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Don’t Put Yourself on Toast
by Freddy Taylor
“A book close to my heart. A tragicomic triumph told with love and humour, revealing how out of darkness comes so much light.” TOM DALEY “A startling debut… This book will make you want to hold everyone you love close, [...]
I Bought a Mountain
by Thomas Firbank
Demy Hardback
Reissue of a bestselling classic that inspired a generation of ‘good life’ nature books WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK BARKHAM And an essay by Welsh hill farmer, Dafydd Morris-Jones Written on the eve of the Second World War, this memoir [...]
Glucose Revolution
by
Jessie Inchauspé
Demy Paperback
“Jessie (a.k.a. the Glucose Goddess) takes you on a fun and informative journey to understand how food affects your sugar spikes and your health. This practical guide is full of wonderful tips and hacks on how and what to eat; [...]
On Grief
by
Peter J Conradi
B Format Hardback
How do you ‘prepare’ for bereavement? Religious faith can help, as can ritualised codes of dress and behaviour that recognise different stages of mourning. But many of us feel singularly unprepared when we lose someone. No one ‘theory’ can [...]
The Interior Silence
by
Sarah Sands
B Format Paperback
“Inspirational” – The Daily Mail “Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and tranquil places on earth, and introduces us to [...]
Light to Life
by Raffael Jovine
B Format Paperback
In Light to Life, biologist Raffael Jovine takes us on a journey of discovery into the intricate, beautiful and often surprising processes that convert energy from the sun into life and how all-important these are to our survival. Despite the unprecedented [...]
Sense of Belonging
by Dr Holan Liang
Demy Paperback
“Extraordinary, exceptional, incredibly timely.” PROFESSOR THALIA ELEY, Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics A sense of belonging – being liked, understood, accepted for who we are – is vital for our mental health. Whether it is fitting in at school, struggling [...]
Tales of a Country Parish
by
Colin Heber-Percy
B Format Hardback
‘A delightful book from a gentle, generous spirit.’ – SIMON RUSSELL BEALE During the unprecedented circumstances of Spring 2020, Colin Heber Percy began writing a daily newsletter of reflections and uplifting stories to stay in touch with his parishioners. Word [...]
Emotional Inheritance
by
Galit Atlas
Demy Hardback
‘With elegance, Galit Atlas explains the troubling and nourishing aspects of our emotional inheritances. She deftly shows why the hurts and stuckness that can plague us can be faced and, yes, dissolved. Contemporary psychoanalysis at its best. And good storytelling, [...]
Share Power
by
Merryn Somerset Webb
Demy Hardback
“Brimming with energy and hugely convincing – capitalism rescued in one short book.” – Justin Webb, Journalist and Presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme “Merryn Somerset Webb combines deep knowledge of investment with accessibility, wit and an occasional swipe of [...]
The Fast 800 Keto
by
Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
“A brilliantly informative book on how to optimise a keto diet.” – Daily Mail A keto diet – where you flip your metabolic switch, going from burning sugar to burning fat for fuel – leads to significant weight loss and [...]
The Power of Women
by
Dr Denis Mukwege
Royal Hardback
A courageous and heart-wrenching book from Nobel Peace Prize laureate, world-renowned doctor and human rights activist Dr Denis Mukwege ‘These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity – to love, to share, [...]
Velkom to Inklandt
by Sophie Herxheimer
Cloth hardback 173x256mm (narrow Crown Quarto)
The Sunday Times’ Poetry Book of the Year The Observer’s Poetry Book of the Month Velkom to Inklandt is a collection of poems in which Sophie Herxheimer brings vividly to life the voice of her German Jewish Grent Muzzer, Liesel, [...]
Perfect Pitch
by Tim Bouverie
B Format Hardback
‘A treat from the very first page… this book is written with such style and humour… It’s a perfect introduction to classical music for a beginner, a companion for the music lover, and sheer entertainment for both.’ – JOANNA LUMLEY Nearly [...]
The Land of Maybe
by
Tim Ecott
B Format Paperback
‘In this excellent book, Ecott’s evocative telling makes me want to go to this weird and wonderful place.’ – PAUL THEROUX Following the natural cycle of the year, The Land of Maybe captures the essence of ‘slow life’ on the 18 remote, [...]
