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Alan Ryan / On Politics

A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising...

Francis Fukuyama / The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

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Shamini Flint / Inspector Singh Investigates #7 A Frightfully English Execution

Inspector Singh is irate. He's been instructed to attend a Commonwealth conference on policing in a job for paper pushers, not real cops, as far as he is concerned.And as if that isn't bad enough, his wife is determined to come along to shop for...

Andreï Makine / The Crime Of Olga Arbyelina

The stunning new novel by the author of the international bestseller Le Testament Français, a dramatic, sensuous tale set in a Russian emigré community in post-war France.Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess living quietly with her...

Annabel Karmel / My Kitchen Table: 100 Family Meals

Annabel Karmel is the best-selling author of cookbooks for children and their families. Relied on by millions of parents, Annabel knows what children like to eat and how to make family meals as trouble-free as possible. In this collection, Annabel...

Henry Kissinger / On China

In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique...

Gordon Jarvie / The Genius

An anthology of modern short stories from Northern and Southern Ireland, with traditional stories by Michael Mac Liammoir and Liam O'Flaherty and contemporary stories by Clare Boylan, Edna O'Brian and Bernard Maclaverty, among others...

Anne Dickson, Henriques Nikki / Menopause

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Paige McKenzie, Alyssa B. Sheinmel / The Haunting of Sunshine Girl #1 The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

Based on the wildly popular YouTube channel, The Haunting of Sunshine Girl has been described as “ Gilmore Girls meets Paranormal Activity for the new media age.” YA fans new and old will learn the secrets...

Polly Shulman / The Grimm Legacy #1 The Grimm Legacy

In downtown Manhattan there's a very special place. It might not look like much from the outside but if you enter and make your way down to the basement, you'll find something so amazing you won't believe your eyes. The Grimm Collection. It's...

Dawn Foster / Lean Out

Sheryl Sandberg’s business advice book, Lean In, was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital.In her...

HarperCollins / Complete French: Grammar, Verbs and Vocabulary

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Stephen Baxter / World Engines #2 World Engines: Creator

Trapped on an alternate Earth, the combined crews of a crashed Russian spaceship, a British expeditionary force and a group of strays from the future must work together to survive, escape, and discover what led them to this point. All are from parallel...

johnson daniel / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Dought on the Chessboard

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Sylvain Neuvel / Take Them to the Stars #1 A History of What Comes

Germany, 1945.Mia, a nineteen-year-old girl, is sent by the OSS to find Wernher von Braun. Her mission: stop the Russians getting hold of Germany's - and the world's - foremost rocket scientist.Von Braun is suspicious. And so he should be.For Mia is no...

G.J. Stevens / In the End: Their Fight for Survival Is Only the Beginning

COULD YOU SURVIVE THE END OF CIVILISATION?What if you woke to find the electricity off, the internet down and the streets deserted? What if you were forced to run for your life, no longer top of the food chain? What if the government had no interest...

Adrienne Katz / You Can Teach Your Child to Read

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James McCreet / Albert Newsome #3 The Thieves' Labyrinth

A death on Waterloo bridge, a body in the river near Wapping, a lady robbed on Wych Street – all common enough daily incidents in early Victorian London. But when an outrageous theft is committed at the port, the clues from these seemingly...

Derek Johns / Ariel: Jan Morris, A Literary Life

Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than ‘travel writer’), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant,...

Malachy Walsh / A Life Interrupted: Insights and Cure of a Depressive

This description of twenty-five years of acute suicidal depression and ultimate recovery is moving and courageously honest. For many years Malachy Walsh managed his own successful business. No one guessed or knew of his condition. He had recourse to...

Allen Berger / 12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone: Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action

The author of the classic 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery offers a fresh list of "smart" things to do to attain and sustain emotional sobriety.Learn the attitudes and behaviors that are key to attaining and sustaining emotional sobriety and...

Christian Parenti / The Freedom: Shadows And Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq

Consistently compared with the work of Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, The Freedom provides a fearless and unsanitized tour of the disastrous occupation of Iraq, in all its surreal and terrifying detail. Drawing on the best tradition of war...

Jack Holland / The Prisoner's Wife

Nora Costello, the wife of Johnny Costello. a jailed IRA leader, finds herself trapped between the schemes of the police, the demands of the IRA, and her own desire for a better future with the man for whom she had a youthful passion and who suddenly...

Jo Baker / The Mermaid's Child

When Malin’s father dies, he leaves behind only his fantastical story that her mother was a mermaid. Set in an unspecified historical past, full of strange and wonderful characters, the story follows Malin’s picaresque journey across...

Daniel Defoe / A Journal of the Plague Year

Actually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear. With a wealth of detail, "A Journal of the Plague Year" seems almost a firsthand account, taking readers...

Elizabeth Haynes / Never Alone

Elizabeth Haynes’ new psychological thriller is a brilliantly suspenseful and shocking story in which nothing is at it seems, but everything is at stake.Sarah Carpenter lives in an isolated farmhouse in North Yorkshire and for the first time, after...

Adam LeBor / Yael Azoulay #1 The Geneva Option

Yael Azoulay does the United Nations’ dirty work. From the caves of Afghanistan and the slums of Baghdad to the world’s corporate boardrooms, Yael’s job is to broker the secret deals that oil the wheels of superpower diplomacy and big...

Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore / The Doomsday Virus

With the deadly 'Doomsday Virus' about to be unleashed onto the world's computers, the authorities have no choice but to turn to 14 year-old deadly hacker Tim Corder for help. A gripping action adventure with lots of facts about computers...

