FICTION
HARDBACK
The Man in the Picture: A
Ghost Story – Susan Hill
A mysterious depiction of masked revellers
at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in
Cambridge. On a cold winter's night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing
don. Several reviewers have mentioned M R James.
(£9.99)
PAPERBACK
The Castle in the Forest -
Norman Mailer
Who was Adolf Hitler and how do we explain his hatred?
Where did it come from? The late Norman Mailer explores these questions in a
novel spanning three generations. (£9.99)
Mrs. Valley's
War: The Shelter Stories of Feyyaz Kayacan Fergar, trans. Ruth Christie;
Berilgen Selcuk
Translated into English for the first time, a series of
stories written during the WWII doodle-bug raids on London by a former Head of
the BBC’s Turkish Section.
(£7.99)
REISSUES
Jane and Prudence - Barbara
Pym
The setting of this very funny novel, one of Barbara Pym's earliest,
is an English village where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar.
(£7.99)
NON-FICTION
FOOD &
DRINK
Moro East - Samantha Clark; Samuel Clark
In "Moro
East", Sam and Sam Clark renew their passion for the food of Spain and the
Muslim Mediterranean, but this time they find their inspiration a little closer
to home ...in an East End allotment.
(£25)
MEDIA
Home Truths: The Peel Years and
Beyond, ed. Mark McCallum
A collection of the best stories from the
radio programme hosted by John Peel from 1998 until his death in 2004.
(£7.99)
MIND BODY SPIRIT
Teach Yourself
Happiness - Paul Jenner
For anyone who knows they have a good life, but
wants a lasting feeling of well-being. (£8.99)
The
Holford 9-Day Liver Detox - Patrick Holford; Fiona McDonald Joyce
(£10.99)
Overcoming Anorexia - J. Hubert Lacey; Christine
Craggs-Hinton; Kate Robinson (£7.99)
Gem Cholesterol
Counter (£4.99)
POLITICS
Desert Children
- Waris Dirie
An investigation of the practice of Female Genital
Mutilation in Europe - they estimate that up to 500,000 women and girls have
undergone or are at risk of FGM. At the moment, France is the only European
country in which offenders are convicted. Here are the voices of women who have
felt encouraged and emboldened by Waris Dirie's courage. They speak out for the
first time and move us to action.
(£6.99)
REFERENCE
Schott's Almanac 2008
(£16.99)
Teach Yourself Writing Essays and Dissertations
- Hazel Hutchison (£8.99)
Debt-free Wannabe - Martin
Lewis
A debt-busting guide from the Sunday Times author of The
Money Diet. (£7.99)
FICTION
HARDBACK
The People on Privilege Hill - Jane Gardam
Short stories ranging from the Lake District to Dorset; from Wimbledon, where an old Victorian mansion has been converted into a home for unmarried mothers, to wartime London, where a hospital is the scene of a job interview in the middle of the Blitz. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis - Ali Smith
Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: and Other Stories - Nadine Gordimer
These stories illustrate the show-downs, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
When I Forgot - Elina Hirvonen, trans. Douglas
Robinson
Successful Finnish debut novel, in which the young narrator
tells of her brother’s battles with mental illness, her father’s
violence and her boyfriend’s father’s traumas from the Vietnam war,
while refusing to despair. (£10 at The Book Case)
The Annotated Hans Anderson ed. Maria M Tatar
Sumptuous illustrated hardback with annotations that explore the rich social and cultural dimensions of the nineteenth century and construct a compelling portrait of a writer whose stories still fascinate us today. Maria Tatar’s annotated Grimm and Classic Fairy Tales are also available. (£25)
PAPERBACK
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once home to the March family - fascinating, manipulative Isabelle, brutal, dangerous Charlie, and the wild, untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline. But Angelfield House hides a chilling secret which strikes at the very heart of each of them, tearing their lives apart... (£6.99)
Nine Nights - Bernardo Carvalho
In August 1939, a brilliant, privileged twenty-seven-year-old American ethnologist mysteriously commits suicide in Brazil, while studying among the tribes of the Amazonian basin. Half a century later, the narrator sets out to discover the truth and becomes obsessed by the idea that the dead man must have left behind an eighth letter. An extraordinary Brazilian novel, reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner or Conrad. (£7.99)
Simple Genius - David Baldacci
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case. Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy for his reluctant partner. But instead of focusing on her recovery, Michelle unearths disturbing secrets in the hospital ...(£6.99)
Dragon's Fire - Anne McCaffrey; Todd McCaffrey (£6.99)
H.R.H. - Danielle Steel
Princess Christianna, happier in jeans and a sweatshirt than in the formal life of European royalty, leaves university to travel to East Africa as a volunteer for the Red Cross and plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp. (£6.99)
Free Fall - John Francome
Jockey Pat Vincent has ambitions to win the best races and become a wealthy sporting hero. But he knows his dreams will never be fulfilled so he's devised a brilliant new scam which, if discovered, would see him warned off for life. (£6.99)
REISSUES
A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire - Charles Dickens; Elizabeth Gaskell
One of Dickens' earliest collections of stories. Intended for the holiday season, it offers tales of romance, theft, justice, hauntings and heart-warming family reunions. (£6.99)
The Corsican Brothers - Alexandre Dumas; Frank Wynne
A man is travelling in old Corsica, 'the land of the Vendetta'. He lodges with the widowed Madame Savilia de Franchi, who has very different twin sons. (£6.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Letters of Ted Hughes - ed. Christopher Reid
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world'. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives (including a readership comprising both adults and children). (£30; £20 at The Book Case while stocks last)
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir - Gore Vidal
The title refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II - an apt analogy for the hazards eluded (mostly) during his eventful life. (£8.99)
COLLECTORS
Miller's Pottery and Porcelain Marks - Gordon Lang (£12.99)
Miller's Silver and Sheffield Plate Marks - John Bly (£9.99)
Wristwatch Annual 2008: The Catalog of Producers, Models, and Specifications - Peter Braun (£25)
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food - System - Raj Patel (£16.99)
ENVIRONMENT
50 Ways to Make Your House and Garden Greener - Sian Berry (£4.99)
50 Ways to Save Water and Energy - Sian Berry (£4.99)
HISTORY
Lest We Forget: Forgotten Voices from a Century of War - Max Arthur et al
Gift-format anthology of first-hand recollections from the Great War to the Second World War. (£10.99)
HUMOUR, ACTIVITES & PUZZLES
What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness - Jon Ronson
The second volume of Jon Ronson's collected Guardian journalism, demonstrating how our everyday lives are determined by the craziest thoughts and obsessions; how we spend our time believing in and getting worked up by complete nonsense. (£7.99)
How to Survive Christmas - Jilly Cooper (£6.99)
The QI Annual 2008 - John Lloyd
Imagine an edition of "The Guinness Book of Records" selected by a panel of stand-up comedians... Will offend dullards, whales and parents in no particular order. (£12.99)
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes - Mark Crick
Literary ventriloquist Mark Crick presents 17 recipes in the voices of famous writers, from Homer to Irvine Welsh. (£8.99)
The Complete Guide to Uninvited Advice on Raising Children - Alice Beaven
The complete and illustrated guide to all the uninvited, unhelpful and frankly mad advice that parents have ever been given. (£6.99)
Make Your Own Contraptions: Design and Build 50 Marvellous Machines - Robert Beattie (£9.99)
Rude UK: 100 Even Ruder British Place Names - Rob Bailey; Ed Hurst
Includes our very own Slack Bottom. (£10)
Must Try Harder!: The Very Worst Howlers by Schoolchildren - Norman McGreevy (£5.99)
Christmas Tree In-a-Box - Sam Ita, ill. Karen Greenberg
Includes ten lively Christmas carols; a tasty recipe for eggnog, directions for folding five Christmas origami ornaments and instructions for assembling the kit's centre- piece: the foot-and-a-half tall Christmas tree - with ornaments. (£10.99)
Extreme Su Doku: Bk. 3 - ed. Wayne Gould (£6.99)
LANGUAGE
Toujours Tingo: Extraordinary Words to Change the Way We See the World - Adam Jacot de Boinod
A follow-up to "The Meaning of Tingo" which examines useful and unusual words from other languages: in Namibia there is a word for walking on tiptoe through warm sand and in Welsh, gwarlingo is the rushing sound a grandfather clock makes before striking the hour. Oh and Tingo is an invaluable word from the Pascuense language of Easter Island meaning "to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there's nothing left". (£10.99)
LIFESTYLE
Naming Your Baby: The Definitive Dictionary of First Names - Julia Cresswell (£6.99)
Son of a Stitch 'n Bitch: Knitting for Men - Debbie Stoller
Everything you need to know to knit and crochet for the men and boys in your life. (£10.99)
MBS
Benedictus: A Book of Blessings - John O'Donohue
An inspiring and comforting new work from the author of "Anam Cara". (£12.99)
The Fairy Bible: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the World of Fairies - Teresa Moorey (£12.99)
Calm for Women Who Worry - Denise Marek (£7.99)
Healing Words from the Angels - Doreen Virtue (£5.99)
The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life - Wayne W. Dyer (£5.99)
Teach Yourself Emotional Intelligence - Christine Wilding (£7.99)
Teach Yourself Training Your Brain - Simon Wootton; Terry Horne (£8.99)
Emotional Healing: Complementary Solutions for a Stress-free Life - Jan De Vries (£7.99)
The Flower Healer: Flower-essence Medicine for Healing - Barbara Olive (£12.99)
NATURE
The Goshawk - T H White (New York Review Books Classics)
Chronicles a concentrated duel between the author and a great hawk. First
published 1951. (£8.99)
Words from the Countryman: A Celebration of the Best of the "Countryman" Magazine 1927-2007 - Valerie Porter
A compilation of unusual and entertaining material from "The Countryman" magazine's long and prestigious history which elebrated its 80th anniversary in 2007. (£12.99)
POETRY
Ted Hughes: Selected Translations - ed. Daniel Weissbort
The achievement of Ted Hughes as a poet is inseparable from his achievement as a translator of poetry and poetic drama. Here for the first time, is a broad selection from Hughes' numerous translations, together with hitherto unpublished material (versions of Paul Eluard and of Yves Bonnefoy), and excerpts from essays and letters. (£12.99)
Celebrations - Maya Angelou
A collection of timely and timeless poems. (£9.99)
Chaos of the Night: Women's Poetry and Verse from the Second World War - ed. Catherine Reilly
Eighty-seven poets record the devastating upheavals WWII caused with its attendant partings, separations, bereavements. Whether as civilians or as auxiliary service- women, these women write of the fear of air attacks, of children's response to evacuation, of their horror of Nazi persecution. (£8.99)
Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems: 2004-2006 - Adrienne Rich
The newest volume of poetry from Rich, recipient of the National Book Foundations 2006 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, collects some of her most unpredictable and evocative work to date.(£14.99)
Penguin's Poems for Life - ed. Laura Barber
Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime, ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers something for each of those moments in life - whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes - when only a poem will do. (£20)
Beowulf: an illustrated edition - (trans.) Seamus Heaney, (ill.) John D Niles (£13.99)
SCIENCE
The Universe in a Single Atom: How Science and Spirituality Can Serve Our World - Dalai Lama
His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses his vision of science and faith working hand in hand to alleviate human suffering, drawing on a lifetime of scientific study and religious practice. (£8.99)
SPORT
The Fishing Pocket Companion - Lesley Crawford
A handy pocket book is full of fishy facts. (£6.99)
Stumped!: The Sports Fan's Book of Answers - Nicholas Hobbes
"Stumped!" will resolve all your sporting quarrels, queries and conundrums including: would it break the rules of football for all eleven players to form a human pyramid in their goalmouth after scoring? Why do female tennis players grunt? Why do cyclists shave their legs? How inbred are thoroughbred racehorses? The ideal gift for the sports fanatic. (£9.99)
TRANSPORT
Heyday of Ribble - Roger Davies
Ribble grew to become one of the largest bus operators outside London, dominating much of the northwest of England with a fleet that expanded to over 1000 vehicles and served an area from Liverpool and Manchester up to Carlisle. 85 colour photographs. (£14.99)
Trolleybus Memories: The Manchester Network - Mike Eyre; Chris Heaps (£14.99)
TRAVEL
The Traveller's Pocket Companion - Georgina Newberry
Attractive, handy pocket book contains an unputdownable assortment of facts and quotes, anecdotes and tall tales about the history and mystery of international travel. (£6.99)
The Walker's Pocket Companion - Malcolm Tait
A handy pocket book bursting with great ideas for anyone who's ever laced a sturdy boot, packed a cheese and pickle sandwich, and put one foot in front of the other in search of stimulation, observation and contemplation. (£6.99)
From the AA, new street atlases to Greater Manchester, a large-scale road atlas to France and their popular A4 one for Europe.
