2005's "FORTHCOMING BOOKS" LISTINGS

DECEMBER 2005

FICTION

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

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs - Tom Baker

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

REISSUE

Friendly Young Ladies - Mary Renault

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

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

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

HUMOUR

Field Guide to the Apocalypse - Meghann Marco

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

MBS

House of Tiny Tearaways - Dr Tanya Byron

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

In Search of the Holy Grail - Veronica Ortenberg

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

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

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

African Myths of Origin (£9.99)

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

MUSIC

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

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

POLITICS

2005 Blogged - (ed.) Tim Worstall

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

TRAVEL

Horseshoes & Holy Water - Mefo Phillips

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

NOVEMBER 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Get a Life - Nadine Gordimer

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

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

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

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

Darkness of Wallis Simpson - Rose Tremain

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

Angela Carter’s Book of Fairy Tales

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

Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq

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

Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory

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

Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson

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

PAPERBACKS

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

Not Married, Not Bothered - Carol Clewlow

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

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

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

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

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

Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg

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

Virago Book of Christmas - (ed.) Michelle Lovric

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

Hornet’s Nest - Jimmy Carter

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

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

Shadow Family - Miyuki Miyabe

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

Southwesterly Wind - Luiz A Garcia-Roza

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

REISSUES

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

July’s People - Nadine Gordimer

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

Confessions of a Crap Artist - Philip K Dick

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

Inside Bleak House - John Sutherland

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

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

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Said and Done - Roger McGough

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

Book of Life - (ed.) Eve Claxton

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

Teacher Man - Frank McCourt

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

C S Lewis - A N Wilson

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

Twilight Children - Torey Hayden

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

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

Scenes from My Life - Judi Dench

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

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

Memories of John Lennon - (ed.) Yoko Ono

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

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

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

FOOD & DRINK

Richard & Judy Wine Guide (£16.99)

AA Truckstop and Roadside Cafe Guide (£7.99)

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

Eating Out in Pubs 2006 - Michelin (£14.99)

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

GARDENING

My Roots - Monty Don

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

Garden Book

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

HISTORY

Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad - Barnaby Rogerson

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

Court of the Caliphs - Hugh Kennedy

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

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

Social History of the Third Reich - Richard Grunberger

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

White Cities - Joseph Roth

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

HOBBIES

75 Years of The Times Crossword (£9.99)

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

Pocket Guide to Nuts & Bolts (£3.50)

Little Book of the Mini (£6.99)

(Ferrari and Porsche also available ...)

HUMOUR

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

Wayne in a Manger - Gervase Phinn

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

Bullshit Bingo - Graham Edmonds

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

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

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

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

Jim - Steven Appleby

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

I Hate Christmas - Daniel Blythe

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

Worst Case Scenario Extreme Edition - Joshua Piven

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

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

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

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

One Hundred Great Books in Haiku - David Bader

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

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

LANGUAGE

70 Japanese Gestures - Hamiru-Aqui

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

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

MBS

African Wisdom: 365 Days

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

Mystical Britain and Ireland - Richard Jones

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

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

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

Weird Christmas - Joey Green

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

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

Mary Magdalen: Truth & Myth - Susan Haskins

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

MEDIA

Guardian Year 2005 - (ed.) Giles Foden

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

NATURE

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

Philips Stargazing 2006 - Heather Couper (£6.99)

Secret Life of Trees - Colin Tudge

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

PLAYS

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

Christmas Carol CD

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

POEMS

Collected Poems - Chinua Achebe

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

Selected Poems - Oktay Rifat

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

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

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Countdown to a Fairer World - New Internationalist

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

Half-Gone - Jeremy Leggett

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

Republic of Entertainment - John Lloyd

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

Desert Children - Waris Dirie

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

Drawing Blood - Gerald Scarfe

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

With Their Backs to the World - Asne Seierstad

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

REFERENCE

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

Oxford Dictionary of Superstitions (£9.99)

Oxford Dictionary of Idioms (£8.99)

Finding Anyone Anywhere Anywhen - Noel M Elliot

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

SCIENCE

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

TRAVEL

There’s No Toilet Paper On The Road Less Traveled

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

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

Pole Dance - Tom Avery

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

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

New AA Road Atlases to Europe and France.

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

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Pop-ups - Dr Seuss

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

The Princess and the Pea - Lauren Child

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

Ages 5-9yrs

Lion Witch & Wardrobe CD - C.S Lewis

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

Write Now! - Alice Gunter

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

Ages 9-11yrs

I Believe in Unicorns - Michael Morpurgo

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

The Scarecrow and his Servant - Phillip Pullman

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

Teenage

Sharp North - Patrick Cave

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

Clay - David Almond

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

OCTOBER 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall-Smith

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

Gentlemen & Players - Joanne Harris

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

Penelopiad: the Myth of Penelope and Odysseus - Margaret Atwood

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

Thud - Terry Pratchett

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

Where’s My Cow - Terry Pratchett

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

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

Quite Honestly - John Mortimer

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

Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Gabriel G Marquez

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

Olive Readers - Christine Aziz

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

PAPERBACK

Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

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

Best Thing that Can Happen to a Croissant - Pablo Tusset

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

Going Postal - Terry Pratchett

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

Runes of the Earth - Stephen Donaldson

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

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

Triumph of the Sun - Wilbur Smith

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

Tyrant - Valerio M Manfredi

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

Alexander: the Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield

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

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

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

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

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

NON-FICTION

ARCHITECTURE

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

BIOGRAPHY

Margrave of the Marshes - John Peel

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

Untold Stories - Alan Bennett

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

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

Tamerlane - Justin Marozzi

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

Times Great Lives - Ian Brunskill

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

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

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

Good Life - John Seymour

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

Northern Soul - Jimmy Nail

A classic rags to riches story. (£7.99)

Bob Dylan Chronicles Vol. 1

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

Luxury of Time - Jane Tomlinson

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

Footy: the Story of a Friendship - Richard Ingrams

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

It Just Occurred to Me - Humphrey Lyttelton

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

Race Against Time - Ellen MacArthur

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

What the Stones Remember - Patrick Lane

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

Wave of Destruction - Erich Krauss

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

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

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

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

GARDENING

Gardening Week by Week - Daily Telegraph (£9.99)

This Other Eden - Emma Gieben-Gamal

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

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

HISTORY

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

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

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

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

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

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

HUMOUR

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

Private Eye Annual 2005 (£9.99)

Mediaballs 2 (£3.99)

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

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

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

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

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

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

LANGUAGE

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

LIFESTYLE

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

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

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

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

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

MBS

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

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

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

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

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

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

I Can Do It Calendar 2006 (£7.99)

MEDIA

Coronation Street Treasures - Tim Randall

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

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

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

Radio Times Guide to Films

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

Time Out Film Guide

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

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

Meaning of Recognition - Clive James

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

MUSIC

Bob Dylan - Mojo Magazine

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

Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956-66

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

NATURE & PETS

Life in the Undergrowth - David Attenborough

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

Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life - Tim Haines

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

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

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

Fauna Britannica - Stefan Buczacki

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

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

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

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

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

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

Green Inheritance - Anthony Huxley

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

Little Book of Snowflakes - Kenneth Libbrecht

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

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

Cats: Homeopathic Remedies - George MacLeod (£7.99)

Dogs: Homeopathic Remedies - George MacLeod (£7.99)

OUTDOOR PURSUITS

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

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

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

Lake District Mountain Map (Weatherproof) (£14.99)

Climbing Calendar 2006 - Scotland (£12.95)

World Climbing Calendar 2006 (£12.95)

POETRY

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

Love the Joy that Wounds - Rumi

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

Anthem for Doomed Youth - (ed.) John Stallworthy

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

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

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

Erotic Haiku - Hiroaki Sato (£6.99)

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

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

Tarantula - Bob Dylan

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

Another Night Before Christmas - Carol Ann Duffy

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

POLITICS

Tell Me No Lies - John Pilger

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

We are Iran - Nasrin Alavi

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

Conspiracy Books Series, £7.99 each:

Who Are the Illuminati?

Who Really Runs the World?

Who Won the Oil Wars?

Peace Kills - P J O’Rourke

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

Lefties Guide to Britain - Peter Clark

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

Pocket Guide of Patriots - George Courtauld

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

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

REFERENCE

Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

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

Whitakers Almanack Pocket Reference

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

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

Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

Fully revised and updated. (£25)

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

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

Pears Cyclopaedia 2005-2006

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

Guinness Book of World Records 2006 (£18)

SCIENCE

A Briefer History of Time - Stephen Hawking

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

Universe - Dorling Kindersley

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

TRAVEL

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

Around the World in 80 Treasures - Dan Cruickshank

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

Four Quarters of Light - Brian Keenan

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

Sex Lives of Cannibals - J Maarten Troost

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pet Friendly Places to Stay Guide 2006 (£9.99)

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

Lore of the Land - J Westwood et al

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

NOVELTIES

Mini Safe Baby Handling Kit (£4.99)

Bad Karma Cure All (£4.99)

Everything Christmas (£3.50)

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

The Whisperer - Nick Butterworth

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

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

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

Ages 5-9yrs

The Popcorn Pirates - Alexander McCall Smith

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

Kingfisher Book of Horse and Pony Stories - Jenny Oldfield

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

Ages 9-11yrs

Tales Of Redwall: High Rhulain - Brian Jacques

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

Alex Rider: The Gadgets - Anthony Horowitz

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

Teenage

Mirrormask - Neil Gaiman

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

Innocent’s Story - Nicky Singer

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

Poetry

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

SEPTEMBER 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

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

Shalimar the Clown - Salmon Rushdie

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

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

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

Stories We Could Tell - Tony Parsons

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

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

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

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

Explorers of the New Century - Magnus Mills

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

Oscar & the Lady in Pink - Eric-E Schmitt

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

Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala

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

Pigtopia - Kitty Fitzgerald

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

Woman’s World - Graham Rawle

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

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

Smith of Wootton Major - J R R Tolkien

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

PAPERBACK

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

Forest of the Pygmies - Isabel Allende

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

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

Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destruction - Sue Townsend

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

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

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

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

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

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

Selected Short Stories - Rabindranath Tagore

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

Journeys in the Dead Season - Spencer Jordan

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

Blackpool Highflyer - Andrew Martin

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

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

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

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

Tirant Lo Blanc - Joanot Martorelli

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

NON-FICTION

ART

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

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

BIOGRAPHY

Shakespeare: the Biography - Peter Ackroyd

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

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

Hyde Park Gate News - Virginia Woolf et al

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

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

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

Chin Up Girls - Katherine Ramsay

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

Two Lives - Vikram Seth

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

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

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

Dare to be a Daniel - Tony Benn

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

Days from a Different World - John Simpson

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

Nobody’s Child - Kate Adie

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

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

Liz Jones’s Diary

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

HISTORY

Persian Fire - Tom Holland

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

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

Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 - Roger Crowley

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

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

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

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

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

Rough Crossings - Simon Schama

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

Along Country Lines - Paul Atterbury

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

Tales from the Old Inland Waterways - Euan Corrie

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

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

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

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

History of Britain Companion - Jo Swinnerton

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

Worst Jobs in History - Tony Robinson

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

HUMOUR, GAMES & PUZZLES

A-Z of White Trash

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

Pub Origami - Nick Robinson

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

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

Field Guide to Aliens - Dave Elliott

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

Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book - Terry Jones

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

Daily Telegraph Quick Crosswords 41 (£4.99)

Times Crossword Collection (£7.99)

Times Su Doku Book 3 (£5.99)

LANGUAGE

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

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

March Hares & Monkeys’ Uncles - Harry Oliver

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

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

Heavy Words Lightly Thrown - Chris Roberts

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

Collins Good Grammar (£5.99)

LIFESTYLE

How to Rescue a House - David Ireland

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

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

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

MBS

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

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

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

The Faery Garden - Beatrice Phillpotts (£14.99)

Body Language Phrasebook - Nick Marshall

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

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

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

MEDIA

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

MUSIC

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

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

NATURE & ANIMALS

New Gaia Atlas Planet Management - Norman Myers & Jennifer Kent

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

Birds Britannica - Richard Mabey

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

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

Ancient Trees, Living Landscapes - Richard Muir

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

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

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

Duck Handbook

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

'The Whole Hog - Lyall Watson

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

POETRY

Paradise Lost - John Milton

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

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

Passionfood - (ed. Neil Astley)

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

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

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

POLITICS

Imperial Ambitions - Noam Chomsky

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

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

Nationalism (A Very Short Introduction) (£6.99)

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

SCIENCE

Ancestor’s Tale - Richard Dawkins

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

TRAVEL

It’s Grim Up North - Judith Holder

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

Lonely Planet Travel Book

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

Wrong about Japan - Peter Carey

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

Good Beer Guide 2006 - Roger Protz (£13.99)