Barca
by
Simon Kuper
Demy Hardback
“Imagine the club not as a theatre of dreams but as a workplace. What is office life like day to day? Who are the people who run the club? How much power do they actually have over the players? What [...]
Fox & I
by
Catherine Raven
Demy Hardback
“A wise and intimate book about a solitary woman, a biologist by training, who befriends a fox. More than that, it’s the tale of a human mind, trained to be logical, meeting and being touched by Nature and coming to [...]
I Can’t Believe It’s Baby Food
by
Lucinda Miller
Crown Quarto Hardback
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GOOD STUFF “I wish I had had this book when I was bringing up my three. Lucinda’s recipes are not only quick for a tired mum, but more importantly DELICIOUS for the children…” Thomasina Miers [...]
Vain Glorious
by Jeremy Langmead with Dr David Jack
Crown Quarto Hardback
“My life is a constant battle between vanity and laziness. This book has brokered the perfect peace deal!” – Graham Norton Should I tint my eyebrows? How can I get a squarer jawline? Which style of trouser would make my [...]
Your Simple Guide to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
by
Professor Roy Taylor
B Format Paperback
In this pocket version of his bestselling Life Without Diabetes, Professor Roy Taylor offers a brilliantly concise explanation of what happens to us when we get type 2 and how we can escape it. Taylor’s research has demonstrated that type [...]
Looking for an Enemy
by Jo Glanville
B Format Hardback
“Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew.” Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass Conspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered [...]
Light to Life
by Raffael Jovine
B Format Hardback
“This book is about the magic of photosynthesis and how plants and algae turn sunlight into energy to make life on this planet possible. Read it and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we [...]
The Interior Silence
by
Sarah Sands
Demy Hardback
“Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and tranquil places on Earth, and introduces us to people whose inner peace [...]
The Art of Repair
by Molly Martin
210 x 148mm
‘Nothing lasts, nothing is finished and nothing is perfect.’ Japanese proverb For Molly Martin, it all started with a pair of socks. Her favourite pair. When the heels became threadbare, her mother got out her darning mushroom and showed [...]
A Modest Book about How to Make an Adequate Speech
by John-Paul Flintoff
B Format Paperback
What some audiences said after John-Paul Flintoff followed the guidance provided in this book: “To tell you the truth, I only went to see this guy to get the afternoon off work… So I was really surprised that I enjoyed it.” – Attendee, in-person event “I did enjoy listening. The best thing was that he didn’t just keep going on about himself, like one or two that had come earlier that week.” – Attendee, in-person event “There are few occasions when you can genuinely forget that you are ‘inside’ when you are a guest of Her Majesty, but this was surely one of them, and it lasted for a whole afternoon.” – Attendee, in-person event at HMP Dumfries “One of the most powerful talks that I have ever been to. It was so raw, honest and exceptionally brave.” – Attendee, illustrated talk online “I was the one at the back, sobbing and snotting.” – Attendee, in-person talk, Mishcon de Reya
The Fast 800 Easy
by
Clare Bailey
,
Justine Pattison
Crown Quarto Paperback
130 brand-new recipes to cook up at home, any day of the week… Following their bestselling Fast 800 Recipe Book, Dr Clare Bailey and Justine Pattison return with a fabulous new cookbook, featuring super-simple recipes to enable you to eat well [...]
The Mobile Philosopher: Matters of Lunch and Death
by Will Bynoe
840 x 140 x 150mm
· What’s wrong with gluttony? · Would it be boring to live forever? · Should education prepare us for work or leisure? With a light touch, Matters of Lunch and Death distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present [...]
The Mobile Philosopher: Logic and Monsters
by
Will Bynoe
840 x 140 x 150mm
· Does anything happen for no reason at all? · Can you donate your brain and survive? · How long is the present? With a light touch, Logic and Monsters distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day [...]
The Mobile Philosopher: Pigeons Bearing Bad News
by
Will Bynoe
840 x 140 x 150mm
* Is there no escaping bad luck? * Can God be bothered? * How can we learn from the experts? With a light touch, Pigeons Bearing Bad News distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a [...]
The Magic Hour
by
Charlotte Moore
B Format Hardback
“Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach…” Charlotte Moore, a writer [...]