A new Lonely Planet guide to Central America.
Survival Wisdom and Know-how: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive in the Wilderness - ed. Amy Rost (£12.95)
Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) - Paul Carter
Paul has worked, got into trouble, and been given serious talkings to, from the North Sea to Sumatra, with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet. (£7.99)
Victoria's Empire - Victoria Wood
Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage takes her to places around the world that also share her namesake, Queen Victoria. TV tie-in. (£7.99)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Ages 0-5yrs
Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratney
New paperback
edition of the publishing sensation selling 18 million fifteen years ago. A
classic heart warming story beautifully illustrated. Ages: Ages: 2-5yrs.
(£9.99)
Ages 5-9yrs
Pop-up Moby Dick - Sam Ita
The epic saga of Captain Ahab's
obsessive quest for a white whale comes vividly to life in this
three-dimensional graphic novel the first of its kind. With more than 1 pop-up
per page surrounded by colourful comic book style panels that convey the drama.
Ages: 6+ years. (£14.99)
Ages 9-11yrs
Chocolates and Sweets to Make - Rebecca Gilpin
Perfect for
anyone with a sweet tooth or for home made gift ideas for Christmas. this book
contains fourteen step-by-step recipes with clear illustrations.Ages: 6-11yrs.
(£9.99)
Teenage
Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz
The teenage spy Alex Rider
enters the violent criminal underworld of the Snakeheads. A new breathtaking
adventure from this most popular children’s writer Age: 10+ yrs.
(£12.99)
OCTOBER 2007
FICTION
HARDBACK
The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith
For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, fourteen years her junior, Isabel enters deeper and rougher waters. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Slam - Nick Hornby
"Whoever invented skateboarding is a genius. There's only one skater, and his name's Tony Hawk." Nick Hornby's new novel for teenagers it confronts issues such as teenage pregnancy love and friendship. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
The Tain - trans. Ciaran Carson
The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious Queen of Connacht, is on a mission to steal the fabled Brown Bull of Cooley from the men of Ulster. The Ulstermen, crippled by an ancient curse, face defeat from her armies, until a hero emerges in the shape of the warrior Cu Chulainn. (£15.99)
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole - John Mortimer (£16.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Engleby - Sebastian Faulks
Mike Engleby, devoid of scruple or self-pity, survives a 'traditional' English school, goes to university in the 1970s and his subsequent career brings us up to the present day. Beneath the disturbing surface of his outspoken observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. Trade paperback. (£12.99)
House of Meetings - Martin Amis
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. (£7.99)
Le Bal - Irene Nemirovsky
Two lost classics from the Ukrainian born, French-educated writer are gathered together in one volume. "Le Bal" depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. "Snow in Autumn" pays homage to Nemirovsky's beloved Chekhov and chronicles the life of a devoted servant following her masters as they flee Revolutionary Moscow and emigrate to a life of hardship in Paris. (£7.99)
Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? (£7.99)
Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier
At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. (£7.99)
The Foreign Correspondent - Alan Furst
By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini's fascist government and found refuge in Paris, where they joined the Italian resistance. Telegraph 'In the world of espionage thrillers, Alan Furst is in a class of his own' - William Boyd (£6.99)
Depths - Henning Mankell
A gripping psychological thriller. In October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was naval engineer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman. The discovery of an almost feral young woman on a barren skerry strikes him to the core. (£6.99)
The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland
Meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker, Bethany, who's at the end of her Goth phase and realising she's facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes and replenishing the Crayola boutique in Aisle Six. (£10.99)
Far North and Other Dark Tales - Sarah Maitland
"Far North", based on an Inuit myth, is set among desperate women in the frozen north surviving against all odds; now a film. All these stories, formally bold and innovative, emotionally edgy and deeply imbued with a sense of location, address Sara Maitland's primary concerns about the links between beauty and terror, modernity and ritual. (£8.99)
Afterwards - Rachel Seiffert
To love someone, need you know everything about them? When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. She is a nurse, he a painter and decorator; both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each brings with them an emotional burden. (£7.99)
I Did a Bad Thing - Linda Green
From a local author and featured at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. Sarah Roberts used to be good. Then she did something very bad. Now, years later, she's living a good life, until Nick reappears. And suddenly, what's good and bad aren't so clear to Sarah any more. (£6.99)
Nature Girl - Carl Hiaasen
A holiday to die for? In Hiaasen's extraordinary universe, anything can happen ... (£6.99)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: v. 18 - ed. Stephen Jones (£7.99)
This is for You - Rob Ryan
A romantic and touching story of thoughts and dreams, loneliness and longing, told in magical paper-cuts. (£12)
REISSUES
The Cranford Chronicles - Elizabeth Gaskell (£7.99)
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes", "The Friends of the Friends", " The Jolly Corner" - Henry James (£5.99)
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories - ed. Barbara Korte; Ann-Marie Einhaus (£10.99)
The Good Companions - J.B. Priestley; David Joy; Lee Hanson
Including biographical details, images and information on the music hall scene of the 1920s, to enable the reader to place the novel in its historical context. (hardback; £12.99 at The Book Case)
The Spy's Bedside Book - Graham Greene; Sir Hugh Greene
A classic compendium of espionage stories - fiction, memoir and autobiography - from the pens of some of the greatest writers and most famous spies. First published 1957 and now with an introduction by Stella Rimington, former head of MI5 (£12.99)
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel - Mikhail Bulgakov
Semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers. (£8.99)
Brother of the More Famous Jack - Barbara Trapido (£7.99)
Noah's Ark - Barbara Trapido (£7.99)
The Woman in Black - Susan Hill (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
ART, ARCHITECTURE, CRAFT AND DANCE
Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual - ed. Kathleen Connors; Sally Bayley
A side of Sylvia Plath that is scarcely known: her serious involvement in the visual arts from a very early age. She moved between art-making and writing constantly, integrating their elements with ease and pleasure. It was only at the age of 20 that she decided to leave fine art behind her as her chosen career, and opt for the written word. Eye Rhymes presents a magnificent range of Plath's art, most of it seen in print for the first time: childhood sketches, illustrated diaries, portraits, rich modernist and expressionist paintings, fashion images, photographs, and more. (£25)
Year in Art, No. 2: A Treasure a Day 2008
A perpetual calendar that features the world's masterpieces in richly coloured double-page spreads. (£24.99)
Natural Architecture - Alessandro Rocca
"We get along better if we collaborate with nature instead of trying to dominate it." Beautifully illustrated with examples of practical dialogue between architect and site, from Princeton Architectural Press.
