FICTION
Last Juror - John Grisham
The defendant in a 1970 Missouri murder trial threatens revenge against
the jurors if they find him guilty - but they convict him anyway. Nine years
later, he’s out and the retribution begins.
(£6.99)
REISSUES
of two Lindsay Gordon books by Manchester crime author Val McDermid,
and of Virginia Woolf: Vintage Classics are republishing a range of her books at £6.99 each.
ABOUT FICTION
Illuminating Angels & Demons - Simon Cox
The Unauthorized Guide to the Facts Behind the Fiction, from author of 'Cracking the Da Vinci Code'. (£6.99)
Mouse or Rat - Umberto Eco
From the author of "The Name of the Rose", an illuminating and humorous study of the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translation is always a shift,not between two languages but between two cultures."(£8.99)
NON-FICTION
ART & FASHION
Dulac’s Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color (£12.95)
The Hunting of the Snark - Lewis Carroll, ill. Mervyn Peake
New edition of Lewis Carroll's classic verse, accompanied by Mervyn Peake's astonishing illustrations. Re-originated to the highest standards from original artwork, this also includes Peake's previously unpublished working sketches. (£9.99)
Big Hair - James Innes-Smith
The Big, the Bad and the Ugly - a tribute to the people of yesteryear who weren't afraid to think BIG. (£7.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Friends Reunited - Andrew Collins
"Remarkable real life
stories from the nation’s favourite website". (£6.99)
One Child - Torey Hayden
Educational psychologist Torey
Hayden's battle to unlock the emotions of a troubled and sexually abused child
who, with the help of Hayden, was finally able to overcome her dark past and
realise her full potential. (£5.99)
CURRENT
EVENTS
Hundred and One Days - Asne Seirstad
Insightful account of
the Iraq war from the bestselling author of 'The Bookseller of Kabul'.
(£6.99)
HISTORY
Terrible Year: The Paris Commune 1871 - Alistair Horne (£7.99)
To the Finland Station - Edmund Wilson
The classic history of revolutionary politics, people and ideas - now reissued with a new introduction. (£8.99)
Myths and Legends of the Second World War - James Hayward
A new and refreshing perspective on the popular image of the Second World War. (£8.99)
TRAVEL
Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes - Simon Calder
A Walk in the
Pyrenees from Simon Calder, the BBC Travel Show presenter and Travel Editor of
the Independent. (£7.99)
New Footprint guides to Rajasthan and South India
FICTION
HARDBACK
Past Mortem - Ben Elton
Heart-stopping thriller and a
killer comic romance from the popular comedian. (£15.99 at The Book
Case)
Now is the Time to Open your Heart - Alice Walker
A story of two people on separate journeys of discovery and a meditation on love and the places love can take us, from the author of 'The Color Purple'. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Redbird Christmas - Fanny Flagg
A tale of enchantment
and miracles at Christmas, in a mellow Alabama community of misfits.
(£10)
Best British Mysteries 2005 - ed. Maxim Jakubowski
Anthology including previously unpublished cases for Britain's favourite sleuths: Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse, Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus, John Mortimer's Rumpole and Reginal Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
The Girl who Married a Lion - Alexander
McCall-Smith
From animal fables to mysterious forces residing in
the landscape, this collection demonstrates the wealth and variety of African
folk tales, with an introduction by Mma Ramotswe herself! (£9.99)
Her Name was Lola - Russell Hoban
An original take on the
dangers of infidelity. (£6.99)
Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy - Tim Burton
A
beautifully twisted little gift book that has already proven itself to be a
classic. Illustrated. (£8.99)
Third Child - Marge Piercy
A contemporary version of
the story of Romeo and Juliet set in the twin realms of college and national
politics. (£6.99)
Vessel of Sadness - William Woodruff
A terrifying
true-life novel about the 1944 Anzio landings from the author of "The Road to
Nab End". (£6.99)
Little Black Book of Stories - A S Byatt
Funny, spooky,
sparkling and haunting stories. Paperback edition. (£6.99)
Telling Tales - (ed.) Nadine Gordimer
Anthology of
stories by varied and distinguished authors exploring the range of emotions and
situations of our human universe in different continents and cultures. All
royalties and profits will go to HIV- and AIDS-preventing education and for
medical treatment for people in southern Africa. Contributors include Marquez,
Atwood, Updike, Sontag and Kureishi.(£7.99)
What Are You Looking At? - (ed.) Donna Jarrell
Anthology of
thirty works by our finest contemporary writers that look at a consuming
obsession: fat. (£6.99)
Dragon’s Kin - Anne & Todd McCaffrey
A new
novel of Pern - a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great
telepathic dragons. (£6.99)
Mammoth Book of Best New SF 17 - (ed.) Gardner Dozois
The one
unmissable SF collection. (£9.99)
Blacklist - Sara Paretsky
Latest mystery involving
Chicago PI Warshawski. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Indian Wisdom: 365 Days - Danielle Follmi
365
photographs with 365 sayings convey the breadth and depth of India's life and
landscapes. (£24.95)
Deserts of the Earth - Michael Martin
Extraordinary Images
of Extreme Environments. A breathtaking anthology of the world's most
spectacular desert landscapes and their colourful inhabitants.
(£35.00)
Goya - Robert Hughes
Subtle and lively biography of one of
Europe's greatest artists, by a foremost commentator on cultural history and
the visual arts. Illustrated. (£12.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Gods, Mongrels and Demons - Angus Calder
A quirky and
riveting anthology of 101 alternative essential lives. (£8.99)
White Cities - Joseph Roth
A companion volume to 'What I
Saw', Roth's critically acclaimed reports from Berlin. from the greatest
European newspaper correspondent of his age. (£14.99)
GAMES AND PUZZLES
Daily Telegraph 80 Years of Cryptic Crosswords - Gil
Gilbert
A celebratory gift book and collector's edition. The
first ever cryptic crossword was published on 30th July 1925. (£7.99)
GIFTS
Schott’s Playing Cards
A pack of playing cards with quotations from 'Schott's Sporting, Gaming and Idling Miscellany'. (£4.99)
ABC - Opening Sentences of Famous Novels - Leon Mazzella
A novelty book, cut in the stylised shapes of the first three letters of the alphabet - an anthology of the most beautiful opening lines of famous novels. (£6.99)
HISTORY
People’s History of Britain - Rebecca Fraser
Lively and refreshing approach to traditional history, with a stress on people who opposed different forms of tyranny. (£12.99)
Americas - F Fernandez-Armesto
A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians. (£6.99)
Cathars - Sean Martin
The gripping true story of a
peaceful sect who were wiped out in Europe's first genocide, the Albigensian
Crusade. (£9.99)
Conquest of Mexico - Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas' account of the collapse of Montezuma's great Aztec empire under the onslaughts of Cortes' conquistadors - a thrilling and sweeping narrative, bristling with moral and political issues. (£9.99)
London Calling - Sukhdev Sandhu
How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City. The story of life in London for black and Asian people from the 17th century until today - fortune making, escapades, and self-expansion. (£9.99)
Sex, Botany and Empire - Patricia Fara
The story of
Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks. Flora and fornication in the Age of
Enlightenment. (£6.99)
Duel in the Snows - Charles Allen
The True Story of the Younghusband Mission to Lhasa and the first great encounter between Tibet and the West. (£9.99)
Ascent of Woman - Melanie Phillips
The fight for the vote for women in Britain, an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval and the arguments of the time over women’s role in society. (£9.99)
What We Knew - Eric Johnson
Terror, Mass Murder and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany. An oral history of the Third Reich, as 3000 Germans and 500 German Jews tell of their everyday experiences of life under the Nazis. (£20)
Tom Smith’s Christmas Crackers - Peter Kimpton
An Illustrated History. For over 150 years, crackers have been a traditional part of Christmas festivities, but who was the creator of this wonderful innovation? (£12.99)
HUMOUR
Willowdale Handcar - Edward Gorey
In this enigmatic,
surreal, wonderfully entertaining tale, three mysterious figures set out from
Willowdale, travelling by handcar. On the way to nowhere in particular they
pass a number of odd characters and observe a series of baffling phenomena.
(£5.99)
Random Acts of Kindness - Danny Wallace
365 ways to
make the world a nicer place. In 'Join Me', Danny Wallace instructed his
legions of followers to perform a Random Act of Kindness every Friday. This
well-meaning books to encourage you to perform Random Acts of your own.
(£4.99)
Purple Ronnie’s Little Thoughts about Christmas
Purple Ronnie puts on his Santa Hat to bring you this delightful collection of thoughts about the most sparkly of seasons. (£2.99)
Gangsta Rap Coloring Book - Aye Jay Morano
Features
all the top rappers and their underground peers. (£5.99)
Wrongboy’s History of Earth - W Bishop-Stephens
A hilariously inaccurate account of life on Earth. Surreal, strange and funny, this one-off picture book will appeal to children and adults equally. (£4.99)
Shit Ground No Fans - Jack Bremner
"By far the greatest football songbook the world has ever seen" it says here. Includes chants from every club in the English and Scottish leagues. (£9.99)
Pride and Promiscuity - (ed.) Arielle Eckstut
"The Lost Sex Scenes of Jane Austen", with saucy illustrations. (£5.99)
Could Do Even Better - (ed.) C. Hurley
Following the popular 'Could Do Better', a whole new collection of poignant and hilarious school reports of the famous, published in association with the Dyslexia Institute. Includes Picasso, Norman Tebbit, Joan Bakewell, Lewis Caroll and Geoff Hamilton, and many more. (£8.99)
The Times Not Dead
Entertaining compilation from The Times column challenges ageism and celebrates being 50-plus. (£9.99)
MEDIA, MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT
Guardian Year 2004 - (ed.) M. Woollacott (£14.99)
Dylan’s Visions of Sin - Christopher Ricks
The
first serious appraisal of Bob Dylan's lyrics. (£9.99)
Shooting the Actor - Simon Callow
The classic account of filmmaking gone wrong, completely revised and expanded to include new material on the making of A Room with a View, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in Love and No Man's Land. (£7.99)
Cover Versions - Adam Sweeting
"Singing Other People's
Songs" - the lowdown on cover versions - the worst, the most popular, the most
tasteless, the most influential, and the ones nobody got around to yet.
(£5.99)
NATURE
Times Night Sky 2005 - Michael Hendrie (£5.99)
Stargazing - Heather Couper
The first edition of a month-by-month guide to the night sky. (£6.99)
POETRY
More Nation’s Favourite Poems
Selected in a poll
with the Poetry Society to choose an updated Nation's Favourite collection.
(£6.99)
First World War Poems - (ed.) Andrew Motion (£7.99)
Second World War Poems - (ed.) Hugh Haughton
This anthology provides a fresh assessment of the poetry of the War and includes poems by concentration camp survivors like Primo Levi, servicemen such as Keith Douglas, and civilian poets. (£12.99, cloth)
Collected Poems - Roger McGough (£9.99)
Sylvia Plath - Susan Bassnett
Second edition of this lively and accessible introduction to Sylvia Plath's writing, including new chapters and a reading of Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters. (£14.99)
POLITICS
50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know 2 - Russ Kick
More secret stories and covert cover-ups on human health-hazards, government lies and the secret history of warfare. (£6.99)
Unpeople - Mark Curtis
From the author of 'Web of Deceit', the reality of the Blair government's policies since the invasion of Iraq. (£7.99)
Humanity: an Emotional History - Stuart Walton
Innovative history of how basic emotions rule the world. From eighteenth-century suicide cults to the childhood fears that created last century's despotic military leaders, Stuart Walton traces how we behave when we're hurt, afraid and angry, and demonstrates the global consequences of those private and personal feelings. (£14.99)
Ideas that Changed the World - F Fernandez-Armesto
Colour-illustrated collection of 175 ideas which have changed the world - from time to evolution, anarchy to zen. (£12.99)
TRAVEL
Best of Wainwright - Hunter Davies
Wainwright's biographer Hunter Davies selects twenty of his and Wainwright's favourite mountains, and introduces them to the reader, with an account of how they came to be chosen. (£9.99)
Off the Motorway - Paul Smith, 3e (£11.99)
A new Rough Guide to Bangkok and Sunflower walking guides to the Algarve and Menorca.
FICTION
HARDBACK
Sex and Other Changes - David Nobbs
The story of an 'ordinary' married couple who both decide to change sex, do so, get divorced, and end up falling in love again the other way round. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Sue Townsend
He's back. Mole, now an angst-ridden 38, is still coping with life in middle-England as a single parent to Glen and William, and battling his own particular weapon of mass destruction. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders - John Mortimer
For the first time ever, a complete Rumpole novel,
explaining one of the great puzzles of the Rumpole books: what exactly was the
famous Penge Bungalow murder case? (£14.99 at The Book Case)
13 Steps Down - Ruth Rendell
A superstitious loner obsessed with the Christie murders lives in a decaying house with an eccentric landlady. When reality intrudes, violence explodes. Celebrating 40 years of Ruth Rendell’s books! (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Da Vinci Code - Illustrated Edition - Dan Brown
This special edition incorporates over 150 photographs and illustrations throughout the text showing the rich historical tapestry from which he drew his inspiration. (£18.00 at The Book Case)
Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Fowler
"The novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in 21st-century California." (£11.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Pompeii - Robert Harris
Brilliantly recreates a luxurious
world on the brink of destruction through the eyes of four characters - a young
engineer, an adolescent girl, a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist
(£6.99)
Tyrant’s Novel - Thomas Keneally
An intelligent,
moral take on a highly topical issue - life under a dictatorship - this will
take to a new level, gaining him a new generation of fans. (£7.99)
Grandmothers - Doris Lessing
Four intensely observed
novellas. The title novel is about an unconventional extended family.
(£7.99)
Sergeant’s Tale - Bernice Rubens
1947: one year
before the Israeli War of Independence and Palestine is still under the British
mandate. When two British sergeants are kidnapped by the Irgun freedom fighter
terrorists, the hunt to find and liberate the young men begins. Based on a true
story. (£7.99)
Discovery of Slowness - Sten Nadolny
Fictional memoir of one
of the most interesting explorers of the nineteenth century, Sir John Franklin.
(£7.99)
Thomas Gage - James Fleming
Quality historical fiction about
a prosperous Norfolk veteran of Waterloo undone by the coming of the railways.
(£6.99)
Kith and Kin - Stevie Davies
Two cousins grow up in the
stifling atmosphere of 1950s Swansea - as they reach the heady ‘60s, their
friendship comes under threat. (£6.99)
Villa Incognito - Tom Robbins
His eighth and perhaps
most beautifully crafted novel involving American MIAs who chose to remain
missing after the Vietnam War and four generations of strong, alluring women.
(£7.99)
Our Lady of the Forest - David Guterson
From the author
of 'Snow Falling On Cedars', the story of a teenage girl who sees a vision of
the Virgin Mary. (£6.99)
Climbers - M John Morrison
Through rock-climbing, Mike
discovers an intensity of experience that obliterates the rest of his world.
