Forthcoming

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The first book after Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize takes her back to her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents lead. 'I think my father's rage at the trenches took me over, when I was very young, and has never left me. Do children feel their parents' emotions? Yes, we do, and it is a legacy I could have done without.’ (£14.99 at The Book Case)

The Ottoman Army - the most powerful the world had known by that time - lays siege to a Christian fortress in the mountains of Albania. Above the colourful host looms the great dark wall of the citadel that has to be overcome. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother's influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. (£6.99)

Nine-year-old Lawrence is the man in his family, watching protectively over his mother and his wilful little sister Jemima. When the three of them suddenly move to Rome it seems at first to be a great adventure: a long drive through the night to the city of popes and emperors. But his mother's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, and the threat that had forced them to Italy seems to have followed them there. (£7.99)

From a chance encounter between two childhood friends to the memories of a newly widowed man to a family grappling with the sale of their ancestral land, Trevor examines with grace and skill the tenuous bonds of our relationships, the strengths that hold us together, and the truths that threaten to separate us. (£7.99)

In the long hot summer of 1939, Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. (£7.99)

Once a fortnight, a nomadic settlement in the dusty Kenyan desert awaits the arrival of three camels laden down with panniers of books. This is a scheme set up to bring books to scattered tribes whose daily life is dominated by drought, famine and disease. But one day a book is stolen. (£6.99)

Nora Manin decides to leave her fractured life in London to start again in Venice - and there begins to unravel the story of her ancestor, Corradino Manin, the greatest artist of glass that the famous island of Murano ever produced. (£7.99)

Sequel to "The Valley". Beneath the surface of an idyllic rural town, personalities clash, hatreds simmer and blackmail and sexual debauchery abound, while the Mayoress wants to commission a town statue from a provocative drunk, and the penniless commodore plans to hire out his mansion to a dishonest film crew. (£7.99)

When fifteen year-old Tom finds himself in the back of a stolen car, driven by local wideboy Luke, he doesn't at first feel perturbed; until, that is, the car and its occupants find themselves upside-down on a lonely beach. (£6.99)

It is 1846, the height of the Great Hunger in Ireland, and young Fergus is forced to grow up fast and begins an epic journey from innocence to experience. (£8.99)

Complex thriller set in the 1930s - evocation of Nazi Germany on the eve of war. (£7.99)

The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon - Alexandre Dumas

The lost final novel by the master of the epic swashbuckling adventure stories: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. The last cavalier is Count de Sainte-Hermine, Hector, whose elder brothers and father have fought and died for the Royalist cause during the French Revolution. (£8.99)

Three musketeers. Two enemies. One major battle.' 'All for one and one for all!' Country boy d'Artagnan is desperate to join the King's elite band of bodyguards, the Musketeers. (£8.99)

A surreal tale of duality and interchanging rivalry when a rich idle man has to confront the husband of his dead mistress. (£2.50)

This new translation also includes the chapter 'Stavrogin's Confession', which was considered to be too shocking to print. New Oxford World Classics edition.(£8.99)

'Coward! Sneak! May good men shun him, from henceforth! may his Queen refuse to receive him! You, an earl's daughter! Oh, Isabel! How utterly you have lost yourself!' When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution. New Oxford World Classics edition.(£9.99)

Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations is as fresh, outspoken, and exciting today as it was in when it was first published in 1862. New Oxford World Classics edition.(£6.99)

Arrow are reissuing a large number of the P G Wodehouse books at £7.99 each, including The Code of the Woosters, Right Ho, Jeeves, Summer Lightning, Piccadilly Jim and Something Fresh - 'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry

Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. First published in 1938, now a film. (£9.00)

Explores English domestic life at the time of WWII, separation, fear, evacuation, obsession with food and the social revolution of wartime. (£9.00)

'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten ...but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses Morty Donovan when 'Copper John' Brodrick builds his mine at Hungry Hill. Back in print after 20 years. (£7.99)

Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written. Over 230 of the world's greatest novels are covered, from "Quixote" (1614) to Orhan Pamuk's "Snow" (2002), with information about their plots and their authors - and suggestions for what to read next. (£7.99)

A comprehensive account of eccentric objects collected by Parr over 25 years. (£19.95)

Examines the wide range and varied character of the historic buildings which constitute the Northern Quarter's townscape, and the forces and trends which have contributed to its appearance. (£7.99)

Images culled from National Geographic's vast photographic archive as well as other important collections presenting a wonderfully varied group portrait of people at work all over the years and the last two centuries. (£9.99)

The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. £12.99)

The inspirational story of Blackburn-born contralto Kathleen Ferrier, drawing on a variety of sources, from photographs, diaries, and private letters, to the memoirs and recollections of those who knew her best. (£12.99)

Mike Pannett has just taken up a new posting in rural North Yorkshire. It's quite a change from the Met, where he dealt with riots on the capital's streets, drug gangs in Battersea and gun crime in Croydon. (£7.99)

Four Revenge Tragedies: "Spanish Tragedy", The "Revenger's Tragedy", The "Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois", and The "Atheist's Tragedy", ed. Maus

In a definitive career-length interview, Mike Leigh reflects on all that has gone into the making of his unique body of work. Director of "Secrets and Lies", "Vera Drake" and the now-legendary "Abigail's Party". (£14.99 at the Book Case)

"No Fear Shakespeare Illustrated - Graphic Novels" is a series based on the translated texts of the plays found in "No Fear Shakespeare". Forthcoming are Macbeth, Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet. Each book features an illustrated cast of characters, helpful plot summary, line-by-line translations of the play and illustrations.

