APRIL 2008
FICTION
HARDBACK
The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie
A tall,
yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the
Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor
Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital.
(£16.99 at The Book Case)
The Butt - Will Self
Tom
Brodzinski is a man who takes his own good intentions for granted. But when he
finally decides to give up smoking, a moment's inattention to detail becomes
his undoing. Flipping the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of the
holiday apartment he's renting with his family, he badly burns a fellow
countryman. (£12.99 at The Book
Case)
PAPERBACK
Engleby - Sebastian
Faulks
Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think and is
devoid of scruple or self-pity. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his
observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power.
(£7.99)
Day - A.L. Kennedy
Alfred Day wanted his
war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a
Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and –
most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all
gone now. (£7.99)
Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga of
Roman Britain - Simon Young
From brilliant young ex-Hebden Bridge
historian a multi-generational family, part Roman, part Celtic (invaders
intermarrying with natives) to tell the dramatic story of 400 years of Roman
rule in Britain. (£8.99)
Ines of My Soul - Isabel
Allende
The story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on the shores of
Chile with the Conquistadors in the 1500s. A real historical figure, Ines
Suarez helped to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish
settlement in Santiago. (£7.99)
South of the River -
Blake Morrison
A tale of five people, two rivers, and many Englands,
metropolitan and rural, black and white, gloriously readable and brimming with
art and life. (£7.99)
A Tranquil Star: Unpublished
Stories - Primo Levi
A landmark selection of his short stories opens up
a world of wonder, love, cruelty and curious twists of fate, where nothing is
as it seems. (£8.99)
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. (£7.99)
The
Post-birthday World - Lionel Shriver
From the author of We Need to
Talk About Kevin. It all hinges on one kiss. Using a parallel universe
structure, we follow Irina's life as it unfolds under the influence of two
drastically different men. (£7.99)
Runt - Niall
Griffiths
On leaving school a sixteen-year-old boy goes to live with his
uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm. His aunt has recently committed suicide
after losing her livestock in the foot-and-mouth epidemic and his uncle has
turned, once again, to the bottle. (£7.99)
The Reluctant
Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Booker shortlisted story of how a the life
of a promising young Pakistani graduate in the US is changed following 9/11.
(£7.99)
Zugzwang - Ronan Bennett
From the Guardian
chess columnist, a chess thriller which was originally serialised in the
Observer. St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is
implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the
brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his
life but is on the verge of a breakdown. (£7.99)
The
Lollipop Shoes - Joanne Harris
Seeking refuge and anonymity in the
cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters live peacefully, if not
happily, above their little chocolate shop. The wind has stopped – at
least for a while. (£7.99)
The Blood of Flowers - Anita
Amirrezvani
Set in seventeenth-century Iran, the story of a village girl
whose dreams of marriage end on the death of her father. She and her mother are
reduced to servitude until she reveals a talent for designing carpets -- an
invaluable skill. (£6.99)
The Carhullan Army - Sarah
Hall
The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and
Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an
omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have
been seized, and women are compulsorily fitted with contraceptive devices.
(£7.99)
My Name is Salma - Fadia Faqir
Slipping
back and forth between the olive groves of the Levant and the rain-slicked
pavements of Exeter, this novel tells how a young Muslim asylum-seeker in
England runs from a brother who wants to commit honour killing
(£7.99)
The Bastard of Istanbul - Elif Shafak
One
rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an
abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What
happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around
her. (£7.99)
Thirteen - Sebastian
Beaumont
Compared to E F Benson and M R James – the bizarre
experiences of a nightshift taxi driver whose exhaustion alters his perception
of reality, luring him into a twilight world.
(£7.99)
Murder at Deviation Junction - Andrew
Martin
A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the
process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous
case for struggling Edwardian railway detective, Jim Stringer.
(£7.99)
The Children of Hurin - J. R. R. Tolkien. ed.
Christopher Tolkien
Restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented
for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story.
(£8.99)
REISSUES
The Little White Horse
– Elizabeth Goudge
It is 1842 and Maria Merryweather finds herself
in a house of secrets and mystery in a world caught up in time. Read by Juliet
Stevenson who plays Miss Heliotrope in the 2008 film based on the book. "I
absolutely adored The Little White Horse. It had a cracking plot. It was
scary and romantic in parts and had a feisty heroine." - J. K. Rowling.
(£9.99)
NON-FICTION
ART AND
CRAFT
Escher, Graphic Work (£7.99)
Money
Folding: Making Banknotes into Gifts You Can Spend - Jannie Van
Schuylenburg-Ter Aar (£6.99)
The Watercolour Wheel
Book - John Barber
The basic principles of colour mixing and applying
colour, with eight step-by-step projects designed to teach you the most
rewarding watercolour techniques, and an interactive colour wheel to see
the results of mixing different colours. (£9.99)
Build
Your Own Paper Plane Air Force - Trevor Bounford
(£9.99)
BIOGRAPHY
The Sum of Our Days - Isabel Allende
Leaving off from
where her famous memoir 'Paula' ends, 'The Sum of Our Days' reveals the
aftermath of the author's daughter's death and how the Allende managed to
survive the experience with the help of close friends and family. (£15.99
at The Book Case)
Jesus of Nazareth - Pope Benedict
XVI
In his first book written as Benedict XVI the Pope seeks to salvage
the person of Jesus from recent 'popular' depictions and to restore Jesus' true
identity as discovered in the Gospels.
(£8.99)
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage - Bill
Bryson (£7.99)
George Eliot - Jenny Uglow
One
of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one
of the most talked about. Intellectual and independent, she had the strength to
defy polite society with her highly unorthodox private life, so why did she
deny her fictional characters the same opportunities?
(£8.99)
The Fight for Fordhall Farm - Ben Hollins;
Charlotte Hollins
The astonishing story of a young brother and sister
faced with an unimaginable task -- escaping eviction from their home that had
been in their family since the 1700s, and saving their livelihood.
(£9.99)
My Life on a Hillside Allotment - Terry
Walton
Terry Walton has kept an allotment for over 50 years in the
Rhondda Valley, starting when he was 4, helping on his dad's plot on the side
of the mountain, and being sent to cut bracken and collect sheep manure to feed
the rows of vegetables. By the time he was 11 he had his own plot and soon
established an allotment empire to grow the vegetables and flowers he sold to
local customers. (£7.99)
Chosen by a Horse - Susan
Richards
A 40-something woman with a background of childhood abuse and
adult alcoholism takes in a derelict mare, and it turns her life around. Funny
and moving; the reactions of her other horses are also unforgettable.
(£7.99)
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Globalisation,
Democracy and Terrorism - Eric Hobsbawm
(£8.99)
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the
Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Raj Patel
(£8.99)
The No-nonsense Guide to International Migration
- Peter Stalker (£6.99)
The Olive Grove - Deborah
Rohan
A Palestinian family's transition from wealth and comfort to
statelessness and poverty, documenting the Moghrabi family's fight for
survival, their struggle against Turkish and British domination and the
following Zionist occupation. (£12.99)
Rebel, Rebel: How
to Start a Revolution - Bibi Van Der Zee
Fewer and fewer of us may be
turning out to vote, but individual campaigning has never been more effective -
or as crucial. From nuisance neighbours and airport expansion, to world debt
and climate change, this timely guide shows how everyone can campaign for a
better world. (£14.99)
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia - John
Gray
A manifesto on the need to abandon crusades – for religion,
utopia, democracy, human advance (£8.99)
ENVIRONMENT
The World without Us - Alan
Weisman
What if mankind disappeared right now, forever? ...what would
happen to the Earth in a week, a year, a millennium? Could the planet's climate
ever recover from human activity? How would nature destroy our huge cities and
our myriad plastics? (£8.99)
Green Cleaning: Natural
Hints and Tips – Margaret Briggs
(£2.99)
FOOD
Easy to Make! One-pot -
Good Housekeeping Institute (£5.99)
Easy to Make!
Salads and Dressings - Good Housekeeping Institute
(£5.99)
Easy to Make! Speedy Meals - Good Housekeeping
Institute (£5.99)
Easy to Make! Wok and Stir-fry -
Good Housekeeping Institute (£5.99)
Animal,
Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp; Camille
Kingsolver
The author of “Poisonwood Bible” and her family
attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden.
With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the
centre of the political and family agenda. Part memoir, part journalistic
investigation, and full of original recipes. (£8.99)
Slow
Cooking Through the Seasons - Carolyn Humphries (£8.99)
The Omega 3 Cookbook: Over 100 Smart Recipes for Body and
Brain - Michael Van Straten
(£4.99)
GARDENING
RHS Plant Finder
2008-2009 (£14.99)
The New Self-Sufficient Gardener:
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Planning, Growing, Storing and Preserving
Your Own Garden Produce - John Seymour (£20)
How to
Grow Beans, Peas, Asparagus, Artichokes and Other Shoots - Richard Bird
(£6.99)
How to Grow Successful Tomatoes - Richard
Bird (£6.99
HISTORY
The Great
Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in - Hugh
Kennedy
The Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Africa and
Spain within a generation. They annihilated the thousand-year-old Persian
Empire and reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state.