But it is gained at a price... The only novel ever to win the Boardman Tasker
Memorial Prize. (£6.99)
Incompetence - Rob Grant
The EU enacts new human
rights legislation - it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate
against anyone for being incompetent. After all, it’s not their fault they
can't do it right, is it? But when a murder is committed, how competent is the
detective? (£6.99)
Secret Smile - Nicci French
You meet a man - You have
an affair - You finish it and you think it's over - You're dead wrong - It's
only just beginning..(£6.99)
Mammoth Book of Sorcerer’s Tales - ed. Mike Ashley
Includes contributions from Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock and John Morressy. Over 100,000 copies sold of Mike Ashley's four previous fantasy and comic fantasy Mammoth collections. (£7.99)
NON-FICTION
ANTIQUES AND ART
Collectables Price Guide 2005 - Judith Miller
All-colour price guide to help you identify and value your collectables quickly and easily. (£17.99)
Passage - Andy Goldsworthy
From the well-known land artist, a collection of colour photographs exploring the journeys that people, rivers, landscapes and even stone take through space and time. (£35)
Celtic Knotwork Designs (£4.95)
Alphabet - David Sacks
There is a story behind each letter of the alphabet. A book that takes you on a gripping journey through 40 centuries of the alphabet's evolution. (£7.99)
BIOGRAPHY
National Service - Richard Eyre
Journals of the former director of the National Theatre. (£8.99)
Dare to be a Daniel - Tony Ben
Warm and funny account of the childhood of the well-loved radical politician showing how early influences have shaped the beliefs he holds today. (£16.99)
Where’s There’s a Will - John Mortimer
More wickedly funny lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. (£7.99)
HISTORY
365: Your Date with History - W B Marsh
Browsable historical encyclopaedia - every day of the year has a story to tell. Who was assassinated, acceded to the throne, fled from their country? Who was born, began an affair, was impeached, disgraced or knighted? (£19.99)
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great - Michael Wood (£7.99)
Branch Line Britain - Paul Atterbury
With 450 colour illustrations, this lovely book celebrates the heritage of branch line Britain. It explores surviving lines, and lines no longer in use, visits preserved lines and travels on those lines long forgotten. (£25)
England’s Thousand Best Houses - Simon Jenkins
Selects the finest palaces, mansions, halls, castles and cottages throughout the land, from the stately to the humble, in a glorious celebration of English life. Now in paperback with 300 colour illustrations. (£18.99)
How We Saw It 1855-2005 - Daily Telegraph
Published to tie in with the Daily Telegraph's 150th anniversary celebrations and lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs from the archives and features newsflashes, letters to the editor, and contributions from writers such as Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, John Keegan and AN Wilson. (£20)
Played in Manchester - English Heritage
The Architectural Heritage of a City at Play. Leads readers along a trail of fascinating locations; not least, the opulent Victoria Baths, winner of last year's BBC Restoration series. (£7.99)
Forgotten Voices of the Second World War - Max Arthur
"A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There." Includes those left behind on the home front as well as those working in factories or essential services. (£19.99)
Battle of Britain - Richard Overy
Re-release of the analytical study to coincide with the release of the Hollywood film on the Battle of Britain, starring Tom Cruise. Let’s be grateful it isn’t Mel Gibson ... (£7.99)
Rough Guide to Ethical Shopping (£7.99)
HUMOUR
Schott’s Sporting, Gaming and Idling Miscellany - Ben Schott
What other sporting book will explain the rules of elephant
polo; the perils of the Cresta Run; the importance of snooker to nuns; the
myriad participants of the 'WackyRaces'; every sporting ailment from joggers'
nipple to housemaid's knee? (£9.99)
Colemanballs 12
Another collection of sporting blunders. Foot in mouth comments from those who should know better. (£3.99)
Private Eye Annual 2004 (£9.99)
Crap Jobs - The Idler
A trawl through the worst job experiences ever - from the North Sea ferry cabin cleaner to the artificial chicken inseminator. . (£9.99)
Bush Photo Oops - (ed.) Hal Buell
A collection of over 80 shots of Presidential mishaps culled from news bureaux with pointed captions. Perfect stocking-filler gift for anyone who does not have total respect for George W Bush. (£6.95)
Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse - Michael Gerber
Barry Trotter is pretty disreputable and unpleasant. Imagine what he was like as a teenager. Here's the beginning of the whole sorry tale. (£6.99)
Ig Nobel Prizes 2 - Marc Abrahams
Why Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans. A hugely irreverent but affectionate look at the most bizarre and seemingly pointless scientific research carried out around the world. (£10.99)
Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade - Guy Browning
How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges. The rules that can help you move safely and effortlessly through the micro-chicanes on life's byways. (£9.99)
First Peel the Otter - John Henry Dixon
Feasts such as Squirrel Flambe, Mobster Thermidor; improbable desserts such as Sprout Ice-Cream and Rum Baba. Beverages such as Egg Tea. Welcome to the culinary world of John Henry Dixon. Cooking will never be the same again! (£9.99)
Crap Cars - Richard Porter
From the Austin Allegro to the Renault Safrane, and from the MGB to the Volkswagen Beetle, this book brings together 50 of the worst cars ever to grace the roads of Britain. (£9.99)
Homer Book: Simpson’s Library of Wisdom
America's
favourite dad tells 'the truth', or at least his version of the truth, in this
collection of quotes, quips, dialogues, diatribes, insults and ingenuity.
(£7.99)
Think of England - Martin Parr
A comic, opinionated, affectionately satirical photo-essay about the identity of England by master photographer Martin Parr. (£14.95)
Say What - Lonely Planet
A hilarious
collection of foreign idioms to impress your friends, both at home and abroad.
(£3.99)
LIFESTYLE
Too Posh to Wash - Kim Woodburn
Having tackled hygiene in the home with outstanding success, Kim and Aggie turn their attention to personal hygiene. TV tie-in. (£12.99)
Good Shopping Guide 2005- Charlotte Mulvey
Reveals the ethical records of hundreds of glossy consumer brands and the companies behind them. (£12)
LITERATURE
Granta 87: the 25th Anniversary Issue - (ed.) Ian Jack
A celebration of Granta's first quarter century with new writing
from the writers who made its reputation, including Richard Ford, Martin Amis,
Amit Chaudhuri, Julian Barnes, Blake Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates.
(£9.99)
Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations (£8.99)
Rough Guide to Cult Fiction (£7.99)
Signs and Wonders - Marina Warner
Essays on literature and culture. Marina Warner visited Hebden Bridge during this year’s Arts Festival. (£8.99)
MBS
Sense of Being Stared At - Rupert Sheldrake
And Other Aspects of the Extended Mind. Explores the intricacies of the mind and discovers that our perceptive abilities are stronger than many of us could have imagined. (£7.99)
Sound of Paper - Julia Cameron
An inspirational and practical guide for starting or re-igniting the creative process. (£12.99)
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies - Anna Franklin
New in paperback. Containing nearly 3000 separate entries in alphabetical order, ranging from the South African fairies, Abtawa, to the German dwarves. (£14.99)
Wizard - Alan Baker (£5.99)
Psychobox - Mel Gooding
An inkblot, a half-completed picture, a word. What do you make of them? What associations do they have for you? 'The Psychobox' is packed with everything you need to delve into the psyche, including 48 full colour cards with notes and commentary by the editors. (£14.95)
MEDIA
Who’s Who in the Archers 2005
The sixth edition of
the indispensable companion to Britain's longest-running radio drama. Fully
updated to include all the new characters. (£3.99)
Halliwell’s Film, Video and DVD Guide - ed. John Walker
Twentieth edition of the undisputed bible for film enthusiasts. (£22.50)
Radio Times Guide to Films 2005
The broadest range of
movies in any UK film guide with more than 21,000 comprehensive film reviews
and over 600 new entries. New appendix of five- and four-star rated films, by
genre, with video/DVD availability. (£19.99)
Rough Guide to Cult Movies
New improved blend of essential trivia and informed opinion as it takes you on a tour of the most compellingly weird - and weirdly compelling - films in the world. (£7.99)
Secret History of Entertainment - David Hepworth
A must
for all Pop Culture junkies. This is the story of How-The-Big-Thing-Got-Big.
(£10)
Minipops - Craig Robinson
Quirky guessing-game giftbook with over 500 minipop illustrations, from the Beatles to the Osbournes, from R2D2 to ET. Can you identify this ever-expanding army of miniature pixellated people from www.flipflopflyin.com? Ideal (£7.99)
MYTH & LEGEND
A series of illustrated hardbacks from the Collectors Library at £7.99 each, including:
Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race
Who’s Who in Myth and Legend
Myths of Greece and Rome
Myths and Legends of North American Indians
NATURE
Snowflake - Kenneth Libbrecht
"Winter’s Secret Beauty" - snowflakes as you've never seen them, in 200 colour photographs. The mystery of snowflakes is how they develop into such intricate forms. (£12.50)
Earthsong - Bernhard Edmaier
A spectacular collection of breathtaking aerial photographs of the earth's surface. Divided into four chapters or 'zones', Aqua, Green, Desert and Barren, with text that explains the importance of climate and how human activity impacts on the environment. (£35)
Heaven and Earth
Now in mini format, an awe-inspiring voyage of discovery through the infinite world of science in ascending order of size and distance, from the smallest particle on the earth's surface to gigantic galaxies thousands of light years away. (£9.95)
Mythic Woods - Jonathan Roberts
The World's Most Remarkable Forests. A large-format, lavishly illustrated book celebrating the world's most extraordinary communities of trees. (£25)
Gem Weather (£4.99)
Heritage Trees of Britain and N. Ireland - Jon Stokes
A magnificent new collection of tree portraits from around the United Kingdom, chosen on grounds of cultural and heritage worth, from the original Bramley, to Robert Burns' Sycamore.(£16.99)
Bushcraft - Ray Mears
Illustrated wilderness survival guide by TV's foremost survival expert - now in paperback. (£14.99)
POETRY
From the Collectors Library, neat ribboned illustrated hardback editions of the following at £5.99 each:
Metaphysical Verse
Poetry of the First World War
Selected Poems of Rudyard Kipling
Shakespeare: The Sonnets
Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy
Selected Poems of William Blake
Selected Poems of William Wordsworth
Selected Poems of John Keats
New Poems on the Underground - (ed.) Gerard Benson (£6.99)
More of those poems on the Underground - the complete 2002-04 collection, updated to the end of 2004 with 70 new poems. (£6.99)
Collected Poems - Edward Thomas
Best-known for 'Adlestrop', Thomas was a hugely influential twentieth-century poet. This edition merges the existing Faber and OUP volumes to create a definitive edition and contains Thomas's 'War Diary', notes on the poems and a new introduction by Peter Sacks. (£14.99)
Poems of Solitude - Emily Bronte (£7.99)
All the Poems You Need to Say Goodbye - (ed.) Don Paterson
Appropriate for bereavements and memorial ceremonies. (£10)
All the Poems You Need to Say Hello - (ed.) Kate Clanchy
Mark a new arrival than with poetry.(£10)
All the Poems You Need to Say I Do - (ed.) Peter Forbes
A collection of poems as much about commitment as marriage. (£10)
In Flanders Fields - (ed.) George Walter
A wonderful selection of WWI poetry including experience from the front, home and soldier songs. Joint promotion with the British Legion. (£10)
POLITICS & SOCIETY
Peace Kills - P J O’Rourke
"America’s Fun New Imperialism". PJ O'Rourke casts his mordant eye on America's recent forays into warfare - but early reviews say he is more serious these days. (£16.99)
American Dream, Global Nightmare - Ziauddin Sardar
How does America perceive itself? (£14.99)
This is Serbia Calling - Matthew Collin
Rock 'n' Roll and
Belgrade's Underground Resistance. Updated edition of how workers at a radio
station risked their lives to battle against a vicious regime, and won.
(£8.99)
I Blame the Scapegoats - John O’Farrell
Another
collection of funny, satirical essays on 21st century subjects from the author
of 'Global Village Idiot' . (£7.99)
Bush in Babylon - Tariq Ali
Updated paperback edition
of this accessible, controversial, political and historical analysis of the
turmoil engulfing Iraq as a result of the US imperial adventure. (£8)
Sex, Lies and Politics - Larry Flynt
It takes a hustler to
know one. In an incisive and pithy review of recent history, Flynt demonstrates
that the triumph of Bush Junior is the direct result of a thirty year battle by
the reactionary right to control American hearts and minds. (£9.99)
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone - Frank Furedi
A
fiery polemic against the dumbing down of our contemporary cultural and
political life.(£12.99)
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World - Francis Wheen
A Short
History of Modern Delusions. Bestselling book from the biographer of Karl Marx.
(£7.99)
REFERENCE
Book of Lists - Amy Wallace et al
The first compendium
of facts weirder than fiction, of intriguing information and must-talk-about
trivia. (£12.99)
Secret Universe of Names - Roy Feinson
The Dynamic Interplay
of Names and Destiny. How the sound of a name evokes a basic gut reaction and
what this can mean. Why do the Keiths of the business world ststistically
outperform the Nigels by almost 300%? (£25)
SCIENCE
Backroom Boys - Francis Spufford
A rapturous history of the amazing achievements of British engineers. (£8.99)
Big Bang - Simon Singh
What it is and why people believe in it, from the author of "Fermat’s Last Theorem". (£20)
Human Mind - Robert Winston
Takes us inside our own
heads to see what really makes us tick. TV tie-in. (£7.99)
SPORT
23 Days in July - John Wilcockson
Inside Lance Armstrong's battle to win a record sixth Tour De France. Reveals the physical, psychological and strategic strengths needed to win. (£16.99)
TRAVEL
Himalaya - Michael Palin
The hugely popular author has packed up his rucksack again and sets off exploring again. This is a visually stunning record of his journey, alongside his rip-roaring wit and customary catalogue of disasters, crises, misunder-standings and colourful characters encountered on the way. 240 col. photos and illustrations. TV tie-in. (£20)
South with Endurance - Frank Hurley
Now a beautiful trade paperback celebrating the Antarctic photographs of Frank Hurley. (£14.99)
Faber Book of Exploration - Benedict Allen
Benedict Allen's anthology of human exploration presents the words of those who have set off into 'the unknown' and returned to tell the tale. (£9.99)
Writer’s World - Jan Morris
A portrait of the late 20th-century world in an evocative collection of her travel writing and reporting over five decades. (£9.99)
Wrong About Japan - Peter Carey
In this memoir-cum-travelogue the Booker-winner charts a visit to Japan with his son in 2001 and his own re-evaluation of Japan through his attempt to understand its culture of animated film and cartoon. (£12.99)
Book of Lands & Peoples - Eric Newby
An anthology
of travel-writing through the ages. (£9.99)
Atlantic Britain - Adam Nicolson
The story of the sea,
a man and a ship: the story of the author’s adventure in a small boat
around the Western Coast of the British Isles. TV tie-in. (£7.99)
Long Way Round - Ewan McGregor
Fellow film actors and bike enthusiasts Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman travel 20,000 miles around the world by motorbike, setting each other challenges on the way, from lumberjacking in Canada, to wrestling in Mongolia. TV tie-in. (£18.99)
Simon Winchester’s Calcutta
Launch title of a new series from Lonely Planet called "Writer and Place". (£7.99)
Pet-Friendly Places to Stay 2005 (£9.99)
Good Pub Guide 2005 - Alistair Aird (£14.99)
Harden’s UK Restaurants 2005 (£12.99)
Vegetarian Britain 2005 - Alex Bourke (£9.95)
Good Food Guide 2005
The best of eating out in the UK
(£15.99)
Hedonist’s Guide to Prague
One of a new series we thought we’d try out on you. Offers an insight into the way the city's fashionable set live. Broken down into clear chapers the guide concentrates on the best restaurants, and the most exclusive hotels, bars, cafes, nightclubs, spas, sports and shopping. (£12.99)
New Lonely Planet guides on Barcelona and Paris and Rough Guides to Thailand and Morocco amongst others.
Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
Funny, suspenseful and intricately plotted novel about a private investigator thrown into the middle of three unsolved cases in Cambridge. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Magic Seeds - V S Naipaul
Novel about identity and idealism, and their ability to shape or destroy us. Willy Chandra succumbs to his sister’s demands and joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall-Smith
New territory from the author of 'The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency'. A new and pneumatic female sleuth, Isabel Dalhousie, tackles murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
Zigzag Way - Anita Desai
A young North American finds himself on a curious quest for his own family in a 'ghost' mining town in Mexico. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Author Author - David Lodge,
Historical novel about Henry James and George du Maurier: "a fascinating glimpse into the literary and theatrical life of Victorian England". (£14.99 at The Book Case)
We Ate the Children Last - Yann Martel
Short Stories and a novella 'The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios' from the Booker-winning author of "Life of Pi". (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin
An illegal immigrant is found murdered in an Edinburgh housing scheme: a racist attack, or something else entirely? Rebus is drawn into the case, but has other problems. There’s also a paperback Rankin reissue. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
Homeland - Clare Francis
On the eve of an exceptionally harsh winter in 1946, servicemen are pouring home from the war to a land beset by stringent food and job shortages, and a desperate housing crisis. As anti-Polish refugee propaganda reaches its height, a young veteran of Monte Cassino attempts to start a new life on a withy farm in the middle of the wetlands. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Trace - Patricia Cornwell
Scarpetta agrees, against her better judgement, to return to Virginia as consultant pathologist on a case involving the death of a 14-year-old girl. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACKS
Double Vision - Pat Barker
War reporter Stephen Sharkey has recently returned from Afghanistan where his friend, photographer Ben Frobisher, was killed on assignment. He retreats to an isolated cottage in the North of England to write a book about Ben's work. (£7.99)
Thursbitch - Alan Garner
An enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, is a mystery that has haunted Alan Garner for 50 years. (£6.99)
Loot - Nadine Gordimer
Ten new stories from the South African Nobel laureate, ranging from the discovery of the treasure of the dead on the sea bed to lethal mosquitoes in the sauna. (£7.99)
Anthem - Tim Binding
Explores the effects of the Falklands War on Britain; a timely exploration of the impact of war on everyday lives. (£7.99)
Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Life, death and life after death - the story of Eddie, a grizzled war veteran whose tragic death is only the beginning of his journey. From the author of 'Tuesdays With Morrie'. (£6.99)
Absolute Friends - John le Carre
Spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times. (£6.99)
Avenger - Frederick Forsyth
New action thiller: when a young American aid volunteer is murdered in former Yugoslavia, his billionaire grandfather is bent on revenge. But what starts as a personal, domestic tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of world terrorism. (£6.99)
Murder Room - P D James
Hidden away in North London, is the Murder Room - a collection of material on the most notorious murder cases of the 1920s and '30s. But is the community in and around the museum stranger than the cases that surround them? (£6.99)
Firewall - Hennking Mankell
Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground - dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked. (£6.99)
Limestone Cowboy - Stuart Pawson
One of several DI Charlie Priest mysteries, likely to appeal to fans of Frost and Morse. (£6.99)
Out - Natsuo Kirino
Gripping Tokyo crime thriller from the leading name in Japanese crime fiction. (£6.99)
REISSUES
Sleep Pale Sister - Joanne Harris
Reissue of Joanne Harris's second novel, a Gothic tale set in 19th-century London. A domineering and puritanical Victorian artist finds the perfect model in nine-year-old Effie. (£6.99)
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
American classic novel of family life set in a small lakeside town - one of the Observer’s ‘100 Greatest Novels of All Time’, and compared and with 'Cold Mountain' and the novels of Barbara Kingsolver. (£7.99).