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

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

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

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

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Germs - Ross Collins

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

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

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

Ages 5-9yrs

Jolly Roger - Colin McNaughton

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

The Mummy Family find Fame

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

Ages 9-11yrs

Freeglader - Paul Stewart

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

The Truth About Fairies - Philip Ardagh

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

Teenage

Bloodsong - Melvin Burgess

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

Spirit Walker - Michelle Paver

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

AUGUST 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

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

End in Tears - Ruth Rendell

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

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

PAPERBACK

Sex & Other Changes - David Nobbs

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

Pact - Jodi Picoult

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

How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff

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

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

Rumpole & the Penge Bungalow Murders - John Mortimer

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

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

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

Queen of the South - A Perez-Reverte

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

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

The Flea Palace - Elif Shafak

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

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

Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin

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

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

Involuntary Witness - Gianrico Carofiglio

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

Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories - Peter Haining

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

REISSUES

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

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

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

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

Catalina’s Riddle

House of the Vestals

Murder on the Appian Way

Roman Blood

NON-FICTION

ART & ANTIQUES

Antiques Price Guide 2006 - Judith Miller (£24.99)

Dialogue with Photography - interviews by Paul Hill & Thomas Cooper

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

BIOGRAPHY

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

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

Dirk Bogarde - John Coldstream

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

Maggie - John Sergeant

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

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

GARDENING

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

Jewel Garden - Monty Don

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

HISTORY

365 Great Stories from History for Every Day of the Year

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

Prose Edda - Snorri Sturluson, trans. Jesse Byock

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

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

Lascivious Bodies - Julie Peakman

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

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

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

Tales of Endurance - Fergus Fleming

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

All the Wrong Places - James Fenton

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

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

One Fourteenth of an Elephant - Ian Denys Peek

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

Bargain books of WWII including DVD, £5.99 ea:

Battle of Britain

Fury in the Pacific

Battle of Russia

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

HUMOUR

Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Thurber

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

LANGUAGE & WRITING

Talking for Britain - Simon Elmes

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

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

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

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

Oxford Dictionary of English

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

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

Pocket Roget’s Thesaurus (£4.99)

Penguin Pocket Dictionary of Quotations (£3.99)

BBC French Grammar (£6.99)

BBC German Grammar (£6.99)

BBC Italian Grammar (£6.99)

BBC Spanish Grammar (£6.99)

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

Book of Lost Books - Stuart Kelly

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

LIFESTYLE

Good Shopping Guide Vol. 4 - Ethical Marketing Group

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

MBS

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

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

Elixir & the Stone - Michael Baigent

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

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

New Meditation Handbook CD - Geshe Kelsan Gyatso

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

MEDIA

Dr Who - Pocket Essentials (£4.99)

MUSIC

Right Instrument for Your Child - Atarah Ben-Tovim

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

NATURE & PETS

Living Wisdom of Trees - Fred Hageneder

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

The Last Shepherds - Charles Bowden

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

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

POETRY

Sinner Saved by Grave - Michael Haslam

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

Unrecounted - W G Sebald

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

POLITICS

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

Occidentalism - Ian Buruma

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

PUZZLES

Unofficial Narnia Quizbook - Nigel Robinson (£1.99)

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

REFERENCE

Gem Book of Facts (£4.99)

Citizens Advice Handbook

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

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

TRAVEL

Collins Handy Road Atlas of Britain 2006

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

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

Lancashire Where Women Die for Love - Charles Nevin

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

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

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

Margarita’s Olive Press - Rodney Shields

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

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

CHILDREN'S

Ages 0-5yrs

One Ted Falls Out Of Bed - Julia Donaldson

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

Kingfisher Treasury Of Bedtime Stories - Nora Clarke

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

Ages 5-9yrs

The Mouse and his Child - Russell Hoban

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

Dick & Dom's Joke Book

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

Ages 9-11yrs

I, Coriander - Sally Gardner

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

Raven’s Gate - Anthony Horowitz

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

Teenage

How I live Now - Meg Rosoff

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

Leaving Home Survival Guide - Nicola Morgan

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

JULY 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

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

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

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

PAPERBACK

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REISSUES

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

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

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

Audio:

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

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

The Road Taken - Michael Buerk

Autobiography of the popular BBC journalist. (£7.99)

Being Jordan - Katie Price

Now in paperback. (£7.99)

North of Ithaca - Eleni Gage

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

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

Behind the Lines - Andrew Carroll

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

Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes - Janet Malcolm

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

HISTORY

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

Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich

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

Hawkwood, Diabolical Englishman - F Stonor Saunders

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

Hell Riders - Terry Brighton

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

Zulu - Saul David

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

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

HUMOUR

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

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

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

MBS

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

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

Flowers Wisdom Pyramid Cards (£6.99)

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

MUSIC

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

NATURE

Secret Life of Cows - Rosamund Young

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

POETRY

Collected Poems of Ted Hughes

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

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

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

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

REFERENCE

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

Philips Modern School Atlas (£10.99)

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

SCIENCE

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

Big Bang - Simon Singh
How was our universe created? From the author of 'Fermet's Last Theorem' (£8.99)

How to Make a Camel Smoothie and Other Surreal Sums - Gary Rimmer
Absurd arithmetic and superfluous statistics. Learn how many people have ever lived, how long your fingernails will grow in a lifetime, how to cure Third World Debt - and much more - for example, How many people on Earth are drunk right now? and Which is more crowded: Jakarta, Ikea or hell? (£7.99)

The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things - Surendra Verma
Little book of fascinating facts. It is an introduction to 180 laws, principles, theories, hypotheses, rules, axioms, theorems, equations, models, systems and paradoxes that form the foundations of science. (£14.99)

Cartoon Guide to Chemistry - Larry Gonick
From the author of the "Cartoon Guide to the Universe", a complete and up-to-date course in college level chemistry, in an engaging and humorous graphic style. (£9.99)

TRAVEL

Lost in Transmission - Jonathan Harley
"An Odyssey through Exotic and Faraway Places Burdened by Strife, Conflict & Undrinkable Coffee". From the only Australian journalist in Afghanistan on September 11th 2001. (£7.99)

I Didn’t Do It for You - Michela Wrong
Eritrea has been patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvering and has Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. (£7.99)

New Rough Guides to Amsterdam and Poland and Sunflower Guides to the Pyrenees, Picos de Europa, Samos, Slovenia and Western Crete.

And we’re trying a new series targeted at residents, homeowners and long-stay visitors in France: Lifeline Survival Books: Brittany (£9.95)

STATIONERY

Original Peter Rabbit Baby Book: My First Year

Space is provided for each landmark - from the earliest photographs to the first lock of hair. A very special book to keep and look back on over the years. (£8.50)

And the first of our extensive collection of CALENDARS & DIARIES for 2006

CHILDREN'S

Age 0-5yrs

Little Yoga - Rebecca Whitford
A gentle and fun introduction to a simple and balanced yoga sequence for toddlers. Vibrantly illustrated, with notes to parents. (£4.99)

Age 5-9yrs

The Dragon Who Couldn't Do Dragony Things - Anni Axworthy
Little Dragon has wings but can't fly, a snorty nose but no fire, and he can't scare anybody, but he does have one talent. Beautiful illustrations reveal an enchanting new character. Age 5+. (£4.99)

Laura's Star & The Sleepover - Klaus Baumgart
Laura is going to stay at her friend Sophie's for her first time away from home. With a little help from her special star she will have a wonderful weekend. Age 4-7yrs.(£4.99)

Age 9-11yrs

Further Adventures of Eddie Dickens: Horrendous Habits - Philip Ardagh
Ardagh's most popular character returns in another hilarious adventure. It embraces a whole host of new characters along with firm favourites such as Malcolm the stuffed stoat. Age 9-12yrs (£7.99)

Troll Fell - Katherine Langrish
Bearing all the markings of a truly classic novel, this is an exciting adventure-filled tale of Peer, his evil uncles, treasure and wicked trolls. Age: 9+. (£5.99)

Valley Of Secrets - Charmian Hussey
An enthralling adventure which sweeps the reader through place, time and imagination. Stephen was abandoned as a baby, but his fortunes change as he receives a letter from a strange source and sets off on a journey from London to Cornwall and the Amazonian rain forest. 9-11yrs (£5.99)

Teenage Bull Raid - Carlo Gebler
Retells an epic Irish myth about Cuchulainn, the boy warrior. This is the first retelling outside scholarly editions and will have loads of appeal for anyone who loves battles, raids and combat. 11+. (£12.99)

Maximum Ride:Angel Experiment- James Patterson
Max Ride and her friends grew up in a science lab called the School, they were created as an experiment, 98% human. This secret has escaped from the School, and the scientists are keen to make sure the world never finds out, so the children face adventures beyond even their wildest dreams. 9-15yrs (£12.99)

JUNE 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Story of General Dann and Mara’s Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog - Doris Lessing
A sequel to 'Mara and Dann'. The earth's climate has changed -- it is colder than ever before -- and Dann is now grown up and a general, and the man to whom everyone looks for guidance and leadership. Doris Lessing's new novel charts his adventures across the frozen wastes of the north, a journey that will eventually lead to the discovery of a secret library. (£13.99 at The Book Case)

Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana - Umberto Eco

A Milanese rare book dealer loses all memory of his personal life. Through the clutter in his attic he rediscovers the story of his generation, but two voids remain. Copiously illustrated with images from ephemera. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan S Foer
When 9-year-old Oskar’s father is killed in the September 11th attacks, he begins an odyssey through the five boroughs of New York, trying to solve the mystery of a key he finds in his father’s closet. Follow-up to 'Everything is Illuminated'. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Zahir - Paulo Coelho
Follow-on to 'The Alchemist', picking up the theme of the pilgrimage to Santiago but telling a story of love, loss and passionate obsession. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Pure in Heart - Susan Hill

A little boy is kidnapped at the gate of his home, an ex-con finds it impossible to stay straight; a severely handicapped young woman dies in the night - in the second of her new crime series, Susan Hill creates a community in sharp and convincing detail with terror and evil in its midst. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk

Outrageous, dark, upsetting and hilarious. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch - Dai Sijie

The peripatetic misadventures of Mr Muo, China's first psychoanalyst, from the author of "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress". (£11.99 at The Book Case)

REISSUE:

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Film tie-In) - Douglas Adams (£6.99)

PAPERBACK

Case Histories - Kate Atkinson

Funny, suspenseful and intricately plotted novel about a private investigator thrown into the middle of three unsolved cases in Cambridge. (£6.99)

Bad Dirt - Annie Proulx

Short stories set in Wyoming, filled with the vivid and wilful characters for which Proulx has become well known. (£7.99)

White Stuff - Simon Armitage
Felix and Hannah are happily married, living somewhere in the Pennines, but there is a sadness in their lives - they've been trying to have a baby for five years with no luck. (£7.99)

Madras on Rainy Days - Samina Ali
The complex and hidden world behind the veil, against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of Hyderabad and mounting Hindu-Muslim tensions. (£6.99)

Marrying Buddha - Wei Hui

Semi-autobiographical sequel to 'Shanghai Baby': Coco, a young successful female novelist decides to leave Shanghai for New York. (£6.99)

Sunday Philosophy Club - Alexander McCall-Smith
The first in a new series of books by the author of 'The No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency'. Female sleuth and philosopher Isabel Dalhousie treads the corrupt pavements of Edinburgh. (£6.99)

Eleanor Rigby - Douglas Coupland
From the author of 'Hey, Nostradamus!', the life-affirming story of Liz Dunn, a woman who has spent her whole life alone and lonely - until now... (£7.99)

Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud - Ben Sherwood

As a boy, Charlie St Cloud narrowly survived a car crash that killed Sam, his little brother. Years later, still unable to recover from his loss, Charlie is tending the New England cemetery where Sam is buried, when he meets Tess Carroll, a woman who is training for a solo sailing trip around the globe... (£6.99)

Transmission - Hari Kunzru
A computer virus meshes together the lives of three people in three different countries - America, India and England, (£7.99)

Ninth Life of Louis Drax - Liz Jensen

Difficult, precocious Louis Drax falls off a cliff into a ravine. He miraculously survives - but the family has been shattered and the boy defies medical logic. (£7.99)

Flodd - David Maine

Noe's family tell what it's like to live with a man touched by God, while struggling against events that cannot be controlled or explained. Funny and original. (£7.99)

Maps for Lost Lovers - Nadeem Aslam
In a northern English town, a devout Muslim wife and mother feels increasingly out of touch with her homeland, her husband and her three estranged and westernised children. The suspected murder of her brother-in-law and his lover forms the dramatic backdrop for a year of turmoil in the life of Kaukab's splintering family. Booker-longlisted. (£7.99)

Making of Henry - Howard Jacobson

"Observation, rich human comedy, a rather twisted take on relationships, and a keen sense of the convoluted politics of family." (£6.99)

