Foreign Bodies
Cynthia OzickRRP: £14.99
The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale’s life, leaving her middle-aged and alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives …
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The Smile of a Ghost
Phil RickmanRRP: £8.99
The Parish Priest must solve the mystery of a young boy’s deathly fall from the Ludlow Castle ruins, and discovers a hidden obsession with the afterlife amongst the ancient streets…’Compassionate, o …
An American Spy
Olen SteinhauerRRP: £7.99
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Tourist.Three weeks on the New York Times bestseller listLA Times and Publishers Weekly bestsellerNew York Times “Editor’s Choice”‘The best spy novel …
Absolution
Patrick FlaneryRRP: £8.99
Winner of the Spear’s First Best Book Award, 2012 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize, 2012 Longlisted for the Guardian Book Award, 2012 Longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2012 Shortlisted …
Babylon
Paul KriwaczekRRP: £12.99
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the ris …
Everything is Obvious
Duncan J. WattsRRP: £14.99
Sociologist Duncan Watts explains in this provocative book that the explanations that we give for the outcomes that we observe in life – explanations that seem obvious once we know the answer – are le …
Hemispheres
Stephen BakerRRP: £8.99
An Odyssey for the twenty-first century, an unforgettable literary fiction novel about fathers and sons, homecoming and the power of nature_________________________’Glittering prose’ GUARDIAN’Genuine …
The Patagonian Hare
Claude LanzmannRRP: £20.00
The international bestseller: a cry of witness to the 20th century – the unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and intellect …
The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson
Louis BarfeRRP: £8.99
Les Dawson: a comedian who, more than any other, spoke for the phlegmatic, resigned, sarcastic, glorious British way of life. This is his story.A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an …
The White Tiger
Aravind AdigaRRP: £9.99
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS ‘AUTHOR OF THE YEAR’ 2009Meet Balram Halwai, the ‘White Tiger’: servant, philosopher, entrepreneur, murderer. Balram was bor …
Worm
Mark BowdenRRP: £8.99
‘Masterful journalism, one of the best books about the dark side of the web… turns complex ideas into an action thriller and whodunnit.’ The Times
Full Service
Lionel FriedbergRRP: £12.99
Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure, revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture, told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires.Sc …
Cold Wind
C. J. BoxRRP: £9.99
A body hangs from a wind turbine, a bullet hole in his chest: Earl Alden, millionaire property developer. His wife, Missy, is the prime suspect. It wouldn’t be a problem for Joe Pickett, if Missy were …
Last Man in Tower
Aravind AdigaRRP: £10.99
The magnificent new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2013 IMPAC AWARD. 21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property …
Puppy Love
Frauke ScheunemannRRP: £7.99
Hercules is a dachshund, and his new mistress Caroline is the greatest human being on earth. She’s the one who rescued him from the animal shelter, who smells of summer and strawberries, and who laugh …
The Beauty Chorus
Kate Lord BrownRRP: £8.99
New Year’s Eve, 1940: Evie Chase, the beautiful debutante daughter of an adoring RAF commander, gazes out at the sky as swing music drifts from the ballroom. With bombs falling nightly in London, she …
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