The Christmas Letters
Simon HoggartRRP: £7.99
Simon Hoggart is the ultimate Christmas curmudgeon. Every year about this time, unwanted round robins, stuffed with news of young Chloe’s nauseating excellence at – well – everything, the announcement …
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Olivia Stewart-LibertyPosh is back and bigger than ever. From Peaches Geldof to David Cameron, a new breed of Sloane is taking over the country and Peter York, Britain’s foremost social commentator, and Olivia Stewart-Libe …
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City of Laughter
Vic GatrellRRP: £19.99
Between 1770 and 1830, London was the world’s largest and richest city, the centre of hectic social ferment and of spectacular sexual liberation. It prompted revolutionary modes of thought, novel sens …
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Clever Girl
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
Brian Thompson groped his way to being a grown up. He excelled at school and met a girl – the girl of the title – who recognised his ambition to escape the miserable lives his parents had made for eac …
Cockeyed
Ryan KnightonRRP: £8.99
On his eighteenth birthday Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. Blending …
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Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade
Guy BrowningRRP: £8.99
The big things in life look after themselves. Birth, love, death – they’re all terrifically exciting, but they happen whether we like it or not. It’s the little things in life that cause the most trou …
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The Oyster House Siege
Jay RaynerRRP: £7.99
‘If you thought my kitchen was intimidating wait until you get a load of this one… A heart-stopping thriller.’ Gordon RamsayThe Oyster House Siege is a most entertaining read. I hope there will be a …
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Delicious
Mark Haskell SmithRRP: £7.99
Welcome to sunny Hawaii, where the palm trees sway, the tropical breezes blow and a gangland-style turf war is erupting. When a TV producer flies to the islands to film a pilot, a fight breaks out ove …
Marx's Das Kapital
Francis WheenRRP: £7.99
‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,’ wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expose of the new capitalist worl …
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Metamaths
Gregory ChaitinRRP: £21.00
One of the world’s greatest mathematicians explains his revolutionary hypothesis about the enigma at the heart of maths: omega. ‘Chaitin comes across as a kind of mathematical Richard Feynman, intuiti …
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Moist
Mark Haskell SmithRRP: £7.99
This dark, funny and violent crime novel is a must-read for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.Bob is an old-school slacker in a city full of them: his job in an Los Angeles pathology lab gives h …
The Qur'an
Bruce LawrenceRRP: £7.99
The Qur’an: A Biography is a beautifully written and authoritative account of one of the world’s most famous, and most misunderstood books.Few books in history are as poorly read or understood as the …
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The Quran
Bruce LawrenceRRP: £7.99
Few books in history are as poorly read or understood as the Qur’an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, it is regarded by the faithful as the unmediated word of Allah. It is …
Serpent in Paradise
Julian WestRRP: £7.99
When Eva is sent to the island of her childhood to photograph the bloody civil war, she faces her hardest assignment yet: her own history.The traumas of Eva’s youth resurface in the decaying house whe …
The Return of the Player
Michael TolkinRRP: £10.99
Griffin Mill, the savage anti-hero of The Player, returns in this piercing satire of twenty-first century Hollywood.When we last saw film executive Griffin Mill, fifteen years ago, he had just got awa …
The Wreck of the Batavia
Simon LeysIn 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the Australian continent. Most of the people on board survived t …
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