Lucy Springer Gets Even
Lisa HeidkeRRP: £7.99
Lucy Springer thinks she’s got it tough. She’s living through renovation hell, her two kids seem more challenging than ever, and her once successful acting career has been reduced to the odd commercia …
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The Pattern in the Carpet
Margaret DrabbleRRP: £22.50
A beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it has played in its distinguished author’s life. Weaving together memoir, jigsaw history and the strange delights of p …
Desert
J.M.G Le ClézioRRP: £10.99
The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation.Young Nour is a North African desert tribesman. It is 1909, and …
Michelangelo's Finger
Raymond TallisRRP: £9.99
Raymond Tallis is a renowned polymath: he was listed by the Independent in 2007 as one of fifty ‘Brains of Britain’ and in 2004 Prospect magazine voted him one of Britain’s top public intellectual.In …
The Art of Political Murder
Francisco GoldmanRRP: £9.99
On a Sunday night in 1998, Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala’s leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death. Two days earlier, a Church-sponsored report had implicated Guatemala’s government in …
The Fourth Assassin
Matt ReesRRP: £7.99
When Omar Yussef travels to New York for a UN conference, he is eager to see his youngest son, Ala. But the discovery of a decapitated corpse in his son’s empty apartment lands him in the midst of a p …
The Storm
Vince CableRRP: £8.99
In this urgent and timely book, Vince Cable explains the causes of the world economic crisis and how we should respond to it. He shows that although the downturn is global, the complacency of the Brit …
Intuition
Allegra GoodmanRRP: £14.99
A charismatic doctor and a rigorous scientist are co-directors of a cancer research lab. They demand nothing less than complete dedication and obedience from their young protégés. In this high-pressur …
The Anatomy of Wings
Karen FoxleeRRP: £7.99
In a dusty Queensland town, something terrible has happened.Amongst broken bottles and cigarette butts at the foot of a water tower, a girl with blonde hair lies as if sleeping. Jennifer Day has lost …
Blood, Iron and Gold
Christian WolmarRRP: £25.00
The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and G …
Dubai
Jim KraneRRP: £10.99
Today, Dubai is a city of shimmering skyscrapers attracting thousands of tourists every year. Yet just sixty years ago Dubai’s population scraped a living by picking dates, diving for pearls, or saili …
The Nostradamus Prophecies
Mario ReadingRRP: £6.99
From the No. 1 bestselling author of Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the FutureNostradamus wrote a thousand prophecies. Only 942 have survived. What happened to the missing predictions? And w …
The Well-Dressed Ape
Hannah HolmesThe ‘Well-Dressed Ape’, aka Homo sapiens, is a strange mammal. It mates remarkably often and with unprecedented affection. With comparable enthusiasm, it will eat to the point of undermining its own h …
The Good Parents
Joan LondonRRP: £7.99
From the author of Gilgamesh – longlisted for the Orange Prize – comes a novel of loss and longing that goes right to the heart of the struggle to belong.’A richly detailed, expertly written explorati …
A Stout Pair of Boots
Peter StanleyRRP: £8.99
More and more Australians are visiting battlefields around the world, from Gallipoli and France to Vietnam. But what do you do when you get there? This essential guide to the Australian battlefields t …
Anathem
Neal StephensonRRP: £25.00
Erasmas, ‘Raz’, is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers. Three times during history’s darkest epochs, violence has invaded and devastated t …
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