London Calling
Barry MilesRRP: £12.99
London has long been a magnet for aspiring artists and writers, musicians and fashion designers seeking inspiration and success. In London Calling, Barry Miles explores the counter-culture – creative, …
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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 …
American Gangster
Mark JacobsonRRP: £8.99
The untold story of Frank Lucas, New York’s most notorious drugs lord during the 1970s. Now a blockbuster movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.In 1970s New …
Anything Goes
Lucy MooreRRP: £14.99
Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, th …
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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Love for Sale
Nils RingdalThe exchange of sex for money is often cited as the first profession, and is certainly the most controversial: from Lilith and Mary Magdalene to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been …
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Our Shadowed Present
Jonathan ClarkRRP: £14.99
‘An excoricating and enormously satisfying assault on historical postmodernism.’ New Statesman Books of the Year 2003At a time of resurgent popular interest in history, Jonathan Clark’s new book is a …
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