2006's "FORTHCOMING BOOKS" LISTINGS

DECEMBER 2006

FICTION

HARDBACK

Fat - Rob Grant

A satire of our obsession with body image, of how the media makes us what we are. (£9.99)

PAPERBACK

Odin’s Island - Janne Teller
Sigbrit Holland is driving along a treacherous winter road when she has to slam on her brakes - an unusually short man - barely one metre tall - is frozen to the spot. Unable to leave him there, she takes him to the hospital and tries to forget about him. (£12.99)

Brown Owl’s Guide to Life - Kate Harrison

Shy, sweet-natured Lucy Collins is used to being pushed around, by her mother, her husband, her seven-year-old daughter and even Buster the cat. But her mother's premature death leaves Lucy an orphan at the age of thirty-five. (£6.99)

Daughters of the Grail - Elizabeth Chadwick
Thirteenth century France. Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene. But the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to destroy Bridget for using her healing talents and supernatural abilities... (£6.99)

At Risk - Patricia Cornwell

Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. (£6.99)

REISSUES

Virgin Blue - Tracy Chevalier (£6.99)

Mr Weston’s Good Wine - T F Powys

An unusual tale of the struggle between the forces of good and evil in a small Dorset village on one winter's evening when time stands still. (£7.99)

Our Friends from Frolix 8 - Philip K Dick (£6.99)

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens, ill. Arthur Rackham (£9.25)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature - Linda Lear

Reveals a strong, humorous and independent woman, whose art was timeless, and whose generosity left an indelible imprint on the countryside at a time when plunder was more popular than preservation. (£25.00)

FARMING

Teach Yourself Keeping Pigs - Tony York

Breeding pigs, meat production, or just enjoy the pleasure of their company, this guide will cover everything from the legalities, the basic equipment, picking breeds, understanding behaviour and how to breed or slaughter pigs, plus advice on daily maintenance of your animal, from feeding to cleaning. A guaranteed route to happy and healthy pigs. (£9.99)

HISTORY

The Gallic War - Julius Caesar, trans. Edwards (£5)

LIFESTYLE

The Complete Guide to Renovating and Improving Your Property - Liz Hodgkinson

Helps readers make the right decision about every aspect of property improvement - what is worth the effort and what will be a good investment. Informative and enjoyable, it provides expert advice arranging the finances, finding a good builder, project management and planning regulations. (£10.99)

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Price of Honour: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World - Jan Goodwin

Muslim women, symbols of honour for their men, speak out and take us into the volatile heartland of Islam, the world's fastest growing religion. The book recounts a wide range of telling, often horrific stories about the ways in which Muslim women are abused and oppressed by their menfolk, and shows how restrictions on women act as a barometer for measuring both the growth of fundamentalism and the Muslim regimes' willingness to appease extremists. (£7.99)

MBS

Keep Going: The Art of Perseverance - Joseph Marshall

From bestselling Native American writer, Joseph Marshall III an inspirational guide deeply rooted in Lakota spirituality. When a young man's father dies, he turns to his wise grandfather for comfort. He shares his perspective on life, the perseverance it requires and the pleasure and pain of the journey. (£9.99)

The Essential Dalai Lama: His Important Teachings - Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-'dzin-rgya-mtsho, ed. Rajiv Mehrotra

Brings together the Dalai Lama's writings on all sides of life from work to meditation, in his unique voice that applies the principles of ancient Buddhist thought to contemporary issues. (£7.99)

The Philosophy of Friendship - Mark Vernon

In this new accessible philosophy of friendship, Mark Vernon links the resources of the philosophical tradition with numerous illustrations from modern culture to ask what friendship is, how it relates to sex, work, politics and spirituality. (£9.99)

TRAVEL

Sorrows of the Moon - Iqbal Ahmed

Empire of the Mind - Iqbal Ahmed (£9.95 each)

In these two beautifully-produced, self-published little hardbacks, Iqbal Ahmed, himself from Kashmir, travels first around the streets of London, and then around England, observing what he sees and talking to the immigrants and natives he meets.

NOVEMBER 2006

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Chart Throb – Ben Elton
Chart Throb is the ultimate pop quest: ninety-five thousand hopefuls, three judges, just one winner. And that's Colin Simms, the genius behind the show. A savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
 
View From Castle Rock -  Alice Munro
This is memoir and family history turned into story, facts turned magically to fiction, in a narrative which winds together the past and the present, the actual and the imagined. (£13.99 at The Book Case)
 
Road – Cormac McCarthy
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
PAPERBACK
 
Winter Book - Tove Jansson
A collection of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century. (£6.99)
 
Good Women – Jane Stevenson
Three novellas, each featuring a formidable woman - a snobbish man is undone by a new young wife, and an ancient Aga; a housewife's mundane life is illuminated by the arrival of Ariel, an angel; a widow takes an elaborate horticultural revenge on her daughter-in-law.. (£7.99)
 
Christ The Lord Out Of Egypt - Anne Rice
A novel about the childhood of Jesus, based on ten years’ research  -  a child's eye view of Jewish life in those years of occupation, and the boy's growing awareness of his extraordinary powers. (£6.99)
 
Ludmila’s Broken English - DBC Pierre
A snakes and ladders world of liberal and conservative high jinks in this dark tale of desire, bullets, globalisation, and the full English breakfast. (£7.99)
 
On Dangerous Ground – Sue Cook
A gripping and dangerous voyage of discovery for a mother and daughter in Vietnam from  one of the UK's favourite television and radio broadcasters. (£6.99)
 
In Corner B  - Ezekiel Mphahlele
A collection of stories which deal with human relationships and attitudes under the oppressive regime in South Africa, showing that black life, through recourse to humour and a common humanity, constantly renews its own initiatives. (£9.99)
 
Sex Wars – Marge Piercy
Life is hard in post-Civil War New York, but change is in the air; immigrants are pouring into the city, bringing a new spirit in their wake. Among them is Freydeh, trying to raise enough money to bring her beloved family over to America from Russia. (£6.99)
 
Wild Ride Up The Cupboards – Ann Bauer
Edward is nearly four when he begins his slow, painful withdrawal from the world. For his parents, the transformation of their happy, intelligent firstborn into a sleepless feral stranger is a devastating blow. (£7.99)
 
S is for Silence – Sue Grafton
Kinsey is back - the nineteenth novel in Sue Grafton's popular alphabet series. In 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy who 35 years later wants closure. (£6.99)
 
Never Go Back - Robert Goddard         
A group of ex-comrades hold a reunion in the Scottish castle where they were guinea pigs in a psychological experiment many years before. They haven't seen each other since. But the convivial atmosphere on the journey north is quickly shattered by the
apparent suicide of one of their party. (£6.99)
 
REISSUES
 
Nina Bawden, £7.99 each:
Circles Of Deceit
Family Money
Ruffian On The Stair
 
Singling Out The Couples – Stella Duffy (£7.99)
 
Fairy Tales - Hans Anderson
A new translation from exuberant early works such as "The Tinderbox" and "The Emperor's New Clothes" through poignant masterpieces such as "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling," to more subversive later tales such as "The Ice maiden" and "The Wood Nymph." Luxurious edition with striking cover. (£12.99)
 
Lord Geoffrey’s Fancy – Alfred Duggan
Entertaining and convincing new take on the world of the thirteenth century - a world of knights and crusaders, of courtly love and chivalry. (£6.99)
 
Lady For Ransom - Alfred Duggan
Revolves around the life of a Norman mercenary in the service of the Byzantine Empire. The Emperor in Constantinople is hiring mercenaries to repel the infidel. (£6.99)
 
Couching At The Door – Wordsworth Tales Of Mystery/Supernatural (£2.99)
 
NON-FICTION
 
ANIMALS
 
Choosing & Keeping Chickens – Chris Graham (£12.99)
 
Dogs Best Friend – Jan Fennell
The Secrets that Make Good Dog Owners Great. (£7.99)
 
BIOGRAPHY
 
Mary Seacole – Jane Robinson
Mary Seacole, the charismatic black nurse, triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. The Times called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, Mammy. (£7.99)

Childhood Interrupted – Kathleen  O'Malley
 In 1950, Kathleen O'Malley and her two sisters were legally abducted from their mother and placed in an industrial school run by the Sisters of Mercy order of nuns, who also ran the notorious Magdalene Homes. (£6.99)  

Ugly - Constance Briscoe
Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. When she was thirteen, her mother simply moved out, leaving her daughter to fend for herself. The author practises as a barrister and in 1996 became a part time judge - one of the first black women to sit as judge in the UK. (£6.99)
 
Fred Dibnah: a Much-Loved Steeplejack – (ed.) Paul Donoghue, inc. CD
The life of Fred Dibnah and his love of steam traction engines, as well as his skills as a steeplejack, are presented in this remarkable publication packed with reminiscences and photographs. A CD is also included containing previously unreleased recordings of Fred's live stage show. (£19.95)

If You Fall: It's a New Beginning - Karen Darke
A few years ago, former Mytholmroyd resident and Calder High School pupil Karen Darke was on a rock-climbing expedition on sea cliffs in Scotland. She fell, and was paralysed. This is her story about coming to terms with her loss of movement from the chest down and regaining the will to live. Out of her disability comes strength to embrace, challenge and transform it into an opportunity to learn and grow - she has become an expert in motivational work with young people and her expeditions by handcycle, ski and kayak include a journey through the Himalayas and a 60 day trek across Japan. (£9.99)
 
CURRENT AFFAIRS
 
The Google Story - David A. Vise
The definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. (£7.99)
 
Guardian Year 2006 – (ed) Katherine Viner
The pick of the most important of the Guardian's news stories, commentaries, features, photography and cartoons from 2006. (£14.99)
 
Rough Guide to Ethical Living (£9.99)
 
World Guide - an alternative guide to the countries of the world - New Internationalist (£15)
 
FOOD
 
Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook – Jamie Oliver (£26)
 
The Cook's Pocket Bible: Every Culinary Rule of Thumb at Your Fingertips - Roni Jay (£7.99)
 
Use Your Loaf – Tony Hodgson
”Choosing Your Food with Care”. Since the Second World War we have allowed the production, distribution and retailing of our food to be taken over by ever bigger organizations, with government support. But over the last few years a quiet revolution has been taking place. The possibility of change is in our hands: every time we buy we are voting for impersonal gigantism or a more humane way of life. (£7.95)
 
GARDENING
 
How To Read An English Garden – Andrew Eburne
A beautifully illustrated guide to everything you see in a garden, what it means and how it came to be there. (£25)
 
Botanica’s Pocket Organic Gardening      
Simple techniques for harvesting and propagating are combined with exhaustive guides to vegetables, herbs, fruits and ornamental flowering plants. (£12.99)          
 
Mike McGrath’s Book Of Compost                    
Why compost is the answer to virtually every garden question. It explains why compost improves soil structure; why it provides the perfect amount of food for every plant; how it fights plant diseases more safely and effectively than any chemical fungicide; and how to make your own.(£6.99)

The Gardener's Pocket Bible: Every Gardening Rule of Thumb at Your Fingertips - Roni Jay (£7.99)
 
The Amazing Book of Mazes - Adrian Fisher
 Adrian Fisher is the world's leading maze designer, and here presents a comprehensive, fascinating and fun account of the history of the maze that has an equally strong interactive element. Hedge, turf, stone, water – it’s all here. (£16.95)

GIFTS AND NOVELTIES
 
Mini Penguin Kit (£5.99)
 
Wee Little Christmas Elf (£4.99)
 
The Best of "Girl"
For a teenage girl growing up in 1950s' Britain, "Girl" was essential reading. This facsimile edition includes Susan of St Brides: Nurse of the Year; Claudia of the Circus; Belle of the Ballet; The Chalet Hotel Mystery and Model Girls,  Mother Tells you How; What's Your Worry?; Adventure Corner and Girl Picture Gallery. (£16.99)
 
HISTORY
 
Face Of Britain – Robin McKie
“How Our Faces Reveal the History of Britain.” Written by the Observer's science editor, and a Channel 4 tie-in. (£20)
 
The Malleus Maleficarum – ed. and trans. P.G. Maxwell-Stuart
New edition of the infamous medieval treatise on prosecuting witches, with advice on torturing those who would not confess. The book was condemned by the church of the time. (£9.99)
 
Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire - Joanna Trollope (£8.99)
 
Suffering From Cheerfulness – (ed.) Malcolm Brown
“Poems and Parodies from The Wipers Times.” In February 1916, Captain FJ Roberts of the 12th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters produced the first edition of the trench newspaper, the Wipers Times. Often produced in hazardous conditions, at one point only 700 yards from the front line, the newspaper acted as the voice of the average British soldier, relaying his experience, grief and anger during the entire conflict. (£8.99)
 
HUMOUR, QUIZZES & PUZZLES
 
Reduced Shakespeare – Reed Martin
From  the brainboxes behind London's longest-ever running comedy, everything there is to know, including what there isn't. Oh, and all the plays are in there too. Yep, all of them. (£11.99)
 
Have I Got News For You – (ed.) Richard Wilson
For the first time ever discover the secret lyrics to the theme tune, try your hand at deciphering the Have I Got News For You coat of arms and find out what the people listed in the end credits actually do all day. (£9.99)
 
First Peel The Otter - John Henry Dixon
“Grim and Ghastly Recipes for the Gruesome Gourmand” - a volume of recipes of improbable concoctions. Readers can discover the taste of trousers and learn the skill of playing billiards with cheese. Cooking will never be quite the same again! (£6.99)
 
Demented – Jacky Fleming          
Have the inevitable signs of ageing taken you completely by surprise? This demented cartoon narrative is a must for the middle-aged but immature woman and her bewildered partner. For women of an (un)certain age everywhere - because We're Worth It! (£6.99)            
 
Shame About The Boat Race
A Guide to Rhyming Slang. (£5.99)
 
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit 2 – Steve Lowe (£10.99)
 
Wayne In A Manger – Gervase Phinn
A hilarious compilation of school Nativity play anecdotes, now in paperback. (£6.99)
 
Lost Art Of Travel – Vic Darkwood
A Handbook for the Modern Adventurer. Genuine travel advice from the classic age of travel writing: how to catch ducks by hand, the best technique for digging a well with a pointy stick, the secret of using one's trousers as a means of carrrying water, a foolproof method of avoiding the rush of an enraged animal and many more pearls of wisdom. (£9.99)
 
Out Of The Ordinary - Jon Ronson
”True Tales of Everyday Craziness.” A collection of his "Guardian" features on the ways in which people get themselves into wholly irrational bubbles, within which all manner of lunacy makes perfect sense. (£8.99)
 
Lost in Translation: Misadventures in English - Charlie Croker
Forgetting, for a moment, the fact that many nations speak our language better than we do, unintentional mistranslation is often hilarious and this book features hundreds of genuine, original and utterly ridiculous examples gathered from around the globe by the author and his intrepid team of researchers.(£9.99)
 
Mammoth Book Of Jokes (£7.99)
 
Quiz Master – Nick Holt
5,000 questions arranged in over 200 different quizzes - pot-luck selections and particular topics - with a quote or piece of trivia in each. (£5.99)
 
Prince Of Wales Highgate Quiz Book – Marcus Berkmann
Can you name the first six Blue Peter presenters? (A point for each). A quiz widely acknowledged as one of the best in London, if not the country. (£12.99)
 
Sunday Telegraph Cryptic Crosswords 13 (£4.99)
Sunday Telegraph Quick Crosswords 13 (£4.99)

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 

Beyond Words – John Humphrys                  
“How Language Reveals the Way We Live Now.” A sharp look at phrases and expressions in current use to expose the often hidden attitudes that lie behind them - from the schoolroom to the boardroom, from Westminster to the weather forecast. (£9.99)

The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Nick Hornby
The "how, and when, and why, and what of reading " - Nick Hornby explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, and sports-related exposes. (£16.99)

Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt - Nick Hornby
"Fourteen Months of Massively Witty Adventures in Reading Chronicled by the National Book Critics Circle Finalist" - continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he's been reading. I'm not sure if this is the same book as the above. This one's American. (£10)

MBS
 
Mon Docteur le Vin – Gaston Derys, ill. Raoul Dufy
First published in French in 1936, it extols the many joys and benefits of wine.  (£6.99)
 
Treat Your Knees - Jim Johnson (£7.99)
 
The PMS Handbook - Theresa Cheung (£7.99)
 
Encyclopedia Of Fantasy - People of the Light              
All the magical creatures that have inhabited the fantastical realm, from angels and elves to mermaids and sylphs. Explores the folklore and legends about each creature and presents a fascinating history for each one. (£9.99)
 
The Demon Hunter's Handbook: The Van Helsing Diaries (£14.99)
 
Beyond 9 to 5 - Sara Norgate
The psychology of time and differing attitudes to and perceptions of time all around the world. (£7.99)
 
Symbols & Their Meanings – Jack Tresidder
“The Illustrated Guide to More Than 1,000 Symbols - an Essential Reference Companion.” The encyclopedic guide to symbols from cultures around the world - their deeper meanings and their significance today. (£10.99)
 
MUSIC
 
America over the Water - Shirley Collins
The much-loved, honey-voiced Sussex singer tells the story of her journey, along with the song collector Alan Lomax, collecting folk song and music in the Southern States of America (1959-60). (£9.99)
 
POETRY AND PLAYS

Ted Hughes Selected Translations – ed.  Daniel Weissbort
A broad selection from his numerous translations, with unpublished material, and excerpts from essays and letters. The present volume selects from his versions from a wide variety of ancient texts - "The Tibetan Book of the Dead", "Aeschylus", "Euripides", "Ovid", "Seneca", "Racine" - and equally from a range of twentieth-century European poets and dramatists. (£20)
 
Circling The Square – Michael Hamburger (£7.95)
 
Beowulf -  Bilingual Edition (£9.99)
 
SCIENCE
 
Bang! The Complete History of the Universe - Brian May; Sir Patrick Moore; Chris Lintott
Rock legend and experienced amateur astronomer Brian May joins the legendary expert Sir Patrick Moore to tell the story of the Universe from the moment time and space came into existence at the Big Bang, through to the infinite future and the ultimate fate that awaits us. Illustrated. (£20)
 
Exploding Disk Cannons, Slimemobiles, and 31 Other Projects for Saturday Science - Neil A. Downie
Offbeat science experiments provide Saturday scientists of all ages with new ways to mess up the basement! From whacky motors to designer demolition; from the skidmobile to the human-body posture meter; from the rice-grain ski jump to laser light shows. Each experiment comes with historical background, a list of equipment, detailed instructions, and a full explanation of the science behind it. (£13.50)
 
Times Night Sky 2007 – Michael Hendrie (£5.99)
Times Night Sky 2007 & Starfinder Pack – Michael Hendrie (£8.99)
 
Stargazing 2007 – Heather Couper (£6.99)
 
The Single Helix: A Turn Around the World of Science - Steve Jones
A miscellany of a hundred easy pieces about science, bringing to life a vast diversity of subjects. Steve Jones sets out deliberately to explore subjects in which he is emphatically not an expert and as a result its author has been forced to make the complicated simple enough for even a biologist to understand. (£8.99)
 
Teaspoon & An Open Mind – Michael White
The Science of Doctor Who. (£8.99)
 
Moths That Drink Elephants’ Tears – Matt Walker
“ … And Other Zoological Curiosities” from a senior editor at New Scientist. (£9.99)
 
Why Pandas Do Handstands – Augustus Brown
“And Other Curious Truths About Animals.” Strange new, scientifically proven facts about the animal kingdom emerge seemingly every day. Here, gathered together in one book, are hundreds of the most fascinating and plainly bizarre things we have discovered about the non-human world. (£9.99)
 
Funny Weather – Kate Evans
Everything you didn't want to know about climate change but probably should find out. A full-length comic book by Britain's leading environmental cartoonist explaining the scientific principles behind climate change in a fun and accessible way. (£6.99)
 
TRAVEL
 
AA Big Road Atlas Europe 2007 (£11.99)
 
AA Big Easy Read France 2007 (£12.99)
 
Vegetarian Britain – Alex Bourke (£10.95)
 
A new Lonely Planet guide to Cuba and Rough Guide to Barcelona
 
Amazing Stories Of Survival – People Magazine
Tales of Hope, Heroism and Astounding Luck. People talk about their amazing survival stories: shark bites, lightning strikes, tidal waves, tornadoes, a mountain lion attack and many more stories. (£20)

CHILDREN’S BOOKS
 
Ages 0-5yrs
 
Penguin Small - Michael Inkpen
A classic story reissued here with a new jacket and giant fold out pages. The book tells the story of the last North Pole penguin who as it turns out was also the smallest penguin. Ages: 3+yrs. (£6.99)
 
Mr Large in Charge - Jill Murphy
The best-selling Large family are back in a charming new tale of family life. When Mrs Large goes back to bed poorly Mr Large has the children hoovering dusting and tidying. But Mrs Large's restful day isn't as restful as she'd hoped. Ages: 3+ yrs. (£5.99)
 
Ages 5-9yrs
 
Book of Trolls -Ingri Parin d'Aulair
Published by the New York Revuiew of Books. With their matchless talent as storytellers and illustrations the d'Aulaires bring the weird and wonderful world of Norse mythology to life . Ages: 6+ yrs (12.99)

Beowulf - Michael Morpurgo
In fifth-century Denmark, a murderous monster stalks the night, and only the great prince of the Geats has the strength and courage to defeat him. This work retells and illustrates Beowulf's terrifying quest to destroy Grendel, the foul fiend, a hideous sea-hag and a monstrous fire-dragon. The epic Anglo-Saxon legend is brilliantly recreated by an award-winning team. Ages: 7+. (£12.99)
 
Ages 9-11yrs
 
Island of Adventure, Castle of Adventure - Enid Blyton
Blyton's classic adventure titles repackaged for a new generation. Follow Philip, Dinah Lucy-Ann and Jack as they holiday in Cornwall. Ages: 8-11yrs.(4.99)

Teenage
 
Across the Wall - Garth Nix
A Tale Of The Abhorsen & Other Stories. A short story collection from Garth Nix which includes his award-winning title, plus a war story, a western, a traditional tale with a twist and an hilarious choose-your-own-adventure spoof. Ages: 12+ yrs.  (£12.99)

OCTOBER 2006

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Dream Angus - Alexander McCall Smith
The troubled alter-ego of Dream Angus, the Celtic God of Dreams searches for his true family in twentieth-century Scotland. Weaving together the tales of the Celtic god and the Scottish scientist, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams? (£10.99 at The Book Case)
 
Rumpole & the Reign Of Terror – John Mortimer
While defending a client for  routine theft Rumpole learns the new husband of a relative of theirs has been arrested on suspicion of terrorism.  (£16.99 at The Book Case)
 
Travels in the Scriptorium – Paul Auster
After 'The Brooklyn Follies', this book sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time. (£10.99)
 
Remainder - Tom McCarthy
Traumatised by an accident that involves something falling from the sky and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer, our hero spends his time and money obsessively reconstructing and re-enacting memories and situations from his past. (£9.99 at The Book Case)
 
Calligrapher's Night – Yasmine Ghata, trans. by Andrew Brown
Blending elements of magical realism with a vivid description of Turkey at a turning point in its history, this evocative debut novel is set in 1923. The young Rikkat is being brought up in the belief that her entire life will be the devoted to the art of calligraphy. That same year, Ataturk's republic breaks away from the venerable Islamic tradition and progressively abolishes the Arabic language and scripts in favour of a modified version of the Latin alphabet. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
 
Right Attitude To Rain - Alexander McCall Smith
The third in The Sunday Philosophy Club series starring amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel's niece, Cat, is still worshipped by Jamie, but Cat has a new and unsuitable love-interest. Meanwhile, Isabel's Texan cousins have arrived in Edinburgh. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
Naming Of The Dead – Ian Rankin
July 2005, and the G8 leaders have gathered in Scotland. The police are at full stretch. Detective Inspector John Rebus, however, has been sidelined, until the apparent suicide of an MP coincides with clues that a serial killer may be on the loose. (£15.99 at The Book Case)     
 
Afghan – Frederick Forsyth
A chilling story of modern terrorism from the grandmaster of international intrigue. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
 
Virago Book Of Ghost Stories – (ed) Richard Dalby
Unnerving anthology by some of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century. (£9.99 at The Book Case)
 
Unseen University Cut Out Book -Terry Pratchett
A Discworld cut-out book for adults - the essential accessory for the most dedicated of Pratchett fans. Enjoy the challenge of making all seven buildings and seeing the complete Unseen University literally unfold before your eyes. Simple tools, patience, and a good pot of glue are all that is required to create this masterpiece.  (£12.99 at The Book Case)
 
PAPERBACK
 
Shalimar The Clown – Salman 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. (£7.99)
 
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. (£7.99)
 
Darkness Of Wallis Simpson – Rose Tremain
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone - friend, foe or journalist - to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected. (£7.99)
 
Love & Other Near Death Experiences – Mil Millington
Funny, bittersweet story of second guesses and second chances, from the writer of 'The Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About'. (£6.99)
 
English Harem - Anthony McCarten
Supermarket checkout girl Tracy Pringle has a very lively imagination indeed. But nothing can prepare her for the new life that awaits her at the Taste of Persia restaurant, where she is flung headlong into a clash of cultures, languages, dinner plates, religions and a rather tricky domestic arrangement. (£7.99)
 
White Man Falling – Mike Stocks
A tale of domestic catastrophe, accidental crime-busting, deluded match-making and mystical absurdity set in a small town in South India. (£12.99)
 
The Sultan in Palermo - Tariq Ali
Fourth in the Islam Quartet set in medieval Palermo. (£7.99)
 
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. (£6.99)
 
The Book Doctor – Esther Cohen
Arlette Rosen earns her living helping strangers with their book ideas. Harbinger Singh, still in love with his ex-wife, wants to win her back, through writing a book. All he needs is help with the actual writing. This work offers a look at the troublesome process of bringing a book into the world. It is intended for struggling writers. (£8.99)
 
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 it fought again, right outside his office. (£6.99)

Blue - Maggie Gee
Stories of everyday life set against an intricately woven backdrop encompassing larger issues of poverty, race relations, and social prejudices. (£7.99)

Constitutional - Helen Simpson
One woman finds grief for her lost lover is assuaged by involvement in some carpentry repair work. Another grows increasingly angry as the grim reaper scythes through her circle, with farcical and tragic results. (£6.99)

Forest Of Thieves & The Magic Garden
An anthology of medieval Jain stories. (£14.99)
 
Tale Of Four Dervishes
A classic of early Urdu literature. (£9.99)
 
Fire Sale – Sara Paretsky
New VI Warshawski novel. (£6.99)
 
Crimson Blind & Other Ghost Stories (£2.99)
 
Bishop Of Hell & Other Stories (£2.99)
 
Mammoth Book Of Best New Horror Stories (£7.99)
 
REISSUES

Bright Day – J B Priestley
A special edition to mark 60 years since its first publication. It includes a biography of Priestley and a 'literary tour' of Bruddersford (the imaginary setting for the book based on Priestley's home town of Bradford.) (£14.99)
 
Such a Long Journey – Rohinton Mistry (£7.99)
Tales from Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry (£7.99)
 
Ship Of The Line – C S Forester (£7.99)
And all the other Hornblower books.
 