Conversations in Sicily - Elio Vittorini
One of the great novels of anti-fascism vividly capturing the heat, sounds and smells of southern Italy. Afterword by Ernest Hemingway. (£7.99)
Color Purple - Alice Walker
Pulitzer Prize-winner. Raped by the man she calls father, her two children taken from her and forced into an ugly marriage, Celie has no one to talk to but God, until she meets a woman who offers love and support. (£6.99)
Watchman - Ian Rankin
Available for the first time in fifteen years, a Rankin thriller about a spy, set in the violent streets of Belfast and London. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Time Bites - Doris Lessing
Funny, warm, nostalgic collection of essays and writings that ranges across many decades and subjects. (£20)
Good as Her Word - Lorna Sage
A sparkling collection of journalism from the author of 'Bad Blood'. (£8.99)
GARDENING
Gardens Through Time - Jane Owen
Celebrate 200 years of Gardening with the Royal Horticultural Society. Illustrated TV tie-in. (£25.00)
Delia’s Kitchen Garden - Delia Smith
Based on her experience of creating a walled kitchen garden next to her home in Suffolk.The book follows a year in the kitchen garden, month by month, containing detailed advice on sowing, planting, growing and harvesting home-grown produce, so readers can make the most of their crops all year round. Photos. (£20)
Plant Partners - Anna Pavord
What to plant with what for a colourful garden all the year round. (£12.99)
Jewel Garden - Monty Don
Monty Don, and his wife Sarah, tell the magical story of the garden they have built over the last decade from the ashes of a catastrophic failure. Col. ill. (£20)
HISTORY
What the Ancients Did for Us - Adam Hart-Davies
The Top Ten inventions of the major ancient civilisations. TV tie-in. (£16.99)
The Confident Hope of a Miracle - Neil Hanson
The true history of the Spanish Armada, conveying in vivid, living detail how kings, queens and courtiers, sea captains, deckhands and galley slaves fared in those turbulent months as the fate of England teetered on the brink. (£8.99)
Worst Jobs in History - Tony Robinson
Illustrated look at the most unenviable jobs of the last two thousand years. TV tie-in. (£18.99)
Who Do You Think You Are?: an absolute beginner’s guide to family history - Dan Waddell
TV tie-in - each episode will look into the family tree of a celebrity and the series will build up a picture of the social history and make-up of the country, also asking viewers to participate via an online survey. (£12.99)
HUMOUR
Brewer’s Rogues Villains & Eccentrics - William Donaldson
A 'Schott's Miscellany'. (£9.99)
Shed Men - Gareth Jones
The quirky phenomenon of sheds and sheddism, arguing that a bloke's shed begins where a boy's room leaves off, providing a home for the prized objects and boyish dreams there is seldom room for inside the house. Photos. (£6.99)
Roundabouts of Great Britain - Kevin Beresford
The first ever book devoted to the popular hobby of roundabout spotting from a self-confessed traffic-island fanatic. Col. ill. (£7.99)
Darwin Awards 3 - Wendy Northcutt
More major mishaps of man. (£6.99)
LIFESTYLE
Fat Nation
Join the country in the fight to get fit. TV tie-in. (£12.99)
How Clean is Your House? - Kim Woodburn
Hundreds of handy tips to make your home sparkle from the stars of the hit TV show. (£7.99)
MEDIA
Guardian Media Directory 2005 - (ed.) Chris Alden
2nd edition. A comprehensive and wide-ranging source in a clear and user-friendly directory. (£17.99)
Very Naughty Boys - Robert Sellers
Story of the rise and fall of one of the UK's most innovative film companies, Hand Made films. Includes interviews with key players such as Robbie Coltrane and John Cleese. (£7.99)
Rough Guide to Kids’ Movies - Paul Simpson (£6.99)
Rough Guide to Superheroes (£7.99)
Time Out Film Guide 2004
13th edition. Reviews over 15,800 films, includes obituary notes, film-maker interviews, awards lists and coverage of every area of world cinema. (£19.99)
Twelth Virgin Film Guide - "TV Guide Movie Database" 12th ed. (£18.99)
MUSIC, DANCE AND THEATRE
Beatles: 10 Years that Shook the World - Mojo Magazine
A magical mystery tour taking you from the birth of the band to the bitter break up. Features rare and unseen photographs. (£20)
Rough Guide to Bob Dylan (£7.99)
According to the Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger (£8.99)
Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet - Deborah Bull
Introduction to over eighty of the most performed ballets today (£7.99)
Augustol Boal
Examines the life and career of the famous practitioner, whose techniques have greatly influenced current actor training techniques, applied across many contexts. (£9.99)
NATURE AND FARMING
Natural History of Britain - Alan Titchmarsh
Illustrated TV tie-in. Geology, geography, flora and fauna. (£19.99)
Last Shepherds - Charles Bowden
Follows Davie Baxter through the cycle of hill farming. Follow-up to Charles Bowden's highly acclaimed TV series and book 'The Last Horsemen'. TV tie-in. Col. ill. (£16.99)
POETRY
Emergency Kit - (ed.) Jo Shapcott
Exuberant, direct, and international collection of contemporary poetry. Poetry Book Society recommendation. Includes Jackie Kay, Simon Armitage and Tony Harrison. (£9.99)
Out of Fashion - (ed.) Carol Ann Duffy
Contemporary poets are asked to select their favourite poem, from another time or culture, which looks at how we dress, or undress. (£10.99)
POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
Accidental American - James Naughtie
The story of the 'special relationship' between Blair and America. (£20)
NHS PLC - Allyson M Pollock
This highly readable book, by one of the NHS's most passionate defenders, tells the story of how the ideal of universal, comprehensive health care has been progressively eroded. (£15)
Another World is Possible If - Susan George
Whether you are a seasoned campaigner and confirmed 'world changer', someone who wonders how you can join the growing citizen's movement, or someone who simply wants to know what this movement is about, this book is for you. (£10)
IOU - Noreena Hertz
The Story of the Debt. We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. One of the world's leading experts on economic globalization tackles Third World Debt as a problem which must be resolved if we are ever to see global stability. (£18.99)
Baghdad Business School - H Bond-Gunning
An amusing description of the trials and tribulations of doing business in an environment where explosions and shootings are part of everyday life. (£9.99)
Heresies - John Gray
Against Progress and Other Illusions. A new collection of essays from the author of 'Straw Dogs'. (£8.99)
The Chequebook and the Cruise Missile - Arundhati Roy
Interviews recorded by David Barsamian between 2001 and 2003. (£8.99
REFERENCE
Introducing Cultural Studies (£9.99)
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - (ed.) E. Knowles
A major new edition (sixth) of Oxford's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of 20,000+ quotations. (£30)
The Meaning of Everything - Simon Winchester
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. (£7.99)
Top 10 of Everything - Russell Ash
Completely revised and updated with more lists to amuse, entertain, inform and infuriate. Ill. (£12.99)
Philips Atlas of the World (£12.99)
SCIENCE
Our Final Century - Martin Rees
Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-First Century? When the Astronomer Royal and leading cosmologist of his generation suggests that our species has only a 50/50 chance of surviving the new century, we would do well to take notice. (£7.99)
Ancestor’s Tale - Richard Dawkins
A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life. A journey through evolutionary biology via 40 tales from the Elephant Bird's Tale to the Marsupial Mole's Tale. Col. ill. (£25)
Tomorrow’s People - Susan Greenfield
How 21st century technology is changing the way we think and feel. (£7.99)
Adam’s Curse: a future without men - Bryan Sykes
The all important male Y chromosome is getting smaller and, as generations pass, the female genome is taking over as it cannibalizes parts of the Y chromosome. Women are winning the evolutionary battle of the sexes! (£7.99)
Seven Daughters of Eve - Bryan Sykes
How our origins can be traced, how and where our ancient genetic ancestors lived, what their lives were like and how we are each living proof of the strength of our DNA. (£7.99)
Ingenious Women - Deborah Jaffe
This delightfully illustrated book examines inventions and discoveries made by women, beginning with the first patent application made in 1637 and ending with the outbreak of war in 1914. (£9.99)
Introducing Chaos (£9.99)
Introducing Quantum Theory (£9.99)
TRAVEL
The Travel Book - Lonely Planet
Captures every country on the planet in breathtaking photographs and atmospheric text. (£30)
One Planet - Lonely Planet
Gift hardback edition of the pictorial book. (£14.99)
One Planet Postcards - Lonely Planet (£7.99)
Lancashire Where Women Die of Love - Charles Nevin
Lancashire as a place of wit and wonder, romance and surprise; a land of exotic influence whose people have ever looked outward to sophistications and influences beyond frontiers and seas. (£12.99)
Flowering Amazon - Margaret Mee
The Diaries of an Artist Explorer. Margaret Mee began her Amazon travels aged 47. This stunning volume presents her diaries and sketchbooks from 15 epic journeys over 32 years, illustrated throughout with her own exquisite flower paintings, many reproduced for the first time, along with photographs from her own collection. (£29.50)
Book of Cities - Philip Dodd
Illustrated and inspirational gazetteer of 250 cities, presented in longitudinal order. (£25)
Kiwis Might Fly - Polly Evans
When Polly Evans read that the last bastion of masculinity, the real Kiwi bloke, was about to breathe his last, she took off on a motorbike for the windswept beaches and golden plains of New Zealand. (£6.99)
Michael Palin, col. ill., £7.99 ea.:
Around the
World in Eighty Days
Full Circle
Pole to Pole
How to Read a Church - Richard Taylor
Now available in a new illustrated edition. Over 100 stunning colour photographs represent the very best in church architecture. (£25)
Good Beer Guide 2005 - (ed.) Roger Protz (£13.99)
Good Hotel Guide of Great Britain and Ireland 2005 - Desmond Balmer (£15.99)
Which Pub Guide 2005 (£15.99)
Which Guide to Good Hotels 2005 (£15.99)
Best of London - Lonely Planet (£6.99)
Best of Dublin - Lonely Planet (£6.99)
Inland Waterways Association - Neil Edwards
60 Years of Canal Restoration. Ill. (£12.99)
Sunflower Guide to Western Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon
Tours and walks (£9.99)
New Rough Guides to New Zealand and Lonely Planet Guides to Mexico and New Zealand among others
Traveller’s Guide to Fairy Sites - Janet Bord
The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland in England, Wales and Scotland: information on over 500 fairy sites in the British Isles. (£14.95)
NOVELTIES, DIARIES AND CALENDARS
Mini Snowman in a Box (£4.99)
Therapist in a Box (£4.99)
Water Life Force postcards (£5.95)
Mind Body Spirit Diary,
Mind Body Spirit Calendar
Granta Diary 2005
The book-lover's diary with important dates for life and literature. Illustrated with 52 of the most striking book jackets of the last 100 years. Week to view, desk size and spiral bound. (£9.99)
Origami Page a Day Calendar
Country Walks Calendar
Art of Trees Calendar
1000 Places to See Before You Die Calendar
365 Tiny Paper Airplanes Calendar
Nuns Having Fun Calendar
Shoes Desk Calendar
Discworld Calendar
Fireside Book Annual 2005 (£5.99)
Friendship Book of Francis Gay 2005 (£5.99)
HARDBACK
FICTION
Red Queen - Margaret Drabble
200
years ago the Red Queen was plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of
Korea, and now her ghost decides to set the record straight via Dr Babs
Halliwell. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Nights of Rain and Stars
- Maeve Binchy
Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to
escape meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna.
(£15.99 at The Book Case)
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies -
Alexander McCall Smith
Life continues to be complicated for Precious
Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator, now married and one of
her problems is Mma Makutsi. Sixth in the series. (£10.99 at The Book
Case)
Knees Up Mother Earth - Robert Rankin
Magic, time
travel and football: not exactly your everyday combination - but the fate of
mankind hangs upon the result. The long-awaited prequel to the five books of
'The Brentford Trilogy' (£9.99)
NEW PAPERBACK FICTION
Madras on Rainy
Days - Samina Ali
Set against the backdrop of the ancient walled city
of Hyderabad and mounting Hindu-Muslim tensions, 'Madras on Rainy Days'
lyrically evokes the complexities of life behind the chador. It is a gorgeously
written novel by an original new voice in international fiction. (£10.99)
'An Abridged History of the Construction of The Railway Line between
Garve and Lochinver' - Andrew Drummond
1893 - Alexander Auchmuty
Kininmonth, optimistic railway engineer, works on the construction of a railway
line between Garve ad Lochinver, expecting that the railway will both transform
the economy of that lonely corner of Scotland and bring him riches and personal
comfort. (£9.99)
Love - Toni Morrison
Compelling,
sensual, unforgettable - a major new work by the Nobel Prize winning novelist,
about desire, sex, lust, obsession, yearning, and ultimately about love.
(£6.99)
Probable Future - Alice Hoffman
Hoffman
unlocks the caskets of family life and the secret history of a community in
this magical story about young love and old love, about making choices -
usually the wrong ones - about foresight and consequences, all suffused with
the haunting scent of roses and wisteria, and the hum of bees on a summer
evening. (£6.99)
Medusa - Michael Dibdin
When Austrian
cavers exploring some abandoned military tunnels in the Italian Alps come
across human remains, everyone assumes the death was accidental, until the
unidentified body is stolen from the morgue and there is a news blackout.
Aurelio Zen is charged with finding out the truth (£6.99)
Bangkok 8 - John Burdett
A startling, unique and provocative
novel, hailed by Carl Hiaasen, Jeffery Deaver and James Ellroy as 'suspense at
its best; the wildest ride in modern crime exoticum; the last and most
compelling word in thrillers'. First in a major new series featuring a Thai
Buddhist detective, steeped in Buddhist culture and exoticism. (£6.99)
Blackpool Highflyer - Andrew Martin.
When railway man Jim
Stringer is assigned to drive holidaymakers to Blackpool in 1905, he thinks he
has struck lucky. But his dreams of beer and pretty women soon fall away when
his high-speed train meets a huge millstone on the line. In the months that
follow Jim hunts for the sabateur. (£10.99)
Voyage to the End
of the Room - Tibor Fischer.
Oceane likes to travel but never goes out.
She brings the world into her home via satellite, the Internet and passing
foreigners. Tibor Fischer's novel is about what can be known, what evil looks
like, why ketchup is important and how Lambeth Council was rated one of the
worst councils in the UK. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY
My Heart
is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots - John Guy.
This is a
dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the
leading historians at work today - a compelling work of historical scholarship
that offers radical new interpretations of an ancient story. (£8.99)
Citizens - Simon Schama
A Chronicle of the French
Revolution. The most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of
the French Revolution, and one of the great landmarks of modern history
publishing. (£15.99)
Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi
Sequel to the critically acclaimed 'Persepolis': the story of Marjane's
challenging adolescence as a high-school student in Austria and later as a
Western-influenced young art student in Iran. ((£12.99)
Oath -
Khassan Baiev
Subtitled A Surgeon Under Fire, this is the autobiography
of a real-life Doctor Zhivago, who put the Hippocratic Oath before his own
life, his family, his religion and his country. An extraordinary story of human
self-sacrifice in the midst of global conflict. (£7.99)
Veiled
Kingdom - Carmin Bin Laden
A unique insight by one of Osama Bin Laden's
sisters-in-law into the Bin Laden family and into Saudi society, one of the
most powerful, secretive and repressive kingdoms in the world. (£10.99)
Orwell The Observer Years 1942-1948
This book brings
together for the first time all of George Orwell's remarkable writings for the
Observer, covering the Second World War and its aftermath. Combining reporting
of the very highest order with profiles, analysis and book reviews, this
complete collection is an indispensable addition to the library of any admirer
of Orwell. (£8.99)
Raw Spirit - Iain Banks
As a native
of Scotland, bestselling author Iain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of
the distilleries of his homeland in a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the
single malt. Visiting some of the world's most famous distilleries and also
some of its smallest and most obscure ones, Banks embarks on a journey of
discovery which educates him about the places, people and products surrounding
the centuries-old tradition of whisky production. (£7.99)
SOCIETY & POLITICS
New Great Game - Lutz Kleveman
Blood and Oil in
Central Asia. A revelatory and extremely timely account of the high stakes game
to dominate central Asia - one that mixes religion and oil to explosive effect.
The first book to show exactly how competition for the region's vast oil
reserves - led by the United States and Russia - is de-stabilizing central
Asia. (£8.99)
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
A Story of Violent Faith. From the bestselling author of 'Into the
Wild' and 'Into Thin Air', a riveting account of Taliban-like theocracies in
the American heartland controlled by renegade Mormon prophets. (£7.99)
Al Qaeda - Jason Burke The True Story of Radical Islam.
