 'War and Peace' without interfering with your weekend plans. (£8.99)

Alan Bennett Story CD Collection
Four of Alan Bennett's most popular stories packaged together. Alan Bennett narrates the strange story of 'The Lady in the Van', 'The Clothes They Stood Up In', 'The Laying on of Hands' and 'Father! Father! Burning Bright'. Eight CDs, running time 8hrs 40mins. (£45)

LANGUAGE

70 Japanese Gestures - Hamiru-Aqui

This whimsical look at 'the language of no language' will teach you to hurl insults, flirt, agree, excuse youself, cross the street and even make promises wordlessly. (£6.99)

And a mention of new Teach Yourself books on learning Urdu, Bengali, Nepali, Hindi and Panjabi at £14.99 for a double CD, and £29.99 for a book and double CD pack. We can usually get these in overnight.

MBS

African Wisdom: 365 Days

Thought-provoking text accompanied by Olivier Follmi's beautiful, moving photographs of African peoples and places, covering the whole vast continent from the Sahara in the north to Namibia in the south. (£24.95)

Mystical Britain and Ireland - Richard Jones

Guide to over 100 mystical places is illustrated with a combination of dramatic, specially-commissioned photography. There are maps of each region and all the places covered can be visited by members of the public; the address and phone numbers of each location is included within each entry. (£19.99)

Complete Encyclopedia of Elves, Goblins, and Other Little Creatures - Pierre Dubois

An imaginative illustrated and magical guide, containing a delightful collection of folklore, histories and stories. (£23)

Weird Christmas - Joey Green

Curious customs and coincidences, bizarre beliefs and rituals, strange stories and lore. (£8.95)

Green Man - John Matthews
Introduces the fascinating history and folklore of this charismatic pagan character, and shows you how to bring his earthy influence into your life. Includes a weatherproof Green Man plaque. (£14.99)

Mary Magdalen: Truth & Myth - Susan Haskins

Reissue of this dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity, on the heels of 'The Da Vinci Code'. (£8.99)

MEDIA

Guardian Year 2005 - (ed.) Giles Foden

The pick of the sharpest, most lively and most remarkable journalism and photography from the Guardian in 2005. (£14.99)

NATURE

Times Night Sky 2006- (ed.) Michael Hendrie (£5.99)

Philips Stargazing 2006 - Heather Couper (£6.99)

Secret Life of Trees - Colin Tudge

"How they live and why they matter," how they speak to each other - warning others downwind that elephants are on the prowl, how they tell the length of the day, how they first came into being. (£20)

PLAYS

Jerusalem - Simon Armitage
This dark musical comedy from the acclaimed Huddersfield poet takes much of its inspiration from the valley communities of West Yorkshire and tells the story of a village - apparently based on Marsden or Hebden Bridge - which brims with a kaleidoscopic array of characters. Due to be performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse. (£8.99)

Christmas Carol CD

The original and atmospheric radio drama featuring Orson Welles and the Mercury Players. Single CD, running time 1hr 30mins. (£10.99)

POEMS

Collected Poems - Chinua Achebe

Draws on Achebe's three collections of poetry, and includes seven previously unpublished poems. It reveals a lifetime of poetic engagement with politics, war and culture, inherited wisdom and the making of new futures. From the author of "Things Fall Apart". (£8.95)

Selected Poems - Oktay Rifat

A generous selection from the elegant and moving output of the poet who, alongside Nazim Hikmet, dominated 20th-century Turkish poetry. (£11.95)

Paradise Lost - John Milton, read by Anton Lesser (Naxos)
Nine CDs, running time 11 hours, unabridged, read by Anton Lesser. (£31.50)

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Countdown to a Fairer World - New Internationalist

Numbers from 34 trillion to zero to question the way the world works. (£4.99)

Half-Gone - Jeremy Leggett

Here is the real news: the Age of Cheap Energy is at an end. The planet's oil supplies are half gone already. The life of every westerner - man, woman and child - will be altered by this change. The solution, the salvation beyond the coming pain, is already available, and needs only to be understood and embraced. (£12.99)

Republic of Entertainment - John Lloyd

How the corruption of the media by the values of soap opera, the tabloids and Hollywood is putting our democracy at risk. It promises to do for the media what 'No Logo' did for global capitalism. (£12.99)

Desert Children - Waris Dirie

The truth of female circumcision or FGM (female genital mutilation) happening to thousands of young girls throughout Europe. (£10.99)

Drawing Blood - Gerald Scarfe

Highlights from Gerald Scarfe's remarkable career as one of Britain's foremost artists and political cartoonists, whose work has been published all over the world. This is the first collection of his work for 20 years. (£35)

With Their Backs to the World - Asne Seierstad

From the author of 'The Bookseller of Kabul' - an account of thirteen Serbs whose lives were transformed over the course of sixteen months. Updated in 2004. (£7.99)

REFERENCE

Schott’s Almanac 2006
Redefining the traditional almanac, it presents a record of the year just past and a guide to the year to come. Designed to be both practical and entertaining, it will combine the authority and accuracy of The Economist with the wit and vitality of 'Have I Got News for You?'. (£15.00)

Oxford Dictionary of Superstitions (£9.99)

Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (£8.99)

Finding Anyone Anywhere Anywhen - Noel M Elliot

A modern handbook to using the internet to locate people - people who lived during any century in the past, as well as people living today - anywhere in the world. (£12.95)

SCIENCE

A Teaspoon and an Open Mind - Michael White
"The Science of Doctor Who": a guide to the real science behind the fictional world of the Doctor. Topics covered include everything from time travel to alien life forms (and visitors), telepathy to teleportation, cybernetics to crystals, and regeneration to eternal life. (£12.99)

TRAVEL

There’s No Toilet Paper On The Road Less Traveled

Tales from authors such as Bill Bryson, Steve Martin and Peter Mayle, all of whom know that to leave your own back garden is to stare doom in the face. (£8.99)

Travel Writing 1700-1830
From Oxford University Press, an anthology of the best travel writing from the 'Age of Peregrination'. (£9.99)

Pole Dance - Tom Avery

The gripping story of the record-breaking British expedition to the bottom of the world. incorporating comparisons with other South Pole expeditions. (£7.99)

Road Fever - Tim Cahill
Extreme travel writing from Tim Cahill who has driven his GM truck from the southern-most point in the Western Hemisphere - Tierra del Fuego in Chile - to the oil fields of the Arctic Circle. (£7.99)

New AA Road Atlases to Europe and France.

A new Rough Guide to London and to French Hotels and Restaurants, Lonely Planet Guides to Australia, Egypt and Travel Survival, a Cassowary Crossing Guide to Offbeat Australia and a How To Guide on Going to Live in Portugal.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Pop-ups - Dr Seuss

A wildly imaginative and intricate combination of tabs, flaps, wheels and pop-up elements plus excerpts from some of Dr. Seuss' most fabulous works make this a truly unique interactive experience for children and adults alike. Readership level 3+yrs. (£16.99)

The Princess and the Pea - Lauren Child

A fresh, unique and stunningly presented new edition. This picture book explores the tale of the down-to-earth princess through a stunning mix of artwork and photography to create a fairy tale to be treasured. Readership level: 3-5yrs (£7.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Lion Witch & Wardrobe CD - C.S Lewis

A new audio version of the classic tale release to tie in with the forthcoming film. Readership level: 7-9yrs. (£3.99)

Write Now! - Alice Gunter

A new and unique guide to creative writing that is not only instructive but irresistible fun. A perfect Christmas gift for budding young authors. Readership level: 6-10yrs (£4.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

I Believe in Unicorns - Michael Morpurgo

A moving story about the power of unity and inspiration in the face of destruction
by the former Children's Laureate. Set in a war torn town in eastern Europe where children go to listen to the librarian read astride a model unicorn. As the war worsens the library is burnt but the children save the books and guard them until the war is finally over. Readership Level. 8+ yrs (£7.99)

The Scarecrow and his Servant - Phillip Pullman

A fantastic story of friendship between a scarecrow made of straw and turnip and his servant a clever little boy called Jack. Readership level 9-11yrs (£4.99)

Teenage

Sharp North - Patrick Cave

A chilling thriller set in a futuristic world of clones and watchers where everyone is viewed with suspicion and nobody is to be trusted. Readership level: 12+ yrs (£6.99)

Clay - David Almond

A haunting and compelling novel from one of the best children's writers today.Davie and his best friend Geordie watch the arrival of a mysterious new boy Stephen Rose. The boys befriend Stephen but as their encounter with him becomes as incredible as it is menacing they discover the shocking truth behind Stephen's past and Davie's life is changed forever. Readership level: 12+. (£10.99)

OCTOBER 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall-Smith

Sequel to "44 Scotland Street" set in an interesting corner of Edinburgh, verging on the Bohemian, where haute bourgeoisie rub shoulders with students and the more colourful members of the intelligentsia. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Gentlemen & Players - Joanne Harris

In a long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England, the eccentric Latin master, is reluctantly contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Penelopiad: the Myth of Penelope and Odysseus - Margaret Atwood

Haunting, disturbing and entertaining retelling of the old myth. (£10.99 at The Book Case)

Thud - Terry Pratchett

If Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, he is going to see an ancient battle fought again, right outside his office. Oh...and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read 'Where's My Cow?', with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Where’s My Cow - Terry Pratchett

A Discworld picture book. Sam Vimes wonders why 'Where's My Cow? is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. So he starts adapting the story. (£9.99 at The Book Case)

Lighthouse - P D James
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a blood-stained history, but now, privately owned, offers privacy and respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of authority. But then one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Quite Honestly - John Mortimer

Comic novel about a young woman fresh out of university who volunteers to be a "mentor" for ex-cons. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel G Marquez

A fairy tale for the aged- a story that celebrates the belated discovery of amorous passion in old age. (£10)

