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Raymond Queneau / We Always Treat Women Too Well

We Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916...

Carlo Gébler / The Eleventh Summer

An eleven-year-old Irish boy visits his grandparents for the summer and discovers the mysteries of the adult world surrounding him   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Joan Aiken / The Stolen Lake

Dido Twite, heroine of Black Hearts in Battersea and Nightbirds on Nantucket, is on her wildest adventure yet. On her way back to London aboard the Thrush, Dido and crew are summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. Her island is an...

Ian Gillan / Ian Gillan: The Autobiography of Deep Purple's Lead Singer

In 1970, Deep Purple burst on to the British rock scene with their hit "Black Night" and bestselling album "Deep Purple in Rock". This is the autobiography of their lead singer, Ian Gillan. Here he tells his life story, and that of the band he helped to...

Fiona McIntosh / The Diamond Hunter

During the 1870s diamond rush in southern Africa, Clementine is left to be raised by her destitute father following the death of her mother. Her care falls largely to their companion, Joseph, and the two form an unbreakable bond.When the two men uncover...

Elizabeth Pisani / Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation

In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: 'the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible.' Still working on the 'etc.' seven decades later, the world's fourth most populous nation is now...

Beryl Peters / Tea & Conversation: Develop the art of conversation with afternoon tea

Friends gather; tea is brewed and conversation flows.Everything tastes better with social niceties from days when afternoons were longer.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Tony Augarde / The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations

Containing more than 5,000 quotations from authors as diverse as Bertolt Brecht, George W. Bush, Homer Simpson, Carl Sagan, William Shatner, and Desmond Tutu, this dictionary is organized alphabetically by author, with generous cross-referencing and...

Debra Fine / The Fine Art of Small Talk

Communication expert Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to make small talk - in any situation. Do you spend an abnormal amount of time hiding in the bathroom or hanging around the buffet table at social gatherings? Does the...

Guillaume Pitron / Rare Metals War

A celebrated international bestseller that exposes the ticking time-bomb underneath our new technological order.The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth’s most precious metals — but...

Drago Jančar / Joyce's Pupil

The finest short stories of Slovenia's most prominent author. A young man learns English in Trieste in 1914 from James Joyce, who repeatedly describes an oil lamp. Years later, in 1941, this same man must flee his country, and he becomes the Slovenian...

Barry Cunliffe / Druids: A Very Short Introduction

The Druids have been known and discussed for at least 2400 years, first by Greek writers and later by the Romans, who came in contact with them in Gaul and Britain. According to these sources, they were a learned caste who officiated in religious...

Michelin I-Spy / I-Spy in the Countryside

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David Frost / I Could Have Kicked Myself

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Selwyn Hughes / How to Live the Christian Life

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Tim Waggoner / Halloween Kills: The Official Movie Novelization

The official novelization of the highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s Halloween , starring Jamie Lee Curtis.Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen, and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in...

Collins / Collins Atlas Of The World

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Nathanael Lessore / Against All Odds

A HILARIOUS WORLD BOOK DAY COMEDY FOR TEEN READERS FROM THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF STEADY FOR THIS AND KING OF NOTHING!Noranto knows who he is. Or at least, he thinks he does.Footballer. Hustler. One of the boys. He's got the playground game on...

Mick Herron / Standing by the Wall

A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.*Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow...

Justin Gustainis / Hard Spell

Stan Markowski is a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PD's Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit.Like the rest of America, Scranton's got an uneasy 'live and let unlive' relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling...

Cyrus Lawrence Day / Knots & Splices

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Richard Bradley / The Greatest Pop Hits of 2000

Thirty-two titles American Pie (Madonna) * Back at One (Brian McKnight) * Oops! . . . I Did It Again (Britney Spears) * What a Girl Wants (Christina Aguilera) * Maria Maria (Santana) * Smooth (Santana) * Amazed (Lonestar) * Private Emotion (Ricky Martin)...

Dora Alonso / Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real

Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as...

Kiran Millwood Hargrave / The Wolf Trials

Trial 1: Track a wolfTrial 2: Tame a wolfTrial 3: Train a wolfEira's always wanted to compete in the Wolf Trials. The winners become part of the Ryders, an elite group of warriors who ride gigantic sea wolves.There's only one problem: Eira can't take...

Sterling Publishing Co. / I like to Read : The Picnic

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Jim Rogers / Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market

The next bull market is here. It’s not in stocks. It’s not in bonds. It’s in commodities –and some smart investors will be riding that bull to record returns in the next decade.Before Jim Rogers hit the road to write his...

Alia Trabucco Zerán / The Remainder

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with...

Chris Hirst / No Bullsh*t Leadership: Why the World Needs More Everyday Leaders and Why That Leader Is You

A Financial Times Business Book of the Month"A brilliant set of leadership tools that will help you succeed whatever your goal" - Sir Clive WoodwardLeadership is not some special club, open only to elites. It's not a gold star given only to those with...