Cooking with Fernet Branca - James Hamilton-Paterson
An effete English ghostwriter’s Tuscan idyll is shattered by the arrival of vulgar Soviet Marta. (£7.99)

Seven Types of Ambiguity - Elliot Perlman

Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, kidnapping his beloved's young son and triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated. (£7.99)

Home from the Vinyl Cafe - Stuart McLean
Introducing Dave, owner of a downtown Toronto record store, slogan "We may not be big, but we’re small" and his wife, Morley, and chronicling their valiant attempts to rise to the challenges of modern life, these are tales of everyday struggles and triumphs, rich in compassion and good-natured humour. (£9.99)

CRIME FICTION

Various Haunts of Men - Susan Hill
Young policewoman Freya Graffham and the enigmatic detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler have the task of unravelling the mystery behind a gruesome sequence of events. First of a new crime series. (£6.99)

Scandal Takes a Holiday - Lindsey Davis (£6.99)

Best British Mysteries 2005 - Maxim Jakubowski (£7.99)

Skinny Dip - Carl Hiaasen

A hilarious romantic page-turning journey through the warped politics of Southern Florida. (£6.99)

REISSUES:

Philip K. Dick:

In Milton Lumky Territory (£7.99)

Mary and the Giant (£7.99)

NEW EDITIONS:

Selected Tales - Jacob Grimm (£8.99)

Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell (£4.99)

NON-FICTION

ART

Picture of Britain - David Dimbleby

A celebration of the British landscape and the art that it has inspired, from Constable to Lowry, from Turner to Nash. Tate and TV tie-in. (£19.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Will in the World - Stephen Greenblatt

How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Samuel Johnson long-listed. (£8.99)

So Idle a Rogue - Jeremy Lamb

"The Life and Death of Lord Rochester." One of the brightest and most outrageous luminaries at the court of Charles II, he was to drink himself to death by the age of 33. A new film, "The Libertine", is to be released starring Johnny Depp as Rochester and John Malkovich as Charles II. (£9.99)

Life and Adventures of William Cobbett - Richard Ingrams

Life of William Cobbett, one of England's greatest radicals. (£20)

Lizzie Siddal - Lucinda Hawksley

"The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel." (£7.99)

Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe - Sarah Churchwell (£9.99)

Brief Lives - W F Deedes

The Sunday Times bestselling collection of short biographies. (£6.99)

The Two of Us - Sheila Hancock

Sheila Hancock's moving memoir of her marriage to John Thaw. Now in paperback. (£7.99)

Desperately Seeking Paradise - Ziauddin Sardar

Self-mocking, frank and passionate account of a quest to find "paradise" and the meaning of his religion from one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain. (£8.99)

Down Came the Rain - Brooke Shields
Postnatal depression as experienced by the actress. (£15.99)

John Peel - Mick Wall

A tribute biography of the hugely popular DJ and broadcaster John Peel. (£7.99)

Scribbling the Cat - Alexandra Fuller
From the author of 'Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight', a powerful and painful account of an intense relationship the author had with a soldier; together they travelled from Zambia thorugh Zimbabwe and Mozambique to visit the scenes of war. (£7.99)

Fat Girl - Judith Moore

Compulsively readable and heartbreaking memoir by a writer who is obsessed with food - and with being fat. (£12.99)

I Choose to Live - Sabine Dardenne

Courageous testimony from the young survivor of kidnap, imprisonment and sexual abuse by paedophile Marc Dutroux in Belgium. (£12.99)

GARDENING

Gardening Wisdom - Sharon Amos

Practical advice, traditional garden lore, and eco-friendly ideas. (£4.99)

HISTORY

England’s Mail - Phillip Beale

"Two Millennia of Letter Writing." From the first days of the Roman invasion, letters have been written from and to England. Witness the discovery of hundreds of soldiers' letters from Vindolanda on Hadrian's Wall. (£19.99)

In Search of the Dark Ages - Michael Wood

Explores some of our most enduring historical figures: Boadicea, King Arthur, Alfred the Great and Ethelred the Unready during some of the most fractious years in our history. Revised and updated. (£7.99)

Boudica - V Collingridge

Historical biography and recreation of Boudica, her life, her adversaries, and the truth of her nature. (£18.99)

In Search of the Roots of England - Michael Wood

The Domesday Book gives a unique insight into England at the time of the Norman conquest and gives hints to the Anglo-Saxon, Roman and even Iron Age cultures that had preceded it. Updated edition of "Domesday". (£7.99)

Medieval Lives - Terry Jones (£7.99)

Blood and Roses - Helen Castor
A vivid evocation of the medieval world, seen through the eyes of one family: wars, love affairs, litigation and human relationships. (£8.99)

1776, When Britain and America Went to War - David McCullough

The intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. Narrative history with a cast of amazing characters, from George III to George Washington, to soldiers and their families. (£20)

Command of the Ocean - N A M Rodger

"A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815." Describes the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. (£12.99)

Caliban Shore - Stephen Taylor

"The Tale of the Grosvenor Castaways." Story of a famous eighteenth-century shipwreck on the Wild Coast of Africa, and what happened to the survivors. (£8.99)

England Expects - Adam Nicholson

"The Making of an English Hero." Trafalgar gripped the 19th-century imagination as a moment of transcendent fulfilment and unmatched despair. It finished the global ambitions of a European tyrant but culminated in the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson, the greatest hero of the era. (£20)

Skeletons in the Zahara - Dean King

A gripping story of survival in the 19th century Sahara. When the US brig Commerce was dashed against Mauritania's Cape Bojador in 1815, the ship's captain managed to lead all of his crew to safety. An extraordinary and desperate battle for survival followed. (£7.99)

Colossus - Niall Ferguson

The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. (£7.99)

Bloody Foreigners - Robert Winder
The story of immigration to Britain, from the Romans to asylum seekers. The 19th century brought huge numbers of Italians, Irish, Jews (from Russia and Poland mainly), Germans and Poles. (£8.99)

Greatest Churchill Speeches - Winston Churchill (double cassette, 2 hrs)(£10.99)

HUMOUR

World’s Worst - Mark Frauenfelder

Hilarious and all-true international round-up of the most appalling (and fascinating) people, places and things on Earth. (£6.99)

Guy Walks into a Bar - Michael Lewis (£5.95)

Sheep for Beginners - John K V Enuson (£5.99)

Va Dinci Cod - Adam Roberts (£6.99)

How to be Idle - Tom Hodgkinson

A guide to how to survive in our work-obsessed culture. (£7.99)

MBS

Secret History of Lucifer - Lynn Picknett

Presents the Devil as only a new incarnation of the old woodland deity Pan, and Lucifer as a personification of the Morning Star, the planet Venus and its goddess. 'He' was therefore originally 'she', and a divine representation of love, beauty and human warmth. (£16.99)

Rebound Rituals - Jennifer Worick

With 50 tried and true rituals, this handy book outlines everything you need to know to exorcise your ex. (£6.99)

MEDIA & MUSIC

British Hit Singles & Albums (£18.99)

Classic Movie Guide - Leonard Maltin (£12.99)

POETRY

Paradise Lost - John Milton, ill. Gustave Dore

Not what you usually get from Foulsham! For the Philip Pullman market, a "clarified" edition with Gustave Dore's 50 plates. (£14.99)

Other Ariel - Lynda K Bundtzen

Sylvia Plath's best-selling second collection 'Ariel', published posthumously in 1965, does not contain the ones Plath herself selected when she assembled her manuscript. Examines Plath's original typescript for 'Ariel' and compares it to the version that was published by Ted Hughes. (£9.99)

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew - Bernard Hare

Bernard Hare was on society’s margins, living on one of Leeds’ roughest estates, when he took under his wing a malnourished, illiterate 12-year-old called Urban and met the Shed Crew – an anarchic gang of homeless, glue-sniffing, joy-riding kids. (£14.99)

Little Angels - Phra P Pannapadipo
"The Real Life Stories of Thai Novice Monks." An account of disadvantaged Thai youths searching for happier lives by becoming Buddhist monks. (£6.99)

Chain of Command - Seymour M Hersh

The shocking inside account yet of what really led to the war in Iraq, that has outraged the Bush administration. (£7.99)

Herzl’s Nightmare: One Land, Two Peoples - Peter Rodgers

A concise, readable analysis of the history and current status of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author is a former Ambassador to Israel and an expert on the region. (£6.99)

Rubbish - Richard Girling
"A Chronicle of Waste." Rubbish is arguably Britain's most pressing environmental concern. (£7.99)

Likes of Us - Michael Collins
Examination of London's white working class. TV tie-in. (£7.99)

REFERENCE

Compact Oxford English Dictionary (3e.) (£14.99)

Climb the Property Ladder - Alvin Hall
Guide to winning the property game. (£4.99)

SCIENCE

Why the Toast Always Lands Butter Side Down - Richard Robinson (£7.99)

Why Things Break - Mark E Eberhart

Explores the fascinating question of what holds things together (for a while), what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives. (£8.99)

SPORT, CLIMBING, OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Because It’s There: The Life of George Mallory. - Dudley Green

Analysis of the puzzle as to whether Mallory was the first man to conquer Everest with many images of both Mallory and Everest that have not been featured in a mainstream title before. (£20)

23 Days in July - John Wilcockson

The inside story of the 2004 Tour de France and Lance Armstrong's record-breaking sixth victory. (£7.99)

Lance Armstrong, Tour de Force - Dan Coyle

Famous for his bravery in conquering cancer to become a champion again, cyclist Lance Armstrong rewrote the record books again in 2004 when he won the Tour de France for a sixth time. (£15.99)

Feet in the Clouds - Richard Askwith

"A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession." This is a portrait of one of the few sports to have remained implacably amateur, and utterly true to its roots - in which the whole point, indeed, is to run the ancient, wild landscape, and stay a hero within one's own valley. (£8.99)

Naked Mountain - Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner gives his personal account of the controversial ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1970. (£12.99)

Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston

The unforgettable survival story of the year - the day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's terrible accident, self-amputation, rescue and recovery. (£7.99)

TRAVEL

Pennine Way - Tony Hopkins

This year sees the 40th Anniversary of the Pennine Way. This is a large format, illustrated celebration of Britain's most famous long distance footpath. The background text provides the reader with information on landscape, flora, fauna, agriculture, rural life along the path and the history of the Pennine Way. (£16.99)

Himalaya - Michael Palin (£8.99)

Mammoth Book of Wild Journeys - (ed.) John E Lewis (£7.99)

Spanish Steps - Tim Moore

"One Man and His Ass." What happens when a rather silly man tries to walk all the way across a very large country, with a very large animal who doesn't really want to. (£7.99)

Findings - Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. Merges the best of travel and nature writing. (£6.99)

Cape Wrath - Bjorn Larsson

A sailing trip around the Celtic fringe coastline of Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern France and Spain. (£12)

A new Footprint Guide to India, and Rough Guide to South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland.

Stones of Venice - John Ruskin

Abridged reissue. (£12.99)

Children’s Recommendations

Ages 0-5yrs

Meg’s Mummy-Helen Nichol

Meg and Mog fly off to Egypt, and Mog has a little accident. Meg bandages him up and he's mistaken for a Mummy and put inside the pyramid. Time for Meg's magic to save them. (3+.yrs) £4.99

Blue Nose Island: Beachmoles and Bellvine - Mick Inkpen

Ploo decides to plant some bellvine outside his house and Dig goes to search for beachmole on Blue Nose Beach. "This is both dreamlike and sweetly funny (as always)" Guardian (3+yrs) £5.99

Stella To Earth - Simon Puttock

An engaging bedtime picture book illustrated by Philip Hopman. Dad says it's time for bed, but Stella has other ideas. She climbs into her spaceship and goes zooming through the galaxy in search of adventure. (2-5yrs.) £5.99

Dear Dragon - An Vrombaut

A beautifully illustrated story set in a familiar fairy tale background, with an unusually feisty princess and a lovable dragon who isn't half as dreadful as people say. (3+.yrs) £5.99

Ages 5-9yrs

How to give a Wedgie - Dave Borgenicht

Be the coolest kid on your block! Learn dozens of essential kidskillz including how to whistle with two fingers, boobytrap a room, pop a wheelie, and get the last word in argument every time. Step-by-step instructions and hilarious drawings show you how.(7-10yrs) £4.99

Measle and the Wrathmonk - Ian Oglivy

Magical adventure about an orphan called Measle who lives with his horrible guardian, Basil Tramplebone. Fun fiction with appeal for fans of Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket and Eoin Colfer. B/w illus. (8+yrs) £4.99.