The Ship – C S Forester
Not Hornblower, but a recreation of life aboard a British warship in action during the Second World War, from the point of view of men with different tasks from the highest to the lowest – written before the outcome of the war was known. (£7.99)
 
Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
After 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun, but something is seriously wrong in 21st-century America. (£7.99)
 
NON FICTION
 
BIOGRAPHY

Helen of Troy, Goddess, Princess, Whore - Bettany Hughes
For close on three thousand years Helen of Troy has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. But, who was she? Focusing on the 'real' Helen - a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age - acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes reconstructs the context of life for this elusive pre-historic princess. Through the eyes of a young Mycenaean woman, Hughes examines the physical, historical and cultural traces that Helen has left on locations in Greece, North Africa and Asia Minor. (£8.99)

Pliny The Younger Complete Letters, trans. P G Walsh
Pliny's letters provide a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. They document politics, social life, religion, the educational system and the treatment of slaves, and include a vivid description of the eruption of Vesuvius. (£9.99)

Time Torn Man: A Life Of Thomas Hardy – Claire Tomalin
Thomas Hardy's life was extraordinary - this seminal biography covers his illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet. (£25)
 
Arthur Ransome & Captain Flint’s Trunk – Christina Hardyment
This new edition of the classic account of a voyage in search of Arthur Ransome will be welcomed by lovers of his books all over the world. Now, fully revised from a further twenty years of research.. (£12.99)
 
Auschwitz Report – Primo Levi
Levi's report on Auschwitz written immediately after his release. A fascinating insight into the writing of his classic book 'If This is A Man' as well as a grim reminder of the horrors of the concentration camps. (£9.99)
 
Said & Done - Roger McGough      
The extraordinary life story of 'the patron saint of poetry'. (£8.99)
 
And When Did You Last See Your Father – Blake Morrison
First published in 1993, this is an extraordinary portrait of family life, father-son relationships and bereavement. With a new afterword by the author. (£7.99)
 
Progressive Patriot – Billy Bragg
This book is Billy Bragg's passionate response to the events of 7 July 2005, when four bombs tore through a busy morning in London, killing 52 innocent people and injuring many more. A firm believer in toleration and diversity, he felt himself hemmed in by fascists on one side and religious fanatics on the other. (£17.99)
 
Richard by Kathryn - Kathryn Apanowicz
A tribute to Richard Whiteley, a self-effacing and charismatic man. (£17.99)

Another Hour on a Sunday Morning - Julia Scheeres
The story of two children growing up in fundamentalist Christian America: Sinners go to: Hell. Rightchuss go to: Heaven. The end is neer: Repent. This here is: Jesus Land. The youngsters find these signs along the side of a cornfield while out biking. (£6.99)
 
Married To A Bedouin M Van Geldermalsen
Speaking Arabic, understanding their customs, converting to Islam and giving birth to three children in their midst, Marguerite van Geldermalsen takes us to the heart of the almost forgotten Bedouin world. (£12.99)
 
CURRENT AFFAIRS
 
Great War For Civilisation – Robert Fisk
The Conquest of the Middle East. An account of 50 years of bloodshed and tragedy in the Middle East from one of our finest journalists. Assessing the situation up to the present day and reporting from the heart of a bombed-out Baghdad, he examines the factors leading up to the invasion of Iraq, and discusses possible outcomes of long-term involvement there. (£9.99)
 
Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine – Ilan Pappe
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. Yet one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of the Nakbah, as Palestinians call the catastrophe that befell them, is still a mystery today. (£14.99)
 
Being Arab – Samir Kassir
An essential book on the current crisis in Arab identity from one of the leading progressives in the Middle East. (£10.99)
 
365 Ways To Change The World - Michael Norton
How to make a difference... one day at a time. Most of the ideas are quite simple, can be done from home, and will not take much time. (£6.99)
 
FOOD & DRINK
 
Student Cookbook
200 Cheap and Easy Recipes for Food, Drinks and Snacks. A realistic cookbook, by students, for students, where the recipes (Sloppy Joe's, Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins) are accompanied by a gloriously eclectic collection of facts and trivia. (£6.95)
 
Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine – (ed) Barry C. Smith (£12.99)

Fish, Flesh and Good Red Herring - Alice Thomas Ellis
From the cooking methods of Ulysses to Victorian nursery fare, from Biblical food facts to modern food fads, Alice Thomas Ellis took delight in all things gastronomical, and generously seasoned her gallimaufry with anecdote and wit. (£8.99)

GARDENING
 
Biodynamic Sowing & Planting Calendar 2007 (£5.99)
 
Extraordinary Plant Qualities for Biodynamics -  Jochen Bockemuhl
An illustrated look at the characteristics of seven common plants - yarrow, chamomile, nettle, valerian, oak, dandelion and horsetail - and explores how they can be used in organic and biodynamic gardens. (£12.99)
 
Little Book Of Garden Villains – Allan  Shepherd
From the Centre for Alternative Technology, this book helps the starter gardener get to grips with the mighty garden pests that wage war on plants. (£4.99)
 
Curious Gardener’s Almanac – Jake Hastings
Celebrating the garden in all its splendid diversity and rich history: a collection of remarkable facts, curiosities, ancient wisdom and customs, tips, recipes, lists, quotations and ephemera. (£10)
 
GIFTS AND NOVELTIES
 
Kits from Running Press, £4.99-£5.99 each, include:
 
Art Of Tap Dancing         
Build Your Own Stonehenge                
Instant Respect
Whomp It
 
HISTORY
 
Homo Britannicus – Chris Stringer
“The Story of Life in Britain” from man's very first footsteps to the present day. Describes times when Britain was so tropical that man lived alongside hippos and sabre toothed tigers, times so cold we shared the land with mammoth and reindeer - and times colder still when we were forced to flee altogether. (£25)
 
Heirs Of The Prophet Muhammad – Barnaby Rogerson
The roots of the Sunni-Shia schism after Muhammad's death; the sequel to Rogerson's 'The Prophet Muhammad'. (£9.99)
 
Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 - Eamon Duffy
In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the "Book of Hours", unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used book of the later Middle Ages. He examines surviving copies of the personal prayer books which were used for private, domestic devotions, and in which people commonly left traces of their lives. (£19.99)

Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany - Lyndal Roper (£12.99)

Methodism: Empire of the Spirit - David Hempton
This lively history of the rise of Methodism charts the development of the movement from its unpromising origins in England in the 1730s to its major international importance by the 1880s. The book explores Methodism's phenomenal growth in the British Isles, America, and around the globe, and the complex reasons for its wide-ranging appeal. (£11.99)
 
Last Mughal – William Dalrymple
”The Eclipse of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857”. The last of the Great Mughals was Bahadur Shah Zafar II. One of the most talented, tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty, he found himself in the position of leader of a violent uprising he knew from the start would lead to irreparable carnage. (£25)

State Secrets - Behind the Scenes of the 20th Century - Chris Price Pomery
From the National Archives a glimpse behind the scenes of the twentieth century, presenting 80 stories of the 'news behind the news' on subjects from world war to political scandal to the royal teabags. (£7.99)
 
HUMOUR
 
Worst Case Scenario History Almanac
From the Big Bang to the 21st Century, no stone is left unturned in the search for the Worst Moments, ever... (£9.99)
 
Pistache – Sebastian Faulks
A collection of fanciful, satirical and surprising parodies, squibs and pastiches inspired by 'The Write Stuff' on Radio 4.            (£10.99)
 
I Have A Bream – John O'Farrell
The latest collection of hilarious Guardian columns.(£10.99)
 
Corgi & Bess – Thomas Blaikie
A second anthology of hilarious and touching royal anecdotes. (£9.99)
 
Penguin Of Death – Edward  Monkton
Things you need to know about 'The Penguin of Death': he is strangely attractive because of his enigmatic smile; he can kill you in any one of 412 different ways. (£5.99)

1000 Unforgettable Senior Moments – Tom  Friedman
A hilarious collection of the greatest mental lapses in history. (£6.99)
 
Hundred & One Uses Of A Dead Cat – Simon Bond
Reissued to celebrate its 25  anniversary. (£6.99)
 
Negative Affirmations – Steven Appleby
'In the garden of the spirit I am a noxious weed.' Let 'Negative Affirmations' help you shine a bright light into every nook and cranny of your pathetic psyche! (£6.99)
 
Colemanballs 13 - Private Eye
This year featuring special 2006 World Cup clangers! (£4.99)
 
Private Eye Annual 2006 – Ian Hislop (ed) (£9.99)
 
Bling Blogs & Bluetooth – Nick Parker
A Guide for Oldies. Are you a kipper? What is nang, for goodness' sake? Where the heck is the rhubarb triangle? Do you suffer from Affluenza? Are you (gasp) buff? What is a flash mob, a blog, and slow food?. (£7.99)
 
How Very Interesting – Paul Hamilton
The collected interviews and articles from the legendary, hilarious Peter Cook Appreciation Society Fanzine, 'Publish and Bedazzled'. (£9.99)
 
Return Of The Timewaster Letters – Robin Cooper (£6.99)
 
William McGonagall Collected Poems (ed. Colin Walker)
The execrable rhymes, the terrible scansion, the ludicrous subject matter - despite everything, William McGonagall remains one of Scotland's favourite poets. (£9.99)
 
Little Angels – Gervase Phinn
Little children are innately curious, open, innocent, spontaneous and honest - sometimes, it has to be said, they are a little too honest.(£6.99)
 
MBS
 
Do You Think What You Think You Think? - Julian Baggini
Is what you believe coherent and consistent? Or is it a jumble of contradictions? If you could design yourself a God, what would He (or She, or It) be like? Can you spot the logical flaw in an argument (even if it's hiding from you)? And how will you fare on the tricky terrain of ethics when your taboos are under the spotlight? (£7.99)

Mission: A Change Your Life Game
A series of 200 tasks, ranging from the conventional to the bizarre, challenges the reader to send their life in new directions. (£6.95)
 
Latin Spirit 365 Days: The Wisdom, Landscape and Peoples of Latin America - Olivier & Danielle Follmi (£24.95)
 
Pocket Prayers Deck – June Cotner
36 Praises and Graces for All Faiths. (£6.95)
 
Goddesses & Angels – Doreen Virtue (£9.99)
 
Fairy Find – Andrew Lanyon
At last, the proof that fairies do exist - and that we are merely their playthings. Charming, inventive and bonkers. (£9.99)
 
Great Silent Grandmother Gathering – Sharon Mehdi
A story for anyone who thinks she can't save the world. (£6.99)
 
Ultimate Fairies Handbook - Susannah Marriott
An illustrated exploration of fairy life, activities, legends and haunts. (£14.99)
 
Arthurian Tarot – Caitlin Matthews (£10.99)
 
MEDIA
 
Who’s Who In The Archers 2007 - Keri Davis (£4.99)
 
Halliwells Film Video & DVD Guide 2007 (£22.99)
 
Radio Times Guide to Films 2007 (£22.50)
 
Strictly Come Dancing (£14.99)

NATURE

Fencing Paradise The Uses and Abuses of Plants -Richard Mabey Price
In this remarkable journal of visits to Eden, Mabey transports his reader from Cornwall to the Mediterranean to the Tropics, from Old World to New, from present to personal memory, to new perspectives on our collective artistic and emotional past. Sensuous and evocative, exquisitely written and controversial in its views about what we mean by buzz words like 'renewable', or 'sustainable'. (£8.99)
 
POETRY
 
District & Circle – Seamus Heaney
Now in paperback, Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock/clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced 21st century. (£8.99)
 
We Brits – John Agard
In 'We Brits', the Guyanese-born word magician gives an outsider's inside view of British life in poems which both challenge and cherish our peculiar culture and hallowed institutions. (£7.95)
 
Speaking To The Heart – Wendy Beckett
”100 Favourite Poems.” Inspiration, comfort and joy from TV presenter Sister Wendy, for all life's highs and lows. (£9.99)
 
The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea – Mark Haddon
A first book of poetry from the author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. (£6.99)
 
REFERENCE
 
Pears Cyclopaedia 2006-2007 (£17.99)
 
Schott’s Almanac 2007 – Ben Schott (£16.99)
 
Meaning Of Tingo
“And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World.”. (£5.99)

Shaggy Dogs & Black Sheep
“The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day”. (£5.99)
 
SCIENCE
 
Global Warning – Paul Brown
”The Last Chance for Change.” An authoritative and visually stunning book,  with graphics and maps, hard-hitting text, and powerful pictures showing the plight the world is already facing. Paul Brown has been the Environment Correspondent of The Guardian for 16 years. (£19.95)
 
Why Don’t Penguins’ Feet Freeze? - New Scientist
”And 101 Other Questions”. the latest compilation of readers' answers to the questions in the 'Last Word' column of New Scientist. (£7.99)
 
Story Of God – Robert Winston
Examines the relationship between science and religion throughout time.  (£8.99)
 
God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
From the author of 'The Selfish Gene', a hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. (£20)
 
SOCIETY
 
Monty’s Project – Monty Don
Monty Don’s own experience of recovering from depression and maintaining his sanity through gardening led him to set up a project of working with a group of disaffected young people who had never been aware of the seasons and never eaten proper food - let alone grown or shared it with others. TV tie-in. (£14.99)
 
On Royalty – Jeremy Paxman
Entertaining study of the institution of monarchy by the controversial broadcasters, seeking to find out how the role of our head of state has changed over the years and how important the Royal Family is to our national identity. (£20.00)
 
Talk To The Hand – Lynne Truss
Sticklers unite! The queen of Zero Tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern manners... Now in paperback. (£6.99)
 
TRAVEL
 
Middle Of Nowhere - Lonely Planet
This armchair inspirational guide is designed to foster the spirit of exploration and travel. First-person accounts weave stories as much about journeys as the destinations. 120 colour photos. (£25.00)
 
Olive Route – Carol Drinkwater
”A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean.” Fourth volume in the bestselling olive series. (£18.99)
 
Meetings With Mountains – Stephen Venables
The world's most famous mountains and those who have conquered, visited and admired them. (£25)
 
Budapest: A Cultural and Literary History - Bob Dent (£12)

Flanders: A Cultural History - Andre de Vries (£12)

Collins Road Atlas Europe 2007 (£10.99)
 
Philips World Atlas (£16.99)
 
This Spectred Isle – Simon Marsden
”A Journey Through Haunted England.” (£12.99)
 
Good Pub Guide 2007 - Alisdair Aird (£14.99)
 
Britain Guide 2007 - Les Routiers
Eat, Drink and Sleep. A collection of the finest independently owned pubs, inns, small hotels, B&Bs, restaurants, cafes and teashops in Britain. (£12.99)
 
Which Good Food Guide 2007 (£16.99)
 
Places To Hide – Dixe Wills
A wide range of excellent hiding places in urban, rural, coastal and mountainous settings throughout Britain. Tips on concealment, total identity change and crouching, along with up-to-date informaion on local sources of food, water and camouflage netting.. (£9.99)
 
Barns Of The Dales – Andy Singleton
A beautifully illustrated book on Yorkshire Dales stone barns: their history, their preservation and how they can be sensitively restored. With a foreword from Bill Bryson. (£16.99)
 
A new Rough Guide to Thailand, and Lonely Planet City Guide to Paris.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Tiger - Nick Butterworth
Tiger is an adorable new toddler character from Nick Butterworth. This title is perfect for sharing as toddlers will love playing at being a tiger whilst the rhythmic rhyming story encourages their language skills. Ages: 0-3yrs. (£5.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

The Worst Witch Saves The Day - Jill Murphy
This is the fabulous fifth book featuring Mildred Hubble the much loved Worst Witch of Miss Cackle's Academy. It is a new term and Mildred is determined to not be the worst witch this year but as usual everything is against her. Ages: 7-10yrs. (£4.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Starring Tracy Beaker- Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson returns to one of her most successful creations with this new story about the inimitable Tracey Beaker. Age 9-12yrs (£12.99)

Series of Unfortunate Events: Book the Thirteenth - Lemony Snicket
Yes it is finally here - the final book in the baker's dozen of stories about the unfortunate Baudelaires. Will Count Olaf prevail? Will the children survive? Will the series end happily? Find out in the harrowing conclusion. Ages: 8+ yrs. (£6.99)

Teenage Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
The third tale in this gloriously inventive Discworld fantasy sequence about Tiffany Aching a young witch now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. This will be Terry Pratchett's only novel to be published this year. Ages 12+ yrs. (£14.99)

SEPTEMBER 2006

FICTION

HARDBACK

Moral Disorder – Margaret Atwood

Ten interrelated stories follow the central character through cities, suburbs, farms and northern forests in every decade from the 1930s to the present. (£13.99 at The Book Case)

Spot Of Bother - Mark Haddon
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely' – but family events intervene. A disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. From the author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Mission Song - John Le Carre
Bruno Salvador is the ever-innocent, 29-year-old orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headsman's daughter. Educated at mission school, he trains as a professional interpreter. See reissues below. (£16.99 at The Book Case)

Fall Of Troy – Peter Ackroyd
Set during the 19th century at the time that the Bronze Age site of Troy was being excavated and returning to the author’s favourite themes: fakes, forgeries and plagiarism. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
The story of three young women trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval and political uncertainty: Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Jane Boleyn. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Restless - William Boyd
What happens to your life when everything you thought you knew about your mother turns out to be an elaborate lie? (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Imperium - Robert Harris
In the setting of Ancient Rome this novel tells in vivid detail the story of Cicero's rise to power, from radical young lawyer to first citizen of Rome, competing with men such as Pompey, Caesar, Crassus and Cato. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

House Of Meetings - Martin Amis
A return to the author’s central preoccupation: the nature of masculinity, and the connections between male sexuality and violence. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Under Orders – Dick Francis
The first new Dick Francis thriller in five years. The starter's pistol isn't the only gunshot heard at Cheltenham on Gold Cup Day. Former champion jump-jockey Sid Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. (£16.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

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. A Richard and Judy title and Booker-shortlisted. (£7.99)

Explorers of the New Century - Magnus Mills

At the beginning of the century two teams of explorers are racing across a cold, windswept, deserted land to reach the furthest point from civilisation. It is, they find, 'an awfully long way'. One party take the western route, along a rocky scree, while the other men make their way along the dry riverbed in the east. (£7.99)

Secret River - Kate Grenville
Following a childhood marked by poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. (£7.99)

Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster
Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of an uncle and nephew double-act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and life in general. (£7.99)

Dancing In The Dark - Caryl Phillips
Based on the tragic life of a hero of American entertainment, Bert Williams. 'The funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew'. See Reissues below. (£7.99)

She May Not Leave – Fay Weldon
Be careful who you invite into the bosom of your home - she may never leave.... (£7.99)

Purity Of Blood – A Perez-Reverte
More swashbuckling adventure for Captain Alatriste, 'a powerful cross between Zorro and D'Artagnan', as he helps to rescue an old friend's daughter and solve a mysterious murder. (£6.99)

Housewife Up - Alison P Harper
The sequel to Richard and Judy finalist 'Housewife Down' – widowed Helen starts to have money problems and she becomes part of the unwilling army of the employed. (£6.99)

Sunday Night Book Club - Joanne Harris, Andrea Levy, Alexander McCall-Smith et al
Collection of stories in collaboration with Breast Cancer Care; one pound a copy will go to the charity. (£6.99)

Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women - (Ed) Jo Glanville
These fascinating and diverse stories reflect the everyday concerns of Palestinians living under occupation. Writers who were children during the first intifada appear alongside those who remember the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war. The contributors include authors from the occupied territories, Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, and writers from the Palestinian Diaspora. (£9.99)

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. (£6.99)

Seventy-seven Clocks – Christopher Fowler
Third in the Bryant & May London detective sseries. Late in 1973 as strikes and blackouts ravage the country during Edward Heath's 'winter of discontent', sundry members of a wealthy, aristocratic family are being disposed of in a variety of grotesque ways. Bryant and May, the irascible detectives, know that time is the key. their investigations lead them into a hidden world. (£6.99)

Mammoth Book Of Best New Sf 19 - (Ed) Gardner Dozois (£9.99)

REISSUES

Torment Of Others – Val McDermid (£6.99)

Crossing The River - Caryl Phillips
A voice speaking out of a distant past describes the consequences of his desperation: his daughter and two sons are condemned to the hold of an English slave ship bound for America in 1753. Here are the stories of these children: Nash, Martha, and Travis. (£7.99)

Willa Cather reissues, £7.99 each:
Death Comes For The Archbishop - recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
Lost Lady - A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier.
My Antonia - creates one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction.
O Pioneers - the eldest child of a newly arrived Swedish immigrant family becomes the head of the family and struggles to soften the wild overgrown soil that surrounds her.
Professor's House - contrasts the middle-aged disillusion of Professor St Peter with his memories of his favourite student, the brillant explorer and inventor Tom Outland.