Explodes the myths that threaten the very foundations of the 'War on
Terror'. Fully updated with new material on Iraq and Afghanistan. (£7.99)
Lies & The Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Al Franken
The No
1 international bestseller is now in paperback. Published to coincide with the
US elections. (£7.99)
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot - Al
Franken
Al Franken shakes bodyblows at his favourite targets, the
rantings of right wing politicians and the media hacks who support them,
starting with his favourite, 300lbs (and growing) Rush Limbaugh. Described by
The Washington Times as a master of political humour, Franken's unique brand of
rip roaring invective is now delighting fans on this side of the pond.
Published to coincide with the US elections. (£7.99)
Regarding
the Pain of Others - Susan Sontag
A startling reappraisal of the
intersection of information, news, art, and politics in the contemporary
depiction of war and disaster. (£7.99)
Mother Without a Mask -
Patricia Holton
A Westerner's Story of Her Arab Family. A fascinating
and very human insight into the lives of women who are so often out of sight,
particularly from Western eyes. A new introduction brings this compelling story
of rewarding and inspirational relationships up to date. (£8.99)
FICTION
HARDBACK
Birds without Wings - Louis de Bernieres
Set on the coast of Turkey during the dying days of the Ottoman empire, a sweeping novel of the inhabitants of a small town, their lives, faiths and loves and the effect that the Great War has on them all. Compared to “War and Peace”. From the author of “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.” (£15.99 at The Book Case)
Collected Stories - Carol Shields
From the late author of The Stone Diaries, all of her short stories - some previously unpublished - gathered together in one volume. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
Annotated Brothers Grimm - Maria Tatar
Forty stories in new translations by Maria Tatar with hundreds of annotations that explore the historical origins, cultural complexities and psychological effects of these tales. Col. & b&w ill. (£26.00 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Gil Courtemanche
The hotel swimming pool is a magnet for privileged Kigali residents; a beautiful Hutu waitress and a Canadian journalist begin a love affair as events unfold in Rwanda. Cathartic denunciation of poverty, ignorance, global apathy and media blindness, (£7.99)
My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey
A phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker from Melbourne to a sweaty and bitter ending in the tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur. Booker-winning author. (£7.99)
Rules of Engagement - Anita Brookner
Old school friends Elizabeth and Betsy meet again in their thirties. Are their lives taking off, or are they just making more of the wrong choices? (£6.99)
Somersault - Kenzaburo Oe
Novel about the mystery of faith, charismatic leaders and the dangers of
messianic religious cults from the Nobel Prize winner. (£7.99)
One Man’s Justice - Akira Yoshimura
Riveting, informative story about a Japanese ex-officer on the run from the American occupiers after the fire-bombing of Kyushu and nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is topical interest in the behaviour of the US occupying forces. See review at http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,899626,00.html (£7.99)
Travelling with Djinns - Jamal Mahjoub
Yasin is driving through Europe with his seven-year-old son Leo. He's not sure where they're going and this is his last chance to explain to his son who he is and where he comes from. The problem is that he isn't sure of the answer himself. British-Sudanese novelist (£6.99)
Cryptographer - Tobias Hill
Tax inspector Anna Moore takes on a mysterious and charming quadrillionaire man of secrets. (£7.99)
Sweet Obscurity - Patrick Gale
Set in a haunted Cornish landscape, the story of individuals in search of a family. (£7.99)
State of Happiness - Stella Duffy
The story of a love affair and a woman coming to terms with life and death. (£6.99)
Catch as Catch Can - Joseph Heller
The previously uncollected writings of Joseph Heller, including hitherto unpublished stories, lost chapters for 'Catch-22' and further tales from that novel's unforgettable 'hero', Yossarian. (£7.99)
Emma Brown - Clare Boylan
Victorian novel of mystery, atmosphere and page-turning suspense continued by Clare Boyland from 20 pages left by Charlotte Bronte in 1855. (£6.99)
From Lynne Truss, the author of "Eats Shoots and Leaves", the following novels at £7.99 each:
Going Loco - sinister comic novel about twins
Making the Cat Laugh - one woman's journal of single life on the margins.
With One Lousy Packet of Free Seeds - entertaining hatchet job on contemporary celebrity journalism
Tennyson’s Gift - farcical novel based on real events on the Isle of Wight in the summer of 1864, revolving around Tennyson, Ellen Terry, Julia Margaret Cameron and Edward Lear.
Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
A comedy about love, class, growing up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. And University Challenge. (£6.99)
Olivia Joules - Helen Fielding
A new heroine for the 21st century - from the author of 'Bridget Jones's
Diary'. (£7.99)
Diary of a C-List Celeb - Paul
Hendy
Entertaining romp through the world of tabloid and TV celebrity from
ex-"Wheel of Fortune" presenter. (£6.99)
Witches of
Chiswick - Robert Rankin
How a cabal of Victorian witches from the Chiswick Townswomen’s
Guild, working with advanced Babbage super-computers, rewrote 19th-century
history. (£6.99)
Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander
McCall Smith
Mma Ramotswe’s wedding is still postponed as Mr Matekoni has to cope with a request from the forceful matron of the Orphan Farm, and she has to check out the motives of a client’s suitors. The fifth in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. (£6.99)
Phoenix - John Connor
From a Todmorden author, the story of West Yorkshire Detective Constable Karen Sharpe's investigation into the killing of a policeman and police informer on moorland above Halifax. (£4.99)
Rottweiler - Ruth Rendell
In a darkly atmospheric London the lives of a small group of people from very mixed backgrounds are affected dramatically by a series of apparently motiveless murders. (£6.99)
Tamburlaine Must Die - Louise Welsh
Historical murder mystery from prize-winning author. It's 1593 and London is on edge, under threat from plague and war. Playwright, poet, spy, Christopher Marlowe has three days to live, in which he confronts betrayal and revenge in his search for the murderous Tamburlaine, a killer who has escaped from between the pages of Marlowe's most violent play. (£9.99)
Used Women’s Book Club - Paul Bryers
On the night the Used Women's Book Club meet to swap novels and exchange literary views, the husband of one of its members is being brutally murdered. (£6.99)
Know - Martina Cole
When Joanie’s beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, the only thing she wants is to see the killer brought to justice. (£6.99)
Cat who Talked Turkey - Lilian J Braun
Journalist/philanthropist James Qwilleran and his clue-sensitive cats return with crime-solving talents intact in the twenty-sixth Cat Who... mystery. (£6.99)
Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits - ed. Mike Ashley
Twenty-four tales of mystery and murder from the age of jazz, the talkies and prohibition. New stories and rare reprints from leading authors from both sides of the Atlantic. (£7.99)
Coma - Alex Garland
From the author of "The Beach", a psychological drama about a young man who on his recovery from a brutal assault, begins to notice strange leaps in time. (£10.99)
Bleachers - John Grisham
Fleeting youth, high school football, legends and heroes, and the many ways boys become men. (£5.99)
Eagle and the Wolves - Simon Scarrow
Fourth in the gripping Roman series: veteran Macro and newly-appointed centurion Cato are ordered by Vespasian to provide Verica, aged ruler of the Atrebates, with an army. (£6.99)
Arthur the King - Allan Massie
Humorous and energetic retelling of the legend, relocated to the Tweed. (£6.99)
REISSUES
Mapp and Lucia - E F Benson
Comedy of social rivalry in pre-war provincial England. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an arch-snob of the highest order. But in Miss Elizabeth Mapp of Mallards, Lucia meets her match. (£8.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Toast - Nigel Slater
The Story of a Boy's Hunger. Richard and Judy Top Ten Read. (£7.99)
Brief Lives - W F Deedes
A fascinating collection of biographies of people W F Deedes has met in his seventy years of journalism. (£12.99)
Wish You Were Here: the Official Biography of Douglas Adams - Nick Webb (£7.99)
Round-heeled Woman - Jane Juska
"My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance." Jane Juska, a smart, energetic divorcee, decided she'd been celibate too long, and placed a personal ad in her favourite newspaper, The New York Review of Books. (£7.99)
Chronicle of a Working Life - Monica Dickens
Omnibus edition of 'One Pair of Hands', 'One Pair of Feet' and 'My Turn to Make the Tea'. Entertaining evocation of the 1920s and ‘30s from Dickens’s great-granddaughter. (£9.99)
Mad Madge - Katie Whitaker
The Flamboyant Civil War Duchess of Newcastle. One of the first Englishwomen to make a living through her writing, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was a dazzling figure - brave, eccentric, loving, clever and energetic - who wrote of herself: 'My mind's too big'. Her colourful story is told against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration. (£8.99)
FOOD & DRINK
You Are What You Eat - Gillian McKeith
10 Steps to Your New Life. Channel 4 tie-in to promote healthy living. (£12.99)
Beer: the Story of the Pint - Martyn Cornell (£7.99)
HISTORY
Out of Eden: the peopling of the world - Stephen Oppenheimer
Not only are we all descended from a common African 'Adam' and 'Eve': it can now be proved that all modern non-Africans sprang from a single exodus out of Africa when a group of no more than a few hundred souls crossed the mouth of the Red Sea some 80,000 years ago. Illustrated. (£8.99)
Mistress of the House - Rosemary Baird
Great Ladies and Grand Houses 1670-1830. Life, marriage, taste and fashion: the role of women in the great Power Houses of 17th and 18th century Britain. Illustrated. (£7.99)
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World - Deborah
Cadbury
How our modern world was forged - in rivers, grease and
steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination. (£8.99)
Cannabis - Martin Booth
A study of the world's most controversial weed - and, after tobacco, alcohol and aspirin, the world's most widely taken drug. From the Neolithic period, via medical and religious history and gang warfare to present-day pot-heads. (£8.99)
Mud, Blood and Poppycock - Gordon Corrigan
The true story of how Britain won the First World War. Arguing that the soldiers of 1914-18 simply would not recognise the way their generation is depicted on TV, this book reveals how the British embraced technology, and developed the weapons and tactics to break through the enemy trenches. Illustrated. (£7.99)
Wars Against Saddam - John Simpson
The summation of more than 20 years' coverage of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, including the full story of his rise to power and the West's relationship with Saddam throughout his dictatorship.(£7.99)
HUMOUR
Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook at University - Joshua Piven et al
Classic and hilarious advice for the new student. (£9.99)
MEDIA
A-Z of Classic Children’s Television - Simon Sheridan
Relive the magic of Bagpuss, Bod, The Clangers, Ivor the Engine, The Magic Roundabout, Mr Benn, and many others - all affectionately remembered. (£12.99)
Granta 86: Film - (ed.) Ian Jack
Includes Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's List, Roger Lewis on
Peter Sellers, Pankaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the
Ritz and the Regal, Andrew O'Hagan on his years as a movie critic, and the
stories of the people who fell from stardom in Hollywood. Illustrated.
(£9.99)
Nobody’s Perfect - Anthony Lane
The collected film and book reviews and essays on art and culture of New Yorker critic Anthony Lane. (£9.99)
MUSIC
Words and Music - Paul Morley
A history of popular
music from Elvis to Eminem, from author Paul Morley, NME writer and television
pop pundit. (£7.99)
POLITICS
Dude, Where’s My Country? - Michael Moore
Argues America has been tricked by Republican lawmakers and their wealthy corporate pals, who use a combination of concocted bogeymen and lies to stay rich and in control. (£7.99)
Pretty Straight Guys - Nick Cohen
New Labour Britain, spin and corruption in the tradition of 'No Logo' and 'Stupid White Men', updated. (£8.99)
Bush Hater’s Handbook - Jack Huberman
An A-Z guide to the most appalling Presidency of the past 100 years. (£8.99)
REFERENCE
Concise Oxford Dictionary (11th ed.) (£20.00)
Dorling Kindersley Handbook of Knots - Des Pawson (£10.99)
TRAVEL
Parallel Lines - Ian Marchant
The story of two railways: the real railway and the railway of our
dreams, from its Victorian heyday to "Brief Encounter". (£7.99)
Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta - (ed.) Andrew
O’Hagan
Following their 2001 trip to the Sudan, a group of authors including Andrew O'Hagan, Tony Hawks and Irvine Welsh now take on one of the world's most fascinating and contradictory cities, Calcutta. (£7.99)
North Light - A T Gudmundsson
Using a combination of text, fact-files and superb photos, the authors give the reader an insight into how the Icelanders' lives are shaped by the changing light through the seasons. (£12.99)
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes and The Amateur Emigrant - R L Stevenson (£8.99)
New Lonely Planet guides to Brittany and Normandy, Central Asia and New England among others and a new Rough Guides to the Pyrenees covering both the French and Spanish sides of the range.
AA Big Road Atlas of Britain 2005 (spiral) (£10.99)
AA Big Road Atlas of Britain 2005 (standard) (£9.99)
AA Motorists Atlas of Britain 2005 (spiral) (£10.99)
Philips Motoring Atlas of Britain 2005 (spiral) (£10.99)
Philips Road Atlas of Britain 2004 (£4.99)
WALL CALENDARS 2005
Babar’s Gallery (£9.99)
Lady Cottington’s Fairy Album (£9.99)
Outhouses (£8.95)
Weather (£8.95)
Tolkien 50th Anniversary
Edition (£9.99)
Lonely Planet (£8.99)
Peter Rabbit (£6.99): with 40 stickers to record special days
Flower Fairies (£7.99)
DIARIES 2005
British Library Diary
Week to view, full-page colour picture on every spread and a ribbon marker. Includes outstanding works of art from famous manuscripts. (£12.99)
RHS Diary
With Caroline Maria Applebee's beautiful drawings of flowers, both cultivated garden plants and wild flowers found in fields and hedgerows, drawn between 1808 and 1852. Also includes the dates of all the RHS Flower Shows. (£11.99)
RHS Pocket Diary (£5.99)
Victoria and Albert Museum Desk Diary
Theme of East-West travel illustrated by artefacts from the V&A. (£12.99)
Victoria and Albert Museum Pocket Diary (£5.99)
Lonely Planet Diary (£9.99)
Contains colour photographs and information on destinations chosen for their seasonal appeal.
Lonely Planet Pocket Travel Diary (£6.99)
Peter Rabbit Diary (£4.99)
Flower Fairies Engagement Diary (spiral, week-to-view) (£5.99)
Flower Fairies Friends Diary (for children) (£4.99)
ADDRESS BOOKS
RHS Address Book
With Caroline Maria Applebee's beautiful drawings of flowers, both cultivated garden plants and wild flowers found in fields and hedgerows, drawn between 1808 and 1852. (£11.99)
FICTION
HARDBACK
Ring - Koji Suzuki
A hardworking Japanese journalist’s niece dies suddenly - then a chance conversation reveals that another teenager died at exactly the same time in similar circumstances. (£10)
PAPERBACK
Crossing the Lines - Melvyn Bragg
Continuing from The Soldier's Return and A Son of War Joe moves from working-class Wigton to the rarefied atmosphere of Oxford. (£6.99)
Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
From the author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' a novel centred on six mysterious medieval Flemish tapestries. (£6.99)
Buddha Da - Anne Donovan
When a Glaswegian painter and decorator takes up meditation, no one takes him seriously. Short-listed for the Orange and Whitbread Prizes. (£7.99)
Good Doctor - Damon Galgut
Booker-shortlisted novel set in a dilapidated hosptial in South Africa. The optimistic new arrival finds himself sharing a room with a disillusioned old hand. (£7.99)
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Debut novel set in Afghanistan during the Russian invasion, about a young Afghani's journey to maturity. As predicted, the film rights have been sold to DreamWorks. (£6.99)
Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
Dark modern fable about the meaning of love and sex from the author of 'The Alchemist' (£7.99)
Millennium People - J G Ballard
Violent rebellion comes to London's middle classes. (£7.99)
Taxi Driver’s Daughter - Julia Darling
15-year-old Caris is trying to hang an angel on a Christmas tree in a terraced street in Newcastle when the police arrive announcing that her drunken dishevelled mother has been caught stealing shoes. Her taxi-driver father Mac struggles to keep the family together. Booker longlisted. The author appeared at last year’s Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. (£6.99)
Crocodile Soup - Julia Darling
Gert is a curator in a northern museum. Through a series of flashbacks, she describes her eccentric and often surreal childhood. (£6.99)
Finding Myself - Toby Litt
The reader is invited to
step through a maze of unreliable narration, misjudged expectations and
duplicitous accomplices to arrive finally at what is going on at Victoria
About's Suffolk literary hideaway. (£7.99)
Six - Jim Crace
The sexual history of a loving,
baffled, over-fertile man. (£7.99)
Lanzarote - Michel Houellbecq
Explores the hedonism of Lanzarote, including Pam and Barbara, non-exclusive German lesbians. (£6.99)
Judge Savage - Tim Parks
Daniel Savage is a black
Crown Court judge. As the most tangled lives are ironed out in court, his own
existence descends into a mess of violence and confusion. English society has
fragmented into an incomprehensible public gallery where every face conceals a
different culture. (£6.99)
Living Nowhere - John Burnside
Corby, the industrial new steeltown, draws many to the fires of its furnaces in the hope of steady work, a better house, a fresh start. Amongst them are Francis Cameron, from Scotland, and his friend Jan Ruckert, the son of Latvian refugees. (£6.99)
Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
Post 9/11 comedy about "unchangeable: patriarchy and the entire edifice of masculinity ... and the illusion/delusion that we can protect our future and our progeny." (£7.99)
Girl Who Played Go - Sa Shan
In Japanese-occupied
Manchuria in the 1930s, a 16 year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game
of Go. One of her opponents is a young Japanese officer of the occupying power.
