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Elizabeth Gilbert / Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity...

Harry Thompson / Peter Cook: A Biography

In this biography the rise and fall of Peter Cook is analyzed. The ups and downs of his life are explored including his partnership with Dudley Moore, his television fame, and ultimately his alcoholism.       This book is second...

Richard Coles / Murder at the Monastery

Canon Clement #3   Daniel Clement has suffered a secret humiliation and to recover, takes respite at the monastery where he was a novice. But the monastery doesn't allow Daniel a break, for there are tensions building there too, as the...

Nadifa Mohamed / The Orchard of Lost Souls

From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil warIt is 1987 and Hargeisa waits. Whispers of revolution travel on the dry winds, but still the dictatorship remains secure.Soon, through the eyes...

Craig Simpson / Dead or Alive

Special Operations #4   PARIS, FRANCE, NOVEMBER 1941A rogue British agent has vanished with a suitcase full of cash and a head full of secrets. Have Britain's defences been exposed Special Operations must act fast. Finn Gunnersen and fellow...

Maria Dahvana Headley / The Mere Wife

A New Statesman Book of the YearA fierce, feminist retelling of the classic tale Beowulf.Gren and his mother, Dana, a war veteran, live on the side of a mountain, next to Herot Hall, a pristine gated community ruled over by Willa and her son, Dylan...

Richard Koch / Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It

Can We Map Success? Successful people typically don’t plan their success. Instead they develop a unique philosophy or attitude that works for them. They stumble across strategies which are shortcuts to success, and latch onto them. Events hand...

Robin Hobb / Fool's Errand ( Tawny Man Trilogy - Book 1 )

Return to the world of the Farseers...Robin Hobb's best loved characters, Fitz , The Fool and Nighteyes the wolf, face new adventures and trials in the first book of The Tawny Man trilogy. When Assassin's Quest closed, Fitz was living in self-imposed...

Mary Doria Russell / The Sparrow

Set in the 21st century - a number of decades from now - The Sparrow is the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and talented linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who - in response to a remarkable radio signal from the depths of space - leads a scientific...

Rosemary Jackson / Fantasy, the literature of subversion

This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy, notably Tzventan Todorov's The A Structural Approach...

Clifton L. Taulbert / Eight Habits of the Heart

The acclaimed speaker and author of Once Upon a Time We Were Colored shares his timeless "front porch wisdom" of his youth"A beautiful and gentle book... a healing work."—Jonathan Kozol, New York Times bestselling authorClifton L. Taulbert is...

Simon Kinch / Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness

A bench looking out onto the harbour on the French-Spanish border; a cash-strapped existence strolling the sunbaked streets and promenades of Seville, or the cold embrace of the daily grind back in hometown USA; Granville, cut adrift in Europe, has a...

Dan Ariely / The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty

The New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality returns with thought-provoking work to challenge our preconceptions about dishonesty and urge us to take an "honest" look at ourselves.Does the chance of...

Patricia Lockwood / No One Is Talking About This

This is a story about a life lived in two halves.It's about what happens when real life collides with the world accessed through a screen.It's about where we go when existential threats loom and high-stakes reality claims us back.It's about living in...

Peter Wright / My Yorkshire Great and Small

A JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEART OF RURAL ENGLAND Channel 5’s beloved Yorkshire Vet Peter Wright brings us a heartwarming love letter to the places, people and creatures of Yorkshire. Peter takes us on an enchanting journey through the hidden gems...

John Bowlby / Child Care and the Growth of Love

In this third and final volume, Bowlby completes the trilogy Attachment and Loss, his work on the importance of the parental relationship to mental health and examines the ways in which young children respond to a temporary or permanent loss of a...

Colin Bryar / Working Backwards

Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.Colin started at Amazon in 1998; Bill joined in 1999. In Working Backwards , these two...

Charlie Jane Anders / The City in the Middle of the Night

Would you give up everything to change the world?Humanity clings to life on January--a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.Two cities, built long ago in the meager...

Stanley McChrystal / Team of Teams

Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World As commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), General Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of management wisdom and pivoted from a pursuit of mechanical efficiency to organic...

David Riggs / The World of Christopher Marlowe

David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where...

Frank Richard Cowell / Life in Ancient Rome

In this well-written and well-researched social history, F. R. Cowell succeeds in making Life in Ancient Rome alive and dynamic. The combination of acute historical detail and supplementary illustrations makes this book perfectly suited for the...

V.S. Naipaul / India: A Wounded Civilization

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Julie Garwood / Guardian Angel

Crown's Spies #2   The Emerald flew across the seas, carrying the pirate Pagan -- despised by the ton, whose riches he plundered, and beloved by the poor, whose plight was eased by his gifts.The Marquess of Cainewood vows to hunt...

E.M. Forster / The Machine Stops

E.M. Forster is best known for his exquisite novels, but these two affecting short stories brilliantly combine the fantastical with the allegorical. In 'The Machine Stops', humanity has isolated itself beneath the ground, enmeshed in automated comforts,...