Secrets of a Devon Wood
by Jo Brown
210x 148mm
“Things of such magnitude deserve respect and understanding. They deserve to be remembered…” Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small wonders of the wood behind her home in Devon. This book [...]
The Food Mood Connection
by
Dr Uma Naidoo
Demy Paperback
The definitive book on how to eat for mental health, from a go-to expert on the impact of food on the brain. Did you know that blueberries can help you cope with the after-effects of trauma? That salami can cause [...]
How To Live
by Professor Robert Thomas
Demy Paperback
Did you know: • that drinking a glass of red wine after sunbathing can reduce lasting skin damage? • that your choice of deodorant can affect your long-term health? • that some houseplants are more effective in removing air toxins [...]
101 Reasons Why We Love The Queen
by E. Dunne & H. Sutcliffe
190 x 129mm
Did you know that the Queen likes to wake up to the sound of bagpipes? That her favourite flower is the primrose? Or that she has established a whole new dog breed, the dorgi, a cross between a corgi and [...]
The Wake Up Call
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
B Format Paperback
Good government is now the difference between living and dying… The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where [...]
A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs
by
Peter J Conradi
224
Tin Tin’s Snowy, Odysseus’s Argos, Darwin’s Polly, Mary Queen of Scot’s 22 lap-dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Flush… Behind every great man or woman is a dog. A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a rich compendium of the [...]
The Fast 800
by
Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
Six years ago, Dr Michael Mosley started a health revolution with The 5.2 Fast Diet, telling the world about the incredible power of intermittent fasting. In this book he brings together all the latest science (including a new approach: Time [...]
Snow
by Giles Whittell
B Format Paperback
How many snowflakes are needed to make a snowman? Where is the snowiest place on Earth? When will the last snowflake fall? Snow has a lot in common with religion. It comes from heaven. It changes everything. It creates an [...]
The Good Stuff
by
Lucinda Miller
Crown Quarto Hardback
Healthy food that children will actually eat? Most parents would go to the moon and back for the secret…. In this game-changing book, designed for busy parents, top child nutrition expert Lucinda Miller shows you how to cook nutritious food [...]
The Story of Ada Lovelace
by Lucy Lethbridge
Crown Quarto Hardback
Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words… At a young age Ada came to the attention of Charles Babbage, a scientist and inventor who had built a miraculous machine called [...]
The Clever Guts Diet
by
Michael Mosley
Crown Quarto Hardback
From the author of the million-copy bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet Your gut is astonishingly clever. It contains millions of neurons – as many as you would find in the brain of a cat – and is home to the microbiome, [...]
Vital Little Plans
by Jane Jacobs
Crown Quarto Hardback
Edited by Samuel Zipp & Nathan Storring and with a Preface by Will Self From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities No one did more to change how we look [...]
Think Less Learn More
by Dr Srini Pillay
B Format Paperback
One Friday night in 1983, a man and his girlfriend were driving down California Highway 128 from Berkeley to Mendocino where he was building a cabin in the woods. It was late at night, it was a long drive, and he was feeling a little tired and spacey. As his girlfriend dozed in the passenger seat, the man’s mind wandered back to his work, in his case research on DNA. As he put it, “My little silver Honda’s front tyres pulled us through the mountains. My hands felt the road and the turns. My mind drifted back into the laboratory. DNA chains coiled and floated. Lurid blue and pink images of electric molecules injected themselves somewhere between the mountain road and my eyes.” Like an enthusiastic puppy just unleashed, his thoughts darted to and fro, mulling, comparing and connecting fragments of information. Suddenly, something new fell into place for him. He pulled off to the side of the road—mile marker 46.58 to be exact, he found himself noticing—and began to connect the dots of his thoughts. Science would never be the same again. That man was Dr. Kary Banks Mullis—a biochemist who ten years later would win the Nobel Prize for chemistry for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction, also known as PCR. A way of making synthetic DNA, this has proven crucial in a wide range of disciplines, from obstetrics to forensics. It was on that restless, late-night journey that his mind collected ideas and put them together in new and strange ways. Later he would sort and hone what his wandering mind had pooled before him. The magic of that process—both the collecting and the sorting—is the stuff of this book.
The Return Home
by
Justin Huggler
B Format Paperback
All of us look to our childhoods to explain our failings. But what would our childhood selves make of the people we have become? Autumn 1983. Eight-year-old Ben watches from the top of the stairs as a haggard figure limps [...]