Barns of the Dales - Andy Singleton; David Joy, intro. Bill Bryson
Thousands of barns are scattered among the villages, meadows and pastures of the Yorkshire Dales. Stone structures of great character, they form a monument to immense labour in past centuries. David Joy comes from Upper Wharfedale farming stock and knows many individual barns at first hand. Andy Singleton has been a builder in the Dales for more than twenty-five years and covers the construction methods and materials that were used to build barns, and then explains in detail how they can be converted into dwellings. (£16.99)
Creative Spinning - Alison Daykin; Jane Deane
How to spin using drop spindles and spinning wheels and how to control singles, twists and ply. How to experiment with a variety of yarns, such as silk fibre, animal hair, vegetable fibre and how to use recycled products. (£12.99)
Woven Crystal Beaded Jewellery - Celine Marchand
If you love jewellery made from crystal beads, then the thirty stunning rings, necklaces and bracelets in this book, in both traditional and ethnic designs, are guaranteed to fire your imagination. (£9.99)
Charms - Stephanie Burnham
Over 20 funky fast bracelet designs plus variations. It provides simple techniques to get you started quickly. (£4.99)
The Meaning of Tango: The History and Steps of the Argentinian Dance - Christine Denniston (£9.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Dearest Father - Franz Kafka, trans. Anna Stokes; Richard Stokes
In this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. (£7.99)
The Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara - Ernesto Guevara Lynch, trans. Lucia Alvarez de Toledo
This volume is assembled from two separate books never previously published in English - "My Son Che" and "A Soldier of the Americas", both written by Che's father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch. It also includes, for the first time anywhere, Che's diary of his bicycle journey around Northern Argentina. (£8.99)
The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S. Thompson - Ralph Steadman
In the spring of 1970, Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work. In Kentucky to cover the Derby, he met a former Hells Angel called Hunter S. Thompson. That meeting resulted in a working relationship and a friendship that lasted for more than thirty years. (£8.99)
A Voyage Round John Mortimer - Valerie Grove (£25)
Selective Memory - Katharine Whitehorn
Katharine Whitehorn pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart. For nearly 40 years the Observer's star columnist, she is also famous for Cooking in a Bedsitter. She is now Saga magazine's agony aunt. (£18.99)
80 Years in the Dales - Hannah Hauxwell
This first major book on Hannah for eight years traces the extraordinary life of a delightful personality who has never lost her links with the Dales countryside. It includes many hitherto unpublished photographs. (£15.99)
More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007 - Tony Benn
When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved. (£20; audio version £13.99)
Rabble-rouser for Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu - John Allen (£8.99)
Once in a House on Fire - Andrea Ashworth
Set in 1970s Manchester - the true story of three sisters and their mother, a close-knit and loving family forced to battle with poverty, abuse and the effects of depression. New edition. (£7.99)
CURRENT EVENTS
Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction - Klaus J. Dodds
Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places it can be a matter of life and death. (£6.99)
Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources - Dilip Hiro
China is now the world's second largest energy consumer, trailing only behind America. And India has moved up into the fourth place behind Russia, after overtaking Japan in 2001. But the number of countries able to export the commodity is shrinking. Those countries will be largely Muslim, or like Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, hostile to Western interests. (£10.99)
ENVIRONMENT
Carbon Detox: Cut Your Carbon, Improve Your Lifestyle, Save the Planet - George Marshall (£7.99)
The Global Warming Survival Kit: The Must-have Guide to Overcoming Extreme Weather, Power Cuts, Food Shortages and Other Climate Change Disasters - Brian Clegg
The first book to take a hard, scientific look at the likely scenarios and provide practical advice for you and your family on how to cope with anything global warming might throw at you. (£9.99)
Green Up!: An A-Z Guide to Making Your Home Eco-friendly - Will Anderson (£7.95)
FOOD AND DRINK
Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table - Nigel Slater (£16.99)
The Cheese Making Book - Paul Peacock
Explains what equipment is needed (which is really not much more than a big pan), and the science of making your first cheese - cottage style. It includes different milks from goat and sheep, adding herbs and flavours, selling and showing cheese, the legal implications and gearing up for a larger scale operation. (£14.99)
The Apple Source Book - Sue Clifford; Angela King
A celebration of the 2,000 or more varieties of apple we can grow in these islands, with their distinctive flavours, uses, places of origin stories and associated customs; includes recipes, a county gazetteer of apple varieties, specialist nurseries, suppliers of fruit, orchard groups, as well as Apple Day ideas such as wassailing, juice pressing and cider making. (£16.99)
Nature's Wild Harvest: The Very Best Free Food - Paul Peacock (£14.99)
Slow Cooking for Vegetarians - Annette Yates (£7.99)
Toastie Heaven: 100 Great Reasons to Dig Out the Sandwich Toaster - Karen Saunders (£6.99)
Healthy First Foods for Your Toddler - Caitilin Finch (£8.99)
Shaken and Stirred: How to Cure a Hangover - Andrew Irving (£7.99)
GARDENING
The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants - Anna Pavord
Takes us on an exhilarating and fascinating journey through botanical history, travelling from Athens in the third century BC, through Constantinople and Venice, Padua and Pisa to the present day. (£16.99)
HISTORY
The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius; Robert Graves
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. (£9.99)
Great Tales from English History: A Treasury of True Stories of the Extraordinary People Who Made Britain Great - Robert Lacey
Omnibus edition taking us on a lively and captivating tour of the nation's landmark moments from prehistory to modern times. (£9.99)
God's War - Christopher Tyerman
The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East. (£12.99)
The Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism - Neal Ascherson
The world of Herodotus and Aeschylus; Ovid's place of exile; the decline and fall of Byzantium; the Christian Goths; the Tatar Khanates; the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, and the centuries of war between Ottoman and Russian Empires around the Black Sea; and the terrors of Stalinism and its fascist enemy. New edition. (£8.99)
Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest - F.J. McLynn
The vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets; illustrated. (£9.99)
4ft 81/2 and All That: A Sort of Railway History - W. Mills
An irreverent look at railway history. (£9.99)
What Britain Has Done 1939-1945 - Ministry of Information 1945, intro. Richard Overy
An astonishing portrait of a society at total war, with facts and figures. (£9.99)
HUMOUR, NOSTALGIA & PUZZLES
The Christmas Letters: The Ultimate Collection of Round Robins - Simon Hoggart
Every year about this time, unwanted round robins, stuffed with news of young Chloe's nauseating excellence at - well - everything, the announcement of Janet's cousin's husband's friend's divorce, or the details of Terry's colonoscopy, accumulate on doormats. This anthology brings together Simon Hoggart’s two collections.(£7.99)
"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue": In Search of Mornington Crescent (CD) (£12.99)
"Have I Got News for You" 2 (£9.99)
Dumb Britain, ed. Marcus Berkmann (£4.99)
The "Private Eye" Annual 2007, ed. Ian Hislop (£9.99)
Prairie Home Christmas - Garrison Keillor (CD) (£14.99)
I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith - ed. Warren Lakin (£8.99)
I Have a Bream - John O'Farrell
Isn't it always the way? You wait ages for one purple flour-filled condom and then three come along at once. The latest collection of hilarious Guardian columns. (£7.99)
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge) - John O'Farrell
"Horrible History for Grown Ups" - read how Anglo-Saxon liberals struggled to be positive about immigration; discover how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendants still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne today; and explore the complex socio-economic reasons why Britain's kings were the first in Europe to be brought to heel. (£16.99)
The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell - Barrie Segal (£6.99)
Tigger on the Couch: The Neuroses, Psychoses, Maladies and Disorders of Our Favourite Children's Characters - Laura James (£9.99)
Box 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan, ed. Norma Farnes
This third wonderful anthology from the Spike Milligan archives uncovers a wealth of previously unpublished material from one of Britain's best loved comedians. (£12.99)
The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book (£12.99)
Bad Vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions - Joshua Piven From the author of "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook": the ultimate guide to making impossible choices. (£12.95)
Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with Internet Spammers - Bob Swankie
A hilarious collection of email exchanges between the anti-hero of spam, Bob Servant, a former window cleaner and cheeseburger magnate and the hapless spam merchants. (£8.99)
Eagle Annual of the 1950s (£12.99)
The Girls' Empire : An Annual for English-speaking Girls All Over the World (£9.99)
The Pocket Book for Schoolboys 1958
The Pocket Book for
Schoolgirls 1958
Facsimile editions of the 1958 editions, originally published by Evans and reissued now as part of the Evans centenary celebrations. (£6.99 each)
The "Daily Telegraph" Big Book of Brain Sharpener Cryptic Crosswords (£6.99)
The "Daily Telegraph" Big Book of Brain Sharpener Quick Crosswords (£6.99)
LITERATURE
Homer's the "Iliad and the "Odyssey": A Book That Shook the World - Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel traces the lineage of these poems, starting with their inception in ancient Greece and considering their place in the greatest literature ever created from the Rome of Virgil and Horace to Joyce's Dublin and Derek Walcott's Caribbean, via Dante and Racine. (£10.99)
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction - John Sutherland
Bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study. Examines what makes a book into a bestseller, what separates bestsellers from canonical fiction and the relationship between bestsellers and the fashions, ideologies, and cultural concerns of the day. (£6.99)
Nobel Lectures: 20 Years of the Nobel Prize for Literature Lectures
Includes Harold Pinter, Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Orhan Pamuk. (£12.99)
MBS
5-Minute Back Relief - Royal College of General Practitioners (Collins GEM) (£4.99)
Pagan Resurrection: A Force for Evil or the Future of Western Spirituality? - Richard Rudgley
Puts forward a fascinating and controversial idea - namely that it is the pagan god Odin and not Christ who is the single most important spiritual influence in western civilisation. (£9.99)
The Bible: The Biography - Karen Armstrong
Made up of 66 'books' and divided into two Testaments, this complex and communal work has been transformed by its various translations into a single work at the heart of the world's largest and most powerful organised religions. Karen Armstrong discusses how it was collected and accepted as Christianity's sacred text and its ongoing influence. (£16.99)
Spiritual Imperative: Transforming Our Every day Lives - Satish Kumar
Spirituality must be a part of our ordinary, everyday existence: it needs to be implicitly present in business, in politics, in farming, in cooking, and in our relationships. To illustrate this, Satish Kumar draws on the Indian Ayurvedic tradition. (£9.95)
The Madness of Modern Parenting - Annie Ashworth; Meg Sanders
Does an impending child's birthday party fill you with performance anxiety? Did you spend more time on your child's homework last night than on your own employer's end-of-year report? Do you drop boastful hints about your child, saying 'George is so busy' - even though George is six? If so, you might be suffering from the madness of modern parenting. (£8.99)
Why He's So Last Minute and She's Got it All Wrapped Up - Allan Pease; Barbara Pease (£6.99)
The Angel Book - Vanessa Lampert (£12.99)
The Angel Book of Days - Vanessa Lampert (£12.99)
How to Hear Your Angels - Doreen Virtue (£4.99)
Chakra Crystals - Kate Tomas
About healing with crystals on a very personal level. Its aim is to empower you so that you can consistently and gradually change your life with the help of crystal resonance. Crystals included. (£14.99)
White Eagle Medicine Wheel Deck - Wa-Na-Nee-Che; Eliana Harvey (£8.99)
The Chakra Bible: The Definitive Guide to Working with Chakras - Patricia Mercier
A guide to understanding every aspect of chakras, the centres of energy in our body that have a profound effect on energy, health and well-being. (£12.99)
Working with Meditation: Practical Ways of Healing and Transforming Your Life
Madonna Gauding (£12.99)
A Book of Uncommon Prayer - Theo Dorgan
A collection of spiritual and devotional texts, drawn from both inside and outside the limits of the world's religious traditions. (£14.99)
IQ and Psychometric Tests: Assess Your Personality, Aptitude and Intelligence -
Philip Carter (£8.99)
MEDIA
"Strictly Come Dancing": The Official Annual 2008 - Alison Maloney (£12.99)
Who's Who in the "Archers" 2008 - Keri Davies (£4.99)
The DVD Stack - ed. Nick Bradshaw; Tim Robey
Selected, edited and written by film critics from the "Daily Telegraph", "Time Out", the "Sunday Times", "Sight and Sound" and "LOVEFiLM"; compares and rates different DVD editions of classic films from around the world, including the all-important special features. (£12.99)
Ten Bad Dates with De Niro - Richard T. Kelly
A rollicking collection of film 'Top Tens'. If you want to know the Ten Most-Deserved Oscars or Ten So-Called 'Turkeys' that are actually brilliant, then look no further.. (£12.99)
Your Life Online - Terry Burrows
Presents the ordinary, non-nerd user with a total picture of the latest developments in internet technology, details what they have to offer and shows you how to make the most of them. (£9.99)
Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown (£6.99)
MUSIC
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - Joe Boyd
When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd.