Rainbow Magic: Summer the Holiday Fairy - Daisy Meadows

The Holiday Fairy must find the special shells , so everyone can enjoy themselves. Delightful illustrations inside an eye-catching foiled cover. (5-8yrs.) £4.99

Ages 9-12yrs

Lord Loss - Darren Shan

Grubbs Grady encounters Lord Loss and his evil minions for the first time and learns three things: the world is vicious, magic is possible and demons are real. But this is just the beginning. ( 9-13yrs) £12.99

Alpha Force : Fault Line - Chris Ryan

Eighth title in this riveting and action packed series from the ex-SAS hero. Alpha Force are caught in an earthquake during jungle training. Ideal reading for boys. (9-11yrs.) £4.99

Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean - Justin Somper

Combines vampires with pirates, about two recently orphaned twins. (10+.yrs ) £5.99

Teenage fiction

TWOC - Graham Joyce

Fast-paced, controversial and contemporary novel with appeal for teenage boys. Gritty story about Taking Without Consent £6.99

Drowned Wednesday - Garth Nix

Third title in the amazing, thrilling and often scary series, following Grim Tuesday. Arthur Pehaligon finds himself pitted against pirates, storms, explosions and a vast beast that eats everything it encounters £5.99

Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver

Wolf Brother carries you back thousands of years to the ancient darkness of the Forest: to a world steeped in magic and terror, a world in which trusting a friend means risking your life. This is the first title in a six part series entitled Chronicles Of Ancient Darkness. £5.99

FICTION

HARDBACK

Long Way Down - Nick Hornby

Can a slice of pizza can really see you through a long, dark night of the soul? Narrated in turn by a middle-aged woman, a mad adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and a rock star-cum-pizza delivery boy. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Zorro - Isabel Allende
A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

All Fun and Games until Someone Loses an Eye - Christopher Brookmyre

Intrigue, espionage, advanced technology, clinical violence - hoovering, it's the new Christopher Brookmyre novel. (£12.99)

Hide & Seek - Clare Sambrook

Captures with startling clarity the perspective of a confused nine-year-old. Debut novel compared to "Curious Incident" and "Lovely Bones". (£9.99)

PAPERBACK

Last Family in England - Matt Haig

Meet the Hunter family and their black labrador, Prince, an earnest young dog striving hard to live up to the tenets of the Labrador Pact (Remain Loyal to Your Human Masters, Serve and Protect Your Family at Any Cost). Mentored by an elderly labrador called Henry, Prince takes his responsibilities seriously. (£6.99)

Quarry - Damon Galgut

When one man murders another on a lonely road and takes his identity, he finds that as the town’s new minister he must bury his own victim. Parable of death and deception from Booker shortlisted author. (£7.99)

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.(£7.99)

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". (£7.99)

Society of Others - William Nicholson
A young man who has trouble getting out of bed in the morning decides to hitchhike round Europe and meets a friendly lorry-driver with an unusual interest in philosophy. Then things turn violent and Kafkaesque. First adult novel from the popular children’s writer. (£6.99)

Jim Giraffe - Daren King

Scott Spectrum is haunted by a ghost giraffe called Jim - who knows a lot more about sex than Scott does. From the author of "Boxy an Star".

Dublin - Edward Rutherfurd

Irish epic of the people of Ireland through the focal point of the island's capital city, from pre-Christian Ireland on through the centuries. From the author of 'Sarum'. (£7.99)

White and Red - Dorota Maslowska
Controversial and darkly comic Polish portrait of marginalized, fatalistic post-Communist youth - 'Trainspotting' meets 'Naked Lunch'. (£9.99)

Mysteries of Glass - Sue Gee
Set in the winter of 1860 when a young curate travels to a small hamlet outside Hereford to take up his first position. (£7.99)

98 Reasons for Being - Clare Dudman

Tale set in a 19th century asylum, imaginatively recreating the real stories behind Hoffman's enduringly popular children's fables, 'Shockheaded Peter'. (£7.99)

Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe

Daft and rip-roaring adventure on the high seas, involving Darwin and the Elephant Man among others. "You'd have to be dry, joyless and some kind of diseased parasite not to enjoy it," says an enthusiast. (£4.99)

Translator - Leila Aboulela
Orange longlisted novel from a Sudanese author about a young Sudanese widow who works as an Arabic translator in Aberdeen, grieving for her lost husband. Things change when she falls in love with Rae, a Scottish academic. (£8.99)

Croatian Nights - (ed) B. Radakovic

A Festival of Alternative Literature. A celebration of new fiction from exciting young talent from Britain and Croatia. This anthology brings together nine British authors whose stories are set in Croatia and the surrounding areas, and nine authors from Croatia, many appearing in translation for the first time. (£8.99)

Last Orders at Harrods - Michael Holman
The widowed owner of Harrods International Bar (and Nightspot) in Kibera, East Africa, can handle most things, but threatening letters from London lawyers challenging her use of her late father’s first name are beginning to overwhelm her. (£9.99)

Accident Waiting to Happen - Adrian White

Story of the relationship between a father and his step-son, after they are abandoned by his wife, in the tradition of Nick Hornby and Tony Parsons. (£6.99)

Swallows of Kabul - Yasmina Khadra

Novel about life under the Taliban: four people struggle to hold on to their humanity in a place where pleasure is a deadly sin and death has become a banality. (£6.99)

Noodle Maker - Ma Jian
Darkly funny novel about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China.Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre, from the author of "Red Dust". (£6.99)

Between Mountains - Maggie Helwig
Vivid war novel involving a war correspondent in Bosnia, a translator in Paris and the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague. (£7.99)

Bit on the Side - William Trevor

William Trevor's first collection of short stories since 2000, on the theme of love - adulterous, unspoken, even cruel. (£7.99)

Anthropology - Dan Rhodes

101 stories each 101 words long. (£4.99)

Treasured One - David Eddings
Second in the Elder Gods series from the popular fantasy writer. (£6.99)

Past Mortem - Ben Elton

Heart-stopping thriller and a killer comic romance. (£6.99)

Stranded - Val McDermid
From passion and revenge in St Petersburg to a bingo-hall tyrant trapped by masked intruders this collection of stories includes private eye Kate Brannigan and narrative voices, both female and male, from different continents and backgrounds. (£7.99)

Whiteout - Ken Follett

A dozen vials of a deadly virus go missing as a blizzard whips out of the north on Christmas Eve. (£6.99).

Tainted Blood - Arnaldur Indrioason
First in a new series of crime novels set in Iceland. A man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat with no clues except a cryptic note left on the photo and the photo of a grave. (£6.99)

Penguin Books’ 70th Birthday Promotion: 70 titles at £1.50 each, from Homer to Nick Hornby and including Marquez, Chomsky, Schama and Phinn.

Vintage War books promotion, £5.99 each:

Atonement - Ian McEwan

Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert

Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

Vintage Book of War Stories - (ed.) Sebastian Faulks

All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

World of Christopher Marlowe - David Riggs

The sensational life of Christopher Marlowe, poet, playwright, atheist and spy. (£12.99)

Shooting History - Jon Snow

Autobiography of one of the most committed newsmen of our time. (£7.99)

I Saw Ramallah - Mourid Barghouti
Meditation on the nature of exile by Palestine's leading poet. Translated by Ahdaf Soueif with an introduction by Edward Said. (£8.99)

Embroideries - Marjane Satrapi

From the author of 'Persepolis' another comic-strip autobiography with a gloriously entertaining and revealing look into the sex lives of Iranian women. (£12.99)

Farm - Richard Benson
A true story of one family and the English countryside - a warm, funny, moving and unsentimental portrait of life on a fifty-acre Yorkshire smallholding at the turn of a new century. (£15.99)

Scenes from a Smallholding - Charles Griffin

How Chas Griffin and his family set up and tried to run an organic smallholding, starting from scratch. (£6.99)

Hitchhiking to Heaven - Lionel Blue

Now in paperback, the full and frank autobiography of one of Britain's most prominent and popular religious figures, Rabbi Lionel Blue. (£8.99)

Cruel Mother - Sian Busby
"Motherhood, Madness and Infanticide after the Great War." In 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother, Beth, already a mother, gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth and eleven days later Beth drowned the surviving twins in a bath of cold water. She was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor. (£7.99)

Samira & Samir - Siba Shakib
Following Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep, this book tells the apparently true story story of a young Afghan girl brought up as a boy. (£7.99)

I’m a Teacher, Get Me Out of Here - Frances Gilbert

The unvarnished truth about teaching. In this astonishing memoir, candidly describing the remarkable way in which the author was trained to be a teacher, his terrifying first lesson and his even more frightening experiences in his first job at Truss Comprehensive, one of the worst schools in the country. (£6.99)

Tiger’s Child - Torey Hayden

The story of a gifted, troubled child and the teacher who refused to give up on her. Torey Hayden returns with this deeply moving sequel to her first book, 'One Child'. After seven years, Torey is reunited with Sheila, the disturbed 6-year-old she tried to rescue. (£5.99)

Reissues:

Devils of Loudun - Aldous Huxley

In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and successful seducer of women and priest of the parish of Loudun, was burnt at the stake. He had been found guilty of being in league with the devil and seducing an entire convent of nuns in what was the most sensational case of mass possession and sexual hysteria in history. . (£7.99)

Grey Eminence - Aldous Huxley
The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a monstrous paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield he would pass the night in prayer. His ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the Thirty Years War, with all its unspeakable horrors. (£7.99)

Railway Man - Eric Lomax

Reissue of this extraordinary story of torture and reconciliation by an ex-PoW of the Japanese as part of Vintage’s War promotion. (£5.99)

GARDENING

Beth Chatto's Woodland Garden

Now in paperback, a tour of her woodland garden, revealing a triumph of planting in dry shade. (£16.99)

Little History of British Gardening - Jenny Uglow

Lively potted history from grottoes and hahas to allotments. (£10)

HISTORY

Long Summer - Brian Fagan

"How Climate Changed Civilization." From the almost unimaginably hostile climate of the late Ice Age to the onset of the 'Little Ice Age' which began in 1315 and lasted half a millennium, this book tells the remarkable story of how human history has been influenced by the planet's ever-changing climate. (£9.99)

Tribes of Britain - David Miles

Who are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape. (£20)

Awful End of Prince William the Silent - Lisa Jardine

An account of the assassination in 1584 of Prince William of Orange, and the shockwaves it sent through an age. The first assassination of a head of state with a hand gun. (£12)

Jesuits - Jonathan Wright
The sprawling story of the most provocative and prodigious religious orders in Roman Catholic history. (£9.99)

White Gold - Giles Milton

The forgotten story of a million white Europeans snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa. (£7.99)

Forgotten Voices of the Second World War - Max Arthur

"The Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There." Paperback edition. (£7.99)

Voice of War - James Owen

The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought It. Drawn from the diaries and memories of soldiers and observers from every theatre of war and from every nation that was involved. (£7.99)

Great War for Civilisation - Robert Fisk

The Conquest of the Middle East. A first-person account of fifty years of bloodshed and tragedy in the area, from the Palestinian-Israeli bloodbath to the shock and awe of the recent war against Iraq. (£25)

Symbol of Courage - Max Arthur

A history of Britain's most famous medal, giving a narrative history from the Crimean War to the recent war in Afghanistan. (£9.99)

You Did What? - Bill Fawcett
Compilation of historical disasters, bad ideas, follies, and poor decisions, including the Trojan Horse, the construction of a community on Love Canal, the introduction of rabbits to Australia, and many more. (£7.99)

HUMOUR

Idler Issue 35 - War on Work

The Idler is a magazine that celebrates freedom, fun and the fine art of doing nothing. Each issue brings you a unique and varied collection of features, reviews, interviews, short stories, photography, cartoons, art - and lots and lots of humour. (£9.99)

Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade - Guy Browning
How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges. (£7.99)

Grumpy Old Men on Holiday

No matter where you go, there is always something to moan about. (£10)

LANGUAGE

The Stories of English - David Crystal

Entertaining history of the English language from the expert. (£8.99)

In Other Words - Christopher J Moore

Why do we say bete noir and not 'black beast', doppelganger and not 'double goer'? Gives insights into different cultures and languages by looking at the distinctive words they use. (£9.99)

MBS

Earth Path - StarHawk

From the earliest times, respecting our interdependent relationship with nature has been the first step toward spirituality. (£10.99)

Feel the Fear Guide to Lasting Love - Susan Jeffers
How to create a superb relationship for life. (£8.99)

Living Without Limits - Deepak Chopra & Wayne Dyer (CD, 48 mins) (£8.99)

Tales from the Tao - Solala Towler

Thought-provoking and inspirational stories from the Taoist masters, Chuang Tzu and Lao Tzu, illustrated with dramatic and evocative photographs which capture the essence of the principles of Tao. (£14.99)

NATURE

How to be a Bad Birdwatcher - Simon Barnes
Now in paperback, the entertaining guide to one of the simplest, cheapest and most rewarding pastimes around. (£7.99)

Trees of Britain and Northern Europe: a Photographic Guide

From Oxford University Press, a portable, simple to use, comprehensive identification guide with for each tree's family, origin, spread and distribution. (£25)

Easy Wildflower Guide

One of a new series that arranges them by colour for easy identification. (£12.99)

POLITICS $ CURRENT AFFAIRS

50 Facts That Should Change the World - Jessica Williams

A sharp wake-up call. Each fact is contextualised and considered, and we are shown exactly what is wrong - and how we can change it. (£6.99)

Food Inc - Peter Pringle

"Mendel to Monsanto - the Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest" (£8.99)

IOU - Noreena Hertz
The debt threat and why we must defuse it. (£7.99)

Gaia - Medicine for an Ailing Planet - James Lovelock

This book addresses and explores the challenges facing Gaia. (£15.99)

SPORT

Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack 2005 (£36)

Carr’s Dictionary of Extraordinary Cricketers (£6.99) (reissue)

TRAVEL

An assortment of AA Road Atlases of Britain 2006, from £9.99 to £14.99

Lonely Planet Guides to Britain, China, Poland and Sicily, Rough Guides to Brittany and Normandy, Italy, Cuba and Croatia and Sunflower Guides to Umbria & the Marches, Mallorca

Walking in the Cathar Region - Alan Mattingly (£12)

Way of St James Cyclists Route - John Higginson (£12)

Exotic Retreats - Julia Faiers

"Eco Resort Design from Barefoot Sophistication to Luxury Pad." All of the forty places featured tread lightly on the earth, give more to their local communities than they take and use architecture in a sustainable way. (£29.99)

Olive Harvest - Carol Drinkwater
Completes the Olive Trilogy. (£6.99)

GIFTS & NOVELTIES

More nonsense from Running Press

Scapegoat Mini-kit (£4.99)

Mini Mortar and Pestle for Home Remedies (£5.99)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

For Younger Readers

Read at Home Series from Oxford Children’s.

