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Violet Hetherington is crossing the Atlantic on a cruise ship to New York, to visit Edwin, once a close friend whom she has not seen for over twenty years. Edwin is now a successful poet and knew Violet in the days when she enjoyed a brief spell as H.V. St John, whose bittersweet poetry won her fame and prizes. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

Alexander McCall Smith follows up his Scotland Street series with a novel set in London's Pimlico and its inhabitants. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Dr Ragab is a mysterious man talked about by pretty much everyone in 1920s Cairo. Hertwig, one of the few people to make his acquaintance and study his life lessons, finds himself, at the very end of the Second World War, imprisoned in his own bunker in Germany by a gang of thugs. This novel takes the reader on a surreal journey, exploring such diverse topics as far right ideologies, Middle East mysticism and the art of communicating via food preparation and presentation. Clever, funny and thought-provoking. (£10.99 at the Book Case)

Lonely La(vender) moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War to nurse her broken heart and brings the villagers and the men from the local airbase together by forming an amateur orchestra. (£7.99)

Clara Casey has more than enough on her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no problem at all during the usually turbulent teens. Now in their twenties, Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the whale or battery farming; while Linda lurches from one unsatisfactory relationship to the next. (£7.99)

Four books, each with eight original stories from top-ranking authors, to raise money for Oxfam and along the way to highlight the charity's work in project areas: agriculture in "Earth", water projects in "Water", conflict aid in "Fire", and climate change in "Air". (£5.00 each)

Inspector Ray Lennox, recovering from a mental breakdown, meets two women in a seedy bar in strip-mall Florida, and finds himself resonsible for a terrified ten-year-old girl. (£7.99)

A national holiday in Lake Wobegon is always gaudy and joyful. For six years Clint has run the Fourth of July parade, and has turned it into an event of dazzling spectacle that has attracted the attention of CNN but now he has an ambition to run for Congress. It's Lake Wobegon as it's always been - good, loving people who drive each other crazy. (£7.99)

Set in the aftermath of the 1999 Turkish earthquake. Sinan’s family home becomes a makeshift tent in a camp run by Western missionaries whom he stubbornly distrusts, and he soon finds himself struggling to protect his family's honour and values. Cultures clash, political and religious tensions mount, and Sinan's actions spiral into a powerful and heartbreaking conclusion. (£7.99)

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left, forty-seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive moth expert, has rarely ventured outside it. (£7.99)

Willie Cooper arrives home in the wake of a disastrous affair with her much older, married archaeology professor. That same day, the discovery of a prehistoric monster in the lake brings a media frenzy to the quiet town and Willie learns that the story her mother had always told her about her father has all been a lie. (£7.99)

Seattle, 1972: Neil Countryman and John William Barry, two teenage boys from very different backgrounds, are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time, and so begins an extraordinary friendship. From the author of "Snow Falling on Cedars". (£7.99)

A stunning sequel to the Night Watch trilogy. While on holiday in Scotland a young Russian tourist is murdered. (£8.99)

Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about sex trafficking in Sweden are murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. (£7.99)

The story of Xenophon and his vast army of ten thousand Greek mercenaries as told by Xenophon’s mistress. (£6.99)

Danish bestseller. In Bratislava, Teddy Pedersen, a middle-aged, Danish university lecturer, receives a visit from an Eastern European woman who turns out to be his half-sister. Father to both of them was a Danish SS officer. (£7.99)

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her. (£7.99)

In October 1854 a train spectacularly derails, causing chaos, fatalities and destruction. Could it simply be a case of driver error? Detective Inspector Colbeck thinks not. (£7.99)

John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of his past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But his freedom has come at a steep price; the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. (£6.99)

What is it that binds together a series of violent murders across America and the long-lost Secret of the Templars? The killings always take place in the home, usually in broad daylight, in towns and cities all over America. (£7.99)

A remote village covered almost permanently in snow and dominated by a castle and its staff of dictatorial, sexually predatory bureaucrats - this is the setting for Kafka's story about a man seeking both acceptance in the village and access to the castle. (£8.99)

A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his relationship with his family. Also includes "The Judgement", "In the Penal Colony", "Meditation" and the autobiographical "Letter to his Father".(£7.99)

'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.' A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arrest for an offence which is never explained. (£8.99)

This is the book that led to Hans Fallada's downfall with the Nazis. The story of a young couple struggling to survive the German economic collapse was a worldwide sensation, leading Hitler to ban Fallada's work from being translated. (£12.99)

The first English translation of this novel written in an encrypted notebook while incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum, in the form of the diary of an intelligent man driven to alcoholism and morphine addiction by the fear of losing his mind. (£12.99)

In 1954 a local Japanese-American man is charged with the murder of a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat. (£7.99)

Deep within the wildwood lies a place of myth and mystery, from which few return, and none remain unchanged. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside, but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable ... and stronger than time itself. (£7.99)

Reissue of this thriller inspired by the real-life murder of anti-nuclear protester Hilda Murrell, asking whether, in a secretive, violent Britain, courage and love still count for something. (£7.99)

Surrounded by a coterie of ministers, the Imam rules over an imaginary earthly kingdom. Bint Allah is the Daughter of God, a beautiful illegitimate girl. She is falsely accused by the Imam of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning. Then, during the annual Victory Holiday, the Imam himself is killed. The story of each of these deaths is told repeatedly, as this powerful and poetic novel reveals the underlying hypocrisy of any male-dominated religious state, and the insufferable predicament of women. (£7.99)

The Jane Austen Collection: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and "The Watsons" read by Joanna Lumley, Belinda Lang, Anna Massey and Harriet Walter