(£6.99)
Mistress Class - Michelle Roberts
Desire and envy,
siblings, stalkers and obsessive love, set in contemporary London and the
1970s, with a thriller element. (£6.99)
Last Tango in Aberystwyth - Malcolm Pryce
To the girls who
came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry,
Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught at the
Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials.
(£6.99)
Boy Who Taught the Beekeeper to Read and Other
Stories
A young boy visiting his aunt's country house finds
company and friendship with the gentle beekeeper and begins teaching the man to
read; a young country girl fights against becoming a downtrodden domestic
skivvy like her dead mother; a gang of boys plan the most wicked deed they can
conceive of... (£6.99)
Whole Story & Other Stories - Ali Smith
From the author of "Hotel World", stories for people who've grown up being told time is running out - and don't want it to. (£6.99)
Heretic - Bernard Cornwell
Third in the bestselling Grail Quest series. (£6.99)
Blighted Cliffs - Edwin Thomas
For those of you missing Flashman, a new swashbuckling cad, Martin Jerrold, the only British seaman to emerge from Trafalgar without an ounce of honour to his name. (£6.99)
Dead Reckoning - Patricia Hall
Gritty portrayal of life in Bradfield, West Yorkshire, featuring journalist Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray. (£6.99)
Caedmon’s Song - Peter Robinson
On a balmy June night a young university student, strolls home through a silent moonlit park. Suddenly her tranquil mood is shattered as she is viciously attacked. (£6.99)
Blowfly - Patricia Cornwall
Latest Scarpetta paperback. (£6.99)
Accusers - Lindsey Davis
15th novel in the Marcus Didius Falco series: a tale of corruption, informers and the Roman courts of law. (£6.99)
To the Nines - Janet Evanovich
Stephanie Plum's got
rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of
the week. An ordinary person would cave in under the pressure.
(£6.99)
Nobody True - James Herbert
What happens when you lose your body? Jim True knows. He has returned from an out-of-body experience to find he has been brutally murdered and his body mutilated. (£6.99)
REISSUE:
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street - Hilary Mantel
Prescient and haunting novel of life for an expat female cartographer in Saudia Arabia, who finds herself unable to map the Kingdom’s areas of internal darkness. (£7.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Her Husband - Diane Middlebrook
A fresh approach to the Hughes-Plath relationship. Diane Middlebrook looks at Hughes's poetic capabilities, ambitious literary career and its inflection by the reputation of his dead wife, drawing on interviews and his unpublished letters and papers. UK edition. (£20)
Into the Rose Garden - Joan Bakewell
Or it might be called "The Centre of the Bed" - we’ve seen both titles in use! The popular broadcaster’s life and career, from painful childhood memories through two marriages and an affair with Harold Pinter. (£7.99)
Desperately Seeking Paradise - Ziauddin Sardar
Self-mocking, frank and passionate autobiography from one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain at a time when the view of Islam in the West is so often distorted and simplistic. (£16.99)
Giving Up the Ghost - Hilary Mantel
Wry, shocking and
beautifully written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical),
illness and family. (£7.99)
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Lighthouse Keeper - Peter
Hill
When the author, then an art student, answered an advert in
The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a
month he would be living with three men he didn't know in a lighthouse on
Pladda, a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland. (£7.99).
Memoirs - Pablo Neruda
Published to mark the centenary
of the poet and politician’s birth. (£10.99)
Bound for Glory - Woodie Guthrie (£8.99)
The autobiography of the founder of modern American folk music: funny, cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards.
For Tibet with Love - Isabel Losada
A single woman’s quest to make a difference. From the author of the international bestseller 'The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment'. (£7.99)
Snake Hips - Anne Thomas Soffee
An Arab-American woman, dumped by her boyfriend and getting to grips with being single, ample and 30, takes up belly-dancing and never looks back! (£6.99)
1979 - Rhona Cameron
Warm and funny coming-of-age autobiography set in Musselburgh on the east coast of Scotland in a year when everything seemed to change. (£7.99)
GARDENING, NATURE & PETS
Garden Revival Expert - D G Hessayon
A book for real gardeners in the real world - not about fancy make-overs or how to turn your garden into their idea of good design. Answers all the questions that everybody asks and nobody answers - how can I remove or change the ugly bits, the sticky and the overgrown bits? (£6.99)
Garden Stone - Barbara Pleasant
More than 40 enchanting designs, from something as simple as a flagstone path to an elaborate Zen inspired meditation garden. (£14.99)
Allotment Folk - Chris Opperman
Profiles the unique
obsessions and preoccupations of over 40 British allotmenteers, young and old.
Each story is accompanied by photographs of the allotmenteer and his or her
'patch'. (£6.99)
Out of Eden - Eden Team
The Eden Project has been described as the eighth wonder of the world, and has been visited by more than four million of us. Its message is that plants and people are interdependent. This book is about sustainability, about bringing industrial landscapes back from the dead, about living at one with Nature at a time of ecological danger. (£12.00)
Mazes and Labyrinths - Adrian Fisher
A Shire Album, tracing the history of mazes world-wide from the earliest known examples, and describing those which have been created in Britain's gardens, parks and landscape. (£4.99)
Dorling Kindersley Pocket Nature Guides,
£9.99 each:
Wild Flowers
Fungi
Trees
Birds of Parks and Gardens - Mark Golley
Pocket field guide.
(£4.99)
New Pocket Dog Training - Bruce Fogle (£6.99)
HISTORY
In Search of British Heroes - Tony Robinson
Five legends of
British history: Boudicca, Robin Hood, Macbeth, King Harold and William
Wallace. The people behind the myths, and how the myths have woven themselves
into the nation’s character and self-perception. (£12.99)
Man Walks into a Pub - Pete Brown
A Sociable History
of Beer. (£7.99)
Krakatoa: the day the world exploded - Simon Winchester
The
terrifying volcanic explosion that destroyed the Indonesian island of Krakatoa
in 1883 and had worldwide effects. This book includes contemporaneous reports
and describes how the Americans, English, Chinese and Dutch - and also the
Javanese and Sumatrans to whom this land belonged - dealt with the
event.(£7.99)
Broken String: the last words of an extinct people - Neil Bennun
The first people of South Africa, stone age hunters and gatherers from the
mountains and the arid flats of the interior, did not survive the arrival of
settlers from Europe. Within decades an ancient world of sorcerers, hunters and
artists was lost forever, along with the stories they told. (£16.99)
Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger, trans. Michael Hoffman
The
First World War through the eyes of a young, tough, patriotic, but disturbingly
self-aware German soldier. It was a worldwide bestseller shortly after the
war’s end, now re-translated. (£7.99)
Stalin - Simon S Montefiore
The Court of the Red Tsar. The
remarkable untold story of the men and women who sustained Stalin in power in
the Soviet Union for nearly 30 years. (£9.99)
Lesser Evil - Victor Klemperer
The Diaries of Victor
Klemperer 1945-1959. The third and final volume of the diaries of Victor
Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war and whose diaries have been
hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles.
(£9.99)
HUMOUR
Join Me - Danny Wallace
When the author placed a small ad in
a local London paper, saying, simply, "Join Me", he received letters and emails
from intrigued strangers all over the country, eager to sign up and pledging
allegiance to his cause. He travelled the world, became a minor celebrity in
Belgium and risked losing his sanity and his loyal girlfriend. The true story
of a man who created a cult by accident and proof that while some men were born
to lead, others really haven't got a clue. (£6.99)
Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel - Michael Gerber (£5.99)
Grumpy Old Men - David Quantick
Old men have been
grumbling since the dawn of time. This book charts their top 100 gripes, from
too many soap operas on TV to tattoos and pointless speed restrictions.
(£9.99).
World’s Stupidest Instructions
Demonstrating that
truth is indeed stranger than fiction, this collection of genuine product
instructions reveals just how dumb some manufacturers think we are.
(£4.99)
MBS
Voice of the Buddha (CD)
The Dhammapada, The Mangala Sutta
and other key Buddhist texts. Three CDs, approx running time 4 hours, read by
Kulananda. (£13.99)
Baby Tips for Dads - Simon Brett
Congratulations! The
nine-month wait is over, your son or daughter is in your arms...but what
happens now? Quick and quirky advice on everything from nappies to night-time
nibbles. (£4.99)
Baby’s First Year: Everything You Need to Know
One in a series of practical one-stop guides from David & Charles.
(£9.99)
MUSIC
Glastonbury Festival Tales
The story of the people who have contributed to, performed at, or simply been part of the Glastonbury phenomenon since it began. Colour photos. (£16.99)
REFERENCE
Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
For all
those who couldn't understand 'A Brief History of Time', the incomparable Bill
Bryson takes on popular science, travelling through space and time to introduce
us to the world, the universe and everything. (£8.99)
Chambers Factfinder
Ideal for pub quizzes, crosswords,
winning that argument or just dipping into for fun. (£9.99)
POLITICS
Free Radical - Tony Benn
A selection of Tony Benn's
articles from the Morning Star 2001-2002. (£7.99)
Imperial Crusades - Alexander Cockburn
A decade of war
reports from the pages of the award-winning newsletter CounterPunch, predicting
with chilling accuracy how the invasions would unfold, and their blood soaked
aftermath. (£10)
Stasiland: stories from behind the Berlin Wall - Anna Funder
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, East Germany ceased to exist. In a
country where one in fifty East Germans were informing on their country men and
women, there are a thousand stories just waiting to get out. A superb and sassy
account of what it's like to live in Berlin now. Guardian First Book
short-listed. (£7.99)
TRAVEL
Trawler - Redmond O’Hanlon
A Journey Through the North
Atlantic: two weeks aboard a deep-sea fishing trawler. Setting out in a
hurricane and immediately sick as a dog, finding his sea legs and discovering
exactly what kind of disgusting creatures come up from the deep, O'Hanlon
bravely tries to become one of the crew. Colour photographs. (£7.99)
Attention All Shipping: a journey round the Shipping Forecast -
Charlie Connelly
'Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea' - a hilarious
travel book that journeys round areas made famous by Radio 4's The Shipping
Forecast. (£12.99)
Ripening Sun - Patricia Atkinson
One Woman and the Creation
of a Vineyard. In 1990, the author and her husband emigrated to the Dordogne.
After a series of disasters Patricia's husband returned to Britain and never
went back, but Patricia's tiny plot has become a major estate, and her wines
have won awards and sell throughout the world. (£6.99)
Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud - Sun Shuyun
The
author, who grew up in China, set out to retrace the steps of the monk
Xuanzang, who travelled to India, crossing 110 kingdoms over 18 years, in the
8th century searching for true Buddhism. Sun Shuyun also makes a personal
journey towards understanding her grandmother’s Buddhist faith.
(£7.99)
In the High Pyrenees - Bernard Loughlin (£7.99)
Life in
a mountain village in the Catalan Pyrenees.
Road to Oxiana - Robert Byron
Reissue of a travel classic.
In 1933 the author set out to travel through the Middle East via Beirut,
Teheran and Baghdad to Oxiana on the Soviet-Afghan border. (£8.99)
Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson (CD) (£14.99)
Rough Guide to Travel Online.
Includes full coverage of all
budget airlines, including the new regionally operated arrivals to the market
such as BMIbaby and Flybe, plus full coverage of the latest tech. developments
for travellers, such as remote internet access. (£6.99)
And new Rough Guides to Barcelona, Canada and the Greek Islands.
DIARIES 2005
Tolkien: 50th Anniversary edition
Artwork by J R R Tolkien.
(£9.99)
Wainwright Desk Diary
With ink drawings of landscapes
in England, Scotland and Wales taken from Wainwright's sketchbooks.
(£12.99)
Wainwright Pocket Diary
Illustrations from his 'Pictorial
Guides to the Lakeland Fells'. (£5.99)
Psychological Diary (Redstone)
Images to remind us of
the strange and beautiful world of the unconscious. Intro. by Will Self.
(£12.95)
FICTION
HARDBACK
Lighthousekeeping - Jeanette Winterson
Motherless
drifter Silver is taken in by Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, and
hears tales of longing and rootlessness.(£14.99 at The Book Case)
Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Set in the half-drowned mangrove-forested archipelago of the Sunderbans where the Ganges meets the Bay of Bengal. An eccentric, wealthy Scotsman once tried to create a utopian society here, and in 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast environment. From the author of "The Glass Palace". (£13.99 at The Book Case)
Thunder God - Paul Watkins
Gripping historical action adventure, set amongst the Vikings and the strong beliefs of Norse mythology. (8.99)
PAPERBACK
Pompeii - Robert Harris
Recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time, focussing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist. Trade paperback. (£10.99)
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Set in the Asian community in
London's East End, the story of Nazneen, a village girl from Bangladesh. Booker
shortlisted. (£7.99)
Vernon God Little - D B C Pierre
Booker-winning US satire about a high-school massacre. (£7.99)
Waxwings - Jonathan Raban
Two immigrants arrive in Seattle at the turn of the millennium - an English intellectual and a penniless Chinese man. Mutual need brings them movingly and entertainingly together. (£7.99)
Colour - Rose Tremain
Drama of sacrifice and greed set
during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in New Zealand. (£6.99)
Light of Day - Graham Swift
Sarah is in prison, being
visited by the private eye she employed to keep an eye on her husband.
(£7.99)
Mourning Ruby - Helen Dunmore
A novel of interlocking stories, from a girl in a First World War brothel to a circus acrobat and Stalin’s first wife. (£7.99)
Good Faith - Jane Smiley
Money, sex, and real estate
in the US from the author of 'A Thousand Acres' (£7.99)
Mr Golightly’s Holiday - Salley Vickers
Mr
Golightly discovers events from his book taking over the small village he has
visited on holiday. From the author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. (£6.99)
Certain Chemistry - Mil Millington
A story of
hormones, infidelity and the hazards of divine intervention. (6.99)
No Telling - Adam Thorpe
Set in 1968 in the Parisian suburbs, and narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles whose home is deeply dysfunctional. (£6.99)
Last Family in England - Matt Haig
Quirky reworking of "Henry IV Part II" to make you see the world in a completely new way. (£10.00)
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies - John Murray
An American scientist, lecturing on cholera in Bombay, visits a
makeshift hospital and makes a decision that will change her life forever. A
carpenter sits in the Australian beach house he built for his adored wife,
hearing strange noises in the walls. An aid worker in war-torn Africa watches,
powerless, as a mission church, filled with people is burned to the ground.
(£7.99)
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
The tenth
issue of a literary magazine with new work from Chabon, Eggers, Rick Moody,
Neil Gaiman, Michael Crichton, Nick Hornby and more. (£7.99)
Queen’s Fool - Philippa Gregory
Rivalry between Queen Mary and her half-sister Elizabeth in the Tudor court from the author of 'The Other Boleyn Girl'. (£6.99)
Sarah: a Heroine of the Old Testament - Marek Halter
First of a trilogy, set against the epic backdrop of the Sumerian cities of Ur and Babylon four thousand years ago, and in the arid wastelands of the Arabian desert. (£10.99)
Sweetest Thing - Fiona Shaw
Historical novel about
working girls and upper-class men, photography and chocolate factories, mad
women and Quakers. (£7.99)
Blue Horizon - Wilbur Smith
The new generation of
Courtneys stake their claim on the wilderness of Southern Africa.
(£6.99)
Question of Blood - Ian Rankin
Inspector Rebus novel:
two 17 year olds are killed by an ex-Army loner who has gone off the rails.
(£6.99)
Reissues from Mary Renault:
Last of the Wine (£7.99)
Mask of Apollo (£7.99)
Praise Singer (£7.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Story of My Father - Sue Miller
In the spring of 1986,
Sue Miller found herself more and more deeply involved in caring for her father
as he slipped into the grasp of Alzheimer's disease. A profound, deeply moving
account of her father's final days and her own response to it.
(£7.99)
My Invented Country - Isabel Allende
The eventful life
story of the author: "her love for (sometimes exasperation with) Chile informs
every line. (£7.99)
In Search of Fatima - Ghada Karmi
A Palestinian
Memoir: her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe of
1948, coming of age in the coffee-bars of Golders Green, 'Little Tel Aviv', and
her struggle to get a university grant to study medicine, all told with gentle
humour. (£10)
George and Sam - Charlotte Moore
Charlotte Moore has
three children: the two oldest, George and Sam, are autistic; the youngest,
Jake, is not. This book combines personal memoir with the most recent known
information on this most fascinating and elusive conditions. (£16.99)
GARDENING
Little History of British Gardening - Jenny Uglow
A romp through British gardening from the Stone Age to today in a beautiful package. (£15.99)
Allotment Handbook - Caroline Foley
Includes a month-by-month section of at-a-glance key tasks, and tips on keeping the allotment productive all year round, propagation, pruning and harvesting, and also a guide to allotments and the law, with resources and addresses. (£12.99)
HISTORY
Medieval Underworld - Andrew McCall
Looks at medieval times from the point of view of those who would not or could not conform to convention. (£8.99)
Pursuit of the Millennium - Norman Cohn
Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages - reissue of this classic. (£12.50)
1215 Year of Magna Carta - Danny Danziger
Explores a time of global upheaval and domestic changes, and features Bad King John, Genghis Kahn and St Francis of Assissi amongst a cast of thousands. (£7.99)
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern - World Niall Ferguson
Globalization with gunboats. The legacy of the biggest empire in history is all around us. At its peak it governed a quarter of the world's land and people and dominated all its seas. How did a rainy island in the North Atlantic manage to achieve all this? And why did the Empire fall? (£8.99)
The Sword and the Cross - Fergus Fleming
How two
fanatical 19th-century aristocratic adventurers conquered the Sahara for
France. From the author of 'Barrow Boys' and 'Ninety Degrees North'.