Within a hundred years of the Prophet's death, Muslim armies destroyed the
Visigoth kingdom of Spain, and crossed the Pyrenees to occupy southern France.
This is the first popular English language account of this astonishing remaking
of the political and religious map of the world.
(£12.99)
Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval
Empire - Judith Herrin
For a thousand years an extraordinary empire
combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, classical Greek learning with
Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilization which for centuries
held in check the armies of Islam. (£8.99)
How We Built
Britain - David Dimbleby
How did we get from the fortified tower to the
grand open mansion and back again to the gated communities of today? How did we
lose the marketplace to the out-of-town shopping mall? The dramatic and heroic
story of Britain's architecture – the extraordinary buildings that define
a nation and which grew out of the experiences and beliefs of the British
people. (£14.99)
The Industrial Revolutionaries: The
Creation of the Modern World 1776-1914 - Gavin Weightman
This vivid
social history reminds us machines are mere gadgets unless there are people to
make good use of them. Gavin Weightman charts of the spread of
industrialism from Britain to Europe, North America and Japan.
(£9.99)
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's
White Slaves in America - Don Jordan; Michael Walsh
Drawing on letters,
diaries, and court and government archives this book tells how in the 17th and
18th centuries, 300,000 British people – including street children and
prostitutes - became chattels in America to labour in the tobacco fields and
provide 'breeders' for Virginia. (£8.99)
Workhouse: The
People, the Places, the Life Behind Doors - Simon Fowler
(£8.99)
Life On a Convict Ship – David Brandon
(£4.99)
Life in Wellington’s Army – Paul Isemonger
(£4.99)
Postcards from the Trenches – intro. Andrew
Roberts
A collection of postcards portraying the strange subterranean
world of the WWI trenches. (£7.99)
Great Speeches of the
20th Century - The "Guardian" (£12.99)
The Original
Highway Code: Reproductions of Highway Code Booklets from the Thirties, Forties
and Fifties
Including signalling with your whip before the introduction
of indicators. (£7.99)
HUMOUR
QI: The
Pocket Book of General Ignorance - John Lloyd; John Mitchinson
A
comprehensive catalogue of all the misconceptions, mistakes and
misunderstandings in 'common knowledge' that will make you wonder why anyone
bothers going to school. Paperback. (£6.99)
The Little
Book of Senior Moments - Shelley Klein (£3.50)
Pam
Ayres in Potting On (CD)
New Radio 4 comedy series about a couple
running a garden centre who are facing middle age. 2h 48 (£15.99)
Ladies of Letters Go Green (CD)
(£8.99)
MBS
The Power of a Positive No -
William Ury
The most powerful word in the language is one that most
people find difficult to say. Yet when we know how to use it correctly, it has
the power to profoundly transform our lives. (£8.99)
Get
Out of My Life: But First Take Me and Alex into Town - Tony Wolf; Suzanne
Franks
Teenagers are tough and anyone who has their own needs help. Here
it is: a witty, enjoyable and genuinely helpful guide that breaks the mould.
(£8.99)
Is Anybody Up There? Adventures in Faith and
Doubt - Paul Arnott
As a young boy Paul Arnott believed in Adam and Eve,
Father Christmas and Baby Jesus. As he got older he found things weren't so
simple but what seems clear to Arnott is that to deny our spiritual side is to
deny our history, our humanity and crucially, a great deal of humour.
(£12.99)
Yoga for Beginners: 5000 Years of History and
Philosophy - Jon Platania
(£8.99)
MEDIA
The Unofficial Facebooker's
Social Survival Guide - Sarah Herman; Lucy York
Ever woken from a night
of revelry to find your drunken antics the subject of a tagfest? Ever
accidentally wall-posted yourself into a relationship row or been hunted by a
school-days stalker? How to navigate the perilous pitfalls of life online while
having as much fun as possible.
(£2.99)
MUSIC
Gig – Armitage
Punk, mod, new romantic and acclaimed poet Simon Armitage discusses the
music and poetry which have been instrumental to his life. Andrew Marvell, Ted
Hughes, Pulp and Joy Division all make appearances as he looks back on a
lifetime's worth of gigs. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
The
"Guardian" Book of Playlists: The Best of the "Guardian's" Readers Recommend -
Dorian Lynskey
The vast number of tracks available online can make the
choice of what music to download a bewildering process. The Guardian's weekly
'Readers Recommend' column offers imaginative and idiosyncratic suggestions for
music to download on a selected theme.
(£6.99)
NATURE
The Guide to British Garden
Birds - BBC Audiobooks
A helpful, practical guide recorded on location
in the Somerset Levels, in the garden of keen birdwatcher, writer and
broadcaster Stephen Moss. (£8.99)
Teach Yourself Weather
- Peter Inness (£8.99)
OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES
Wild Swimming: 150 Hidden Dips in the Rivers, Lakes and
Waterfalls of Britain - Daniel Start (£14.95)
Cool
Camping: France - Nicola Williams; Keith Pow, Sam Didcock; Paul Sullivan
(£14.95)
Cool Camping: England - Jonathan Knight;
Paul Marsden; Andy Stothert (£14.95)
Wild Gym: Join
the DIY Exercise Revolution - Peta Bee
Cash in your gym membership and
get fit outside instead - it's not only better for you, it's often cheaper too!
(£14.99)
PHILOSOPHY
The Meaning of Life: A
Very Short Introduction - Terry Eagleton
Eagleton contends that in a
world where we need to find common meanings, it is important that we set about
answering the question of all questions; and, in conclusion, he suggests his
own answer. (£6.99)
POETRY
The Colossus -
Sylvia Plath
The only volume of poetry that was published during her
lifetime, in 1960. New edition. (£9.99)
Old English
Poems and Riddles – trans. Chris McCully
Including riddles, charms,
the major elegies, religious meditations such as the "Dream of the Rood," epics
such as "The Battle of Maldon," and several long sections from "Beowulf." The
translator tries to show that Old English verse was not merely crudely
alliterative, but a set of stylistic techniques which allowed for great
subtlety, thematic pacing, and even tenderness.
(£9.95)
POLITICS
Marx: A Beginner's Guide -
Andrew Collier (£9.99)
SCIENCE &
MATHS
Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense
of Right and Wrong - Marc Hauser
Marc Hauser evaluates recent
developments in evolutionary biology, cognitive science, developmental
psychology, economics and anthropology to provide a new way of understanding
the tension between temptation and control. (£12.99)
Wholly Irresponsible Experiments - Sean Connolly
Do try these
at home! "Wholly Irresponsible Experiments" brings back the fun of being
twelve. Scores of experiments take in a dazzling array of explosions, geysers,
rockets and some outright oddities. £7.99)
Simplexity:
The Simple Rules of a Complex World - Jeffrey Kluger
Why does kicking
the TV work? What can the US military learn from the lowly bacterium? Why are
the instruction manuals for cell phones incomprehensible? Simple things can be
more complicated than they seem, and complex things more
simple.
(£7.99)
50 Mathematical Ideas You Really Need to Know -
Tony Crilly
By exploring the subject through its 50 key insights - from
the simple (the number one) and the subtle (the invention of zero) to the
sophisticated (proving Fermat's last theorem) - this book shows how mathematics
has changed the way we look at the world around us.
(£8.99)
STATIONERY
Flukebook - Tara
Publishing, India
Each notebook is unique and made of recycled
materials in India. (£8.99)
TRAVEL
Narrow
Dog to Indian River - Terry Darlington
Having survived their voyage to
Carcassonne, you would expect pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington and their
whippet, Jim looked to the New World for their extraordinary new
adventure...No-one has ever sailed an English narrowboat in the US before, for
reasons that soon become clear . (£14.99)
Dreaming of
Jupiter - Ted Simon
“Jupiter’s Travels”, an account of a
four-year journey round the world by motorbike, was a number one bestseller in
the late 1970s. In 2001, at the age of 69, Ted Simon decided to retrace
his journey. (£9.99)
In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land
That Disappeared - Christopher Robbins
Borat has got it all wrong.
Kazakhstan is far more interesting and entertaining than he'd have us believe.
In fact it's probably the most surprising country on earth, and certainly one
of the most tolerant. (£7.99)
Terra Nullius: A Journey
Through No One's Land - Sven Lindqvist
A beautifully described journey
across Australia's desert, and into its shocking past. Stretching from the
formation of the Australian continent 600 million years ago to the 2002 hunger
strikes in the Woomera detention camp, the book leaves us with a strong sense
of Australia’s geological and tragic human history.