Olive Readers - Christine Aziz

Winner of the Richard and Judy How to Get Published competition. Set in a dystopian future, where corporations own the past and memories. A clandestine group is trying to preserve the past by smuggling books. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Literary thriller: the discovery of a forgotten book leads to the hunt for an elusive author who may or may not still be alive... One of the most popular titles in the 'Richard and Judy' Book Club. (£7.99)

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

A tour-de-force of metaphysical reality, Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters, a runaway teenager and a war veteran. (£7.99)

Best Thing that Can Happen to a Croissant - Pablo Tusset

Pablo Baloo Miralles, a fat, useless and flatulent thirty-year-old, is the black sheep of his obscenely wealthy family. But when his successful brother disappears, he finds himself being sucked into a hair-raising, mind-bending adventure. (£6.99)

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

Discworld novel featuring Moist von Lipwig, a con artist and a fraud - and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. (£6.99)

Runes of the Earth - Stephen Donaldson

The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - at long last the return of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. This epic fantasy series has been going since 1977. (£7.99)

Wolves Eat Dogs - Martin Cruz
In the wake of a businessman's suicide, Moscow detective Arkady Renko investigates secrets and international plots that may have driven him to his death, in a case that leads Renko to discover crimes in the area surrounding Chernobyl. From the author of 'Gorky Park'. (£6.99)

Triumph of the Sun - Wilbur Smith

1884 and in Khartoum, on the banks of the Nile, the Courtneys meet the Ballantynes. Trade paperback. (£12.99)

Tyrant - Valerio M Manfredi

New historical epic set in Sicily in 412 BC with a duel between Dionysius, who has just made himself Tyrant of Syracuse, and the superpower Carthage, mercantile megalopolis and mistress of the seas. (£6.99)

Alexander: the Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield

The story of the legendary colossus of the ancient world who was driven - and ultimately undone - by his insatiable lust for glory.. (£6.99)

Snow Storms in a Hot Climate - Sarah Dunant
Reissue of tense psychological tale. Is Elly's love affair with a New York cocaine dealer too deep and dark to be broken - even by an old friend? (£7.99)

Grimm's Grimmest
Not your typical bedtime stories. Drawing on the original German stories, this book presents 19 of the darkest and most dramatic tales collected by the Grimm Brothers. From the true horror of Aschenputtel (the original Cinderella story) to Rapunzel's dark secret, here are the authentic stories born in the land of the Black Forest, at a time when fairy tales weren't necessarily for children. Illustrated. (£15.99)

Miss Marple: Complete Short Stories - Agatha Christie (CD)
Nine CDs, unabridged edition, read by Joan Hickson. (£30)

Very Short Introduction to Classics (CD)
Links a temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture - from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. Three CDs, running time approx 4 hours, read by Derek Jacobi. (£15.99)

NON-FICTION

ARCHITECTURE

Alvar Aalto - Nicholas Ray
The pre-eminent Finnish architect Alvar Aalto developed in the post-war years an architectural language all of his own, characterised by curved walls, single-pitched roofs and inventive combinations of wood and brick. A brief but comprehensive look at Aalto's life, works and theory. Illustrated. (£19.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Margrave of the Marshes - John Peel

Not many people actually achieve the status of legend in their own lifetime. The first half of the book, written by John, describes with characteristic humour his early life, from child to man. The second section, written by Peel's wife, gives us an intimate portrait of the man and his music, and the highs and the lows of everyday life at Peel Acres. (£18.99)

Untold Stories - Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett's first major collection since 'Writing Home', a compendium of some of his finest and funniest writing from the last nine years, including significant unpublished work. (£20)

Also in double CD form, Parts 1 & 2, at £12.99 each.

Tamerlane - Justin Marozzi

"Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World" - aka Tamburlaine, Mogul Emperor of Samarkand, the last great warlord and one of history's most extreme tyrants ever. (£9.99)

Times Great Lives - Ian Brunskill

"The Times’ Most Celebrated Obituaries from the Last One Hundred Years." Provides a rich store of information and opinion on the most influential characters of the twentieth century. (£20)

Harold Nicolson Diaries 1907-1963 - (ed.) Nigel Nicolson

One of the great 20th-century political diaries back in print in a new edition with 20% new material. (£9.99)

Good Life - John Seymour

A celebration of the life of John Seymour, self-sufficiency guru, political activist, environmental campaigner and author of 'The New Complete Book of Self Sufficiency'. (£10)

Northern Soul - Jimmy Nail

A classic rags to riches story. (£7.99)

Bob Dylan Chronicles Vol. 1

Now in paperback the first volume of the three-volume memoir of one of the greatest musical legends of all time. In volume 1, Bob Dylan takes us back to the early 1960s when he arrived in New York to launch his phenomenal career. (£7.99)

Luxury of Time - Jane Tomlinson

The extraordinarily brave woman whose remarkable sporting achievements have inspired a nation, tells how she and her family live with terminal cancer. Now in paperback. (£6.99)

Footy: the Story of a Friendship - Richard Ingrams

Recalls the author’s lifelong friendship with Paul Foot, renowned investigative journalist and long time contributor to Private Eye who died in the summer of 2004. (£9.99)

It Just Occurred to Me - Humphrey Lyttelton

"An Autobiographical Scrapbook" from the popular jazz trumpeter and host of "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue". (£12.99)

Race Against Time - Ellen MacArthur

Illustrated account of Ellen's record breaking solo voyage around the world. (£20)

What the Stones Remember - Patrick Lane

In January 2001, Canadian poet Lane emerged from two months in an addiction treatment centre, sober after 45 years of steady, heavy drinking and drug use. He had to learn to live with a raw new self at age 62, and this book chronicles his first year and records the seasonal cycle of the garden he tends. (£16.99).

Wave of Destruction - Erich Krauss

"The day that ravaged the coastlines of Southeast Asia." A biographical account of the Tsunami told through the eyes of four people from the small Thai fishing village of Nam Keam. (£10.99)

Last Gasps - Ian Jack
From the author of 'The Smoking Diaries' a tender, affecting and funny account of his friendship with Alan Bates, written as he waits in Barbados for Harold Pinter to turn up. (£9.99)

Time Bites - Doris Lessing
Warm, funny, nostalgic collection that ranges across many decades and subjects. (£7.99)

Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street - (ed.) John S Smith
Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill, 1952-73. (£6.99)

GARDENING

Gardening Week by Week - Daily Telegraph (£9.99)

This Other Eden - Emma Gieben-Gamal

"Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History." A historical narrative that reveals 300 years of English culture and society through an exploration of seven great gardens, from Tradescant's designs for Hatfield House to Hampton Court, Chatsworth and Jekyll's famous garden at Hestercombe. (£20)

Miscellany of Garden Wisdom - Isobel Carlson
Simple easy-to-follow-tips for first time and practised gardeners alike. (£7.99)

HISTORY

A Little History of the World - E.H. Gombrich
A genially-told history of humanity from the Stone Age to the Atomic Bomb, written by the great art historian in 1936 with a post-Holocaust update. Nicely presented with line drawings by Clifford Harper and a joy to handle. (£14.99)

The Bible in English - David Daniell
The extraordinary story of the Bible in England from approximately the fourth century to the present day, charting the profound impact successive versions of the Bible have had on the people and communities that read them, as well as on the English language. (£14.99)

Soldier and Strangers: An Ethnic History of the English Civil War - Mark Stoyle
The impact of the civil war's ethnic dimension on the forging of English national identity: the acute fear of foreign invasion which gripped England after 1640, following rebellions in Wales and Cornwall, incursions of powerful 'Celtic' armies in support of the king and the arrival of foreign professional officers to serve in the rival armies. (£25)

England: the Autobiography - (ed.) J Lewis-Stempel
"2,000 Years of English History By Those Who Saw it Happen." The story of England, of her history and culture in the words of the people who lived it, from 55 BC to 2004 AD. (£20)

This Sceptred Isle: the Empire - Christopher Lee
Britain had the biggest empire the world has ever known. At one time a quarter of the global land mass was British. A story of enormous personalities, adventure, scientific and maritime development and the building of one of the most complex international administrations the world has ever seen, and why it declined. TV tie-in. (£20)

Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944
Along similar lines to "Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942", this handbook was issued by the British War Office in 1944 to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. 'There is a fairly widespread belief among people in Britain that the French are a particularly gay, frivolous people with no morals and few convictions.' (£4.99)

HUMOUR

Grumpy Old Men: the Secret Diary - Stuart Prebble
A year in the sad and sordid life of a Grumpy Old Man, sorting into dates and seasons the many and manifold bloody irritations which multiply in this perpetual torment that we call modern living. A daily chronicle of life for the terminally irritable. (£9.99)

Private Eye Annual 2005 (£9.99)

Mediaballs 2 (£3.99)

The "Idler" Book of Crap Holidays: 50 Tales of Holiday Hell - Dan Kieran
From leaky caravans in Wales to crushingly disappointing luxury hotels in Barbados, from dysentery in Goa to bloody awful holiday companions who won't leave you alone: been there, done that - here's the souvenir! (£9.99)

Training - Harry Andrews
Facsimile edition of a 1911 classic handbook on training for athletics and general health. 'A walk before breakfast is in my opinion worth all the medicine in the world. To the average individual it will be a hard and gruelling task for the first fortnight; but let him take heart from this very fatigue, for it is the surest proof that he is in need of what he is doing.' (The series also includes Boxing and Swimming) (£7.99)

How to Survive a Robot Uprising - Daniel H Wilson
Tips On Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion. (£6.99

Best of the Chap - Chap Magazine
'The Best of the Chap' is for all those who prefer a trilby to a baseball cap, and a brogue to a trainer. So sink into your deepest armchair, pour yourself a gin and tonic, fire up your briar and prepare to join the sophisticated world of The Chap. (£9.99)

This Diary Will Change Your Life 2006 - Benrik Ltd
52 weeks' worth of hilarious instructions that will tear your routine to shreds and make 2006 a year to remember. (£9.99)

Dead Ringers: the Best of Radio Series CD (£12.99)

LANGUAGE

Fanboys & Overdogs - Susie Dent
From Oxford University Press and Countdown’s dictionary expert, a collection of intriguing facts and observations on the English language in recent years. One of a spate of new books on the English language. (£10.99).