A concise, provocative, authoritative guide to the issues surrounding global warming and the future of the world's energy supplies. (£7.99)

Our culture needs some fresh air. We are boring ourselves to death by re-packaging the same flavorless pap based on a patronizing and second-hand version of what we think other people want. Meanwhile, out there, the world is as complex, beautiful and mysterious as ever. (£10.99)

A restorative gift book for the stressed out, tired and hassled. An antidote to our non-stop culture, it is a welcome compendium of timeless delights. (£9.99)

This friendly guide walks readers through the basics: how to turn on the computer, use the keyboard and mouse, find your way around the Windows Vista operating system, understand files and folders, and so on. It uses a larger text font and a larger size for figures and drawings, making the book accessible and easy to read. (£13.99)

A staggeringly large guide to all that a modern boy needs to know and to do (£7.99)

There's no one quite like your Grandad, with all his daft jokes, songs, old-fashioned games and crazy stories. "The Grandads' Book" celebrates this most wonderful of family members with a miscellany of all the things that make grandads great. (£9.99)

Perfect for people lacking inspiration, "Things To Do With Dad" is packed with cool, fun and original games, projects and activities that will captivate both kids and dads alike. (£10)

Entries include: Spooky games - "Murder in the Dark"; Playground games - "What's the Time Mr. Wolf?"; Swimming games - Sharks and Minnows; Card games - Gin Rummy; Paper games - Consequences; Ball games - Sevens; Car games - Back Seat Snooker. (£5.00)

Entries include: Little Miss Muffet; Hey Diddle, Diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle; Oranges and Lemons; Round and Round the Mulberry Bush; Three Blind Mice; Humpty Dumpty; Ring a Ring O' Roses; and, Little Jack Horner. (£5.00)

Assortment of new colouring and puzzle books from Dover including the Alhambra, Pirates and Mandalas

Mr Marshal's Flower Book: Being a Compendium of the Flowers Portraits of Alexander Marshal Esq.

The only surviving example of a 17th-century Flower Book, reproducing the original watercolours to take the reader through a year in a garden of the period (£9.95)

In this magnificent book, the distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe sees Europe not in terms of states and shifting land boundaries, but as a geographical niche particularly favoured in facing many seas, with great transpeninsular rivers and a rich diversity of natural resources. It became one of the most innovative regions on the planet, bearing restless adventurers who traversed the globe to trade and often to settle. (£30)

Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year. New Oxford World Classics edition.(£7.99)

Cornelius Tacitus, widely acknowledged as the greatest of all Roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous 'Year of the Four Emperors' - AD 69 - when in just a few months the whole of the Roman Empire was torn apart by civil war. New Oxford World Classics edition.(£8.99)

Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture. She discovers that the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance. (£8.99)

Celebrates the vision and determination of the ambitious Victorian pioneers who developed this revolutionary transport system and the navvies who cut through the land to enable a countrywide network to emerge, up to the present day. (£8.99)

"Encompasses an account of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War alongside general Middle Eastern and military history, politics, adventure and drama. It is also a memoir of the soldier known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'." (£9.99)

Confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. (£8.99)

Best of British: A Celebration of Brilliant Britain - Georgina Eade (£5.00)

'When I was just forty-two I suffered a severe stroke. Paralysed on my left side and unable to walk, I was confined to hospital for three months, then spent about a year recovering, slowly getting myself back into the world. When I was seriously ill in hospital, I longed to read a book that would tell me that I might expect in convalescence and also give me something to think about...' (£7.99)

Teach Yourself Successful Potty Training - Geraldine Butler; Bernice Walmsley (£6.99)

'Leave Your Former Self behind and step this way. You are about to meet the most powerful person in the world: You.’ (£9.99)

Throughout the ages believers have been persecuted -- usually for believing in the "wrong" God. So have non-believers who have denied the existence of God as superstitious rubbish. Today it is the agnostics who are given a hard time. (£7.99)

The Way of a Pilgrim - trans. Nina A. Toumanova
An anonymous Russian peasant attempts to follow St Paul's advice to "pray without ceasing," offering profound theological and philosophical observations and a portrait of 19th-century Russian life. (£3.50)

The Little People of the British Isles: Pixies, Brownies, Sprites and Other Rare Fauna - Paul Johnson (£4.99)

Becoming Clairvoyant: Develop Your Psychic Abilities to See into the Future - Cassandra Eason (£11.99)

This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession - Daniel J. Levitin

A comprehensive explanation of how humans experience music. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, Levitin reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience. (£8.99)

Ray Mears has travelled the world to see how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. What's always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves. In this book he travels back ten thousand years to a time before farming to learn how our ancestors found, prepared and cooked their food. (£14.99)

British Orchids: A Site Guide - Roger Bowmer
A handy reference to the locations of the 51 species of wild orchid native to the British Isles. Author lives in Littleborough.