My Itchy Dog
by
Kate Bendix
B Format Paperback
“An easy-to-read, practical guide … if every dog owner put the advice within these pages into action it could put an end to the career of many vets, including me!” – Dr Richard Allport, BVetMed, VetMFHom, MRCVS How to avoid [...]
Vegan in 15
by
Kate Ford
B Format Paperback
The vegan revolution is here… More and more people are looking to eat and shop in a way that treads as lightly as possible on our fragile planet and doesn’t cause suffering to animals. In this book, renowned green food [...]
The Happy Kitchen
by
Rachel Kelly
,
Alice Mackintosh
Crown Quarto Paperback
What foods make us happy? Scientists are now discovering a proven link between what we eat and how we feel … In this inspirational book Rachel Kelly, who has had a history of depression, shares her personal experience of harnessing [...]
Fixing Dad
by
Jen Whitington
B Format Paperback
Due to be published on 22nd December 2016 – pre-order on Amazon or Waterstones now Fixing Dad is about an ordinary British family’s extraordinary battle with type 2 diabetes… and how their success now offers hope to millions. Three years ago, [...]
Pugh’s New Year’s Resolutions
by
Jonathan Pugh
Cutdown B Format Hardback
The very best of Jonathan Pugh, Daily Mail pocket cartoonist Day in, day out, Jonathan Pugh delights Daily Mail readers with his uniquely affectionate and witty cartoons. He has a disarming ability to poke gentle fun while cutting right to the heart [...]
The Mindless Colouring Book
by
Molly Manners
,
Alex Worrall
Cut-down Royal Paperback
The Mindless Colouring Book is a light-hearted alternative to the array of wonderful and yet slightly more serious colouring books currently available, and proves that laughter is still our favourite stress-reliever. Comedy + mindfulness = smiling + relaxing = smilaxing [...]
How Good is Your Grammar?
by
John Sutherland
B Format Paperback
John Sutherland, one of Britain’s most celebrated professors of English Literature, is here to test, stretch, amuse and instruct you with his definitive quiz on all things grammatical. Why do purists insist that ‘television’ is wrong while ‘telephone’ is correct? [...]
The 8-Week Blood Sugar Diet Recipe Book
by
Clare Bailey
,
Sarah Schenker
Crown Quarto Paperback
Dr Michael Mosley’s No 1 bestselling 8-week blood sugar diet revealed a game-changing approach to weight loss that not only lowers blood sugar levels, but can also reverse and prevent type 2 diabetes. In this fabulous companion cookbook, Dr Clare [...]
Keep Your Brain Stronger for Longer
by
Tonia Vojtkofsky
Crown Quarto Paperback
Research has shown the benefits of keeping our mental abilities strong, and that those who challenge their brains throughout their life have a lower risk of developing dementia and cognitive impairment. Tonia Vojtkofsky PsyD – a psychologist and brain health [...]
The 1966 World Cup Final: Minute by Minute
by
Jonathan Mayo
Royal Hardback
30th July 1966. For millions it was the greatest day of the greatest decade. They may never have seen the Beatles in the Cavern or danced at Woodstock, but they got to see the finest moment in English sporting history. [...]
The Hot Topic
by
Christa D’Souza
B Format Paperback
There has never been a better time to be a menopausal woman. Technology is such that 60 really is the new 40 (or even 35)… But, for Christa D’Souza, some nagging questions remain… What is the point of us now [...]
The Art of Baby-Making
by
Gerad Kite
B Format Paperback
From the bestselling author of Everything You Need You Have Nature teaches us that a balanced state is a fertile state; and in this book Gerad Kite shows how “balance” can be the secret to successful conception, even when all [...]
Just Soup
by
Henrietta Clancy
B Format Paperback
Soup is the ultimate in healthy eating. Studies have shown that food, when blended with water, performs a remarkable nutritional trick: it remains in your stomach for longer, allowing the absorption of maximum nutrients while at the same time keeping [...]
The Anonymous Revolutionary
by
Max Edwards
B Format Hardback
The Anonymous Revolutionary began in the winter of 2014/15 as a political blog centred on the theme of Marxism. Its intention was this: to discuss revolutionary socialism in today’s climate, over two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, [...]
