New Hardback Books

Amanda Vaill / Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War (Hardback)

Madrid 1936-8.Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is here that six people meet and...

Andrew McAfee / Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (Hardback)

From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age , a leader’s guide to success in a rapidly changing economy. We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google...

Trevor McDonald / Trevor MacDonald's World of Poetry (Hardback)

Introduces the reader to a wide range of poems, from essential classics like Kipling's If, to the humour of Betjeman and the timeless appeal of Shakespearean sonnets.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get...

Hayley Scrivenor / Dirt Town (Hardback)

My best friend wore her name, Esther, like a queen wearing her crown at a jaunty angle. We were twelve years old when she went missing.On a sweltering Friday afternoon in Durton, best friends Ronnie and Esther leave school together. Esther never...

David Gibbins / Total War Rome : Destroy Carthage (Hardback)

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Shami Chakrabarti / Of Women, In the 21st Century (Hardback)

A powerful, urgent and timely polemic on why women still need equality, and how we get there It is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet. It blights first and developing worlds, rich and poor women's health, wealth, education, representation,...

Vera Southgate / The Gingerbread Man (Hardback)

This beautiful Ladybird ebook edition of The Gingerbread Man is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale follows the Gingerbread Man as he attempts to escape all of the people and animals who...

Alan Partridge / Alan Partridge: Nomad (Hardback)

In Alan Partridge: Nomad, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once knew - it's called Britain - intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance. Diarising his ramble in the form...

Donna Hicks / Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict (Hardback)

The desire for dignity is universal and powerful. It is a motivating force behind all human interaction—in families, in communities, in the business world, and in relationships at the international level. When dignity is violated, the response is...

Martin E.P. Seligman / The Optimistic Child (Hardback)

In the face of increasing levels of depression affecting American children, the author of the best-selling Learned Optimism teaches parents and educators how to instill optimism, resilience, and confidence in their youngsters.    This book is...

Juliette Clarke / An Illustrated Grandmother's Notebook (Hardback)

Each page carries the soft pen and wash illustrations of the talented artist Juliette Clarke with a humorous or sensitive quotation.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Daniel Goleman / Destructive Emotions (Hardback)

Daniel Goleman, Dalai Lama XIV   In this timely discussion of troubling emotions, Daniel Goleman, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, ushers us into a meeting between the Dalai Lama and some of the foremost...

Stale Einarsen / Bullying and Emotional Abuse in the Workplace (Hardback)

Over the last decade or so research into bullying, emotional abuse and harassment at work, as distinct from harassment based on sex or race and primarily of a non-physical nature, has emerged as a new field of study. Two main academic streams have a...

Oscar Wilde / The Little Book of Sayings of Oscar Wilde (Hardback)

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Bloomsbury Publishing / The Bloomsbury Pocket Encyclopedia of the World (Hardback)

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Joan Miller / One girl's war (Hardback)

Joan Miller was personal assistant to Maxwell Knight, wartime chief of MI5's B5(b) counter-subversion section. This book describes her experiences. It was banned in Britain by the High Court, but the Crown has now agreed to discharge the injunction...

Edward Lear / Edward Lears Nonsense Omnibus (Hardback)

A collection of Lear's nonsense songs, stories, rhymes, alphabets, and pictures taken from "Nonsense Songs and Stories, " "Nonsense Botany, " and "Nonsense Alphabets."       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the...

Rodney Castleden / Encounters That Changed the World (Hardback)

'Encounters that Changed the World' explores friendships, love affairs, chance meetings, creative partnerships and political unions that have altered the universe as we know it.       This book is second hand, and while you may...

Mark Rosen / Thank You for Being Such a Pain: Spiritual Guidance for Dealing with Difficult People (Hardback)

Dr. Rosen provides practical steps designed to help transform difficult people and situations into opportunities for personal and spiritual growth.       This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Joanna Gray / The Little Book of Unity: All Together Now (Hardback)

Discover what "strength in numbers" really means and come together as one with The Little Book of Unity . With practical tips, gentle guides and thoughtful exercises, learn how to find balance within yourself, achieve unity with others, and create...

Karyn Henley ( Editor) / The Beginner's Bible : New Testament (Hardback)

The Beginner's Bible (TM) New Testament. We invite you and your child to walk with us through the pages of this colorful and inspiring collection of New Testament stories. - Easy to read text - Color pictures on every page - Stories that The Angel's...

Olga Kenyon / 800 Years of Women's Letters (Hardback)

A collection of notabel letters from both well known and ordinary women throughout history. Published by Bramley Books, 1992. Hardcover.        This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Penny Vincenzi / Into Temptation (Hardback)

The Spoils of Time #3   The Second World War is over, peace has been declared but the ravages remain and the Lytton family must confront the future and themselves. Kit Lytton, blinded in his early twenties in service for the RAF, is coming...

Manny The Frenchie / Manny the Frenchie's Art of Happiness (Hardback)

In 2011, Manny was the runt of the litter and on his way to a shelter. But when his parents scooped him up, named him after the world famous boxer, Manny Pacquiao, and began posting photos of him sleeping in their sink accompanied by humorous,...

Summersdale / Happiness (Hardback)

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William Shakespeare / ROMEO AND JULIET (Hardback)

Romeo and Juliet, the tragic tale of two lovers parted by a family feud, has become one of the world's greatest love stories. In Shakespeare's hand, it becomes a battle between the powers of love and death, but a battle that takes place within the...

David Marcus / A Land in Flames (Hardback)

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Kenneth C. Latino / Root Cause Analysis (Hardback)

Undesirable outcomes, chronic failure, incidents, and accidents The cost of such events to corporations is high, generally adding up to tens and hundreds of millions of dollars in "accepted" losses. Why accept these losses? What if you could understand...