LIFESTYLE

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life - Lynne Truss
"Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door". The author of 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' takes on the sorry state of modern manners. (£9.99) (Double CD £12.99)

Organic Directory 2006 - (comp.) C Litchfield
Seventh edition. Organised county-by-county, it gives you a picture of what organic goods are available locally, from food and farm gate sales to bed linen and vitamins, as well as mail order information so that you can source organic products from further afield. (£8.95)

Renovation Game - Sally Bevan
TV tie-in. Complete reference guide to restoring a period home. (£18.99)

Property Ladder: the Developer’s Bible - Sarah Beeny
TV tie-in. Key principles and 'golden rules' of developing. (£12.99)

Vim & Vinegar - Melodie Moore
"100s of Ingenious Household Uses". (£6.99)

MBS

Good Granny Guide - Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
"... or How to be a Modern Grandmother." A whole range of practical advice to help you make the most of the time you spend with your grandchildren. (£12.99)

How to Be Happy - Ben Adler
TV tie-in - "Lessons from Making Slough Happy." Although genes and upbringing influence about 50 per cent of our happiness, circumstances (income, living environment) only affects 10 per cent. The remaining 40 per cent is accounted for by our outlook on life, something we all have the power to change for the better. (£14.99)

Witches - Tim Dedopulos
Examines many of the most famous witches from history and mythology in detail, with biographical data and notes on their abilities and achievements. (£14.99)

Short History of Myth - Karen Armstrong
Takes us from the Palaeolithic period and the mythology of the hunters right up to the 'Great Western Transformation' of the last 500 years. . Myths help us make sense of the universe, and of ourselves. (£9.99)

Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (CD)
Three CDs, running time approx 4 hours, read by Maurice West. (£13.99)

Redstone Diary of Happiness 2006
What is Happiness? The Redstone Diary takes images and texts from East and West to find an answer for every week of the year. It shows how diverse are the pleasures that make us happy. And it reminds us that every joy is defined by its transience... (£12.95)

I Can Do It Calendar 2006 (£7.99)

MEDIA

Coronation Street Treasures - Tim Randall

To coincide with the 45th anniversary of Coronation Street, and the 50th anniversary of ITV with over 30 pieces of memorabilia and a 72 minute CD featuring dialogue highlights. (£30)

Halliwell’s Film Video & DVD Guide - (ed) John Walker

Twenty-first edition. Over 23,000 movies, including hundreds of new ones. Films are reviewed from as far afield as Iran and Korea. (£22.50)

Radio Times Guide to Films

Most comprehensive range of movies in any UK film guide with more than 21,000 in-depth film reviews and over 600 new entries. Introduction by Barry Norman. (£19.99)

Time Out Film Guide

14th edition, in full colour throughout, offers more than 16,000 reviews, unrivalled coverage of international cinema, Hollywood and Bollywood, blockbusters, forgotten marvels, silent films, documentary and esoterica. . (£22.50)

Guardian Media Directory - (ed.) Chris Alden (£18.99)

Meaning of Recognition - Clive James

A new collection of essays from the literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: (£14.99)

MUSIC

Bob Dylan - Mojo Magazine

"A Legend, a Cult Figure and a Trendsetter." (£18.99)

Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956-66

"An American Journey." Illustrated scrapbook created in association with Bob Dylan, including rare photographs, facsimilies of handwritten lyrics and memorabilia, plus interviews and audio CD. Slipcased. (£30.00)

NATURE & PETS

Life in the Undergrowth - David Attenborough

TV tie-in. Reveals the world of the very small, and it is a world of sex, drugs and violence. For every pound of humans on Earth, there are 300 pounds of insects. (£20)

Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life - Tim Haines

TV tie-in to 'Walking with Monsters'. (£16.99)

Wolfsong - C Feher-Elston
A Natural and Fabulous History of Wolves. (£11.99)

Living With Wolves - Jim Dutcher; Jamie Dutcher; Larry Levinger
The authors lived for six years among an Idaho wolfpack. Includes 30-min CD of recordings of the wolves. (£19.95)

Fauna Britannica - Stefan Buczacki

Now in paperback, the definitive encyclopedic reference to British natural history, detailing history, folklore, habitat and characteristics of each species. (£18.99)

Life on Earth - David Attenborough
First published in 1979, 'Life on Earth' is one of the seminal works in natural history publishing . New format. (£8.99)

Birds: A Complete Guide to All British and European Species - Dominic Couzens

Featuring over 450 species of bird that can be found regularly within Europe, this complete photographic guide provides a comprehensive and authoritative text along with some of the best bird photography in the world. (£30)

Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe - Rae Spencer-Jones

Photographs of over 600 flowers, shot in the studio and on location, organised by colour as a user-friendly reference for those with little botanical knowledge. (£25)

Green Inheritance - Anthony Huxley

Revised and expanded edition of the WWF 'Book of Plants' highlighting deepening concern about the destruction that threatens our plant heritage. (£20)

Little Book of Snowflakes - Kenneth Libbrecht

A companion gift book to 'The Snowflake". Shown here in intricate detail, the images depicted in this book are of freshly fallen snow, captured using a special photo-microscope. (£5.95)

Our Fragile World Postcards
The beauty of a planet under pressure. 30 postcards. (£5.95)

Cats: Homeopathic Remedies - George MacLeod (£7.99)

Dogs: Homeopathic Remedies - George MacLeod (£7.99)

OUTDOOR PURSUITS

On Thin Ice: Alpine Climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya - Mick Fowler (£18.99)

Preposterous Tales: The International Climbing Escapades of Neil Gresham, Tim Emmett and Friends (£20)

Winter Essentials: The Skills and Techniques for Winter Mountaineering (DVD) - Ian Hey; Jon Garside; Malcolm Creasey; Roger Wild (£14.99)

Lake District Mountain Map (Weatherproof) (£14.99)

Climbing Calendar 2006 - Scotland (£12.95)

World Climbing Calendar 2006 (£12.95)

POETRY

Gilgamesh - trans. Stephen Mitchell
A lively interpration of the oldest epic poem in the world, written in ancient Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C. (£8.99)

Love the Joy that Wounds - Rumi

Anthology of love poems by the great thirteenth-century Persian poet, Jelaluddin Rumi. (£9.99)

Anthem for Doomed Youth - (ed.) John Stallworthy

"Twelve Soldier Poets of the First World War." Illustrated with rare photographs and reproductions of original manuscripts, paperback edition. (£10.99)

In Flanders Fields and Other WWI Poems - (comp.) Brian Busby

First World War including colour plates of paintings and sketches by first world war combatants and war artists. (£7.99)

Erotic Haiku - Hiroaki Sato (£6.99)

Homeowner Haiku - Sherry Karver
The haiku format lends itself perfectly to the joys and perils of homeownership. (£6.99)

Ode Less Travelled Stephen Fry
"Unlocking the Poet Within" - an entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry. (£10.99)

Tarantula - Bob Dylan

A collection of poems and prose written in 1966 during work on "Blonde on Blonde". (£7.99)

Another Night Before Christmas - Carol Ann Duffy

The 1822 original rewritten for the twenty-first century, with illustrations. (£9.99)

POLITICS

Tell Me No Lies - John Pilger

"Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs." (£8.99)

We are Iran - Nasrin Alavi

What it feels like to be Iranian right now. (£12.99)

Conspiracy Books Series, £7.99 each:

Who Are the Illuminati?

Who Really Runs the World?

Who Won the Oil Wars?

Peace Kills - P J O’Rourke

P. J. O'Rourke casts his mordant eye on America's recent foreign policy forays. (£7.99)

Lefties Guide to Britain - Peter Clark

With an introduction by Michael Foot. Celebrates Leftie history through location - no corner of Britain lacks a site that has a reminder of the development of British liberties, rights and a better life. (£14.99)

Pocket Guide of Patriots - George Courtauld

Presents 100 great British heroes in easy and accessible format. (£10)

500 Ways to Change the World - Global Ideas Bank (£7.99)

REFERENCE

Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Fully illustrated edition of Bryson's prize-winning popular science bestseller. (£30)

Whitakers Almanack Pocket Reference

Ideal for quizzes, crosswords and general knowledge enthusiasts. (£6.99)

The full Whitakers Almanack is £40, the Concise one £20, and we can get them in overnight.

Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

Fully revised and updated. (£25)

Crossword Dictionary - (ed.) John M Bailie (£7.99)

Pocket Crossword Dictionary - (ed.) John M Bailie (£3.99)

Pears Cyclopaedia 2005-2006

114th edition of the ideal home reference companion for all the family. (£16.99)

Guinness Book of World Records 2006 (£18)

SCIENCE

A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking

For all those who didn't understand the original book. (£15)

Universe - Dorling Kindersley

Big illustrated guided tour of space, from the heart of our solar system to the farthest limits of space, with spectacular star charts and stunning images from the latest space probes and telescopes. (£30)

TRAVEL

Meetings with Remarkable Muslims
A collection of travel writing, celebrating friendship and chance encounters showing the diversity of the Islamic world. (£12.99)

Around the World in 80 Treasures - Dan Cruickshank

Dan Cruickshank travels through 36 countries in four and a half months to tell the story of civilisation through the world's greatest treasures. (£8.99)

Four Quarters of Light - Brian Keenan

"An Alaskan Journey" inspired by Jack London’s 'Call of the Wild'. (£7.99)

Sex Lives of Cannibals - J Maarten Troost

A hilarious haphazard odyssey to one of the Worst Places on Earth, Tarawa, a small island in the Republic of Kiribati where, despite an unwavering fondness for continents, the author two trying years in his island paradise. (£7.99)

Good Pub Guide 2006 - (ed.) Alisdair Aird (£14.99)

Good Hotel Guide - (ed.) Desmond Balmer (£16.99)

"Which" Good Food Guide - Andrew Turvil 2006 (£15.99)

British Hotels, Inns and Other Places: Special Places to Stay (£13.99)

French Holiday Homes, Villas, Gites, Apartments: Special Places to Stay (£12.99)

New Lonely Planet guides to Japan, Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra, the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos and Myanmar/Burma, new Rough Guides to China, Europe, the Caribbean, India and Paris, and a new Time Out Guide to Budapest.