John le Carre reissues, £7.99 each, include:
Constant Gardener
Honourable Schoolboy
Smiley’s People
Little Drummer Girl
Tailor Of Panama
Night Manager

Warning To The Curious & Other Ghost Stories – M R James (£9.99)

Terror By Night Classic Ghost Stories (£2.99)

Bell In The Fog & Other Stories (£2.99)

Sherlock Holmes Collection on CD - Arthur Conan Doyle
All four classic Sherlock Holmes audiobooks, now available together for the first time in one specially priced pack. Eight CDs, running time 8 hours, featuring Ralph Richardson as Watson and Sir John Gielgud as Holmes. (£24.99)

NON-FICTION

ART

Simon Schama’s Power Of Art - Simon Schama

Tie-in in to an eight-part TV series on the history of creativity. (£25)

BIOGRAPHY

Untold Stories – Alan Bennett
Now in paperback, the bestselling sequel to Alan Bennett's classic 'Writing Home', updated with new unpublished diaries. (£9.99)

Writing Home – Alan Bennett
The first volume, reissued in paperback. (£9.99)

Life Of Saladin – Sir Hamilton Gibb from 'Imad ad-Din and Baha' ad-Din
Saladin, the Kurdish founder of the Ayyubid Dynasty, conquered Jerusalem in 1187 and repelled the Crusaders. Though he was later defeated by England's Richard I, Saladin's great skill and honourable conduct would become enshrined in European as well as Muslim lore. (£9.99)

Shakespeare, The Biography – Peter Ackroyd
Placing Shakespeare within the landscape of his time, he walks with the reader through 16th century Stratford and London, and is enthralled by the Elizabethan theatrical world. He writes about Shakespeare the actor, playwright and poet, his patrons and managers, actors and fellow writers, and about their 'unity of feeling'. (£9.99)

Matisse the Master – Hilary Spurling

"A Life of Henri Matisse: The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954." In this beautifully presented second volume, Spurling tells the story of Matisse's growing artistic maturity and the relationship between his life and art from 1909 to 1954, his glory years. Whitbread Book of the Year 2005. (£12.99)

Clarice Cliff – Lynn Knight

The first full-length biography of the Art Deco potter. (£8.99)

Scenes From My Life – Judi Dench

Britain's most loved actress in her own words and photographs, including many from her private albums. (£9.99)

Fred Dibnah’s World – David Hall
This official biography of a national treasure celebrates the life and work of Britain's best known steeplejack. (£18.99)

Days From A Different World – John Simpson

A memoir of childhood and a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s and '50s. (£7.99)

Life & Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In his new memoir, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America. (£18.99)

Teacher Man - Frank McCourt

From the author of 'Angela's Ashes' and 'Tis'. Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City. (£7.99)

View From Here – Joan Bakewell
The sequel to 'The Centre of the Bed' and a celebration of what life can be like at 70 - which according to Joan is the new 50. (£16.99)

Year Of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
An intensely personal and harrowing memoir from American essayist and prose stylist Joan Didion about coping with love, life and death. (£7.99)

Home From Home – George Alagiah
A moving autobiography of immigrant life, and a wider examination of the immigrant experience in the UK. Born in Sri Lanka and growing up in Ghana, his family came to Britain in the '60s. Gradually discovering his immigrant identity, George wanted to allow Sri Lanka to be a part of him again. The sequel to 'A Passage to Africa' as well as a stand-alone autobiography of the immigrant experience. The author packed the local cinema during the HB Festival. (£17.99)

Self Made Man – Norah Vincent
My Year Disguised as a Man. (£7.99)

Beautiful Child - Torey Hayden

The story of a child trapped in silence and the teacher who refused to give up on her. (£12.99)

GARDENING

Fork To Fork – Monty Don

Records a year in the kitchen and kitchen garden of Monty and Sarah Don, with clear instructions on how to grow fruit and vegetables and how to cook them. Food is grown and cooked in one continuous process and with one common aim - enjoyment. (£12.99)

HISTORY

The Little Book of British History – George Chamier

A whistle-stop tour through 2,000 years of our nation's story, from the Roman invasion to the Falklands War - clear, accessible history with all the boring bits left out. In small format hardback. (£9.99)

Great Tales From English History CD – Robert Lacey
Abridged omnibus edition of bestselling author Robert Lacey's three volumes recounting the dramatic story of England, from ancient times to the present day. Five CDs, running time 5hrs 52mins. (£17.99)

Rhyming History Of Britain – James Muirden (£6.99)

Rise & Fall Of Rome – Simon Baker

The epic story of the rise and fall of Rome, based on historical research. Tv tie-in. (£18.99)

Battlefield Yorkshire – David Cooke

"From the Dark Ages to the English Civil Wars." Illustrated. (£19.99)

What Islam Did For Us – Tim Wallace-Murphy

"Understanding Islam's Contribution to Western Civilization." Shows the huge intellectual and cultural contribution that Islam made to the West, offers an opportunity for Westerners to understand the richness and complexity of Islam and the intellectual and moral debt that is owed to the Islamic world, and demonstrates how western political policies laid the foundations for the chaotic and tragic state of affairs in the Middle East. (£10.99)

Cross River Traffic – Chris Roberts

"A History of London's Bridges." London has seventeen points where the Thames can be strolled over. This book tells the history of the current crossings (and their predecessors) - why and how they were built, as well as incidents that have occurred on them. (£7.99)

After The Victorians – A N Wilson
When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with the Coronation of Elizabeth II, Britain has emerged victorious from a world war, but ruined as a world power. (£9.99)

Last Post – Max Arthur

"The Final Word from Our First World War Soldiers." (£7.99)

Ivan’s War – Catherine Merridale
The Red Army 1941-45. They died in their millions, shattered by German shells and tanks, freezing behind the wire of prison camps, driven forward in suicidal charges by the secret police. Catherine Merridale found archives of letters, diaries and police reports that have allowed her to write a major history of a figure too often treated as part of a vast mechanical horde. The ordinary Russian soldier's experience of the worst war in history, now in paperback. (£9.99)

HUMOUR

Not Many Dead - Oldie Magazine

Sensational Pieces of Non-News. A collection of pieces of non-news from around the UK, from the popular Oldie column. Review coverage (£7.99)

Greetings In Jesus Name – Michael Berry
The Scambaiter Letters. To most of us scambaiter letters are an irritant. To Michael Berry they are a call to arms. For the last five years he has replied to the scammers expressing an interest in their propositions and then spent days, weeks, even months leading them down the garden path with his hilarious requests and misunderstandings. His revenges are funny, often savage and, as he reminds us, wholly justified. (£7.99)

Surgically Enhanced – Pam Ayres
Beautifully crafted stories and poems to make you laugh and make you think. (£14.99)

The Week-End Book: a sociable anthology
Entertaining anthology from a range of popular writers on topics from pigs, preparing for a long walk and human polo to the bow tie. (£10.99)

World War Z: an oral history of the zombie war – Max Brooks
Sequel to the Zombie Survival Guide. (£12.99)

Man’s Book – Thomas Fink

The authoritative guide to being a man in the 21st century is here, at last. Ever wanted to work out without actually having to go to the gym, and fancied doing it James Bond style? Ever considered how a batiste shirt differs from a broadcloth one? (£9.99)

I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue Live – Double CD, c. 2 hours

Re-visit a golden period before Willie Rushton's untimely death, with two extended 'live' editions from the mid 1990s featuring Humphrey Lyttelton, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Jeremy Hardy and Willie Rushton. Double CD, running time 2 hours approx. (£12.99)

Four Stories – Alan Bennett
Here are Alan Bennett's bestselling stories, brought together in one book for the first time: 'Father! Father! Burning Bright', 'The Clothes They Stood Up In', 'The Laying on of Hands' and 'The Lady in the Van'. (£7.99)

Just William’s Greatest Hits CD
In addition to some of the best stories from the ever popular 'Just William' range, this extended offering also includes a CD of material, recorded live on stage. Four CDs, running time 4hrs 30mins approx, read by Martin Jarvis. (£17.99)

MBS

Like The Flowing River – Paulo Coelho
A collection of thoughts and stories from the author of 'The Alchemist', with personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, travelling and the nature of good and evil. (£12.99)

Werewolves - Facts Figures & Fun (£5.99).

Witches - Facts Figures & Fun (£5.99).

Lore Of The Land – Jennifer Westwood

"A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys." Includes a chapter for every county in England and is colour-illustrated throughout. (£20)

MEDIA

Woman’s Hour - Jenni Murray, Sue MacGregor et al

"From Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne - Celebrating Sixty Years of Women's Lives." A celebration of the 60th anniversary of BBC's Woman's Hour. (£20)

Time Out Film Guide 2007

This ultimate film-lover's bible now weighs in with more than 16,700 reviews, including six pages of reviews of notable international DVD releases from the previous twelve months. (£22.50)

MUSIC

Dylan – Mojo Magazine

"Visions, Portraits and Back Pages." A legend, a cult figure and a trendsetter - the chronology of music's original Mr Tambourine Man. 3000+ photographs. Foreword by Bono. (£12.99)

Dylan On Dylan - Jonathan Cott
'Dylan on Dylan' gathers together for the first time twenty-nine of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, stretching over forty years, from the earliest days of his career in 1962 through to 2004. (£18.99)

NATURE

Trees That Made Britain – Archie Miles

TV tie-in exploring the history and ancient myths behind our nation's trees. 100 colour photographs.(£20)

Gem Gemstones

A handy guide identifying over 170 types of the world's gemstones with beautiful colour photography taken from the Smithsonian Institution's archives. (£4.99)

Woodlands - Collins New Naturalist

The 100th volume of the prestigious New Naturalist series, written by one of Britain's best-known naturalists, explores the significance and history of woodlands on the British landscape. (£25)

Edible Mushrooms Of Britain & Europe - New Holland Field Guide

This book is a practical, user-friendly guide to collecting edible wild fungi species across Britain and Europe. (£14.99)

Countryman’s Bedside Book – "BB"

Better known as BB, Denys Watkins-Pitchford's writing is as fresh as it was in 1941 and this reissue of his classic memoir will be enjoyed by all who appreciate fine country writing, capturing in words and his own wood engravings the wonder of English wildlife and the countryside in an idyllic period between the wars. (£18.95)

POETRY

Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus/Corduroy Kid – Simon Armitage
A new collection of poems bringing news from unusual places, whether from the recent past or from the remote warrior worlds of the "Bayeux Tapestry", the "Odyssey" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". Other poems belong to a future that is extinct before it arrives, or that is a small and sinister step away from the would-be solidities of our present. But the book engages with above all the matter of England, here and now. (£12.99)

Rapture - Carol Ann Duffy
A collection about the loss and rediscovery of love in all its aspects - erotic, intellectual, emotional, now in paperback. (£7.99)

John Betjeman A First Class Collection - CD

Sir John Betjeman, poet, broadcaster, journalist, prose writer and critic, was one of the best-loved figures of the twentieth century. Betjeman was a prolific writer and his poems still resonate. This work celebrates the centenary of Betjeman's birth. Double CD, running time 2 hours. (£12.99)

POLITICS AND CURRENT EVENTS

No Nonsense Guide To Climate Change (£6.99)

No Nonsense Guide To Fair Trade (£6.99)

What Happened Here – Eliot Weinberger
A portrayal of the nightmarish failings of the Bush administration, from neocons and the invention of the War on Terror, to the war in Iraq. (£7.99)

Baghdad Burning Volume 2 - Riverbend
In volume two of this riveting weblog, a remarkable young Iraqi woman gives a human face to war and occupation in Iraq. From November 2004 up to June 2006. (£7.99)

Heat – George Monbiot
"The New Politics to Stop the Planet Burning." We all know that climate change is the greatest problem facing our world - it's being rammed home by new evidence every day. But does that mean the problem is now too big to deal with? Or can we solve it? (£17.99)

Climate Change - Rough Guide (£9.99)

Change the World 9 To 5
"50 Ways to Change the World at Work: We Are What We Do." 50 simple, practical things which we can all do during the working day to make a difference to the world and those around us, regardless of our profession. (£8.99)

REFERENCE

Chambers Dictionary (10e) (£35)

Guinness World Records 2007 (£18)

SCIENCE

Just Another Day – Adam Hart-Davis

"The Science and Technology of Our Everyday Lives." Television's favourite science enthusiast reveals just how much science and technology surrounds us. (£18.99)

Can Cows Walk Down Stairs – (Ed) Paul Heiney
Perplexing Questions Answered. Answers those tantalising or perplexing questions for which you thought you'd never find an answer, drawing on the expertise of a team of enthusiastic scientists around the world. (£6.99)

Unexplained Phenomena - Rough Guide

An exploration of the zone that lies between the known and the unknown, a shadowy territory that's home to the lake monsters, combusting people, teleporting frogs and man-eating trees. Second edition. (£13.99)

SEASONAL

Fireside Book Of David Hope Annual 2007 (£6.25)

Friendship Book Of Francis Gay Annual 2007 (£6.25)

And a plethora of diaries and calendars ranging from Purple Ronny to the Shipping Forecast, and including our usual fantastic range of art calendars, magical diaries and We’moon. This year’s We’moon theme is "On Purpose, working to heal our planet".

SPORT

Lance Armstrong Images Of A Champion

Updated with new photographs and a new chapter on the record-setting seventh-straight Tour de France victory - an intimate portrait of the man who has become one of the most admired athletes in the world. 320 colour photographs. (£14.99)

Accrington Stanley: the club that wouldn’t die – Phil Whalley (£16.99)

TRAVEL

Treasure Islands – Pamela Stephenson

"Following in the Footsteps of Fanny Stevenson." Psychoanalyst, biographer, ex-comedienne, mother of four (3 daughters and Billy Connolly), Pamela Stephenson now adopts a new guise - historian, sailor and circumnavigator following in the intrepid footsteps of the maverick wife of the even more maverick Robert Louis, in a modern 112ft clipper. (£6.99)

Coast 2 – Christopher Somerville

"Where the UK and Ireland Meet the Sea." A fresh look at the coast and TV tie-in. (£20)

City Of Falling Angels- John Berendt
Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. Berendt tells a tale full of atmosphere and surprise as the stories build. (£7.99)

Micronations - Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet Guide to Self-Proclaimed Nations. Designed to generate interest in the strange world out there, this is a fully illustrated, humorous mock-guidebook to the nations people create in their own backyards - most of which can be visited. (£9.99)

Hidden Places Of Yorkshire - Barbara Vesey

As to whether any of them are hidden round here, we do not yet know. Eighth edition. (£8.99)

Other practical travel books include the Lonely Planet Best of Brussels, Bruges, Antwerp & Ghent; Time Out’s Shortlist Barcelona, Buying A Property In Eastern Europe for Dummies, and The Real Ale Pub Guide 2007

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

The Man Who Put Words On Birds - Julian Borra

Young Louis sets out with his little blue friend to find out why there are birds flying over his house with words attached to them. He climbs fat mountains, journeys across oceans, and crosses the Bridge of Meringue until at last he finds The Man Who Put Words On Birds. Ages: 2-5yrs. (£6.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Twin Tales - Jacqueline Wilson

Two magical adventures in one from the ubiquitous Jacqueline Wilson: Twin Trouble and Connie & The Waterbabies. As always the situations and emotions are very real but here they are given a magic twist making them perfect reassuring reading about family strife and overcoming your fears. Age: 7-9yrs. (£4.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

The Worst Childrens Jobs in History - Tony Robinson

Takes you back to the days when being a kid was no excuse for getting out of hard labour. This book tells the stories of the children throughout Britain's history whose work fed the nation, kept trains running and put clothes on everyone's backs. Ages: 9-11yrs. (£6.99)

Clash Of The Sky Galleons - Paul Stewart

The exciting and wonderfully illustrated finale to the Quint sequence and the penultimate book in the Edge Chronicles. Ages: 9-11yrs. (£12.99)

Teenage

Seeker - William Nicholson

The first book of The Noble Warriors trilogy now in paperback. Seeker yearns to join the Nomana - a legendary sect of warriors whose pursuit of the spiritual true way seems to give them magical powersAge: 12+ yrs (£6.99)

Soul Eater - Michelle Paver

Dazzling entertainment and seamless storytelling - the third adventure in Torak's quest to vanquish the terrifying Soul-Eaters. Torak has survived the summer and his heart-stopping adventure in the Seal Islands. He and Wolf are together again. But their reunion is all too short-lived. As mid winter approaches Torak learns the worst from the White Fox clan. The Soul-Eaters have snatched Wolf and are going to sacrifice him. Age 12+ yrs (£9.99)

AUGUST 2006

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Terrorist – John Updike  
Set in contemporary New Jersey, 'Terrorist' traces the journey of one young man, from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the backdrop of a fraying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented community. But “Of those who plot, God is the best”. (£15.99 at The Book Case)  
 
One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson
It is summer, it is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
 
Sea Lady – Margaret Drabble
Two distinguished guests are travelling separately towards a ceremony where they will meet for the first time for three decades. (£16.99 at The Book Case)
 
Light – Margaret Elphinstone
Set in May, 1831 - in a tiny island off the Isle of Man, a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. Isolated from the mainland, they have been able to live away from the disapproving eyes of polite society. But, on the arrival of Stevenson's surveyors, the very existence of their world is threatened. (£12.99)
 
PAPERBACK
 
Until I Find You – John Irving
The story of the actor Jack Burns, his mother Alice who is a Toronto tattoo artist, and his father William - an Edinburgh organist who is addicted to being tattooed. (£7.99)
 
Woman’s World: A Graphic Novel – Graham Rawle
Norma Fontaine lives in a perfect woman's world of handy tips and sensible advice – she measures life by the standards set in the magazine she reads. Rawle has assembled cut-out phrases from 1960's women's magazines, which, once removed from their original context, have been reassembled to tell an entirely new, and blissful, story. (£9.99)
 
Bedroom Secrets Of The Master Chefs – Irvine Welsh
A gothic parable about the great obsessions of our time - food, sex and minor celebrity, and examination of identity, male rivalry and the need to belong in the world. (£10.99)
 
Damned Utd – David Peace
Boxing Day, 1962. A frozen pitch at Roker Park and the painful premature end to a career as one of football's most deadly marksmen. Yorkshire, 1974. Leeds United hate Brian Clough. Brian Clough hates Leeds United. (£12.99)
 
Map Of Glass - Jane Urquhart
Jerome is a young earth-artist spending a few months on an island in Lake Ontario. But his idyll is shattered when he discovers a man frozen in the ice near the shore. (£7.99)
 
Minaret – Leila Aboulela                    
A novel about the life of an orthodox Muslim woman forced into a new life in London, and a book about Islam without any politicization. (£7.99)            
 
Hardboiled/Hard Luck – Banana Yoshimoto
'Hardboiled' opens as the narrator treks high above her secluded mountain hotel on the anniversary of her lover's death. 'Hard Luck' opens with another female narrator, this time at the bedside of her sister, who lies in a coma. Two haunting and atmospheric tales from Japan's leading female writer. (£6.99)
 
Making It Up – Penelope Lively
The author takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if' she had made other choices: what if she hadn't escaped from Alexandria at the outbreak of WWII? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was 18?. (£7.99)
 
Last Days Of Dogtown – Anita Diamant
In the forgotten hamlet of Dogtown, nestled on Cape Ann and hugging the Massachusetts coast line, a cast of eccentric characters keeps a small flame of life alight...From the author of 'The Red Tent'.  (£6.99)
 
Natural Flights Of The Human Mind – Clare Morrall
From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of 'Astonishing Splashes of Colour'. Guilt, emotional bruising and a Tiger Moth plane lie at the heart of this story of two misfits. (£7.99)
 
Perfect Match – Jodi Picoult
What would a mother do to protect her child? Richard and Judy bestseller Jodi Picoult's novel is part thriller with amazing twists, part edge-of-seat courtroom drama and part  family portrait. This disturbing novel paints an indelible portrait of a family torn apart. (£6.99)
 
Museum Of Doubt – James Meek
From the author of 'The People's Act of Love', a collection of short stories. (£7.99)
 
Best Of Mcsweeney's 2 – (ed.) Dave Eggers           
 In this second volume of stories compiled from McSweeney's, Dave Eggers once again champions the art, range and sheer pleasure of the short story. (£8.99)  
 
Vellum: Book Of All Hours 1 – Hal Duncan
It's 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch. But to a draft-dodging Irish angel and a trailer-trash tomboy called Phreedom, it's about to become brutally clear that there's no great divine or diabolic plan at play here, just a vicious battle between the hawks of Heaven and Hell, with humanity stuck in the middle. (£7.99)
 
End In Tears – Ruth Rendell
The new Chief Inspector Wexford novel from one of the UK's best loved crime writers. 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. (£6.99)
 
Devil's Feather – Minette Walters
Have you ever wanted to bury a secret so deeply that no one will find out about it? (£6.99)
 
Harvest – Tess Gerritsen
Thriller about heart transplants that go wrong. (£6.99)
 
Mr Monk Goes To Hawaii - Lee Goldberg (£5.99)
           
Emperor: The Gods Of War - Conn Iggulden
The fourth volume in the acclaimed Emperor series, recreating the life of Julius Caesar - an epic tale of ambition and rivalry, bravery and betrayal, from an outstanding new voice in historical fiction. (£6.99)
 
Naming Of Eliza Quinn – Carol Birch
A novel set in rural Ireland at the time of the great potato famine of the mid 1800s, which begins with the discovery of the bones of an infant. (£6.99)
 
Haunted Hotel & Other Strange Stories (£2.99)
Supernatural Tales (£2.99)
 
REISSUES
 
I Claudius – Robert Graves (£8.99)
Claudius The God - Robert Graves (£8.99)
 
Alice In Wonderland (Steadman Illus Ed) – Lewis Carroll
The first paperback edition of Ralph Steadman's 1968 classic edition of Lewis Carroll's satiric tale, featuring Ralph Steadman's audacious and dynamic illustrations. (£12.95)
 
Frost In May - Antonia White (£6.99)
Sugar House – Antonia White (£6.99)
 
VINTAGE EAST PROMOTION (£4.99 each)
Girl Who Played Go – Shan Sa
Set in Japanese-occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, a haunting tragedy, a shocking tale of love and war reflected in the age-old game of Go.  
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki.
 
File On H – Ismail Kadare
Who really wrote 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'? Two Irish-American scholars disappear into the Albanian hinterland where they are confident the answer to these riddles will be found. (£7.99)
 
Lila - Robert M Pirsig
From the author of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance',  a new voyage, a poignant journey and a passionate philosophical exploration. Revised and expanded. (£7.99)
 
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
A drama of human desires set against the silk trade between France and Japan in the 1860s. (£5.99)
 
Black Book – Orhan Pamuk
Complex story of a disappearance in Turkey from the author of “My Name is Red”.. (£8.99)
 
Flood – Ian Rankin
His first novel, about an outcast with occult powers. (£6.99)
 
Ubik – Philip K Dick (£7.99)
Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin (£7.99)
Sirens Of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut (£7.99)
Cities In Flight – James Blish (£7.99)
 
NON-FICTION
 
BIOGRAPHY
 
Bess Of Hardwick - Mary S Lovell
A biography of one of the most remarkable women of the Tudor era - the first Lady of Chatsworth - the most powerful woman in England after Queen Elizabeth. (£9.99)
 
Shakespeare & Co – Stanley Wells
Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Johnson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the other players in his story. Explores the relationships between Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and argues that Shakespeare must be considered as a man of his time as well as a man for all times. (£25)
 
Judge Sewall’s Apology – Richard Francis
Samuel Sewall sat in judgement at the Salem witch trials. Five years later he recanted the guilty verdicts. Through his story, Richard Francis brings the New World vividly to life. (£8.99)
 
Gilbert White – Richard Mabey
When the pioneering naturalist Gilbert White (1720-93) wrote 'The Natural History of Selborne', he created one of the greatest and most influential natural history works of all time, his detailed observations about birds and animals providing the cornerstones of modern ecology. Whitbread Biography of the Year. (£8.99)
 
Autobiography Of A Geisha
A powerful autobiography of a remarkable woman and a shocking portrait of pre-war Japan. (£4.99)
 
Almost A Childhood - Hans-Georg Behr
”Growing Up Amongst the Nazis”. The author experienced a remarkable childhood in wartime Austria where his parents were rabid Nazis and the high office his father held in the Ministry of Aviation brought the young boy into contact with Uncle Josef (Goebbels), Uncle Herman (Goering), and Uncle Adolf himself. (£8.99)
 
Betjeman – A N Wilson
One of the first books to use the vast archives of personal material relating to Betjeman's private life, including hundreds of letters written by his wife about their life together and apart, his many friendships, ranging from 'Bosie' Douglas to the young satirists of Private Eye, the Mitford sisters and the Crazy Gang. Published to mark the centenary of the poet's birth. (£20)
 
Good Women Of China – Xinran
The story of how Xinran negotiated the minefield of restrictions imposed on Chinese journalists to reach out to women across the country. (£4.99)
 
Books Baguettes & Bedbugs – Jeremy Mercer
”The Left Bank World of Shakespeare and Co.” Memoir of a struggling writer living and working in an eccentric Parisian bookshop. (£7.99)
 
Gorgeous George – David Morley
”Maverick in the House.” George Galloway has made a career of confrontation and has a life story that is stranger than fiction, with all the key ingredients of a soap opera - money, sex, power, intrigue and, to a lesser extent, politics. (£16.99)
 
Girl With A One Track Mind – Abby Lee
“Confessions of the Seductress Next Door.” Abby's diary is the fifth most popular UK blog, she has an average of 100,000 unique visitors a month, and she has received hundreds of emails from women grateful for her candour about sex. (£6.99)
 
GARDENING
Gardening & Planting By The Moon 2007 – Nick Kollerstrom (£8.99)
 
HISTORY
 
Tribes Of Britain – David Miles
Who are we? And where do we come from? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, showing how different people traded, settled and conquered the land, establishing the 'tribal' and regional roots still apparent today – including the impact of prehistoric peoples and Celtic tribes, Romans and Vikings, Saxons and Normans, Jews and Huegenots, as well as the increasing population movements of the last century. (£9.99)
 
Persian Fire – Tom Holland
“The First World Empire, Battle for the West.” A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 380BC. - the very first 'clash of Empires' between East and West.. (£9.99)
 
Behind The Counter – Pamela Horn
“Shop Lives from Market Stall to Supermarket.” - the story of the people who worked in the retail trade from the beginning of the eighteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. (£20)
 
Bad Lads – Alf  Townsend
“RAF National Service Remembered.” Between 1945 and 1963 over two and half million eighteen-year-olds were called up for national service. (£12.99)
 
HUMOUR
 
Gospel Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster – Bobby Henderson
It all began in June 2005 when Bobby Henderson wrote an open letter to the Kansas School Board proposing a third alternative to the teaching of evolution and intelligent design in schools, and has now gained a cult following on the Internet with over six-million hits to the website. (£9.99)
 
Penguin Pocket Jokes (£5.99)
 
Mammoth Book Of Funniest Cartoons Of All – (ed) Geoff Tibballs (£7.99)
 
LITERATURE
 
Songs On Bronze – Nigel Spivey
”The Greek Myths Made Real.” Retells the Greek myths as the spellbinding stories that they are - Jason and the Argonauts and the travels of Odysseus, of Oedipus's crime and Orpheus's excursion into the underworld, among many others. (£8.99)
 
Children’s Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2007 (£12.99)
 
Writers' Handbook 2007 – Barry Turner
A companion for those in the writing profession, this book contains over 6,000 entries covering various areas of writing, with articles and useful advice from the representatives of the trade. It also offers useful advice on contracts, copyright, and taxation. 20th anniversary edition. (£14.99)
 
Reading Diary – Alberto Manguel
A Year of Favourite Books. The author of 'A History of Reading' revisits some of his favourite books in a winning marriage of memoir and criticism. (£7.99)
 
