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CHILDREN

& TEENS

 

WINTER READING

 

She’s Leaving Home      The post-war gloom of the 50s gives way to the freedom of the swinging 60s for a Liverpool family.

Joan Bakewell £17.99 £14.99

 

How it all Began     A random accident sets off a chain of life-altering events.  Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively reminds us of the unpredictability of life.

Penelope Lively £16.99 £14.99

 

The Marriage Plot     A love triangle involving three Ivy League students.  Eugenides breathes new life into ‘the marriage plot’ of 19th century literature.

Jeffrey Eugenides £20

 

Ragnarok:  The End of the Gods (Myths)     Retelling of the apocalyptic Norse legend in which the gods preside over the destruction of the world.

 A.S. Byatt £14.99

 

The Fear Index     Cutting edge thriller set in the world of global finance and artificial intelligence.

Robert Harris £18.99

 

The Cat’s Table     Michael recounts the adventures and encounters on board an ocean liner as a boy, memories of which will haunt him for life.

Michael Ondaajte  £16.99

 

House of Silk:  The New Sherlock Holmes Novel     Holmes has been dead a year when Watson relates details of a secret case which ‘could tear apart the very fabric of society’...

Anthony Horowitz £18.99  £16.99

 

The Wine of Solitude     The most autobiographic of her novels, this story follows a volatile family relationship in the shadow of the Great War and the Russian Revolution.

Irene Nemirovsky £14.99

 

The Thread    This novel traces the several generations of a Greek family set in the

historically fascinating city of Thessaloniki.  

Victoria Hislop £18.99 £15.99

 

Sound of Gravity     A mountaineering accident leaves another life shattered by grief and guilt, a powerful tale of love, loss and redemption.

Joe Simpson £16.99

 

Nightwoods     Tightly wound tale set in the Appalachian mountains.

Charles Frazier £17.99

 

Sense of an Ending     Man Booker Prize Winner 2011.  Brief, vivid story touching on the themes of inhibition, class, regret and the imperfections of memory.

Julian Barnes £12.99

 

Delicacy     A funny offbeat romance between two mismatched, complex souls.

David Foenkinos £7.99

 

 

       FICTION

Derby Day     A Victorian melodrama surrounding a clever betting sting, investigated by Captain McTurk of Scotland Yard.

D.J. Taylor £17.99

 

The Invisible Ones     Private Eye Ray Lovell encounters only hostility when he

investigates the disappearance of a newly married Romany girl.

Steph Penney £18.99 £13.99

 

Death Comes to Pemberley     Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy have been married for six years when her younger sister Lydia arrives with the shattering news that her husband has been murdered.

P.D. James £18.99 £14.99

 

Headhunters     Complications arise when successful corporate headhunter and art thief Roger Brown plans his biggest heist.

Jo Nesbo £11.99

 

Snowdrops    Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, a compelling view of the dark side of Moscow.

A.D. Miller £7.99

 

Darkside     Mid-winter murder in a close-knit Exmoor village community.

Belinda Bauer £6.99

 

Woman in Silk     Intriguing supernatural mystery set in Scotland.

Reg Gadney £7.99 £5

 

REDISCOVERED CLASSIC CRIME

Payment Deferred, Plain Murder and The Pursued     Classic 1930s long lost crime novels.

C.S. Forester £8.99 each

 

Floating Admiral      First published 80 years ago, fiendishly clever crime novel written by Agatha Christie and eight other members of the Detection Club.

Agatha Christie £7.99

 

 

 

       CRIME & THRILLERS

The Magic of Reality:  How We Know What’s Really True      Richard Dawkins £20

 

The Quantum Universe:  Everything That Can Happen Does Happen      Brian Cox £20

 

The Better Angels of Our Nature:  The Decline of Violence in History and its Causes    Stephen Pinker £30

 

The Solar System:  A Visual Explanation of All the Planets, Moons and All the Heavenly Bodies that Orbit Our Sun     Marcus Chown £25 £20

 

Survivors:  The Animals & Plants that Time has Left Behind      Richard Fortey £25

 

Boomerang:  The Meltdown Tour      Michael Lewis £20

 

Catataxis:  When More of the Same is Different      John Brodie Donald £20

Gardens of Spain      Anneli Bojstad £30

 

Colour in the Garden      Val Bourne £18.95

 

Why Every Man Needs a Tractor:  And Other Revelations in the Garden      Charles Elliott £14.99

 

Curious Observations:  A Country Miscellany      Country Life £12.99

 

The Traveller’s Daybook:  A Tour of the World in 366 Quotations      Fergus Fleming £22

 

The Wainwright Letters      Hunter Davies £20

 

 

 

Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright:  Much-loved Poems Half Remembered      Ana Sampson £9.99

 

The Bees      Carol Ann Duffy £14.99

 

My Yorkshire      David Hockney £30

 

Degas & the Ballet:  Picturing Movement      Richard Kendall & Jill Devonyar £40

 

Girl in a Green Gown:  The History & Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait      Carola Hicks £16.99

 

The Hare with the Amber Eyes:  The Illustrated Edition      Edmund de Waal £25

 

The Garden in Art      Debra Mancoff £29.95

 

