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Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue

Lynn Knight

RRP: £9.99

BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 SPEAR’S BEST FAMILY HISTORY AWARD150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill – a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire – was ho …

You Better Not Cry

Augusten Burroughs

RRP: £7.99

From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry comes a A wonderfully twisted collection of true Christmas stories.Of course you’ve eaten too much chocolate at Christmas, but have you …

As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil

Rodney Bolt

Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as …

Dante in Love

A. N. Wilson

RRP: £9.99

With a biographer’s eye for detail and a novelist’s comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of literatur …

Dry

Augusten Burroughs

RRP: £9.99

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs’s most provocative memoir. Outrageously fuinny and scorchingly honest.You may not know it, but you’ve me …

Possible Side Effects

Augusten Burroughs

RRP: £8.99

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs’s most provocative collection of true stories yet. From nicotine gum addiction to lesbian personal ads t …

West

Jim Perrin

RRP: £9.99

West tells the story of Jim Perrin’s life against the lives and deaths of his cherished wife and son, and the landscapes through which they travelled together. It is a complex and sensual love-story, …

Thomas Paine's Rights of Man

Christopher Hitchens

RRP: £9.99

‘Christopher Hitchens… at his characteristically incisive best.’ –The TimesThomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1 …

Cooking Dirty

Jason Sheehan

RRP: £9.99

From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at the age of fifteen, Jason Sheehan has worked at all kinds of restaurants across America, from Buffalo to Tampa to Albuquerque: at a French colonial a …

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress

Rhoda Janzen

RRP: £8.99

Shortlisted for the Thurber Prize for American Humor22 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list’Wonderfully intelligent and frank… I loved this book, and Rhoda Janzen. She is a terrific, pithy, b …

Paradoxical Undressing

Kristin Hersh

RRP: £11.99

Kristin Hersh was a preternaturally bright teenager, starting university at fifteen and with her band, Throwing Muses, playing rock clubs she was too young to frequent. By the age of seventeen she was …

The Woman Who Thought too Much

Joanne Limburg

RRP: £10.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MIND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2011Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn’t want to think, and does things she doesn’t want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive …

Splendour and Squalor

Marcus Scriven

RRP: £14.99

They were the black sheep of aristocracy and this is their story.From stately homes to the prisons of wartime Britain; from the House of Lords to Edwardian asylums; from the Ritz and the Dorchester to …

Anne Frank

Francine Prose

Anne Frank received a red-and-white-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday in June 1942, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in an Amsterdam attic to escape the Nazis. For two yea …

The Butterfly Mosque

G. Willow Wilson

After taking an Islamic Studies course in Boston, G. Willow Wilson quietly found herself adopting the tenets of the religion as her own. This intellectual and emotional exercise created a unique chall …

Golden Boy

Christian Ryan

RRP: £11.99

**Voted Wisden Cricket Monthly’s best cricket book ever in 2019**WINNER, BEST CRICKET BOOK, BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2010_________________Golden Boy is a blistering exposé of the tumultuous Lillee/M …

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