Book Of Lost Books – Stuart Kelly
Quirky investigation into the history of books that were lost, unfinished, unstarted, illegible or deliberately destroyed. (£7.99)
 
Criticism & Ideology – Terry Eagleton
”A Study in Marxist Literary Theory.” A new edition of this classic work. (£12.99)
 
MBS
 
How To Be Free – Tom Hodgkinson
Have you ever wondered why you bother to go to work? What stops us from doing what we want to do? Whether there might be a better, freer, happier way to live our lives? (£14.99)
 
Sigmund Freud – Ralph Steadman,
A new paperback edition of Ralph Steadman's 1979 witty life of the great psychoanalyst, in which the artist hilariously examines and illustrates Freud's techniques. (£12.95)
 
Element Encyclopedia Of Secret Societies and Hidden History - John Michael Greer
“The Ultimate A-Z of Ancient Mysteries, Lost Civilizations and Forgotten Wisdom.” (£20)
 
Hitopadesa
The Book of Good Counsels. Composed between 800 and 950 AD, one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. At once an anthology of folk wisdom and an original and satirical work in its own right, the "Hitopadesa" has been deeply admired and widely read for more than a thousand years for its humorous and profound reflections on human lives, loves, follies and philosophies. (£10.99)
 
If This is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Finding Common Ground - Edward J. Chamberlin
Stories come in many forms, from nursery rhymes and national anthems to poems and praise songs, and from the stories of science to the rituals of religion. They tell us where we come from, and where we belong; how to live and sometimes how to die. (£16.95)
 
Shining Ones – Philip Gardiner
The story of the mysterious, ancient priesthood with a mission to preserve their secret knowledge to help humanity - but also to control the development of the world. (£10.99)
 
MUSIC
 
Dark Side Of The Moon - John Harris
The Making of the Pink Floyd Masterpiece. A behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the making of one of the greatest sonic masterpieces and most commercially successful albums of all time. (£7.99)
 
New Penguin Dictionary Of Music- Paul Griffiths
The essential A-Z of 1,000 years of Western music. (£14.99)
 
Rough Guide To Bob Dylan, 2e (£9.99)
 
Rough Guide To Pink Floyd
Reviews of the 50 essential Pink Floyd songs and the stories behind them, the movies and film soundtracks, TV appearances and videos. From the psychedelic 'happenings' of '60s London to the arena gigs, world tours and Live 8 reunion - it's all in this book. (£9.99)
 
NATURE & PETS
 
Ancient Trees Living Landscapes – Richard Muir
Examines how, from earliest times, woodland has been manipulated and transformed. He first looks at landmark trees, then examines ancient trees and hedgerows, before charting the development of parkland and forestry. He also describes the life of the men of the forest over the centuries. (£16.99)
 
RSPB Handbook Of British Birds (£9.99)
 
RSPB Secret Lives Of British Birds (£14.99)
 
Birding Life - Guardian
“The Diary of a Lifetime's Hobby.” A collection of the author's Guardian columns on birdwatching. (£12.99)
 
Mushrooms – Roger Phillips
Featuring information and photographs, this illustrated encyclopedia contains over 1,250 photographs, often showing the specimens in various stages of growth, and including the botanical and common names as well as ecological information on endangered species. (£18.99)
 
RSPCA Complete Dog Care Manual – Bruce Fogle (£9.99)
 
POETRY
 
Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
This is a new translation of the classical medieval poem relating Sir Gawain's romances, his conflict with the Green Knight, and return to the Round Table. (£7.99)
 
POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS
 
Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated – Rory McCarthy
”Stories from the New Iraq.” Few books explore the thoughts and actions of the Iraqi people as they deal with the occupation. As correspondent for the Guardian, Rory McCarthy has been on the ground for the past two and a half years. This book focuses on the lives of a group of Iraqis in order to retell the story from their point of view. (£9.99)
 
101 Facts You Should Know About Food – John Farndon
The shocking truth behind the food we eat. Covering everything from the big businesses that control food production around the world to the dangers of food dyes, this book reveals the complex facts behind the simplest of meals (£6.99)
 
SCIENCE
 
Gecko’s Foot – Peter Forbes
An assessment of how cutting edge science is borrowing ideas from nature to create the inventions of tomorrow. (£8.99)
 
SPORT
 
Good Afternoon, Gentlemen, The Name’s Bill Gardner - Bill Gardner
That introduction alone was often enough to provoke sheer terror in his opponents. For the first time, Gardner himself reveals what made him the top man, including his innermost thoughts and his memories of the classic years for football fans. (£7.99) .
 
TRAVEL

Sailing Alone Around The World – Joshua Slocum
Joshua Slocum became a legend by being the first person to sail around the globe alone in 1895 in a 37-foot sloop, Spray, that he rebuilt himself from a derelict oyster sloop. He is possibly the best-known single-handed sailor ever to have lived. A classic of sailing literature now reissued. (£7.99)
 
Europe – Jan Morris
A personal appreciation, fuelled by five decades of journeying, at once magisterial and particular, whimsical and profound. (£9.99)
 
Tales From Nowhere
A celebration of adventure travel, an exploration of the remote corners of our world. (£7.99)
 
Red Dust – Ma Jian
A young man writes about his disillusionment with the Communist system and an extraordinary journey that he made around China in search of himself and his country. (£4.99)
 
Circular Walks Along The Pennine Way – Kevin Donkin
A series of fifty circular walks along and around the Pennine Way.  (£12.99)
 
Travel Journal (Black)
Contains helpful traveller's tools, such as a measurement chart, time zone wheel, world maps, and charts, plus plenty of space to write. Third edition. (£7.99)
 
Branch Line Britain – Paul Atterbury
“A Nostalgic Journey Celebrating a Golden Age.” Now in paperback. (£12.99)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Where is Hairy Maclary? - Lynley Dodd
A lift-the-flap hide-and-seek board book featuring Lynley Dodd's favourite canine characters; Scarface Claw Zachery Quack and of course Hairy Maclary himself. Ages: 1-5yrs. (£7.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum - Andy Stanton
A new childrens writer in the style of Roald Dahl, who seems to know exactly what children will love. Mr Gum hates children animals and fun, and has a fairy who lives in his bathtub. Ages: 6-9yrs. (£4.99)

Horrid Henry’s Wicked Ways - Francesca Simon
A new collection of ten favourite stories with added extras all about Horrid Henry at home. Ages 5-7 yrs (£7.99)

A Tale of Redwall: Martin the Warrior and Mattimeo - Brian Jacques
These popular fantasy series have been re-designed for a new generation. If you haven’t read them yet now is the time. Ages 9-11yrs (£5.99)

Teenage Just in Case - Meg Rosoff
One of the most eagerly awaited events in children's publishing this year from the author of How I Live Now. This is a story about Fate and what you would do if you thought Fate was out to get you. Daring powerful and utterly compelling. Ages: 12+ (£10.99)

JULY 2006

FICTION

HARDBACK

Love over Scotland: 44 Scotland Street 3 - Alexander McCall-Smith

The third in the series revolving around the many colourful characters that come and go at No 44 Scotland Street. McCall-Smith handles the characters with his customary charm and deftness - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother, and most importantly in this novel, the Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie. (£12.99 at The Bookcase)

PAPERBACK

Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
As young boys, both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture hall. (£7.99)

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Set on both sides of the Atlantic, the Booker-winning look at family life, marriage, the collison of the personal and political, and people's self deceptions. (£7.99)

Brooklyn Follies
Nathan and Tom are an uncle and nephew double-act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career. Matters change when Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives... (£6.99)

Saving Fish from Drowning - Amy Tan

Seduces the reader with a facade of Buddhist illusions, magical tricks, and light comedy, even as the absurd and picturesque spiral into a gripping morality tale about the consequences of intentions. (£7.99)

Possibility of an Island - Michel Houellebecq

In a nightmarish vision of the implosion of the modern world, Houellebecq attempts to fathom the meaning of love, sex, suffering and regret. (£7.99)

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. (£7.99)

War Trash - Ha Jin

The story of Yu Yuan, a young Chinese army officer sent by Mao with a corps of 'volunteers' to help shore up the Communist side in Korea. When the Americans capture Yu, his command of English propels him into the role of unofficial interpreter in the psychological warfare that defines the POW camp. (£7.99)

Melted into Air - Sandi Toksvig (delayed from March)

Leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario, Frances Angel returns to Italy to confront her past - what she didn't expect was romance and quite so much farce. (£6.99)

Book of Fathers - Miklos Vamos

Twelve men - running in direct line from father to eldest son, who in turn becomes a father - are the heroes of this saga which runs over a 300 year panorama of Hugarian life and history. Each man also passes to his son certain unusual gifts: the ability to see the past - and in some cases to see the future too. (£11.99)

Blind Willow Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending new collection of short stories from the cult Japanese author. Stories translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel. (£11.99)

Lincoln Lawyer - Michael Connelly

They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, taking whatever cases the system throws in their path. Richard & Judy title. (£6.99)

Catch Me When I Fall - Nicci French

Holly Krauss lives life in the fast lane, she is a successful businesswoman and is liked by all the people she meets. But there is another reckless side to Holly, the side that likes to take a walk on the wild side. (£6.99)

Best British Mysteries 2006 - (ed.) Maxim Jakubowski

Bite-sized chunks of the nation's favourite crime writers. (£7.99)

Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell - Lilian Jackson Braun (£6.99)

Agatha Raisin & the Fairies of Fryfam - M C Beaton (£5.99)

Agatha Raisin & the Witch of Wyckhadden - M C Beaton (£5.99)

Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits - ed. Mike Ashley

25 whodunnits set in the turbulent times of the 17th century; includes stories featuring Guy Fawkes, the English Civil War and the fate of Charles I, the lost colony of Roanoke and the tale of Pocahontas. (£7.99)

Aggressor - Andy McNab

When Nick Stone witnesses on TV the massacre of children in a terrorist siege on the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered and he finds himself catapulted once more into working for the American secret services - only this time, of his own free will. (£6.99)

Attila - William Napier

The first in an epic trilogy about the rise and fall of one of history's greatest villains: a saga of warfare, lust and power which brought the whole of the Christian world to its knees - and ended in blood on the fields of France. (£6.99)

REISSUES

Falling Angels - Tracy Chevalier

Reissue: the interwined lives of two English families at the beginning of the 20th century. (£6.99)

Land of Spices - Kate O’Brien

Behind the high, closed walls of a convent in the Irish countryside, the lives of its inhabitants are gently marked by the daily rituals of spiritual life. (£7.99)

NON-FICTION

ART

Sheila Hicks Miniatures: Substance of Illusion - Nina Stritzler-Levine

Examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced for the past fifty years. With their distinctive colours, thoughtful compositions and narrative expression, these miniature creations reveal the emergence and continuity of the artist's approach to her work. (£25)

BIOGRAPHY

Life and Adventures of William Cobbett - Richard Ingrams

Perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest radicals. Now in paperback. (£8.99)

Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton - Kathryn Hughes

Far from being the middle-aged matron of popular legend, Bella Beeton was only 25 when she created the guide to successful family living and had only five years' experience of her own to inform her. She lived in a semi-detached with the bare minimum of servants, bordered on being a workaholic and died at the age of 28 from bad hygiene. A readable and sympathetic biography. (£7.99)

On Hitler’s Mountain - Irmgard Hunt

Irmgard Hunt was born into Nazi Germany in 1934 and brought up just outside the fence that surrounded Hitler's alpine retreat and headquarters. As a model Aryan toddler, she was photographed sitting on Hitler's knee. She reveals the creeping Nazification of Germany and shows how ordinary people were seduced - and cowed - by the campaigns set in train by their leaders. (£8.99)

I Have America Surrounded - John Higgs
The Life of Timothy Leary. (£8.99)

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. (£7.99)

Train Man - Hitori Nakano

A true love story from Japan telling of a shy computer geek who described on an Internet message forum how he had met a girl on a subway train. As things developed he continued to post updates on the message board and gained the nickname Train Man. (£7.99)

Chosen by a Horse - Susan Richards

A 40-something woman with a background of childhood abuse and adult alcoholism takes in a derelict mare, and it turns her life around. Funny and moving; the reactions of her other horses are also unforgettable. (£12.99)

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. (£8.99)

Expletives Deleted - Angela Carter
A posthumous collection of her criticism and essays. (£6.99)

HISTORY

Classical World - Robin Lane Fox

"The Epic History of Greece and Rome." Spans almost a thousand years of change, from the foundation of the world's first democracy in Athens to the Roman Republic and the Empire under Hadrian. Brings Homer, Socrates, Alexander, Julius Caesar, Augustus and the first Christian martyrs to life and explores freedom, justice and luxury. (£9.99)

Alfred the Great - Justin Pollard

"The Man Who Made England." In an era darkened by the terror of the Viking invasions, England's first and greatest king was a beacon of light. (£9.99)

Not Forgotten - Neil Oliver

There are 37,780 First World War memorials in Britain, listing names from all walks of life - estates, villages, places of work. "Not Forgotten" is a revealing look at the untold stories that lie behind these lists of names. (£8.99)

Bradford Pals - David Raw

The Comprehensive History of the 16th, 18th and 20th (Service) Battalions of the Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire Regiment 1914-1918. (£16.99)

HUMOUR

1966 & All That - Craig Brown

Spoof history of modern Britain, inspired by its irreverent predecessor. Beginning with the First World War and ending with the Millennium Dome, it contains all the modern history you can't remember, narrated in a way you can't begin to understand. (£6.99)

You Can Get Arrested for That - Rich Smith
2 Blokes, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd Crime Spree. Rich Smith was a model citizen, hadn't even had a parking fine. Until now. He was drawn to law-breaking when he played a board game and was asked, 'In Florida, it is illegal for divorced women to do what on Sundays?'. On being told that the answer is 'Go parachuting', he just had to find out more.... (£10.99)

George, Don’t Do That - Joyce Grenfell (£6.99)

If Marches On - Steve Bell (£12.99)

Grumpy Old Women (£5.99)

Day Job - Mark Wallington

Mark Wallington's incompetent early career as jobbing gardener to the middle classes - the story of long nights spent in the back room of a pub trying to write unsolicited scripts, and of much longer days spent trying to understand the British and their strange obsession with gardening. (£6.99)

Travels with Boogie - Mark Wallington
Omnibus edition of Mark Wallington's Boogie Books, '500 Mile Walkies' and 'Boogie up the River'. (£7.99)

Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook to Life

An omnibus of fast-access survival advice on the full range of everyday life emergencies. (£9.99)

MBS

Witches, Druids and King Arthur - Richard Hutton

An expert on paganism looks at our pre-Christian beliefs, some of which still influence us today. (£12.99)

Faeries and Folklore of the British Isles - Elizabeth Andrews

An illustrated guide to goblins, ghosts, faeries, pixies, mermaids and monsters. (£9.99)

MUSIC

Like a Rolling Stone - Greil Marcus

Reconstructs the context in which the sardonic, bitter, threatening, compassionate, gleeful, long and loud song first appeared, in terms of Dylan's own career and the world at large. (£7.99)

NATURE

Secret Life of Trees - Colin Tudge

How They Live and Why They Matter. The author travels from his own back garden round the world to explore the beauty, variety and ingenuity of trees everywhere: from how they live so long to how they talk to each other and why they came to exist in the first place. (£8.99)

Earth: a new perspective - Nicolas Cheetham

Over 150 beautiful images of Planet Earth as seen from space. "Earth" flies us over mountains, forests, deserts, tundra; "Water" follows rivers and coastlines, explores ice fields and seas before plunging into deep ocean; "Air" examines storms, hurricanes, wind-sculpted patterns and atmospheric phenomena; and finally, "Fire" shows volcanoes, asteroid impacts, forest fires, pollution and man's impact on the environment. (£9.99)

POETRY

Georgics - Virgil

Virgil's great poem of the land, part farming manual, part hymn of praise, containing some of Virgil's finest descriptive writing. (£7.99)

REFERENCE

Writers and Artists Yearbook 2007 (£14.99)

Collins Scrabble Words (£10)

SCIENCE

Planets - Dava Sobel

The human story of the nine planets of our solar system. This groundbreaking new work traces the 'lives' of each member of our solar family, from myth and history, astrology and science fiction, to the latest data from the modern era's robotic space probes. (£7.99)

What We Believe but Cannot Prove - John Brockman
"Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty." A collection of thought-experiments from the world's leading scientists on what they believe to be true, but can't yet prove. (£7.99)

SPORT

Wayne Rooney: My Story So Far (£17.99)

TRAVEL

From the AA, a series of Picture CDs with 250 images on each, £4.99 each: enabling interactive tours of: Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Scotland and Spain amongst other places.

What the Chinese Don’t Eat - Xinran

Since June 2003, Xinran has been writing about China in her weekly column in the "Guardian". She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swimming pools. This book collects the columns together for the first time. (£7.99)

Longest Crawl - Ian Marchant

Bon viveur, pub singer and writer Ian Marchant set off with photographer Perry Venus on a gruelling month-long British pub crawl. On the way they unearth the origins of gin and tonic, find out how pork-scratchings are made and how to make moonshine at an illegal still in the Welsh hills. (£10.99)

British as a Second Language - David Bennun
David Bennun had lived in Africa his whole life. At the age of 18 he came to Britain, the mother country - the country he had read about in Punch magazine or seen in films like Chariots of Fire. He was in for a shock. (7.99)

Angry Island - A A Gill

"In Search of the Essence of England." Selecting fifteen destinations as likely to yield clues to the character of the English, Angry Angus Gill sets out to prove that beneath the picture-postcard vision of warm beer, village cricket and tolerance lurks a combative, belligerent nation. (£8.99)

Mustn’t Grumble - Joe Bennett
Joe Bennett thought he'd come back to England to refresh his memory, and finds identikit High Streets, imported cheeriness, chicken tikka, poker machine pubs - things aren't what they used to be. (£10.99)

One Hundred Siberian Postcards - Richard Wirick

Rick Wirick and his wife have gone to Siberia to adopt a baby girl and Wirick immerses himself in its history, legends, social reality and natural splendour in order to evoke for his new daughter the grandeur of her birthplace. (£9.99)

Guerra - Jason Webster

Following 'Duende' and 'Andalus', Jason Webster embarks on a journey across Spain, this time in order to look at the Spanish Civil War and explore its lasting effects upon modern Spain. (£12.99)

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Russell and the Lost Treasure - Rob Scotton

The fabulous character created by Rob Scotton is back again in another great adventure. However this time Russell is after lost treasure! Ages: 2-5yrs. (£5.99)

Time to Pee - Mo Willems

Sometimes you get that funny feeling - and you don't know what to do! A witty and supportive book for children at that tricky toilet-training stage from the creator of Don't Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus. 2 - 5yrs. (£4.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

100 Favourite Prayers - Lois Rock

This collection of 100 prayers includes all the favourite children's Christian prayers and have been selected and arranged to make a thoughtful and inspiring volume as well as covering every type of occasion where you need 'just the right' prayer. Ages: 4-8yrs.
(£7.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

The Winter Nights - Paul Stewart

Now in paperback, the eighth spectacular title in this amazing series that steps back in time to follow the story of Quint the young boy who will one day grow into the great sky pirate. Ages: 9-11yrs. (£5.99)

Framed - Frank Cottrell Boyce

The sequel to Millions now in paperback is the story of a boy who plays detective in an artwork scandal involving a major masterpiece inspired by a press cutting that described how during the Second World War the treasured contents of London's National Gallery were stored in Welsh slate mines. Ages: 9-11years (£5.99)

Teenage

Stormbreaker Film tie-in - Anthony Horowitz

The blockbusting film version of the first Alex Rider adventure storms into our cinemas on 21st July featuring an all-star cast and reputed to be the most expensive British film ever made. This is the tie-in edition of the novel and features a new introduction by Anthony Horowitz and 8pp colour photos from the film. Age 12+ (£6.99)

JUNE 2006

FICTION

HARDBACK

Hav - Jan Morris
The well-known travel writer’s only novel - she describes a visit to a magical city - but when she returns twenty years later, everything has changed. The first part was Booker shortlisted in 1985. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Alentejo Blue - Monica Ali

The story of the picturesque village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - children and old men, expatriates of all ages, tourists and locals. From the author of "Brick Lane". (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Queen Mum - Kate Long
When reality TV invades the neighbourly harmony of Cestrian Park, it soon becomes clear that appearances can be deceptive. A novel about friendship and love, recklessness and caution, and about how the camera can reveal uncomfortable truths. From the author of "The Bad Mother’s Handbook" and "Swallowing Grandma". (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Theft : a Love Story - Peter Carey
Highly charged and lewdly funny new novel told by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two hundred and twenty pound brother' Hugh. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Book of Dave - Will Self

Dave Roth, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his rants and woes down and buries them...only to have them discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Wish I Was Here - Jackie Kay

Tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the author of 'Trumpet' and 'Why Don't You Stop Talking?' (£14.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Dead Fathers’ Club - Matt Haig
A hilarious new take on Hamlet: 11-year-old Philip Noble’s deceased dad appears as a bloodstained ghost and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club - the ghosts of dads in Newark who gather near the bottle banks outside the Nobles' pub. Philip has to get revenge by killing the murderer, his dad's brother, Uncle Alan. From the Leeds-based author of The Last Family in England. (£11.99)

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. (£7.99)

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. (£7.99)

Friends, Lovers, Chocolate - Alexander McCall Smith
The second in The Sunday Philosophy Club series, starring amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie. (£6.99)

Wedding in December - Anita Shreve

Her twelfth novel, probing into human motivation with grace and skill. (£6.99)

Gentleman & 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. (£6.99)

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 (£5.99)

Specimen Days - Michael Cunningham
Three linked visionary narratives about the relationship between man and machine. From the author of The Hours". (£7.99)

JPod - Douglas Coupland

Six co-workers whose surnames begin with 'J' are bureaucratically marooned in jPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company and daily confront the forces that define our era - global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the rise of China, and the ashes of the 1990's financial tech dream. "Very evil... very funny." (£12.99)

Captain Alatriste - Arturo Perez-Reverte
A swashbuckling new adventure series starring the Spanish D'Artagnan. (£6.99)

One Big Damn Puzzler - John Harding

On a remote South Pacific island paradise, an elderly tribesman is translating "Hamlet" into local Pidgin English. Much to his annoyance, he is interrupted by the arrival of a young American lawyer with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder who has come to help. (£7.99)

Little Children - Tom Perrotta
The thirtyish parents of young children in this novel raise their children in a quiet suburb - until one eventful summer, when a convicted child molester moves back to town, and two parents begin an affair that goes further than either of them could have imagined. US bestseller and film with Kate Winslet on the way. (£6.99)

Invisible Ones - Karel van Loon
A lawyer in Burma becomes a victim of the oppresive regime. The novel combines a harrowing account of civil injustices with lyrical descriptions of the land and the Buddhist culture. (£8.99)

In the Fold - Rachel Cusk

As a young student Michael is intrigued and delighted by the Hanbury family’s bohemian lifestyle and bravado. Twelve years later, married with a young son, Michael is invited back. (£7.99)

Shyness and Dignity - Dag Solstad
Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is the story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent. (£11.99)

Brand-New Friend - Mike Gayle

When Rob's girlfriend asks him to leave London and live with her in Manchester not only will it mean moving cities, it'll also mean leaving behind his best mate in the entire world. Believing that love conquers all and convinced of his ability to make new friends, Rob takes the plunge. (£6.99)

Northern Sky - Mark Radcliffe
A warm and funny novel about folk musicians by the popular radio broadcaster. Having been sacked from his university teaching job, Ed has returned to his home town to pick up the threads of his old life with his friends and ex-girlfriend, Jeannie, in the Northern Sky folk music club. His dream is to play with them again, making music like his hero Nick Drake - and maybe even a little money. (£7.99)

Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala

Depiction of the life of a child-soldier in Africa. "Starkly unsentimental and convincing". (£6.99)

Warnings of Gales - Annie Sanders

Three women rent a holiday house in Cornwall for the summer, each bringing with her her children, her baggage (in every sense) and her expectations. (£6.99)

Picador Shots, ten stories at £1.00 each for "people who are time-poor but expect rich reading", by Jackie Kay, Tim Winton, Bret Easton Ellis, Claire Messud, Colm Toibin, Craig Davidson, James Salter, Nell Freudenberger, Shalom Auslander, and Matthew Kneale.