The 8-week Blood Sugar Diet
by
Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
Dr Michael Mosley, author of the bestselling 5:2 Fast Diet, reveals a game-changing approach to one of the greatest silent epidemics of our time – raised blood sugar levels. The food we eat today, high in sugar and easily digestible carbohydrates, [...]
Walking on Sunshine
by
Rachel Kelly
Cutdown B Format Hardback
Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares [...]
How Good Is Your Grammar?
by
John Sutherland
B Format Hardback
John Sutherland, one of Britain’s most celebrated professors of English literature, is here to test, stretch, amuse and instruct you with his definitive quiz on all things grammatical. Why do purists insist that ‘television’ is wrong while ‘telephone’ is correct? [...]
The Gift of Failure
by
Jessica Lahey
Demy Paperback
All of us want the best for our children. But are we going about it the right way? We are the generation that invented over-parenting. For all our best intentions to protect our children from tripping up – rushing to [...]
Ten Million Aliens
by
Simon Barnes
B Format Paperback
THIS IS THE MOMENTOUS STORY OF THE MILLIONS OF SPECIES – SOMETIMES UNIMAGINABLY STRANGE – THAT MAKE UP THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. Humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, bdelloid rotifers who haven’t had sex [...]
Hows Your Father
by
Rose Boyt
B Format Paperback
Sometimes there is just not enough love to go round… Maureen’s family is a blessing and a curse. Her mother did her best but everyone is still fighting for survival at the expense of their loved ones. Susan thinks her [...]
What Was Never Said
by
Emma Craigie
B Format Paperback
15-year old Zahra has lived in England most of her life, but she is haunted by memories of her early childhood in Africa: the warm sun, the loud gunfire, and the happy days playing with her older sister before “the [...]
Out of the Woods
by
Will Cohu
B Format Paperback
Out of the Woods takes you on a revelatory ramble through country and city – from woodlands of majestic oak and ash to mean streets lined with cherries. Containing myriad tips for recognition and rich in tree-biography and gossip, this [...]
The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay
by
Andrea Gillies
B Format Paperback
All her life, Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with two Italian brothers – Paolo, whom she marries, and Luca, who remains her best friend – until a dramatic series of events changes everything, apparently for good. Estranged [...]
Hitler’s Last Day: Minute by Minute
by
Jonathan Mayo
,
Emma Craigie
Royal Hardback
On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos… Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move – concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis – and the civilian population is fast running out of [...]
Just Your Average Muslim
by Zia Chaudhry
B Format Paperback
This fascinating and original book provides a better insight into the life of of ‘just your average Muslim’ than you will find anywhere else. A powerful antidote to common but exhausted stereotypes, it challenges non-Muslims to reexamine their perceived ideas [...]
The Beggar and the Hare
by
Tuomas Kyrö
B Format Paperback
Vatanescu is striving for a better life, and with it a pair of football boots for his son – but his search has led him to collecting small change on the streets of Helsinki, and he needs something drastic to [...]
Last Drink To LA
by
John Sutherland
B Format Paperback
I touched bottom, as alcoholics like to say, on 12 February 1983 (the date is slightly fuzzy). Thirty-one years ago John Sutherland nearly lost everything to drink. A married man, with family, working as a visiting professor of English on [...]
The Fast Diet: Revised and Updated
by
Michael Mosley
,
Mimi Spencer
B Format Paperback
‘Michael Mosley’s bestselling book changed my life. Melodramatic, yes, but true. In the past five months on the 5:2 diet I have lost a stone and a half, reducing my Body Mass Index from a lumberingly 27 to a healthy 23.’ Xanthe Clay,
Daily Telegraph
Ten Million Aliens
by
Simon Barnes
B Format Paperback
Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It’s weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we’re all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a [...]
Hows Your Father
by
Rose Boyt
Demy
What goes on behind closed doors? Hows Your Father tells the story of four generations of one Hackney family on a rollercoaster ride of drugs, violence, sickness, infidelity and the redeeming joys of motherhood. I am smiling. It ain’t just [...]
Scream: The Tyson Tapes
by
Demy Hardback
Michael Gerard Tyson grew up in almost indescribable poverty in the ghettos of Brooklyn. Incarcerated in a young offender institution at the age of ten and plucked fro reform school by a former boxer at twelve – when he was [...]