Pet Friendly Places to Stay Guide 2006 (£9.99)

Walking Weekends: Yorkshire Dales: 30 Circular Walks from 15 Villages Throughout the Yorkshire Dales - Mark Reid (£8)

Lore of the Land - J Westwood et al

A guide to England's legends, from Spring Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys. A chapter for every county in England - packed with legends and secrets and special features on such topics as screaming skulls, King Arthur, Dick Turpin and pub names. (£30)

NOVELTIES

Mini Safe Baby Handling Kit (£4.99)

Bad Karma Cure All (£4.99)

Everything Christmas (£3.50)

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

The Whisperer - Nick Butterworth

Undoubtedly set to become a firm favourite for children and parents alike. Two gangs of cats live in a scrap yard on the edge of the city but as things in the yard change for the better the resident rat The Whisperer sees things get much much worse. Readership level 3-5yrs. (£5.99)

The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish - Neil Gaiman

A picture book and audio CD of this brilliant story about a boy who doesn't think of consequences and is desperately trying to get his father back home. But it seems his Dad has a pretty high value as he is traded from one child to the next. Readership level: 0-5yrs (£7.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

The Popcorn Pirates - Alexander McCall Smith

A humorous high-sea adventure complete with pirate attacks, kiddie kidnaps and popcorn explosions that will excite and entertain seadogs and landlubbers alike. Readership level: 7-9yrs. (£3.99)

Kingfisher Book of Horse and Pony Stories - Jenny Oldfield

A wonderful collection of stories about horses and ponies from a variety of cultural origins. Carefully selected by equestrian expert Jenny Oldfield with specially commissioned full-colour illustrations by leading artists throughout this book will make the perfect gift for horse-mad children of all ages. Readership level: 8+yrs (£14.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Tales Of Redwall: High Rhulain - Brian Jacques

A brand-new title in the bestselling award-winning series. Feasting and fighting solving riddles from a forgotten volume and questing in search of her life Tiria strives to become High Rhulain. Readership Level. 9-11yrs (£12.99)

Alex Rider: The Gadgets - Anthony Horowitz

With an introduction by Alex Rider this book contains detailed fold-out blueprints of the gadgets used by the teen superspy in Anthony Horowitz's bestselling series. The pack contains background information, technical specifications for gadgets, classified memos, top secret reports and a special spyscope gadget for every reader. Readership level 10+yrs (£9.99)

Teenage

Mirrormask - Neil Gaiman

Tells the story of a girl from a family of circus performers who finds herself in a strange new world populated by mysterious creatures. This full-colour graphic novella features art from the recent film.12+ yrs (£14.99)

Innocent’s Story - Nicky Singer

When Cassina is blown-up by a suicide bomber in a station in England life as she knows it is over. She survives as something that can live in the heads of humans knowing their thoughts but powerless to change them. Cassina ends up in a variety of minds including her parents and strangers and the head of the man who murdered her who had miraculously not been killed. Readership level: 12+. (£8.99)

Poetry

Collected Poems for Children - Ted Hughes
Forty years of Ted Hughes's children's poems, from Meet My Folks! (1961) to The Mermaid's Purse, illustrated in colour by Raymond Briggs, and presented by reading age, beginning with poems for younger readers and working up to Hughes's material for young adults.

SEPTEMBER 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
Beginning in 1876, two men from different countries and contrasting families are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being what we are.(£15.99 at The Book Case)

Shalimar the Clown - Salmon Rushdie

A WWII Resistance hero & America’s counter-terrorism chief is stabbed in broad daylight by his Muslim driver. It looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. Booker-longlisted. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Honey - Arnold Wesker
The first novel from one of the twentieth century's most brilliant playwrights, which continues the story of Beatie Bryant (the young woman from his play 'Roots'). Arnold Wesker read from this novel to a packed Little Theatre during the Festival. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Multi-generational comic saga from the author of 'White Teeth': an Anglo-American and rightwing American family are thrown together by a romance between their children.. Booker-longlisted. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Stories We Could Tell - Tony Parsons

A novel set in 1977 based on the author’s own rock and roll years - will Terry’s girlfriend succumb to the advances of the ageing rock star he has befriended? (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
The second in "The Sunday Philosophy Club" series, starring amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie. When she agrees to run her niece’s delicatessen, she meets a customer with a recent heart transplant and someone else’s memories. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared - he had been blissfully unaware that his dad was Anansi the spider god and that he had a brother called Spider, who is also a god. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Explorers of the New Century - Magnus Mills

Two teams of explorers are racing across a cold, windswept, deserted land to reach the furthest point from civilisation - one across rocky scree, the other along a dry riverbed.. Original, well-crafted and comic. (£9.99 at The Book Case)

Oscar & the Lady in Pink - Eric-E Schmitt

10-year-old Oscar is dying of cancer in hospital. The oldest of the visiting ladies suggests that he play a game: to pretend that each of the following twelve days is a decade of his imaginary life, so every night he writes to God to tell him about his life. Funny, heartbreaking and life-affirming. (£9.99)

Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala

Gripping debut novel about a child-soldier in Africa, giving us an extraordinary portrait of the chaos and violence of war. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Pigtopia - Kitty Fitzgerald

From an ex-Hebden Bridge author, a dark moral fable about the unlikely friendship that develops between a lonely and angry adolescent girl and an older man who is isolated from society due to his terrible physical deformities.(£9.99 at The Book Case)

Woman’s World - Graham Rawle

An original love story pieced together from fragments of text cut from the pages of 1960s women's magazines. From the creator of "Lost Consonants".(£12.99 at The Book Case)

The Sunny Side - A A Milne
Subtitled "Short Stories and Poems for Proper Grown-ups", The Sunny Side is a long-forgotten collection of short stories by A.A. Milne, from summer days to war time, from dogs to gardens and card games. (£9.99)

Smith of Wootton Major - J R R Tolkien

A new, expanded edition of one of Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of 'The Lord of the Rings', containing many previously unpublished texts. Illustrated. (£10.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanne Clarke
In early nineteenth-century England, magic is thought dead until the reclusive Mr Norrell causes the statues of York Cathedral to speak and move. Meanwhile Napoleon is advancing. Guardian and Whitbread shortlisted. (£7.99)

Forest of the Pygmies - Isabel Allende

The final instalment of the trilogy began with 'City of the Beasts' and 'Kingdom of the Golden Dragon', set in the swampy forests of Kenya (£7.99)

Magic Seeds - V S Naipaul
After a peripatetic life, Willy Chandran succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister and joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. Carries on from Half a Life. (£7.99)

Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Sue Townsend

He's back! Mole, now an angst-ridden 38, is still coping with life in middle-England as a single parent to Glenn and William, and battling his own particular weapon of mass destruction. (£6.99)

44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall-Smith
First published in 110 episodes in The Scotsman newspaper, this novel centres around the characters, comings and goings at an address in Edinburgh with multiple-occupancy flats. (£6.99)

In the Fold - Rachel Cusk
Crisply-written Booker long-listed satire on modern manners and past offences. (£10.99)

Now is the Time to Open Your Heart - Alice Walker
'A modern take on the Odyssey in which it is Penelope who wanders far from home before returning to her Odysseus' from the author of 'The Color Purple'. (£6.99)

Paradise - A L Kennedy
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinking is frankly out of hand. (£7.99)

Ireland - Frank Delaney
One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives at a house in the Irish countryside - he travels through the centuries by way of story after story, from the savage grip of the Ice Age to the green and troubled land of tourist brochures and news headlines. (£6.99)

Selected Short Stories - Rabindranath Tagore

From the grand master of Bengali culture, a collection of stories written during the 1890s. (£9.99)

Journeys in the Dead Season - Spencer Jordan

A man in prison for an appalling crime picks up the journal of a shell-shocked soldier and begins his own confession. A winner of the Richard and Judy "How to Get Published"competition. (£6.99)

Blackpool Highflyer - Andrew Martin

The second Jim Stringer adventure, an atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam, set in the Edwardian Calder Valley and presented by the author during the Festival. (£7.99)

Necropolis Railway - Andrew Martin
New edition of the first Jim Stringer period railway detective story. (£7.99)

Back Hander - John Francome
New racing thriller.(£6.99)

Mammoth Book of the Best New SF 18 - ed. Gardner Dozois (£9.99)

Tirant Lo Blanc - Joanot Martorelli

"Tales of the White Knight, 1460". New English-language edition of the 15th-century Moorish romance which inspired "Don Quixote", to coincide with the international film production. 'It's normal for maidens in the court to be loved and courted, and for them to have three kinds of love: virtuous, profitable and vicious’ - the last being the most fun ... (£9.99)

NON-FICTION

ART

Artists’ Yearbook 2006-2007 - (ed.) Ossian Ward

Comprehensive reference guide to getting ahead in the UK art world, with information on and contact details for more the 2,500 visual-artists, businesses and organizations. (£16.95)

BIOGRAPHY

Shakespeare: the Biography - Peter Ackroyd

Places Shakespeare within the landscape of his time and walks the reader through 16th-century Stratford and London, writing about Shakespeare the actor, playwright and poet, his patrons and managers, actors and fellow writers. (£25)

Letters of the Reverend Patrick Bronte - (ed.) Dudley Green
These collected letters of Patrick Bronte reveal an educated man, passionate about his causes but, furthermore, in a family beset by so much tragedy, they reveal a very human side to a misunderstood man. (£16)

Hyde Park Gate News - Virginia Woolf et al

"The Stephen Family Newspaper." As children, Virginia Woolf, elder sister Vanessa Bell and brother Thoby collaborated on their very own newspaper, recording the day-to-day events of the family home. Now published here for the first time is the original manuscript. (£14.99)

