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Jimmy Carr / The Naked Jape

Is Man the only animal that laughs? Why are clowns so scary? Do jokes make children more intelligent? Are men funnier than women? Can God take a joke? What's brown and sticky? Top comedian Jimmy Carr and fellow joke-lover Lucy Greeves tour the...

Julian Clary / A Young Man's Passage

One of Britain’s most loved comic entertainers; this is Julian Clary’s story, in his own words — a touching, beautifully written and wryly-witty account of a unique progression from shy child to comedy icon...

Thomas Asbridge / The Greatest Knight

A thrillingly intimate portrait of one of history’s most illustrious knights – William Marshal – that vividly evokes the grandeur and barbarity of the Middle AgesWilliam Marshal was the true Lancelot of his era – a peerless...

David Bird / Bridge With a Feminine Touch

Follows the hilarious adventures of intrepid heroine Debbie as she climbs the bridge ladder, starting with her opening game at the local club, and ending with international trials and a glamorous match against the Polish ladies' team. The game...

Bill Drummond / 45

Bill Drummond is known variously as wayward genius, art terrorist, a hoaxer with integrity, and the ex-pop star who broke up his band, the KLF, at the height of its success to wage an idiosyncratic war against the art world. He's also a loving, if...

Marcus du Sautoy / Finding Moonshine

This new book from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in the search for symmetry. This is the story of how humankind has come to...

Rachel Yoder / Nightbitch

One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else...At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined - what was it she had imagined?...

Jacky Hyams / Frances: The Tragic Bride

She was young, very beautiful, and had everything to live for—but the life of Frances Shea, briefly married to Reggie Kray, remains one of the most tragic stories of the Swinging Sixties. Courted by Reggie as a schoolgirl, her eight year...

John Chambers / A Belfast Child

An incendiary story of bombs and bullets, drugs and trauma, love and family. A Belfast Child is a tale of divided loyalties, dark secrets and the scars left by hatred and violence on a proud city - but also a story of hope, healing and ultimate...

Simon Elmes / And Now on Radio 4

And Now on Radio 4 offers an enthusiast's guide to the shows that have made Radio 4 what it is, and also explores some of the wonderful corners of the network's history that are long forgotten by all but a few. Who, for instance, now recalls Ronnie...

Gordon G. Chang / Nuclear Showdown

Nuclear Showdown published by Asia expert, Gordon Chang, was of the first books to exploire the full extent of the North Korean nuclear threat, its origins, international implications, and solutions.The United States is the mightiest nation in...

Andrea di Robilant / Venetian Navigators

From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause...

Tom Bower / Broken Dreams

From the author of devastating exposes of Mohamed Fayed, Richard Branson and, most recently, Geoffrey Robinson, this is an incisive account of how self-interested individuals, adopting questionable and predatory business methods, are exploiting the...

Nick Davidson / Pirates, Punks & Politics

FC Sankt Pauli ? the football club in the red-light district of Hamburg; a transvestite chairman; terraces populated by punks, pimps and prostitutes; a club run by anarchists, united under the skull and crossbones flag. This is the clich(r) that has...

Michael Dobbs / One Minute to Midnight

October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. The Cuban missile crisis is at its height, and the world is drawing ever closer to nuclear apocalypse.As the opposing Cold War leaders, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev,...

F. Ronan / Lovely

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Huw Richards / A Game for Hooligans

The rugby union has undergone immense change in the past two decades—introducing a World Cup, accepting professionalism, and creating a global market in players. This resource covers all of the great matches, teams, and players while also...

Brendan Reichs / Genesis

Project Nemesis #2   Noah Livingston knows he is destined to survive. The sixty-four members of Fire Lake's sophomore class are trapped in a place where morals have no meaning, and zero rules apply. But Noah's deaths have trained him, hardened...

Peter Sissons / When One Door Closes

A Liverpool boy and schoolfriend of Paul McCartney, Peter Sissons was a war reporter until a sniper's bullet put an end to that career. Instead he became one of Britain's most distinguished newsreaders, guiding a generation through every momentous...

Rhys Bowen / A Royal Pain

Her Royal Spyness #2   1930s London. Poor Lady Georgiana - thirty-fourth in line to the throne - has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest, even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain her. Then there's the...

Dan Fesperman / The Small Boat of Great Sorrows

Vlado Petric, former detective in war-torn Sarajevo, has left his beloved homeland to join his wife and daughter in Germany, where he scratches a meagre living among the dust of former conflicts on the building sites of the new Berlin.Returning home...

James Rebanks / English Pastoral: An Inheritance

As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient agricultural a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming...

O. Henry / The Gift of the Magi

The playful, optimistic stories of ordinary Americans that gave rise to the phrase "O Henry ending"  Author of more than 600 short stories, O Henry has been called America's answer to Guy de Maupassant. Like Maupassant, he is...

Sven Hassel / Blitzfreeze

It was supposed to be Hitler's glorious conquest of Russia...The 27th Penal Regiment has been ordered to invade the Soviet Union. They are half-starved and ill-equipped. To reach Moscow they must defeat the fearsome Red Army.But instead, they find...

Robert Louis Stevenson / Treasure Island and The Ebb-Tide

In Treasure Island, a weathered old sailor known as Billy Bones arrives at the inn of young Jim Hawkins's parents - and it is the start of an adventure beyond anything he could have imagined. For when Bones dies mysteriously, Jim stumbles across...