The Answer to the Riddle is Me
by
David Stuart MacLean
Demy Paperback
“I was chasing myself, hoping that I could reconstruct enough of a working resemblance to that old self to slip back into. It was like building a plane while flying it.” IMAGINE WAKING UP IN A CROWDED TRAIN STATION IN [...]
The Fast Beach Diet
by
Mimi Spencer
B Format Paperback
With a foreword by Dr Michael Mosley FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FAST DIET THE SUPER-FAST 6-WEEK PROGRAMME TO GET YOU IN SHAPE FOR SUMMER Includes pull-out diet planner Based on the original, bestselling Fast Diet, this book offers an [...]
Wenger
by
Jasper Rees
B Format Paperback
A surprise appointment at Arsenal FC when he arrived in 1996, Arsène Wenger has made a science of football management and turned his players into artists. In this fully updated biography, Jasper Rees uncovers the true story behind this deeply [...]
The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay
by
Andrea Gillies
Royal Paperback
Nina Findlay, alluring, accomplished, deluded, always the heroine of her own life, has found an irresistible safety in being adored by two men, brothers she’s known since childhood. But when her sister-in-law becomes gravely ill, the triangle that Nina’s depended [...]
Fast Cook
by
Mimi Spencer
Full Colour Cut-down Demy Paperback
Not just for dieters… A brilliant low-cal cookbook for eating healthily every day The Fast Diet has revolutionised the way we eat, and transformed the way we lose weight. In this stunning new cookbook, Mimi Spencer returns with more than [...]
The Beggar and the Hare
by Tuomas Kyrö
B Format Hardback
“There would certainly have been other alternatives; our hero could have stolen cars, salvaged the copper from telephone cables or sold his kidneys. But of all the bad offers, the one from Yegor Kugar was the best…” Vatanescu, an impoverished [...]
Our Happy Time
by
Gong Ji-young
B Format Paperback
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Yujeong – beautiful, bright and wealthy – is in hospital recovering from her third suicide attempt. Angry at the world, she reluctantly accepts her no-nonsense aunt’s suggestion: to accompany her on charitable visits to inmates on death [...]
The Burden of the Desert
by
Justin Huggler
B Format Paperback
Zoe Temple, a young British journalist who dreams of being a war correspondent… Lieutenant Rick Benes, an American officer trying to get his platoon home alive… Adel, an Iraqi, who wants revenge for the death of his father… Mahmoud, an [...]
Fast Exercise
by
Michael Mosley
,
Peta Bee
B Format Paperback
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FAST DIET The Simple Secret of High Intensity Training: Get Fitter, Stronger and Better Toned in Just a Few Minutes a Day Just as Dr Michael Mosley’s Fast Diet – the original 5:2 – alerted the [...]
The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute
by
Jonathan Mayo
Royal Hardback
As read on: This is the story of JFK’s assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people – from the highest to the lowest – who were caught up in that four-day whirlwind in November [...]
Fred’s War
by
Andrew Davidson
Royal Hardback
THE CARRYING OF CAMERAS IS FORBIDDEN. One doctor, a thousand soldiers, the weight of the unstoppable German Army bearing down upon them – and plenty of time to break War Office orders by taking pictures as they fight. Fred’s War [...]
The 7 Secrets of Happiness
by
Gyles Brandreth
Cut Down PB
A NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ‘Marvellous, brilliant, wonderful, best thing I’ve ever heard, transformational…’ Grace Surman @GraceSurman That was the response from a total stranger when Gyles Brandreth delivered the Happiness Lecture at Birmingham University in June 2013. Someone else in [...]
Our Hearts Hang from the Lemon Trees
by
Demy Paperback
A hauntingly original memoir about a girl caught between two families, about losing and finding love, and about poems that can save your life. I listened to that house breathe and creak through twenty long summers, often bored, or longing [...]
A Good Bullet
by
Freddy Syborn
Cutdown B Format Hardback
“Doctor, doctor, what do you call a book about comedy that tries to be funny, argumentative, wide-ranging, silly, weirdly personal and fairly well-researched?” “Doomed to failure” Bullets are violent. Jokes are violent. Can either be used for good? What is [...]