Dust on the Paw - Robin Jenkins
Abdul Wahab, an Afghan science teacher, is eagerly anticipating the arrival of his British fiance, Laura Johnstone. However, Prince Naim, one of the sons of the king, sees the marriage as symbolic of a successful union between East and West, promotes Abdul into a position of power for which he is far from ready. (£7.99)

My Cleaner - Maggie Gee
Maggie Gee confronts racism and class conflict with humour and tenderness in this moving, funny, engrossing read. (£9.99)

Diary of a Provincial Lesbian - V G Lee
The latest hilarious anecdotes from well-respected author VG Lee. (£8.99)

Ballad of Lee Cotton - Christopher Wilson
'I grow up rural with flies, delta dust, forebodings and a shovel for my callused hands'. Born to an Icelandic father and a black mother, Lee Cotton grows up an extraordinary boy, with extraordinary gifts. (£7.99)

Mr Muo’s Travelling Couch - Dai Sijie

It's over ten years since Muo has visited his native China. On hearing that his first love has been thrown into a Chinese jail for selling a newspaper article to the foreign press, he feels he must rush home and rescue her. (£6.99)

National Short Story Prize 2006
The winning story and the runner up from the £15,000 National Short Story Prize. Five shortlisted stories will be broadcast during a week-long celebration of the short story on BBC Radio 4. (£3.99)

Birthday Stories - ed. Haruki Murakami
Twelve birthday stories from distinguished authors selected and introduced by Haruki Murakami. Includes stories by Raymond Carver, Russell Banks, Ethan Canin, Paul Theroux, Denis Johnson and others. (£6.99)

Excursion Train - Edward Marston
Following 'The Railway Detective', this is the second in the crime series set on the grand railways of the 19th Century. On the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the Great Western Railway excursion train, Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant are dispatched to the scene. (£6.99)

Pure in Heart - Susan Hill

A little boy is kidnapped as he waits for his lift to school; 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. (£6.99)

Sun & Shadow - Ake Edwardson
Meet Erik Winter: the youngest chief inspector in Sweden, he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for jazz and is about to become a father. But he has his share of troubles, too: a bloody double murder on his doorstep is only the beginning. (£6.99)

Pale Horseman - Bernard Cornwell

The second instalment of the series following the fate of Alfred the Great and the forging of Britain. (£6.99)

REISSUES

No Man’s Land - Graham Greene
A chilling tale of espionage, superstition and betrayal, in its first single-volume edition. Foreword by David Lodge. (£7.99)

Special Providence - Richard Yates

Robert Prentice is eighteen. His mother Alice Prentice is fifty-three. Both are damaged souls: Robert, by war, Alice, by thwarted dreams of prosperity. By the author of 'Revolutionary Road'. (£7.99)

Phoebe Junior - Anthony Trollope

First published in 1876, 'Phoebe, Junior' is the last of the Chronicles of Carlingford, and a wonderful tale in its own right. (£6.00)

Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox

The story of Arabella, the daringly independent adventurer, widely admired by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson. (£10.99)

Longest Journey - E M Forster

This was Forster's favourite of his novels and his most autobiographical, expressing his love for the vanishing English landscape. (£8.99)

Earthly Joys - Philippa Gregory

In the early 1600s, John Tradescant, gardener to the great men of the age, observes the social and political changes sweeping through the kingdom and designs the magnificent garden at Hatfield, scouring the known world for ever more wonderful plants: new varieties of fruit and flower, the first horse chestnuts to be cultivated in England, even larches from Russia. . (£7.99)

Virgin Earth - Philippa Gregory
John Tradescant the Younger witnesses the English Civil War and its aftermath from his position as royal gardener. (£7.99)

Avalon - Anya Seton
A young French prince and a Cornish girl are caught up in the intrigue of the tenth-century English Court. (£6.99)

NON-FICTION

ART & DESIGN

Francesco’s Italy - Francesco da Mosto

Francesco’s back with a grand tour of Italy and explores its art, beauty, churches, palaces, opera houses, paintings, sculpture and music. TV tie-in. (£25.00)

Turner in the North - David Hill (£25)

Fashioning Fabrics: Contemporary Textiles in Fashion - Polly Leonard; Sandy Black (£24.95)

BIOGRAPHY

Walden - Henry David Thoreau

"The Bible for people who want to live in harmony with nature" - a new edition based on the original version with his own emendations and notes. (£6.50)

Mao: the unknown story - Jung Chang & John Halliday
A chunky and groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung from the author of. 'Wild Swans' and her husband, now in paperback.(£15)

Whicker’s War - Alan Whicker

Alan Whicker has been a broadcaster for over forty years, and this is his account of his experiences in the Second World War. (£7.99)

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 author and BBC reporter Kate Adie writes about what it means to be an abandoned child. (£7.99)

Garden Hopping - Jonathan Rendall

"Memoir of an Adoption." Jonathan Rendall was adopted in the 1960s when it was easy. People could just pick out the children they wanted - but what of the children themselves? And what happens when years later they trace their real parents? (£10.99)

Unaccompanied Woman - Jane Juska
The author of 'Roundheeled Woman' is back with a spring in her step and a space in her heart. (£12.99)

Next to You - Gloria Hunniford

Gloria Hunniford talks about her daughter's breast cancer, her battle to survive and the grief that Gloria and her family are now learning to live with. (£7.99)

By Jack Rosenthal

An Autobiography in Six Acts from the TV and stage wordsmith. (£8.99)

Climbing the Mango Trees - Madhur Jaffrey
A memoir of a childhood in India by bestselling cookery writer Madhur Jaffrey with recipes drawn from memories of dinners, lunches, breakfasts, weddings and picnics. (£7.99)

Young Man’s Passage - Julian Clary
A candid memoir from one of Britain's greatest comic wits. Julian Clary's debut as a writer perhaps closer in style to Fay Weldon or Muriel Spark than Dale Winton. (£7.99)

Memoir - John McGahern
This is the story of John McGahern's childhood: of his mother's death, his father's anger and bafflement, and his own discovery of literature. (£7.99)

Good Good Pig - Sy Montgomery

A nature writer and adventurer tells how she found herself and a connection to others through her remarkable pet pig. (£9.99)

Bertie May & Mrs Fish - Xandra Bingley

An evocative and original wartime memoir about life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child. (£6.99)

GARDENING

My Roots - Monty Don

A collection of fifty of his gardening columns from the Observer - a practical guide, a poetic record of the garden's changing seasons, and a personal account (£7.99)

HISTORY

Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons - Geoffrey Hindley (£8.99)

Agincourt - Juliet Barker

This landmark study from the prize-winning local author of the stunning victory in October 1415 and all the fascinating detail of everyday life that brought it about, is now in paperback. (£8.99)

God’s Secret Agent - Alice Hogge

"Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot". The story of Elizabeth's 'other' England, a country at war with an unseen enemy, told from the perspective of that unseen 'enemy', England's Catholics, a beleagured, alienated minority. (£8.99)

Victorian London - Liza Picard

Vivid social history of London in one of its most exciting periods, from rag-gatherers to royalty, fish-knives to Freemasons. (£8.99)

Generals - Mark Urban

The story of ten exceptional soldiers who left their mark on Britain and the world. (£8.99)

La Vie en Bleu - Rod Kedward

"France and the French since 1900." Brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France, and explores the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities, the role of women, and the politics of everyday life and collective memory. (£10.99)

A Month at the Front: Diary of an Unknown Soldier

From the Bodleian Library, the never-before-published journal of a young man in the 12th East Surrey Regiment in July 1917. It’s narrated with a keen sense of observation, bringing to life the sights, sounds, smells, and horrors of war. (£9.99)

Mammoth Book of Pirates - (ed.) Jon E Lewis (£7.99)

Watermills: Shire Album (£5.99)

HUMOUR

How British is That? - Archibald St John Smith

The Eccentric British Guide Book. (£2.99)

Anguished English - Richard Lederer

An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon the English Language. (£5.99)

Get Thee to a Punnery - Richard Lederer

An Anthology of Intentional Assaults upon the English Language. (£5.99)

Jane Austen’s Guide to Romance - Lauren Henderson
Draws on all Jane Austen's works to set down the ten first principles for successful dating and finding a serious partner. Are you an Elizabeth Bennett or an Emma Woodhouse? Includes personality quizzes that reveal which Jane Austen character you and your love interest most resemble. (£6.99)

I’m Not Really Getting Married (£3.99)

I’m Not Really Retiring (£3.99)

Pirates in an Adventure with Whaling - Gideon Defoe
The Pirates return in a tale of killer mosquitoes, crippling debt, Las Vegas stageshows and an elusive white whale. (£5.99)

41 Uses for a Cat - Harriet Ziefert (£4.99)

44 Uses for a Dog - Harriet Ziefert (£4.99)

LANGUAGES & LITERATURE

Oxford Companion to English Literature - Margaret Drabble, 6e (£29.99)

Student Guide to Sylvia Plath - Marnie Pomeroy (£9.99)

Excuse My French - Steven Fawkes
How to learn Francais without the faux pas. The associated TV series shows three celebrities sent to France for four weeks to develop their language skills. The book will focus on the everyday social subjects most useful to adult learners and includes 2 DVDs. (£16.99)

Concise Oxford Dictionary, 11th ed. (£20)

MBS

Fifty Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health - James Hicks
"Packed with useful and reassuring information. It is both easy to read and difficult to put down." (£9.99)

Going Ga-Ga - Mel Giedroyc
From the author of 'From Here to Maternity', a hilarious journey into the exhausting reality of bringing up baby, with sleepless nights, removal men, dodgy au pairs, husband-stealing lodgers, evil parenting manuals and competitive mums. (£10.99)

Hungry Years - William Leith
"Confessions of a Food Addict". In January 2003, William Leith woke up to the fattest day of his life. That same day he left London for New York to interview controversial diet guru Dr Robert Atkins, and began a journey into the mysteries of hunger and addiction. (£7.99)

Shroom - Andy Letcher
Where to stock a book about Magic Mushrooms if not Hebden Bridge? (£12.99)

POETRY

Choice of Anglo-Saxon Verse - ed. Richard Hamer
With parallel verse translation. (£12.99)

Lines of Life: 101 Poems by 101 Women - Germaine Greer (£7.99)

POLITICS

Failed States: America - Noam Chomsky

The US government has routinely cited the threat of 'failed states' to global security. Noam Chomsky argues that America itself is a failed state, and is as such a danger to its people - and, increasingly, to the world. (£16.99)

Imperial Ambitions - Noam Chomsky

Conversations with Noam Chomsky on the Post 9/11 World. (£8.99)

Reflections on Marxism - A P du Toit (£14.99)

Freedom Next Time - John Pilger
The latest hard-hitting investigative book from John Pilger, looking at five countries, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Africa, Palestine and Diego Garciain, in each of which a long struggle for freedom has taken place. In each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting .(£17.99)

Spin Doctor’s Diary - Lance Price
Takes you right inside Number 10, and to the heart of New Labour. While Lance Price was Alastair Campbell's deputy in the Downing Street Press Office at the end of the 1990s and Director of Communications at the Labour party, he kept an informal journal of his experiences. (£8.99)

Not Quite the Diplomat - Chris Patten

"Home Truths About World Affairs." Describes what has been happening in Britain, Europe and the world since 1997 from the perspective of one at the heart of international events. (£8.99)

Go Make a Difference - Jo Bourne

Over 500 daily ways to save the planet, with information from over 300 leading environmental sources and organisations, and covering all aspects of life - from birth to death, via shopping, holidays, DIY and petcare. (£7.99)

Recycle: the essential guide - Duncan McCorquodale

A big, basic introduction to the hows, whats, whens, and wheres of recycling. (£19.95)

Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred - John Lukacs

How democracy has changed, and why we have become vulnerable to the shallowest possible demagoguery, through the gigantic machinery of publicity, substituting propaganda and entertainment for knowledge, and ideology for a sense of history. He’s talking about the US but ... (£9.99)

SCIENCE

Why Birds Sing - David Rothenberg
"One Man's Quest to Solve an Everyday Mystery." The richness and variety of birdsong is both a scientific mystery and a source of wonder. (£8.99)

Warped Passages - Lisa Randall

Unravelling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions.(£7.99)

SPORT & OUTDOORS

On Your Bike - Matt Seaton

"The complete guide to cycling". (£16.99)

Go Climb Book & DVD

Read it, watch it, do it - book and DVD guides for anyone itching to get up off the sofa and go! Step-by-step coaching and inspirational photography to get you started or improve your skills. 30 minute DVD visually reinforces different techniques using 360 degree live-action footage with eye-catching computer graphics. (£9.99)

Vertical Pleasure - Mick Fowler

Early Climbs in Britain, the Alps, the Andes and the Himalaya (£16.99)

Cool Camping - Laura James

The ultimate guide to the perfect outdoor lifestyle, illustrated with photographs of the latest and coolest gear, camping couture and locations packed full of suggestions for the most scenic and unusual camping spots and music festivals around the world. (£9.99)

Mountain Biking: South Dales - Nick Cotton (£15.95)

TRAVEL

Geldof in Africa - Bob Geldof

Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984. The following year, Live Aid inspired a generation to raise millions for the starving in Africa. Over twenty years on, passion undiminished, Geldof returns to what he calls the Luminous Continent. (£7.99)

Rebus’s Scotland: a personal journey - Ian Rankin

The Scotland that the tourist never sees, highlighting the places that inspired the settings for the Inspector Rebus novels. (£7.99)

Almond Blossom Appreciation Society - Chris Stewart
The one-time Genesis drummer turned sheepshearer, and author of 'Driving Over Lemons' is still at El Valero with his family, and life there continues in decidedly oddball fashion. (£6.99)

Greedy Bastard Diary - Eric Idle
The Monty Python star takes us on a hilarious whirlwind tour around America. (£7.99)

New Rough Guide to Britain, Eyewitness Guide to Seville & Andalusia, and Lonely Planet are starting a Best of ... series, including Krakow, Dubrovnik and Reykjavik at £7.99 each with maps.

Provence: a cultural history - Martin Garrett (£12)

No Holiday - Martin Cohen

"80 Places You Don't Want to Visit." Where to go if you have a serious death wish. (£8.99)

Wildlife Traveller: Scottish Mainland, Scottish Islands - Richard Rowe

Super, pocket-sized little colour-illustrated books with guides to good wildlife destinations and what you’ll see when you get there. (£6.99 each)

Harrogate and Wharfe Valley (Walking Country) - Paul Hannon (£5.99)

STATIONERY

Lonely Planet calendars and diaries for 2007

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Mog the Forgetful Cat - Judith Kerr

Board book edition of this classic story which has remained a favourite with children since it was published in 1970. Age: 0 -3yrs. (£5.99)

A Quiet Night In - Jill Murphy

It's Mr Large's birthday and the family are planning to have a quiet night in. But as usual the household is in quite a state of chaos. Ages: 2+. (£5.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Where's Wally - Martin Handford

Three years in the making, this stupendous book is nothing short of a masterpiece.With a stunning die-cut cover to provide a framing finishing touch, this is a triumphant return for the speccy bobble-hatted one, and the old master himself, Martin Handford. Ages 5+. (£9.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

High Rulain - Brian Jacques

Now in Paperback, this is a tale in the true tradition of the Redwall saga. Feasting and fighting, solving riddles from a forgotten volume, and questing in search of her title, Tiria strives to become High Rhulain! Ages: 8+ (£5.99)

Teenage

Spiritwalker - Michel Paver

The sequel to Wolf Brother, now in paperback. Michelle Paver's sheer passion for her story set in a world of myth and natural magic, shines through in this skilfully woven, exciting and brilliantly satisfying second instalment of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. Ages: 12+ (£5.99)

I Coriander - Sally Gardner

A terrific page turner, involving kidnapping, murder and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters; Coriander is a heroine to love. Her story will establish Sally Gardner as a children's writer of boundless imagination and originality. Winner of the Nestle Children's Book Prize Gold Award 2005. Ages: 12+ (£5.99)

MAY 2006

FICTION

HARDBACK

Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
Jason is 13, doomed to be growing up in the most boring family in the deadest village in the dullest county (Worcestershire) in England. And he stammers. This is a portrait of an era and of an age - the black hole between childhood and teenagerdom. From the author of Cloud Atlas. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Homer’s Odyssey - Simon Armitage
The 'Odyssey' is a book of changes, and Simon Armitage's retelling of Homer's epic quickens and revitalizes our sense of it as oral poetryand one of the greatest of tall tales. His version bristles with the economy, wit and guile that we have come to expect from one of the most individual voices of his generation. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Digging to America - Anne Tyler

Two families each adopt a Korean baby - and celebrate Arrival Day every year with more competitive parties: hilarious and toe-curling. Large themes addressed through a small domestic canvas. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Everyman - Philip Roth

The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. From the author of The Plot Against America. (£10)

Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Christopher Brookmyre
From primary school, through secondary school, puberty and adolesence. Twenty years later one of them is dead, one is in intensive care and another is in custody charged with murder. Are the characteristics of an adult killer or his victim visible in the playground or at the school disco? (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Miss Webster & Cherif - Patricia Duncker

A clever, entertaining novel about the friendship between an old woman and a beautiful young man - a comedy of errors set in the aftermath of 9/11, in a darkening world moving towards war. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Londonstani - Malkani Gautam
Debut novel revealing young British Asians and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parents' generation. Funny, crude, disturbing and written in the vibrant language of its protagonists. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Zorro - Isabel Allende

Beneath the mask, there is a man. And in his heart burn the fires of injustice... (£7.99)

Zahir - Paulo Coelho
"A Novel of Love, Longing and Obsession." One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. His search for her - and for the truth of his own life - takes him from France to Spain, Croatia and, eventually, the bleakly beautiful landscape of Central Asia. (See below for reissues.) (£7.99)

Constant Princess - Philippa Gregory
Sumptuous historical novel, telling of the early life of Katherine of Aragon. We think of her as the barren wife of a notorious king; but behind this legacy lies a fascinating story. (£6.99)

Desertion - Abdulrazak Gurnah

Early one morning in 1899, in a small town along the coast from Mombasa, Hassanali sets out for the mosque. But he never gets there, for out of the desert stumbles an ashen and exhausted Englishman who collapses at his feet. From the author of 'By The Sea'. (£7.99)

Lost in the Forest - Sue Miller

A novel about the deepest, truest things about family life - of death and love, growing up and growing older. When Eva’s husband dies in a traffic accident, she struggles with the terror and desolation of loneliness, and finds herself drawn back to her untrustworthy ex-husband. (£7.99)

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared - he had been blissfully unaware that his estranged dad was a god as is his brother Spider, who is trying to take over his life. (£6.99)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan 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'. (£7.99)

Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven - Alan Warner

Visually inventive novel that manages to be provocative, profound, shocking and riotously funny. From the author of 'Morvern Callar' and 'The Sopranos' and 'The Man Who Walks'. (£11.99)

Double Fault - Lionel Shriver
From the author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', a novel about love and marriage. 'Love me, love my game,' says 23-year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf ... (£10.99)

We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Last year’s Orange Prize winner: a novel about a teenage mass-killer and ambivalence about motherhood. (£7.99)

White - Marie Darrieuzzecq
It is 2015. Edmee and Pete are engineers on a remote research station in Antarctica. Both are running from tragic events at home. In this setting of magnificent desolation, just fifteen kilometres from the South Pole, a love affair begins to flourish - until there is a catastrophic power failure at the base ....(£7.99)

Quite Honestly - John Mortimer
Comic novel about a young woman fresh out of university who volunteers to be a "mentor" for ex-cons. (£7.99)

Friendly Fire - Patrick Gale
Social comedy when a 14-year-old orphaned girl who wins a scholarship to an upper-class academy. (£7.99)

Just Like Tomorrow - Faiza Guene

Street-wise first novel and French bestseller: Faiza Guene has created an unforgettable voice in the character of funny, clever, trapped 15-year-old Doria who lives in the sadly misnamed Paradise Estate on the outskirts of Paris. (£5.99)

Home from the Vinyl Cafe - Stuart McLean
Introducing Dave, owner of a downtown Toronto record store and his wife, Morley, chronicling their valiant attempts to rise to the challenges of modern life. Warm and funny. (£6.99)

Vinyl Cafe Unplugged - Stuart McLean
More hilarious tales set in and around the Vinyl Cafe, from master-storyteller. Dave and Morley would tell you that life is what you make it. Unfortunately for them, that means a compilation tape of mistakes, miscues, misunderstandings and muddle. (£9.99)

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. (£6.99)

Bronte Project - Jennifer Vandever
Sara discovers that the life and writings of Charlotte Bronte have more to teach her than she could ever have guessed about the perils and pitfalls of the 21st century relationship game. (£6.99)

Unfeeling - Ian Holding
A first novel that describes the white experience of Zimbabwe. 16-year-old Davey is in the attic when the militia comes. Something keeps him above, locked in shock, as beneath him his parents are murdered and his family's farm is 'reclaimed'. Neighbouring farmers take him in and try to care for him. (£6.99)

First Casualty - Ben Elton
Thought-provoking historical thriller set in 1917 Flanders. (£6.99)

Travel Bug - Sheila Norton

Maddy Goodchild takes off to travel the world, something she has never really considered doing, but a surprise Lottery win means the world is her oyster. (£6.99)

Learning by Heart - Elizabeth McGregor

From the author of 'The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror', a novel set in England and Sicily, exploring the complexities and subtleties of marriage, of lasting love and human frailty. One small, faded, leather-bound journal and a photograph in a newspaper change lives forever. (£6.99)

Girl from the Chartreuse - Pierre Peju
Award-winning and bestselling French novel. One wet afternoon, Etienne Vollard, driving a vanload of books to his shop, knocks down a little girl, Eva. Haunted by guilt, he visits Eva in hospital and reads stories to her while she lies in a coma. He also meets Eva's mother, Therese, a struggling single parent. (£7.99)

Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk
Outrageous, dark, upsetting and hilarious. (£7.99)

Tom Boler - Daren King
Prequel to 'Boxy an Star': an oblique look at the inner-city world of ecstasy, sexual promiscuity and sexual confusion, class conflict and poverty - all through the wide-open eyes of nine-year-old Tom Boler: very innocent, but very eager to try it all. (£6.99)

Calendar of Love - George Mackay Brown
A collection of short stories set on Orkney, with its dark and violent Viking past, the cycle of the seasons, and the struggle of its inhabitants. The characters of these stories - the fishermen, the crofters, the farmers and the wild tinkers - are all struggling to live their lives and find their identities in a harsh habitat and a cruel age. (£6.99)

Back to Bologna - Michael Dibdin
When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation. (£6.99)

Lost Luggage Porter - Andrew Martin
Edwardian detective Jim Stringer goes undercover into the Yorkshire underworld of drifters, pickpockets and train-robbers. Jim is now an official railway detective, working from York Station for the mighty NER company. (£10.99)

Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason
Downtrodden detective Eriendur and his team must once again investigate Reykjavik's hidden past to unravel a case of human nastiness. (£6.99)

Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction - (ed.) Mike Ashley (£7.99)

REISSUES:

From Paulo Coelho, £7.99 each:

Alchemist, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Devil & Miss Prym, Fifth Mountain, Manual of the Warrior of Light, Pilgrimage, Valkyries, Veronika decides to Die

Catalans - Patrick O’Brian

Reissue of his second novel, set amongst the rolling vineyards and gentle courtyards of a small seaside village in Catalonia, a poignant story of tumultuous love, complex faith and one man's desperate bid to reclaim his humanity. (£6.99)

Diary of a Pilgrimage - Jerome K Jerome

From the author of 'Three Men in a Boat', a witty account of a journey to see the famous Passion Play at Oberammergau, part travelogue and part social commentary. Plus six splendid comic essays by the author, and over one hundred illustrations by G G Fraser. (£6.00)

Hillingdon Hall - R S Surtees
A gentle and humorous satire of the fox-hunting gentry written in 1845 and featuring Jorrocks, the good-natured and artful sporting cockney grocer. (£6.00)

House by the Churchyard - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A thrilling tale and a haunting one, with an atmosphere of such uneasy foreboding. (£6.00)

Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope

The fifth in the Barchester series, and some say the best. (£6.00)

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg

An account of a man haunted by the Devil in the form of his own evil double. Hogg's 1824 novel, set in 17th century Scotland, anticipates Dostoevsky's great dramas of sin, self-accusation and damnation by half a century. (£7.99)

Penguin Classics The Epics series, £4.99 each

Celebrating Penguin Classics' 60th Anniversary, twenty short tales of human adventure, legend and myth. At 80-120 pages it looks as though they have extracted the exciting bits from larger works:

Abduction of Sita (Narayan), Descent into Hell (Dante), Beowulf, Destruction of Troy (Virgil), Epic of Gilgamesh, Exodus, Jason and the Golden Fleece (Apollonius of Rhodes), King Arthur’s Last Battle (Malory), Legendary Adventures of Alexander the Great, Odysseus Returns Home (Homer), Madness of Nero (Tacitus), Sagas and Myths of the Norsemen, The Sea, The Sea (Xenophon), Siege of Masada |(Tacitus), Siegfried’s Murder, Sunjata Story, Serpents’ Teeth, Voyage of Sindbad, Xerxes Invades Greece (Herodotus)

Code of the Woosters - P G Wodehouse (3 CDs)

Three CDs, running time 3 hours, with full cast dramatisation starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves with Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster. (£15.99)

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (10 CDs)
A new CD edition of this Spoken Word award-winning Radio 4 drama production, with a 35 strong cast starring Leo McKern, Simon Russell Beale and Emily Mortimer. Full-cast dramatisation, ten CDs, running time 10 hours. (£40)

NON-FICTION

ART

Lowry: A Private View of Public Places - Shelley Rohde

From a local author, a new biography including extracts from collections of private letters now in the public domain. Shelley Rohde has had unparalleled access to the Lowry estate. (£18)

BIOGRAPHY

Race against Time - Ellen MacArthur

The full story of Ellen's epic record breaking solo voyage around the world, now in paperback. (£8.99)

Her Husband - Diane Middlebrook

Now in paperback, a biography of Ted Hughes that provides new insights into one half of one of the twentieth century's most significant literary couples. (£9.99)

Penguin Special - Jeremy Lewis

A fine celebration of Allen Lane’s life and achievements. (£9.99)

Blood and Sand - Frank Gardner
The BBC's security correspondent writes about the attempt on his life, his remarkable recovery and the journeys that have taken him there. (£18.99)

Too Many Mothers - Roberta Taylor

"A Memoir of an East End Childhood." A portrait of an embattled family at war with itself and the outside world. (£7.99)

Infernal World of Branwell Bronte - Daphe du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier uses a novelist's skill to portray the 'unknown' Bronte and his final decline. (£7.99)

From My Sister’s Lips - Naima B Robert

A glimpse into the world of Islam and the women who have chosen to live behind the veil. Offers a candid vision of what it really means to live as a Muslim woman in the west today. (£7.99)

HISTORY

Pompeii - Alex Butterworth and Ray Laurence
This startling book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, and brings this period of flux and instability back to life, plunging us into the everyday life of a city rebuilding itself, after the earthquake of AD59 - all in vain. (£8.99)

War of the World - Niall Ferguson

"History's Age of Hatred 1914-1989". The 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical, often genocidal warfare engulfing most societies. (£25)

Rebel Girls: How Votes for Women Changed Edwardian Lives - Jill Liddington

Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year- old Huddersfield weaver Dora Thewlis on arrest was catapulted onto the tabloid front-pages as Baby Suffragette. Her life was transformed. Dancer Lilian Lenton waited till her twenty-first birthday - then determined to burn two buildings a week until the Liberal government granted women the vote. Rebel Girls shows how this daring campaigning shifted from community suffragettes to militant mavericks. With a chapter on Hebden Bridge suffragist Lavena Saltonstall.