Jonny Gibbings / Malice in Blunderland

For fans of Irvine Welsh and Chuck Palahniuk, this  brash comedic farce is narrated in a unique politically incorrect manner—not for the faint-of-heart, but very, very funny  Our unnamed hero is about to experience the worst week of...

Patricia Kite / Guide to Gardening

A concise guide to gardening. It offers information on different plant and soil types and tips for buying healthy bulbs that help you grow vibrant fruit and vegetables and beautiful flowers. It is suitable for any budding gardener...

Ben Aaronovitch / Lies Sleeping

The Faceless Man, wanted for multiple counts of murder, fraud, and crimes against humanity, has been unmasked and is on the run.Peter Grant, Detective Constable and apprentice wizard, now plays a key role in an unprecedented joint operation to bring...

Harry Pearson / THE FAR CORNER

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

R.L. Trask / Dictionary Of English Grammar

This succinct and authoritative volume is the perfect guide to the many grammatical laws and idiosyncrasies that govern the English Language. Larry Trask writes with remarkable clarity, communicating complex abstract ideas with enviable ease. By...

Henry Winter / Fifty Years of Hurt

'England invented football, codified it, became champions of the world in 1966 but humiliatingly then forgot how to play the greatest game of all. England took their eye off a ball they arrogantly thought they owned, allowing other nations to run off...

Andy Hamilton / The Star Witness

From comedy legend Andy Hamilton comes this consistently hilarious and brilliant debut novel bursting with satire, wit and even a little heart. Kevin Carver is a household name. A popular TV soap star, he’s coasting through life in the same...

Donald Henderson / Mr Bowling Buys a Newspaper

In Raymond Chandler’s favourite novel, Mr Bowling buys the newspapers only to find out what the latest is on the murders he's just committed…Mr Bowling is getting away with murder. On each occasion he buys a newspaper to see whether anyone...

John Hartley Williams / Mystery in Spiderville

The main character—the protean and unkillable Spider Rembrandt—has six toes, sleeps in a grave, and dreams of congress with the pert and playful Reedy Buttons. Sucked into the vortex of Spider's philandering mind is a...

Saki / The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope

Saki, one of the most wickedly amusing writers of his day, was born Hector Hugh Munro in Burma, though he was educated in England. When his father retired from the Burma police they travelled widely together in Europe. In 1904 Reginald was published, his...

James Baldwin / Sonny's Blues

Impassioned tales of human experience that reach the soul. James Baldwin's powerful writing expressed the anger and helplessness felt by many black people in America. Born in New York's Harlem in 1924, the controversial novelist, playwright and...

Dirk Bogarde / Coming of Age

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Poppy Z. Brite / His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood

Contains four short stories from Swamp Foetus:His Mouth Will Taste of WormwoodThe Sixth SentinelCalcutta, Lord of NervesHow To Get Ahead in New York   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition...

Katherine Mansfield / The Escape

Collection of five exquisite, evocative stories of human behaviour which capture brief but significant moments in the lives of the characters: 'The Escape', 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', 'The Garden-Party', 'Bliss' and 'Taking the Veil'...

Ian Ridpath / Night Sky

An illustrated guide to the sky at night with charts of all 88 constellations. Full details given of the magnitude, brightness and distance of the stars. Includes a star atlas of the entire sky.       This book is second hand, and...

HarperCollins / Spanish Phrase Book

The Collins Gem Phrase Book offers you a wealth of Spanish at your fingertips!- Over 70 topics- Over 750 short easy phrases- Simplified pronunciation- Travel tips- Menu reader with over 500 entries- 5000-word dictionary   This book is second hand,...

Collins Gems / Body Language

Body Language: How to Understand the Unspoken Language of Your Body       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title...

Storm Dunlop / Weather

This handy little guide provides the perfect introduction to what is happening in the sky. come rain or shine Different weather conditions are all illustrated. so you can look through the pictures to identify what you have seen. or if you know the type...

HarperCollins / Tarot

Collins Gem Tarot introduces the reader to the basic building blocks of how the deck is structured, how to handle the cards, how to prepare for and organise a reading, together with individual meanings for each of the 78 cards in the deck...

Jim Al-Khalili / Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed

In this lively look at quantum science, a physicist takes you on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the basics of subatomic physics.Along the way he examines the paradox of quantum mechanics—beautifully mathematical in theory but...

Catherine Prasifka / This Is How You Remember It

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you spend hours in the chatroom. You don't understand why some of your online friends don't use their real names.It's not long before you discover porn. You...

Timothy F. Geithner / STRESS TEST

From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great DepressionOn January 26, 2009, during the depth of the...

Heidi Swain / Home for Christmas

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Samanta Schweblin / Little Eyes

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Jacqueline Carey / Kushiel's Justice

Imriel's Trilogy #2   Imriel, is third in line to the throne and a troubled scion of a dangerous bloodline. In an effort to unite two lands he has been betrothed to Dorelei, an Alban princess, so he may beget future rulers of Alba. Yet he...

Gareth Creer / Skin and Bone

Artie lives in Slipp - a tawdry, urban setting, a mixture of big estates and what's left of the old town. When his father died, he inherited the family fishmongers on the High Street. He could have hauled himself out of Slipp, gone to college, were...

Tyler Keevil / The Drive

A single call from his Czech girlfriend catapults Trevor into a serious crisis. Desperate to get his mojo back, he blazes down Highway 99 in a rented Dodge Neon.But soon his journey to California is fraught with peril, and all he has for protection are a...