James Swallow / Rogue

In modern espionage, every action has a reaction. One wrong move could sink an entire region into turmoil - even war.Ex-MI6 operative Marc Dane understands this better than anyone. Dedicating his life to protecting the country means he's collected...

Stephen Curtis / Perfect Punctuation

  From mastering punctuation marks to improving writing in general, this invaluable guidebook covers everything from semi-colons to inverted commas. Its chapters outline step-by-step guidance on how to use each mark and how to avoid common mistakes...

Peter Ackroyd / Alfred Hitchcock

Peter Ackroyd turns his gimlet eye to one of the twentieth century's most revered directors.      Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with...

S.G. MacLean / The Bookseller of Inverness

A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face...

Gary Neville / Class of 92: Out of Our League

As modern football legends, the Class of 92 need no introduction. Class of 92: Out of Their League , however, opens a dramatic new chapter in the story of former Manchester United greats Gary and Phil Neville, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Nicky Butt, as...

Bill Gates Sr. / Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

A heartfelt, deeply personal book that shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”: lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he...

Sheila Kohler / Once We Were Sisters

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST NEW BOOKS"A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly." --The BBC"An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss." --PeopleWhen Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the...

J.M. Hewitt / The Other Son

She saved her son once. Would she do the same again?Sara and her family needed a fresh start after a tragedy that ruined many lives. They have found peace since arriving at their new home in the Kielder Forest National Park twelve months ago. That is,...

Amanda Hart / Talking with Angels of Light

Amanda Hart was rescued by guardian angels as a child and from thence on they became a beacon of hope throughout her turbulent journey into womanhood. The illuminating conversations she has with her angels remain an important aspect of her everyday life,...

Emma Heathcote-James / They Walk Among Us: An Investigation into the Phenomenon of After-Death Materialisation

Putting forward the best evidence yet of life after death, challenging the accepted ideas of exactly what humans are and what they become the moment after taking their final breath. Drawing on scientific research from colleagues as well as her...

George V. Higgins / The Digger's Game

A riveting George V. Higgins masterpiece about Jerry Doherty and his trip to Vegas that puts him eighteen grand in the hole.Jerry "Digger" Doherty is an ex-con and proprietor of a workingman's Boston bar, who supplements his income with the occasional...

Terry Eagleton / Saints and Scholars

In 1916, in a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland, an unlikely collection of fugitives gathers. Ludwig Wittgenstein has run away from Cambridge and English insularity. His traveling companion, Nikolai Bakhtin (brother of the Marxist...

Leif G.W. Persson / Another Time, Another Life

1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage, demanding that the Baader-Meinhof members being held as prisoners in West Germany be released immediately. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the...

Meg Maxwell / Sugar & Spice: Love And War

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David Hare / The Hours

In Richmond, England in 1923, Virginia Woolf is setting out to write the first words of her new book. In Los Angeles in 1951, a housewife, Laura Brown, is contemplating suicide. And in present-day New York, a hostess, Clarissa Vaughan, is planning a...

Philippe Claudel / The Investigation

In a highly original work, Claudel undertakes a sweeping critique of the contemporary world through a variety of modes. Like Kafka, Beckett, and Huxley, he has crafted a dark fable that evokes the absurdity and alienation of existence with piercing...

Jacqueline Wilson / Green Glass Beads: A Collection of Poems for Girls

A beautiful anthology of poems for girls, from William Shakespeare to Adrienne RichA lovely collection of classic and modern poems that girls will turn to again and again throughout their lives, these poems are arranged by theme. Themes range from...

Claire Gradidge / Treachery at Hursley Park House

From the winner of the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition comes another tantalising Golden Age wartime mystery, perfect for fans of Sunday night drama.DECEMBER 1942. As the war rages on, the accidental death of a young man is...

Paul Newman / Up in Smoke

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Matt Rendell / The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography

Cyclist Marco Pantani’s death is one of the most tragic events in recent sports history. After winning both the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia in 1998, he was expected to dominate cycling well into the next decade. Instead, he was...

Terry Deary / The Last Flight

Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. France 1917 - the war in the air. An air observer is shot down behind enemy lines and meets the German flying ace, the famous Red Baron...

N.H. Kleinbaum / Baby, It's You

Arriving at Kellerman's to work for her father throughout the summer, Baby's life changes forever when she meets Johnny. For he is an eleftrifying dancer, and he shows Baby what dancing is really all about - the heat, the rhythm, and the excitement.....

Debbie Macomber / Orchard Valley Grooms: Valerie / Stephanie

Valerie rushes home to Orchard Valley, Oregon, when her father, David, suffers a heart attack. She and her two younger sisters, Stephanie and Norah, are gathering at his side, praying he'll live, fearing he'll die….At a time like this, falling in...

Geddes and Grosset / Practising Shiatsu

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