Produced with similar values to "The Art Book", the paintings are reason alone to buy the book but this is also a useful bird recognition guide: the artwork is accurate, with more than enough plumage and anatomical detail to separate every species. (£8.99)

These new translations present Plato's remarkable dramatization of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charges of irreligion and corrupting the young. New Oxford World Classics edition.(£6.99)

Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies - Rene Descartes

A deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the book, Parini has recovered a truth often obscured by our clamorous culture: without poetry, we live only partially, not fully conscious of the possibilities that life affords. (£14.99)

In Person: 30 Poets Filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, ed. Neil Astley (book + 2 DVDs)

Thirty poets from around the world read to you in person. This is a new concept in publishing: your own personal poetry festival brought into your home. Each poet reads to you for about ten minutes - up to half a dozen poems chosen from across the range of their work, sometimes saying a few things about the poems. (£12.00)

The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-making - Al Gore (£8.99)

Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the tumultuous years of Tony Blair's leadership, providing the first important record of a remarkable decade in our national life. (£6.99)

Drawing on first-hand experience of Venezuela and meetings with Hugo Chavez, Tariq Ali shows how Chavez's views have polarized Latin America and examines the hostility directed against his administration. (£8.99)

Free markets, we're told, mean free people. Yet around the world this 'freedom' is being paid for in blood. When a catastrophe occurs - whether war, terrorist attack or natural disaster - there are people cleaning up and cashing in. (£8.99)

The most scandalous, dangerous, incompetent, and downright awful people to ever seek power. The most lavish palaces, the bloodiest coups, the stupidest declarations ... (£9.99)

Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fall-outs, the drink, and the crumbling of Brian Clough's heady twenty years as manager of Nottingham Forest. (£8.99)

The complete text of the original laws of cricket, illustrated with images from the manuscript held at the MCC and from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Rules of Association Football, 1863: The First FA Rule Book - The Bodleian Library

New Rough Guides to England, Greece and Scotland and new Lonely Planet Guides to Canada, Egypt, Scotland and Georgia, Armenia & Azerbaijan

A sheaf of sturdy plastic cards with 1000+ easily understood drawings and diagrams to assist a traveller with limited local language skills to communicate in a wide range of situations. (£7.99)

Describes an extraordinary odyssey, courageous and sometimes dangerous, to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire. This book is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands - wild mind - as the author explores the words and meanings which shape our ideas and our experience of our own wildness. (£8.99)

Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things: An Impossible Journey from Kabul to Chiapas - Gary Geddes

Geddes’ fascination with 5th-century Buddhist monk Huishen culminated in a modern retracing of his epic journey. As the Silk Road morphs into superhighways, and ancient sculptures turn into military targets, Geddes glimpses, in the collision of past and present history, important clues for imagining a workable future. (£8.99)

Britain has something for all musical tastes, from the Glastonbury, Reading and V festivals, the Green Man festival and Creamfields to Edinburgh, the Good Food Summer Festival, the Stilton World Cheese Rolling Championships, the Llangollen International Eisteddfod; or the Outsider Festival or Larmer Tree festival.This is a fun-seeker's guide with a difference, giving you the low-down on the best events taking place up and down the country, in every month of the year. (£9.99)

One woman's journey across the world as she explores the magic and history behind the ingredients of her own bespoke perfume. Author is Hebden Bridge-based.

A slow-paced reflection of life on the islands by the Irish playwright ibn 1901, reflecting his belief that beneath the Catholicism of the islanders it was possible to detect a substratum of the older pagan beliefs of their ancestors. Illustrated by Jack B. Yeats, brother of the poet. (£9.99)

Records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket - so that he often feels he is embarking on two journeys - the first his assignment as a reporter, the second following Herodotus' expeditions. (£8.99)

When Whale gets stuck on an ice floe, will his friends be able to rescue him? Wonderful illustrations help tell this story of friendship with a gentle ecological theme Ages: 2+ yrs. (£5.99)

Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People - Dav Pilkey

Captain Underpants returns to face his nemesis, the evil Captain Blunderpants. Laughs, evil, horror and high adventure in this all new story now in paperback. Ages: 7+ yrs (£4.99)

Milly-Molly-Mandy - instantly recognizable in her pink candy-striped dress - has enchanted generations of readers. This facsimile edition features 21 cheerful stories, ideal for reading aloud. (£8.99)

A guide that covers subjects like techniques and interpreting evidence, with stories of real excavations. Ages: 9-12 yrs (£14.99)

From author of "Goodnight Mister Tom", a gripping mystery-thriller set in post-war Britain. (£6.99)

Now in paperback, the latest in the Young Bond series features an action-packed, non-stop adventure set in the Mexican jungle. Ages: 10+ yrs (£6.99)

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