A brand new series for young beginner readers, carefully graded over four levels. They feature characters familiar from the Oxford Reading Tree school series. There is also a parents handbook with practical advice, games and activities. (3-5yrs)

What Now Cushie Butterfield - Colin McNaughton

From the author of the Preston Pig series comes this hilarious story of a questioning little cow. (0-4yrs)

For Older Children

The Star of Kazan- Eva Ibbotson

An Enchanting adventure story set in nineteenth century Vienna. An orphan xchild who dreams of her mother returning to her finds her dreams become an unexpected reality. Smarties Silver Award Winner. (9-11yrs)

The Beasts of Clawstone Castle - Eva Ibbotson

A new adventure fron this award winning author. Can two children and a gang of some of the maddest and funniest ghosts invented, foil an outrageous criminal plot. (9-11yrs)

For Teenagers

A Hat Full of Sky - Terry Pratchett

At last in paperback, the second novel about Tiffany and the Wee free Men, the toughest, rowdiest fairies ever.(12yrs+)

Sugar Rush - Julie Burchill

A larger than Life novel about the relationship between two girls, and life at their comprehensive school. (12yrs+)

Non Fiction

The Amazing Pop-up Stonehenge- Julian Richards

A unique guide to this famous site. Innovative pop-up technology shows how the stones were transported and erected and answers many intriguing questions.

Tennis School- Naia Bray-Moffatt

Published in association with the Wimbledon Junior Tennis Initiative. The instructions suit all abilities and are well illustrated with step-by-step photography.

Book of the week

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception- Eoin Colfer

A brand new Artemis Fowl novel. This time evil pixie Opal wants power over everyone, not just the fairy people. A fast and exciting plot laced with fabulous humour. "Wickedly Brilliant"- The Independent.( 9yrs+)

APRIL 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
Hilarious and deeply sinister story of dark secrets and dark forces, set around a luckless medium in an England that jumps at its own shadow, a country whose banal self-absorption is shot through by fear. (£13.99 at The Book Case)

44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall-Smith

Centres around the comings and goings at an address in Edinburgh with multiple-occupancy flats; going to be a TV series. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Minotaur - Barbara Vine
Sex, lies and secrets within an apparently respectable family, at a time when the sixties revolution hadn't quite reached rural England. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Flashman on the March - George Macdonald Fraser

Celebrated Victorian bounder, cad, and lecher, Sir Harry Flashman VC, returns to play his (reluctant) part in the Abyssinian War of 1868 in the long-awaited twelfth instalment of the Flashman Papers. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred - Carl-Johan Vallgren

Swedish bestseller being made into a Finnish film. Two prostitutes give birth one stormy night in 1813, one to a girl, the other to a deaf-mute deformed "monster". (£11.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2004. 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in Notting Hill during the Thatcher boom years. (£7.99)

Eve Green - Susan Fletcher

Winner of the Whitbread First Novel award. A suddenly orphaned young girl moves in with her grandparents in rural Wales, where mysteries are to be solved. (£7.99)

Fitzgerald’s Wood - David Nwokedi

Coming-of-age story from an original new fiction voice: Fitzgerald lives in Wistful, about thirty minutes south of London. His uncle travels the British Isles in search of ghosts, his aunt is obsessed with primates and Fitzgerald, although happy at school and at home, has worrying concerns. (£10.99)

Family Way - Tony Parsons

Three couples discover that Mother Nature can be one hell of a bitch. (£6.99)

Dining on Stones - Iain Sinclair

Andrew Norton, poet, visionary and hack, is handed a mysterious package that sees him quit London and head out along the A13 on an as yet undefined quest. Holing up in a roadside hotel, unable to make sense of his search, he is haunted by ghosts: of the dead and the not-so dead; demanding wives and ex-wives; East End gangsters; even competing versions of himself. (£7.99)

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. (£6.99)

Zigzag Way - Anita Desai

An awkward young man follows his more confident girlfriend to Mexico - a haunting, magical novel with splashes of exuberant colour and darker violence. (£6.99)

In Another Light - Andrew Greig

An ambitious young Scotsman sets out for Penang in the 1930s. Seventy years later his son is recuperating on Orkney and begins to learn about a past scandal that rocked a small community. (£6.99)

Secret Purposes - David Baddiel
Novel about Nazi Germany and the plight of internees in wartime Britain. (£7.99)

Snow - Orhan Pamuk

Poet Ka returns from Germany for his mother’s funeral in Istanbul, and gets involved in tense elections near the Russian border, with feelings running high between the Islamist s and the Turkish police. Political thriller from the award-winning author of 'My Name is Red'. (£7.99)

Transgressions - Sarah Dunant

Genre-crossing thriller - alone in her Victorian house, Elizabeth Skorvecky’s only companions are her cat, a trashy crime novel she's translating from Czech, and her music. As the summer ends and the days draw in, unsettling things begin to happen. (£7.99)

Monday Mourning - Kathy Reichs

Three skeletons are found in the basement of a pizza parlour and Forensic Anthropologist Tempe Brennan is on the case. (£6.99)

Before the Frost - Henning Mankell
Kurt Wallander prepares for retirement and his daughter Linda prepares to join the Ystad police force. (£6.99)

R is for Richochet - Sue Grafton
Kinsey Millhone meets her match in this new mystery. (£6.99)

Trace - Patricia Cornwell

Against her own judgement, Dr Kate Scarpetta returns to Virginia on another case - but someone is trying to hurt those close to her. (£6.99)

Dragon’s Lair - Sharon Penman
Medieval mystery involving Richard Lionheart and his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine. (£7.99)

REISSUES

Hilary Mantel, £7.99 each:
Change of Climate
Fludd

Margaret Forster, £6.99 each:
Georgy Girl
Lady’s Maid
Mother’s Boys

TALKING BOOKS

Tristram Shandy - Laurence Sterne (4 CDs, read by John Moffatt, 5 hrs, Naxos)(£16.99)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk

The celebrated novelist Orhan Pamuk explores his idea of Istanbul, mingling personal memoir with cultural history to evoke his home of over fifty years. (£16.99)

Virginia Woolf - Julia Briggs (£25)

Anna of All the Russias - Elaine Feinstein

The life of Anna Akhmatova, the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millions. (£25)

Burned Alive - Souad

The true story of a young girl from the West bank, who survived an attempted honour killing, and a call to break the taboo of silence that surrounds this most brutal of practices. (£6.99)

Dance of 17 Lives - Mick Brown

"The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa." The author travelled to Dharamsala to meet a fourteen-year-old boy, the 17th Karmapa, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism and was drawn into the labyrinthine web of intrigue surrounding the boy's recognition and young life. (£8.99)

GARDENING

Gem Flowering Shrubs (£4.99)

Gem Garden Flowers (£4.99)

House Plant Expert 2 (£6.99)

HISTORY

I Never Knew That about England - Christopher Wynn
Entertaining miscellany of good stories and fascinating facts about England, taking us to each county to see where history happened. (£9.99)

Mammoth Book of King Arthur - Mike Ashley
Guide to the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it. (£9.99)

Dr Johnson’s Dictionary - Henry Hitchings

"The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World." One man. 42,773 entries. The story how Dr Johnson succeded in writing the first great English Dictionary. (£14.99)

1812 Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow - Adam Zamoyski

Bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and eventual retreat from Moscow. (£8.99)

Opium Wars - W Travis Hanes

"The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another." A complete history of one of the most important and bizarre clashes between East and West. (£8.99)

LITERATURE

Rough Guide to Shakespeare (£9.99)

Penguin Shakespeare relaunch (as used by the National Theatre) - £5.99 each

MIND BODY SPIRIT

Talisman - Graham Hancock

"Sacred Cities, Secret Faith." A new quest to reveal the workings of a hidden plan set in motion almost 2,000 years ago. Alternative history in the vein of 'The Da Vinci Code'. (£8.99)

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway - Susan Jeffers (CD)(£14.99)

POETRY

Life Mask - Jackie Kay
Poems about love, loss, secrets and mistaken identity, revealing the many ways people hide from each other and from themselves. Jackie Kay appeared at the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival in 2004. (£7.95)

Poetry Cure - (ed) Julia Darling
Poems to help people recovering from physical and mental illness. (£8.95)

Faber’s Poet to Poet series, £3.99 each - contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past:

Louise MacNeice - Michael Longley
A E Housman - Alan Hollinghurst
Ezra Pound - Thom Gunn.
W H Auden - John Fuller.

Rumi Collection - Jalaluddin Rumi
A comprehensive anthology of the great mystic poet, featuring the leading literary translations of his work. (£11.99)

POLITICS & SOCIETY

Unconquerable World - Jonathan Schell

"Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People." Shows that there is, and always has been, an alternative to war as a way of directing human society. Now in paperback. (£8.99)

Speaking of Empire & Resistance - Tariq Ali

The crisis in the Middle East, the war on terror, and the resurgent militarism of the American Empire. (£7.99)

What Should I Do if the Reverend Billy is in My Store? - Bill Talen

The spiritual leader of the Church of Stop Shopping takes his anti-consumerist sermon from the stage to the page. (£8.99)

How Walmart Is Destroying America (and The World) - Bill Quinn (£7.99)

Turning the Hiram Key - Robert Lomas

Describes the author’s personal journey through the mystical rituals of Freemasonry and reveals why people join Freemasonry, what they expect to find and how they benefit. (£16.99)

Freemasons - H Paul Jeffers
Explores the myths and realities of Freemasonry.(£9.99)

Feminism: a Very Short Introduction (£6.99)

REFERENCE

Pocket Oxford English Dictionary (10e) (£9.99)

Essential Atlas of the World (Dorling Kindersley) (£10.99)

Times Atlas of the World (£30)

TRAVEL & OUTDOORS

Bushcraft Survival - Ray Mears (£20)

Magic Spring - Richard Lewis

"My Year Learning to be English." City dweller Richard Lewis spent 12 months immersed in Merrie England and can now caper in a Morris square, play the hurdy-gurdy and dress convincingly as Coppin the horse. (£14.99)

Experimental Travel - Lonely Planet

Taps into the current interest in exploring different ways of seeing and behaving. This user-friendly, tongue-in-cheek manual includes practical experiments to follow. (£9.99)

Places In Between - Rory Stewart

Account of a death-defying walk through Afghanistan. (£8.99)

Sarong in My Backpack - Ayun Halliday

From drug-induced 'Apocalypse Now' re-enactments in Vietnam, trouble in the red light district in Amsterdam to an unexpected encounter on a camel in Pushkar, Ayun offers an armchair portal on the experience of the shoestring traveller. (£7.99)

Dancing at the Dead Sea - Alanna Mitchell

"Journey to the Heart of Environmental Crisis." Travel writing underpinned by scientific environmental questioning. (£8.99)

Amber Furs & Cockleshells - Anne Mustoe

"Bike Rides With Pilgrims and Merchants" - the Amber Route, the Sante Fe Trail and The Pilgrims Way - Santiago de Compostela. (£7.99)

Bollocks to Alton Towers - Jason Hazeley et al

A guide to great days out in Britain will cover 50 unusual places of interest that somehow encapsulate everything that's great about Britain, even if they sound dreadful, dull, cheap or grim: they are actually worth a trip because they are so unique. (£12.99)