Blitz - Margaret Gaskin

In a vivid and immediate work of historical storytelling, M. J. Gaskin tells the true story of London's desperate hours, and how, across the Atlantic, Americans agonized over the cost of aiding Britain's struggle against the Nazis. (£8.99)

HUMOUR & PUZZLES

Millions of Women are Waiting to Meet You - Sean Thomas
"A Story of Life, Love and Internet Dating." Sean Thomas was single, 37 and a bit desperate to meet the woman of his dreams, when he was asked by the editor of Men's Health to try internet dating. This book tells what happened next, including the Chinese woman who stalked him, the Welsh girl who dumped him because he didn't like soup, and the vivacious young woman who turned out to be rather too professional. (£10.99)

Uxbridge English Dictionary - Jon Naismith

The pick of the Definitions Round from "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue". (£4.99)

Your Cat’s Just Not That Into You - Richard Smith

What part of meow don't you understand? (£5.99)

Purple Ronnie’s Little Book for a Smashing Dad (£4.99)

Bill Oddie’s Little Black Bird Book

Back in print, Bill Oddie’s less than complimentary thoughts on birdwatchers. (£6.99)

Hitori - Yukio Suzuki

The hot new Japanese numbers game. (£4.99)

Hanjie - Yukio Suzuki

Over 100 Japanese puzzles to test your mental acumen. (£4.99)

MBS

Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns

Illustrated collection of stories to tie-in with the TV programme as the Ghost Truck, which moves from town to town seeking new ghostly experiences. (£7.99)

Short History of Myth - Karen Armstrong

Concise investigation into the history of myth from the Palaeolithic period and the mythology of the hunters right up to the 'Great Western Transformation' of the last 500 years. (£6.99)

POETRY & DRAMA

Woods Etc - Alice Oswald
'Woods etc.' is Alice Oswald's third collection of poems and follows the success of her widely acclaimed river-poem, 'Dart', which was awarded the T S Eliot Prize in 2002. Shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection in 2005. (£8.99)

Moortown Diary - Ted Hughes
Originally published in 1979, 'Moortown Diary' is the updated version of Ted Hughes's acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years. (£8.99)

Extended Family - Linda Chase
Poetry containing tender, poignant observations about, love, family, death and human relationships. The author appears at Artsmill this month. (£9.95)

History Boys - Alan Bennett (2 CDs)

Broadcast on Radio 3 , Alan Bennett's first play for the National Theatre since The Madness of King George III, directed by Nicholas Hytner. Double CD, running time 2hrs 30mins, full cast production. (£12.99)

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

50 Facts You Need to Know About Europe - Emma Harley

Attention-grabbing facts and punchy popular analysis. (£9.99)

Toxic Childhood - Sue Palmer

"How Contemporary Culture is Damaging the Next Generation... and What We Can Do About It." One in six children in the developed world is diagnosed as having 'developmental or behavioural problems', and the number is rising by 25% each year - this book explains why and show what can be done about it. Covers issues from bullying to dyslexia, from ADHD to obesity. (£12.99)

Opus Dei - John L Allen

"Secrets and Power Inside the Catholic Church". How true is Dan Brown's depiction of Opus Dei in 'The Da Vinci Code?' John Allen finds out in this timely expose. (£7.99)

SCIENCE

Collins Internet-Linked Dictionary of Human Biology (£9.99)

SPORT

Lance Armstrong - Daniel Coyle

Cyclist Lance Armstrong rewrote the record books in 2005 when he won the Tour de France for an unprecedented seventh time. Fully updated with his farewell 2005 Tour win. (£7.99)

TRAVEL

England in Particular - Sue Clifford

A celebration of the commonplace, the local, the vernacular and the distinctive in our landscape and culture, from the founder directors of the environmental charity Common Ground, (who compiled 'Flora Britannica'). (£30)

Magic Spring - Richard Lewis

"My Year Learning to be English." City dweller Richard Lewis spent 12 months immersed in Merrie England in this very funny account of his attempt to find himself. As a result of his adventures, Richard can now caper in a Morris square, play the hurdy-gurdy and dress convincingly as Coppin the horse. (£8.99)

Piano in the Pyrenees - Tony Hawks

Romantically dreaming of finding love in the mountains, the author impulsively buys an idyllic house in the French Pyrenees. A useful manual of how not to go about buying a house abroad. From the author of "Round Ireland with a Fridge". (£10.99)

Don’t Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs - Paul Carter

"She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse." Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions, Paul has worked in locations from the North Sea to Sumatra, Columbia, Nigeria and Russia, with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet. (£9.99)

Rock Me Amadeus - Seb Hunter

"Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Handel." Once he reached his 30s, Seb knew it was time to try to grow up and enjoy classical music. He embarked on a haphazard journey across Europe that involved angry eunuchs, hallucinating nuns, frustrated minstrels, vomiting at the opera, an assault on the Kremlin and several run-ins with his mother. But will Beethoven roll over? (£12.99)

Three Sheets to the Wind - Pete Brown
"One Man's Quest For the Meaning of Beer." If we're living in the global village, where's its pub? Hilarious travels drinking beer around the world from the author of 'Man Walks into a Pub'. (£10.99)

Castle in Spain - Matthew Parris
Walking in the Pyrenees, 20 years ago, Matthew Parris and his sister came upon a magnificent medieval house with crests and the date 1559 chiselled into the stone. Renovation would be a massive investment of time, money and emotion, an epic undertaking. A few years ago, with his family's help, he went back and bought the place. (£7.99)

Narrow Dog to Carcassonne - Terry Darlington

True story of two pensioners and their whippet who sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France in a narrowboat. Breakdowns, floods, accidents, hangovers, vandals, dicks, trolls, aliens, gongoozlers, killer fish and the walking dead stand between our trepid crew and their goal - many-towered Carcassonne. (£6.99)

Land That Thyme Forgot - William Black
A gastronomic journey around the United Kingdom. Britain has a very rich culinary tradition though it is only now that we seem ready to reclaim it. William Black goes in search of lobscouse in Liverpool, finds salmon in the Severn and cheddar in, well, Cheddar. (£7.99)

And in contrast:

Bad Food Britain - Joanna Blythman
Britain is notorious worldwide for its bad food and increasingly corpulent population but it's a habit we just can't seem to kick. Award-winning investigative food journalist Joanna Blythman takes us on a journey through Britain's contemporary food landscape. (£7.99)

New Rough Guides to England, Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, Wales and Greece.

Reissued: Carol Drinkwater’s Olive Farm and Olive Season (£7.99)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Mister Seahorse - Eric Carle
A stunning new picture book from Eric Carle about Mister Seahorse and other 'male mothers' with special acetate pages that hide fish behind rocks and reeds. As he floats through the sea Mister Seahorse meets other fish fathers caring for their eggs and babies in the most surprising ways. Age: 2 - 5yrs. (£5.99)

The Tickle Book - Ian Whybrow
Pull the tabs and lift the flaps and discover how tickly a book can be. Watch the Ticklemonster in action, tickling his animal friends at every opportunity: monkeys in the train, pigs on the farm, penguins playing and bears in bed. Age: 2 - 5yrs. (£5.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Horrid Henry & The Football Fiend - Francesca Simon
Horrid Henry reads Perfect Peter's diary and improves it. He goes clothes shopping with Mum and tries to make her buy him some Rootatoot trainers. He is horrified when his old enemy Bossy Bill turns up at school. And he tries by any means, fair or foul, to win the class football match and defeat Moody Margaret. Age: 5-9yrs. (£4.99)

RSPB First Book Of Garden Birds - Mike Unwin
A picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children. Each bird is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from the viewer. The text gives some clues and invites readers to guess the bird's identity. The reader then turns the page to find out more. Age: 5+. (£6.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Cry Of The Icemark - Stuart Hill
When her father dies in battle fourteen-year-old Thirrin becomes Queen of the Icemark determined to defend her tiny kingdom from the most terrible invasion her nation has ever known. This is the epic story of how she rallies her country and finds some extraordinary new allies.

Teenage

Ivy - Julie Hearn
A book seething with humanity from the very rich to the very poor and the very good to the very bad. This is children's historical fiction that is both funny fast-paced moving and brilliantly written. Ages: 12+. ( £5.99)

APRIL 2006

FICTION

HARDBACK

Chronicler of the Winds - Henning Mankell

On the rooftop of a theatre in an African port, Nelio, a ten year old boy--"a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet," tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine nights. (£10.99 at The Book Case)

Innocent Traitor - Alison Weir

From the popular historian, a historical novel about the most wronged woman of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey. (£10.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Sea - John Banville

Winner of the 2005 Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. (£7.99)

The Accidental - Ali Smith

A beguiling stranger turns up at a Norfolk holiday home. Whitbread winner and Booker shortlisted. (£7.99)

Long Way Down - Nick Hornby

The story of the Toppers House Four, aka Maureen, Jess, Martin and JJ, a low-rent crowd with absolutely nothing in common - save where they end up that New Year's Eve night. And what they do next, of course... (£7.99)

Espresso Tales - Alexander McCall Smith

Catch up with the occupants of what must surely be Edinburgh's most well-known literary address, and meet more inhabitants of this unique corner of the city! (£6.99)

Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry

A young man leaves Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, but finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 (£7.99)

Ya-Yas in Bloom - Rebecca Wells

The roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s and sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets. (£7.99)

My Father’s Notebook - Kader Abdolah

In a holy mountain in Persia is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute mountain boy, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes passionately of his life, his family and his efforts to make sense of the changes the 20th century brings to his country. Later, exiled in Holland, his son struggles to decipher the notebook. (£12.00)

Condottiere - Edward J Crockett
A classically told adventure that brings fourteenth century Italy vividly to life. (£9.99)

Tourism - Nirpal S Dhaliwal

"A filthy, unflinching and politically incorrect take on modern Britain" from a young Sikh writer. (£7.99)

Lodgers - Nenad Velickovic

A hilarious, unsentimental report from the siege of Sarajevo - "detergent mixed with flour, museum relics sold to UN peacekeepers ..." (£12.50)

Parallel Lies - Stella Duffy
An uneasy Hollywood menage a trois is held together by sex, secrets and the fear of scandal. Then threatening letters start to arrive. The author took part in a Halifax Library Readers’ Event in November. (£7.99)

All Fun & Games Until Someone Loses an Eye - Christopher Brookmyre

Intrigue. Espionage. Advanced technology. Clinical violence. Hoovering. It's the new Christopher Brookmyre novel! (£6.99)

Don’t Know a Good Thing - (ed.) Kate Pullinger

A collection of short stories by women, taking us from icy Alaska to the burnt outback of Australia. It includes tales of murder, loss of innocence, revenge, heroism, and hope. (£6.99)

Broken Verses - Kamila Shamsie

A love story set in 1980s Pakistan. Fourteen years ago Aasmaani's mother Samina, a blazing beauty and fearless activist, walked out of her house and was never seen again. Aasmaani refuses to believe she is dead and still dreams of her glorious return. (£7.99)

Kafka in Bronteland - Tamar Yellin

Thirteen stories from a Haworth area author, giving voice to a rich mix of characters living outside traditional patterns of identity, in a world of complex migrations and tumultuous change. In the title story, a Jew and a Muslim cast adrift in a Yorkshire landscape find momentary sisterhood over a copy of the Koran. (£9.99)

The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God - Etgar Keret

"Warped and wonderful short stories" - snapshots that illuminate the hidden truths of life. (£7.99)

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. (£12.99)

Fiddlers - Ed McBain

Six victims, same gun, no link. The final 87th Precinct novel from the master and published to tie in with the 50th anniversary. (£6.99)

Predator - Patricia Cornwell
The latest instalment in the Dr Kay Scarpetta series. (£6.99)

Blood Eagle - Craig Russell

Introduces us to a new detective, half-Scottish, half-German - and a richly textured scenario where the City of Hamburg plays a central role - it is a city where the old Germany combines increasingly with the new, where gangs from Turkey and the Ukraine battle for supremacy. (£6.99)

Mr Monk Goes to the Firehouse - Lee Goldberg
First in a new mystery series starring the brilliant and slightly neurotic sleuth from the hit BBC 2 series. (£5.99)

Vanishing Acts - Jodie Picoult

Page-turner about what happens when a past we have been running from catches up with us. (£6.99)

Dark Water - Koji Suzuki

A selection of spooky Japanese short stories from the author of 'Ring'. If you saw the film (from behind the sofa) you’ll know what to expect. (£6.99)

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, trans. John Minford

104 unforgettable stories about weird phenomena, in which the everyday is invaded by the supernatural, and the ordinary is disturbed by an eruption of the grotesque. "Regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction." (£9.99)

REISSUES

Elizabeth Taylor, £7.99 each - "I envy anyone who has yet to discover this wonderful author, and offer grateful thanks for bringing her back into circulation." - Publishing News:
Angel
At Mrs Lippincote’s
Blaming
In a Summer Season
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
View of the Harbour

Jessie Phillips - Fanny Trollope

Novel from Trollope’s highly readable mother, about the injustice and cruelty of the times. Someone please adapt her for TV and put her back on the map! (£6.00)

Women’s War - Alexander Dumas

Set during the first turbulent years of Louis 14th's reign in France,: two strong female heroines buckle their swashes. (£9.99)

Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke (£6.99)

Uncle Silas - Sheridan LeFanu (£6.00)

War & Peace - L N Tolstoy (Penguin Read Red)(£8.99)

Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens (orig. illustrations) (£9.95)

Scandal - Shusaku Endo

A respected Japanese Catholic novelist finds himself caught up in a scandal, in book that brings together various philosophical strains, from Buddhism and Christianity to Jungian psychoanalysis. (£10.95)

Light of Day - Eric Ambler

From the vintage thriller writer, the original novel of the film Topkapi and "a model for all those who wish they could write a great crime novel." International jewel thieves in Athens and Turkey. (£6.99)

Complete Brandstetter - Joseph Hansen
All 12 of the Dave Brandstetter novels in one volume - one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators (£12.99)

Katherine - Anya Seton

The love story of Katherine and John of Gaunt. (£6.99)

NON-FICTION

ART

Hand to Earth: Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture, 1976-1990 - (ed.) Terry Friedman
Beautifully produced retrospective survey of Andy Goldsworthy's early work, with photographs of his ephemeral works, and his earliest permanent sculptures constructed of stone and earth, as well as drawings for monumental sculpture projects in the landscape. (£19.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Boudica - Vanessa Collingridge

A vividly written and intensely researched new biography of an iconic figure in British history. (£7.99)

1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - James Shapiro (£9.99)

Mozart’s Women - Jane Glover

"His Family, His Friends, His Music." A major new biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told through the prism of the women in his life. (£7.99)

Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens - Valerie Lester

The first full biography of Dickens's most famous illustrator, by his great-great-granddaughter. Full of his irresistible drawings, it also provides a vivid and colourful picture of the Victorian age. (£8.99)

Unknown Hitler - Ernst Hanfstaengl
"Notes From the Young Nazi Party." Memoirs of life behind the scenes within the young Nazi party's high command, casting light on Adolf Hitler.

Anna of All the Russias - Elaine Feinstein

"A Life of Anna Akhmatova". The life of the Russian poet who withstood Stalinism and became an inspiration to millions. Set during the Stalin era - a period in Russian history that holds enduring interest - this is also a wildly romantic story about a poet who become an icon. (£9.99)

A Woman in Berlin - Anon

"Details chillingly and graphically the final, vengeful days of the Third Reich." (£7.99)

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War - Ernesto Guevara
Che's classic account of the 1956-58 Guerilla movement against the Batista dictatorship, with his own corrections. (£10.95)

Bolivian Diary (authorised edition) - Ernesto Guevara
This is Che Guevara's last diary, compiled from the notebooks found in his knapsack when he was captured by the Bolivian army in October 1967 and subsequently executed. (£10.95)

Che: a Memoir by Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro writes with candour and affection about his legendary partner. (£10.99)

Villain: the life of Don Whillans - Jim Perrin

Joint Winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize 2005. Biography of a climbing legend. (£8.99)

Istanbul - Orhan Pamuk

"Memories of a City." Now in paperback, the bestselling Turkish novelist’s book about the author's love affair with his home city, Istanbul. (£8.99)

Conversations with My Gardener - Henri Cueco

Tales of life, death and lettuce in a French garden. Two men, an artist and his gardener, both advancing in years, converse deep in the French countryside and explore the relationship between gardening, gossip and art. (£6.99)

Sharon & My Mother-in-Law - Suad Amiry

"Ramallah Diaries." Surprisingly funny, and refreshingly different, this memoir describes Saud Amiry's experience of living on the West Bank from the early eighties to the present. (£7.99)

Urban Grimshaw & 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. (£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. (£8.99)

Salaam Brick Lane - Tarquin Hall
A gritty, hilarious and often touching memoir of a year spent living in the immigrant melting pot of London's East End. (£7.99)

REISSUES

Lord God Made Them All - James Herriot
This and the other James Herriot books are being reissued in new covers for a new generation of readers. (£6.99)

GARDENING

RHS Plant Finder 2006-7 (£16.99)

RHS Garden Finder 2006-2007 (£12.99)

Allotment Book - Andi Clevely

Illustrated celebration of 'growing your own' in an allotment - with practical gardening know-how. (£17.99)

Small Ecological Garden - Sue Stickland (£8.99)

Allotment Gardening Handbook - John Smith (£4.99)

HISTORY

Crusades: the War against Islam - Malcolm Billings

Up-to-date history of the Crusades from the First Crusade in 1096 to the fall of the last Crusader kingdom - Malta - in 1798. (£12.99)

Wars of the Roses: the Soldiers’ Experience - Anthony Goodman

The history of the Wars of the Roses from the common soldiers' perspective. (£12.99)

Medici Money - Tim Parks

"Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence." Their name is a byword for wealth and power but before their renown as art patrons and princes, the Medici built their fortune on banking. Tim Parks tells the fascinating, frequently bloody, story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their bank. (£8.99)

Roaring Boys - Judith Cook

Shakespeare's Rat Pack. Playwrights and players in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. (£8.99)

Witchfinders - Malcolm Gaskill

"A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy." How Matthew Hopkins - the Witchfinder General - and John Steame extended their campaign across East Anglia, driven by godly zeal. Exploiting the anxiety and lawlessness of the times, and cheered on by ordinary folk, they extracted confessions of satanic pacts resulting in scores of executions. (£8.99)

Sahib - Richard Holmes

"The British Soldier in India 1750-1914." (£7.99)

Book of English Trades

First published in 1804, 'The Book of English Trades' was a set of books describing the various crafts and trades available to young people. This selection from the original volumes provides a fascinating account of the skills and tools required for 44 of these trades - as well as the financial rewards. (£5.99)

Crack in the Edge of the World - Simon Winchester

The Great Earthquake of San Francisco, 1906. (£8.99)

Longest Winter - Alex Kershaw

A gripping story about a platoon of just 18 men, facing one of the most gruelling attacks in World War II. From the author of 'Bedford Boys'. (£7.99)

Don’t You Know There’s a War On? - Jonathan Croall

"Voices from the Home Front." Between 1939 and 1945, the British civilians were exposed to the realities of war to an unprecedented degree. Yet many found that the common danger gave their lives purpose and a sense of adventure. Others saw wartime as a time of nothing more valiant than endurance. (£8.99)

Dusty Warriors - Richard Holmes

"British Modern Soldiers at War." A compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier, written in the words of the men and women of his regiment who are currently completing a dangerous and bloody six-month tour of duty. (£20)

HUMOUR

Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting - Jane Collier

The first English book on the craft of nagging. Satirical and funny advice from the eighteenth century on the art of getting your own way. (£6.99)

A Book of Senior Moments
Do you need different glasses to find your other two pairs of glasses? Can you name every guest at your fourth birthday party, but can't remember what you're doing tomorrow? (£7.99)

LITERATURE & MEDIA

Twelve Books that Changed the World - Melvyn Bragg

TV tie-in about twelve books and their their huge impact on history. (£20)

Guardian International Film Guide - Daniel Rosenthal

43rd edition of the definitive annual review of world cinema, regarded as 'Wisden for film buffs'. (£18.99)-

Sound of Paper - Julia Cameron
Inspiration and Practical Guidance for Starting the Creative Process. (£7.99)

MBS

Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels contain the secret writings attributed to the followers of Jesus. Reissue of a classic book. (£8.99)

Rough Guide to The Da Vinci Code - Michael Haag
Explores and explains the context of the novel, including: the true history of the Holy Grail, the Priory of Sion, and the debate on Mary Magdalene and the bloodline of Christ. Also location guides to Da Vinci Code sites in Paris, Rome, Jerusalem, New York, London and Edinburgh. (£4.99)

Navigating the Golden Compass - Glen Yeffeth
"Religion, Science and Daemonology in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials". (£12.99)

St George (Pocket Essentials) - Giles Morgan
Bone up on the saint who has "in recent times come to identify a multi-cultural England." (£9.99)

MUSIC

Elgar: Child of Dreams - Jerrold Northrop-Moore
"The perfect short introduction to Elgar"; explores the relationship between the rural landscape and the creativity of one of England’s greatest composers. (£8.99)

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)

RSPB Birds of Britain and Europe (Dorling Kindersley)

The only recognition guide to use a comprehensive photographic approach, with an easy-to-use layout to ensure quick and accurate identification of birds in the field. Includes full-page coverage of the most commonly seen species, plus up-to-date, colour-coded maps highlighting resident and migratory distributions. (£16.99)

Birds of Britain and Europe: a Field Guide (New Holland)

A handy pocket-sized guide to provide quick, accurate and easy identification of over 170 European bird species. Colour photographs show each species with its characteristic features in its natural habitat. (£7.99)

Complete British Wild Flowers - Paul Sterry (Harper Collins)

A complete photoguide to all the wild flowers of Britain. There are 1039 main entries, which include wildflowers, shrubs, aquatic plants, grasses, sedges and rushes. A botanical hotspots section includes 100 rarer species. (£15.99)

POETRY

District & Circle - Seamus Heaney

His first new collection for five years; starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced 21st century. (£12.99)

Thunder Mutters - (ed.) Alice Oswald

Taking for her subject our human planet, Alice Oswald has chosen 101 poems which map the border between the personal and natural worlds. (£6.99)

Unlock - Bei Dao
Poems from the exiled Chinese poet whose poems were thought to have helped inspire the Tiananmen Square demonstrations. (£9.95)

Orphan Sites - Julian Turner

Second collection from the Otley-based funny and irreverent poet. (£7.95)

POLITICS

Not One More Death - John le Carre, Harold Pinter, Richard Dawkins, et al
An attack by leading authors on the occupation of Iraq. (£5.00)

Do the Right Things! - Pushpinder Khaneka
Your wallet can be a weapon in the battle to put people before profits. Foreword by Benjamin Zephaniah. (£7.99)

Human Rights Watch World Report
The annual hard-hitting report on global human rights abuses. (£14.99)

Conspiracy Theories - Robin Ramsay (£9.99)

SCIENCE

Seven Deadly Colours - Andrew Parker

"The Genius of Nature's Palette and How it Eluded Darwin." From the author of 'In the Blink of an Eye', an exploration of the role colour has played in evolution. (£7.99)

SOCIETY

Everything Bad is Good for You - Steven Johnson

"How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter." Argues that mass culture is actually more sophisticated and challenging than ever before as we process its complex, multilayered messages.(£7.99)

Superstitions of Britain and Ireland (£9.99)

SPORT

Za-to-pek! Za-to-pek! Za-to-pek! by Bob Phillips
"The Life and Times of the World's Greatest Distance Runner" - biograpy of the gifted and generous Czech army officer. (£14.95)

TRAVEL

The Caliph's House: a year in Casablanca - Tahir Shah

A highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family's move from the grey skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge-and nothing is as easy as it seems. (£15)

Hike - Don Shaw

Three grumpy old men, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them: a hilarious tale of bum-warmers, crayfish fanciers, East German Trabant enthusiasts, bodger philosophers, sticky ginger cake, gorgeous Peak District countryside, and the subtle art of 'onedownmanship'. (£7.99)

Yes Man - Danny Wallace
Danny Wallace had been staying in too much until that one fateful date when a mystery man on a late-night bus told him to 'Say Yes more'. (£6.99)

Yoga School Dropout - Lucy Edge

A sharply funny travelogue about the author’s quest for serenity and yogic flexibility through the ashrams and gurus of India. (£7.99)

Assassinating Shakespeare - Thomas Goltz

"The True Confessions of a Bard in the Bush." Work your way around Africa putting on one-man Shakespeare performances? This foolhardy notion could only have occured to a naive 21-year-old American, in the anything-goes 1970s. (£8.99)

Good Pub Food - Susan Nowak (£14.99)

New Lonely Planet Guides to Scotland and Greece, Rough Guide to Andalucia, and Alastair Sawday’s Pubs & Inns of England and Wales (Special Places to Stay).

