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FICTION
HARDBACK
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
The story of July, born on a Jamaican sugarcane plantation in the nineteenth century. From the author of "Small Island". (£16.99 at The Book Case)
The Pregnant Widow - Martin Amis
The death of the contemporary forms of social order in the 1960s ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that what the departing world leaves behind it is not an heir but a pregnant widow. A tragicomedy of manners. (£16.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
A chilling ghost story set in a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire. A doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, home to the Ayres family for over two centuries. Already out. (£7.99)
We are All Made of Glue - Marina Lewycka
Georgie Sinclair's life is coming unstuck. Her husband's left her. Her son's obsessed with the End of the World. And now her elderly neighbour Mrs Shapiro has decided they are related. Or so the hospital informs her when Mrs Shapiro has an accident and names Georgie next of kin. (£7.99)
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built - Alexander McCall Smith
Even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree that there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. One thing lady detectives know very little about is football. Mma Ramotswe ventures into new territory, drinks tea in unfamiliar kitchens and learns to trust in the observational powers of small boys. (£7.99)
The Winner Stands Alone - Paulo Coelho
Set during the Cannes International Film Festival. The wife of a wealthy Russian businessman left him two years ago and he is insanely jealous, especially as she is now remarried to a famous fashion designer. (£7.99)
The Lieutenant - Kate Grenville
In 1788 Daniel Rooke sets out on a journey that will change the course of his life. As a lieutenant in the First Fleet, he lands on the wild and unknown shores of New South Wales. There he sets up an observatory to chart the stars. (£7.99)
Depths - Henning Mankell
Not a Wallender novel - a gripping psychological thriller set in 1914. Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer on board the destroyer Svea, is charged with making depth soundings to find a navigable channel for the Swedish navy. On a barren skerry a chance meeting with an almost feral young woman haunts him after his return home. (£7.99)
How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall
Italy in the early 1960s: a dying painter begins his last life painting, using the same objects he has painted obsessively for his entire career - a small group of bottles. In Cumbria 30 years later, a landscape artist - and admirer of the Italian recluse - finds himself trapped in the extreme terrain that has made him famous. Man Booker 2009 (£7.99)
Friendly Fire - Alaa Al Aswany
From the author of 'The Yacoubian Building' a novella and collection of short stories dissecting modern Egyptian society. (£7.99)
The Flanders Road - Claude Simon, trans. Richard Howard
During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with his wife - remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death. (£7.99)
The Secret Dublin Diary of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Robert Waldron
A fictional exploration of the years the poet spent in Ireland. A homosexual, he was compelled to hide his sexuality from his fellow Jesuits, leading to personal torments, ecstasies, fears and loves. (£10.99)
It's Just the Beating of My Heart - Richard Aronowitz
John Stack finds solace in long alcohol-fuelled walks through the Gloucestershire countryside. His wife has left and his only glimmer of hope comes from his weekly visits from his daughter until a chance encounter with a mysterious widow. (£8.99)
The Lace Reader - Brunonia Barry
The Whitney women of Salem, Massachusetts are renowned for reading the future in the patterns of lace. But the future doesn't always bring good news.(£7.99)
The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories - Ian Watson; Ian Whates
Over 40 fascinating stories of worlds that might have been (£7.99)
The Fever of the Bone - Val McDermid
Meet Tony Hill's most twisted adversary - a killer with a shopping list of victims, a killer unmoved by youth and innocence, a killer driven by the most perverted of desires. (£6.99)
Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
An island shrouded in mist and a community with secrets buried in the past ...When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Whalsay discovers a set of human remains, the island settlers are intrigued. Then an elderly woman is shot in a tragic accident in the middle of the night. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez is called in by her grandson.(£7.99)
The Secret Speech - Tom Rob Smith
The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. (£7.99)
Plan for Chaos - John Wyndham
In a city like New York, a series of identical women are found dead. Magazine photographer Johnny Farthing is chilled to discover that his fiancee looks identical to the victims too - and then she disappears. He finds himself at the heart of a sinister plot that uses cloning to revive the Nazi vision of a world-powerful master race ... Not up to his SF books apparently but a reasonably good thriller. (£8.99)
Sabra Zoo - Mischa Hiller
It is the summer of 1982 and Beirut is under siege. Eighteen-year-old Ivan's parents have just been evacuated from the city with other cadres of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. Ivan stays on, interpreting for international medical volunteers in Sabra refugee camp by day, getting stoned with them at night, and working undercover for the PLO. (£10.99)
War Damage - Elizabeth Wilson
London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so it's no wonder that Regine Milner's Sunday house parties in her Hampstead home are so popular. (£7.99)
Alexandria - Lindsey Davis
A mysterious death in the world-famous library brings the Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco, into immediate conflict with the darker side of academic life. (£7.99)
REISSUES
