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Gerald M. Edelman / Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness

How does the firing of neurons give rise to subjective sensations, thoughts, and emotions? How can the disparate domains of mind and body be reconciled? The quest for a scientifically based understanding of consciousness has attracted study and...

Ralph A. Griffiths, Roger S. Thomas / The Making of the Tudor Dynasty

Tudor monarchs have consistently attracted more popular and scholarly attention than any other royal dynasty in British history. The peculiar origins of the Tudor family and the improbable saga of their rise and fall and rise again in the centuries...

Daniel C. Dennett / Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

In Breaking the Spell Daniel C. Dennett explores how the great ideas of religion have enthralled us for thousands of years - and whether we could (or should) break free.What is religion and how did it evolve? Is it the product of blind...

Roger Boyes / Meltdown Iceland: How the Global Financial Crisis Bankupted an Entire Country

The inside story of the bankrupting of Iceland It is a truism that when America sneezes, Europe catches a cold. The sub-prime mortgage crisis, which began in America in 2007, unleashed a veritable epidemic of financial ill health all over the world...

Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution

For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when...

James Ellroy / Lloyd Hopkins #1-3 omnibus L.A. Noir

A single-volume edition of three of the novels featuring Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins of Los Angeles. The first involves the apparently random killings of 20 women, the second a multiple murder committed with a pre-Civil-War revolver, and the...

Jane Smith, Ian D. Learmonth / Hip Replacement

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Knud Romer / Nothing But Fear

The Second World War is long over but its legacy continues to tear a town - and a young boy's life - apart. Knud is growing up in Falster, a small Danish town in the 1960s. The war is over but the Germans are still hated and Knud has a German mother...

D.T. Max / Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant...

Gilly Smith / Nigella Lawson

Strikingly beautiful and with an unashamed passion for food, Nigella Lawson fascinates and inspires. Her cookery books are international bestsellers, she is a TV presenter in the UK and America, a designer-kitchenware tycoon and the mother of two...

Al Murray / Al Murray The Pub Landlord's Great British Pub Quiz Book

Who doesn't enjoy a rousing question-and-answer session over a pint and some scratchings? Indeed, what higher calling is there than standing in the pub loudly demanding answers to difficult questions like "d'you want some?" Here, for your pleasure,...

BRENNAN / Herbie Brennan's Forbidden Truths: Atlantis

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John Mortimer / Rumpole of the Bailey #5 Rumpole and the Golden Thread

This collection includes "Rumpole and the Genuine Article", "Rumpole and the Golden Thread", "Rumpole and the Old Boy Net", "Rumpole and the Female of the Species", "Rumpole and the Sporting Life" and "Rumpole and the Last Resort"...

S.J. Perelman / The Swiss Family Perelman

The author offers a humorous account of his family's voyage to the Far East, France, and England         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...

S.J. Perelman / The Most of S.J. Perelman

This definitive collection brings together the finest of Sidney Joseph Perelman's comic writings, satires and parodies, from The Customer is Always Wrong and Boy Meets Gull to Is There an Osteosynchrondroitrician in the House? and The Pants...

Rosemary Kay / Return Journey

A novel about a young woman's search for her father and the discovery of something completely different but no less valuable.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Nancy Mitford / Radlett and Montdore #1 The Pursuit of Love

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love satirizes British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties...

Lewis Davies / Work, Sex and Rugby

Young and strong, this novel's protagonist, Lewis, is equally keen on beer and girls and bored in equal measures by his job and by club rugby. He only has one problem: he's a closet romantic, and life isn't matching up to all he thinks it should be...

Ludovic Kennedy / The Trial of Stephen Ward

'My original intention in writing this book was, as I put it at the time, "to make a permanent record of the last public act of the Profumo affair before the curtain comes down for the last time". If on occasions the book is now rather more vehement than...

Frances Mary Hendry / Angel Dancer

Brenda, at 15, is a wild girl who will risk anything - anything at all - to become a ballerina. Can her worried younger sister Mary, and the Ballet Angel she hopes will look after Brenda, prevent her fanatical determination leading her to disaster?...

Nigel Barley / The Innocent Anthropologist #3 Not a Hazardous Sport

This book has been republished as . After Nigel Barley's insurance company determined that anthropology was not a hazardous sport, he was free to set off for Torajaland, a remote district of Indonesia. His visit sparked an enduring love afair which...

Tessa Hadley / Sunstroke and Other Stories

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Sarah Day / Mussolini's Island

Sarah Day's MUSSOLINI'S ISLAND is a novel of sexuality and desire, of hidden passions and the secrets we keep locked within us. Based on the true story of the rounding up of a group of Sicilian gay men in 1939, this book is sure to appeal to readers of...

Václav Havel / Disturbing The Peace

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Ray Celestin / City Blues Quartet #3 The Mobster's Lament

Like every other mobster, the longer he stayed in the life, the closer he got to a shallow grave . . .New York, 1947. Mob fixer Gabriel Leveson needs to leave this city behind. But his plans to flee are upset when he’s given a job by the boss of...