12 Audio CDs in a box; the novels are all abridged, but "The Watsons" short story is in full. (£26.42)

4 Audio CDs. Bertie Wooster unwisely steps into the sage-like role of Jeeves and proceeds to meddle in matters of the heart. (£16.63)

A captivating picture book for architects, engineers, and a general audience, featuring over 100 British buildings. Sections include: Industry, Bridges, Maritime, Beach Huts & Chalets, Railways, Military, and Leisure. (£9.99)

The popular actress and comedienne tells us her own story, in her own words. (£7.99)

Follow-up to "The Two of Us": without John Thaw, Sheila Hancock looks ahead to what? Gardening, grannying and grumbling won’t do so she tries the Quaker advice to "live adventurously". (£7.99)

Shappi’s mad extended Iran clan fled Tehran to 1980s Britain after the fall the Shah. Five-year-old Shappi and her beloved brother Peyvand arrive with their parents in London - all cold weather and strange food - without a word of English. Shappi Khorsandi is appearing at the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. (£11.99)

From the popular student cookery author a collection of 300+ recipes to which students have also contributed. (£10.00)

This book explodes a number of myths - from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; and the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one, to the massive death count which was probably less than ten per cent of the population. An often gripping piece of detective work that also offers a tantalising window into the reality of daily Roman life. (£9.99)

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom - Tom Holland

Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. A panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000. (£9.99)

The American Future: A History from the Founding Fathers to Barack Obama - Simon Schama

In November 2008, the United States elected a new President. But the collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it came to find itself in multiple crises and how an America that began as 'the last best hope for mankind' came to be so suspected and vilified around much of the world. (£9.99)

The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty - Humphrey Carpenter

From the burning of Byron's memoirs, Jane Austen's clipped businesslike manner, and the lucrative controversy caused by the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, through to the discovery of the new young poet John Betjeman, the name John Murray has for more than two hundred years been synonymous with challenging, intelligent and progressive publishing. (£12.99)

The Settle-Carlisle line was built by a single enterprising company in a single feverish spell of activity and at an expenditure of almost £3.5m. This is the true story of the drama and harsh reality behind the building of the Ribblehead Viaduct. (£18.00)

In 1934, J B Priestley published an account of his journey through England, capturing and describing the English landscape and people in a way previously unheard of, and influencing the thinking and attitudes of an entire generation. The public consensus for change led to the formation of the welfare state. This illustrated edition with essays from a range of today’s writers celebrates its 75th anniversary. (£25)

I Believe in Yesterday: A 2000 Year Tour Through the Filth and Fury of Living History - Tim Moore

Tim Moore found himself inspired to travel back in time experiencing the hardships and homespun pleasures enjoyed and endured by his ancestors. Living on bramble leaves, Johnny cake and porridge, Moore travels from the Iron Age to the Steam Age, from Roman legionary, Tudor master to Yankee spy, sharing straw beds and daft hats with period obsessives. (£8.99)

A highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century's most colourful decade. Jenny Diski considers what she and her generation were really up to. Was it rude to refuse to have sex with someone? Did they take drugs to get by, or to see the world differently? How responsible were they for the self-interest and greed of the Eighties? (£10.99)

Part-comedy, part-travelogue, part-memoir, this is the story of what can happen when you track down your past, as Danny Wallace sets out to track down his old best mates as a kid. (£7.99)

Book and two 60-minute CDs. An ideal course for absolute beginners wanting the basic language for everyday situations. (£14.99)

The prospect of bringing a tiny baby home when you already have a toddler can be extremely daunting. Life with a newborn baby is tiring and challenging enough but with a demanding elder brother or sister to deal with too, how do you cope? (£10.99)

The autobiography of a modern day mystic, an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old. When she was a child, people thought Lorna was 'retarded' because she did not seem to be focusing on the world around her, instead Lorna was seeing angels and spirits. (£6.99)

The Duck That Won the Lottery: And 99 Other Species of Faulty Reasoning and Sneaky Spin - Julian Baggini

This companion volume to "The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten" provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. (£8.99)

'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' This deliberately provocative autobiography subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes Nietzsche’s philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. (£7.99)

A moving, unsentimental record of loss, as deft as anything Reid has written. Its playfulness, which includes finding rhymes for "sarcoma" and "tumour", does not obviate tenderness but complements it. Where others ratchet up their writing, Reid prefers a quiet approach. (£7.99)

The Selfish Genius: How Richard Dawkins Rewrote Darwin's Legacy - Fern Elsdon-Baker

Hebden Bridge author and head of the British Council’s Darwin Now Project, Dr Fern Elsdon-Baker argues that Dawkins as a non-biologist is misrepresenting both Darwin and science as a whole. (£12.99)

What makes an extreme overachiever? We pay too little attention to where successful people are from. Gladwell examines how the careers of Bill Gates and the performance of world-class football players are alike; why so many top lawyers are Jewish; why Asians are good at maths; and, why it is correct to say that the mathematician who solved Fermat's Theorem is not a genius. (£9.99)

Guardian journalist Matt Seaton is one of cycling's greatest advocates. In this collection, Seaton not only explores a nation's rediscovered love of cycling, he also investigates the issues that affect all cyclists, from potholes and town planning to cycling etiquette and aesthetics. (£7.99)

A new Lonely Planet guide to Travel with Children and a new Rough Guide to Poland.

One of a series of books produced in the early 20th century by a group of well-known artists. This title is a delightful look athe the Lake District as it was in 1922. (£6.99)

Matthew Fort revisits Sicily thirty years after his first visit, and travelling around the island on his scooter, he samples almond ice cream on the spectacular coast and intoxicating mouthfuls of sausage stew in olive groves, and goes fishing for anchovies beneath a star-scattered sky. (£7.99)

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