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Born in Newgate Prison, twelve years a prostitute, five times a wife (once to her own brother), twelve years a thief and eight years a transported felon in Her Majesty's colony of Virginia. Daniel Defoe's rollicking tale presents life in the prisons, alleyways and underworlds of eighteenth-century London, and gives us Moll - scandalous, unscrupulous and utterly irresistible. (£5.99)
The Moorland Cottage - Elizabeth Gaskell
Growing up in Yorkshire, the daughter of a deceased clergyman, Maggie Browne is encouraged to devote herself to her brother, Edward, upon whom their widowed mother dotes. This novella depicts the struggle of a strong-minded Victorian woman, torn between her dreams and her duty towards her family. (£7.99)
The Mystery of Cloomber - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Dover)
Thriller published in 1889 about a retired General haunted by his past deeds in the Hindu Kush. (£5.99)
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: from Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce - ed. Michael Newton (£10.99)
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
The story of the irrepressible Mowgli, who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear, Mowgli and his animal friends embark on a series of hair-raising adventures through the jungles of India. ‘If you want to look at the India of Kipling's time, there is no writer who will give it to you better' Salman Rushdie (£8.99)
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Kim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama and an adventure begins that will take the unlikely pair to the Himalayas on a thrilling journey of espionage and enlightenment. 'Rudyard Kipling's masterpiece’ - Geoffrey Moorhouse. Published 1901. (£6.99)
Whose Body? - Dorothy Sayers (Dover)
The first of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, published 1923. (£4.99)
Alone in Berlin - Hans Fallada, trans. Michael Hofmann
Its Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. (£9.99)
The Fifth Woman - Henning Mankell
Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher, he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder. Sixth in the Wallender series. (£7.99)
The Man Who Smiled - Henning Mankell
After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend approaches him for help investigating his father's suspicious death. Fourth in the series. (£7.99)
NON-FICTION
ANIMALS
Smellorama! - Nose Games for Your Dog - Viviane Theby
How does your dog smell? Very well, as it happens! With up to 100 times as many olfactory receptors as humans, dogs use their sense of smell to 'see' and interpret their world, just as we do with our eyes. (£9.99)
ART AND CRAFTS
The Victorians - Jeremy Paxman
Jeremy Paxman's opinionated, informed, witty and surprising exploration of Victorian society through its paintings - now in paperback (£8.99)
Printmaking: A Contemporary Perspective - Paul Coldwell (£24.95)
Hattitude!: Knits for Every Mood - Cathy Carron
Photographs and patterns for 40 snappy, stylish, fabulous and fun hand-knitted hats! (£14.99)
Practical Textiles Techniques - Ruth Sleigh-Johnson
An overview of the core textiles techniques: applique; printing onto fabric; stencilling; fabric painting; dyeing; quilting and patchwork; batik; embroidery (and machine); felt-making; weaving; silk painting; fusing and bonding fabric; and, mark-making, with unique ideas demonstrating different ways to use the technique as you are learning. (£19.99)
Wool Pets: Making 20 Figures with Wool Roving and a Barbed Needle - Laurie Sharp (£8.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter -Martin Gayford
The marriage of John Constable and Maria Bicknell was a most unlikely prospect. Constable was a penniless painter who would not sacrifice his art for anything, while Maria's family frowned on such a penurious union. For seven long years the couple were forced to correspond and meet clandestinely. But it was during this period Constable developed as a painter. (£9.99)
Sibelius - Andrew Barnett
Informed by a wealth of information
that has come to light in recent years, this engaging biography tells the
complete story of the life and musical work of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius
(1865-1957). (£14.99)
The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood - Eugenie Fraser
Reissue of the riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. An account of life in Russia before, during and immediately after the Revolution, vividly and poignantly portraying a way of life that finally disappeared in violence and tragedy. (£8.99)
Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life - Timothy W. Ryback
He was, of course, a man better known for burning books than collecting them and yet by the time he died, aged 56, Adolf Hitler owned an estimated 16,000 volumes - the works of historians, philosophers, poets, playwrights and novelists. A passionate reader, his world view was largely formed by the books he read. (£9.99)
Mr Nice - Howard Marks
Reissue of this bestselling account of Howard Marks' life as an international drug smuggler to coincide with the film. (£7.99)
The Weight of a Mustard Seed - Wendell Steavenson
If you are unable to protect yourself from a tyrant, how can you protect your family? And how does a proud man live with that knowledge? The story of one family's struggle to survive the iniquities of Saddam Hussein's savage dictatorship. (£9.99)
Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story - Gabriel Weston
Gabriel Weston worked in the big-city hospitals of the twenty-first century; a woman in a world dominated by Alpha males. Her world was one of disease, suffering and extraordinary pressure where a certain moral ambiguity and clinical detachment were necessary tools for survival. (£7.99)
It Happened to Me: Extraordinary True Tales by Ordinary People - Martyn Ford (£7.99)
CURRENT AFFAIRS
The Spirit Level: Why Equality Is Better For Everyone - Richard Wilkinson
This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them - the well-off as well as the poor. Almost every modern social and environmental problem - ill-health, lack of community life, violence, drugs, obesity, mental illness, long working hours, big prison populations - is more likely to occur in a less equal society. (£9.99)
The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What it Means - Vince Cable (£8.99)
Saving Darfur: Everyone's Favourite African War - Rob Crilly, ed.