Mary Poppins She Wrote; the Life of PL Travers - Valerie Lawson

The creator of Mary Poppins came to London from Australia as a journalist early in the twentieth century, became involved with Theosophism, knew W.B. Yeats and George Russell, followed Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti - and lived into her nineties. By the end of her life, in the seventies, she was living in a flat off London's Kings Road and going to chat to the punks outside Malcolm McLaren's clothing shop. (£16.99)

Chin Up Girls - Katherine Ramsay

A book of Women's Obituaries from the Daily Telegraph. An inimitable collection of outrageous and unforgettable twentieth-century lives. (£16.99)

Two Lives - Vikram Seth

When the author’s great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish family, their daughter Henny urged her mother 'not to take the blackie'. But a friendship developed and each managed to leave Germany and found their way to Britain as the Nazis rose to power. (£20)

When We Were Young - John Burningham
A Compendium of Childhood. With contributions from Seamus Heaney, Marina Mahler, Tom Maschler, Edna O'Brien, Andrew O'Hagan, Michael Palin, Maurice Sendak and many others, supported by UNICEF. (£7.99)

Wodehouse - Robert McCrum
Acclaimed and enjoyable biography of Britain's greatest comic novelist. (£8.99)

Dare to be a Daniel - Tony Benn

Warm and funny account of the childhood of the well-loved radical politician showing how early influences have shaped the beliefs he holds today. (£7.99)

Days from a Different World - John Simpson

"A Memoir of Childhood" and a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s and '50s. (£18.99)

Nobody’s Child - Kate Adie

"Who Are You When You Don't Know Your Past?" Inspired by her own circumstances as an adopted child, bestselling BBC reporter Kate Adie writes about what it means to be an abandoned child. (£20)

Insider - Piers Morgan
Astonishing and hilarious encounters with celebrities and politicians from the News of the World editor - "The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade". (£7.99)

Liz Jones’s Diary

From the Sunday Times/Guardian/Mail on Sunday journalist, the story of how Liz Jones was stood up by the love of her life at the Millennium and ended up, fairly happily, with a much younger and unsuitable man. (£12.99)

HISTORY

Persian Fire - Tom Holland

In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece, having swept across the Near East and put together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. Astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out and the Persians were turned back. Had the Greeks been defeated at Salamis, it is unlikely that there would ever have been such an entity as the West at all. (£20)

Expedition of Cyrus - Xenophon (trans. Waterfield) (£8.99)

Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 - Roger Crowley

One of the great set-piece moments of world history - in the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of the Islamic dream of capturing the capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in a bitter contest fought on land, sea and underground. The Runciman paperback on the same subject is also excellent. (£20)

Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914 - Richard Holmes

From the author of "Tommy" and "Redcoat", Indian soldiering in peace and war, from Kipling's 'snoring barrack room' to storming parties assaulting mighty fortresses, cavalry swirling across open plains, and khaki columns inching their way between louring hills. (£20)

Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History - Susie Steinbach

Looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside the home, for all classes of women, using diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research. (£8.99)

Rough Crossings - Simon Schama

"Britain, The Slaves and The American Revolution." This epic story starts with the War of Independence, when many black slaves bravely fled plantations and slavery to fight for the British, on the promise that they would win their own freedom and land. (£20)

Along Country Lines - Paul Atterbury

Railways were once the vital lifelines of the country, reaching everywhere and making possible entire ways of life. With photographs, postcards, posters, ephemera and documents the book includes a mixture of existing lines and lost routes to build a picture of a rural Britain that is held in great affection. (£25)

Tales from the Old Inland Waterways - Euan Corrie

A look back at the days when our rivers and canals were used for far more than just recreational purposes, through the memories of those people who lived and worked on the water. (£12.99)

What We Knew - Eric Johnson
"Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany." An oral history of the Third Reich in which Germans and German Jews tell of their everyday experiences of life under the Nazis. (£9.99)

Women’s Century: A Celebration of Changing Roles 1900-2000 - Mary Turner

The twentieth century saw female roles change more rapidly than during any other period of history.Women from all walks of life are featured in anecdotes from a wealth of sources including the National Archives. The author’s family lives in Hebden Bridge and she presented the hardback version of the book during the Arts Festival in 2004.

History of Britain Companion - Jo Swinnerton

An unorthodox tour through the lesser known nuggets of British history with extracts George Orwell, Simon Schama, Bill Bryson and John Betjeman. (£9.99)

Worst Jobs in History - Tony Robinson

A no-holds-barred look at the most unenviable jobs of the last 2000 years. Col. ill. (£7.99)

HUMOUR, GAMES & PUZZLES

A-Z of White Trash

In the same vein as the popular "Crap Cars", "Crap Jobs" and "Crap Towns", this is a humorous commentary on this aspect of modern British culture and the elements that make it unique, packed with undercover photographs. (£7.99)

Pub Origami - Nick Robinson

Forget beermat flipping, coin snatching and playing with burning matchsticks And impress your drinking buddies with the Frog Olympics, the Emergency Beer Glass and the Peanut Catapult (£7.99)

Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down - Nicey & Wifey
A funny and affectionate look at the great British biscuits of our time, and how they complement the Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down that we all enjoy from time to time. (£6.99)

Field Guide to Aliens - Dave Elliott

Everything you wanted to know about more than 150 of the most fascinating alien species ever to appear in films. (£12.99)

Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book - Terry Jones

Tenth anniversary edition, a new look for an old favourite that contains a new DVD, previously unreleased material (and pressed fairy). (£14.99)

Daily Telegraph Quick Crosswords 41 (£4.99)

Times Crossword Collection (£7.99)

Times Su Doku Book 3 (£5.99)

LANGUAGE

Oxford Dictionary of Phrase & Fable - Elizabeth Knowles (£20)

Port Out Starboard Home - Michael Quinion
"The Fascinating Stories We Tell About the Words We Use." (£6.99)

March Hares & Monkeys’ Uncles - Harry Oliver

Origins of the words and phrases we use every day. (£9.99)

Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep - Albert Jack
From the author of 'Red Herrings and White Elephants', another look at the phrases we use all the time but rarely consider. (£10)

Heavy Words Lightly Thrown - Chris Roberts

"The Reason Behind the Rhyme" - the hidden meanings of nursery rhymes, now in paperback, with sixteen new rhymes. (£7.99)

Collins Good Grammar (£5.99)

LIFESTYLE

How to Rescue a House - David Ireland

"Turn an Unloved Property Into Your Dream Home." TV tie-in. (£14.99)

A Greener Life: Self-sufficiency in the Urban Era - Clarissa Dickson Wright

How self-sufficient living can be achieved, bit by bit, with a little careful planning, time and effort. Information on everything from gardening, alternative energies and keeping livestock to soapmaking, breadmaking and using organic household cloths. (£25)

MBS

Holy Blood & the Holy Grail (Illustrated Edition) - Michael Baigent

New illustrated edition of the inspiration for "The Da Vinci Code": a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathars, and a dynasty of obscure French kings to the Holy Grail. (£20)

Betty Bib's Field Fairy Guide: The Illustrated Handbook of Fairies and Their Habitats (£9.99)

The Faery Garden - Beatrice Phillpotts (£14.99)

Body Language Phrasebook - Nick Marshall

"500 Ways to Read the Signs." Easy reference guide to 500 of the most common body language gestures. (£12.99)

101 Illnesses You Don't Want to Get - Michael Powell & Oliver Fischer
The disfiguring, the disorienting and the plain disgusting in one small volume, appealing to the hypochondriac in all of us. (£7.99)

Babies’ Names - Patrick Hanks (Oxford UP) (£3.99)

MEDIA

Who’s Who in the Archers 2006, 7th ed. (£3.99)

MUSIC

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

A potted and brilliantly rambling 700-year history of classical music and the world as we know it - Ambrose and early English plainsong, Beethoven, Debussy, Wagner (the old romantic), right up to the present day. (£7.99)

NATURE & ANIMALS

New Gaia Atlas Planet Management - Norman Myers & Jennifer Kent

Definitive guide to a planet in critical transition, providing a blueprint for our survival (£25.00)

Birds Britannica - Richard Mabey

The product of eight years of research and a companion volume to 'Flora Britannica', a comprehensive cultural study, species by species, of all the birds in Britain. It covers cultural links; social history; ecology; the lore and language of birds; myths; art, literature and music; anecdotes, birdsong and rare facts; migration, the seasons and our sense of place. (£35)

Bad Birdwatcher’s Companion - Simon Barnes
50 intimate portraits of Britain's best loved birds, for everyone who bought 'How To Be a Bad Birdwatcher'. (£9.99)

Ancient Trees, Living Landscapes - Richard Muir

Landmark trees, ancient trees and hedgerows, the early development of trees in the park and later parkland and forestry, plus the life of the men of the forest over the centuries and woodlands of the mind. (£25)

Fencing Paradise: Reflections on the Myths of Eden - Richard Mabey

A kaleidoscopic exploration of the stories of the earth's plants and the myths about a Garden of Eden - by one of our greatest nature writers. (£15.99)

Duck Handbook

Advice on feeding, health maintenance and all other important aspects of duck care. (£8.99)

'The Whole Hog - Lyall Watson

"Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs" - an attempt to encompass everything that is known about all the pigs of the world. (£8.99)

POETRY

Paradise Lost - John Milton

Introduced by Philip Pullman and with twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition published in 1688 and ribbon marker. (£16.99)

Rapture - Carol Ann Duffy
A new collection about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, intellectual, emotional. (£12.99)

Passionfood - (ed. Neil Astley)

100 classic and contemporary poems celebrating love, passion and desire. (£7.99)

Out of Fashion - Carol Ann Duffy
Contemporary poets are asked to select their favourite poem, from another time or culture, which looks at how we dress, or undress. (£7.99)

Classic Favourite Poems - (ed.) Charles Osborne (£10)

POLITICS

Imperial Ambitions - Noam Chomsky

Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post 9/11 World. (£10.99)

NHS PLC - Allyson Pollock
Tells the story of how the ideal of the NHS has been progressively eroded, and how the clock is being turned back to pre-NHS days, when health care was a commodity, fully available only to those with money. (£9.99)

Nationalism (A Very Short Introduction) (£6.99)

Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories
The definitive guide to the world's most controversial conspiracies. From phoney crucifixions to fake Moon landings, and from stolen elections to manufactured viruses, there's always another story lurking behind the Official Version. (£9.99)

SCIENCE

Ancestor’s Tale - Richard Dawkins

"A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life." A journey through evolutionary biology via 40 tales from the Elephant Bird's Tale to the Marsupial Mole's Tale. (£9.99)

TRAVEL

It’s Grim Up North - Judith Holder

TV tie-in: where does the South end, and the North begin? (£9.99)

Lonely Planet Travel Book

"A Journey Through Every Country in the World." Now in paperback with more than 1300 stunning images and double page spreads on every country. (£20)

Wrong about Japan - Peter Carey

Memoir-cum-travelogue in which the Booker-winner re-evaluates Japan by trying to understand the violent and disturbing cartoons which are so inherently concerned with Japan's rich and historic heritage. (£6.99)

Good Beer Guide 2006 - Roger Protz (£13.99)

Vegetarian Visitior 2006 - (ed.) A Weitzel (£2.50)

British Bed & Breakfast: Special Places to Stay (£14.99)

New Eyewitness Guides to India and Australia, Lonely Planet Guides to India and Thailand and Rough Guides to Australia and Cape Town & the Garden Route.