Pocket Good Guide to Motorway Breaks - (ed.) Alisdair Aird

Useful guide to good places to eat, drink, stay and visit, all easily accessible from motorways and main A-roads. (£5.99)

Good Guide to Dog Friendly Pubs, Hotels & B&Bs 2005 - (ed) Alistair Aird (£9.99)

Pubs & Inns of England & Wales: Special Places to Stay - Alastair Sawday (£13.99)

Lonely Planet Guides to Australia & New Zealand (Shoestring), Naples & the Amalfi, Turkey, Rough Guides to Sicily and the Lake District, Sunflower Guide to the Basque Country and a new Time Out Guide to Barcelona

Mediterranean Cafe Music (CD)(£11.99)

GIFTS AND NOVELTIES

Body Art
Mini Zen Calligraphy Board
Cat Butts
Chakras
(£4.99-£5.99 each)

Children’s Fiction

Tadpole’s Promise - Jeanne Willis

Tadpole loves his rainbow friend, the caterpillar, and she loves everything about him. The seasons pass and he matures. He sits on his lily pad one day digesting a butterfly and wonders what ever happened to his friend. Readership level: 0-5yrs. (£5.99)

Funnybones: Dinosaur Dreams and Bumps In The Night - Allan Ahlberg

Two new Puffin editions of these hugely popular titles. Entertaining stories of big skeleton, little skeleton and the dog skeleton. Readership level: 3-6yrs. £(4.99)

The Other Ark - Lynley Dodd

The fabulously fun new twist on the story of Noah and his ark. Here is the tale of the unusual animals that had to go on the second ark with Noah's friend Sam, like the kangaroosters and the flapdoodles. Readership level: 3-7yrs.(£9.99)

Tell Me About:Quentin Blake - Chris Powling

Quentin Blake is undoubtedly a huge figure in children's literature and one whom inspires much loyalty and love. His work will always be remembered in Roald Dahl's classic story books. Readership level: 5+.(£4.99)

One More Sheep - Mij Kelly

Sam has ten sheep, and he has to be sure, that he's fetched them all in, from the wild windy moor. To do this, Sam has to count them... but everyone knows counting sheep tires you out and sends you to sleep! Readership level: 7-9yrs.( £5.99)

Corby Flood - Paul Stewart

Join Corby Flood as she sails the Seven Seas Dodge the custard pies at the halfway-there ceremony. And discover the secret of the thing in the crate. Readership level: 7-9yrs (£8.99)

Thora - Gillian Johnson

It is time for Thora, half-mermaid, half-human to leave the sea and join the rest of us on dry land. This determined little girl does her best to settle down in the town but not everyone wants her to. Readership level: 9-11yrs.(£4.99)

Goosebumps: The Girl Who Cried Monster - R.L. Stine

Lucy likes to tell monster stories, she's told so many her family and friends are sick of it. Then one day, Lucy sees a real monster but nobody will believe her. And it's coming for Lucy next. Readership level: 9-11yrs (£3.99)

Ark Angel - Antony Horowitz

This explosive sequel to Scorpia finds Alex Rider in his last mission, fighting the criminal organisation, Scorpia, where it appears he may have finally met his match. Readership level: 10+. (6.99)

Dark Ground - Gillian Cross

The first book in the amazing trilogy from the author of }Demon Headmaster{. Robert is alone in a strange jungle, with no food, shelter or warmth. This is his story of survival and a perilous journey home. Readership level: 11+.(£5.99)

Brilliance Of The Moon - Lian Hearn

The third novel in the outstanding Tales Of The Otori trilogy. Set in the ancient and magical Oriental world, this is a stunning and timeless story that captures the imagination. Readership level: 12+(£6.99)

All About Rachel:Bras & Broomsticks - Sarah Mlynowski

Rachel is funny, accident prone and sister to a witch. This is hilarious high school fiction, mixing snogging and spells. Readership level: 12+.(£5.99)

Circle Of Magic: Magic In The Weaving and Power In The Storm - Tamora Pierce

The first and second book in a brilliant new fantasy quartet. Four talented misfits are gathered in a time of magic and adventure. 11+ (£4.99)

100 Things you should know about Vikings - Fiona Macdonald

Detailed artwork from cover to cover to accompany the projects, quizzes and 100 facts in this child friendly format. Readership level: 6-9yrs. (£4.99)

FICTION

HARDBACK

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
His first novel in five years. Three children are brought up at an idyllic and sheltered establishment in the English countryside. Years later they face the truth about their childhoods and their future. (£13.99 at The Book Case)

Forest of the Pygmies - Isabel Allende
A magical novel of adventure and discovery. Completes the trilogy of novels about the totemic spirits Jaguar and Eagle. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers
Collects the best of the editor of McSweeney's recent (long) short fiction. (£10.99 at The Book Case)

26A - Diana Evans
Funny and moving first novel, part fairytale and part nightmare. "It is for anyone who has had a childhood, and anyone who knows what it is like to lose one." (£10.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
Six interlocking lives and one amazing adventure, circling the globe and lasting centuries. Booker shortlisted and Richard & Judy choice. (£7.99)

Kingdom of the Golden Dragon - Isabel Allende
A magical novel of adventure and discovery - the sequel to 'City of the Beasts'. (£7.99)

Sick Notes - Gwendoline Riley
Returning to Manchester, her broken home, Esther moves back to the flat she used to share with her best friend Donna. Surrounded by empty gin bottles, with her past life safely taped up in stacked cardboard boxes, she proceeds to turn her back on the 'real world'. From the author of 'Cold Water'. (£6.99)

Collected Stories - Carol Shields
For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one paperback volume. (£9.99

Jigs and Reels - Joanne Harris
Twenty-two short stories on the theme of dancing from the author of "Chocolat". (£6.99)

Secrets She Keeps - Helen Cross
A story about greed, beauty, love and loneliness in the 21st century by the author of 'My Summer of Love'. (£9.99)

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies - Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe is now married, but there is trouble with a bicycle, Mma Makutsi and one of the apprentices ... Latest in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series set in Botswana. (£6.99)

Bad Mother’s Handbook - Kate Long
Bestselling story of one year in the lives of three generations of women, none of whom can quite believe how things have turned out. (£7.99)

Ice Road - Gillian Slovo
An epic story of struggle and betrayal set in the Leningrad of the 1930s, 'Ice Road' is a compelling story about ordinary people - caught up in the web of history. (£7.99)

Big If - Mark Costello
The story of five people - bodyguards and football dads and campaign-hungry mums - and their daily struggles. (£7.99)

My Nine Lives - Ruth Jhabvala
Explores a woman's nine possible destinies and carries subtle, autobiographical resonances. (£7.99)

Snobs - Julian Fellowes
Comic novel about life in the upper echelons from the Oscar-winning author of 'Gosford Park'. (£6.99)

Venus as a Boy - Luke Sutherland
From Ronaldsay among the singing seals and ancient ruins to a room in Soho where a man is turning gold: a story about the power of love. (£6.99)

Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
An apprentice tattooist from Morecambe sets up in business in the USA. Booker-shortlisted. (£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".(£5.99)

GB84 - David Peace
Fictional documentation of the year of the miners’ strike from one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2003. (£7.99)

The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters - Elisabeth Robinson
First novel involving a pair of sisters who love and hate each other, a family clinging to the edge and the insecurity of Hollywood. (£6.99)

Republic of Trees - Sam Taylor
Dark first novel about English children who set up a utopian commune in the French countryside. (£10.99)

Vibrator - Mari Akasaka
Part dirty realism, part fairy tale, and a disturbing and highly original road trip between two very unlikely companions. The English-language debut. (£9.99)

Pieces for the Left Hand - Robert J Lennon
A stream of a hundred anecdotes, set in a small American town, at once funny, bizarre, familiar and disturbing. (£10)

Field Study - Rachel Seiffert
Stories exploring guilt, love and sacrifice from the Scottish seashore to post-communist eastern Europe. (£6.99)

Doctored Evidence - Donna Leon
When the body of an wealthy elderly woman is found, brutally murdered in her Venetian flat, it is soon clear to the police that the prime suspect is her Rumanian maid, who has disappeared and is heading for Rumania. (£6.99)

Ring - Koji Suzuki
The Japanese horror story that inspired both the films. (£6.99)

Torment of Others - Val McDermid
Psychological thriller featuring Tony Hill, hero of 'The Wire in the Blood'. (£6.99)

Penguin Lost - Audrey Kurkov
Sequel to 'Death and the Penguin': we join Viktor for his brief stay in and escape from Antarctica to discover that, characteristically, he has fallen on his feet. (£6.99)

REISSUES:

Girl in Winter - Philip Larkin (£7.99)

Jill - Philip Larkin (£7.99)

Kipps - H G Wells (£8.99)

War of the Worlds - H G Wells (£6.99)

NON-FICTION

ART & ARCHITECTURE

Mother Stone: the vitality of modern British sculpture - Anne Middleton Wagner

A new look at the first generation of British modernists, centred around Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Jacob Epstein. Why were they so preoccupied with representations of pregnant women and the mother and child? (£30)

Manchester - Clare Hartwell

One of the updated Pevsner Buildings of England series. Look out for Leeds, imminent. (£9.99)

BIOGRAPHY

All of these People - Fergal Keane

Award-winning journalist Fergal Keane addresses his experience of wars of different kinds, some very public and others acutely personal. (£20)

Smoking Diaries - Simon Gray

When he turned sixty-five, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep this diary account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. (£7.99)

Gielgud’s Letters - John Gielgud

John Gielgud wrote letters almost every day of his adult life, and the recipients treasured them. The problem for the editors was selection! Full of entertaining inside information and gossip. (£9.99)

Swimming with my Father - Tim Jeal

Portrait of childhood with an eccentric English father. (£7.99)

In the Footsteps of Churchill - Richard Holmes (£20)

GARDENING & SMALLHOLDING

Complete Gardener - Monty Don

Practical advice from a committed organic gardener, illustrated with beautiful photographs taken in his own garden. (£14.99)

Gardens of England and Wales Open 2005 - National Gardens Scheme

The Yellow Book. (£7.99)

No Work Garden - Bob Flowerdew

Bargain book on of labour saving tips for all parts of the garden. (£4.99)

Complete How To Be a Gardener - Alan Titchmarsh (£20)

Beth Chatto’s Damp Garden (£25)

Revised, updated and illustrated edition of this locally-relevant gardening classic.

Real Good Life - Soil Association

A guide to self-sufficiency for anyone who has ever dreamed of leading a more organic lifestyle. Foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. (£15.99

RHS Learn to Garden

A complete introduction to gardening from the Royal Horticultural Society and Dorling Kindersley. (£18.99)

EDUCATION

Mind Maps for Kids - Tony Buzan (£12.99)

"Max Your Memory and Concentration." Shows kids how easy it is to become the master of their memories and succeed at school with his unique combination of learning tools.

Exam Busting Tips (£2.99)

HISTORY

Europe’s Inner Demons - Norman Cohn

Reissue of this classic book on the subject of witchcraft.