(£8.99)
The Great Family Songbook: A Treasury of Favourite Folk Songs, Popular Tunes, Children's Melodies, International Songs, Hymns, Holiday Jingles and More - for Piano and Guitar - Dan Fox; Dick Weissman (£12.95)
NATURE
Beechcombings - Richard Mabey
The narratives of trees - and the effects of global warming; from the well-loved nature writer. (£20)
Where to Watch Birds in North-West England (£16.99)
Storm Force: Britain's Wildest Weather - Paul Hudson; Ian McCaskill; Michael Fish
Marks the twentieth anniversary of the October 1987 hurricane with many dramatic photographs. (£15.99)
The Guardian Book of Wartime Country Diaries - ed. Martin Wainwright
How the struggles between the Great European powers and against Hitler reached into the quietest corners of the British countryside. While Battle of Britain vapour trails loop over summer cornfields, diarists discuss the effect of planes on hawks and water-fowl. A lone ringed bird limps in from vanished Czechoslovakia. A naturalist studies the insect and plant life of a bomb crater. Women and children bring in the harvest as their menfolk fight in Flanders. The century's other wars, from Abyssinia to Iraq, are also noted. (£12.99)
The Royal Meteorological Society Weather Watcher's 3-year Log Book (£11.99)
Guide to Weather Forecasting - Storm Dunlop (£9.99)
PHILOSOPHY
The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty - A.C. Grayling
'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'. Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and create strategies with which to deal with them. (£7.99)
POETRY & DRAMA
Edward Thomas's Poets - ed. Judy Kendall
Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets. His poetry was written during the space of just two years, before he was killed in the First World War. Those years lie at the heart of "Edward Thomas' Poets": Judy Kendall's gathering of poems and letters embeds that brief period of intense poetic creativity within the wider narrative of Thomas' life. (£14.95)
Summoned by Bells - John Betjeman
His verse autobiography. (£10)
Darling: New and Selected Poems - Jackie Kay
Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. (£9.95)
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid - Simon Armitage
Now in paperback. (£8.99)
The Laughter of Mothers - Paul Durcan
Sheila MacBride came from a political family - her uncle John MacBride was executed in 1916 for his part in the Easter Uprising - but when Sheila married into the "black, red-roaring, fighting Durcans of Mayo" she was obliged to give up a promising legal career. These poems commemorate his mother as Paul Durcan remembers her. (£12)
Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past - Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy has asked some of the brightest lights in the poetry world to chose a poem that is meaningful - or has meant something - to them, and write a response to it. (£12.99)
Homer's Odyssey - Simon Armitage
Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. (£12.99)
REFERENCE
Whitaker's Concise Almanack 2008 (£20)
Pears Cyclopedia 2007-2008 (£20)
Collins Complete DIY Manual - Albert Jackson; David Day (£25)
Haynes Laptop Manual - Gary Marshall (£15.99)
SCIENCE
The Void - Frank Close
What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? (£9.99)
Geekspeak: Why Life + Mathematics = Happiness - Graham Tattersall
The quirky offspring of 'QI' and 'Freakonomics', 'Geekspeak' melds ingenious statistical analysis with edifying trivia to explain away some curious facts of life. Curiosity is our human birthright, and destiny. (£12.99)
Why Do Moths Drink Elephants' Tears?: and Other Zoological Curiosities - Matt Walker
Now in paperback. (£7.99)
Why is Yawning Contagious?: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Human Body, and Some Things You'd Rather Not - Francesca Gould
What is pubic hair for? Can coffee sober you up? Do women have more fat cells than men? Why are bogies green? Could a frozen body be brought back to life? (£7.99)
QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance - John Lloyd; John Mitchinson
Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. (£12.99)
SPORT
Young Wisden: A New Fan's Guide to Cricket - Tim De Lisle (£12.99)
TRAVEL
The Good Pub Guide 2008 - Fiona Stapley; Alisdair Aird (£14.99)
Good Hotel Guide 2008 (£20)
New street atlases to Manchester from the AA
Collins maps of Europe and France, £4.99 each
Philip’s Driver's Atlas of Europe 2008 (£7.99)
New Lonely Planet guide to Japan among others.
Walking in the Languedoc: 32 Routes in Haute Languedoc - John Cross (£12)
Serious Survival: How to Poo in the Arctic and Other Essential Tips for Explorers - Marshall Corwin
Over the last five years the BBC have taken groups to the world's most inhospitable places for Serious Jungle, Serious Amazon, Serious Desert, Serious Andes and Serious Arctic. This is what they had to learn to survive! Do you take a tent to the jungle, waterproofs to the Andes, does sand really get everywhere and how do you poo in the Arctic? (£16.99)
Twelve Favourite Mountains - Alfred Wainwright
Brings together in one rugged, pocket-sized volume twelve chapters from five different
"Pictorial Guides" - Blencathra; Bowfell; Carrock; Crinkle Crags; Great Gable; Harrison Stickle; Haystacks; Pike o' Stickle; Pillar; Place Fell; Scafell; and Scafell Pike. (£12.99)
A Walker's Notebook - A. Wainwright (£5.99)
Doing the Wainwrights: 214 Fells, Four Season and One Caravan - Steve Larkin
What on earth is a sixty-three year old man with a recent history of heart disease and cancer together with a marked tendency to wimpishness doing out on the Lake District fells alone in all seasons of the year? Answer: attempting to climb the 214 fells over 1,000’ described by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells within twelve months, raising money for charity in the process. (£9.99)
Shadow of the Silk Road - Colin Thubron
On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. (£8.99)
Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger
Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. With vivid descriptions and colourful anecdotes he narrates his stories, including two crossings of the Empty Quarter, among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. (£9.99)
The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger
During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. (£9.99)
CHILDREN
Ages 0-5yrs
Story of the Little Mole... Plop up edition - Werner Holzwarth
A wonderful new edition of the outrageous favourite story which has sold over a million copies. Who did their business on the mole's head? Join the intrepid mole as he sets out to find the culprit and exact his revenge in his own special way. With tabs to pull and flaps to lift this is a modern classic . Ages: 2-5yrs. (£9.99)
Ages 5-9yrs
Adventures of Odysseus - Hugh Lupton, Daniel Morden
As Odysseus fights to find his way back home after the long and brutal Trojan War, he has to endure harrowing ordeals and adventures, and come to terms with devastating losses. Storytellers Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden's graphic retelling breathes new life into this great classic. Age: 7-9yrs. (£13.00)
Ages 9-11yrs
Molly Moon Micky Minus and the Mind Machine - Georgia Byng
Molly Moon is on a mission to bring her long-lost twin brother, Micky, home. Luckily Molly's time-travel talents and world-stopping skills help her in her search ...until a baby-faced villain with a precocious plan to have the world's biggest brain gets in her way. Can Molly use her secret weapon mind reading to defeat the brainy babe?. Ages: 9-11yrs. (£9.99)
Teenage
Stuff of Nightmares - Malorie Blackman
A fantastic spine-tingling read for older readers from the outstanding Malorie Blackman. Kyle has always been afraid of things, especially dying. But when he gets on the train that is taking him and his class on a school trip, he has no idea how close to death he is going to come. Age: 12+ yrs (£12.99)
SEPTEMBER 2007
FICTION
HARDBACK
The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett
HM the Queen drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny. (£9.99 at The Book Case; audio CD £12.99)
The Stone Gods - Jeanette Winterson
This new world weighs a yatto-gram... On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
On the Road: The Original Scroll - Jack Kerouac
The first ever publication of Kerouac's original draft for the book - transcribed from the famous 'scroll': hundreds of typed pages which constitute the manuscript taped together by Kerouac himself. (£25)
PAPERBACK
Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood
A collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel or a novel broken up into eleven interrelated stories. It resembles a photograph album - a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, and also of the other lives intertwined with it. . (£7.99)
The Ruby in Her Navel - Barry Unsworth
The Court of King Roger in 12th-century Sicily simmers with the volatile passions of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Latins and Greeks. Among them, a young Norman called finds employment under Yusuf, a Muslim who holds the Christian king's purse strings. (£7.99)
The View from Castle Rock - Alice Munro
From 19th-century Edinburgh to America - family history where imperfect recollections blur into fiction, where the past shows through the present like the tracks of a glacier on a geological map. Beneath the ordinary landscape there's a different story - evocative, frightening, sexy, unexpected, gripping. Alice Munro tells it like no other. (£7.99)
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon
Moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, and beyond. Meanwhile, Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. (£9.99)
The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany
The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's main boulevards. Taha, the doorman's son, has aspirations beyond the slum in the skies, and dreams of one day becoming a policeman. (£7.99)
Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin
Stories meditating on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships, teasing out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. (£7.99)
Wolf of the Plains - Conn Iggulden
The first in the Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants - from the bestselling co-author of 'The Dangerous Book For Boys'. (£6.99)
Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossibility of forgetting. (£7.99)
Mercy - Jodi Picoult
Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. When his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he's killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. (£6.99)
The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories - Susanna Clarke
Stories of petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice, from the author of "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell". (£7.99)
Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster
Every day an old man wakes alone in an almost empty room, unable to remember his past. The only clues to his identity are a manuscript, a pile of photos, and a visitor called Anna who sparks memories of forgotten love and tragedy. (£6.99)
The Inner Life of Martin Frost - Paul Auster
Martin Frost goes to a country house to write his novel away from the distractions of the city. Thinking that he is the sole occupant of the house, he is surprised and annoyed when he discovers a young woman in residence. She is similarly disturbed by his presence. (£8.99)
Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida
When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn't her father at all. Abandoning her fiance, Clarissa travels from New York to Helsinki, and then north of the Arctic Circle - to Lapland. There, under the northern lights, Clarissa not only unearths her family's secrets, but also the truth about herself. (£7.99)
The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
A short but perfectly formed complete Discworld novel, fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout. (£7.99)
The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs
It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia's store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. (£6.99)
REISSUES
Sea Stories - Misc. (National Maritime Museum) (£7.99)
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson (£7.99)
The Ghost - Arnold Bennett (£6.00)
Jock of the Bushveld - Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (£9.99)
A Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story - Mikhail Bulgakov
Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with disastrous consequences. (£8.99)
The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories - ed. Peter Haining
A spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. (£7.99)
Biggles Big Adventures - W. E. Johns
Includes: Biggles Flies North: A ripping adventure set in the Canadian arctic; Biggles Sees It Through: Biggles and his crew struggle to help a Polish scientist prevent his revolutionary aircraft designs from falling into the hands of the enemy; Biggles in the Baltic: Biggles and his crew taken by submarine to a hidden air base in the Baltic, to set up a secret unit of the RAF; and Biggles in the Jungle: Our hero lands in Belize in Central America, where he helps the local British governor destroy a gang of thugs who have enslaved native workers in the depths of the jungle. (£14.99)
Janet and John: Here We Go - Mabel O'Donnell; Rona Munro
"The Janet and John" books emerged as a popular way to help children learn to read in 1949. These classic bestsellers from yesteryear are coming back into print for Christmas! (£5.99)
NON-FICTION
ART AND CRAFT
Martin Parr - Sandra S. Phillips (£14.95)
The Woodwork Pattern Book: 100 Design Projects to Make by Hand - A.W.P. Kettless