New phrasebooks/dictionaries from Lonely Planet: Hindi, Urdu & Bengali, Swahili, Cantonese, Turkish (£4.99 each).

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Germs - Ross Collins

A fun picture book that takes an unusual look at germs. "Who would have thought a story about the immune system could be so entertaining?" BBC Parenting. Readership level: 0-5yrs. (£5.99)

There's No Such Thing As A Ghostie - Cressida Cowell

Join in this thrilling romp through the Queen's royal palace to try and find the ghosties, but not everyone belives they exist. Bold artwork fills the pages of the book, and add an extra touch of mystery to the story. Readership level: 3+. (£5.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Jolly Roger - Colin McNaughton

An award-winning, comical pirate picture book adventure about nine-year-old Roger, some very smelly, scary pirates and his very bad-tempered mother. Readership level: 7+. (£3.99)

The Mummy Family find Fame

Fourth in the bestselling Mummy Family series with lively illustrations. The Mummies star in a TV show to earn some money. Readership level: 6-8yrs (£3.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Freeglader - Paul Stewart

The seventh title in this spectacular fantasy series, and the triumphant conclusion of the Rook Barkwater sequence. Fleeing from the ruins of New Undertown, Rook and the librarian knights must lead the escaping population to a new life in the Free Glades. But perils are aplenty. Readership level: 9-11yrs (£5.99)

The Truth About Fairies - Philip Ardagh

A very funny, entertaining and informative book providing answers to questions about fairies, elves, gnomes, goblins and the little people. Readership level: 9+ (£4.99)

Teenage

Bloodsong - Melvin Burgess

A gripping story of horrific proportions from a prize-winning author of teenage fiction. It is a story of love and destruction, based very loosely on the pagan Volsunga Saga. Readership level: 12+. (£14.99)

Spirit Walker - Michelle Paver

Second adventure in the Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness, in which Torak must battle to vanquish the terrifying Soul-Eaters. Set in a world of myth and natural magic, this exciting and satisfying novel has already been optioned by Ridley Scott's production company. Readership level: 12+. (£8.99)

AUGUST 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Until I Find You - John Irving
When Jack Burns is four he travels with his Toronto tattoo artist mother to several North Sea ports to find his missing father, an Edinburgh organist addicted to being tattooed. But even Jack's memories are subject to doubt. (£18.99 at The Book Case)

End in Tears - Ruth Rendell

The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel. A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge, over a relatively unfrequented road, kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared, but only for a while... (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Back to Bologna - Michael Dibdin
New Aurelio Zen mystery - the owner of a local football team and a world-famous university professor are shot and stabbed. (£10.00)

PAPERBACK

Sex & Other Changes - David Nobbs

About a seemingly happily-married couple - but Nick wants to become Nicola and Alison would rather be Alan. Touching, funny and down to earth. - (£7.99)

Pact - Jodi Picoult

A girl is found dead after an apparent suicide attempt. Explores how well parents actually know their children. (£6.99)

How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff

Winner of the Guardian Children's Book Award 2004 but selling to adults. Fifteen-year-old New York has been sent away by her dad (who has a new partner) for the summer, to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. There she discovers love and war. (£6.99)

Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
Multi-layered novel set in 18th-century Korea and the present day. Highly praised. (£7.99)

Rumpole & the Penge Bungalow Murders - John Mortimer

At last one of the great puzzles of the Rumpole books is explained, as Rumpole’s David confronts the Goliath of the English law. (£7.99)

Beside the Ocean of Time - George Mackay Brown
Thorfinn Ragnarson is the daydreaming son of a tenant farmer, avoiding both work and school despite the best efforts of family, friends and neighbours. Instead, the boy dreams up elaborate historical fantasies. (£6.99)

Lambs of London - Peter Ackroyd
Creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, centring on the young Charles and Mary Lamb. (£6.99)

Queen of the South - A Perez-Reverte

Not a football team but a novel spanning continents and decades and encompassing sensuality, cruelty, treachery and corruption - drug-smuggling and a gangster’s moll on the run are involved. (£7.99)

This Green Land - John Fullerton
Novel of love, drama and intrigue set in Beirut against the backdrop of civil warfare in the Lebanon, from the man who was bureau chief there during the civil war. (£6.99)

The Flea Palace - Elif Shafak

Highly-praised Turkish novel set in a rundown Istanbul stately residence, now home to ten families. And what is the cause of the intensifying stench? (£7.99)

Ancestors of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
From the fall of Atlantis to the founding of a new temple on the mist-shrouded isle of Britain. (£6.99)

Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin

An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems. (£6.99)

Tinder Box - Minette Walters
Tale of prejudice, ambition and cunning in which villagers react to a brutal double murder... Latest from the author of 'Fox Evil'. (£4.99)

Involuntary Witness - Gianrico Carofiglio

When a boy is found raped and murdered near a beach resort in southern Italy, a Senegalese itinerant peddler is accused: council for the defence Guido Guerrieri has to take on not only small-town racism but also the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. (£8.99)

Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories - Peter Haining

A breath of cold air and a creaking floorboard... over 40 chilling tales of haunted houses. (£7.99).

REISSUES

Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
Reissue of this classic of twentieth-century literature. O-lan marries peasant Wang Lung and toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for her family’s survival. But then famine comes. (£6.99)

Spartacus - Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Classic novel from Scottish Marxist historian about the 73BC slave uprising. "Based on an intimate knowledge of the historical background and a perceptive understanding of human nature."(£6.99)

King Matt the First - Janusz Korczak
Rediscovered international classic from the Polish-Jewish children’s advocate who died in the Holocaust, this is the story of a boy who becomes king and sets out to reform his kingdom. "Shows us not only what children's literature can be, but what children can be." (£6.99)

Steven Saylor’s Roman murder mysteries, £6.99 each:

Catalina’s Riddle

House of the Vestals

Murder on the Appian Way

Roman Blood

NON-FICTION

ART & ANTIQUES

Antiques Price Guide 2006 - Judith Miller (£24.99)

Dialogue with Photography - interviews by Paul Hill & Thomas Cooper

Classic interviews with the greats of 20th-century photography. (£12.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Daily Telegraph Book of Airmen’s Obituaries - (ed.) Edward Bishop

100 obituaries of men and women who have figured in the story of civil and military aviation history, written with wit, insight, compassion and humour. (£10.99)

Dirk Bogarde - John Coldstream

The authorised biography of the charismatic actor and author. This is the only biography to have complete access to Dirk Bogarde's surviving private papers, letters and journals. (£8.99)

Maggie - John Sergeant

"Her Fatal Legacy." An alternative biography of one of the most remarkable leaders of the twentieth-century. (£8.99)

Baghdad Burning - Riverbend
Blog of daily life in post-war Iraq by a 25-year-old Iraqi woman, previously a computer programmer. Her journal can be found at http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com

GARDENING

Gardening & Planting by the Moon 2006 - Nick Kollerstrom (£8.99)

Jewel Garden - Monty Don

Monty Don, and his wife Sarah tell the magical story of the garden they have built over the last decade. Now in paperback. (£7.99)

HISTORY

365 Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year

Browsable historical encyclopaedia, mapping the highs and lows of human existence throughout the year. (£9.99)

Prose Edda - Snorri Sturluson, trans. Jesse Byock

Scandinavia’s best known work of literature, the principle source of knowledge about Norse mythology and the inspiration for Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Tolkiens, poets from Auden to Longfellow and Borges, in new Penguin edition. (£8.99)

Gypsies: an Illustrated History - Jean P Liegeois (£9.99)

Lascivious Bodies - Julie Peakman

History of sex in eighteenth-century Britain, a period of wide-ranging experimentation that led to the birth of modern sexuality. (£9.99)

Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Trafalgar - Jon E Lewis

Minute-by-minute eyewitness accounts of 'Britain's finest hour'. This is the largest eyewitness collection of the battle, with over 50 first-hand accounts from all those involved. (£7.99)

Tales of Endurance - Fergus Fleming

45 gripping accounts of amazing feats in the history of exploration. "You have to be a tough nut for inclusion in Fergus Fleming's anthology of travel" - Guardian. (£8.99)

All the Wrong Places - James Fenton

"Adrift in the politics of Southeast Asia." A visceral, on-the-spot, and unforgettable account of the fall of Saigon, war-ravaged Cambodia, and the Philippines in the midst of revolution from James Fenton, the right man in the wrong place in dangerous times. (£8.99)

Queen Coal - Triona Holden
"Women of the Miners' Strike." The author was one of the BBC correspondents reporting on the 1984/5 miners’ strike and takes the reader into the lives of these remarkable women with their women's articulate, funny and frank stories. (£20)