Marie Joseph / When Love Was Like That

In them Marie Joseph explores the many aspects of love as it was in the sixties and seventies - its nostalgia, tendernesses, pitfalls and moments of never-to-be-forgotten happiness.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Walter M. Miller Jr. / A Canticle for Leibowitz

In a barbarous and fallen world, the monks of the Order of Leibowitz inherit the sacred relics and spend their lives copying, illuminating and interpreting the holy fragments. They vow to preserve ancient knowledge, but will man learn from his...

Bill Naismith / Harold Pinter the Birthday Party, the Caretaker, the Homecoming

One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores and analyzes in detail the principal themes and styles of the work of Harold Pinter. It also places it in the context of modern theatre,...

Jean-Paul Desroches / Confucius

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Andrew Russell / The Brendan Behan Quotation Book

The Brendan Behan Quotation Book is a new collection of Brendan Behan’s best quotations and is being published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the author’s death.       This book is second hand, and while...

Stephen Bayley / Life's a Pitch

Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity   The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business. Ideas are the most valuable commodity in the modern economy and it is human skill which develops them. In pitching for new business, ideas and emotional...

Federico Varese / Mafia Life

We see mafias as vast, powerful organisations, harvesting billions of dollars across the globe and wrapping its tentacles around everything from governance to finance. But is this the truth? Travelling from mafia initiation ceremonies in far-flung...

Michael Cunningham / Flesh and Blood

From the bestselling author of The Hours and Specimen Days comes a generous, masterfully crafted novel with all the power of a Greek tragedy.The epic tale of an American family, Flesh and Blood follows three generations of the Stassos...

Andrew Simms / Eminent Corporations

Andrew Simms, David Boyle   How much do you know about the big-name brands we live by? Virgin, BP, Land Rover, Barclays, Cadbury's, BBC and M&S. In our times the PLCs have been seen as giants, the backbone of commerce and society. Yet...

Simon Keynes / Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

This comprehensive collection includes Asser’s Life of Alfred, extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Alfred’s own writings, laws, and will.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

Oz Clarke / Oz Clarke's Wine Guide

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Frank A. Worsley / Shackleton's Boat Journey

Frank A. Worsley was the Captain of the H. M. S. Endurance , the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed...

Paul Kingsnorth / Real England

Part personal journey, part manifesto, Real England offers a snapshot of a country at a precarious moment in its history, while there is still time to save its future. British citizens see the signs every the chain cafés and mobile...

David Alexander / Lion Concise Bible Encyclopaedia

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Seichō Matsumoto / Inspector Imanishi Investigates

In the wee hours of a 1960s Tokyo morning, a dead body is found under the rails of a train, and the victim’s face is so badly damaged that police have a hard time figuring out the victim’s identity. Only two clues surface: an old man,...

Richard Hill / We Europeans

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Bernadette Vallely / The Young Person's Guide to Saving the Planet

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Mary Chapman / Danger Money

When Bob Thomson joins the crew of the Admiral, all he can think about is how much he's going to earn. His mom doesn't want him to go. Because this is World War I, the Admiral is an armed smack, and defends itself against German subs. But Bob doesn't...

Alister E. McGrath / The Twilight Of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World

Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture. For the last two hundred years, it seemed to be on the verge of eliminating religion as an outmoded and dangerous superstition. Recent years, however, have witnessed the...

Robert Bly / The Sibling Society

Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron John a national bestseller, poet, storyteller and translator Robert Bly tells us that we live in a "sibling...

Ashley Nelson Levy / Immediate Family

Katie Kitamura is the day of her younger brother’s wedding and our narrator is struggling to compose her toast. She was nine years old when she travelled with her parents to Thailand to meet her brother Danny, and while their childhood in...

Barbara Wilson / Murder in the Collective

Introducing Pam Nilsen, her twin sister Penny and the Best Printing collective, a print shop hovering on the brink of a merger with lesbian-owned B. Violet Typesetting. When sabotage and murder erupt, Pam follows a trail of suspects ranging from the...

Sabrina Cohen-Hatton / The Heat of the Moment

The Heat of the Moment: Life and Death Decision-Making From a Firefighter   In the face of urgency and uncertainty, would you respond analytically or trust your instincts? How would you decide who lives and who dies?Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton...

Marcia Muller / Games to Keep the Dark Away

A new Sharon McCone mystery, in which the detective is hired by a reclusive photographer to find his missing roommate, and when she is found dead, McCone has to confront numerous suspects.       This book is second hand, and while...

Isaac Deutscher / The Prophet Unarmed: Trotsky 1921-29

Trotsky #2   This second of three volumes tells of the struggle between Stalin and Trotsky and ends with the latter's banishment from Russia.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Haniel Long / The Marvelous Adventure of Cabeza de Vaca

In 1528 Cabeza de Vaca led a Spanish expedition to the Americas, where, shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico, he traveled for eight years across North America enduring starvation and enslavement until his eventual rescue by Native Americans. Based on...

Martin Manser / The Book of Hymns

The Wordsworth Book of Hymns is a fresh anthology of favourite hymns. This inspiring selection has such time-honoured favourites as the harvest 'We plough the fields and scatter', the Christmas 'O come all ye faithful', as well as hymns suitable for...

John Updike / Rabbit is Rich

Rabbit Angstrom #3   Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Ten years after Rabbit Redux , Harry Angstrom has come to enjoy prosperity as the Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors. The rest of the world may be falling to...