My Education
by
Susan Choi
Cutdown B Format Hardback
In the heat of September, and the heady rush of starting her graduate degree, Regina Gottlieb is entranced by her seductive, controversial English professor, Nicholas Brodeur. Against all advice, she becomes embroiled in his world, only to betray him in [...]
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets
by
Jessica Fox
B Format Paperback
This is a book for anyone who has ever thought “What if”
How to be Danish
by
Patrick Kingsley
B Format Paperback
Denmark is the country of the moment. The motherland of Borgen and The Killing, it’s the runaway champion of Eurovision, and home to Noma, the world’s most eccentric restaurant. But though we wear their jumpers and watch their thrillers, how [...]
The Fast Diet Recipe Book
by
Mimi Spencer
,
Sarah Schenker
Crown Quarto Paperback
FOLLOWING THE NO 1 BESTSELLING FAST DIET, this fabulous cookbook offers 150 carefully crafted, nutritious, low-calorie recipes to enable you to incorporate the 5:2 weight-loss system into your daily life. The recipes range from simple breakfasts to leisurely suppers, all [...]
A Commonplace Killing
by
Siân Busby
Crown Quarto Paperback
LONDON, 1946 THE WAR IS OVER AND SO ARE THE CELEBRATIONS On a damp July morning in 1946, two schoolboys find a woman’s body in a bomb site in north London. The woman is identified as Lillian Frobisher, a wife [...]
Friendfluence
by
Carlin Flora
Crown Quarto Paperback
We have long known that good friends can be our main source of moral support, the generous suppliers of love, humour and understanding. But did you know that having good friendships makes you cleverer, richer and healthier? Increasingly, research shows [...]
Mr Gig
by
Nige Tassell
B Format Paperback
Nige Tassell’s life has been defined by live music. It’s the fabric of his being, his bloodline, his DNA. He is Mr Gig. Or at least he was. A few years ago Mr Gig hung up his backstage pass and [...]
Lost Luggage
by
Jordi Punti
Paperback
Christof, Christophe, Christopher and Cristòfol are four brothers – sons of the same father and four very different mothers. They live in Frankfurt, Paris, London and Barcelona and they unwittingly share the fact that their father, Gabriel Delacruz – a truck driver – abandoned them when they were little.
Whirligig
by
Magnus Macintyre
Ebook
“Impressively immersive… wry, often brilliantly dark… Strong and clear and fresh and rousing. Like a bagpipe.” Jez Butterworth, playwright, author of Jerusalem Claypole is not ‘a large man’. He is a fat man. A fat man with thin limbs, like [...]
The Hunger and the Howling of Killian Lone
by
Will Storr
Paperback
Killian Lone knows he was born to cook. But if there’s one thing he worships more than food, it’s the superstar chef Max Mann. In 1985, Chef Mann’s glamorous London restaurant King is as famous for its ultra-refined Nouvelle Cuisine menu as it is for its starry clientele and its apparently good natured executive chef. When Lone secures a coveted apprenticeship at King, he is horrified to find that, behind closed doors, Chef Mann runs his kitchen with a regime of fear, violence and psychological torture.
The Physics of Finance
by
James Owen Weatherall
Ebook
After the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on ‘complex financial instruments’ like derivatives, and the physicists and mathematicians who dreamed them up. But a young academic named James Owen Weatherall quickly began to question this narrative. [...]
The Romantic Economist
by
William Nicolson
Ebook
‘I know that this sounds like a bit of a cliché, but really, it’s not you…’ His torturer was funny, talented, and unbearably beautiful. His mother had said she wanted him to marry her. And he had lost her in [...]
Veg Street
by
Naomi Schillinger
Paperback
This book celebrates the fact that anyone can ‘grow your own’ and that through veg growing you can meet your neighbours and grow your own community too.
The House On Paradise Street
by
Sofka Zinovieff
Paperback
The House on Paradise Street
is an epic tale of our times. Taking the reader from the war-torn streets of 1940s Athens to the partisans’ mountain caves after the war, through the ‘Regime of the Colonels’ and on into the present day,
The Cruel Mother
by
Siân Busby
B Format Paperback
Winner of the Mind Book of the Year Award 2004 In 1919 Siân Busby’s great-grandmother, Beth, gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth and eleven days later she drowned the surviving twins in a bath of [...]