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The Patagonian Hare

Claude Lanzmann

RRP: £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 Barfe

RRP: £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 …

Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean

RRP: £14.99

From the moment in 1918 when Corporal Lee Duncan discovers Rin Tin Tin on a World War I battlefield, he recognizes something in the pup that he needs to share with the world. Rin Tin Tin’s improbable …

Public Enemies

Bernard Henri-Levy

RRP: £20.00

‘Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we’re both utterly despicable individuals.’ (Houellebecq to BHL)In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French in …

The Limit

Michael Cannell

RRP: £12.99

10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza, in northern Italy, half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill – t …

Madam Lash

Sam Everingham

RRP: £10.99

Gretel Pinniger, dominatrix, fetishist, artist, and courtesan to the rich and famous has been shocking and outraging Australia for decades. Never shy of publicity, this introverted daughter of a hands …

What It Is Like To Go To War

Karl Marlantes

RRP: £12.99

In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military …

Pearl Jam Twenty

One of the key bands of the Seattle-based grunge movement of the 1990s, Pearl Jam broke on to the world stage with their album, Ten, which went on to become an alternative rock classic. For over two d …

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 …

Blood Knots

Luke Jennings

RRP: £12.99

As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it seemed to him, waited alien and mysterious worlds. With library books a …

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 …

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