100 practical projects that can be made by hand. including a pattern and detailed instructions, arranged by level of difficulty. Projects include: Shelving, Bookends, Toolbox, Coffee table, Dining table and chairs, Garden furniture, Desk, Gate, Window frame, Workshop or garden shed, Household steps, Side table, Chest of drawers, Boat. (£17.99)
Bags: An Illustrated History - Caroline Cox
Lavishly illustrated and intriguing story of the handbag, from its origins in the nineteenth century with reticules (essentially pockets with handles) and Louis Vuitton's revolutionary Noe bag for the female traveller, via Art Deco clutch bags moulded in Bakelite and the Hermes Kelly bag endorsed by Princess Grace in the 1950s, right up to the Mulberry Roxanne. (£25)
Tea Cozies - Guild of Master Craftsman (£9.99)
Toilet Roll Covers - Pat Ashforth; Steve Plummer (£9.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick - Jenny Uglow
At the end of the eighteenth-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's "History of British Birds" was the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But the vivid vignettes also showed the vanishing way of life of the country people of the North East. This superbly illustrated biography tells a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the wild. (£9.99)
Edith Nesbit - Julia Briggs
E. Nesbit is one of the greatest children's writers of the century. This biography reveals her also as a wilful, demanding and adventurous woman, a true Bohemian who broke all society's rules in her search for love. Edith Nesbit's own writing reflects her dynamic energy, her sense of fun and passionate joie-de-vivre. Julia Brigg's biography explores with subtlety the complex relationship between her life and her fiction. (£12.99)
Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind - David Alan Richards & Thomas Pinney
Celebrates the Nobel Prize winner's multifaceted achievements and, with 80 full-colour illustrations, underscores the variety and breadth of his printed production. (£16.99)
Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography - Louis MacNeice
An autobiography written in the 1940s but set aside, and published after MacNeice's death in 1965. (£9.99)
Betjeman - A.N. Wilson
Uses the vast archive of personal material relating to Betjeman's private life, including literally hundreds of letters written by his wife. A celebration of a much-loved poet, a brave campaigner for architecture at risk, and a highly popular public performer. (£8.99)
Gonzo - Hunter S. Thompson, ed. Steve Crist; Laila Nabulsi
A
rare look into the life of Thompson: for the first time, his photographs and
archives have been collected into a visual biography with an introduction by
close friend Johnny Depp. (£22.95)
The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit - David Blunkett
An intimate diary of the Sheffield politician’s years at the centre of power. With characteristic bluntness, Blunkett reveals the inside story of New Labour, his relationships with key Cabinet colleagues and the hurly-burly of day-to-day politics. (£9.99)
Great Lives: a Century in Obituaries - ed. Ian Brunskill
100 of The Times’s famous obituaries, mixing the well-known with the less famous but whose lives had an impact on the world today. Illustrations from the Times archive. (£12.99)
Truckers North Truckers South - Leslie Purdon
In the late 1940s, Shay leaves school as soon as he can to become a trailer-boy on a Gardner truck that is noisy, cold and limited in speed. The driver, Fred, is one of the old school, a transport man through and through, who knows the best cafes and pubs and all the tricks of the trade. (£7.95)
Joyful Voices - Doris Stokes
An omnibus of "Joyful Voices" and "Voices of Love", bestsellers in the early 1980s. Doris Stokes was a celebrated medium who confounded sceptics by the uncanny accuracy of her readings. (£8.99)
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling - V.S. Naipaul
Naipaul brings clarity and experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel, and tackles challenges of assimilation faced by the 'serious traveller', one for whom there can be no single world view. He writes about the classical world what we have retained from it, what we have forgotten and the more recent past. (£16.99)
And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Blake Morrison
An extraordinary portrait of family life, father-son relationships and bereavement. This new edition includes a new afterword by the author who appeared at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival in 2002. (£7.99)
Shame - Jasvinder Sanghera
When she was fourteen, Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. She'd witnessed the torment her sisters endured in their arranged marriages, so she ran away from home, grief-stricken when her parents disowned her. (£6.99)
CURRENT AFFAIRS AND POLITICS
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. Yet one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of the Nakbah, as Palestinians call the catastrophe that befell them, is still a mystery today. (£9.99)
On Royalty - Jeremy Paxman
What does it mean to be royal? At a time when the monarch no longer rules by divine right and governing powers fall to our elected leaders, the concept of royalty grows ever more elusive. Jeremy Paxman seeks to find out how the role of our head of state has changed over the years and what the implications have been. (£8.99)
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq - Patrick Cockburn
A profound and personal journey to the heart of a shattered nation. In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. (£7.99)
Planet of Slums - Mike Davis
With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. (£8.99)
ENVIRONMENT
Shades of Green: A (mostly) Practical A-Z for the Reluctant Environmentalist - Paul Waddington
From Eden Project Children's Books. If you want to change the world without completely changing your life, what do you do? Buy "Shades of Green". (£10.99)
Baby Green: Caring for Your Baby the Eco-friendly Way - Jill Barker (£7.99)
Eco Baby: A Guide to Green Parenting - Sally Jane Hall (£9.95)
GARDENING & HUSBANDRY
The Head Gardeners - Toby Musgrave
A fascinating study of the great Victorian and Edwardian head gardeners, a remarkable group of self-made men who transformed gardening from menial labour into a profession, recreating the social world of the great country house gardens where staffs of up to fifty might be employed in growing produce of awe-inspiring variety in prodigious quantities. (£18.99)
The Royal Horticultural Society Fruit and Veg Notebook (£5.99)
Backyard Poultry Keeping - J.C. Jeremy Hobson (£10.99)
HISTORY
The History of Human Migration - ed. Russell King
The story of our migrations across the globe from prehistory of today's global population shifts, with annotated maps, informative timelines and hundreds of photographs, paintings and artefacts.(£19.99)
World History
From the cradle of early civilization in China and Egypt, through the strife of the Middle Ages to the technological explosions of late 20th-century society.(£9.99)
Blood of the Isles - Bryan Sykes
The world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today. (£7.99)
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age - Robin Waterfield
It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and Armenia, and down to the coast of the Black Sea, fighting all the way, harried on all sides by Persian forces, wild mountain tribesmen, and a bitter winter... (£9.99)
Shakespeare's Wife - Germaine Greer
Ann Hathaway has been mocked and vilified by scholars for centuries. Yet Shakespeare became the very poet of marriage, exploring the sacrament in all its aspects, spiritual, psychological, sexual and sociological. Is it possible that Ann was the inspiration? Part-biography, part-history, "Shakespeare's Wife"reconstructs Ann's life, and the daily lives of Elizabethan women. (£20.00)
A Brief History of the Age of Steam - Thomas Crump
In 1710, an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years, the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the fortunes of nations. (£8.99)
Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo - Nick Foulkes
The summer of 1815 saw the final and desperate efforts of European powers to usurp Napoleon's reign over France, in an age where war was a social occasion; the military urgency was matched only by the soldiers and their wives' frantic efforts to keep apace of the lavish balls which were being thrown. (£8.99)
Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain - Christian Wolmar
The dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history - from the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway (and of the railway mania that followed) to the chequered history of British Rail and its subsequent privatisation. (£19.99)
Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944
Another in the Bodleian Library’s "Instructions for Servicemen series:" Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied assault on Germany. This extraordinary document was intended to educate soldiers on a range of topics, and to condition them to resist the effect of German propaganda by means of a healthy dose of British propaganda. It is very much a document of the period: 'If you have to give orders to German civilians, give them in a firm, military manner. The German civilian is used to it and expects it." (£4.99)
German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 - Bodleian Library
Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain -160,000 German soldiers were to be landed along a forty-mile coastal stretch of south-east England. This book brings together a selection of the documents with maps, aerial photographs, a physical description of the British Isles - region by region, lists of strategic targets, and a short phrase book for the invading forces when it became necessary to fraternize with the local populace. (£5.99)
Guide for U.S. Forces Serving in Iraq, 1943
No comment. (£4.99)
HUMOUR, GAMES, QUIZZES & GIFTS
Get Me Out of Here!: Exit Strategies for All Occasions - David Jacobson
Whether you are looking for an excuse or an escape, this book provides the answers to all manner of social nightmares. (£9.99)
Giles Collection 2008 (£7.99)
The Complete Book of Aunts - Rupert Christiansen
Covers loveable aunts, exotic aunts, seductive aunts, sad, mad and bad aunts, aunts in jail and aunts on the razzle, aunts in novels, verse and song. This work features a guide to the wonderful and sometimes weird world of this most misunderstood of relatives. (£8.99)
The Dangerous Book for Boys Yearbook - Conn Iggulden
Packed with historical facts, seasonal activities and space to note your own adventures, 'The Dangerous Book for Boys Yearbook' will keep men and boys busy from January to December. (£20)
Beadle's Miscellany, from the "Independent" - Jeremy Beadle
The best of his weekly general knowledge brainteasers - Which is the only muscle in the human body not attached at both ends? Which fictional characters live in a block of flats named after the author of the autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom"? (£7.99)
Ayres on the Air: No. 2 - Pam Ayres (CD
Six programmes on CD. (£15.99)
Ladies of Letters Say No (CD) £10.99
Boners: Seriously Misguided Facts According to Schoolkids - Alexander Abingdon
Reissue of a humorous book of 1931 with early illustrations by Dr. Seuss.(£7.95)
Zen Wind Chimes - Jennifer Colella (£5.99)
LIFESTYLE
How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans (one with an Ill-fitting Lid) and No Fancy Gadgets - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... - Gill Holcombe (£9.99)
MBS
The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World - Lewis Hyde
An examination of the 'gift economy', this work is a defence of the place of creativity in our increasingly market-orientated society. Has been selling well in hardback. (£8.99)
Enneagram - John Waters; Ronna Phifer-Ritchie (£9.99)
Daily Guidance from Your Angels: 365 Angelic Messages to Soothe, Heal, and Open Your Heart - Doreen Virtue (£9.99)
The Healing Power of Water - Masaru Emoto (£9.99)
In God We Doubt: Confessions of an Angry Agnostic - John Humphrys
Broadcaster John Humphrys is proud to count himself among the ranks of the scorned agnostics. Doubt is not the easy option. But for the millions who can find no easy answers to the most profound questions it is the only possible one. (£18.99)
Introducing Freud - Richard Appignanesi; Oscar Zarate (£6.99)
Introducing Postmodernism - Richard Appignanesi; Chris Garratt (£6.99)
Introducing Feminism - Cathia Jenainati; Judy Groves (£9.99)
Introducing Psychology - Nigel Benson (£6.99)
Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening - Rita Marie Robinson
"The Extraordinary Wisdom of Ordinary Women" is a collection of intimate, heartfelt conversations with women spiritual teachers who live and look like ordinary people. They have kids, husbands, jobs, and bills to pay. What makes them extraordinary is that each woman has awakened to her true nature. (£11.99)
Personality: What Makes You the Way You are - Daniel Nettle
Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? Daniel Nettle takes the reader on a tour through the science of human personality, introducing the five 'dimensions' on which every personality is based, and using an unusual combination of individual life stories and scientific research, showing how our personalities stem from our biological makeup. (£12.99)
MEDIA
The Worst it Can be is a Disaster - Braham Murray
The autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Manchester which in 2006 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. (£16.99)
Seven Hundred Penguins
A celebration of Penguin covers (£20)
Granta Diary 2008: The Books They Tried to Ban
A colourful history of censorship and literary suppression, featuring the covers of books that have been banned by governments, courts and churches in the long struggle to prevent people reading what was deemed bad for them - "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in the UK, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in China, "Black Beauty" in South Africa ... (£10.99)