Cinema:  The Whole Story      Phillip Kemp & Sir Christopher Frayling £19.95

 

Dancer in Wartime:  One Girl’s Journey from the Blitz to Sadlers Wells     Gillian Lynn £14.99

 

Van Gogh:  A Life      Steven Naifeh &  Gregory White Smith  £30 £25

Why be Happy When You Could Be Normal?      Jeanette Winterson £14.99

 

The Horror of Love:  Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris & London      Lisa Hilton £20

Fortune’s Spear:  The Story of the Blue-blooded Rogue Behind the Most Notorious City Scandal of the 1920s Martin Vander Weyer £18.99

 

Lady Almina & the Real Downton Abbey : The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

Countess of Carnarvon £19.99

 

Charles Dickens:  A Life      Claire Tomalin £30 £25.00

 

Instead of a Book:  Letters to a Friend      Diana Athill £20

 

A Daughter’s Tale:  The Memoir of Winston & Clementine Churchill      Mary Soames £25

 

Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness      Alexandra Fuller £14.99

        HISTORY

        BIOGRAPHY

        NATURAL SCIENCES & ECONOMICS

       THE ARTS for POETS & ROMANTICS

       POTTERING ABOUT OUTDOORS

Short & Sweet:  The Best of Home Baking

Dan Lepard £25

 

River Cottage Veg Every Day!

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall £25 £20

 

Made in Sicily     Giorgio Locatelli £25

 

Good Cook      Simon Hopkinson £25

 

A History of English Food  

Clarissa Dickson Wright £25

 

How to Drink at Christmas:  Winter Warmers, Party Drinks & Festive Cocktails     Victoria Moore £9.99

 

Bought, Borrowed & Stolen:  Recipes & Knives from a Travelling Chef      Allegra McEvedy £25  

Britain’s Lost Cricket Grounds:  Forty Hallowed Homes of Cricket that Will Never See Another Ball Bowled Chris Arnott £25

 

The Limit:  Life and Death in Formula One’s Most Dangerous Era      Michael Cannell £17.99

 

How to Watch the Olympics:  A Sport by Sport Guide to the Greatest Show on Earth    David Goldblatt £8.99

 

Not in My Day, Sir:  Cricket Letters to the Daily Telegraph      Martin Smith £14.99

 

The Last Flannelled Fool:  My Small Part in English Cricket’s Demise and its Large Part in Mine

Michael Simkins £11.99

 

100 Greatest Ever Golfers      Andy Farrell £14.99

A Point of View      Clive James £16.99

 

Enthusiasms      Mark Girouard £12.99

 

It Could Have Been Yours:  The Enlightened Person’s Guide to the Year’s Most Desirable Things  

Jolyon Fenwick £9.99

 

The Etymologicon:  A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

Mark Forsyth £12.99 £9.99

 

Private Eye:  The First 50 Years      £25

 

Send Up the Clowns:  Parliamentary Sketches

2007- 2011      Simon Hoggart £8.99

 

Comedy Rules      Jonathan Lynn £14.99

 

I Rest My Case … Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph £9.99

 

Arguably      Christopher Hitchens £30

 

The Gentry:  Stories of the English Adam Nicolson £25

 

        FOOD & DRINK

        SPORT

       QUIRKY & HUMOROUS

Our diverse range of dvds,

ranging from the classic and iconic films of previous decades to

contemporary film and world cinema.

 

 

2012 calendars,  

advent calendars,

beautiful and unusual cards

and wrapping paper for Christmas

and all the year round

       and don’t forget ....

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inconvenience is caused.

 

The Real ‘Dad’s Army’:  The War Diaries of Col. Rodney Foster      Rodney Foster £16.99 14.99

 

The West End Front:  The Wartime Secrets of London’s Grand Hotels      Matthew Sweet £20 £15

 

Dinner with Churchill:  Policy-Making at the Dinner Table      Cita Stelzer £20

 

The Chief:  Douglas Haig and the British Army      Garry Sheffield £25

 

Empire:  What Ruling the World Did to the British      Jeremy Paxman £25  £22

 

History’s Daybook:  A History of the World in 366 Quotations      Peter Furtado £25 £22

 

Soldiers:  Army Lives & Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors      Richard Holmes £25 £20

 

A History of England in 100 Places;  From Stonehenge to the Gherkin      John Julius Norwich £25

 

Into the Silence:  The Great War, Mallory & the Conquest of Everest      Wade Davis  £25

 

Masters of the Post:  The Authorised History of the Royal Mail      D. Campbell-Smith £30

 

Tower:  An Epic History of the Tower of London      Nigel Jones £20

 

Art of Betrayal:  Life and Death in the British Secret Service      Gordon Corera £20

 

Winter King:  The Dawn of Tudor England      Thomas Penn £20

 

Napoleon      Alan Forrest £25 £20

 

Matilda:  Queen of the Conqueror      Tracy Borman £20

 

The Queen’s Agent:  Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I      John Cooper £20

 

All Hell Let Loose:  The World at War 1939-1945      Sir Max Hastings £30

 

The Swerve:  How the Renaissance Began      Stephen Greenblatt £20

 

Castlereagh:  From Enlightenment to Tyranny      John Bew £25