Witches, Druids and King Arthur - Ronald Hutton

The making of myths and alternative histories, paganism new and old, ritual nudity and the inklings and the gods. (£9.99)

Iceland Saga - Magnus Magnusson
The story of a remarkable country, and the remarkable literature it produced in medieval times - the Icelandic sagas. (£12.99)

Crusades - Mike Paine (£9.99)

The Knights Templar - John Young

"The Ancient Secrets Hidden in Stonehenge, Rennes-le-Chateau and Santiago De Compostela." (£9.99)

Stripping of the Altars - Eamonn Duffy

"Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580". Prize-winning classic on the events leading up the Reformation in England. (£15.99)

The Last Samurai - Mark Ravina

Now in paperback, 'The Last Samurai' provides a glimpse into Japanese feudal society and the customs, traditions, and fighting spirit of the samurai. (£11.99)

Underclass - a History of the Excluded, 1880-2000 - John Welshman

Shows there have always been concerns about an "underclass" from the "social residuum" of the 1880s through the "problem family" of the 1950s and the "cycle of deprivation" of the 1970s. (£25)

Easter Rising - Tim Pat Coogan

An account of the events, personalities and repercussions of the Irish rebellion. (£7.99)

The Somme - Robin Prior & Trevor Wilson

Major new analysis of what went wrong and who was reponsible. (£19.95)

Tommy - Richard Holmes

"The British Soldier on the Western Front." The first history of World War I to place centre-stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, and tell the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it. (£8.99)

Escape from England - Gunther Pluschow

The only German to escape from mainland Britain in either World War tells the story of how he escaped from the German colony of Tsingtao in WWI, was captured at Gibraltar but escaped his POW camp in England. (£10.95)

Germany: Jekyll and Hyde - Sebastian Haffner

From the author of "Defying Hitler", an eyewitness analysis of Nazi Germany. (£16.95)

HUMOUR

Grumpy Old Women - Judith Holder

TV tie-in with quotes from the women featured in the series, including Germaine Greer, Jenny Eclair, Ann Widdecombe, Janet Street Porter, Kathryn Flett and Jilly Cooper. (£9.99)

Up and Down in the Dales - Gervase Phinn

The fourth volume in the bestselling Dales series - out in paperback. (£7.99)

Book of Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley

Surreal ideas for all the little fluffy rabbits in this world who just don't want to live anymore. (£5.99)

More tiny novelties from Running Press (£3.50-£4.99):

Five Minute Mysteries,

Garden Proverbs,

Just the Two of Us (relationship guidance tips)

Paranoids’ Survival Kit

Wee Little Garden Gnome

Meditation Kit

Personal Apprentice

MBS

He’s Just Not That Into You - Greg Behrendt

The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys. A guide to interpreting men from the writers of 'Sex and the City'. Not just about eliminating the bad apples - it's also about holding onto the good ones! (£6.99)

End the Struggle and Dance with Life (CD, 3 hrs) - Susan Jeffers (£14.99)

MEDIA

Guardian International Film Guide 2005 - Daniel Rosenthal

International critics assess the latest movie industry developments and 700 new films from 90 countries across Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia. Also includes five 'Director of the Year' profiles, a Documentary Dossier, 60-page Guide to Film Festivals and World Box-Office Survey. (£18.99)

NATURAL HISTORY & PETS

Bill Oddie’s How to Watch Wildlife (£17.99)

Rocks and Minerals

From fossils to fool's gold, from Dorling Kindersley. (£7.99)

River - Philippa Forrester

The story of the making of a film about the otters who live by the river at the bottom of their garden, from TV presenter Philippa Forrester and her wildlife cameraman partner. (£7.99)

Cat Talk/Dog Talk - Susie Green

How to Be Your Pet's Best Friend. Shows you the world through your pet's eyes, leading to better communication and lasting friendship. (£12.99 each)

POETRY

Ted Hughes Reading His Poetry (double CD) (£12.99)

Classic Poems (double CD) (£12.99)

English Verse (Double CD. Read by Julian Glover and Isla Blair). (£12.99)

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats - T S Eliot (Double CD. Read by Sir John Gielgud and Irene Worth) (£12.99)

War Poems (Double CD. Read by Paul McGann and Regine Candler) (£12.99)

Rudyard Kipling (Double CD. Read by Boris Karloff, Edward Woodward and Sir Anthony Quayle) (£12.99)

T S Eliot Reads the Wasteland, Four Quartets and Other Poems (double CD) (£12.99)

POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS

Bone Woman - Clea Koff

"Among the Dead in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo." In 1966, Clea Koff, a 23 year old graduate student was sent to Rwanda by the UN to work with a small team exhuming victims of the genocide. The experience transformed her from an idealistic student to a war crimes veteran. (£8.99)

Free World - Timothy Garton Ash

Why we cannot, need not and must not choose between Europe and America. (£7.99)

Ghost Wars - Steve Coll

Exposed - the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fuelled Islamic militancy and gave rise to al-Qaeda. From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist. (£9.99)

Disarming Iraq - Hans Blix

The search for the Weapons of Mass Destruction. (£7.99)

Iraq War - John Keegan

The war against Saddam Hussein, described and analysed by a foremost military historian. (£8.99)

End of the Line - Charles Clover

Looks at the disastrous impact of overfishing, and how it will change your life. (£7.99)

More Equal Than Others - Alison Hills

Do Animals Have Rights? In deciding how we treat animals, we have to reflect not only on the value of animals, but also on fundamental issues about ourselves: on what it is to be human, and on the value of human life. (£7.99)

100 Myths About the Middle East - Fred Halliday

Debunks the most commonly miscontrued "facts" in all spheres. (£8.99)

Just Law - Helena Kennedy

A leading left-wing establishment figure challenges the government’s track record of undermining civil liberties. (£8.99)

Eve was Framed - Helena Kennedy

Updated classic on the British legal system and how it affects women. (£8.99)

TRAVEL & OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

Price of Water in Finisterre - Bodil Malmsten

Swedish poet, feminist and journalist Bodil Malmsten abandoned her native country at the age of 55 to settle in Finistere, where she wrote this celebratory meditation on "her bit of paradise" interspersed with outraged and thought-provoking observations on bank managers, racism, tulipomania, slugs, moles, Nordic socialism and French chic. (£12.99)

Secret Histories - Emma Larkin

"Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop." A journey through Burma in which George Orwell's vision of 'Nineteen Eighty-four' is an eerie reality. (£7.99)

Beauty Tips from Moosejaw - Will Ferguson

The author has spent the last three years criss-crossing Canada, by helicopter, canoe, sea-planes and underground. The story of a nation of individuals. (£12.99)

Jesus Weed - Gerald Taylor

The misadventures of a young man in search of the perfect high. In 1973, aged 17, Gerald Taylor left his New Zealand home for Thailand, and didn't return for four years. (£9.99)

Ant Egg Soup - Natacha du Pont de Bie

The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos. (£7.99)

New Lonely Planet Guides to Portugal and Spain, Rough Guides to France and Portugal, Sunflower Guides to Madeira and Tenerife.

Survival Guide - Rob Beattie

A splash-proof zip-up guide to staying safe in the great outdoors. (£9.99)

Pennine Way North, Central and South maps

Each map covers a section suitable for a comfortable week of walking. Includes day walks. Waterproof, with accommodation and service info. (£9.95 each)

AA: The Great Britain Road Atlas

A highly practical atlas with super clear road mapping of Britain. Each page is titled by its geographic location so that you can turn to the page you need more easily. Scale 4 miles to 1 inch (1:212,000). (£9.99)

FEBRUARY 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Saturday - Ian McEwan

One single day in February 2003. changes the life of a successful neurosurgeon, happily married, troubled by the state of the world and involved in a minor car accident with a small-time thug. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Runaway - Alice Munro

Three stories combined into one narrative about the power and betrayals, and twists, of love, about lost children, lost chances(£13.99 at The Book Case)

In the Miso Soup - Ryu Murakami

Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a tour of Tokyo’s nightlife for three successive evenings. Frank’s behaviour is so strange that Kenji begins to worry he may be the killer currently terrorising the city. (£10)

Luck - Joan Barfoot

"One woman is an ex-beauty queen, one is a recovering addict to virtue, and one is an artist. The man of the old house on the hill is Philip and he has died overnight." The three following days propel the women into circumstances they had never imagined. From the author of the classic "Gaining Ground". (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Boudica: Dreaming the Hound - Manda Scott

Continuing the popular series: Breaca now knows for certain that her lover, Caradoc, will never return to her. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Love Me - Garrison Keillor

From the author of Lake Wobegon Days (also now reissued) a new urban satire about the frustrations of a provincial novelist who hits the big-time - until writer’s block strikes. The author also gravel-voiced the recent psychedelic Honda "Can hate be good?" ad ... (£7.99)

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". (£7.99)

Daughters of Joy - Deepak Chopra

From the popular spiritual writer, "An Adventure of the Heart". A young writer is sent a message, disguised as a cryptic classified ad in the newspaper: 'Love has found you. Tell no one, just come'. (£9.99)

Nights of Rain & Stars - Maeve Binchy

Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. Trade paperback. (£10.99)

Brother & Sister - Joanna Trollope

Novel about who we are and where we come from. Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents. Now that they are both settled, with partners and children of their own, they are still close. (£6.99)

Be My Enemy - Christopher Brookmyre

A team-building weekend in the Highlands becomes unexpectedly challenging. Featuring Jack Parlabane from "Quite Ugly One Morning". (£6.99)

Old School - Tobias Wolff

The author of 'This Boy's Life'’s first novel. "Dead Poets’ Society" crossed with "Catcher in the Rye". (£7.99)

Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Adichie

Shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize: a haunting tale of a difficult adolescence in Nigeria. (£7.99)

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. (£6.99)

Beyond the Great Indoors - Ingvar Ambjornsen

A touching comedy of anxiety, everyday neurosis, cat rearing and male bonding. (£7.99)

Every Boy’s Got One - Meg Cabot

The maid-of-honour and best man instantly dislike each other but they are forced together. Told in diary form and in emails. (£6.99)

Eat, Drink and Be Married - Eve Makis

A blackly comic story of a Greek Cypriot family living on a council estate in 1980s Nottingham , told through a first generation teenager whose only source of support is her magical grandmother. (£6.99)

Dreaming the Bull - Manda Scott

Set in Iron-Age Britain and Imperial Rome, the second novel in the bestselling Boudica series. (£6.99)

REISSUES

By the Light of My Father’s Smile - Alice Walker

Reissue of sensual novel exploring the richness of female sexuality. (£6.99)

Way Forward is with a Broken Heart - Alice Walker

Stories about the breakdown of a marriage and life thereafter. (£7.99)

Haunted Hotel and the Dream Woman - Wilkie Collins (£6.99)

Siddartha - Hermann Hesse

A new translation of this classic novel of self-discovery. (£5.99)

Third Man & The Fallen Idol - Graham Greene (£6.99)

Our Man in Havana (£6.99)

Lake Wobegon Days - Garrison Keillor (£6.99)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Perdita - Sarah Gristwood

The rags-to-riches story of Mary Robinson, who started her career in a debtor's prison, yet rose to become mistress of George IV, and whose bestselling novels and diaries became a cause celebre in late 18th century England. Up for Richard & Judy. (£20)

Lincoln - Thomas Keneally (£7.99)

Bugatti Queen - Miranda Seymour

Account of a fascinating twentieth-century life: Helene Delangle, also known as Helle Nice, dancer, lover and record breaking racing driver. (£7.99)

Children’s House of Belsen - Hetty Verolme

Hetty Werkendam, oldest of three children of a Jewish family in Amsterdam, was 13 years old when in 1943 she was transported with her parents and brothers to the repatriation camp at Westerbork. From there the family was sent to Belsen. (£8.99)

The Longshoreman - Richard Shelton

A Life at the Water's Edge. follows the author from stream to river, from pond to lake and loch, from shore to deep sea, on a journey from childhood to an adulthood spent in boats in conditions fair and foul. (£8.99)

My Father’s Rifle: a childhood in Kurdistan - Hiner Saleem

A coming-of-age tale of a young boy growing up in war-torn Iraqi Kurdistan, moving from a vibrant village culture, through bombing and humiliation, a refugee camp in Iran and a brief spell as a freedom fighter to exile as a film-maker in support of his cause. (£10.99)

Anything We Love Can Be Saved - Alice Walker

From the author of 'The Color Purple', a collection of essays about her life and her activism. (£7.99)

Nature Cure - Richard Mabey

How the well-known nature writer’s love of the English countryside helped him defeat annihilating clinical depression. He describes how he found the courage to change his habitat, moved to Norfolk and fell in love. (£15.99)

GARDENING & RURAL

Organic Kitchen Garden - Juliet Roberts (Conran Octopus) (£20)

RHS Gardening Through the Year

Month-by-month guide to what to do when in the garden. New edition. (£19.99)

HDRA Encyclopaedia of Organic Gardening

New in paperback, the complete guide to natural and chemical-free gardening, essential for any organic enthusiast. Published in association with HDRA - Henry DoubleDay Research Association - Europe's largest organic organisation. (£18.99)

Gaia Book of Organic Gardening - Charlie Ryrie

Focuses on compost, pests, weeds and soil, designed for beginners as well as advanced gardeners who want to make chemicals a thing of the past. (£14.99)

Gourmet Gardener - Bob Flowerdew

Explains how to grow top-quality produce, with practical advice on hundreds of varieties, how to choose the right plant for your needs, how to improve performance and on preserving your produce. (£25)

HISTORY

A Brief History of the Human Race - Michael Cook

From Granta, a guide to the whole of human history over the last ten thousand years. (£9.99)

Prehistoric Stone Circles (£5.99)

Prehistoric Astronomy & Ritual (£5.99)

Boudicca, the Warrior Queen - M J Trow

Among the British, women could inherit land, rule whole areas, lead armies. Boudicca did all three, united other tribes under her and all but destroyed Rome's powerbase in the country. (£8.99)

Great Warbow - Robert Hardy

A vivid exploration of the bow and arrow as weapons of war, from before the Domesday Book, through Anglo-Saxon England, medieval Wales and Ireland, the Crusades, Bannockburn and the Wars of the Roses, until the time of the Tudors. (£25)

The Holy Grail - Giles Morgan

Charts the emergence of the story of the Grail and offers an insight into the cultural shift from Celtic paganism to the emergence and domination of Christianity in Western Europe. The Grail has come to symbolise the ultimate achievement in the modern mind. (£9.99)