Trips of a Lifetime that Won’t Cost the Earth

101 travel experiences that will enrich the world while enriching your life - a guide for people who are looking at unique and culturally authentic travel experiences. (£11.99)

STATIONERY

Large Weekly Moleskine 18-month Diary/Notebook
Commences July 2006. (£11.50)

Pocket Weekly Moleskine 18-month Diary/Notebook
Commences July 2006. (£8.50)

Large Moleskine Watercolour Notebook (£11.99)

Pocket Moleskine Watercolour Notebook (£8.99)

CHILDREN

Ages 0-5yrs

I’m Special, I’m Me - Ann Meek
Winner of the first Little Tiger Press New Author Prize this is an empowering story of how with imagination and his mum's help one boy turns rejection into triumph. Ages: 2 - 5yrs. (£5.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Eyeknow Tree, Eyeknow Plant, Eyeknow Water - Dorling Kindersley
Take a fresh new look at the world with these fantastically informative books with colourful photography throughout. Age: 5-9yrs. (£4.99)

Mini the Minx - Girl Power
What will The Beano's famous naughty girl do next? Find out in these three entertaining stories Age: 6-9yrs (£3.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Artemis Fowl & The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer
The new Artemis Fowl paperback! This time evil pixie Opal Koboi wants power over everyone not just the fairy people. Captain Holly enlists the help of Artemis Mulch and Butler to stop Opal's plans for world domination. Age: 9+ yrs (£6.99)

Barkbelly - Cat Weatherill
A fantastic epic and magical adventure story set in a beautifully realised world that's almost but not quite like our own. Barkbelly is a wooden boy brought up by loving human parents whose life falls apart when he accidentally kills one of his playmates and has to go on the run. Age 9+yrs (£5.99).

Teenage Hellbent - Anthony McGowan
A brilliantly funny and occasionally tender story about a 16-year-old boy in Hell. Forced to spend eternity in a room of ancient books and a radio that only plays classical music he realises that his personal Hell would be someone else's Heaven and so sets off on a dangerous journey through Hell to find his after-life opposite. Age: 12+ yrs (£6.99)

Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment - James Patterson
Max Ride and her friends grew up in a science lab called the School where they were created as an experiment 98% human. Age: 12+ yrs (£5.99)

MARCH 2006

FICTION

HARDBACK

Tent - Margaret Atwood
Witty and viciously entertaining fictional essays, with illustrations by the author. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Ludmila’s Broken English - D B C Pierre

From the author of 'Vernon God Little', a snakes and ladders world of liberal and conservative high jinks in this dark tale of desire, bullets, globalisation, and the full English breakfast. (£11.99 from The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Booker-shortlisted novel. about the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. (£7.99)

Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks

Explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebi-re and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. (£12.99)

Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood

The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus. Haunting, disturbing and entertaining retelling of the old myth. (£6.99)

Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka

Two Ukrainian sisters are trying to defend their lecherous old dad (who is writing a history of tractors) from a bosomy young gold-digger. Orange and Booker Prize-listed. Mass-market paperback version. (£7.99)

Secrets She Keeps - Helen Cross

A story about greed, beauty, love and loneliness in the twenty-first century by the author of 'My Summer of Love', who took part in the Arts Festival last year. (£7.99)

May Contain Nuts - John O’Farrell

A satire about competitive, over-protective parents driving their children to tutors, to ballet, to insanity. (£6.99)

Understudy - David Nicholls

Life is difficult as as understudy to the 12th Sexiest Man in the World - especially if you fall in love with his wife. (£6.99)

Jealous Ghost - A N Wilson

A reworking of Henry James’s "Turn of the Screw". (£6.99)

Here is Where We Meet - John Berger

A nomadic and playful book which travels through fictions across Europe (and continues January’s fascination with the Undead). (£7.99)

Vibrator - Mari Akasaka
Following a chance encounter with a truck driver one night, Rei Hayakawa, a troubled young journalist, embarks on a journey through the snowy wastelands of northern Japan. Together the unlikely pair explore their sexuality and their demons, and the memories that compel them to keep moving. (£6.99)

Book of Loss - Julith Jedamus
Sexual jealousy in the world of Imperial 10th-century Japan. (£6.99)

Daniel Isn’t Talking - Martin Leimbach
Explores the effects of autism on a young family. (£10.99)

Moses Citizen & Me - Delia Jarrett-Macauley

When Julia flies into war-scarred Sierra Leone from London, she is apprehensive about seeing her uncle Moses for the first time in twenty years. But nothing could have prepared her for her encounter with her eight-year-old cousin, Citizen, a former child soldier. (£10.99)

Melted into Air - Sandi Toksvig

Frances Angel, drunk and disgruntled, arrives in Italy, leaving behind her dazzling career as a successful theatrical impresario and falls into an eclectic group of performance artists, ex soldiers and a housewife who really just wants to paint something to match her settee. (£6.99)

26A - Diana Evans

Identical twin girls live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue, a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Down below there is not such harmony. Their Nigerian mother puts cayenne pepper on her Yorkshire pudding and has mysterious ways of dealing with homesickness and their father angrily roams the streets of Neasden, prey to the demons of his Derbyshire upbringing.(£6.99)

Ice Queen - Alice Hoffman

A little girl makes a wish one snowy night and ruins her life - until one day, standing by her kitchen window, she is struck by lightning and seeks out Lazarus Jones, a fellow lightning survivor. (£5.99)

Wreckage - Niall Griffiths
The money's been stolen from the remote North Wales post office, but Darren's been over-enthusiastic with the lump hammer and when he and Alastair get back to Liverpool, and try and spend the cash on a consignment of pure cocaine they get involved with some seriously dangerous criminals. (£6.99)

Speak for England - James Hawes

From the author of 'A White Merc With Fins'. A divorced, ineffectual teacher, reluctant contestant on the ultimate reality TV show Brit Pluck, is all alone in a jungle about to die live on television. (£6.99)

Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance - Matthew Kneale

Twelve stories set in lands ranging from England to China, South America, the Middle East, and Africa, about ordinary people as they try to survive and make sense of their worlds. (£7.99)

People in Glass Houses - Shirley Hazzard

Eight stories linked by a scorching contempt for the Organization, a polyglot crucible in which talent rots and mediocrity thrives, in which the 'rights of man' are unthinkingly sacrificed on the altar of inter-departmental strife. (£7.99)

QUICK READS:

A World Book Day promotion to introduce a whole new audience to the pleasure of reading. A series of books at £2.99 with authors including Joanna Trollope, Ruth Rendell, and Maeve Binchy.

FANTASY

Traveller - John Twelve Hawks

In the shadows of our modern society, an ancient conflict between good and evil is being fought. (£6.99)

Practical Demonkeeping - Christopher Moore

The story of a memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and 'roads' scholar Travis O'Hearn, and the green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. (£6.99)

CRIME FICTION

Minotaur - Barbara Vine
Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways, to act as nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters. (£6.99)

Blood from a Stone - Donna Leon

On a cold Venetian night, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano - he was working as a vu cumpra, one of the many Black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits. (£6.99)

Cross Bones - Kathy Reichs

The eighth Temperance Brennan thriller, full of biblical archaeology, Holy Land history and geography. (£6.99)

Forest of Souls - Carla Banks
Psychological thriller, taking the reader from 21st century Britain to the darkest days of war-torn Eastern Europe. The author recently came to a Reader’s Day at Halifax Library. (£6.99)

Romanitas Vol. 1 - Sophia McDougall

First of a trilogy. Imagine the Roman Empire is still flourishing today. Magnetic railways span Roman territory from Persia to Terranova, and mechanised crucifixes are ranked along the banks of the Thames. Marcus Novius Faustus Leo, heir apparent to the Imperial throne, is mourning the death of his parents following a tragic accident ... (£6.99)

Last Templar - Raymond Khoury

1291 AD, Acre. As the city burns, the Falcon Temple sets sail, with a small band of knights and a mysterious chest, but vanishes without trace. In present day New York, four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures in the Metropolitan Museum. (£6.99)

Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell

A disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray when he becomes both hunter and hunted. (£6.99)

Hidden - Paul Jaskunas
Maggie Wilson lies unconscious on her bedroom floor, but she is still alive. And she knows who attacked her. Her testimony was enough to put her husband behind bars, but another man has confessed to the crime. (£6.99)

Gladiator Dies Only Once - Steven Saylor (£6.99)

REISSUES

Rashomon & Seventeen Other Stories (£6.99)

Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell (Oxford) (£4.99)

Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope (Nonsuch) (£6.00)

Warden - Anthony Trollope (Nonsuch) (£6.00)

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury (£6.99)

Village in the Jungle - Leonard Woolf
The classic novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka), first published in 1913 and written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, husband of Virginia Woolf. (£12.99)

Val McDermid, £6.99 each:

Mermaids Singing, Wire in the Blood, Last Temptation, Place of Execution, Killing the Shadows, Distant Echo

NON-FICTION

ART

Goya’s Last Works - Jonathan Brown (£35)

On DVD from the National Gallery at £15: British Painting, 1700-1850; Early Renaissance Painting, 125-1450; Take One Picture (for introducing school children to art)

Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People - Melanie Anne Herzog (£5.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Attila the Hun - John Man
The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun, a leader whose unique qualities made him supreme among tribal leaders, but whose weaknesses ensured the collapse of his empire after his death. (£7.99)

Letters of Samuel Pepys, ed. Guy de la Bedoyere (£25)

First selection to be published since 1933.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T E Lawrence (Nonsuch)
T E Lawrence's epic that is part traditional history and travel-writing and part philosophical work. (£10)

Chernobyl Strawberries
When Vesna Goldsworthy's son was two years old, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and decided to write a memoir, allowing him to know who his mother had been, and the experience of being caught between cultures, belonging to neither.(£7.99)

White Masai - Corinne Hofmann

Now in paperback, the highly readable story of the love affair and marriage of a competent young Swiss woman and a Masai warrior. (£7.99)

Mozart in the Jungle - Blair Tindall
"Sex, Drugs and Classical Music." Exposes the rock and roll reality of the life of a classical musician. (£8.99)

Ghost Girl - Torey Hayden
The true story of a child in desperate peril - and a teacher who saved her. (£6.99)

Dear Austen - Nina Bawden

Nina Bawden's husband, Austen Kark, was killed in the Potters Bar Train Crash. This is her moving tribute to him and their life together. She also uses her literary talents to tell of how she has become, in her late seventies, a spokesman for the survivors - for she was on the train too. (£6.99)

With Billie - Julia Blackburn
A life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. (£7.99)

Don’t You Have Time to Think - Richard Feynman
A collection of Feynman's never-before published letters to and from friends and family, fans and critics, lovers and colleagues. (£7.99)

Way We Wore - Robert Elms

"A Life in Threads." Memoir of one man's lifelong passion for getting the look just right. (£6.99)

GARDENING

Wildlife Friendly Garden - Michael Chinery (£9.99)

Garden Specialist series (£4.99 each): Herb Garden, Small Garden, Pruning, Container, Tree & Shrub, Water Garden

HISTORY

Legend of the Grail - Nigel Bryant (£9.99)

A Dictionary of Northern Mythology - Rudolf Simek (£16.99)

Barbarian Lives - Terry Jones

TV tie-in - the story of Rome as seen by the Britons, Gauls, Germans, Hellenes, Persians and Africans - collectively known as the Barbarians. Did you know that the Goths didn't sack Rome, the Romans did? (£17.99)

Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450 - Elizabeth Crowfoot (£19.99)

At Day’s Close - A Roger Ekirch

"Night in Time's Past." Nocturnal life from the late medieval period to the Industrial Revolution. (£7.99)

Waterways Past & Present - Derek Pratt

This is a unique photographic record of Britain's magnificent and varied waterways heritage, looking at 40 transitional years when Britain's inland waterways changed from being a thriving commerical transport system to the varied and beautiful pleasure cruising network it is today. (£19.99)

Easter 1916: the Irish Rebellion - Charles Townshend

90 years on - the events that changed Irish history forever. (£8.99)

We Are At War - Simon Garfield
"The Remarkable Diaries of Five Ordinary People." Beginning in the weeks before WWII, and ending a year later with the Battle of Britain, this book will tell the story of the phony war on the home front. (£7.99)

LANGUAGE

In addition a string of new Collins Gem dictionaries, there are a new Chambers Giant Paperback Dictionary and Giant Paperback Thesaurus (£8.99 each)

MBS

Consciousness: a User’s Guide - Adam Zeman

An enlightening view of consciousness seen through the lenses of science and philosophy, enhancing his discussion with case studies of neurological patients and observations of young children's expanding mental worlds. (£10.99)

Getting to Know Me: Encouraging Positive Attitudes in Children - John Taylor (£15)

NATURE AND ANIMALS

RSPCA Complete Cat Care Manual - Andrew Edney (£9.99)

RSPCA Complete Dog Care Manual - Bruce Fogle (£9.99)

POETRY & LITERATURE

Incredible Good Fortune - Ursula Le Guin (£12.99)

Oxford Companion to the Brontes - Christine Alexander

Comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontes, aiming to evoke the milieu in which they lived and worked, revealing the complex interrelation between their lives, writings, and times. (£14.99)

Founding of Arvon - John Moat

John Moat recalls how in 1968 he and John Fairfax created the Arvon Foundation, a charity running residential writing courses at centres across England. (£12.99)

Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama: Faber Pocket Guide (£7.99)

POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS

Enemy Combatant - Moazzam Begg

"A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back." The extraordinary account of one of nine Britons held without trial or charge at Guantanamo Bay - what he endured there and elsewhere, why he was arrested in the first place, and what it means to an intelligent Muslim man in a world where to be so places you under suspicion. (£18.99)

Brief Guide to Islam

The story of Islam and the reality behind the headlines. (£9.99)

Hope in Hell - Dan Bortolotti

Inside the World of Medicines Sans Frontieres. Updated with new post-Tsunami material. (£12.95)

Moral State We’re In - Julia Neuberger
A study of the moral state of the nation - the acid test of this being how we treat the weakest among us. (£8.99)

Orange Revolution - Askold Krushelnycky
"A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History." The inside story of the most important events in Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. (£8.99)

Yob Nation - Francis Gilbert
A devastating look at the state of Britain today, a country being steadily corroded and coarsened by the advance of Yob Culture. (£12.99)

The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
New York Times bestseller. Friedman demystifies the exciting, often bewildering, global scene unfolding before our eyes, one which we sense but barely yet understand. (£8.99)

Last of the Celts - Michael Tanner
What has become of the Celtic peoples whose culture once spanned Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea? (£11.99)

Fall of Baghdad - Jon Lee Anderson
A masterpiece of literary reportage about the experience of ordinary Iraqis living through the endgame of the Hussein regime, its violent fall, and the troubled American occupation. (£9.99)

SCIENCE & MATHS

Whitakers Almanack Little Book of Infinity (£9.99)

Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

Third edition to mark the 30th anniversary of publication with enlarged review section, with extracts from a range of early reviews highlighting the book's importance and influence. (£8.99)

Singing Neanderthals - Steven Mithen
"The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body". (£8.99)

21st-Century Brain - Steven Rose
"Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind." (£8.99)

SPORT

Climb When Ready DVD - UIAA Rock Climbing Instructors (£19.99)

Games Climbers Play - Ken Wilson (£10.99)

World Climbing: Images from the Edge (£24.95)

TRAVEL

Great British Bus Journeys - David McKie
Starting on a green bus in Leeds and culminating atop the number 94 as it speeds towards Trafalgar Square, the author reclaims British towns from the embarrassment and neglect for which they are famed. (£16.99)

Jesus Weed - Gerald Taylor
"The Misadventures of a Young Man in Search of the Perfect High" - from New Zealand to Thailand, San Francisco, Mexico and Afghanistan. (£7.99)

Meadowlands - Robert Sullivan

By the author of 'Rats’, an ode to an untamed, vilified, half-developed and smelly tract of swampland.five miles west of New York City. (£8.99)

Rats - Robert Sullivan

"A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants." Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable. (£8.99)

Freewheeling through Ireland - Edward Enfield

When Edward Enfield decided to cycle around Ireland, he was enchanted by prehistoric fortresses, rugged landscapes, and landladies who insisted on washing his shirts. (£7.99)

Rat Scabies & the Holy Grail - Christopher Dawes

A psychedelic road trip involving the former drummer with The Damned and a search for the Holy Grail. And that’s enough rats for this month. (£7.99)

Haunted Britain - Derek Acorah
An extensive guide covering one hundred 'haunted' sites throughout the British Isles. It includes stories of Derek's incredible ghostly encounters, and a guide to what you can expect to find at each location, as well as detailed information on opening hours and access. (£10.99)

Bollocks to Alton Towers - Jason Hazeley

"Uncommonly British Days Out. "A search for the country's most charming and eccentric days out. (£7.99)

Nicholson Guide to Waterways 5: North-West & the Pennines (£12.99)

Inland Waterways Map of Great Britain (Nicholson) (£7.99)

Rough Guide Maps of France and Spain & Portugal (£5.99 each) and Mini Rough Guides to London, Paris and New York (£6.99 each)

New Eyewitness Guide Top 10 Travel Guide to New York (£6.99)

Sarajevo & Surrounding Areas - Tim Clancy (£14.99)

Also in the series are Herzegovina and Central & North Bosnia.

Independent Hostel Guide 2006 (£4.95)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Orange, Pear, Apple, Bear - Emily Gravett

A simple and beautiful picture book in which the four words are rearranged on each page to create a series of playful images. Wonderfully original and humorous. Ages: 2yrs. (£6.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

The Trimoni Twins and the Sunken Treasure - Pam Smallcomb

Second adventure featuring the Trimoni twins is ideal for entertaining and encouraging a love of reading . Age: 7-9yrs. (£4.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

A Darkling Plain - Philip Reeve

Philip Reeve brings us the final adventure in this critically acclaimed award-winning quartet. The fate of Tom Hester and Wren will be decided as the future of the entire human race also hangs in the balance. Will the Green Storm emerge victorious, or the ancient moving cities? Age: 9+ yrs (£12.99)

Candyfloss - Jacqueline Wilson

Another brilliantly evocative portrait of modern life from the mega seller. Floss's parents are divorced and when her mum moves to Australia Floss decides to live with her dad. They join a travelling fair and run a candy floss stand.Ages 9+ (12.99)

Teenage

Forged in the Fire - Ann Turnbull

A powerful story about how love and belief can overcome even the most terrifying twists of fate, this beautifully written tale will capture the imaginations of readers of all ages. The story is set in London 1666 as the Plague rages and the scent of smoke is upon the wind. Age: 12+ yrs (£6.99)

FEBRUARY 2006

FICTION

HARDBACK

Second Honeymoon - Joanna Trollope

Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two he's the youngest in the family. His mother Edie, an actress, is distraught, his father Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back, after decades of family life. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Boudica: the Serpent Spear - Manda Scott

Set against Rome's attempted destruction of the Celtic civilisation, the final novel in the Boudica quartet focuses on the action of the Boudica revolt and its devastating consequences. (£15.99 at The Book Case)

Please Mr Einstein - Jean-C Carriere

A young woman enters a building in a nameless contemporary European city. She walks into a waiting room where a dozen people, with briefcases or sheaves of documents, are gathered, and is ushered into a large office where she meets Albert Einstein. Makes complex concepts of physics and philosophy accessible to the non-scientific reader in a captivating manner. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Cold Comfort - Susannah Waters

How do you cope with an obsession that the world is going to end? Tammy is a highly strung teenager convinced that global disaster is looming. She lives on an island in the far North - global warming is causing it to sink. But the quirky community around her are in denial. (£11.99 at The Book Case)

Grave Tattoo - Val McDermid
When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, old wives' tales also come swirling to the surface .(£15.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

People’s Act of Love - James Meek
Booker longlisted novel set in 1919 Siberia. Stationed in the midst of a small Christian sect is a company of Czech soldiers, on the losing side of the recent conflict and desperate to get home. Into this isolated community trudges Samarin, an escapee from Russia's northernmost prison. (£7.99)

Boudica: Dreaming the Hound - Manda Scott
Set in Iron-Age Britain, the third story in the life of the world's most famous warrior queen. Follows 'Dreaming the Eagle' and 'Dreaming the Bull'. (£6.99)

Leaving Home - Anita Brookner
When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth-century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a guest. (£7.99)

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. (£6.99)

Come Dance with Me - Russell Hoban
Since the age of thirteen, Christabel Alderton has been troubled by a sort of second sight that works sometimes, but not always. Death is much on her mind because the men in her life tend to die before their time and she's come to think she's bad luck. (£7.99)

Villages - John Updike
The life, romantic and otherwise, of Owen Mackenzie as he moves from Willow, in eastern Pennsylvania, to Haskells Crossing, in eastern Massachusetts. (£7.99)

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 twelfth instalment of the Flashman Papers. (£7.99)

Icarus Girl - Helen Oyeyemi
Sensitive, imaginative 8-year-old Jessamy is the half-and-half child of an English father and a Nigerian mother, and can't shake off the feeling of being alone. When she is taken to her mother's family compound in Nigeria, she encounters a ragged little girl her own age and it seems that at last she has found someone who will understand her. (£7.99)

Secret River - Kate Grenville

From Orange prize-winning author, a story of transportation to New South Wales in 1806 and the challenges of being a settler in lush 'unclaimed' land. (£12.99)

Yesterday’s Houses - Mavis Cheek

When Marianne Flowers is invited to a party by a stranger, she has no idea that it is here that she will set eyes on the love of her life: a beautiful bathroom. (£10.99)

My Life as Emperor - Su Tong
A tale of power and corruption, set amid the ornate and crumbling Chinese court. (£7.99)

Republic of Trees - Sam Taylor

Four children on the edge of adolescence run away to the forest to establish their own utopian community. All goes well to start with. (£7.99)

Valley - Barry Pilton

Satire on the countryside in crisis, and a cautionary tale of urban refugees in search of Eden. If it’s anything like "One Man and his Bog" (his encounter with the Pennine Way) it’ll be hilarious! (£7.99)

Garlic Ballads - Mo-yan
Banned in China, a bawdy, mystical and brawling novel of love and loyalty, beauty and brutality, by one of China's greatest living writers. (£7.99)

Gilead - Marilyn Robinson
In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. By the author of 'Housekeeping'. (£7.99)

Luck - Joan Barfoot

From the author of "Gaining Ground". What happens to three women - an ex-beauty-queen, a recovering addict to virtue and an artist when the man of the big old house on the hill is suddenly dead? (£6.99)

Swallowing Grandma - Kate Long
Katherine Millar is eighteen, and desperate for lots of things - to be thinner and less swotty, and to have cooler friends. But most of all she wishes that she had two parents instead of her one grandma, Poll. From the author of 'The Bad Mother's Handbook'. (£6.99)

Rapids - Tim Parks

In the dramatic landscape of the Italian Alps a group of English canoeists arrive for an introduction to white water combined with a 'community experience.' Meanwhile, the hottest summer on record is filling the glacier-fed rivers with melt water. (£6.99)

Colour of a Dog Running Away - Richard Gwyn

Set in the bohemian under-belly of Barcelona, this novel combines an urban thriller and a gothic historical drama focusing on Catharism. (£6.99).