Mary Renault / The Charioteer

Injured at Dunkirk, Laurie Odell, a young corporal, is recovering at a rural veterans' hospital. There he meets Andrew, a conscientious objector serving as an orderly, and the men find solace in their covert friendship. Then Ralph Lanyon appears, a...

Ann Granger / Campbell and Carter Mystery #3 Bricks and Mortality

The third Cotswold village mystery featuring Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter reveals a ruthless killer and a case of mistaken identity.In the cold light of dawn, a dead body is found entombed in the smouldering remains of a...

Terry Deary, Hemesh Alles / Tudor Chronicles #6 The Queen of the Dying Light

As Queen Elizabeth I lies dying, England is in turmoil. A young lad Will and his friend Meg set off to London to clear his familyname but are confronted by great obstacles, none worse than the magician, Doctor Dee, a man much admired by Queen Bess...

Barbara Trapido / Temples of Delight

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Elizabeth Strout / Olive Kitteridge #1 Olive Kitteridge

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Budd Schulberg / The Harder They Fall

The celebrated novel of the prize ring that has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Robert M. Youngson / Collins Dictionary of Human Biology

Human Biology is a key subject of study in all the subjects related to medicine from radiology to pharmacology. This is the first student dictionary devoted to the subject. In over 6,000 entries, this dictionary covers the topics necessary in...

Ben Okri / Starbook

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John Berger / G

Winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, John Berger's "G." relates the story of a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. Berger sets his novel against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi...

Carrie Vaughn / Kitty Norville #7 Kitty's House of Horrors

Talk radio host and celebrity werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. What she's expecting is cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as...

Joan Lingard / After You've Gone

Beautifully written and emotionally charged, After You've Gone is a fascinating account of one woman's struggle to find happiness and independence in 1920s society. When Willa met Tommy Costello, a handsome, smooth-tongued sailor, she thought he had...

Max Schaefer / Children Of The Sun

In 1970s Britain, 14-year-old Tony is entranced by the racism and brutality of the skinhead movement. From white-power rock gigs and race riots to clandestine homosexual encounters, Tony rages through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s while the far right...

Simone Weil / The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1943, the final year of her life, unable to join the resistance movement in France, she worked in London for the Free French...

John Niven / Straight White Male

Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet.He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way...

David Foster Wallace / The Pale King

The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the minutiae of a million daily lives are totted up, audited and accounted for. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own...

David Brown / Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music

This volume uniquely combines a lively biography of one of the best-loved composers of the nineteenth century with a detailed chronological guide to much of his oeuvre, from the most popular - Swan Lake or the 1812 Overture - to the...

James A. Coleman / Relativity for the Layman

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Joanna Nadin / Wonderland

Jude must get away. She has to ace her exams and an audition at a prestigious drama school or she'll never escape her small town life and follow her dream of becoming an actor. But then her best friend Stella returns, bringing excitement and danger...

Cara Lynn Shultz / Spellbound #2 Spellcaster

Finding your eternal soulmate - easy.Stopping a true-love-hungry evil - not so much…After breaking a centuries-old romantic curse, Emma Connor is (almost) glad to get back to normal problems. Although...it's not easy dealing with the jealous...

Lisa Heathfield / Seed

Seed loves you. Seed will never let you go.Fifteen-year-old Pearl has lived her whole life protected within the small community at Seed, where they worship Nature and idolise their leader, Papa S. When some outsiders arrive, everything changes. Pearl...

Barbara Straunch / Why Are They So Weird? : What's Really Going on in a Teenager's Brain

As Strauch reveals, scientists now recognize that there is a biological component to why teenagers are so likely to slam the door and hide out in their rooms at the least provocation. There is a reason they are articulate and idealistic one moment,...

Roger Voss / Wines Of Loire

Voss sets out to make up for the apparently curious neglect of wines of the Loire in wine literature. The region produces wine as fine as Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne and yet has received only occasional recognition, perhaps because the wines are...

Michael Parkinson / Parky's People: The Lives, the Laughs, the Legend

One hundred legendary encounters with the man who has met everyone—Muhammad Ali, Bob Hope, Bette Davis, Woody Allen, John Lennon, Tony Blair, Henry Kissinger, Sammy Davis Jr., Jane Fonda, and many more  Through his perceptive onscreen...

Tony Bradman / How to Be a Boy

Ten edgy stories from the streets of Britain and the US, inspired by the pressures of being a twenty-first century boy.Teenage boys are trouble. It’s in the news, on the front page – everywhere you look they’re doing drugs, messing with...

Joni Eareckson Tada / Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos

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Malcolm Archibald / Last Train to Waverley

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Jillian Madison, Michelle Madison / Dear Asshole: 101 Tear-Out Letters to the Morons Who Muck Up Your Life

Ever wish you could leave a nasty note for that jerk in the Hummer who blocked you in, or the idiot who didn’t clean up after his dog? Now you can! Dear Asshole includes 101 letters to all of the assholes you encounter on a daily basis, each...