(£8.99)
D-Day Despatches
From the BBC Radio Collection, a unique collection of despatches from the BBC War Correspondents who brought up-to-the-minute, graphic descriptions of the events of D-Day June 1944 to the listening public. This is a , a chance to hear history in the making: the day and the hour of . Single CD, running time 1 hour. (£9.99)
Bomber
The story of the final mission of RAF Lancaster bomber WF183 - call sign O-Orange, which took place one night in 1943. Starring Tom Baker, Frank Windsor, Samuel West, Emma Chambers and Jack Shepherd. Double CD, running time 2 hours. (£12.99)
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front - Richard Holmes
Tells the story of the First World War through the experiences of those who fought it, using previously unseen letters, diaries, memoirs and poetry of 1914-1918.Over 6 million men served in the British army (22% of the adult male population). Nearly one million lost their lives and over 2 million were wounded. (£20)
MIND BODY SPIRIT
The Goddess, the Grail and the Lodge - Alan Butler
Traces the origins of the grail in Goddess religion and shows its continuance through Christianity down to modern times. (£12.99)
POETRY
Book of Haikus - Jack Kerouac
A compact collection of more than 500 haikus, revealing a lesser known side of the author. (£7.95)
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Mountains of the Mind - Robert MacFarlane
A History of Fascination - why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2003. (£8.99)
Little Book of Pigs - Vicky Edwards
Smarter than dogs, cleaner than cats and one of earth's oldest inhabitants. (£4.99)
POLITICS
Al Qaeda and What it means to Be Modern - John Gray
Argues that far from being a throwback to medieval times, the fundamentalism of Al Qaeda is an entirely modern response to the world. By the author of 'Straw Dogs'. (£7.99)
50 Facts that Should Change the World - Jessica Williams
Essential information for activists, from the inequalities and absurdities of the West to war, famine and Aids in developing countries. (£9.99)
Army of Roses - Barbara Victor
Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers. Based on interviews with the families of the six women who have killed themselves in suicide attacks on Israel, and with others who have tried and failed to sacrifice themselves for the Palestinian cause. (£8.99)
Uncollected Michael Foot
Essays Old and New:
1953-2003. (£9.99)
SCIENCE
The Mind in the Cave - D Lewis-Williams
Consciousness and the Origins of Art, now in paperback. (£12.95)
Nature via Nurture - Matt Ridley
What makes us who we are? A popular account of the roots of human behaviour. (£8.99)
TRAVEL
Pennine Way - Keith Carter
British Walking Guide Series:
Britain's best-known National Trail winds for 256 miles over wild moorland and
through quiet dales following the backbone of Northern England. Scale just
under 1:20,000 with colour photos, maps and plans. (£10.99)
Heritage Unlocked: Guide to Free Sites in Yorkshire and the Humber (£5.99)
1001 Days Out: Houses, Gardens and Places to Visit (£4.99)
New Rough Guides to Mallorca & Menorca, Languedoc and Roussillon, Greece and Britain and a new Lonely Planet Guide to Iceland.
FICTION
HARDBACK
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon - Isabel Allende
A magical novel of adventure and discovery - the sequel to 'City of the Beasts'. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
Jigs & Reels - Joanne Harris
Sly, funny, sometimes provocative stories, to be read on Radio 4. (£13.00 at The Book Case)
Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
Following on from "Swimming Pool Library", 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in Notting Hill during the Thatcher boom years. (£13.99 at The Book Case)
Society of Others - William Nicholson
An alienated young man embarks on an aimless hitchhiking adventure round Europe, but the journey turns into an orgy of violence. From the award-winning children’s fantasy writer. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
My Name is Legion - A N Wilson
Wickedly savage satire on the morality of contemporary Britain. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Cooking with Fernet Branca - James Hamilton-Paterson
An effete English ghostwriter’s Tuscan idyll is shattered by the arrival of vulgar Soviet Marta. A hilarious satire (£9.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Devastating vision of the future from the award-winning Canadian novelist. (£7.99)
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Now in paperback, the award-winning murder mystery novel about a teenage boy with Asperger's who sets out to solve the puzzle of his neighbour’s murdered dog. (£6.99)
Also audio version, partly dramatised, running time 6 hours (£12.99)
Clerkenwell Tales - Peter Ackroyd
Clever and colourful novel which begins with the Nun's Tale and continues with the Friar's Tale, the Merchant's Tale and the Clerk's Tale to builds a portrait of Medieval London - its spies and counter-spies, radicals and idealists, murderers and arsonists, sects and secret societies. (£6.99)
Sea House - Esther Freud
A young woman is researching the life and work of an architect. As she reads his letters to his wife in her rented cottage by the sea, she pieces together the story of their lives. (£7.99)
Hey Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland
The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting. (£7.99)
Frankie & Stankie - Barbara Trapido
Dinah and Lisa are growing up in 1950s South Africa. Dinah first learns about racism at school. (£6.99)
Distant Shore - Caryl Phillips
In an English village, a middle-aged woman and an African refugee try to rebuild their lives. (£6.99)
That Old Ace in the Hole - Annie Proulx
One man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle. (£7.99)
Cosmopolis - Don De Lillo
A stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who owns a forty-eight room apartment and a decommissioned nuclear bomber, and who has recently married the heiress to a European fortune. (£6.99)
Lucia Lucia - Adriana Trigiani
Richard & Judy shortlist title about a passionate young Italian woman in New York whose fateful choice changes her life forever. (£6.99)
Invention of Dr Cake - Andrew Motion
Why is there no name on the brass plate so ostentatiously screwed into Dr Cake’s coffin-lid? A novel about poets and their afterlife from the Poet Laureate (£6.99)
Crabwalk - Gunter Grass
Explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest maritime disaster of all time, and the repercussions upon three generations of a German family. (£7.99)
The Fall - Simon Mawer
Climbers Rob and Jamie become estranged in adulthood - then Rob hears of Jamie’s death on an easy Welsh rockface and looks back into the past. (£7.99)
Without Blood - Alessandro Baricco
Only four-year-old Nina, survives a vendetta attack on her family. As an old woman, she meets again her childhood saviour. From the author of "Silk". (£8.99)
Skirt and the Fiddle - Tristan Egolf
Classical violinist Charlie and anarchist Tinsel kill rats for a living, living in a grimy flophouse - until beautiful film-making Louise turns up. Comic Canadian novel. (£7.99)
Shoe Fly Baby - ed Kate Pullinger
Wide-ranging winning entries from The Asham Short Story Award for women writers. (£6.99)
Mr Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran - Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
A troubled Jewish boy in 1960s Paris strikes up an unlikely friendship with a solitary Muslim shopkeeper. (£6.99)
Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell
A new Kurt Wallender mystery set in Sweden (£6.99)
Bare Bones - Kathy Reichs
During a summer of record-breaking heat in North Carolina and Dr Brennan is looking forward to her first vacation in years when the bones start appearing. (£6.99)
Witch Hunter - Bernard Knight
Medieval murder mystery featuring Crowner John of Exeter. (£6.99)
Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories - ed. Bill Pronzini (£7.99)
Weavers of Saramyr - Chris Wooding
First in a fantasy series with an oriental flavour. (£6.99)
Druid King - Norman Spinrad
Brings to life one of the most brilliant - and brutal - military campaigns of all time. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
ART AND ARCHITECTURE
House Book - Mini Edition
Houses and dwellings from all periods and corners of the globe. (£6.95)
101 Celtic Knotwork Designs - Courtney Davis &
101 Celtic Crosses - Courtney Davis (£9.99 each)
BIOGRAPHY
John Fowles - Eileen Warburton
The definitive biography based on exclusive access to the journal that Fowles has kept for fifty years, personal letters, interviews and unpublished works. (£20)
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Gretchen Gerzina
The Unexpected Life of the Author of 'The Secret Garden'. Based on letters and journals and youthful ledger books never before made available, and on interviews with descendants. (£20)
At War with Waugh - W F Deedes
From the original of Boot in Waugh's satirical novel "Scoop", the real story of his adventures in Abyssinia in the 1930s. (£6.99)
Red Queen - Anne Perkins
Authorized biography of Barbara Castle. (£7.99)
Point of Departure - Robin Cook
Combination of diary entry and commentary on the Blair government since its re-election in 2001, from the former Foreign Secretary and Labour Leader of the Commons. (£7.99)
Last Englishman - Byron Rogers
The first biography of J L Carr, author of half a dozen quirky comic novels and publisher (from his own back-room in Kettering) of some of the most eccentric, collectable - and smallest - books ever printed, (£7.99)
Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered - Geoff Dyer
The ultimate slacker on his travels. (£7.99)
Samuel Pepys - the Unequalled Self - Claire Tomalin (CD)
For nearly ten years Samuel Pepys kept a private diary in which he recorded, with unparalleled openness and sensitivity to the turbulent world around him, exactly what it was like to be a young man in Restoration London. Read by Jill Balcon. (£13.99)
EDUCATION
New Letts Explore for GCSE Guides, £3.99 each:
View from the Bridge, To Kill a Mockingbird, Macbeth, Lord of the Flies, Of Mice and Men, An Inspector Calls, Catcher in the Rye
De-Stress for Exams (£2.99)
GARDENING
RHS Plant Finder 2004-2005
70,000 plants and where you can buy them, featuring over 4,000 new plants plus essential details to over 800 nurseries. £12.99
Garden Finder 2004-5
Over 1,000 leading UK gardens (£12.99)
Gardens of England and Wales
The popular Yellow Book. (£5.99)
HISTORY
The Power and the Glory - Adam Nicholson
Jacobean England and the making of the King James Bible. (£8.99)
What I Saw - Joseph Roth
Reports from Berlin 1920-33 from the renowned German correspondent recording the violent social and political paroxysms of the time. (£9.99)
Gulag - Anne Applebaum
Uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that were responsible for the deaths of countless millions. (£8.99)
HUMOUR & NOVELTY
Mini Kits (£3.99 each) on Aromatherapy, Penmanship, Office Voodoo, Flyers, Emergency Candle & Survival Kit, and Hula Dancing
Mama Sutra
Mega Mini Kit to help pregnant women feel sensual and centred - plus booklet of good advice. (£5.99)
The Lion and Albert (CDs)
Roy Castle, Les Dawson and Thora Hird are amongst the stars reading this collection of classic Mariott Edgar monologues. Double CD, running time 2 hours. (£12.99)
Frank the Tortoise
From the the most laid-back of the Creature Comforts animals, advice on how to do as little as possible for stress-free living. (£4.99)
How to Hold a Crocodile - Diagram Group
New edition of the 1981 book of practical tips on how to do all sorts of improbable things - how to make a flower change colour, avoid the evil eye, make buttons stay on longer, extract a broken cork and play the nose flute, the spoon and the comb. (£12.95)
MBS
Status Anxiety - Alain de Botton
We long for status and dread its opposite. Alain de Botton asks where our worries about questions of status come from and what, if anything, we can do to reduce them. (£14.99)
Water Detox - Jane Scrivner (£7.99)
Soul Bird - Michal Snunit
Now in paperback, the gentle and poetic story originally written for children (£4.99)
Angel Cards for Children - Diane Cooper (£12.99)
Contented Child’s Food Bible - Gina Ford
Guide to child nutrition for 0-6 year olds, from childcare expert and Great Ormond Street's specialist paediatric dietician, organised by age group (£9.99)
Blueprint for My Girls - Yasmin Shiraz
Life lessons for today's young women. (£7.99)
Hamlyn Food Solutions (£5.99 each):
How improved nutrition can prevent and ease symptoms of: Rheumatism & Arthritis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, PMS, Menopause, Eczema, Asthma & Allergies
Intimate Solutions - Andrew Stanway
A Twenty-First Century Guide to Managing Relationships. (£8.99)
I Can Do It - Louise Hay
How to Use Affirmations to Change Your Life. With audio CD (£12.99)
Family Survival Guide - Trisha Goddard FAMILY SURVIVAL GUIDE
Trisha's no-nonsense, common sense approach is familiar from her TV show. (£6.99)
Difficult Conversations - Anne Dickson
Helps you to step back from your own emotions, remain calm, and work out the right thing to say. (£9.99)
Coaching with NLP - Joseph O’Connor (£12.99)
Test Your EQ - Mark Davis
Find out how emotionally intelligent you really are. (£6.99)
Magic Mushrooms & Other Highs - ed. Paul Krassner
Compilation of far-out stories. (£12.99)
MUSIC
Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2003 - Graham Betts
The most detailed guide to every single and artist that has ever appeared in the UK Chart; 100 Top 10s, Hit Singles - A-Z by Artist, Hit Singles A-Z of song titles. With CD of all the No 1s of 1953. (£15.99)
Classic Jazz - Essential CD Guide (£9.99 inc CD)
Classic Blues- Essential CD Guide (£9.99 inc CD)
Bob Dylan, Performing Artist 1974-86 - Paul Williams
Second volume of Paul Williams' writings on Dylan's music and performances. (£9.95)
A to X of Alternative Music - Steve Taylor
200+ entries covering the most influential bands and artists from the last 30 years (£14.99)
NATURE
River - Philippa Forrester
Story of TV presenter Philippa Forrester and her wildlife cameraman husband's making a film about the otters who live by the river at the bottom of their garden. (£12.99)
Complete British Birds
A bestselling field guide with 1300 colour photos. Handy size and waterprooof wallet makes it ideal for use outdoors. (£14.99)
POETRY
The Wasteland/The Four Quartets - T S Eliot, read by Paul Schofield
Single cassette, running time 1hour 35mins. (£8.99)
Double CD, running time 2 hours. (£1.99)
Selected Poems - Rudyard Kipling (£4.95)
Poems & Readings for Weddings - ed. Julia Watson (£6.99)
Poems & Readings for Funerals - ed. Julia Watson (£6.99)
POLITICS
The Age of Consent - George Monbiot
Manifesto for a new world order. (£7.99)
The Trouble with Islam - Irshad Manji
A Wake-Up Call for Honesty and Change. An open letter to Muslims and non-Muslims alike and call for a fatwa-free future. (£9.99)
Israel - Neill Lochery
Detailed account of the history of the State of Israel, and the resulting Arab-Israeli conflict, from an author who is outside the fray. (£9.99)
REFERENCE
Times Atlas of the World Compact Edition (£9.99)
SCIENCE
Mammoth Book of Great Inventions - ed. James Dyson (£9.99)
SPORT & PASTIMES
Playfair Cricket Annual 2004 (£6.99)
Know the Game Judo (£4.99)
Know the Game Cricket (£4.99)
Know the Game Bridge (£4.99)
TRAVEL
Man at Sea - Adam Nicholson
Thoughts from a Small Boat in a Big Sea. Up the Atlantic coasts of the British Isles, on to Orkney, and finally to the Faroes - a diary of survival at the extreme edges of Britain from the author of 'Sea Room' and 'Power and Glory'. (£12.99)
Andalus - Jason Webster
The Secrets of Moorish Spain from the author of 'Duende'. (£12.99)
Working and Living in Spain - Harvey Holtom (£13.99) travel
Working and Living in France - Monica Larner (£13.99)
Get a New Life - Dawna Walter et Al
Everything You Need to Know About Moving, Working and Living Abroad. TV tie-in. (£12.99)
Rough Guide to Spain (£13.99)
Sunflower Landscape Guide to Ireland (£9.99)
A range of new phrasebooks and dictionaries with and without CDs is coming from Berlitz and HarperCollins.