Crooked Angels - Carol Lee
Traveling through Tanzanian landscapes and a Middle Eastern desert, this story charts a journey in which a fit, successful woman wakes up one morning to find something terribly wrong. (£7.99)

Kaitlyn - Kevin Lewis

At the age of 6, Kaitlyn witnesses her father almost kill her younger brother Christopher in an alcoholic rage, and as a result, he is taken away and adopted into a wealthy, privileged family. But she never forgets her brother. (£6.99)

Ex-Wife’s Survival Guide - Deborah Holt

Funny and feel-good debut romantic comedy - a woman is caught off-guard when her husband of over twenty years declares that he's leaving her for his gorgeous, young costar in the town's local drama production. (£6.99)

Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon - Dean Bakopoulos

When Michael was sixteen his father left home. One by one, other men in the blue-collar neighbourhood outside Detroit vanish. Michael and his friends grow up, try to get an education, start their first jobs... A novel of fathers and sons, and of growing up the hard way. (£7.99)

Q & A - Vikas Swarup

A warm-hearted first novel from a fresh, irreverent comic Indian voice - a quiz show of life for the twenty-first century. (£6.99)

Oh My Stars - Lorna Landvik

Abandoned by her mother as a child, mistreated by her father, and teased by her schoolmates, Violet Mathers finds solace in artistic pursuits. It's only when she's hired by the town's sole feminist to work the night shift in the local factory that Violet blooms. (£6.99)

Sea Otters Gambolling in the Wild Wild Surf - John Bennett

Sixteen-year-old Felix is bored and stressed about his 'A' Level results, work and his future. But it’s curiosity that initiates the bizarre quest that takes him half way round the world on a stolen debit card - curiosity about a statue he finds depicting a fat man and a sea otter in sexual congress. (£6.99)

How We Are Hungry - Dave Eggers

Dark, funny, inspiring, daring and endlessly inventive short stories from one of the modern masters of the form. (£7.99)

Elastic Book of Numbers - (ed.) Ashley Allen
A collection of 21 stories examining the effect of numbers on humankind's past, present and future. (£6.00)

Goodnight Nobody - Jennifer Weiner
For Kate Klein, semi-accidental mother of three, the unsolved murder of a fellow mother is the most interesting thing to happen since the neighbours cracked their septic tank. (£6.99)

Devil’s Stocking - Nelson Algren
Algren's last novel tells the story of Ruby Calhoun, a boxer accused of murder in a shadowy world of low-purse fighters, cops, con artists and bar girls. (£9.99)

Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. (£6.99)

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. (£6.99)

Little Scarlet - Walter Mosley
A thriller set in the LA riots now in paperback. (£6.99)

Telling Tales - Ann Cleeves

In a Yorkshire village, after years of deadly silence, a killer re-emerges. (£6.99)

Mammoth Book of Vintage Whodunnits - (ed.) Maxim Jakubowski

The years 1850-1905 represent the pre-Golden Age of crime writing. This anthology includes a surprising number of authors not commonly associated with crime fiction - such as Alexandre Dumas, Alexander Pushkin, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stephenson, Arnold Bennett, Mark Twain and more. (£7.99)

REISSUES

Empire of the Sun - J G Ballard (£7.99)

Stone Book Quartet - Alan Garner (£7.99)

House of Mirth - Edith Wharton (£7.99)

Children - Edith Wharton (£7.99)

Jingo - Terry Pratchett (£6.99)(and other Discworld novels)

Reissues from Ian Rankin at £6.99 each:

Watchman

Witch Hunt

Bleeding Hearts

Blood Hunt

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Bonfire of Berlin - Helga Schneider

Powerful and moving memoir of Helga Schneider's abandonment by her parents and her terrifying childhood in wartime and post-war Berlin. (£7.99)

Stuart: Life Backwards - Alexande Masters

Biography of a homeless man and portrait of the hidden underclass. Guardian and Whitbread shortlisted. (£7.99)

By Myself and Then Some - Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall was barely 20 when she made her Hollywood debut with Humphrey Bogart and became an overnight sex symbol. Now at 80, she brings her story up to date. (£8.99)

GARDENING

RHS Encyclopaedia of Plants and Flowers

The classic must-have for any gardener planning, developing and nurturing their dream garden, from the experts at the RHS. Advice on over 8,000 plants with all you need to know on cultivation, pests, diseases and choosing the right plant for the right place. Illustrated. (£35)

Yellow Book 2006

Lists around 3300 gardens in England and Wales which open for charity. Published by The National Gardens Scheme (NGS) in February 2006 to support nursing, caring and gardening charities. (£7.99)

Gem Container Gardening (£4.99)

Gem Garden Ponds (£4.99)

No Nettles Required - Ken Thompson

"The Reassuring Truth About Wildlife Gardens.". (£10)

HISTORY

AD 500 - Simon Young

"A Journey Through the Dark Side of Britain and Ireland." From an ex-Hebden Bridge man, a practical survival guide for the use of civilised visitors to the barbaric islands of Britain and Ireland. Cheviot bandits, bizarre forms of Christianity, boat burials, peculiar haircuts, human sacrifice, poetry competitions, slave markets, the legend of King Arthur - these are the realities of life in the sixth century AD. (£8.99)

Hollow Crown - Miri Rubin

Brings to life the lost world of the Later Middle Ages- a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war - but which continues to define so much of England's national myth. (£8.99)

Wars of the Roses - Robin Neillands

A concise and entertaining study of the vicious wars between the English noble houses of York and Lancaster during the 15th century. (£7.99)

On Hitler’s Mountain - Irmgard Hunt

Irmgard Hunt was born into Nazi Germany in 1934 and brought up just outside the fence that surrounded Hitler's alpine retreat and headquarters. As a model Aryan toddler, she was photographed sitting on Hitler's knee. She reveals the creeping Nazification of Germany and shows how ordinary people were seduced - and cowed - by the campaigns set in train by their leaders. (£14.99)

Hitler’s Piano Player - Peter Conradi

"The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl." The incredible story of the man who funded Mein Kampf and helped create the monster of Nazism before later working to destroy it. (£8.99)

Great Plains - Classics of Reportage - Ian Frazier
A journey through the vast and myth-inspiring empty plains - from tumbleweed and American Indian tepees to the house where Bonnie and Clyde did their dirty work to the scene of the murders in Capote's 'In Cold Blood'. One of a new new series. (£8.99)

Point of Departure- Classics of Reportage - James Cameron
A classic memoir by one of the great British journalists of the twentieth century. 'Point of Departure' features Cameron's eyewitness accounts of the atom bomb tests at Bikini atoll, the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the war in Korea; and vivid evocations of his encounters with Mao Tse-tung and Winston Churchill. One of a new new series. (£8.99)

HUMOUR

Ladies of Letters Go Global
Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales star in the popular Radio 4 series, Ladies of Letters. Now that the ladies have discovered e-mail they are free to roam the globe - and in this series they do just that. Single CD, running time 75 minutes. (75-min. CD, £10.99, cassette, £8.99)

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

The Brontes (Authors in Context) - Patricia Ingham

Shows how the Brontes’ works reflect the preoccupations of the age in which they lived and address the burning issues of the day: class, gender, race, religion, and mental disorders; how film and other media have reinterpreted the novels for the twenty-first century. Includes a chronology of the Brontes, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. (£7.99)

Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg

"Freeing the Writer Within." New Pocket Classic edition of the perennially popular creative writing guide. (£4.99)

MBS

Racism Explained to My Daughter - Tahar ben Jelloun
For all parents and educators who have struggled to engage their children in discussions of this complex issue. (£7.99)

Bluffer’s Guide to Psychology (£3.99)

Zen Meditation Balls Kit ZEN
Complete kit containing 2 Zen meditation balls, a silky bag plus an 88 page book. (£5.99)

Zen Mum
A relaxing Mother's Day treat for frazzled mums everywhere. Kit contains heart-shaped bath fizz, a bar of soap, lip balm and an 88 page book. (£5.99)

NATURE & PETS

Making of the English Landscape - W G Hoskins

Reissued in its fifteenth anniversary year. (£12.99)

If Your Dog Could Talk - Bruce Fogle

Practical advice on how your dog communicates with you through its body language and habits so you can minimise unwanted doggy behaviour. (£9.99)

Practical Dog Listener - Jan Fennell
"The 30-Day Path to a Lifelong Understanding of Your Dog." (£10.99)

POETRY

Selected Poems - Tony Harrison
Includes 63 poems from his sonnet sequence "The School of Eloquence" and the remarkable long poem 'v', a meditation in a vandalized Leeds graveyard, written during the miners' strike. (£8.99)

Selected Poems - Carol Ann Duffy

Contains poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed volumes, 'Standing Female Nude', 'Selling Manhattan', 'The Other Country' and 'Mean Time', as well as six poems from the later 'The World's Wife'. (£8.99)

Selected Poems - Roger McGough
An updated selection of Roger McGough's finest verse: the complete span of McGough's writing, from the 1960s to the new millennium, is covered. (£8.99)

POLITICS AND CURRENT EVENTS

Aquariums of Pyongyang - Kang Chol-Hwan

"Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag." This terrifying memoir is the first personal documentation of life in the North Korean labour camps, from a survivor and escapee of the communist regime's prisons. (£8.99)

Confessions of an Economic HitMan - John Perkins

"The Shocking Story of How America Really Took Over the World" - a real-life tale of international intrigue and corruption, this work reveals the hidden mechanics of imperial control behind such major international events as the fall of the Shah, the death of Panamanian president Omar Torrijos, and the invasions of Panama and Iraq, (£7.99)

Unspeak - Steven Poole
Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings: Climate Change is less threatening than Global Warming. Traces the globalizing wave of modern Unspeak - from culture wars to the culture of war - and reveals how everyday words are changing the way we think. (£9.99)

Human Cargo - Caroline Moorehead
True stories of refugees around the world today, by a committed campaigner for human rights. (£7.99)

God’s Terrorists - Charles Allen

"The Wahhabi Cult and Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad." In this important study, Charles Allen examines the silent history of the Wahhabi, a fundamentalist tribe whose teachings still influence extreme Islamic terrorists, most notably the Taliban. (£20)

Granta Book of Reportage
This updated edition of 'The Granta Book of Reportage' collects a dozen of the finest and most lasting pieces Granta has published, featuring writing by James Fenton, Martha Gellhorn, Germaine Greer, Ryszard Kapuscinski, John le Carre, John Simpson and more. (£9.99)

Very Short Introduction to Global Catastrophes

Tackles the Big Question: How long will humanity survive? This edition has been updated following the tragic events of the Asian Tsunami. (£6.99)

SCIENCE

Chambers Science Factfinder
Accessible introduction to a broad range of scientific topics for students and all interested in science. (£9.99)

TRAVEL

Blue-Eyed Salaryman - Niall Murtagh

"From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi." Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveller - hitchhiking to Istanbul, bussing to Kathmandu and crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986 he settled down in Japan and joined Mitsubishi as a Salaryman. (£8.99)

Stones of Florence & Venice Observed - Mary McCarthy

Vivid and perceptive descriptions of two great Italian cities, told through their history and art. (£8.99)

Price of Water in Finistere - 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. (£6.99)

Way of the White Clouds - Anagarika Govinda

Reissue of a classic spiritual travelogue through Tibet. (£12.99)

Pocket Eyewitness Guides (with map) to Paris, Barcelona, Florence, New York and Prague (£3.99 each) and a Footprint guide to Antwerp and Ghent,

Times Atlas of the World (Mini Edition) (£6.99)

AND SOME LATE ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR JANUARY 2006

FICTION

Sellevision - Augusten Burroughs
'Sellevision' is America's premier retail broadcasting network but then their star presenter, handsome (and lonely and gay) Max accidentally exposes himself on air, and another popular host receives sinister emails about her appearance. From the author of 'Running with Scissors'. (£7.99)

Successor - Ismail Kadare

Set in Albania at an unnamed time, this novel charts the repercussions of the death of the regime leader's designated successor; did he kill himself, or was he murdered? The author won the inaugural Man International Booker Prize in 2005. (£9.99)

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness - Richard Yates
Eleven short stories from the author of 'Revolutionary Road' examine every frayed corner of the American Dream. (£7.99)

REISSUE

Walk on the Wild Side - Nelson Algren
A twentieth-century classic that inspired Lou Reed's most famous song. (£8.99)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

A Month and a Day and Letters - Ken Saro-Wiwa

To mark the 10th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s tragic, brutal death and the role of government and oil companies, a reissue of "A Detention Diary" and letters smuggled to and from Ken during his final days in detention in 1995. (£9.99)

GARDENING

Close to the Veg: A Book of Allotment Tales - Michael Rand

From one of the BBC Big Dig allotment holders, musings and advice for urban gardeners. (£10.99)

NATURE

English Meadow - Yvette Verner

A lyrical account of English meadowland and its importance. (£12.99)

TRAVEL

From the AA, a new Street by Street series:

Leeds-Bradford
New edition, fully updated. Includes Dewsbury, Halifax, Keighley, Wakefield, Wetherby. 24 hour petrol stations now highlighted and garden centres pinpointed. (Spiral, £9.99)

West Yorkshire
New edition, fully updated. Includes Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Keighley, Leeds, Wakefield. 24 hour petrol stations now highlighted and garden centres pinpointed. (Midi £5.99, spiral maxi £9.99)

New Lonely Planet guides to Ireland, Italy, Tuscany & Umbria

CHILDREN

Ages 0-5yrs

The Other Ark - Lynley Dodd

Paperback edition of the unusual animals that had to go on the second ark with Noah's friend Sam like the kangaroosters and the flapdoodles. Sam valiantly starts to load his ark with the remaining animals, but no sooner has he finished his task than the Other Ark is well and truly grounded. Ages: 2-6yrs. (£5.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

The Joke Machine - Alexander McCall Smith

From this favourite author a story about a wonderful wacky machine and the magic
fun and mayhem it brings. Age: 7-9yrs. (£3.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

The Dreamwalkers Child - Steve Voake

The paperback edition of this bestselling adventure set in a world with insects the size of fighter jets and a girl as tough as Lara Croft. It will appeal to fans of Artemis Fowl.

'An ingenious and fast-paced thriller... this book buzzes and hums with ideas' The Times. Age: 8+ yrs (£6.99)

The Fire Thief - Terry Deary

A thrilling fast-paced novel that reinvents and extends the myth of Prometheus. The Greek god flees his captors and heads through time to the city of Eden where he falls in with a motley band of loveable rogues. His new friends get in trouble and he wants to use his special powers to save them. Age: 9+ (£7.99)

Teenage

Small Steps - Louis Sachar

A brilliant Companion to the best seller Holes, Featuring the popular characters three years later Age: 12+ yrs (£12.99)

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

Set in Berlin in 1942, this is the tale of two young boys caught up in events beyond their control. Age: 12+. (£10.99)

JANUARY 2006

See February 2006 for late January additions

FICTION

HARDBACK

Purity of Blood - A Perez-Reverte

Next instalment in the swashbuckling adventures of Captain Alatriste, 'a cross between Zorro and D'Artagnan' as he helps to rescue an old friend's daughter and solve a mysterious murder. Hugely popular worldwide and being filmed with Viggo Mortensen. (£9.99)

PAPERBACK

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. (£7.99)

Runaway - Alice Munro

Three interconnected stories - Carla, a congenital 'bolter', a stagestruck girl who finds life is more Shakespearean than even she imagines; and Tessa, a young country woman with strange powers. (£7.99)

Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx

The relationship over twenty years of two ranch hands, set in the beautiful wild landscape of Wyoming. Now a film. (£6.99)

Linger Awhile - Russell Hoban
Crazy story of a deceased female star of the 1950s black-&-white Westerns hi-teched into modern Soho where an old man has fallen in love with her. Unfortunately she’s still monochrome. (£10.99)

Reader, I Married Him - Michele Roberts

Every time Aurora remarries she becomes a new woman. 'Every woman owes it to herself to get married once, but you don't have to make a habit of it.' (£6.99)

Love & Other Near-Death Experiences - Mil Millington

From the writer of 'The Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About' (see below). Rob Garland is due to get married - but he should be dead: and he knows it. (£10)

Strangers - Taichi Yamada
Jaded TV scriptwriter Harada returns to the dilapidated downtown district of Tokyo where he grew up and meets a likeable man who looks exactly like his long-dead father. (£7.99)

Sayonara Bar - Susan Barker
Set in a hostess bar in Osaka, this novel spins a kaleidoscopic, genre-crossing tale of people cut adrift in a shrinking, globalized world. (£6.99)

Rope of Sand - Elsie Burch Donald

Combining Henry James with Donna Tartt, this is a literary suspense novel which follows a group of 1950s American students on a European holiday set to have a tragic ending. (£6.99)

Modern Ranch Living - Mark Poirier

The weather is hotter than hell in Tucson, Arizona, and weird things are afoot in the crumbling desert community of Rancho Sin Vacas. (£7.99)

Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
The story of a girl who needs to slow down, to find herself, to fall in love - and to discover what an iron is for! From the author of the Shopaholic books. (£6.99)

Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme - Andrei Makine

In present-day France a Russian writer recalls his harsh childhood at a Stalingrad orphanage in the 1960s and the old Frenchwoman who tells of her brief passionate affair with a fighter pilot. (£7.99)

The Successor - Ismael Kadare

Set in Albania, this book charts the repercussions of the death of the regime leader's designated successor and the escalating tension, distrust and anxiety of a regime that is collapsing in upon itself. (£9.99)

Pendragon Legend - Antal Szerb

The first Antal Szerb novel to be published in English since 'Journey by Moonlight'. Part philosophical thriller, upper-class comedy, murder-mystery, romance and ghost story. (£12.00)

Sleeping Voice - Dulce Chacon

A novel based on the testimonies of hundreds of survivors that tells the previously untold story of the women who were on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War. (£11.99)

Mysteries of Eleusisn - Margaret Doody

Historical crime fiction with Aristotle as the first detective of the ancient world. (£6.99)

Body Double - Tess Gerritsen
Returning home from Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles finds a car in her drive with a dead body in it. The murdered woman looks exactly like her. (£6.99)

Seeking Whom He May Devour - Fred Vargas

"Slick, creepy and full of engaging odd characters", not including, presumably, the Alpine werewolf. (£6.99)

Velocity - Dean Koontz

The new fast-moving thriller from Dean Koontz, the story of an innocent man forced by a serial killer to choose who will be murdered next. (£6.99)

REISSUES

Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington
Funny novel of love, fatherhood, librarians and Anglo-German relations, from the creator of the cult website of the same name. (£6.99)

Certain Chemistry - Mil Millington

A struggling young ghost-writer is offered the highly lucrative task of ghosting the autobiography of glamorous young soap star - which could affect his relationship with his girlfriend. (£6.99)

Every Day is Mother’s Day - Hilary Mantel

Barricaded inside their house filled with festering rubbish, unhealthy smells and their secrets, the Axon family baffle Isabel Field, the latest in a long line of social workers. (£7.99)

Vacant Possession - Hilary Mantel

Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic. Sequel to above. (£7.99)

I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal

A hotel waiter rises to become a millionaire and then loses it all again against the backdrop of events in Prague from the German invasion to the victory of Communism.(£7.99)

Hot Water Man - Deborah Moggach

Fresh from London, Christine and Donald Manley have come to the alien swelter of Karachi: Christine to conceive a child, Donald to sell the Pill for a pharmaceutical company. (£7.99)

Penguin Reds

Penguin are producing a third Classics strand entitled Penguin Reds, prices apparently ranging from £4.99 to £6.99. We’ll be stocking a few, including

Morike’s "Mozart’s Journey to Prague" (he steals an orange and is caught by a furious gardener),

Poe’s "Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" (starving sailors on a corpse-ridden ghost ship),

Balzac’s "Old Goriot" (greed, obsession and false appearances in Paris) and

"Wuthering Heights" ("In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere.")

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Pope’s Daughter - Caroline Murphy
How Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, became the most powerful woman in Rome. (£9.99)

Mozart and His Operas - David Cairns

Tells the story of Mozart's life, and unfolds his personality, through a detailed study of his operas - what they reveal about his personality, his beliefs, and the sources of his musical inspiration. Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. (£20)

Vindication: Mary Wollstonecraft - Lyndall Gordon

This new biography of the eighteenth-century writer, explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. (£9.99)

Smashed: Growing Up a Drunk Girl - Koren Zailckas

Moving and honest account of an adolescence shaped by alcohol. (£7.99)

Foreign Babes in Beijing - Rachel Dewoskin

The author went to work for an American PR firm in China, hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons. She was soon making Chinese culture - as the sexy and aggressive, fearless Jiexi, star of a wildly successful soap opera, 'Foreign Babes in Beijing'. (£12.99)

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. (£7.99)

Tales from the Country Matchmaker - Patricia Warren
The founder of the first lonely hearts agency for country dwellers brings us the happiest, funniest, most poignant and sometimes downright eccentric tales of love in the countryside. (£7.99)

I Choose to Live - Sabine Dardenne

"I needed to write this book for three reasons: so that people stop giving me strange looks and treating me like a curiosity, so that no one ever asks me any more questions ever again, and so that the judicial system never again frees a paedophile for 'good behaviour'." By the survivor of the Belgian paedophile Dutroux. (£6.99)

HISTORY

Mighty Fortress - Steve Ozment

"A New History of the German People 100BC to the 21st Century." (£9.99)

The Last Days of Henry VIII - Robert Hutchinson

"Conspiracies, Treason and Heresy at the Court of the Dying Tyrant." Following several years in original archival research the author advances a new theory of Henry's medical history and the cause of his death and has unearthed some eyewitness material and papers from death warrants, confessions and even love letters between Katherine Parr and the Lord High Admiral. (£8.99)

Slave Trade - Hugh Thomas

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century. (£16.99)

LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Balderdash & Piffle - Alex Games
TV tie-in, looking at our national obsession with words. (£12.99)

On Literature - Umberto Eco
Essays ranging from Dante to the Communist Manifesto, and including Borges, Joyce, Wilde and Camporesi. (£8.99)

MBS

Haunted Homes - Mia Dolan

True stories of paranormal investigations - TV tie-in. (£7.99)

Disconnected - Nick Barham

Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew. (£7.99)

Life Stripped Bare: My Year Trying To Live Ethically - Leo Hickman

The resident consumer expert of the "Guardian" set out to live ethically with his family for a year. Funny, inspirational and a mine of information for the curious.. (£7.99)

Fear: A Cultural History - Joanna Bourke

The fears and anxieties of hundreds of British and American men, women and children, from fear of the crowd to agoraphobia, from battle experiences to fear of nuclear attack, from cancer to AIDS, an original insight into the mindset of the twentieth century. (£9.99)

Fat is a Feminist Issue - Susie Orbach

Updated version. (£7.99)

123 Ways to Instant Sunshine - Vicky Barkes

When your cloudy day needs a silver lining, this book of quirky inspirational tips is sure to bring sunshine. (£2.99)

Ultimate Guide to Creative Meditation CD - Glenn Harrold

This recording by the UK's bestselling hypnotherapist, Glenn Harrold, combines the very latest clinical hypnotherapy techniques with state of the art digital sound. Single CD, running time 50 minutes. (£10.99)

NATURE

RSPB Birdwatching - Rob Hume (£12.99)

POETRY

Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath
Newly commissioned essays representing a spectrum of critical perspectives, with attention to key debates and well-known texts. The Companion also discusses three recent additions to the field: Ted Hughes's "Birthday Letters", Plath's complete "Journals" and the 'Restored' edition of Ariel. (£15.99)

New Poems on the Underground 2006 - Gerard Benson

More of the ever-popular Poems on the Underground - the complete collection covering the years 2002-2005, plus the first poems from the 2006 programme. (£7.99)

Poems 1988-1998 - Jo Shapcott

A compendium from Jo Shapcott's award-winning books 'Electroplating the Baby', 'Phrase Book' and 'My Life Asleep'. "Justifies her reputation as one of the most original and daring voices of her generation." She gave a poetry reading at Artsmill during the 2004 Festival. (£8.99)

Best of Betjeman

Anthology of his poetry and prose. (£7.99)

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Collapse - Jared Diamond

The author of "Guns, Germs and Steel", investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. How can we learn to be survivors? (£12.99)

I Love My Rifle More Than You - Kayla Williams

"Young, Female and in the US Army" - relates the author's decision to enlist, her relationship with a Palestinian boyfriend, her witness to the events of September 11 as portrayed on Arabic television, and her deployment to Iraq. (£14.99)

Granta 92: The View from Africa

In this special issue of Granta, Africa is explored, mainly by Africans, in exciting new fiction and reportage, by new, unfamiliar names, as well as established figures such as Ahdaf Soueif, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Nuruddin Farah, Helon Habila, Zakes Mda, Emmanuel Dongala and Mohammed Naseehu Ali. (£9.99)

Moronic Inferno - Martin Amis
A collection of essays on America by the author of 'London Fields' and ‘Money' (£7.99)

SCIENCE

Infinite Book - John Barrow

"A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless." (£8.99)

Parallel Worlds - Michio Kaku
Are we condemned to watch a single universe slowly run down, becoming a dark, cold wasteland? Or can we dream of escaping into one of many parallel universes, each born of a new Big Bang, or even existing in another dimension?. (£7.99)

TRAVEL

Around the World in 80 Dates - Jennifer Cox

The travel journalist asked her contacts worldwide to set her up with every interesting, unusual, special or simply gorgeous guy they could find in their little black books In the process she met 80 men, in 22 countries, on 5 continents, in 8 months. And did she find Mr Right? (£7.99)

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 of the results of attempts to subdue it. (£8.99)

Explorer’s Daughter - Kari Herbert

For her first two years Kari Herbert lived with her mother and father, the explorer Sir Wally Herbert, among the Inuit people in the vast snowy wastes of the High Arctic. In 2002 she returned to the Arctic alone. (£7.99)

Cruellest Journey - Kira Salak
600 Miles by Canoe to the Legendary City of Timbuktu. (£7.99)

Prester Quest - Nicholas Jubber

Entertaining and eccentric blend of travel adventure, history, cultural and social commentary melded together with quintessentially English humour. (£7.99)

New Eyewitness Guides to London and Barcelona

2005 - 2004 -2003 - 2002 - 2001

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