(£7.99)
The Northeast and Yorkshire - Woodland
Trust
One of a series of guides from The Woodland Trust that describe
and illustrate beautiful woodland sites - both publicly owned and private - in
different regions throughout the UK. Fully illustrated with site maps and
photographs, these are the essential woodland guides for all tree lovers. This
one includes Hardcastle Crags. (£7.99)
The Northwest and
The Lake District - Woodland Trust (£7.99)
Far from
the Sodding Crowd: More Uncommonly British Days Out - Jason Hazeley; Alex
Morris; Joel Morris; Robin Halstead
Britons work longer hours than
almost any other nation in Europe. But how do we spend our precious days off?
When asked what you did at the weekend, will you mutter something about shelves
and how hard it was to park? (£14.99)
Pubs and Inns of
England and Wales - Alastair Sawday, ed. David Hancock
Over 900 special
pubs and inns throughout England and Wales. Lively write-ups paint an accurate
picture so you need never be stuck in a grim, swirly-carpeted, juke box-rattled
corner again. On top of that, clear symbols and indices show, where children
and pets are welcome, where there's a wide choice of beers, wines,
locally-sourced food, good gardens, great walks or an open fire.
(£14.99)
Chambers Hungarian Phrasebook
(£3.50)
Harrap's Slovene Phrasebook
(£3.95)
CHILDREN’S
Ages
0-5yrs
Tiger - Nick Butterworth
A board book edition of the
wonderfully illustrated book, following the antics of a kitten who pretends to
be a tiger. Ages: 0-3 yrs. (£5.99)
Five Little Ducks and
Other Stories - BBC
An exciting mix of songs, nursery rhymes, sound
puzzles and tongue twisters and short stories.
(£5.99)
Ages 5-9yrs
Trouble According to
Humphrey - Betty G Birney
Humphrey’s special World Book Day book
was extremely popular, and this new adventure features the resourceful hamster
in some brand new adventures. Ages: 6+ yrs (£4.99)
Ages
9-11yrs
Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz
Now finally in paperback,
Alex Rider’s latest adventure sees him on a secret mission in South East
Asia. Another page-turning extravaganza from the master of action-adventure.
Ages: 9+ yrs (£6.99)
Molly Moon, Micky Minus and the Mind
Machine - Georgia Byng
Molly’s on a mission to bring her long lost
twin brother home. Can she use her secret new weapon to defeat the Brainy Babe!
Ages 9 -11 yrs (£5.99)
Teenage
Once Upon a Time in the North
- Philip Pullman
A new story, together with memorabilia and
paraphernalia, as a companion to the trilogy, His Dark Materials. Beautifully
engraved by master engraver John Lawrence. Ages 12+ (
£9.99)
Red, Cherry Red - Jackie Kay
Jackie's latest
collection of poetry is for teenage/young adult readers - about identity,
grandmothers, the old days and the new days, trees, the moon, the sea, fire.
(£6.99 inc CD)
MARCH 2008
FICTION
HARDBACK
Child 44 – Tom Rob
Smith
KGB Officer Leo is blindly faithful to the Party line –
until he is ordered to arrest his own wife. Ridley Scott has bought the film
rights. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
The Miracle at Speedy
Motors - Alexander McCall Smith
When the best-known lady detective in
Botswana receives a threatening anonymous letter, she has to reconsider her
belief in a kind world and good neighbours. (£12.99 at The Book
Case)
A Partisan's Daughter - Louis De Bernieres
Chris
is bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he's
a stranger to the 1970s youth culture of London, a stranger to himself on the
night he invites a Yugoslavian hooker into his car. From the author of
“Captain Corelli's Mandolin". (£14.99 at The Book
Case)
Brida - Paulo Coelho
This is the story of Brida, a
young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in
various aspects of magic, but is searching for something more.. (£12.99
at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Two Caravans - Marina
Lewycka
A field of strawberries in Kent ...And sitting in it two
caravans - one for the men and one for the women. The residents are from all
over. But these days England's not so pleasant for immigrants.
(£7.99)
The Gathering - Anne Enright
The nine
surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their
wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that
certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's
house. Booker winner. (£7.99)
The Ghost - Robert
Harris
The narrator of this gripping novel is a professional ghostwriter
- cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. He jumps at the
chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister.
(£12.99)
Darkmans - Nicola Barker
A rowdy, riotous
tale, in which the medieval past takes on a face, name, and occupation and
roams around the humdrum town of Ashford, bringing chaos to the lives of those
it picks on. Booker shortlisted. (£8.99)
Resistance -
Owen Sheers
It is 1944, Germany has invaded Britain, and a group of
Welsh farmers' wives wake up to discover that their husbands are gone. A
portrait of a community under siege. (£7.99)
Guantanamo:
A Novel - Dorothea Dieckmann
Meticulously researched story of a young
German man of mixed Muslim Indian and German heritage, whose journey to his
father's country to claim his inheritance leads to his capture and deportation
to Guantanamo, In a remarkable literary experiment, Rashid's story is told in
six scenes, exploring the existential consequences for an isolated prisoner
coping with suppression and uncertainty. (£8.99)
The
Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho
From Athena's mysterious beginnings,
via an orphanage in Romania, to a childhood in Beirut and thence when war
breaks out, to London, where a dramatic turn of events occurs!
(£7.99)
Something Borrowed - Paul Magrs
Brenda
must face her demons, but first she needs toget to the bottom of the sinister
goings-on that threaten to overcome the all-too-quiet seaside town of Whitby.
Paul Magrs recently appeared at Todmorden Library.
(£7.99)
The Blue Fox – Sjon, trans. Victoria
Cribb
From a hunt through the stark Icelandic winter landscape for the
enigmatic blue fox to the world of a naturalist and his charge, Abba, who
suffers from Down's syndrome, and to a shipwreck off the Icelandic coast in the
spring of 1868. (£7.99)
Skin Lane - Neil
Bartlett
At 47, Mr. F's working life on London's Skin Lane is one
governed by calm, precision and routine. So when he starts to have frightening,
recurring nightmares, he does his best to ignore them. (£7.99)
The Spa Decameron - Fay Weldon
Ten high achieving ladies are
gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the
expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all
round pampering, a new beginning to their lives.
(£7.99)
The Steep Approach to Garbadale - Iain
Banks
Dark family secrets, a long-lost love affair and a multi-million
pound gaming business. (£7.99)
Losing You - Nicci
French
Nina Landry has given up city life for the isolated community of
Sandling Island, lying off the bleak east coast of England. At night the wind
howls. Sometimes they are cut off by the incoming tide. For Nina though it is
home. It is safe. Until Nina's teenage daughter Charlie fails to return from a
sleepover on the day they're due to go on holiday.
(£6.99)
Salt - Jeremy Page
It is May 1945 and as
church bells ring out Victory in Europe over the Norfolk saltmarshes, Goose's
daughter Lil is born. But as Lil enters Goose's world, her father leaves it, in
a makeshift boat bound - or so the story goes - for Germany, his home.
(£7.99)
Beneath the Bleeding - Val
McDermid
Terrifying new psychological. The race is on to uncover the
identity of a murderer with nothing to lose -- and everything to kill for.
(£6.99)
Sepulchre - Kate Mosse
1891.
Seventeen-year-old Leonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the
sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carcassonne, the Domaine
de la Cade. But in the nearby woods, Leonie stumbles across a ruined sepulchre
- and a timeless mystery whose traces are written in blood.
(£10.99)
Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room - Lee
Henshaw
Set in and around the cities of New York, Mexico and Caracas, a
hilarious cautionary tale for elder brothers and their new girlfriends.
(£6.99)
REISSUES
On Horseback and Other
Stories - Guy de Maupassant (£6.99)
The Mammoth Book
of Best British Mysteries – ed. Maxim Jakubowski
Contributors
include Lee Child, Colin Dexter, Val McDermid, Mark Billingham, Len Deighton,
John Harvey, and many more (£7.99)
The Mammoth Book of
the Best of Best New SF – ed. Gardner Dozois
A retrospective
compilation culling from the last 20 years including Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear,
William Gibson, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert Reed, Robert
Silverberg, Bruce Sterling , Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, and Gene Wolfe.
(£9.99)
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary
Barton is the pretty daughter of a factory worker who finds herself dreaming of
a better life when the mill-owner's charming son, Henry, starts to court her.
But when Henry is shot dead in the street, her childhood friend Jem becomes the
prime suspect and Mary finds her loyalties tested to the limit. (£6.99)
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Milton is a sooty,
noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its
inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south, Margaret Hale is
initially shocked by the social unrest and poverty she finds in her new
hometown. (£5.99)
Little Women & Good Wives - Louisa
May Alcott
In the Vintage Classics series, the story of the March girls
as they follow their varying paths to adulthood.