Paul Clark / Design (Hardback)

Design infiltrates most aspects of modern living. But what is it? How is it different from yet related to invention and innovation? Is the lightbulb a design, or an invention? Where does "art" stop and "design" begin? Who was Raymond Loewy? A Crash...

Yrsa Sigurdardottir / Why Did You Lie? (Hardback)

A chilling thriller from the author of THE SILENCE OF THE SEA, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel. A journalist on the track of an old case attempts suicide. An ordinary couple return from a house swap in the states to...

Chris Ryan / Osama (Hardback)

Despatches from the secret world behind the headlines. Former SAS legend Chris Ryan brings you his seventeenth novel, filled with his trademark action, thrills and inside knowledge.Osama Bin Laden is dead.The President of the United States knows it. The...

Rachel Kushner / The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000–2020 (Hardback)

A career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and cultureRachel Kushner has established herself as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty...

Robin Tucek / The Malt Whisky File (Hardback)

From Islay to Orkney, from Scotland to Ireland, and from Japan to New Zealand, this fully revised fourth edition incorporates a unique and helpful rating system for each malt's sweetness, peatiness and availability and a new guide to cost, as well as...

Justin Hill / Shieldwall (Hardback)

The year is 1016 and England burns while the Viking armies blockade the great city of London. King Ethelred lies dying and the England he knew dies with him; the warring kingdoms of Mercia, Wessex and Northymbria tremble on the brink of great change...

Damien Lewis / Hunting Hitler's Nukes: The Secret Race to Stop the Nazi Bomb (Hardback)

In the Spring of 1940, as Britain reeled from defeats on all fronts and America seemed frozen in isolation, one fear united the British and American leaders like no other: the Nazis had stolen a march on the Allies towards building the atomic bomb. So...

Ann M. Sperber / Bogart (Hardback)

A portrait of the Hollywood legend draws from the information in his FBI folder, more than three hundred interviews with actors and other coworkers, and data from the Warner Brothers archives       This book is second hand, and...

Simon Hoggart / House of Fun: 20 Glorious Years in Parliament (Hardback)

The very best parliamentary sketches from the 'P.G. Wodehouse of Westminster'.      Ho use of Fun is a bumper collection of Simon Hoggart's finest and funniest sketches written since he took up the poisoned quill twenty years ago...

Robert Youngson / The Royal Society of Medicine's Dictionary of Symptoms (Hardback)

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Gillian Kaye / A Nurse in Conflict (Hardback)

In World War ll, QA nurse Laura Terrington is caught up in the 1940 evacuation from Dunkirk. On her ambulance train, she meets wounded Christopher Leybourne, and they have a whirlwind romance when he later seeks her out in London. They marry just...

John Beasant / Stalin's silver (Hardback)

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Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins / Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (Hardback)

Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins Left Behind #4   The world is reeling from a great earthquake as Nicolae Carpathia, enraged by an evangelistic effort that yields the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever seen, begins a worldwide...

John James / Talleyman (Hardback)

Don’t miss this classic Victorian nautical adventure novel! Perfect for fans of Dewey Lambdin, Julian Stockwin and Patrick O’Brian.Talleyman is caught up in a deadly uprising…1848, IrelandWith ten years at sea already under his belt,...

Yiyun Li / Kinder Than Solitude (Hardback)

The new novel from Yiyun Li, author of ‘The Vagrants’ and the Guardian First Book Award-winning’ A Thousand Years of Good Prayers’.When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious ‘accident’...

Adam Roberts / Jack Glass (Hardback)

Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime in this British Science Fiction Award winner for best novel, from the author of Swiftly, New Model Army, and Yellow Blue TibiaJack Glass is the murderer—we know this from the start. Yet as this...

Marianne Williamson / Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage (Hardback)

Marianne Williamson's bestselling A Return to Love ended with a prayer in which she asked God to help us "find our way home, from the pain to peace, from fear to love, from hell to Heaven." Now, in this stunning new collection of thoughts, prayers,...

Alexander Humez / On the Dot: The Speck That Changed the World (Hardback)

Despite the humble origins of its name (Anglo Saxon for "the speck at the head of a boil"), the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication, to the point that it has become virtually indispensable. Now, in On...

Alex Byrne / Trouble With Gender (Hardback)

Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the categories...

Ijeoma Oluo / Mediocre (Hardback)

What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of colour, instead of actual accomplishments?Through the last 150 years of...

Ray Campbell Smith / Ray's Top Tips for Watercolour Artists (Hardback)

Ray Campbell Smith's many admirers will want to buy this concise round-up of his top tips. The book covers all aspects of watercolour painting in 85 easy to follow tips and offers expert advice in an accessible form, with over 140 beautiful and...

Tim Spicer / An Unorthodox Soldier (Hardback)

In this fast-moving account of his life, Tim Spicer describes the events in Papua New Guinea when he was captured at gun-point and held in captivity—and came away with his life, his men, and the company's honor intact. Here too is the full...

Judith H. Miller / Miller's Buyer's Guide: Toys & Games (Hardback)

Illustrating thousands of different items with descriptions, prices, and market and collecting information, this was the first entry in the new range of Miller’s Buyer’s Guides. Nostalgia is the number one reason people collect and...

Gordon Kerr / Leaders Who Changed the World (Hardback)

It takes charisma and inspiration to lead any group of people, be it a family, a community or a nation. It requires truly miraculous skills to go on leading people even after your death. Throughout history there have been only a handful of people...