Typhoid Mary - Anthony Bourdain

In 1906, at a prosperous Long Island summer home, a family falls ill and typhoid is diagnosed. When Dr George Soper is called in to find the source of the contagion, he notices that the household cook has gone missing. Follows Mary Mallon, the unwitting carrier of typhoid and cook, through the kitchens of early 20th-century New York. (£7.99)

Scouting for Boys - Robert Baden Powell

A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship. The original 1908 edition. (£7.99)

Burma Road - Donovan Webster

In 1941, with China under attack and her seaports cut off by the Imperial Japanese Army, 200,000 Chinese labourers cut a 700-mile overland route from south-western China to Burma, added by allied pilots who flew them supplies over the Himalayas. Then in 1942 Burma fell to Japan, and the road was severed. (£8.99)

Dresden - Frederick Taylor

The bombing of Dresden, 15th-16th February 1945. (£8.99)

1968 - Mark Kurlansky

"The Year that Rocked the World." Sex, drugs and rock and roll; the Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations, the Prague Spring, the Chicago convention, the anti-war movement and the Tet Offensive, the generation gap, the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union, and the birth of the women's movement. (£7.99)

HUMOUR

Little Book of Dylan

Discover your inner karma with everyone's favourite (Magic Roundabout) hippy. (£4.99)

Little Book of Dougal

Dougal of The Magic Roundabout reveals his love affair with sugar. (£4.99)

World’s Greatest E-mail Jokes - Jon Webster (£6.99)

Joy of Ex - Vicky Edwards

Don't Get Mad, Get Over It! (£4.99)

MBS

Wicca Almanac 2005

The Wicca Almanac returns again with another irreverent, useful, and eclectic approach to the next twelve months. Covers Spring Equinox 2005 - Spring Equinox 2006. (£6.99)

Self-Healing CD- Louise L Hay

A series of positive affirmations created and narrated by Louise L Hay. (£7.99)

POETRY, SHAKESPEARE & LANGUAGE

100 Poems of the British Islands - (ed.) James K Whittet

Anthology celebrating the hundreds of islands scattered off Britain's coast. (£7.99)

In the Colonie - Michael Rosen

The concluding volume of Rosen's autobiographical triptych, which includes the acclaimed 'Carrying the Elephant' and 'This is Not My Nose'. (£7.99)

Word Myths - David Wilton

Debunks the most persistently wrong word histories, and gives the real stories plus explaining why we are so keen to cling to the wrong versions. Part of a current flurry of popular etymology books. (£12.99)

Shakespearean Afterlives - John O’Connor

Ten Characters With a Life of Their Own. A cultural biography of Shakespeare's most famous characters. From Shylock to the Shrew, Richard the Third to Romeo, it charts the many and various existences that these characters have led outside the pages of the First Folio. (£8.99)

POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS

Torture & Truth - Mark Danner

The revelations of widespread torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib shocked the world. In this book, investigative journalist Mark Danner reveals how complicit the US government was (and remains) in allowing and condoning such abuse. (£9.99)

How Israel Lost - Richard Ben Cramer

A controversial look at the reasons behind Israel's growing international condemnation - and what it means both today and for the future. (£6.99)

Abu Ghraib - John Gray

The Politics of Torture. Thought-provoking essays examine the events and political fallout in a different light. (£7.99)

Shopped - Joanna Blythman

"The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets". (£8.99)

SCIENCE

Coincidence - Martin Plimmer

Tales of happenings of unbelievable coincidence. Is the phenomena of coincidence magic or maths? From the author of "King of the Castle" so should be entertaining. (£7.99)

TRAVEL

Caravan & Camping Holidays 2005 - FHG

Lists sites for England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

(£5.99)

Children Welcome 2005 (£7.99)

South Pennines & the Bronte Moors - Andrew Bibby

In association with the Ramblers' Association a new series of Wainwright-sized guides to areas newly opened up to walkers by the Right to Roam legislation. Colour photos and maps. (£7.99)

Plus in the same series:
Forest of Bowland with Pendle Hill - Andrew Bibby (£7.99)
The Pennine Divide: Walking the Moors Between Greater Manchester and Yorkshire - Andrew Bibby (£7.99)

Time Out London (£12.99)

Lonely Planet Guides to Europe, Eastern Europe, Istanbul, Morocco and Vietnam

Sunflower Guide to Corfu

GIFTS AND NOVELTIES

Beach in a Box

Little Box of Thanks

Casino in a Box

Smile: a Cheer Up Box

Get Well, Doctor’s Orders!

(£4.99 each)

JANUARY 2005

FICTION

HARDBACK

Is There Anything You Want - Margaret Forster

A diverse collection of women, all connected by the same hospital clinic in a small Northern town, live in the shadow of disease and its #scars - but they are all survivors. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami

Quest, and exploration of mythic and contemporary taboos. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Only Say the Word - Niall Williams

From the author of 'Four Letters of Love', a novel set in Ireland and America about the enduring nature of love. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Broker - John Grisham

A lame-duck President unexpectedly pardons a notorious Washington power-broker serving a long sentence. He assumes a new identity in Italy, but his enemies are queueing up to kill him. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Bad Dirt - Annie Proulx

Short stories about the tough characters set in the tough landscape of Wyoming. (£12.99)

Master - Colm Toibin

Novel about Henry James from the failure of his play ‘Guy Domville’ to ‘The Turn of the Screw’. (£6.99)

Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Latham

Urban American novel, spanning thirty years in the lives of two best friends, , their families and an entire neighbourhood. (£7.99)

Strangers - Taichi Yamada

A contemporary Japanese ghost story for all fans of 'The Ring' and 'Spirited Away'. Form an orderly queue, please. (£10)

Girl in the Green Glass Mirror - Elizabeth McGregor

Art dealer Catherine Sergeant, unexpectedly left by her husband, meets reclusive John Dolman, who lives alone in a beautiful Arts and Crafts house on the edge of Dorset woodland: they discover a mutual love of Victorian faerie artist Richard Dadd. (£6.99)

Men and Cartoons - Jonathan Lethem

Ironic, eerie and absurd short stories about men not growing up. (£10.99)

A Girl Could Stand Up - Leslie Marshall

A six-year-old girl is suddenly orphaned in the Tunnel of Love at the fairground. Two loving but undomesticated uncles take over. (£6.99)

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe - Will Self

Short stories: the title story is about two central London psychiatrists. (£7.99)

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. (£6.99)

Sorting Out Billy - Jo Brand
Darkly comic debut novel about a misbehaving man. (£6.99)

House of the Eagle - Duncan Sprott

First in the Ptolemies Quartet, an epic story of the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt. (£7.99)

A Ghost in the Machine - Caroline Graham

All men should have a hobby - but Dennis Brinkley’s hobby is killing machines. The village is worried and Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby is puzzled. (£6.99)

Taking - Dean Koontz

Terror and suspense as doomsday dawns. (£6.99)

The Magician's Death - Paul Doherty

Medieval murder mystery involving Roger Bacon, Philip IV of France, Edward I, Corfe Castle, Paris and the deaths of young women and French scholars. (£6.99)

REISSUES

Saga of Grettir the Strong

14th-century Icelandic saga about a powerful and turbulent outlaw and a very nasty ghost. (£8.99)

Storm - Daniel Defoe

Powerful depiction of the North Atlantic hurricane of 1703 - cows were thrown into trees, windmills were set ablaze by friction and 8000 people died. (£7.99)

Three Tales - Gustav Flaubert

‘A Simple Heart’, ‘The Legend of St Julian Hospitaller’ and ‘Herodias’. (£6.99)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

David Blunkett - Stephen Pollard (£20)

Villain - A Life of Don Whillans - Jim Perrin

Biography of one of the great climbers of the 20th century: also a hell-raiser, hence the title. (£18.99)

Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel Marquez

First volume of a planned trilogy from the award-winning author. (£7.99)

Spiral Staircase - Karen Armstrong

Memoir of spiritual exploration from the well-known religious commentator. (£8.99)

Baggage: My Childhood - Janet Street-Porter (£7.99)

My Life in Orange - Tim Guest

Memories of growing up in a Baghwan commune: funny and poignant. (£7.99)

Privilege of Youth - Dave Pelzer

Fourth in the series - the story of his High School years. (£6.99)

Mary Seacole: the Black Nightingale - Jane Robinson

The first full-length biography of a Jamaican woman celebrated for her contribution during the Crimean war and recently voted the greatest black Briton in history. (£12.99)

Rudolph Steiner - Richard Seddon (£10.99)

Henrietta’s Dream - Henrietta Spink

A mother’s struggle to achieve a better life for her two sons: the first born quadriplegic and the second autistic and hyperactive. (£7.99)

Mothers (Granta 88) - Ian Jack (£9.99)

HISTORY

Alexander the Great - Robin Lane Fox

Reissue of the classic account of the great warrior. (£12.99)

Medieval Travellers - Margaret Labarge

How and why the upper-class travelled in the medieval world. (£7.99)

The Holy Grail - Richard Barber

Traces the history of the stories surrounding this powerful symbol, beginning with Chretien de Troyes in the 12th century and ranging across much of western Europe and the near East. (£9.99)

The Hollow Crown - Miri Rubin

Brings to life the era immortalised by Shakespeare's history plays - a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war. (£25)

Company - John Micklethwait

History of Britain's most influential invention - from the East India Company to Enron. (£6.99)

The Civil War - Trevor Royle

The first complete general history of the English Civil War from its outbreak in 1639 to the last battle in 1659. Narrative history at its best, often derived from personal accounts. (£12.99)

Flesh in the Age of Reason - Roy Porter

‘The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul’. How our view of the body changed from Renaissance times to the 18th century and again in the age of Byron. (£9.99)

Frozen in Time - John Geiger

The fate of the Franklin Expedition (1845-48) which succumbed to the horrors of starvation, scurvy and cannibalism. (£8.99)

Colossus - Niall Ferguson

The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. (£7.99)

HUMOUR

Old Masters: Spot the Difference (£4.99)

Saucy Postcard Fun: Spot the Difference (£4.99)

Purple Ronnie’s Little Book of Chocolate (£2.99)

Purple Ronnie’s Little Book of Love (£2.99)

LITERATURE

Literary Occasions - V S Naipaul

Charts over 50 years’ inquiry into reading and writing. (£7.99)

On Literature - Umberto Eco

Essays ranging from Dante to the Communist Manifesto, and including Borges, Joyce, Wilde and Camporesi. (£17.99)

SCIENCE AND NATURE

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive - Jared Diamond

The cultures of Angkor Wat, the Mayans and Easter Island collapsed because of self-induced environmental crises. How, he asks, can we learn to be survivors? From the author of ‘Guns, Germs and Steel’. (£20)

Electric Universe - David Bodanis

How electricity began to transform the world in the eighteenth century. (£14.99)

Deep Simplicity - John Gribbin

"Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life." (£7.99)

The Pig Who Sang to the Moon - Jeffrey Masson

Farm animals and the complex emotions they feel - love, loyalty, friendship and sorrow. (£7.99)

Mammoth Book of Space Exploration and Disaster - Richard Lawrence (£7.99)

POETRY

Rumi: the Book of Love - Coleman Barks
Poems of ecstasy and longing (£7.99)

Poetry to Calm Your Soul (£10)
Poetry to Heal Your Blues (£10)
Poetry to Make You Smile (£10)
Poetry to Share Your Love (£10)

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Revolution Day - Rageh Omaar

‘The Human Story of the Battle for Iraq’ from the BBC News correspondent. (£7.99)

Who Runs This Place? - Anthony Sampson

Who holds power in 21st-century Britain and how do they use it? (£7.99)

TRAVEL

Through Siberia by Accident - Dervla Murphy

Holed up in Eastern Siberia due to injuries in a train accident, the popular travel writer tells of the vast and beautiful landscape and its people and also of the results of attempts to subdue it. (£18.99)

To the Baltic with Bob - Griff Rhys Jones

In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. Four long months of applied bickering followed. (£7.99)

Andalus - Jason Webster

Unlocking the secrets of Moorish Spain, from the author of ‘Duende’. (£7.99)

Dreaming of Iceland - Sally Magnusson

Memoir of her trip to Iceland with her father. (£8.99)

Rats - Robert Sullivan

An unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. "Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable." (£12)

Skating to Antarctica - Jenny Diski

A journey to the End of the World. (£7.99)

Embarrassment of Mangoes - Ann Vanderhoof

A two-year midlife interlude sailing a yacht through the Caribbean. (£7.99)

White Spider - Heinrich Harrer

Reissue of the classic account of the first ascent of the Eiger’s North Wall in 1938. (£9.99)

New Lonely Planet Guides to Andalucia, France and Prague and City Maps of Paris, Amsterdam, Prague, London and Bangkok,

Eyewitness Guides to London, Amsterdam, Florence & Tuscany, Paris and Prague

and a Rough Guide to Japan

AUDIOBOOKS

Mary Poppins - P L Travers

CD, four hours, read by Sophie Thompson. (£15.99)

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