(£6.99)
The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White
The
extraordinary story of a boy called Wart -- ignored by everyone except his
tutor, Merlyn -- who goes on to become King Arthur. Reissued in Collins’s
Essential Modern Classics series. (£6.99)
And another
children’s book that ought to be read by adults – E. Nesbit’s
The Enchanted Castle, a favourite of Noel Coward and J B Priestley, and
praised by Gore Vidal. Now on Naxos CD: 2h30m
(£10.99)
NON-FICTION
ART
Collins
30-minute Pastels - Margaret Evans (£7.99)
Collins
30-minute Sketching - Alwyn Crawshaw (£7.99)
Contemporary Textiles: The Fabric of Fine Art - ed. Nadine Monem
(£24.95)
BIOGRAPHY
The Ballad of Dorothy
Wordsworth - Frances Wilson
Ordinarily presented as a sacrificial saint,
Dorothy Wordsworth was a talented writer and exceptional woman. In her
beautifully told biography, Frances Wilson brings Dorothy to life in all her
complexity. (£16.99 at The Book Case)
Elizabeth Gaskell: A Portrait in Letters, ed. J.A.V. Chapple; John
Geoffrey Sharps
Elizabeth Gaskell is best known as a novelist and
biographer, but she was also a lively and sensitive letter writer, with a
vivacious interest in all that was going on around her. (£14.99)
I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia - Nina
Lugovskaya
Thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya began to
write a diary in 1932. Her indignant outbursts against the brutal raids and
purges of Stalin's terror appear alongside the more typical adolescent worries
about girlfriends, boys, parties and homework. Then in 1937 Stalin's secret
police ransacked Nina's home and discovered her diary. She, her mother and two
sisters were sentenced to five years' hard labour in the Gulag, followed by
seven years' exile in Siberia. (£6.99)
Infidel - Ayaan
Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following
the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened she would be next.
Hirsi Ali's story tells how a bright, curious, dutiful little girl evolves into
a pioneering freedom fighter. (£7.99)
Unbowed: My
Autobiography - Wangari Maathai
The autobiography of Wangari Maathai,
Kenyan peace activist and environmentalist, who in 2004 became the first
African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. (£8.99)
My Grandmother: A Memoir - Fethiye Cetin, trans. Maureen Freely
Fethiye Cetin finally heard the truth from her grandmother: that she
was by birth a Christian and an Armenian, that her name was not Seher but
Heranush, that most of the men in her village had been slaughtered in 1915,
that she, along with most of the women and children, had been sent on a death
march. (£12.99)
CURRENT AFFAIRS and
DISCUSSION
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the
Peace - Ali A. Allawi (£9.99)
Bring on the Apocalypse - George Monbiot
A new fusillade of
provocative thinking from George Monbiot, tackling science, political power,
war, religion, economics and culture. (£11.99)
The Lemon
Tree - Sandy Tolan
In the summer of 1967 three young Palestinians
ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel to see their childhood homes, from
which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier.
One of them, Bashir, was met at the door by a young woman, a Jewish fugitive
from Bulgaria, who invited him in. This was the starting point for the story of
two families - one Arab, one Jewish - which spans the fraught modern history of
the region. (£8.99)
Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya -
Asne Seierstad
Asne Seierstad returns to Chechnya and discovers that
though the world's attention has moved on, the tragedy has continued, leaving a
brutalised society - with a particular toll on its children - in its wake..
(£14.99)
My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir - Daveed
Gartenstein-Ross
Raised by parents who were Jewish by birth but
dismissive of strict dogma, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross converted to Islam in
college. The story of how a good faith can be distorted and a decent soul can
be seduced away from his principles. (£10.99)
God is Not
Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens
(£8.99)
On the Wealth of Nations: A Book That Shook the
World - P.J. O'Rourke
American humorist shows why Adam Smith’s
seminal work is still relevant today. (£8.99)
A Point of
View - Lisa Jardine
A collection of the hugely popular talks that Lisa
Jardine has given on Radio 4 in "A Point of View" on Sunday mornings.
(£10.99 at The Book Case)
42: Deep Thought on Life - Mark
Vernon
Mark Vernon takes his inspiration from 42 of the funniest,
wisest, and quirkiest quotations about the big questions in life.
(£9.99)
The Indivisible Remainder - Slavoj Zizek
Combines Schelling
with popular film for a study of modern life. (£6.99)
Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on Jacques Derrida's Spectres of
Marx - Eagleton, Derrida, Negri, Jameson
Fredric Jameson, Antonio
Negri, Terry Eagleton, Pierre Macherey and others engage in a debate on Marx
with Jacques Derrida. (£6.99)
ENVIRONMENT
How to Live Off-grid: Journeys
Outside the System - Nick Rosen
People who live without mains water,
power or phone line might be backpackers, right-wing survivalists,
international business travellers or hippies; but all are outside or in-between
the criss-crossing lines of power, water and phone that delineate the civilised
world. (£7.99)
The Transition Handbook: From Oil
Dependency to Local Resilience - Rob Hopkins
We live in an oil-dependent
world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of time,
using vast reserves of oil in the process without planning for when the supply
is not so plentiful. This manual will guide communities to begin an 'energy
descent' journey. Transition Towns are springing up all over the place: not
like Hebden Bridge to be behind ... (£10.95)
How to
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint: 365 Practical Ways to Make a Real Difference -
Joanna Yarrow (£4.99)
50 Ways to be a Greener Shopper
- Sian Berry (£5.99)
50 Ways to be a Greener
Traveller - Sian Berry (£5.99)
Fragile Earth: What's
Happening to Our Planet?
Natural disasters, climate change, the
exploitation of the world's resources and human development are changing our
planet at a relentless pace. Using over 200 stunning images from the air, land
and space, Fragile Earth brings together the most dramatic natural and man-made
events. (£12.99)
GARDENING
21st-century
Smallholder: From Window Boxes to Allotments - How to Go Back to the Land
without Leaving Home - Paul Waddington
Where do concerned citizens, keen
to explore alternative ways of living but lacking the land - look for guidance?
From a small terraced house, Paul Waddington has made it his business to find
out, and while trying it himself, has created a practical and absorbing
guidebook along the way. (£7.99)
Salad Leaves for All
Seasons: Organic Growing from Pot to Plot - Charles Dowding
(£9.95)
Vegetable Growing Month-by-month: The
Down-to-earth Guide That Takes You Through the Vegetable Year - John Harrison
(£5.99)
HISTORY
A People's History of
the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium - Chris Harman
(£12.99)
The Bible: The Biography - Karen Armstrong
The gestation of
the Bible as a complex and contradictory document created by scores of people
over hundreds of years. (£8.99)
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and
Stench in England, 1600-1770 - Emily Cockayne
Transports us to a world
in which residents were scarred by smallpox, refuse rotted in the streets, pigs
and dogs roamed free, and food hygiene consisted of little more than spit and
polish. (£10.99)
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 - Patrick Bishop
The
lives, human realities and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young
pilots took during the strategic air-offensive against Germany from 1939--1945.
(£7.99)
Austerity Britain: A World to Build - David
Kynaston
Beginning his groundbreaking series about post-war Britain,
Kynaston presents our nation through the eyes of those who lived there.
(£7.99)
In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century
- Geert Mak
Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent,
tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to
Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica. His rare double talent as a sharp-eyed
journalist and a hugely imaginative historian makes "In Europe" a dazzling
account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports and memoirs, voices
and his own observation of the wellsprings of memory.
(£9.99)
Teach Yourself to Fly - Nigel Tangye
One
of the first titles published in the Teach Yourself series. Written in 1938, on
the eve of the Second World War, this book's main purpose was to prepare all
short-service pilot recruits and conscripts before they were called for
service. Other Teach Yourself facsimile reprints include TY to Cook
(1930s), TY to Live and TY Etiquette. (1950s)
(£5.99)
HUMOUR
The "Guardian" Book of April Fool's Day
- Martin Wainwright
How April Fool's Day first came about, when it
developed into a media phenomenon, and the best examples from across the world
of April Fool spoofs over the years. (£7.99)
How to be a Good Husband - Bodleian Library (1930s) (£4.99)
How to be a Good Wife - Bodleian Library (1930s) (£4.99)
LIFESTYLE
Things to Do Now That You Have Retired
- Jane Garton (£6.99)
Things to Do Now That You're
Single Again - Eva Gizowska
(£6.99)
MBS
Quick and Easy Massage: 5-Minute
Massages for Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere - Beata Aleksandrowicz
(£5.99)
Quick and Easy Yoga: 5-Minute Routines for
Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere - Christina Brown
(£5.99)
The Only Tarot Book You'll Ever Need: Interpret
The Cards That Hold Your Future – Alexander Skye
(£6.99)
Ask Your Guides - Sonia Choquette
All
the information you need to help you connect with your spirit guides so that
you can enjoy all the love, abundance, and joy you're entitled to!
(£7.99)
Communication with All Life: How to Understand
and Talk to Animals - Joan Ranquet
Life" illustrates how to move past
the emotional patterns that create unwanted behaviour and ultimately
demonstrates that animal companions give humans the opportunity to enact
leadership and responsibility in their thoughts and feelings to ensure harmony
at home. (£8.99)
Instant Cosmic Ordering: Using Your
Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want - Now! - Barbel Mohr
How to use
the power of your emotions to attract to yourself the life you dream of, but
didn't feel was possible. (£7.99)
MUSIC
Icons of Pop Music: Bob Dylan - Keith Negus (£10.99)
NATURE
Woods, Hedges and Leafy Lanes - Richard
Muir (£12.99)
Know Your Sheep - Jack Byard
(£4.99)
POETRY
Out of the Blue - Simon
Armitage
Written in response in three anniversaries relating to three
separate conflicts, 9/11, VE day, and the Cambodian Civil War.