Laura Keeling
Groundbreaking analysis of the situation in Darfur by the
Times’s East Africa correspondent. Personal and highly readable.
(£12.99)
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship - Bee Rowlatt; May Witwit
A tough-talking, hard-smoking Iraqi Sunni-Shi'ite lecturer in English living in Baghdad battles through blockades to reach her class of Jane Austen-studying girls. Through an e-mail, she becomes friends with a London mum of three, busy fighting off PTA meetings and chicken pox, dealing with dead cats and generally juggling work and family while squabbling with her globe-trotting husband. (£8.99)
FOOD
The Moosewood Restaurant Cooking for Health: More Than 200 New Recipes for Delicious and Nutrient-rich Dishes - Moosewood Collective
As is the Moosewood tradition, the recipes are creative, adventurous, and inspired by ethnic and global cuisine. (£16.99)
The Settler's Cookbook: Tales of Love, Migration and Food - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Through the personal story of Yasmin's family and the food and recipes they've shared together, "The Settler's Cookbook" tells the history of Indian migration to the UK via East Africa. The food she cooks now combines the traditions and tastes of her family's hybrid history. (£9.99)
GARDENING
Kids in the Garden: Growing Plants for Food and Fun - Elizabeth McCorquodale (£9.95)
Grow Your Own Drugs: A Year with James Wong
James Wong is back with over 100 new, natural, cheap and easy remedies, showing you and those around you how to have a fantastically healthy year. (£16.99)
Vegetables: Expert Advice, Techniques and Tips for Gardeners - Good Housekeeping Institute (£5.99)
Pots and Containers: Expert Advice, Techniques and Tips for Gardeners - Good Housekeeping Institute (£5.99)
HISTORY
Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend - Richard Stoneman
Alexander the Great precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance his legend achieved over the next two millennia stretched even farther - across foreign cultures, religious traditions, and distant nations. Stoneman traces Alexander's influence in ancient literature and folklore and in later literatures of east and west. (£12.99)
Saladin: Hero of Islam - Geoffrey Hindley
Biography of the famous Muslim leader, with vivid battle accounts of the Battle of Hattin and the fall of Jerusalem, and insight into the politics and warfare of the Crusades. (£12.99)
Behind the Spanish Barricades - John Langdon-Davies
In May
1936, John Langdon-Davies went to Spain to report on the May Day celebrations.
By the time he returned in August, civil war had broken out and many of those
he saw celebrating May Day lay dead. From behind the frontline, he witnessed
not just the atrocities of war but its very human face. This book presents his
plea for intervention. (£8.99)
HUMOUR & GIFT BOOKS
Pam Ayres - the Works: The Classic Collection
"120 of Pam Ayres' best-known poems from the seventies and eighties, including "The Battery Hen", "Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?", "Sling Another Chair Leg on the Fire, Mother" and, of course, "Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth". (£7.99)
The Miscellany of Britain - Tom O'Meara
A curious funny and fascinating little book collecting information from many different sources, adding up to an illuminating snapshot of Britain and its people. (£6.99)
LANGUAGE
New Collins Gem Dictionaries: Arabic, Japanese
LIFESTYLE
The Great Escape: Adventures on the Wild West Coast - Monty Halls
A diary of adventure in picturesque Sand Bay as Monty Halls follows his dream of becoming a crofter. With his gigantic (possibly insane) dog Reuben as his companion, Monty raises sheep, pigs and chickens, grows his own vegetables, explores the wildlife, meets the locals, and learns all about life on the wild west coast. (£7.99)
How to Give Up Shopping (or at Least Cut Down): The Journey Back to Conscious Spending - Neradine Tisaj (£4.99)
The Rough Guide to Weddings - Ruth Tidball; Peter Buckley; Sean Mahoney; Nadine Kavanaugh
A practical and down-to-earth guide for modern couples, providing all the advice and information you need to plan your dream day, whether that be a 'green' wedding, a Civil Partnership ceremony, an alternative bash, or a traditional church-and-champagne affair. (£9.99)
MBS
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children - Ross W. Greene (£9.99)
Teach Yourself Sign with Your Baby - Janet Jarvis (£12.99)
Teach Yourself Baby Massage and Yoga - Anita Epple (£8.99)
The Power of No: Take Back Your Life With A Two-Letter Word - Beth Wareham (£7.99)
Raphael's Astronomical Ephemeris of the Planets for 2011 (£5.99)
NATURE
The Hidden Landscape: A Journey into the Geological Past - Richard Fortey