Rob Wilkins / Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.'Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, knight of the realm, and holder of more honorary doctorates than he knew what to do with, was...

Sebastian Barry / Old God's Time

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous...

Miss Read / Fairacre #5 Over the Gate

Another entertaining slice of Fairacre life from the bestselling author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.'The story of the village goes back a long, long time, and it still goes on. I have listened to my neighbours' accounts of tales long ago, and with what unfailing...

Edward Marston / Domesday #10 The Owls of Gloucester

The ordered calm of Gloucester Abbey is shattered by the murder of one of its monks. The Abbot, ill-equipped to deal with such a heinous crime, is stunned by the Sheriff's belief that one of the monks is guilty. This is the confusion that that greets...

Noel Streatfeild / Shoes #4 Theater Shoes

A beautiful gift edition of the beloved classic about three orphan siblings and their love of music, theater, and dance. When orphans Sorrel, Mark, and Holly are sent to live with their grandmother, a famous English actress, she enrolls them in the...

Stephen Baxter / Manifold #3 Origin

Stephen Baxter continues to think big and create SF on a grand cosmic scale in Origin, the third novel of his Manifold trilogy. The Manifold is an infinite sheaf of alternative universes which Baxter explores in terms of Fermi's Paradox. There's no...

Rhona Martin / Gallows Wedding

A strange, haunting story of two ill-starred lovers, set against the backdrop of the religious upheaval of Henry VIII's time. Hazel, a peasant girl marked by the witches' brand and a dangerous beauty, loves Black John, an outlaw and aristocrat, whom...

Bryan Burrough / Public Enemies : The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave

In the summer of 1933 an amazing group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest...

Bernard Edwards / Salvo! : Epic Naval Gun Actions ( Cassell Military Classics)

Since a simple cannon was first mounted on sailing ships and the warship was thus born, it has had but one principal resolve: to engage and destroy the enemy in action. In the early examples of sea warfare, the guns were fixed, and hence only by...

Michael Lewis / Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood

A story of raging egos, brutal power struggles and fraught decision making, from the bestselling author of Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis.Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood is probably the most brazenly honest and wickedly funny book about...

Martina Murphy / Livewire

It`s not easy being a genius, especially when your family fail to recognise it. Joey is music-mad, he`s in a brilliant band (or so he thinks!) and together with Ann, Trev, Mick (his best mate) and Domo, they enter a `Battle of the Bands` competition,...

Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian / Burn for Burn #3 Ashes to Ashes

New Year's Eve ended with a bang and Mary, Kat and Lillia may not be prepared for what is to come. After Rennie's death, Kat and Lillia try to put the pieces together of what happened to her. They both blame themselves. If Lillia hadn't left with...

Harry Harrison / The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell ( Stainless Steel Rat - Book 9 )

Brand new adventure of slippery Jim DiGriz, the SF superhero the TLS compared to James Bond and Flash Gordon and the Daily Telegraph, called the Monty Python of the spaceways. While our anti-hero is taking it easy on the resort planet Lussouso, his...

Tony Bradman~Martin Chatterton / Three Terrifying Tales of Terror!

Three scary stories in one bumper volumes. To be read alone AT NIGHT!         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition...

David C. Sprigings, John B. Chambers / Acute Medicine: A practical guide to the management of medical emergencies

This is a truly practical guide aimed at the junior physician or casualty officer, which explains what to do when faced with medical emergencies "on take," on the ward or in the A & E department.Section One describes the detailed management of common...

Alessandro D'Avenia / What Hell Is Not

The school year is finished, exams are over and summer stretches before seventeen-year-old Federico, full of promise and opportunity. But then he accepts a request from one of his teachers to help out at a youth club in the destitute Sicilian...

Anne Ylvisaker / Dear Papa

"The letters are personal and immediate, and the story is full of details that evoke the historical period. . . . The simple words grab your heart."— BooklistIt’s a good thing nine-year-old Isabelle is learning to write letters at school,...

Gareth Rees, Tony Smith / Understanding Cancer

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Robert Walters / Understanding Your Eyes: Cataracts, Glaucoma & Macular Degeneration

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Berlitz / Crete Pocket Guide

Already considered "the bible of the cruise industry," the new Ocean Cruising & Cruise Ships 2004 rates more than 256 major and minor ships cruising the word's oceans and waterways. Providing all the advice the first-time or experienced passenger...

Brooks Hansen / The Chess Garden

Revolving around 12 letters sent by a 19th-century Dutch physician from South Africa to his wife and friends back in Dayton, Ohio, at the turn of the century, this "improbable, brilliant tale . . . describe(s) a visit to an imaginary place, the...

Julia Stagg / Fogas Chronicles #3 The French Postmistress

When her post office burns down, postmistress Véronique starts lobbying for its replacement. But her fellow residents of the small commune of Fogas in the French Pyrenees are too preoccupied to rally to her cause.Mayor Serge Papon, overwhelmed by...

Sue Purkiss / Warrior King

King Alfred the Great devises a plan to rid 9th century Britain of the Viking invaders forever. At what cost will he succeed? And what will become of his daughter Fleda?         All of our books are second hand, and while...

Helen Bridgett / The Mercury Travel Club

He took her to dinner: that was annoyingHe slept with her: that was hurtfulHe bought new underwear to impress her: quite frankly astoundingHe left me to bloody wash his FILTHY WHORING PANTS: INFURIATING!After twenty-four years and eleven months of...