One Fourteenth of an Elephant - Ian Denys Peek

Memoir of life and death as a POW working on the Burma-Thailand Railway. (£9.99)

Bargain books of WWII including DVD, £5.99 ea:

Battle of Britain

Fury in the Pacific

Battle of Russia

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

HUMOUR

Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber

Reissue of James Thurber's classic comic tale of a man who cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality. (£6.99)

LANGUAGE & WRITING

Talking for Britain - Simon Elmes

"A Journey Through the Nation's Dialects." Radio 4 tie-in. (£14.99)

Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2006
Bestselling guide to markets in all areas of the media, revised and updated, containing 8 new articles and foreword by Terry Pratchett. (£13.99)

Writer’s Handbook 2006 - Barry Turner
Complete guide for all writers, journalists, publishers, editors, agents, screenwriters and broadcasters, revised and updated with newly commissioned articles. (£13.99)

Children’s Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook
Comprehensive guide to markets in all areas of the children's media, revised and updated, with foreword by Julia Donaldson. Gives the aspiring writer and illustrator knowledge of the children's market in all areas. (£12.99)

Oxford Dictionary of English

New edition, revised and updated, with free year’s sub to online version and Curious Words & Quirky Expressions booklet. (£35)

Collins Desktop Dictionary and Thesaurus
The first edition of this reference book for families and students, with matching dictionary and thesaurus texts on the same page and links to thousands of websites. (£20)

Pocket Roget’s Thesaurus (£4.99)

Penguin Pocket Dictionary of Quotations (£3.99)

BBC French Grammar (£6.99)

BBC German Grammar (£6.99)

BBC Italian Grammar (£6.99)

BBC Spanish Grammar (£6.99)

Buongiorno Italia Coursebook - BBC
A beginners' course in Italian. Based on authentic conversations and interviews recorded in Italy, it offers a unique introduction to simple, everyday language. Now fully revised in a new edition, including the euro and up-to-date cultural information about life in Italy. (£12.99)

Book of Lost Books - Stuart Kelly

An alternative history of literature, ranging through Homer and the Bible to Sylvia Plath and William Burroughs. Each of the entries describes a work of literature, which for various reasons, cannot be read: it may have been destroyed, or left incomplete at the author's death, or may never even have been started. (£15.99)

LIFESTYLE

Good Shopping Guide Vol. 4 - Ethical Marketing Group

The world's bestselling guide to ethical shopping, containing 15 years of research. Revealing what's behind the glossy image of over 700 consumer brands, this is a really practical, easy to follow guide exposing which of the big 1000 consumer brand companies are really involved in areas like armaments, political 'donations', animal testing, pollution, sweat shops, GM and nuclear power. (£12.95)

MBS

Late Youth: enjoying life over 50 - (ed) Susanna Johnston

Anthology on reaching half a century from a wide-ranging and illustrious collection of contributors. (£17.99)

Elixir & the Stone - Michael Baigent

"The Tradition of Magic and Alchemy." The esoteric history of the world, coinciding with illustrated edition of "The Holy Blood & the Holy Grail". (£7.99)

Meditations for Personal Healing (CD) - Louise Hay (£7.99)

New Meditation Handbook CD - Geshe Kelsan Gyatso

Twenty one guided meditations to generate a happy and peaceful mind. Four CDs, unabridged, running time 5 hours approximately. (£14.99)

MEDIA

Dr Who - Pocket Essentials (£4.99)

MUSIC

Right Instrument for Your Child - Atarah Ben-Tovim

New edition of this guide to selecting the right musical instrument for the individual child. (£10.99)

NATURE & PETS

Living Wisdom of Trees - Fred Hageneder

Natural history, folklore, symbolism and healing. Discover the lore, symbolism and healing properties of a worldwide range of trees - from alder to oak. (£16.99)

The Last Shepherds - Charles Bowden

Follows Davie Baxter through the cycle of hill-farming. Follow up to 'The Last Horsemen', now in paperback. (£7.99)

Seven Ages of Your Dog - Jan Fennell
Do our dogs experience the equivalent of infancy and puberty? Do they go through terrible teens or struggle with mid-life crises? And what can we do to ensure they take each step in their stride? (£17.99)

POETRY

Sinner Saved by Grave - Michael Haslam

From a local poet a new poetry collection whose title comes from the insciption on a lonely and isolated gravestone he came across while walking on the moors above his home in the Calder Valley. (£8.95)

Unrecounted - W G Sebald

A book of poems and images from one of our most admired European writers and his friend and collaborator, the German artist Jan Peter Tripp. (£7.99)

POLITICS

The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud - Said Aburish
The story of the dynasty whose greed and corruption have brought Saudi Arabia to the very brink of bankruptcy - a dynasty now on the verge of collapse. (£8.99)

Occidentalism - Ian Buruma

Critically acclaimed investigation of the history of anti-Westernism. (£8.99)  

PUZZLES

Unofficial Narnia Quizbook - Nigel Robinson (£1.99)

Secrets of the Setters
How to crack the codes of the Guardian's cryptic crosswords. (£12.99)

REFERENCE

Gem Book of Facts (£4.99)

Citizens Advice Handbook

With sections covering everything from employment to education and housing, this book looks at the many issues and problems that can arise and tells you how to deal with them simply and practically. (£9.99)

Penguin Pocket Book of Facts - David Crystal (£3.99)

TRAVEL

Collins Handy Road Atlas of Britain 2006

A5. Scale 1:625 000, 10 miles to 1 inch. (£4.99)

Collins Road Atlas of Britain 2006
Scale 3.2 miles to 1 inch, 1:200,000. Urban area maps at 1 mile to 1 inch are included plus an improved range of city centre street plans. (£9.99)

Lancashire Where Women Die for Love - Charles Nevin

Lancashire has long languished under the grimy pall of smoke, muck, mills and mines; but is in fact a place of wit and wonder, romance and surprise; a land of exotic influence whose people have ever looked outward. (£7.99)

Hot Sun, Cool Shadow - Angela Murrills
"Savouring the Food, History and Mystery of the Languedoc." Food writer Angela Murrills and artist Peter Matthews, who travel together to Languedoc, discovering ancient houses, taking in the scenery that inspired Matisse, retracing the steps of Toulouse Lautrec, and recreating typical dishes of the region. (£10.99)

Hike - Don Shaw
Meet Freddy, Phil and Don - three grumpy retired men determined to keep hiking their beloved Peak District to the bitter end. But each for very different reasons... (£10.99)

Margarita’s Olive Press - Rodney Shields

20 years living in a house in a wild place on the Greek island of Zakynthos. (£7.99)

New guides to Gap Year, Ukraine, Cambodia and New England from Lonely Planet and Rough Guides to Bulgaria and South East Asia, plus a new Time Out Guide to Lisbon.

CHILDREN'S

Ages 0-5yrs

One Ted Falls Out Of Bed - Julia Donaldson

This book's counting theme is perfectly woven into a magical, rhythmic text. A future classic from the award-winning author of The Gruffalo. Age 2+. (£5.99)

Kingfisher Treasury Of Bedtime Stories - Nora Clarke

Twenty perfect stories for reading at bedtime, from familiar fairy tales to entertaining contemporary stories. Age 4+. (£4.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

The Mouse and his Child - Russell Hoban

A beautiful story by this excellent author about a toy mouse and his son who are thrown out because they are broken, but a tramp repairs the pair and they embark on a journey to find a family and a place of their own. Age 7+. (£5.99)

Dick & Dom's Joke Book

Hilarious joke book containing jokes to tell friends and practical jokes to play on them. Age 7-12yrs. (£3.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

I, Coriander - Sally Gardner

A glorious novel set in seventeenth-century London and in the fairy world. It tells the story of the daughter of a silk merchant who leaves her with her stepmother and a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges in the fairy world from which her mother came. Age 9+. (£8.99)

Raven’s Gate - Anthony Horowitz

A sinister story of the supernatural, the first in five novels in a thrilling new series. Eight guardians protect the world from the evil ones, but the devil worshippers want to let them back in. Matt must try to stop it all with his own unusual powers. Age 9+ (£6.99)

Teenage

How I live Now - Meg Rosoff

The paperback edition of this powerful and astonishing debut novel. Daisy is sent from New York to rural England, to live with her eccentric cousins. The perfect summer runs smoothly until war turns their worlds upside down, and falling in love only adds to the explosions. Age 12+. (£6.99)

Leaving Home Survival Guide - Nicola Morgan

The ultimate guide to first-time home-leavers, that will provide peace of mind for parents and independence for the young person.