(£8.95)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Simon
Armitage
This new version of one of the earliest great stories of
English literature captures all of the magic and wonderful storytelling of the
original while also revitalising it with his own popular, funny and
contemporary voice. (£7.99; 2 CDs £12.99)
Naxos
Audiobooks “The Great Poets” (1 hr 15m, £8.99
each)
Shelley
Wordsworth
SCIENCE
The
Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing – ed. Richard Dawkins
A
celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience.
(£20)
Struck by Lightning - Jeffrey S.
Rosenthal
An entertaining look at the world of probabilities, explaining
the mechanics of randomness in fields as diverse as poker hands, email spam,
crime statistics, opinion polls and lottery jackpots.
(£8.99)
TRAVEL
Coast: The Walks –
BBC (£16.99)
Tropic of Capricorn- Simon Reeve
In his
greatest challenge yet, Simon Reeve, sets out on a global adventure circling
the world around the Tropic of Capricorn. He encounters sumptuous landscapes,
spectacular wildlife, strange rituals and desperate poverty.
(£17.99)
Ray Mears Goes Walkabout - Raymond
Mears
Ray Mears journeys through the wilderness of the Australian
Outback to learn about the people, the wildlife and the culture of this
extraordinary land. (£20)
Tents & Mud & Rock N
Roll – Sharon Watson
The Ultimate Guide to Festivals.
(£5.99)
New Lonely Planet guides to the USA,
Southeast Asia and Marrakesh and new Rough Guides to
Japan and Europe on a Budget
Independent Hostel Guide 2008 Britain and Europe - Sam Dalley (£4.95)
South Lakes: 20 Circular Walks with a Good Pub in the Middle - Meg Brady (£11.99)
The Good Guide to the Lakes - Tom Holman; Hunter Davies
(£7.99)
Basrayatha: The Story of a City - Muhammad
Khudayyir
A literary tribute to the city of the author's birth, Basra,
on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Khudayyir distinguishes between
the real city of Basra and the imagined city he created through stories,
experiences, and folklore. (£8.99)
Earthsong - Angelika Jung-Huttl
A spectacular collection
of breathtaking aerial photographs of the earth's surface, taken from all over
the world, dividing the planet into four parts, and celebrating the
immeasurable magnificence of our planet. (£19.95)
Welcome
to Everytown: A Journey into the English Mind - Julian
Baggini
Philosopher Julian Baggini pinpointed postcode S66 on the
outskirts of Rotherham, as England in microcosm - an area which reflected most
accurately the full range of the nation's inhabitants, and spent six months
living there, immersing himself in this
typical English Everytown, in order
to get to know the mind of a people. (£8.99)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Ages 0-5yrs
Horton Hears a Who - Dr Seuss
The classic Dr Seuss tale, in
an abridged, board book format, to tie-in with the brand new film version due
out this month. Perfect for younger readers. Ages: 2+ yrs. (£5.99)
Ages 5-9yrs
Poems for Children - Ted Hughes
This collection brings
together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are
arranged by volume starting with those for the very young and moving up to the
ones aimed at older children. Beautifully illustrated throughout by the
award-winning Raymond Briggs. Ages: 3+yrs (£9.99)
Ages 9-11yrs
Seventh Tower 1: The Fall - Garth Nix
The first of a
thrilling new fantasy adventure series, set on the Dark World, where society is
ranked according to its colour clan and the most precious commodity is light.
Nix's previous series, The Keys To The Kingdom, has been immensely popular.
Ages: 9-12 yrs (£5.99)
Puffin Classics 3 for 2 Offer
Puffin has relaunched their Classics series, containing novels like Call of the Wild, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden and Huckleberry Finn. They have stunning new cover art, and will be available for a limited period on a 3 for 2 offer. Ages: 9-12 yrs (£5.99)
Teenage
M is for Magic - Neil Gaiman
A rich and satisfying collection
of short stories by Neil Gaiman, crossing a range of genres. Be prepared to
laugh at the detective story about Humpty Dumpty's demise, spooked by the
sinister jack-in-the-box who haunts the lives of the children who own it, and
intrigued by the boy raised by ghosts in a graveyard. Ages: 12+ yrs
(£5.99)
FEBRUARY 2008
FICTION
HARDBACK
Friday Nights - Joanna
Trollope
It's Eleanor who starts the Friday nights. From her window she
sees two young women, with small children, separate, struggling and plainly
lonely - and decides to ask them in, and see what happens. (£16.99
at The Book Case)
His Illegal Self - Peter Carey
The
precocious son of radical ‘60s Harvard students is raised in isolated
privilege by his New York grandmother – but soon he is an outlaw, fleeing
down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, and finally in a hippy commune
in the jungle
of tropical Queensland. (£14.99 at the Book
Case)
PAPERBACK
Exit Music - Ian
Rankin
Inspector Rebus’s acclaimed swansong, now in trade
paperback. (£10.99)
Burning Bright by Tracy
Chevalier
The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of
a cramped, unforgiving city – London in 1792. A surprising bond forms
between young Jem and streetwise Londoner Maggie Butterfield. Their friendship
takes a dramatic turn when they become entangled in the life of their
neighbour, the printer, poet and radical, William Blake.
(£6.99)
Faith Fox - Jane Gardam
When a popular
young mother dies in childbirth, a Surrey village finds itself landed with a
helpless, silent husband, and a tiny daughter, Faith: the baby must be packed
off to her father's peculiar family in the North.
(£7.99)
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander
McCall Smith
As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia
trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on
Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband.
(£6.99)
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
In 1944,
a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in
Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic
shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW
camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his sense of
honour. A Richard and Judy choice. (£7.99)
Animal's
People - Indra Sinha
Jaanvar - Animal - walks on all fours, the
catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American
chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slums. Booker shortlisted.
(£7.99)
Cupid's Dart - David Nobbs
A 55-year-old
philosophy lecturer meets a twenty-something, horoscope reading, darts groupie
on train, and asks her out to dinner, and two worlds mingle. A touching and
hilarious story from the creator of Reginald Perrin
(£7.99)
Winter Under Water: or, Conversation with the
Elements - James Hopkin
When Joseph meets Marta, who has come to the UK
from Poland to research the forgotten histories of remarkable women from across
Europe, he is captivated, and Marta feels the same. 'A chilly and atmospheric
first novel about crossing
cultures ...Hopkin beautifully conveys the sense
of being a stranger in a strange land, struggling to reach a true understanding
of the woman he loves' (£7.99)
Oystercatchers –
Susan Fletcher
Amy lies in a coma. Her older sister, Moira, comes to
her in the evenings, sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Here,
Moira confesses. From the author of “Eve Green”.
(£7.99)
Seizure - Erica Wagner
Janet grew up with
her father; her mother, she was always told, died when she was three. But now,
living an ocean away from her childhood home, she unexpectedly inherits a
house. (£7.99)
Things to Make and Mend - Ruth
Thomas
At fifteen, Sally Tuttle and Rowena Cresswell were firm friends,
until a shocking event changed their lives. Now in their early forties, they
are estranged, both single mothers, both haunted with memories of their intense
friendship. (£7.99)
The Giles Wareing Haters' Club - Tim
Dowling
Rising-40 Giles is a freelance writer of amusing articles for a
national newspaper. One day, he happens to type 'Giles Wareing+unfunny' into a
search engine and discovers a thread entirely devoted to holding
everything he has ever written up to excoriating criticism and ridicule.
(£7.99)
Night Train to Lisbon – Pascal
Mercier
One man’s escape from a humdrum life in search of passion,
spontaneity and a mysterious Portuguese writer. International bestseller.
(£12.99)
Measuring Time – Helon Habila
In a
small Nigerian village live Mamo and LaMamo, twin sons of a domineering father.
When one day the boys try and escape the village, only LaMamo succeeds - and in
time becomes a soldier well-versed in the ways of life and death. Mamo, too
sickly to leave, watches impotently as his detested father grows powerful and
corrupt, and he reaches for a pen. (£6.99)
The Sword in
the Stone - T. H. White, Naxos CDs, read by Neville
Jason
(£29.99)
REISSUES
The Law and
the Lady - Wilkie Collins (£6.00)
Humiliated and
Insulted - Fyodor Dostoevsky
(9.99)
NON-FICTION
ART AND
ARCHITECTURE
Collins Gem: Architecture – Timothy
Brittain-Catlin
(£4.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Miracles of Life - J. G.
Ballard
This memoir opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J. G.
Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned
with his family in a Japanese concentration camp. In the intervening chapters
Ballard creates a memoir that is both an enthralling narrative and a detailed
examination of the events which would profoundly influence his work.
(£14.99 at The Book Case)
Perfect Hostage – Justin
Wintle
The dramatic story of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma and the Generals.
(£8.99)
X-ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography – Ray
Davies
Disguised as the work of a nameless, faceless writer hired by an
Orwellian entity called ‘the Corporation’ to capture the essence of
Ray Davies, lead singer and songwriter of The Kinks and one of the greatest
rock ‘n’ rollers of all time, this book is part memoir, part social
history and part psychological thriller. (£9.99)
CURRENT
AFFAIRS
Big Ideas: The Essential Guide to the Latest Thinking
– James Harkin
Explains where concepts like ‘the long
tail’, ‘urban tribes’, ‘soft power’ and
‘metrosexual’ came from, what they mean, and what their critics say
about them. (£8.99)
ENVIRONMENT
Six Degrees : Our
Future on a Hotter Planet – Mark Lynas
An eye-opening and vital
account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of
global warming persist. (£8.99)
FOOD AND
DRINK
The Fairtrade Everyday Cookbook – Sophie Grigson;
George Alagiah; Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall; Joanne Harris; Ruth Rodgers; Rose
Gray
An everyday cookbook featuring produce that is seeded, nurtured and
provided by farmers and suppliers getting a better, fairer deal for their work.
(£16.99)
How to Cheat at Cooking – Delia Smith
Delia has sourced a range of pre-prepared foods (from tins, chill
cabinets, freezers and store cupboards) to help you short circuit cooking times
and techniques. (£20)
The Vitamin Murders: Who Killed
Healthy Eating in Britain? - James Fergusson
(£8.99)
GARDENING
Around the World in 80
Gardens – Monty Don
’If I have learned only one thing
from my travels around the world it is that no garden is an island. Context is
everything.’ Monty Don visits each continent in this landmark series on
gardens of the world. (£20)
The Yellow Book 2008: NGS Gardens Open for Charity Stephen Anderton;
Tim Wonnacott; Zac Goldsmith (£7.99)
An Ear to the
Ground: Understanding Your Garden – Ken Thompson
From Eden Project
Books. This entertaining book gives the answers to gardeners’
questions. (£7.99)
The Royal Horticultural Society
Allotment Notebook - Lia Leendertz (£12.99)
The
Natural Gardener: The Way We All Want to Garden - Val Bourne
How you can
use organic principles to create not only a healthy garden, with the balance to
control garden pests and other hazards in an environmentally friendly way, but
also one that has a special beauty. (£14.99)
The Tiny
Garden - Jane McMorland Hunter
Stairs, passages, light wells, the tops
of fire escapes - no site is too small for a garden, or the illusion of one.
This book shows you how you can create a garden in even the tiniest and most
unpromising of spaces.
(£12.99)
HISTORY
Inquisition: The Reign of
Fear - Toby Green
Today the word Inquisition implies dread, fear and a
withheld threat of torture. A secret police and a thought police, the
Inquisition produced a permanent state of fear But who were its targets? Why
did it provoke such fear? How and where did it operate? Why was it founded, and
why did it last for so long? (£8.99)
Inferno: The
Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 - Keith Lowe
In July of 1943, British and
American bombers launched an attack on the German city of Hamburg and for ten
days drenched the city with over 9,000 tons of bombs, with the intention of
erasing it entirely from the map. The fires they created were so huge they
burned for a month, and were visible for 200 miles.
(£8.99)
Life Series:
From Sutton, a new
series of small affordable history books bringing the past to life –
including:
Life in a Medieval Abbey - Peter Street
(£4.99)
Life in a Victorian Workhouse - Alan Gallop
(£4.99)
Life in a RAF Heavy Bomber Crew - Jonathan
Falconer (£4.99)
Can Any Mother Help Me? – Jenna
Bailey
Young mothers of the 1930s, isolated at home, exchanged ideas
through the Cooperative Correspondence Club.
(£8.99)
HOBBIES AND PUZZLES
The Daring Book
for Girls - Andrea J. Buchanan; Miriam B. Peskowitz
For active outdoor
girls, a response to “The Dangerous Book for Boys”.
(£20)
Collins Gem -- The Times Su Doku Book 2 - ed.
Wayne Gould (£4.99)
MBS
Overcoming
Diabetes: The Complete Complementary Health Programme – Dr. Sarah
Brewer (£12.99)
Overcoming High Blood Pressure: The
Complete Complementary Health Programme – Dr. Sarah Brewer
(£12.99)
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and
Art – Lewis Hyde
Brings to life the playful and disruptive side of
the human imagination as it is embodied in the trickster mythology. From the
author of “Gift”. (£16.99)
The Messenger: The
Meanings of the Life of Muhammad - Tariq Ramadan
Leading Muslim scholar
Tariq Ramadan considers the ways in which the Prophet Muhammad's actions, words
and teachings can guide us in the modern world. It offers Muslims a new
understanding of Muhammad's life and introduces non-Muslims to the story of the
Prophet and to the riches of Islam. (£8.99)
Raphaels
Astronomical Ephemeris 2009 (£4.99)
The Mammoth Book
of Brain Workouts – Gareth Dr. Moore
(£7.99)
Growing Great Boys: 100s of Practical Strategies
for Bringing Out the Best in Your Son – Ian Grant
(£8.99)
Living with Teenagers: 3 Kids, 2 Parents, 1 Hell
of a Bumpy Ride
Based on the anonymously-penned Guardian column of the
same name. (£12.99)
MBS REISSUES
The
Miracle of Mindfulness - Thich Nhat Hanh (£7.99)
The
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche
(£7.99)
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Contacting the Power of
the Wild Woman -
Clarissa Pinkola Estes (£7.99)
How to
Practise: The Way to a Meaningful Life - Dalai Lama XIV
Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho
(£7.99)
NATURE
The Wildlife of Britain's
Canals and Waterways: Towpath Guide - Jonathan Briggs
(£12.99)
POETRY
The New Faber Book of Love
Poems ed. James Fenton (£9.99)
Autumn Journal –
Louis MacNeice
Written between August and December 1938, “Autumn
Journal is a record of young MacNeice’s emotional and intellectual
experience during the turbulent months of late 1938.
(£9.99)
Poetry in the Making – Ted Hughes
A
reissue of his 1967 publication which accompanied his broadcasts to schools.
The purpose throughout is to lead on, via discussion of the poems, to some
direct encouragement to the children to think and write for themselves. He
makes the whole venture seem enjoyable, and somehow urgent.
(£9.99)
TRAVEL
Pies and Prejudice: In Search
of the North - Stuart Maconie
A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes
on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches
end and the truth begins, passing through Hebden Bridge as he goes. Now in a
standard paperback edition. (£7.99)
Confessions of an Eco
Sinner: Travels to Find Where My Stuff Comes from - Fred Pearce
Veteran
science writer travels from the market down his street to the ends of the earth
in search of where his belongings have come from and who has mined, grown or
made them, to discover his true footprint as one of 7 billion of us now living
on the planet. (£12.99)
Going as Far as I Can: The
Ultimate Travel Book - Duncan Fallowell
When the author was left some
money by a friend he decided to travel as far as possible from home so that he
need never travel again and could relax. This meant travelling to New Zealand,
where another fantasy soon asserted itself - 'to find the place of perfect
exile'. (£12.99)
The Cave of the Yellow Dog -
Dbyambasuren Davaa; Lisa Reisch
Davaa, a young filmmaker (and director
of “The Story of the Weeping Camel”, returns to her native
country and to the region where she grew up to show us life among the nomadic
people, through poetic writing and exquisite
photography(£7.99)
In Dorling Kindersley’s
Eyewitness Top Ten Travel Guides Series:
Paris Top 10
(£6.99)
London Top 10 (£6.99)
Marrakech Top 10
(£6.99)
Naples and the Amalfi Coast Top 10
(£6.99)
Dubrovnik and the Dalmatian Coast Top 10
(£6.99)
A new Mini Rough Guide to London, and a
new Rough Guide to Belgium and Luxembourg
New Lonely
Planet Guides to Italy, Denmark, Amsterdam, Crete, Tuscany &
Umbria, and Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England
New
Time Out Guides to Paris and
London
Organic Places to Stay in the UK - Linda Moss
(£10.95)
CHILDREN'S
BOOKS
Ages 0-5yrs
More Pants - Giles
Andreae
A picture book with rhyming text and illustrations
including a hippo, a limousine and a dinosaur in pants. A fantastic follow up
to the classic Pants.
Ages: 2+ yrs.
(£5.99)
Ages 5-9yrs
Mr Gum and the Power
Crystals - Andy Stanton
Mr Gum and a wacky cast of characters is back in
the fourth book of this series of which You're A Bad Man, Mr Gum
has won the Red House Children's Book Award, and has sold over 30,000 copies.