Pennine Way Companion
Reissue of Wainwright’s classic pictorial guide. (£11.99)
Pennine Bridleway: Derbyshire to the South Pennines
Britain’s first purpose-built long-distance bridleway, from Buxton to the east of Hebden Bridge, where it splits to form the Mary Towneley Loop. (£12.99)
FICTION
HARDBACK
Lemon Table - Julian Barnes
Among the Chinese the lemon is the symbol of death and these stories on the theme of 'rage in age' range from eighteenth-century Sweden to a South Bank concert hall where a music lover is campaigning against people who cough in concerts. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Finishing School - Muriel Spark
The director of a finishing school is passionately determined to write a novel but a 17-year-old pupil's own work takes shape while his own flounders. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
When the new teacher first arrives, Barbara immediately senses that this woman will be different from the rest of her staff-room colleagues. Booker longlisted and a Richard & Judy title. (£6.99)
Diary of an Ordinary Woman - Margaret Forster
Twentieth-century woman in close-up with the tragedies and upheavals of women's lives from WWI to Greenham Common and beyond. (£6.99)
Of Love and Slaughter - Angela Huth
Love and BSE on a West Country farm. (£6.99)
Sick Notes - Gwendolyn Riley
Esther returns to Manchester on the look-out for love. A study of urban disaffection and female friendship from the author of 'Cold Water'. (£10.00)
A Lovesome Thing - Prue Leith
Lotte has abandoned her successful architectural career to get a degree in garden history and become a head gardener but soon locks horns with her billionaire boss. (£6.99)
Big If - Mark Costello
Funny kaleidoscopic American satirical novel about the daily struggles of five people. NBA-shortlisted. (£10.99)
The Coast of Good Intentions - Michael Byers
The stories evoke the landscape of the Pacific Northwest with impressive ease - crab factories, cranberry bogs, the fog-shrouded shore, the Seattle skyline. (£6.99)
Gardening at Night - Diane Awerbuck
A young girl grows up the South African mining town of Kimberley where the only tales are those of leaving. Feisty, funny and bleak first novel. (£6.99)
Young Turk - Moris Farhi
Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events amid the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. (£6.99)
Tree and Other Stories - Abdallah Al-Nasser
Exploring life in the author's Saudi homeland - traditional aspects, a modern world imposing itself with often bewildering speed and issues in the wider Arab world. (£6.99)
Strange Things - Margaret Atwood
A witty and informative book focussing on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North and how it has been used by writers. (£7.99)
CRIME
Kalahari Typing School for Men - Alexander McCall-Smith
No 4 in The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series: Precious Ramotswe faces competition. (£6.99)
Distant Echo - Val McDermid
A young woman is found dying in the snow. 25 years later, someone starts taking revenge on four suspect medical students. (£6.99)
Uniform Justice - Donna Leon
A young military cadet is found hanged and Commissario Brunetti faces a wall of silence from the authorities. (£6.99)
Penguin Lost - Andrey Kurkov
At the end of 'Death and the Penguin' Viktor was boarding a plane for the Antarctic and Penguin Misha was recovering from a heart transplant. More extraordinary happenings, Russian Mafia and black humour in this sequel. (£9.99)
Case of the General’s Thumb - Andrey Kurkov
When the corpse of a distinguished general and presidential adviser is found, attached to an advertising balloon, lieutenant Viktor Slutsky is sent in to investigate. (£6.99)
Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
Introducing a gentleman sleuth who solves murder mysteries in Tsarist Russia. (£6.99)
Aristotle and the Secrets of Life - Margaret Doody
Murder and mystery in Ancient Athens. In 330BC supporters of Athenian independence are plotting against the absent Alexander the Great. Foreigners, like Aristotle and Stephanos, are threatened and persuaded to quit the mainland for a while. (£6.99)
REISSUES:
Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
Chaotic environmental comedy about a group of individuals teaming up against the US government and big business. Originally published in 1975. (£8.99)
Atom Station - Halldor Laxness
A witty and moving satire on politics and politicians, Communists and anti-Communists, phoney culture fiends, big business and all the pretensions of authority. Written in 1948. (£6.99)
The King Must Die - Mary Renault (£7.50)
Bull from the Sea - Mary Renault (£7.50)
Classic novels bringing Ancient Greece to life with the story of Theseus. (1958 & 1962)
NON-FICTION
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Architecture 03 - the RIBA Awards
Including Urbis, Boxworks and Manchester City Art Gallery. Lots of colour photos. (£12.95)
BIOGRAPHY
Up and Down in the Dales - Gervase Phinn
More humorous tales of life as a schools inspector from the popular raconteur, who will be appearing at Hebden Bridge Picture House on April 3rd. (£16.99, audiotape £8.99)
Shepherds Watch - David Kennard
The author farms a 500-strong flock on the North Devon coast and his life is filled with daily challenges. (£18.99)
Telegram from Guernica - Nicholas Rankin
The life of George Steer, journalist and adventurer, friend of Haile Selassie I and adventurous foreign correspondent. (£7.99)
Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose - Sandy Balfour
Unusual crossword memoir, now in paperback. (The answer is "Rebelled"). (£7.99)
I Didn’t Get Where I Am Today - David Nobbs
Autobiography of the man who created the immortal Reginald Perrin. (£7.99)
Kid - Kevin Lewis
The author grew up on a council estate in South London. Beaten and starved by his parents, ignored by the social services and bullied at school, he was offered a chance to escape his nightmare world and was put into care. (£6.99)
I’m a Teacher: Get Me Out of Here - Francis Gilbert
The unvarnished truth about teaching! The author’s training, terrifying first lesson and his even more frightening experiences in his first job at Truss Comprehensive. (£9.99)
Where Did It all go Right? - Andrew Collins
A jealous memoir written by someone who occasionally wishes life had dealt him a few more juicy marketable blows. The author kept a diary from the age of five, so he really can remember what he had for tea everyday and what he did at school. (£6.99)
Pound of Paper - John Baxter
Stylish, funny book about the world of the fanatical book collector. (£7.99)
EDUCATION
Mind Maps for Kids: Rev Up for Revision - Tony Buzan
The Shortcut to Exam Success. (£12.99)
Making Dyslexia Work for You - Vicki Goodwin & Bonita Thomson (£9.99)
FOOD
Family Food - Heston Blumenthal
Encourages children to have a go at cooking with their parents and provides tips and advice on how best to feed your children - especially with the abundance of junk food around. (£12.99)
GARDENING
RHS Good Plant Guide (£9.99)
HISTORY
Penguin Illustrated History of Britain - Barry Cunliffe et al
An illustrated history of the British Isles from pre-history to the present. (£16.99)
The Cross and the Crescent - Richard Fletcher
The dramatic story of the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims. (£6.99)
Seeds of Wealth - Henry Hobhouse
"Four Plants that Made Men Rich": rubber, timber, tobacco and the wine grape, frrom the author of 'Seeds of Change'. (£10.99)
Caliban Shore - Stephen Taylor
The Tale of the Grosvenor Castaways: what happened when an armed 3-masted square-rigger ran aground in South-East Africa in 1782. (£20.00)
Scouting for Boys
The original blueprint and 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout Movement in its original text of 1908. (£12.99)
On the Natural History of Destruction - W G Sebald
In the last years of World War II, the Allies dropped a million tons of bombs on Germany. Yet the German people have been silent about the resulting devastation and loss of life. The late WG Sebald asks why it is we turn our backs on the horrors of war. (£7.99)
HOUSEHOLD
"Which" Guide to Buying Property Abroad
Essential advice on where to buy, what to buy, options to consider and pitfalls to avoid. (£12.99)
Boot Sale Challenge - Lorne Spicer
TV tie-in: what's hot and what's not, where to buy it and how to sell it for profit, plus how to spot the next collectible item and how to sell it worldwide. (£7.99)
HUMOUR
Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same -Sloane Tanen
The Life and Times of Some Chickens from New York artist Sloane Tanen whose tiny yellow chickens’ lives may strike a chord. (£9.99)
Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet - Mineke Schipper
Women in proverbs from around the world. (£25)
MBS
Johnsons Everyday Babycare Series, £5.99 each:
Sleep
Crying and Comforting
Breastfeeding
Feeding
Your Baby
Contented Little Baby Book of Names (£4.99)
Buddhism for Mothers - Sarah Napthali
A calm approach to caring for yourself and your children. (£8.99)
Kid Wrangling - Kaz Cooke
The first five years. Humorous and accessible advice for all new parents from the author of the bestselling 'Rough Guide to Pregnancy'. (£12.99)
Tales of Innocence & Experience - Eva Figes
The special relationship between grandmothers and their granddaughters. (£7.99)
Why Are They So Weird - Barbara Straunch
What happens inside our children when they become adolescents. Based on the latest scientific research and the author's own experience as a parent of teenagers. (£7.99)
Journey Cards - Brandon Bays
After healing from a giant tumour without drugs or surgery in six weeks, the author wrote about her pioneering healing technique in her book "The Journey". This accompanying pack consists 44 cards, each with inspiring messages from the Journey process, plus booklet. (£12.99)
Introducing Psychiatry
A clear guide to psychiatric classifications and treatments of mental disturbances, tracing psychiatry's history, the issues of 'antipsychiatry' and other social criticisms, and surveying psychiatry's future in the postmodern digital age. (£9.99)
21st-Century Goddess - Jessica Adams
The Modern Girl's Guide to the Universe - spells out the nine key elements of popular spirituality and tells you how to put them to use in your everyday life. (£7.99)
Witchcraft - Pennethorne Hughes
The origins of witchcraft and magic. (£8.99)
POETRY
Universal Home Doctor - Simon Armitage
His most personal collection yet. The poems journey across the globe, but are set against the landscape of the human body. Simon Armitage will be appearing at Halifax Library on 4th March. (£8.99)
Faber Poet to Poet series: reissues of Sylvia Plath’s poems, selected by Ted Hughes, and Ted Hughes’s poems selected by Simon Armitage. (£6.99 each)
Haiku Year - Michael Stipe et al
Seven friends made a pact to write haikus every day for a year as a way to keep in touch with each other. (£7.99)
POLITICS
Revolution Day - Rageh Omaar
The human story of the battle for Iraq from the popular BBC News correspondent. (£20)
Unequal Britain - Stuart Weir
The Rights of Man under President Blair. (£9.99)
Unconquerable World - Jonathan Schell
Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People. Argues that non-violence is as powerful a force for change as violent action. (£20.00)
Paradise & Power - Robert Kagan
Contrasts America and Europe in the new world order. This paperback edition revised and updated in the aftermath of the Iraq War. (£5.99)
Little Earth Book - James Bruges
Mini-essays about what is going wrong with our planet, and how to save the Earth for us all. (£6.99)
SCIENCE
Beyond Coincidence - Martin Plimmer
Tales of happenings of unbelievable coincidence with an exploration of the maths of synchronicity. (£12.99)
Earth: an Intimate History - Richard Fortey
How the Earth became the shape it is today. From the author of 'Life' and 'Trilobite'. (£20.00)
TRAVEL
Paris from Above - Arthus-Bertrand
In new pocket edition, a spectacular bird’s eye view of the 'City of Light'. (£7.99)
Virgile’s Vineyard - Patrick Moon
Inheriting a remote and neglected house in Southern France, the author sets out to discover how the Languedoc has managed to transform itself into one of the world's most exciting vineyards. (£7.99)
Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
The poet, gourmet cook and travel writer buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. Also a film. (£7.99)
Spinsters Abroad- Bea Dirkett
An entertaining and anecdotal history of Victorian women abroad. (£8.99)
Amongst new practical travel guides, new Rough Guides to England and Scotland and Lonely Planet Guides to South-East Asia, South America, the USA, Scotland, Florence, Dublin and Amsterdam plus a new Eye-Witness Guide to Ireland, Independent Hostel Guide 2004, and a Greek Islands Walking Guide.
FICTION
HARDBACK
White Stuff - Simon Armitage
Felix and Hannah are happily married, living somewhere in the Pennines, but have been trying to have a baby for five years with no luck. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Tyrant’s Novel - Thomas Keneally
Why would a man abandon everything he has known and loved, only to be locked up as just one more unwelcome asylum seeker? The story of a man living under a Middle Eastern dictatorship. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Brother and Sister - Joanna Trollope
Two adopted siblings search for their mothers. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
The Maze - Panos Karnezis
Set in Anatolia in 1922, 'The Maze' is the story of a retreating Greek brigade that has lost its way, pursued by a vengeful Turkish army. Eventually they reach a small town, up until now untouched by the war. From the author of 'Little Infamies'. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Small Island - Andrea Levy
It is 1948 and in war-bruised England, Queenie Bligh who takes in Jamaican lodgers and ex-RAF Gilbert work out their differences. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Vernon God Little - D B C Pierre
Booker-winning satire on an American high school massacre. (£7.99)
Syme Papers - Benjamin Markovitz
A man's quest to find the missing link in evolutionary science - through the life of a maverick nineteenth-century inventor. (£12.99)
English Correspondence - Janet Davey
Brilliantly observed, witty and beautifully written, this novel condenses all the major questions of adult life - love, marriage, children, and grief - into the time it takes to arrange a funeral and find a missing letter. Orange Prize long-listed. (£6.99)
Married Woman - Maju Kapur
Astha has everything an educated, middle-class Delhi woman could ask for but is consumed with a dissatisfaction. She begins an extra-marital affair with a younger woman. (£7.99)
Maid’s Request - Michele Desbordes
The enigmatic relationship between a sixteenth century Italian painter and his servant. (£6.99)
Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
Historical novel set in 15th-century Florence. Combines mystery, history, politics and passion in a change in direction for Sarah Dunant. (£6.99)
Ripple Effect - Dominic Holland
With his club facing bankruptcy, die-hard soccer fan and local baker Bill is truly despondent. But his small act of protest - a batch of shockingly jam-free doughnuts - has enormous consequences. (£6.99)
The Best Thing that Can Happen to a Croissant - Pablo Tussett
This Spanish bestseller mixes classic noir with surrealism and satire, a truly original debut, translated from the Spanish by Christina Cordero. (£10.99)
Stevenson under the Palm Trees - Alberto Manguel
In the lush, uninhibited Samoa, the dying Robert Louis Stevenson meets a mysterious Scottish missionary turns his thoughts back to his conservative, post-Reformation Edinburgh home. (£7.99)
Jim Giraffe - Daren King
The Head Script Writer of the Science Fiction Channel, is being haunted by a ghost giraffe called Jim, who knows a lot about sex and loves pizza and beer. From the author of 'Boxy an Star'. (£10.00)
Half Brother - Lars Christensen
Two Norwegian half brothers lead very different lives, until they are brought together again at their mother's deathbed. Winner of the 2002 Nordic Prize for Literature. 768 pages. (£7.99)
Empress Orchid - Anchee Min
During the final days of the Chinese Empire, Orchid, a 17-year-old from an aristocratic but impoverished family, is chosen to become a low-ranking concubine of the Emperor. (£10.00)
Death of a River Guide - Richard Flanagan
Beneath a waterfall on the Franklin, Aljaz Cosini - river guide - lies drowning. Beset by visions at once horrible and fabulous, he relives not just his own life but that of his family and forebears. First novel of the author of 'Gould's Book of Fish' and Australian National Fiction Award winner. (7.99)
Cloud of Sparrows - Takashi Matsuoka
Romantic epic set in 19th-century Japan. Japanese aristocrats, missionaries, geishas, spies, samurai ... Going to be filmed. (£6.99)
Murder Room - P D James
A small, private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath has been inherited by three siblings, all of whom are required by the family trust to sign any new lease. One brother won't sign. And then the his body is found in his still blazing car... (£12.99)
Shape of Water - Andrea Camilleri
First in savagely-funny Sicilian crime series featuring Inspector Montalbano. (£6.99)
DOROTHY SAYERS "Lord Peter Wimsey" reissues, £6.99 each:
Lord Peter Views the Body
Unnatural Death
In the Teeth of the Evidence
Documents in the Case
Clouds of Witness
Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
H G Wells reissues, £5.99 each
War of the Worlds: classic vision of interplanetary warfare and a Martian invasion of Earth.