NATURE
RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds - Simon Harrap (£4.99)
A Lifetime of Mountains: The Best of A. Harry Griffin's Country Diary, ed Martin Wainwright
Harry Griffin's 'Country Diary' column for the "Guardian" ran uninterrupted for some 52 years until his death in 2004. This is a collection of the best of these columns, (£7.99)
The River Cottage Mushroom Handbook - John Wright (£12.50)
POETRY
Earth Shattering: Ecopoems, ed. Neil Astley
Over two hundred poems which address environmental destruction, celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink. (£8.99)
Stone Milk - Anne Stevenson
Anne Stevenson's engaging 14th collection opens with "A Lament for the Makers", an experimental sequence based on medieval dream poetry, followed by a series of shorter poems, mostly related to aging and the prospect (even the comfort) of dying. (£7.95)
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet within - Stephen Fry
A witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry. (£6.99)
Cats and Their Poets: An Anthology - ed. Maurice Craig (£12.50)
TRAVEL
New for 2008: the AA Pub Guide, AA Bed and Breakfast Guide and British Bed and Breakfast in the Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay series
A new Rough Guide to Australia, a new Lonely Planet Middle East phrasebook and guide book to India.
"Time Out" Shortlist Amsterdam 2008 (£6.99)
"Time Out" Shortlist New York 2008 (£6.99)
"Time Out" Shortlist Paris 2008 (£6.99)
"Time Out" Shortlist Rome 2008 (£6.99)
The "Which?" Good Food Guide 2008 - ed. Elizabeth Carter; Caroline Blake (£16.99)
The "Times" Map of the World (£6.99)
New Europe - Michael Palin
In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, Michael fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many of his own generation. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, the Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers. (£20)
Senor Nice: Straight Life from Wales to South America - Howard Marks
Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career so he wrote two best-selling books and embarked on a long-running sell-out series of one man shows. Then an elderly aunt told him of his great-great-grandfather Patrick McCarty, who had joined Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Patagonia and he decided to explore South America. (£7.99)
Island.Com - Ben Keene
Two 20-something ex-students Ben and Mark wondered if you could harness the energy of an online community to effect change in the real world. What if they put a website in charge of developing an eco tourism project on a desert island? A chance airport meeting led to Fiji where they met a local tribal leader, who agreed to lease them an island. Next they designed a website and called it Tribewanted. TV tie-in. (£10.99)
Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells: The Outlying Fells of Lakeland - A. Wainwright
Centenary edition of "The Outlying Fells of Lakeland", newly reproduced from the author's original handwritten pages. The last of the classic "Pictorial Guides" to the Lakeland Fells, this volume was compiled at the request of walkers no longer fit enough to scale the higher mountains of Lakeland. (£12.99)
CHILDREN
Ages 0-5yrs
Tiger in the Snow - Nick Butterworth
This is the second title
about the lovable kitten. With a rhythmic rhyming story to encourage language
skills it's full of endearing illustrations. Ages: 0-3yrs. (£5.99)
That Rabbit belongs to Emily Brown - Cressida Cowell
When the
Queen steals Emily Brown's favourite toy and erstwhile companion, a toy rabbit
called Stanley, Emily sets out to get him back and teach that naughty queen a
valuable lesson. This title is the winner of the 2006 Nestle Gold Award.. Ages:
3-5yrs. (£5.99).
Ages 5-9yrs
Elephants - Steve Bloom
Features over 50 superb full-colour
photos from the internationally bestselling photographer with text by David
Henry Wilson. With five easily navigable chapters it features elephants big and
small, young and old, African and Asian, and will captivate children
everywhere. (£9.99).
Ages 9-11yrs
Outcast - Michelle Paver
Eagerly awaited Fourth book in the
Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series. Torak now faces his fourth adventure in
his quest to vanquish the terrifying Soul-Eaters and finds himself cut off from
his clan and even from Wolf and Renn. The combination of Paver's meticulous
research into prehistory and her storytelling skill have made this series an
undoubted hit with readers Ages: 10+yrs. (£9.99)
Teenage
Jango - William Nicholson
Highly-anticipated second book in The Noble Warriors trilogy.The three friends Seeker, Morning Star and the Wild Man become disillusioned with the warrior sect; but they will need the remarkable physical skills they have acquired to face the challenges ahead. Publication of this paperback coincides with the third volume Noman in hardback.Ages: 10+ yrs. (£6.99)
AUGUST 2007
FICTION
PAPERBACK
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
A father and his son walk alone
through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast.
This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. Rave reviews.
(£7.99)
The Sea Lady - Margaret Drabble
Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love. (£7.99)
Light: A Novel - Margaret Elphinstone
May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. Meanwhile the Scottish engineer, Robert Stevenson, is modernising the nation's lighthouses, and Ellan Bride - and the future of the family - are under threat. (£7.99)
Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories - Ismail Kadare
Sacrificed to further a father's blood-soaked career; then forgotten. In this prequel to "The Successor", Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, and under a reign of terror where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds. Published here in English for the first time, written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time. (£7.99)
Starbook - Ben Okri
Tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical land where art, initiation and dynamic stillness are supremely important. No matter where we live and who we think we are, we all have access to the oracle, and a vision of life far greater than ourselves. (£7.99)
The Fall of Troy - Peter Ackroyd
Historical novel, set during the 19th century at the time that the Bronze Age site of Troy was being excavated, with Peter Ackroyd returning to one of his favourite themes: fakes, forgeries and plagiarism. (£7.99)
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Irvine Welsh
Black comedy about troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner. (£7.99)
Maggie's Tree - Julie Walters
Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling. Helena is the toast of Broadway. Maggie is an extremely beautiful but troubled actress - and she's cracking up fast, in fact she's 'out of her tree'. (£6.99)
A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear - Atiq Rahimi, trans. Sarah Maguire; Yama Yari
From the author of "Earth and Ashes" a novel which sends the reader deep into the fractured mind and emotions of a country caught between religion and the political machinations of the world's super powers. Farhad is a typical student, interested in wine, women and poetry, and negligent of the religious conservatism of his grandfather. But one night changes all that. (£6.99)
The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith
The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie edits a philosophical journal and consides how to improve the lives of those around her. (£6.99)
The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell
Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. (£6.99)
Vanishing Point - Marcia Muller
Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old disappearance of Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California - one of San Luis Obispo County's most mysterious cold cases. (£6.99)
Voices - Arnaldur Indridason
The award-winning continuation of the "Reykjavik Murder Mysteries" - Detective Erlendur finds himself in a grand Reykjavik hotel where the doorman - due to appear as Santa Claus - has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. (£6.99)
Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier
At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man. From the author of "Cold Mountain". (£7.99)
The Book of Air and Shadows - Michael Gruber
A clever, pacey thriller set around the search for a lost Shakespearean play. (£6.99)
Hurting Distance - Sophie Hannah
Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins - so terrible that she never told anybody. Now she has another secret. (£6.99)
The Mission Song - John Le Carre
Bruno Salvador is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. He is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages and is soon is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services, British Intelligenceand the all-white, Surrey-born star reporter Penelope. (£6.99)
The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth
The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they need inside information ... (£6.99)
REISSUES
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Marquez's first major, and controversial, work, published in a Colombian newspaper in 1955 and then in book form in 1970. In 1955, eight crew members of a Colombian destroyer were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. (£7.99)
Young Bess - Margaret Irwin
Growing up in the shadow of her dead mother, young Princess Elizabeth has learnt to be continuously on the watch for the political games played out around her. It is never certain when one might rise in, or precariously fall out of, royal favour. The first book of Irwin's historical trilogy about Elizabeth I. (£7.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Growing Out of Trouble - Montagu Don
Monty Don's own experience of recovering from depression and maintaining his sanity through gardening led him to set up an unusual project. In 2005, he began working with a group of disaffected young people. (£7.99)
Hello - Leslie Phillips
Best known for his comic roles in the Carry On and Doctor series, he took the decision in later life to take on more serious roles in films such as Empire of the Sun, Out of Africa and Scandal, as well as performing in plays such as The Cherry Orchard. Packed with hilarious anecdotes, in this long-awaited autobiography he recalls some of the great characters he has worked with, and also highlights how different he is in real life from his onscreen persona as a bounder. (£8.99)
Sheepwrecked - Jackie Moffat
Sequel to "Funny Farm" - the trials and tribulations, the occasional pitfall and the many pleasures of running a small working farm in the Eden Valley. (£6.99)
Mr Nice and Mrs Marks: Adventures with Howard - Judy Marks
"I have long wanted to write a book about my life and the extraordinary years I spent with my husband Howard Marks. I feel now is the time. I want to write it from a woman's perspective and describe what it was like to be married to such a charismatic drug smuggler." - Judy Marks Howard. (£7.99)
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Interventions - Noam Chomsky
Chomsky cogently examines the burning issues of our post-9/11 world, covering the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. (£12.99)
Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam - Jason Burke
To most in the West, 'al-Qaeda' is seen as a deadly, highly organised fanatical group masterminded by Osama bin Laden. Burke demonstrates that in fact 'al-Qaeda' is merely a convenient label applied by the West to a far broader - and thus more dangerous - phenomenon of Islamic militancy, and shows how eradicating a single figure or group will do nothing to combat terrorism. (£8.99)
Turning Back the Clock - Umberto Eco
With his customary sharpness and wit, Umberto Eco explains the tragic steps backwards that have been taken since 2000. After the Cold War, the "Hot War" has made its come-back in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's "Great Game", we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. This book proposes not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards. (£16.99)
50 Facts That Should Change the World - Jessica Williams
Updated and revised edition of Jessica Williams' hugely praised international bestseller. (£8.99)
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Girls Gone Wild - Deborah Siegel
After forty years, is feminism today a culture, or a cause? A movement for personal empowerment, or social change? Have women achieved equality, or do we still have a long way to go? (£9.99)
HISTORY
Thermopylae - Paul Cartledge
'The world's leading authority on ancient Sparta' tells the story of that fearsome city's finest hour. ‘Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie'. (£7.99)
The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776-1914 - Gavin Weightman
From the ironworks of rural England to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914., a fascinating social history interweaving accounts of the achievements of giants such as Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt, Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer and Edison. (£20)
Love and Louis XIV - Antonia Fraser
Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. (£9.99)
HUMOUR AND PUZZLES
Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges - Guy Browning
The big things in life look after themselves. It's the little things in life that cause the most trouble. Should you cross your bridge when someone else is burning it? In a monogamous relationship is it morally acceptable to tuck your side of the duvet in? What is the best way of establishing a queue when you are the first person in it? ? (£7.99)
Quick and Cryptic Crosswords from the Daily Telegraph and Bedside Sudoku.
Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps - Harry Oliver
Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Did Thomas Crapper really invent the flushing toilet? What accident led to the invention of the Microwave oven? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? (£9.99)
Philosophical Enquiries and Pretentious Postulations - Charlotte
Hathaway
Philosophy, from Ancient Greek, philosophia, meaning 'love of
wisdom'... Can you ever be in the wrong place at the right time? If 299,792,458
m/s is the speed of light, what is the speed of dark? What happens if you get
scared half to death twice?... If you can argue it, it's philosophy!
(£5.99)
You're Nicked: The World's Craziest Crimes - Rosemary Furber (£4.99)
Surgically Enhanced - Pam Ayres
A new collection of stories and poems from the popular poet to make you laugh and make you think. (£7.99)
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
The Writer's Handbook 2008 - Barry Turner (£14.99)
Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2008 (£12.99)
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature - ed. Margaret Drabble et al (£11.99)
She Literally Exploded: The "Daily Telegraph" Infuriating Phrasebook - Christopher Howse; Richard Preston (£5.99)
LIFESTYLE
Forgotten Household Crafts - John Seymour
Rediscover the lost world of traditional household crafts with 'the grand master of self-sufficiency'. Master tried and trusted methods that have been honed over the centuries and learn to make butter and cheese, embroider, keep bees, decorate your home, and more. (£12.99)
Organic Home - Rosamond Richardson-Gerson, ed. Gillian Emerson-Roberts
Natural, safe and healthy living for the home - do you dislike using products that harm the environment, but are put off by alternatives because they aren't as effective, or will take more time? (£12.99)
The Flatmate Survival Handbook - Tanya Sassoon
Everything you need to make the experience of flatmatedom more bearable - learn how to cope with the Dole Bludger, the Psycho and One Half of a Couple. Enforce bathroom and get your deposit back. (£5.99)
The Virgin University Survival Guide - Karla Fitzhugh
Advice and information that will see students through the whole of their uni life, including: getting ready to go - what to take and what to leave behind; freshers week - what to do and what definitely not to do; studying, accommodation, money; health and stress; campus crime and safety; work and careers. And, of course, hedonism. (£7.99)
School Smart: Make Your Child a Success - Stephen Hastings
Every parent wants their child to do well at school. But learning doesn't end in the classroom. Stephen Hastings argues that parents can make a real difference and, through a realistic, holistic approach, aims to show parents how to help their children succeed at school. (£7.99)
Kids' Parties: A Survival Guide for Parents (£6.99)
Bumper Book of Baby Names: The Intelligent Approach to Choosing Imaginative, Interesting Names - Georgina Wintersgill (£7.99)
101 Things to Do in Wartime, 1940 - B. Lille; Arthur C. Horth
This is a delightful piece of wartime publishing full of the make-do-and-mend ethos that helped win the war, from knitting balaclava helmets for the navy to making croquet games for the floor and table for blackout days. The suggestions are, by turn, funny, charming and useful, but are a fantastic insight into a nation's psyche. (£7.99)
Extreme Office Crafts: Creative and Devious Ways to Waste Office Supplies and Company Time - Jimmy Knight; Tom Chalmers
Bored, having the day from hell? Why not pillage the stationery cupboard and brighten up your day with this witty book! Create Post-it note mosaics and craft a glittering crown embellished with coloured paper clips and highlighters. Help pass the afternoon with a game of "Boss Phrase Bingo" or give yourself a Tipp-Ex manicure! (£5.99)
Official Highway Code 2007 (£2.50)
The Official DSA Guide to Driving 2007: The Essential Skills (£12.99)
MBS
Lunchbox Letters: Writing Notes of Love and Encouragement to Your Children - Carol Sperandeo & Bill Zimmerman (£5.95)
Gardening and Planting by the Moon 2008: Higher Yields in Vegetables and Flowers - Nick Kollerstrom (£8.99)
Llewellyn's 2008 Moon Sign Book and Gardening Almanac (£6.99)
Cosmic Ordering Wish Diary 2008 - Barbel Mohr (£7.99)
Llewellyn's 2008 Astrological Pocket Planner (£6.99)
MEDIA
And Now on Radio 4: A Birthday Celebration of the World's Best Radio Station - Simon Elmes
An enthusiast's guide including some wonderful forgotten corners. The
audiobook is arranged in the form of a typical day from the UK Theme to
"Sailing By". (Book £12.99, CD £13.99)
The Rough Guide to Film - Tom Charity; Lloyd Hughes; Jessica Winter
A bold new guide to cinema. From Altman to Zefferelli, this book puts directors and their film careers centre screen - plus thousands of recommended films reviewed for DVD. The ultimate who's who and what to watch for the world of film. (£18.99)
NATURE
RSPB Children's Guide to Birdwatching - David Chandler; Mike Unwin
This new RSPB-endorsed book is a practical, exciting and comprehensive introduction to watching birds, for children aged 8-12 years. (£6.99)
POETRY
Look, We Have Coming to Dover! - Daljit Nagra
This collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration, assimilation, alienation and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. (£6.99)
On a Bat's Wing: Poems About Bats - ed. Michael Baron (£7.99)
RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction - Helen Morales
From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? (£7.99)
Buddha - Deepak Chopra
A re-imagining of his life presents a new form of teaching from Chopra, who shows how the iconic journey of the prince who became the Buddha has changed the world forever, and how the lessons he taught continue to influence every corner of the world. (£10.99)
The Qur'an: A Biography - A Book That Shook the World - Bruce Lawrence
Few books in history are as poorly read or understood as the Qur'an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, it is regarded by the faithful as the unmediated word of Allah. This book describes the origins of the faith in seventh-century Arabia, looks at why the Qur'an needs to be both memorized and recited by its followers, discusses the book's many doubters and commentators and assesses its influence today - and emphasizes that the Qur'an demands interpretation, and can only be properly understood through its history. (£7.99)
A Book of Uncommon Prayer - Theo Dorgan
A collection of spiritual and devotional texts, drawn from both inside and outside the limits of the world's religious traditions, organized with attention to the occasions of prayer, prayerful thought, and meditation. In an age marked at once by religious violence and the falling away of orthodox religious observance in the West, here is a book that recognizes - and demonstrates - the universality of prayer. (£14.99)
SPORT AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
An Outdoor Book for Girls - Lina Belle Beard; Adelia Belle Beard
Do you know how to make a raft of logs, find your way by the north star, or bake biscuits on a stone? From what to wear in camp to how to identify poisonous plants, making flapjacks in the outdoors to preparing a tourniquet, "An Outdoor Book for Girls" is the perfect manual for all those tomboys out there who would rather be on the trail than tied to the kitchen sink. First published in 1915. No boys allowed. (£9.99)
Playfair Football Annual 2007-2008 - Jack Rollin (£6.99)
TRAVEL
Signspotting: No. 2 - Doug Lansky
Whatever adventure you're after - whether it be a trip to the Curry Prevention Services Unit in Oregon or the Ha Ha Cemetery in New Brunswick, Canada - let this new collection of signs from around the globe continue to guide, confuse and amuse you! (£6.99)
You Can Get Arrested for That - Richard Smith
What started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States - a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books. In the Land of the Free, it is illegal to: lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota); play a trumpet with the intention of luring someone to a store (California); and, catch a fish with a lasso (Tennessee). (£6.99)
Daniel O’Donnell’s Ireland: Songs and Scenes from My Homeland
In this lavishly illustrated new book, the musical star invites you to explore the stunning locations of his homeland - from its most popular beauty spots to its hidden gems - and the songs that were inspired by the landscapes and natural beauty of Ireland. (£20)
Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides - David Yeadon
Most dramatic of all the Hebrides is Harris, with its dramatic mountains and huge, pristine sandy beaches bordering the open Atlantic. Yeadon captures in words and through his evocative line drawings the life of the island people, their folkways and humour and the simple life of crofting and fishing which have hardly changed in hundreds of years. (£14.95)
Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape - Raja Shehadah
This work covers over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. Raja Shehadeh, celebrated human rights campaigner and lawyer, navigates recent Palestinian history, from Ayn Kenya to the Shukba Caves, the Ramallah hills and the Dead Sea. (£10.99)
New Lonely Planet Guides to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and Rough Guides to Amsterdam, Cuba and the Pyrenees
A variety of new phrasebooks from Berlitz, new road atlases from Michelin, and a World Atlas from AA
Children's Books
Ages 0-5yrs
Meerkat Mail - Emily Gravett
Sunny, the meerkat lives with his enormous family in the Kalahari
desert. They are all very close ...so close, in fact, that one day Sunny
decides he's had enough and packs his bags. He's off to visit his mongoose
cousins. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal
lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn't fit in. Ages: 2+ yrs.