It has been 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
The Diamond of Drury Lane
- Julia Golding
Cat Royal is an orphan who lives at the back of
the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. She mingles with the high and low of society,
from the actors onstage to the lords and ladies in the stalls to the barrow
boys in the grimy marketplace. A reissue of the multi award winning novel,
available now for the first time in paperback, Set in 1790s Covent Garden, it's
packed with local colour and authentic detail. Ages: 9-12 yrs (£5.99)
Teenage
Lee Raven: Boy Thief - Zizou Corder
Lee Raven,
boy thief, has stolen something he really didn't mean to. Now he faces a
perilous flight through London (and the murky sewers below) as he tries to
escape capture - because Lee has stolen the Book of Nebo, a book that has
existed for thousands of years and tells every story and legend known to man.
Brand new title from the author of Lionboy. Ages 11+ yrs
(£6.99)
JANUARY 2008
FICTION
HARDBACK
Pontoon - Garrison
Keillor
A good Lutheran lady wants her ashes to be placed inside a
bowling ball and dropped into the lake, no prayers, no hymns, thank you very
much. The veterinary aromatherapist is having her wedding on a pontoon boat.
Then a delegation of renegade Lutheran pastors from Denmark arrive. It is Lake
Wobegon as you've imagined it - good loving people who drive each other
slightly crazy. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Homecoming -
Bernhard Schlink
From the author of “The Reader”. As a child
raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a
story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his
grandparents, the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a
Russian camp. But the end is missing and Peter becomes obsessed by the question
of what happened when the soldier and his wife met again. (£12.99 at The
Book Case)
PAPERBACK
On Chesil Beach - Ian
McEwan
Booker-shortlisted story set in a seaside hotel, about how the
entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not
spoken. (£6.99)
The Cleft - Doris Lessing
Imagines
a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from
petty rivalries: a society free from men. The Clefts are an ancient community
of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness. But with the unheralded birth
of a strange, new child -- a boy – the harmony of their community is
suddenly thrown into jeopardy. (£7.99)
A Concise
Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo
What happens when a
Chinese girl adrift in Britain falls for an Englishman adrift in life: a funny,
sexy, romantic novel. (£7.99)
The Widow and Her Hero -
Thomas Keneally
In 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse married in
Australia, they were part of a young generation ready to sacrifice themselves
to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on, as
Grace keeps revising her picture of what happened to Leo and his fellow
commandoes. (£7.99)
The Book Thief - Markus
Zusak
The story of a young German girl who steals books, of her family
and the Jewish boxer hidden in their basement as they struggle to survive in
Nazi Germany when the bombs begin to fall. Adult edition.
(£7.99)
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - G.W.
Dahlquist
Three unlikely but extraordinary heroes become involved in the
diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a
devilish 'process': (£7.99)
Lies - Enrique De
Heriz
Isobel, mother of three adult children and an anthropologist has
officially been pronounced dead following a boat accident in a remote part of
the Guatemalan jungle. But Isobel is very much alive and is hiding in a remote
shack in the jungle. She isn't ready to tell the world she's still alive and
she's not sure whether she ever will. (£7.99)
The
Pesthouse - Jim Crace
A devastated America exists in an imagined future.
Its technologies are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its
refugees, reversing the course of history, travel eastwards in search of safety
and a new start. (£7.99)
Skylark Farm - Antonia Arslan,
trans. Geoffrey Brock
In May 1915, after forty years, Yerwant is
planning a long-awaited reunion with his family – but at the same time, in
Turkey, his family begins a brutal odyssey of hunger and humiliation at the
hands of the Young Turks who are determined to rid their nation of minorities.
Translated from the Armenian. (£12.99)
Bad Traffic -
Simon Lewis
'This man have come from china to find his daughter who have
some trouble. He do not speak english'. Inspector Jian is a Chinese cop from
the Siberian border who thinks he's seen it all. But his search for his missing
daughter brings him to the meanest streets he's ever faced - in rural England.
(£7.99)
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand - Fred
Vargas
Between 1943 and 2003 nine people have been stabbed to death with
a most unusual weapon: a trident. In each case, arrests were made, suspects
confessed their crimes and were sentenced to life in prison – but each
presumed murderer had lost consciousness during the night of the crime and has
no recollection of it. (£6.99)
Seeking Whom He May Devour
- Fred Vargas
In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric,
wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted
mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present problem: wolves.
(£6.99)
Special Assignments: the Further Adventures of
Erast Fandorin - Boris Akunin
More about Boris Akunin's popular Russian
detective. In this one he faces a deft, comedic swindler and master of disguise
and a brutal serial killer, driven by an insane, maniacal obsession, who
strikes terror into the heart of the Moscow slums in 1889.
(£6.99)
Rounding the Mark - Andrea
Camilleri
Montalbano bumps into a dead body during a bracing swim and
his detective instincts are aroused once more.
(£7.99)
Granta 100: ed. William Boyd
The 100th
edition includes pieces by Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Bill Buford, AM Homes,
Ian Jack, Doris Lessing, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ian McEwan, Jayne Anne Phillips,
Nicholas Shakespeare and Helen
Simpson.
REISSUES
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber
of Fleet Street – ed. Robert L. Mack
Both gleeful and ghoulish, the
original tale of Sweeney Todd, first published in 1846-7, is an early classic
of British horror writing. An authoritative text of the first version of the
story ever to be published, as well as a lively introduction to its history and
reputation. (£5.99)
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - Nick
Rennison
A collection of short stories from the golden era of crime
writing, the late 19th and early 20th century.
(£9.99)
The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics – ed.
Peter Normanton (£12.99)
Great Horror Stories: Tales
by Stoker, Poe, Lovecraft and Others – ed. Grafton
(£3.50)
The White Family - Maggie Gee
Orange
Prize-shortlisted novel about race and the roots of violence within the family
and British society (£7.99)
NON-FICTION
ART
AND CRAFT
The Grammar of Ornament – Owen Jones
A
re-issue of Owen Jones’ classic book on design which was first published
in 1856. (£14.99)
Drawing and Sketching in Pencil –
Arthur L. Guptill (£10.00)
Sun Signs Stained Glass
Coloring Book – Marty Noble (£5.99)
Pinwheel
Designs – Wil Stegenga (£3.95)
Quilled Borders
and Motifs - Judy Cardinal (£6.99)
Quilled Wild
Flowers - Janet Wilson
(£6.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Trickster Travels -
Natalie Zemon Davis
An accessible and dramatic biography of Leo
Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan born in Granada, captured by pirates
and presented to Pope Leo X, who asked him to write a book about Africa.
There’s also a novel about him by Amin Maalouf.
(£9.99)
Milton: Poet, Pamphleteer and Patriot – Anna
Beer
Of all the major English poets, John Milton was by far the most
deeply involved in the political and religious controversies of his time, and
actively engaged with the business of government, working as Cromwell’s
international secretary. On the personal level, he deserves an honest
re-assessment. Neither tyrant nor saint, he was a man who had intense and often
troubled relationships with both men and women throughout his life. (£18
at The Book Case)
The Last Princess - Matthew
Dennison
Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates
Victoria came to depend on her youngest daughter absolutely, but she also
demanded from her complete submission. (£10.99)
Edith
Wharton - Hermione Lee
A portrait of a fiercely modern author, writing
of sex, love, money and war - a woman of strong convictions and conflicting
ambitions and desires. (£10.99)
Achtung Schweinehund!
– Harry Pearson
Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion of
British men who grew up playing with toy soldiers – refighting World War
II – and then stopped growing up. This is a celebration of those glory
days and a tale of obsession, glue and plastic kits.
(£7.99)
Hellfire and Herring: A Childhood Remembered -
Christopher Rush
An account of the author's childhood in the 1940s and
1950s in the little fishing village of St Monans.
(£8.99)
Assassins Cloak – an anthology of the
world’s greatest diarists – Alan Taylor, Irene Taylor
(£9.99)
CURRENT AFFAIRS
Affluenza - Oliver
James
There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world
- an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in
huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month
period, the author travelled around the world to try and find out why.
(£8.99)
The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in
the 21st Century – Will Hutton
China constitutes a fifth of the
world’s population. Over the last twenty years its economy has doubled.
The re-emergence of China as a superpower constitutes the biggest challenge the
world has had for more than a century. (£9.99)
Small Wars
Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands - Christina Lamb
An
extraordinary collection of reportage that tells the story of some of the most
important world events of the past 16 years, from one of the most talented and
intrepid female journalists at work today and 2007 Foreign Correspondent of the
Year. (£8.99)
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child
Soldier - Ishmael Beah
The first-person account of a 26-year-old who
fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. What is war like
through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one
stop? This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and
heartbreaking honesty. (£7.99)
Estates: An Intimate
History – Lynsey Hanley
Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just
outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe,
and she has lived for years on an estate in London’s East End. A vivid mix
of memoir and social history, an engaging and illuminating book about a corner
of society that the rest of Britain has left in the dark.