Time Machine: tale of time travel and adventure that raises profound questions about progress and social order
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Utopia and Other Places - Richard Eyre
The former director of the National Theatre gives his views on acting and politics alongside striking portraits of friends and colleagues such as Laurence Olivier, Ian McKellen, Peter Brook and Judi Dench. (£7.99)
Hitchhiker : A Biography of Douglas Adams - M J Simpson
Illustrated biography of the late great author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and other wonderful books. (£8.99)
Slave - Mende Nazer & Damien Lewis
True story of a Sudanese girl kidnapped and sold into slavery by Arab slave traders at the age of 12, ending up in the London house of a Sudanese diplomat. She managed to flee the house but only avoided deportation after a struggle. She decided to publish her story to bring modern-day slavery to public attention and was awarded the Human Rights Award by CECRA, the Spanish Coalition Against Slavery in 2002. (£10.99)
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Jaw-dropping memoir of a boy who grew up in a squalid and dilapidated Victorian house, with no rules and no school. When things got a bit slow, there was always the ancient electroshock therapy machine under the stairs. (£7.99)
HISTORY
Journeys in English - Bill Bryson
Radio series based on Bryson’s "Mother Tongue", which romps through the history of Britain to reveal how English became such an infuriatingly complex - but ultimately world-beating - language. Three CDs, running time 3 hours, 6 X 30 minute episodes. (£15.99)
Montsegur & the History of the Cathars - Jean Markale
Traces the Cathar religion back to the Zoroastrians and examines all the documentation to discover the nature of their lost treasure. (£16.99)
Mammoth Book of Native Americans - (ed.) Jon Lewis
The story of America's original inhabitants. (£7.99)
HOUSEHOLD
Cash in the Attic - Paul Hayes
TV tie-in: how to pick out a saleable item from amongst the junk in your attic or garage. (£7.99)
Albert Jackson: Complete Wiring and Lighting (£8.99) &
Complete Plumbing and Central Heating (£8.99)
Really Useful Knot Book (£5.99)
HUMOUR
Ladies of Letters Spring Clean
Double cassette, running time 1hr 15mins. (£8.99)
Demented - Jacky Fleming
Cartoons for the middle-aged but immature woman and her bewildered partner - or anyone obsessed with looking on the internet at properties for sale in sunny countries. (£7.99)
Little Book of Counting Sheep
Ideal for insomniacs ... (£3.50)
MBS
Home Doctor (Dorling Kindersley)
A one-stop reference guide to treating over 150 common medical complaints at home. (£14.99)
BMA New Guide to Medicine and Drugs
Updated and expanded sixth edition. (£16.99)
Raphael’s Astronomical Ephemeris 2005 (4.99)
Dear Barefoot - Barefoot Doctor
"An indispensable collection of Taoist wisdom for everyday living." Shyness, fear of flying, summer sadness ... (£8.99)
Stillness Speaks - Tolle Eckhart
Become your true self by embracing stillness and silence; cassette edition, running time 90 minutes. (£12.99)
Gary Zukav: Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice
If you believe you are the victim of circumstance, that you are stuck in
your current unsatisfactory situation and that nothing can be done to improve
things, this is the book for you. (£10.99) &
Self-Empowerment
Journal : A companion to "Mind of the Soul", helping readers to take
responsibility for their choices. (£7.99)
Awaken the Giant Within - Anthony Robbins
"How to take immediate control of your mental, physical and emotional self." Reissue. (£8.99)
No-Nonsense Guide to Islam (£7.00)
MUSIC
Orchestra - Richard Morrison
"The LSO: A Century in Triumph and Turbulence. The London Symphony Orchestra celebrates its hundredth birthday this year. (£20)
NATURE
Instant Weather Forecasting - Sheridan House
Invaluable to anyone participating in outdoor activities, from farming, gardening and walking to riding, golfing, sailing and fishing - and of course to holidaymakers. (£7.99)
Handbook of Native Trees and Shrubs - C de la Bedoyere
The planning and replanting of woodlands can successfully recreate some of our lost natural habitats and ecosystems. This book illustrates and describes all the native trees and shrubs that once covered most of Britain, and provides guidance on planning both large and small woodlands. (£12.99)
POETRY
Dylan Thomas Reading His Poetry
A unique recording with Dylan Thomas reading his own work, as he meant it to be read. Double CD, unabridged. (£12.99)
52 Ways of Looking at a Poem - Ruth Padel
"A Poem for Every Week of the Year." This book aims to make contemporary poetry accessible and less intimidating, taking 52 of the poems the author discussed in her IoS Sunday Poem column and suggesting, line by line, ways of reading them. (£6.99)
POLITICS
Supping with the Devils - Hugo Young
Wide-ranging collection, from Thatcher to New Labour and including immigration, Stephen Lawrence and fox-hunting, from the late Guardian senior political commentator. (£7.99)
SOCIETY
Fundamentalism - Malise Ruthven
Exposes the real nature and spread of fundamentalism worldwide, both secular and religious. Investigates the many different forms of fundamentalist belief, and the political and terrorist activities that often result. (£12.99)
What is Good - Anthony Grayling
How do we live a good life? (£6.99)
Culture in the Age of Three Worlds - Michael Denning
From the 1950s on culture stopped being the property of the ruling class. This book argues that culture was a fundamental aspect of the "age of three worlds" (capitalist, communist and Third) and as those three worlds merge into a globalised one, it charts current battles over the meaning of culture, the lineaments of global culture and the rise of a distinctive "American Ideology".
TRAVEL
Stranger on a Train - Jenny Diski
"Daydreaming and smoking around America" from the author of "Skating to Antarctica". (£7.99)
Time Out Guide to Amsterdam (£11.99)
Rough Guide to the Baltic States (£13.99)
FICTION
HARDBACK
Incompetence - Rob Grant
The EU enacts new human rights legislation - it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent. After all, it’s not their fault they can't do it right, is it? But when a murder is committed, how competent is the detective? (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Changing Planes - Ursula Le Guin
In a series of linked stories, a traveller discovers how to escape the misery of waiting for a connecting flight by changing planes, literally. (£8.99)
PAPERBACK
All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve
A man looks back on his chance meeting with his future wife and their time together. (£6.99)
Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erard grand piano. (£7.99)
Holy Fools - Joanne Harris (£6.99)
Set in 17th century France against a brackdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, a travelling actress and rope dancer.
Star of the Sea Joseph O'Connor
In the bitter winter of 1847 the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York with hundreds of fleeing refugees from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster. (£6.99)
Box of Matches - Nicholson Baker
A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. "Nicholson Baker at his best, humorous and observant". (£6.99)
Photograph - Penelope Lively
Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before: it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. Even his work as a historian doesn’t prepare him for the ensuing radical shift in perception. (£6.99)
Heligoland - Shena Mackay
The Nautilus, a strange building shaped a shell, was built in South London in the early 1930s and became a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists. Now, at the end of the century, Rowena is in search of her own Utopia - the Heligoland of her childhood imagination. (£6.99)
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper - Harriet S Chesman
In 1878 Paris live two sisters. Lydia is dying and Mary embarks on a series of paintings. In the style of Girl with a Pearl Earring. (£6.99)
The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
Idiosyncratic romp through the literary experience through the eyes of literary detective Thursday Next. Versions of Carroll, Dickens, Austen, Emily Bronte and Virginia Woolf are just a few of the places visited. (£6.99)
Miniaturist - Kunal Basu
Set in the court of the Emperor Akbar in the 16th century India, a richly detailed and sensuous tale of art, sex and political intrigue. (£6.99)
Noodle Maker - Ma Jian
Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, this novel is a virtuoso piece of red humour about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. From the author of "Red Dust". (£10)
In the Wilderness - Manuel Rivas
With roots deep in the traditions, legends, language and history of Galicia, a cast of animals, birds and humans relate magical stories in this extraordinary novel. "Riva's story emerges like spirals of smoke, in a series of memorably poetic images." (£6.99)
Birthday of the World - Ursula Le Guin
Six stories from the Hainish cycle, and two stand-alones, including a short novel. (£6.99)
The Face - Dean Koontz
The lonely son of a Hollywood superstar and his minder are threatened by a psychopath, and there’s a supernatural element. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
The Privilege of Youth - Dave Pelzer
"My Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship." This book centres on his experience of bullying at school and the friends he made in his neighbourhood who helped him fight back. (£16.99)
I, Me, Mine - George Harrison
Now in paperback. (£8.99)
Hermit in Paris - Italo Calvino
Posthumously collected personal writings and the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers. (£7.99)
My Life in Orange - Tim Guest
Tim, aka Yogesh, spent his childhood in Baghwan’s various communes until the movement collapsed with the leader’s arrest in 1985 and Tim had to start secondary school in London. (£12)
Love and Dirt - Diane Atkinson
The strange and long-lived marriage and mutual sexual obsession of Arthur Munby, Victorian barrister, and his scullery maid Hannah Cullwick. (£8.99)
FOOD
Happy Days with the Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver
Simple recipes for different occasions, now in paperback. (£12.99)
Asian Vegan Cooking - Kim Le (£9.99)
HISTORY
1603, a Turning Point in British History - Christopher Lee
In the year the monarchy passed from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the Church was in turmoil, piracy was sponsored by the state, and new trade routes were opening up. (£7.99)
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany - Amos Elon (£8.99)
Ireland - Rough Guide Chronicles
Covers the entire history from prehistoric Ireland to 2003 - in a handy sized format. (£7.99)
MIND BODY SPIRIT
The Nation’s Favourite Hymns - ed. Andrew Barr (£7.99)
Astrology - Mini-KISS - Derek and Julia Parker (£7.99)
Answer Deck
A stylish and contemporary fortune telling game featuring 73 beautifully illustrated black, white and red prophecy cards. Contains 32 page booklet, 73 prophecy cards, and mat for laying out cards. (£5.99)
Liberation - The Barefoot Doctor:
"The perfect holistic antidote to stress, depression, and other unhealthy states of mind." (£7.99)
Little Flowers of St Francis
53 short chapters ranging from stories to serene meditations. "Before you know it, you'll be reading this one aloud to your cat. And Francis will be very pleased to hear it." (£2.50)
POETRY
This is Not My Nose - Michael Rosen
This companion volume to 'Carrying the Elephant', tells the story of the author’s undiagnosed illness - a malfunctioning thyroid gland - which turned him into somebody he could hardly recognize. It took just a simple course of drugs to turn him back into the real Mike Rosen. (£7.99)
Selected Poems - R S Thomas
R S Thomas' choice, made shortly before his death in 2000, of the poems by which he wished to be remembered. (£9.99)
POLITICS
Bushwhacked: Life in George W Bush's America - Molly Ivins
For all Britain's mockery of America, we are morbidly fascinated by it. This is a book about George W Bush 'uncut', his extreme ideology, his capabilities, and his past. (£7.99)
Granta 84: Empire Aloof - ed. Ian Jack
How America sees the rest of the world. Do they know? Do they care? (£9.99)
SCIENCE
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life - John Gribbin (£16.99)
SPORT & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow - Maria Coffey (£6.99)
"The Personal Costs of Climbing."
Golf - Mini-KISS (£7.99)
TRAVEL
Duende: a journey in search of Flamenco - Jason Webster
Bestselling account of the British academic who gave it all up in pursuit of duende, part ecstasy, part desperation, intrinsic to flamenco. (£7.99)
A Very Peruvian Practice - John Lane
When the author arrived for a six-week stay as adviser to the Women's Health Care Centre of Lima, he had little idea what he was taking on. Here, he recounts life with the irrepressible Senora and the unconventional staff of the Clinic. (£7.99)
From Here You Can’t See Paris - Michael Sanders
Leisurely exploration of the life of a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. and its struggle to survive, aided by a dead artist, a chef and his wife, Noelle. (£7.99)
Running with Reindeer - Roger Took
Encounters in Russian Lapland. (£8.99)
Camping Sites Guide 2004
Over 2,100 UK quality sites listed covering England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. (£6.50)
Caravan Sites Guide 2004 (£6.50)
Cadogan City Guide to Barcelona (£10.99)
Time Out Guide to Paris (£11.99)
Rough Guide to South America (£19.99)
FICTION
HARDBACK
Incompetence - Rob Grant
The EU enacts new human rights legislation - it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent. After all, it’s not their fault they can't do it right, is it? But when a murder is committed, how competent is the detective? (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Changing Planes - Ursula Le Guin
In a series of linked stories, a traveller discovers how to escape the misery of waiting for a connecting flight by changing planes, literally. (£8.99)
PAPERBACK
All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve
A man looks back on his chance meeting with his future wife and their time together. (£6.99)
Piano Tuner - Daniel Mason
On a misty London afternoon in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the War Office: he must leave his wife, and his quiet life in London, to travel to the jungles of Burma to tune a rare Erard grand piano. (£7.99)
Holy Fools - Joanne Harris (£6.99)
Set in 17th century France against a brackdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, a travelling actress and rope dancer.
Star of the Sea Joseph O'Connor
In the bitter winter of 1847 the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York with hundreds of fleeing refugees from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster. (£6.99)
Box of Matches - Nicholson Baker
A man gets up earlier and earlier each day, dresses in the dark, makes his coffee and lights the fire with a box of matches. Then he rummages through the thoughts that crowd his head and preoccupy him. "Nicholson Baker at his best, humorous and observant". (£6.99)
Photograph - Penelope Lively
Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before: it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. Even his work as a historian doesn’t prepare him for the ensuing radical shift in perception. (£6.99)
Heligoland - Shena Mackay
The Nautilus, a strange building shaped a shell, was built in South London in the early 1930s and became a haven for a floating community of cosmopolitan refugees, intellectuals and artists. Now, at the end of the century, Rowena is in search of her own Utopia - the Heligoland of her childhood imagination. (£6.99)
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper - Harriet S Chesman
In 1878 Paris live two sisters. Lydia is dying and Mary embarks on a series of paintings. In the style of Girl with a Pearl Earring. (£6.99)
The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde
Idiosyncratic romp through the literary experience through the eyes of literary detective Thursday Next. Versions of Carroll, Dickens, Austen, Emily Bronte and Virginia Woolf are just a few of the places visited. (£6.99)
Miniaturist - Kunal Basu
Set in the court of the Emperor Akbar in the 16th century India, a richly detailed and sensuous tale of art, sex and political intrigue. (£6.99)
Noodle Maker - Ma Jian
Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, this novel is a virtuoso piece of red humour about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. From the author of "Red Dust". (£10)
In the Wilderness - Manuel Rivas
With roots deep in the traditions, legends, language and history of Galicia, a cast of animals, birds and humans relate magical stories in this extraordinary novel. "Riva's story emerges like spirals of smoke, in a series of memorably poetic images." (£6.99)
Birthday of the World - Ursula Le Guin
Six stories from the Hainish cycle, and two stand-alones, including a short novel. (£6.99)
The Face - Dean Koontz
The lonely son of a Hollywood superstar and his minder are threatened by a psychopath, and there’s a supernatural element. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
The Privilege of Youth - Dave Pelzer
"My Story of Longing for Acceptance and Friendship." This book centres on his experience of bullying at school and the friends he made in his neighbourhood who helped him fight back. (£16.99)
I, Me, Mine - George Harrison
Now in paperback. (£8.99)
Hermit in Paris - Italo Calvino
Posthumously collected personal writings and the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers. (£7.99)
My Life in Orange - Tim Guest
Tim, aka Yogesh, spent his childhood in Baghwan’s various communes until the movement collapsed with the leader’s arrest in 1985 and Tim had to start secondary school in London. (£12)
Love and Dirt - Diane Atkinson
The strange and long-lived marriage and mutual sexual obsession of Arthur Munby, Victorian barrister, and his scullery maid Hannah Cullwick. (£8.99)
FOOD
Happy Days with the Naked Chef - Jamie Oliver
Simple recipes for different occasions, now in paperback. (£12.99)
Asian Vegan Cooking - Kim Le (£9.99)
HISTORY
1603, a Turning Point in British History - Christopher Lee
In the year the monarchy passed from the Tudors to the Stuarts, the Church was in turmoil, piracy was sponsored by the state, and new trade routes were opening up. (£7.99)
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany - Amos Elon (£8.99)
Ireland - Rough Guide Chronicles
Covers the entire history from prehistoric Ireland to 2003 - in a handy sized format. (£7.99)
MIND BODY SPIRIT
The Nation’s Favourite Hymns - ed. Andrew Barr (£7.99)
Astrology - Mini-KISS - Derek and Julia Parker (£7.99)
Answer Deck
A stylish and contemporary fortune telling game featuring 73 beautifully illustrated black, white and red prophecy cards. Contains 32 page booklet, 73 prophecy cards, and mat for laying out cards. (£5.99)
Liberation - The Barefoot Doctor:
"The perfect holistic antidote to stress, depression, and other unhealthy states of mind." (£7.99)
Little Flowers of St Francis
53 short chapters ranging from stories to serene meditations. "Before you know it, you'll be reading this one aloud to your cat. And Francis will be very pleased to hear it." (£2.50)
POETRY
This is Not My Nose - Michael Rosen
This companion volume to 'Carrying the Elephant', tells the story of the author’s undiagnosed illness - a malfunctioning thyroid gland - which turned him into somebody he could hardly recognize. It took just a simple course of drugs to turn him back into the real Mike Rosen. (£7.99)
Selected Poems - R S Thomas
R S Thomas' choice, made shortly before his death in 2000, of the poems by which he wished to be remembered. (£9.99)
POLITICS
Bushwhacked: Life in George W Bush's America - Molly Ivins
For all Britain's mockery of America, we are morbidly fascinated by it. This is a book about George W Bush 'uncut', his extreme ideology, his capabilities, and his past. (£7.99)
Granta 84: Empire Aloof - ed. Ian Jack
How America sees the rest of the world. Do they know? Do they care? (£9.99)
SCIENCE
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life - John Gribbin (£16.99)
SPORT & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow - Maria Coffey (£6.99)
"The Personal Costs of Climbing."
Golf - Mini-KISS (£7.99)
TRAVEL
Duende: a journey in search of Flamenco - Jason Webster
Bestselling account of the British academic who gave it all up in pursuit of duende, part ecstasy, part desperation, intrinsic to flamenco. (£7.99)
A Very Peruvian Practice - John Lane
When the author arrived for a six-week stay as adviser to the Women's Health Care Centre of Lima, he had little idea what he was taking on. Here, he recounts life with the irrepressible Senora and the unconventional staff of the Clinic. (£7.99)
From Here You Can’t See Paris - Michael Sanders
Leisurely exploration of the life of a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. and its struggle to survive, aided by a dead artist, a chef and his wife, Noelle. (£7.99)
Running with Reindeer - Roger Took
Encounters in Russian Lapland. (£8.99)
Camping Sites Guide 2004 (£6.50)
Over 2,100 UK quality sites listed covering England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.
Caravan Sites Guide 2004 (£6.50)
Cadogan City Guide to Barcelona (£10.99)
Time Out Guide to Paris (£11.99)
Rough Guide to South America (£19.99)