(£5.99)
Ages 5-9yrs
Mr Gum and the Goblins- Andy Stanton
Mr Gum and a wacky cast of characters is back in the third hilarious book of this series which can best be described as a cross between Roald Dahl and Monty Python. This series is a huge hit with younger independent readers. Ages: 6+ yrs (£4.99)
Ages 9-11yrs
Woodenface - Gus Grenfell
Meg is a Maker, pouring life into the wooden dolls she carves. Accused of witchcraft, she flees to Halifax, only to find her father in jail, facing death by the gibbet. Desperate to save him, she must first learn what being a Maker really means. Local history and folklore combine in a compelling debut novel full of magic and suspense. Ages: 9-12 yrs (£5.99)
Teenage
Shades Children - Garth Nix
In a futuristic urban wasteland evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past their 14th birthday. This chilling science fiction thriller comes from international bestselling author of the Keys to the Kingdom series. Ages: 12+ yrs (£5.99)
JULY 2007
FICTION
HARDBACK
Life Class – Pat
Barker
In 1914, art student Paul Tarrant leaves behind his beautiful
fellow student Elinore to tend to casualties on the front line. By the time he
returns home he must not only confront the challenge of how to respond to all
he has seen in art but also face up to the fact that life and love will never
be the same again (£14.99 at The Book Case)
World
According To Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith
The fourth in the hit
series revolving around the many colourful characters that come and go at No 44
Scotland Street. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
Cheating At
Canasta – William Trevor
A husband sits in Harry’s Bar in
Venice, thinking of his lost wife. At another table, a young couple quarrel. An
outstanding collection of short stories from the acknowledged master of the
genre. (£14.99 at The Book case)
Charlemagne & Roland
– Allan Massie
Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814
and for some of that time king of the Lombards. In 800 Pope Leo III crowned him
Emperor of the Romans and so of the Western Empire. Today both France and
Germany look to him as a founding figure. His nephew, Roland, was renowned for
his prowess in battle and inspired the Chanson de Roland. This book vividly
brings to life not only their legendary battles but also the lives and loves of
those around them. (£10.99 at The Book
Case)
PAPERBACK
Terrorist – John
Updike
Set in contemporary New Jersey, 'Terrorist' traces the journey of
one young man from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the
backdrop of a fraying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented community.
But “Of those who plot, God is the best”.. (£8.99)
Imperium – Robert Harris
Takes us inside the
violent, treacherous world of Ancient Roman politics, to describe how one man -
clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable - fought to reach the top.
(£6.99)
Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
A sprawling,
epic novel of friendships and betrayals, and of the terrible violence of an
astonishing modern city and its underworld. (£7.99)
One
Good Turn – Kate Atkinson
It is the Edinburgh Festival. People
queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which
changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police,
ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a
suspect. (£7.99)
Lay Of The Land – Richard Ford
It is the autumn of 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of
optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes
have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least
there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the
tranquillity he anticipated is not to be. (£7.99)
Escape
From Amsterdam – Barrie Sherwood
Featuring yakuza gangsters,
motorcycle gangs, a phoney princess, a genuine rice farmer, tetrapods, topiary
dinosaurs, pre-digested coffee, high-tech love dolls, Aozora's own photographs
and a selection of Japanese manga, this playful, offbeat and funny novel paints
an unsettling portrait of contemporary Japan and introduces a strikingly
original and inventive writer. (£9.99)
Kingdom Come
– J G Ballard
Could Consumerism turn into Fascism? The author holds
up a mirror to middle England, reflecting an unsettling image of suburbia and
revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and
flag-waving patriotism. (£7.99)
I Did A Bad Thing –
Linda Green
From a local author, a debut chick noir novel. Sarah Roberts
did something bad. Now, years later, she's good again. She works as a local
newspaper reporter and lives with her saintly boyfriend Jonathan. She has no
reason to think her guilty past will ever catch up with her.
(£6.99)
Lisey’s Story – Stephen
King
Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a 25 year
marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was a celebrated
novelist and a complex man. Lisey knew there was a dark place where he ventured
to face his demons, and now it’s her turn to face them. (£6.99)
Astrid & Veronika – Linda Olsson
In the midst of a harsh
winter, young writer Veronika arrives in the Swedish countryside seeking
stillness and solitude to come to terms with a recent tragedy. Her arrival is
silently observed by gaunt Astrid, her elderly, reclusive neighbour from the
farm next door, who in turn guards her own secrets. Astrid tentatively offers
comfort in the form of companionship and lovingly home-cooked meals, but their
friendship is a stop-start one. As the icy winter gives way to spring, Astrid
and Veronika are drawn together and begin to embark on a tender and unusual
friendship. Confiding in one another over hot-smoked trout and the new season's
strawberries, the two women swap memories of loves lost, and the dark secrets
that surround them both begin to come to light ...
(£7.99)
House At Riverton – Kate Morton
An
old-fashioned upstairs-downstairs saga set in the first half of the twentieth
century, but with a mystery at its heart. A Richard & Judy choice.
(£6.99)
Was – Geoff Ryman
Orphan Dorothy goes
to live in Kansas with Aunty Em and Uncle Henry; Baby Frances, grows up to be a
famous movie star, adored the world over. Jonathan sees his first movie on
television in November 1956. It will haunt him for the rest of his life.
(£7.99)
Rumpole & The Reign Of Terror – John
Mortimer
A Rumpole novel which takes on New Labour and the Timson
family, and includes extracts from the memoirs of Hilda Rumpole, aka 'she who
must be obeyed'. (£7.99)
If You Liked School You’ll
Love Work – Irvine Welsh
A short-story collection which sets us
five tricky questions. From one of the funniest and filthiest writers in
Britain. (£11.99)
Paula Spencer – Roddy
Doyle
Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday - she hasn't
had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and
Leanne, are still living with her. (£7.99)
Jamilia –
Chingiz Aitmatov
A love story first published in 1956. Jamilia's husband
is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from
the threshing floor to the train station in their small village in the
Caucasus, accompanied by Seit, her young brother-in-law, and Daniyar, a sullen
newcomer. A modern classic of Russian literature. (£7.99)
Maze – Panos Karnezis
Set in Anatolia in 1922,
this is the story of a Greek brigade that has lost its way and is pursued
by a vengeful Turkish army. Their only chance of salvation is to reach the
coast and sail home. (£7.99)
Moldavian Pimp –
Edgardo Cozarinsky
In a bar in a Buenos Aires suburb, the narrator
recalls his encounters with an old Lithuanian man. He finds script of a curious
Yiddish play from the 1920s about young Jewish girls from the Ukraine recruited
by Jewish pimps to go to Argentina on the promise of freedom and a new life,
only to find themselves sold into prostitution. A first novel by the celebrated
French-Argentine film-maker. (£7.99)
Blind Willow
Sleeping Woman – Haruki Murakami
An eclectic, eccentric and
altogether brain-bending new collection of short stories from the cult Japanese
author. (£7.99)
Fat – Rob Grant
A satire of
our obsession with body image, revolving around an overweight man, an anorexic
teenager, and a self-absorbed 'conceptualist' employed to promote the
government's new 'Fat Farms'. Funny, hard-hitting and moving.
(£6.99)
Toyminator – Robert Rankin
The sequel
to 'The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse'. Somewhere over the rainbow
and just off the yellow brick road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town.
And things are not going well there. (£7.99)
Railway
Viaduct – Edward Marston
A Detective Inspector Colbeck historical
crime railway mystery. (£6.99)
Night Watch – Sergei
Lukyanenko
A phenomenal Russian bestseller - a gloriously readable
grunge fantasy/vampire novel set in a richly realised and post-Soviet Moscow.
(£7.99)
End Games – Michael Dibdin
From the
late Michael Dibdin, a new Aurelio Zen mystery set in remote Calabria, at the
toe of the Italian boot. Beneath the surface of a tight-knit traditional
community, violent forces are at work. (£9.99)
Collectors
– David Baldacci
From the author of 'The Camel Club'. When a man is
found dead by Caleb Shaw, two conspiracies are destined to meet as the Club
determines to track down the dead man's long-lost wife - and Annabelle, a
beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, decides to avenge the death of her
beloved ex-husband. (£6.99)
Naming Of The Dead – Ian
Rankin
The new Rebus novel. A murder has been committed - but as the
victim is a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is that concerned
about the crime, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke
uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose...
£6.99)
Ten Second Staircase – Christopher
Fowler
The fourth Bryant & May mystery, involving a controversial
artist found dead in her own art installation and a cape-clad highwayman atop a
black stallion. (£6.99)
REISSUES
King Solomon’s Mines – H Rider
Haggard
The first fictional adventure novel set in Africa, 'King
Solomon's Mines' captured the imagination of the British public and is
considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.
(£4.99)
Iain Pears:
Death & Restoration
(£6.99)
Immaculate Deception
(£6.99)
Talking Heads – Alan Bennett
Combines
both series of the famous programme.
(£7.99)
NON-FICTION
ART AND
ANTIQUES
Millers Antiques Price Guide 2008 – (ED) Jonty
Hearnden
Still the bestselling, original Antiques Price Guide, with over
8,000 items new to each edition. Jonty Hearnden, presenter of BBC television's
Cash in the Attic, now in its 10th series, is the New Miller's Consultant
Editor. (£24.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Hardy The
Time Torn Man – Claire Tomalin
Thomas Hardy's life was
extraordinary - this seminal biography covers his illegitimate birth, his rural
upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a
bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet.
(£8.99)
Sand In My Shoes – Joan
Rice
“War-Time Diaries of a WAAF.” A personal account of a
young woman's experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim
Rice. Joan's story has lain untouched for some fifty years. Incorporating
additional material from her husband's own notes, her diary is a testament to
the many women who kept the RAF in the air.
(£7.99)
Telling Some Tales – Anna Massey
The
autobiography of one of the UK's most respected actresses. A candid, wry, funny
and emotional account of a life intensely lived.
(£8.99)
Sound Of Laughter – Peter Kay
The
autobiography of Britain's most popular comedian. His autobiography is full of
humour and nostalgia, beginning wit