JULY 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Arthur & George - Julian Barnes
Based on a true case. The Arthur of the title is Conan Doyle, George an Indian-Scottish solicitor and vicar’s son wrongly sentenced to hard labour for horse mutilation on the say-so of a contemporary handwriting expert. The creator of the world’s most famous detective hears of the case and intervenes. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Captain Alatriste - Arturo Perez-Reverte
A swashbuckling new adventure series starring the Spanish D'Artagnan available in English for the first time. Film starring Viggo Mortensen on the way. (£9.99)

Ten Sorry Tales - Mick Jackson
Dark and magical tales from the author of 'The Underground Man' and 'Five Boys'. Roald Dahl meets Tim Burton by way of Edward Gorey. (£9.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Author Author - David Lodge
Framed by Henry James's last illness, the novel begins in the early 1880s, describing James's friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. A fascinating portrait of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England. (£7.99)

Birds Without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, the Gallipoli campaign and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, this book traces the fortunes of one small community in South West Anatolia - a town in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully for centuries. (£7.99)

Nights of Rain & Stars - Maeve Binchy
Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. (£6.99)

Daydream Girl - Bella Pollen
Kit’s favourite therapy, renting a video and scrutinising the footage for clues on how to behave, no longer provides the answers when the cinema she runs comes under new ownership. Intelligent and funny romantic comedy by Bella Pollen, author of Richard & Judy’s winning summer read last year.. (£6.99)

Fascination - William Boyd
A wide-ranging collection of stories from 19th-century Russia to present-day Oxford. (£7.99)

Atlantis - David Gibbins
"Indiana Jones meets The Da Vinci Code" from a world authority on ancient shipwrecks and sunken cities.(£6.99)

Night Windows - Jonathan Smith
Successful headmaster has his identity stolen and finds himself framed as a thief and paedophile - by someone better read than he is. He decides to hunt down the perpetrator. (£7.99)

Swamp of Death - Rebecca Gowers
In early 1890 three young men emigrated to Canada. Within days, one was dead and the other two had been arrested for murder. True and sensational story retold with much contemporary material. (£7.99)

Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman
A house, its inhabitants, and the ghosts that haunt a spit of Massachusetts land from 1778 to the present day. (£6.99)

Girl Who Married a Lion - Alexander McCall-Smith
From the creator of Precious Ramotswe, a collection of African folk tales. (£7.99)

One Hundred Strokes of Brush before Bed - "Melissa P"
Erotic autobiographical literary novel, the diary of a teenage girl's sex life, that prompted a 'remain chaste' warning from the Pope. (£6.99)

Season of the Rainbirds - Nadeem Aslam
A sack of letters lost in a train crash 19 years ago has mysteriously come to light and the inhabitants of a small Pakistani town are anxiously waiting to see what might come to light. Might they shed light on the murder of Judge Anwar? From the author of 'Maps for Lost Lovers'. (£6.99)

Mugby Junction - Charles Dickens
The first publication in its entirety of a composite of tales ranging from horror to a realistic portrayal of life around a bustling Victorian railway station. Includes the celebrated ghost story 'The Signalman' (as mentioned at least twice on Dr Who). (£6.99)

Conversations in Bolzano - Sandor Marai
It’s midnight, October 31st 1758 and Giacomo Casanova has escaped from a Venetian prison after 16 months in darkness. From the bestselling author of 'Embers', a second lost novel translated into English. (£7.99)

Wild Thorns - Sahar Khalifeh
An impressive narrative of life in the West Bank translated from the Arabic. A young Palestinian returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement. His mission is to blow up buses transporting Palestinian workers into Israel. (£7.99)

Afsaneh: Short Stories by Iranian Women. - (ed.) Kaveh Basmenji
Whether negotiating often-treacherous paths through political and religious upheavals or threading their way through dreams and fantasies, the characters in these stories will challenge and surprise anyone unfamiliar with Iranian life and literature. (£9.99)

Dr Who: Island of Death - Barry Letts
The Doctor investigates a New Age Cult only to discover a plot involving government ministers and alien narcotics trafficking and enlists the help of the Royal Navy to defeat it. (£5.99)

Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy - (ed.) Mike Ashley (£7.99)

Thirteen Steps Down - Ruth Rendell
A superstitious loner obsessed with the Christie murders lives in a decaying house with an eccentric landlady. When reality intrudes, a long pent-up violence explodes. (£6.99)

Portrait - Iain Pears
Dark and disturbing novel , set on a windswept Breton island at the turn of the 20th century where the balance of power between exiled artist and sitter - an art critic - begins to shift. (£8.99)

Cat Who Went Bananas - Lilian Jackson Braun (£6.99)

Graft - Martina Cole
Nick Leary has worked hard all his life. When an intruder breaks in on his family, he acts on instinct. (£6.99)

Beneath the Diamond Sky - Christopher Wakling
A group of backpackers are taken hostage by a band of terrorists in Kashmir. They don't know why and they don't know for how long ... (£7.99)

REISSUES

Little Friend - Donna Tartt
Reissue of this Orange shortlisted book: Harriet grows up haunted by her brother's murder - then one day she decides to take her revenge. (£7.99)

Mapping the Edge - Sarah Dunant
Journalist and single mother Anna inexplicably goes on a journey and doesn't return. Those at home are left guessing; and which of the two scenarios around Anna is real? (£7.99)

Two reissues from the popular and meticulous 1950s historical novelist, Alfred Duggan:
Conscience of the King
A thoroughly entertaining and convincing new take on the last days of the Roman Empire in Britain. (£6.99)
Little Emperors
A classic novel set in Dark Age Britain. Through the eyes of a British official in Roman Britain we see successive would-be emperors fight each other while the Barbarian threat grows ever stronger. (£6.99)

Audio:

Sense & Sensibility - Jane Austen, CD, read by Kate Winslet (3 hours, £14.99)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

The Road Taken - Michael Buerk

Autobiography of the popular BBC journalist. (£7.99)

Being Jordan - Katie Price

Now in paperback. (£7.99)

North of Ithaca - Eleni Gage

The granddaughter of "Eleni" of the book and film returns to the ruined family home in Greece, site of her grandmother’s imprisonment and execution during the Greek Civil War. (£6.99)

Sky Burial - Xinran
Xinran recreates Chinese woman Shu Wen's quest to find her missing husband, a doctor, over thirty years in Tibet. The title refers to the forbidden Tibetan custom of feeding human bodies to vultures. (£6.99)

Behind the Lines - Andrew Carroll

Following publication of 'War Letters' in 2001, the author was inundated with letters from soldiers all around the world and travelled zealously collecting letters from over 35 different countries. This is the resulting anthology. (£19.99)

Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes - Janet Malcolm

New edition. Examines the biographies of Sylvia Plath, with particular focus on Anne Stevenson's controversial 'Bitter Fruit', to discover how Plath became the enigma of literary history, and how the legend continues to exert such a hold on our imaginations. (£8.99)

HISTORY

Cave of John the Baptist - Shimon Gibson
Evidence of the largest ritual bathing pool ever found in the Jerusalem area, in the village where John the Baptist was born, containing the earliest ever Christian art, depicting John the Baptist as well as the three crosses of the Crucifixion. The first archaeological evidence of the historical reality of the Gospel story to emerge in modern times - and so the first to be subject to modern scientific and historical techniques. (£8.99)

Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich

"Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus." A story of obsession and the love of books, and one of the most significant scientific works ever written: De revolutionibus (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). (£7.99)

Hawkwood, Diabolical Englishman - F Stonor Saunders

Biography of one of the pivotal military leaders of the Renaissance, who led the Italians to conclude 'the Devil is an Englishman'. (£9.99)

Hell Riders - Terry Brighton

"The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade." (£8.99)

Zulu - Saul David

"The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879". One of the most compelling and controversial episodes of British colonial warfare. (£8.99)

Mimi & Toutou go Forth - Giles Foden
"The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika" - the most extraordinary exploit of WWI. (£7.99)

HUMOUR

Only Correct - (ed.) Ian Mayes
The Best of Corrections and Clarifications. The best of the witty and self-deprecating notices that the Guardian prints every day to correct its howlers. (£9.99)

Mingin’ or Blingin: Essential Modern English - Jade Goody (£4.99)

You Are Here - Rory Bremner
Stupid White Men - from Britain. Our nation today Bremner, Bird and Fortune. (£8.99)

MBS

Dear Mariella - Mariella Frostrup
An indispensable guide to 21st-century living! (£6.99)

Angel Whispers Pyramid Cards
Angels throughout human history have delivered messages from the divine and been sources of inspiration and energy. 32 full colour cards presented in a unique pyramid box. (£6.99)

Flowers Wisdom Pyramid Cards (£6.99)

Secrets of the Code - (ed.) Dan Burstein
Unauthorised (but authoritative) guide to the mysteries behind the phenomenal bestseller 'The Da Vinci Code'. (£6.99)

MUSIC

Like a Rolling Stone - Greil Marcus
"Bob Dylan at the Crossroads". Celebrates the song’s 40th anniversary by reconstructing the context in which it first appeared. (£10)

NATURE

Secret Life of Cows - Rosamund Young

"Animal Sentience at Work." Challenges preconceptions of farm animals as well as current farming strategies which leave no room for natural animal behaviour. Described by the Daily Telegraph as the 'scariest book of the year'. (£7.99)

POETRY

Collected Poems of Ted Hughes

This massive work now in paperback - 1376 pages. (£16.99)

Complete Collected Poems - Maya Angelou
All the previous collections of poems in one volume. (£8.99)

Virago Book of Wicked Verse - (ed.) Jill Dawson
A witty and wicked collection of poetry including poems by Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochead, Suniti Namjoshi and Grace Nichols. (£8.99)

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

My Trade - Andrew Marr
A journalistic memoir and commentary on the state of modern journalism. (£7.99)

Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone - Frank Furedi
Polemic against the dumbing down of our contemporary cultural and political life. (£8.99)

Is Opus Dei God’s Work - Alex Wilkins
"Tales of God, Blood, Money and Faith." Lifts the lid on Opus Dei's involvment in a host of conspiracies including the Nazis and the CIA. (£7.99)

Will They Ever Trust Us Again? - Michael Moore
Letters from the War Zone. American GI's tell the real story of Iraq to Michael Moore. (£7.99)

Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson
The extraordinary - and ludicrous - secrets at the core of George W Bush's War on Terror. (£7.99)

Who’s Watching You - John Gibbs
"The Chilling Truth about the State, Surveillance and Personal Freedom." (£7.99)

World Trade Organization: a Very Short Introduction (£6.99)

Media Control - Noam Chomsky, CD
On this original recording, Noam Chomsky delivers a provocative lecture exemplary of the media analysis that is his signature. (£10.99)

REFERENCE

Philips Great World Atlas
Handsome, large-format volume & exceptionally good value (£35)

Philips Modern School Atlas (£10.99)

AA Driving Test Theory & Highway Code (£9.99)
AA Driving Test Theory Questions & Answers (£5.99)

SCIENCE

Aspirin - Diarmuid Jeffreys
The surprising and dramatic story of the popular and effective drug from its origins in ancient Egypt, through its industrial development at the end of the nineteenth century and its key role in the great flu pandemic of 1918, to its subsequent exploitation by the pharmaceutical conglomerates. (£8.99)

Big Bang - Simon Singh
How was our universe c