Reissue of the classic and enthralling exploration of time and place in which Richard Fortey peels away the top layer of the land to reveal the hidden landscape - the rocks which contain the story of distant events, which dictate not only the personality of the landscape, but the nature of the soil, the plants that grow in it and the regional characteristics of the buildings. (£14.99)
POLITICS
The People's Manifesto by Mark Thomas
Mark Thomas toured the
country to find out what people really wanted. There are some really good ideas
in this thoroughly entertaining little book. (£4.99)
Teach Yourself Marx: The Key Ideas - Gill Hands (£9.99)
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 - Salman Rushdie
Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, trenchant essays on topics including the politics of India and Pakistan, censorship, the Labour Party, Palestinian identity, contemporary film and late-twentieth century race, religion and politics, and literature and fellow writers. (£8.99)
Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy - Arundhati Roy
'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?' An exploration of the political picture in India today. (£9.99)
PSYCHOLOGY
Teach Yourself Jung: The Key Ideas - Ruth Snowden (£9.99)
SCIENCE
Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information - Vlatko Vedral
In this engaging and mind-stretching account, Vlatko Vedral considers some of the deepest questions about the Universe, considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information; and asks where did all of the information in the Universe come from? (£16.99)
13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time - Michael Brooks
Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense. Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. Michael Brooks meets thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs. (£8.99)
TRAVEL
Aloft - William Langewiesche
In the essays collected here William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world and our place in it. With vivid descriptions of the aesthetics and excitement of flight, Langewiesche also writes of the risks that go with this beauty. (£10.99)
Cool Camping Scotland: A Hand-picked Selection of Exceptional Campsites and Camping Experiences - Keith Didcock; Robin McKelvie; Jenny McKelvie; Andy Stothert (£14.95)
Cool Camping Wales: A Hand-picked Selection of Exceptional Campsites and Camping Experiences - Jonathan Knight; Keith Didcock; Sophie Dawson; Sam Pow; Andy Stothert (£14.95)
The Best Bed and Breakfast 2010: England, Scotland, Wales - Darbey Welles (£10.99)
30 Walks in the Yorkshire Dales - Automobile Association
The most popular walks from the AA's newly updated walks database on individual laminated cards in a durable box. (£6.99)
New Rough Guides to Paris and Cape Town, the Winelands and the Garden Route
Underground England: Travels Beneath Our Cities and Country - Stephen Smith
On his underworld odyssey from Newcastle to Brighton, from the Welsh Marches to the Suffolk coast, Smith uncovers smugglers' tunnels and drowned cities, burial mounds and underground waterfalls, and investigates the errant nuns and secret societies, the eighteenth-century rakes and troglodyte communities who have made the netherworld their home. (£10.99)
Britain by Bike - J. Eastoe & Clare Balding
Beautiful, breathtaking and exhilarating cycle routes and scenery in the six regions of Britain. (£16.99)
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Ages 0-5yrs
Christoper Nibble - Charlotte Middleton
The guinea pigs of Dandeville love munching the dandelion leaves, but they're all disappearing. When there's only 1 left, brave Christopher Nibble makes a stand.An eco-friendly tale to entertain the youngest readers. Ages: 2+ yrs (£5.99)
Ages 5-9yrs
Sylvia and Bird - Catherine Rayner
Sylvia is the only dragon in the world, and she's very lonely. But then she meets Bird, who is opposite to Sylvia in every way - can they ever be friends? Rayner is the winner of a Kate Greenaway medal. Ages: 4-7yrs. (£5.99)
King of Tiny Things - Jeanne Willis and Gwen Millward
When two little girls visit their grandparents, it seems like a brilliant idea to camp outside for the night. But then the dark comes and it doesn't seem such a good idea, until an unexpected visitor arrives - the King of Tiny Things. He is the shepherd of creepy crawlies, bugs and grubs and shows the girls that the night is bright with magic. Ages: 4-7yrs.
Teenage
Daughter of Fire and Ice - Marie-Louise Jensen
.Following an attack on her family, 15-year old Thora is enslaved by a brutish Viking chieftain. But Thora is valuable: she's a healer, a midwife and can see the future. But when she sees the death of the chieftain, and it comes true, she takes her chance to escape with another slave. Ages 11+ (£5.99)
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