(£7.99)
Utopian Dreams – Tobias Jones
One
writer’s attempt to retreat from the ‘real world’ – which
is making him emptier and angrier by the day – and seek out the
alternatives to modern manners and morality. With his wife and baby in tow,
Jones spends a year with spiritualists, time-travellers, reformed drug addicts
and Quakers. (£7.99)
ENVIRONMENT
Rescue Our
World: 52 Brilliant Little Ideas for Becoming an Eco-hero - Natalia
Marshall (£4.99)
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to
Change a Planet?: 95 Ways to Save Planet Earth - Tony Juniper
The human
world sits on the brink of potentially catastrophic environmental change. The
latest science confirms that there is now only a decade left for action. Tony
Juniper. director of Friends of the Earth for England and Wales, presents his
programme for staving off environmental, economic and social disaster.
(£7.99)
The Rough Guide to Climate Change - Robert
Henson (£10.99)
Planet Chicken: The Shameful Story of
the Bird on Your Plate - Hattie Ellis (£7.99)
The
Aye-aye and I: A Rescue Mission in Madagascar - Gerald Durrell
When
Gerald Durrell visited Madagascar, home to five per cent of the world's plant
and animal species, creatures like the aye-aye were in danger of vanishing, due
to 'slash and burn' agriculture. Gerald Durrell decided to undertake a rescue
mission to bring aye-ayes back to his breeding centre on the island of Jersey.
(£7.99)
FOOD AND DRINK
Hungry: Easy Food for
Hungry People - Lindsey Bareham
The book of choice for students and
beginners everywhere! (£7.99)
Juices and Smoothies
Over 200 quick and tasty juice and smoothie recipes, all containing
essential nutrients to help maintain your health and vitality.
(£6.99)
Vegetable Juices: Over 30 Fresh Ideas for Detox,
Raw Power, Health and Well-being, Shown in 150 Vibrant Pictures - Suzannah
Olivier; Joanna Farrow (£6.99)
The Food Mood
Solution: All Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress,
Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems and Feel Good Again - Jack
Challem (£8.99)
GAMES AND PUZZLES
Train
Your Brain: 10-minute Su Doku Workout – ed. Wayne Gould
(£5.99)
Penguin Sudoku 2008 - David J. Bodycombe
(£6.99)
Pocket Penguin Sudoku - David J. Bodycombe
(£3.99)
HISTORY
The English Year - Steve
Roud
An exploration of local customs and national festivities.
(£9.99)
The Death of Woman Wang - Jonathan D.
Spence
Paints a vivid picture of provincial China in the late 17th
century. Against an endless cycle of floods, plagues, crop failures, banditry
and heavy taxation, a tenacious tax collector, an irascible farmer, and an
unhappy wife act out a poignant drama at whose climax the wife, having run away
from her husband, returns to him, only to die at his hands.
(£7.99)
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the
Hidden Power of Urban Networks - Steven Johnson
The story of the
terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854 and the two unlikely
heroes who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge,
scientific research and map making. (£8.99)
Plain Tales
from the British Empire – Charles Allen
Gathers together Charles
Allen’s best-loved books on the British experience across the Empire:
“Plain Tales from the Raj”, “Tales from the South China
Seas” and “Tales from the Dark Continent”.
(£14.99)
HUMOUR
St Trinian's: The Cartoons -
Ronald Searle
Reissue of the hilarious Gothic satire on the English
boarding school that has inspired naughty schoolgirls for generations.
(£6.99)
MBS (See “Food” too for detox
diets)
GI Hip and Thigh – Rosemary Conley
(£6.99)
Beat the Bloat: Lose Weight, Feel Great! -
Helen Foster (£6.99)
48-hour Detox - Gill Paul
(£4.99)
Is it Just Me or are Sit Ups a Waste of Time? -
Graeme Hilditch
Which pieces of advice on keeping ourselves fit and
healthy should we believe? Personal trainer Graeme Hilditch uses his extensive
expertise in fitness and nutrition to explode some of the most common myths.
(£7.99)
The Flat Tummy Book - Denise Lewis
Most
people aiming for a flat stomach are going about it incorrectly, wasting time,
effort and money. But with the right advice, a flat stomach is within
everyone's reach. (£12.99)
15-minute Everyday Pilates:
Get Real Results Anytime, Anywhere: Four 15-minute Workouts – Alycea
Ungaro – book & 60-min DVD
(£12.99)
15-minute Total Body Workout: Get Real Results
Anytime, Anywhere, Four 15-minute Workouts on DVD – Joan
Pagano (£12.99)
The Illustrated Easy Way
for Women to Stop Smoking: The Liberating Guide to a Smoke-free Future –
Allen Carr & Bev Aisbett (£6.99)
Massage to Go:
Soothe Aches and Pains Calm Down Re-energize – Eilean Bentley
(£4.99)
Meditation to Go: Learn to Relax, De-stress, Find
Peace of Mind – Christina Rodenbeck
(£4.99)
Reflexology to Go: Relax and Unwind, Beat Common
Ailments, Feel Happier - Ann Gillanders
(£4.99)
Stress Relief to Go: Yoga, Meditation, Reiki,
Pilates, Feng Shui and More – Jonathan Hilton
(£4.99)
Yoga to Go: Relieve Tension, Feel Fitter, Balance
Body and Mind – Stella Weller (£4.99)
5-minute
NLP - Carolyn Boyes (£4.99)
The Art of Being Kind -
Stefan Einhorn
Stefan Einhorn passionately believes that kindness is one
of the finest things we can devote ourselves to, and is the single most
important factor for success in our lives. If we strive to be kind to others,
we simply cannot avoid doing ourselves good.
(£7.99)
Mastering Your Inner Critic - Melanie
Greene
Though many of us are unaware of it, everyone has messages
running through their head. Some of the messages are positive, but for many the
messages are negative and self critical: This book providse a range of tried
and tested techniques for transforming your inner critic.
(£8.99)
What Makes Women Happy - Fay Weldon
What
makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop
worrying. A blend of philosophy, storytelling and self-help.
(£7.99)
The Rules of Parenting - Richard Templar; Ros
Jay
"A personal code for bringing up happy, confident children"
(£9.99)
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and it's All Small
Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life -
Richard Carlson (new edition) (£9.99)
Psychometric
Tests for Graduates: Gain the Confidence You Need to Excel at Graduate-level
Psychometric and Management Tests - Andrea Shavick
(£9.99)
The Best Value 50+ Book Ever: 52 Brilliant Ways
to Enjoy Getting Older - Janet Butwell; Sally Brown; Monica Troughton
(£5.00)
The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry,
Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth - John Michell
(£11.99)
Islam for Beginners - M. I. Matar
(£8.99)
POETRY
The Book of Hopes and Dreams
– ed. Dee Rimbaud
Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood,
Moniza Alvi, Penelope Shuttle, Ian Duhig, Michael Horovitz, Alan Brownjohn and
Lawrence Ferlinghetti join a host of others in this anthology of poetry that
aims to raise funds for the charity, Spirit Aid.
(£9.99)
The World's Favourite Love Poems - Suheil B.
Bushrui (£9.99)
The Poem and the Journey: 60 Poems
for the Journey of Life - Ruth Padel
From the author of "52 Ways of
Looking at a Poem": sixty poems by some of our finest poets to look at the idea
of the journey, through literature and through life.
(£8.99)
SCIENCE
The Universe: A Biography -
John Gribbin
Makes cosmology accessible to everyone.
(£7.99)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly
Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Black Swans are the random events
that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is
huge and they're impossible to predict. This book shows us how to take
advantage of uncertainty. (£8.99)
SPORT AND OUTDOOR
ACTIVITIES S
The Boys' Book of Survival: How to Survive Anything,
Anywhere - Guy Campbell (£7.99)
Fitting Tack: Horse
Illustrated Simple Solutions - Toni McAllister
(£6.95)
Grooming: Horse Illustrated Simple Solutions -
Elizabeth Moyer (£6.95)
Byways, Boots and Blisters -
George Drower
The history of walking – famous walks and walkers and
key inventions such as the cagoule, the thermos flask and the rucksack.
(£14.99)
TRAVEL
From Alan Rogers:
Europe 2008: Quality Camping and Caravanning Sites
From
Lonely Planet, a new guide to Brazil and new Rough Guides
to London, Belgium & Luxembourg, the Baltic States and Paris,
and to travelling with babies and young children.
Enjoy
England - Self Catering 2008 (£11.99)
Britain's
Camping, Caravan and Holiday Parks 2008- VisitBritain
(£8.99)
Bed and Breakfast 2008 – VisitBritain
(£11.99)
Pets Come Too! 2008: Pet-friendly Hotels,
B&Bs and Self-catering Accommodation in England – VisitBritain
(£9.99)
The Kabul Beauty School: The Art of
Friendship and Freedom - Deborah Rodriguez
Arriving in Afghanistan in
2002 with nothing more than a beauty degree and a desire to help, Deborah
Rodriguez set out on a course of action that would change her life and those of
many Afghan women. (£7.99)