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The Pedant In The Kitchen

Julian Barnes

RRP: £9.99

The Pedant’s ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic …

Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean

RRP: £16.99

Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in France towards the end of WW1. He died in 1932, supposedly in the arms of Jean Harlow, the original ‘blonde bombshell’, epic in death as he was in life. In his …

David Boon's Funniest Sporting Moments

David Boon

RRP: £7.99

Boonie is best known as the man who drank 52 cans of lager en route to London to play a game of cricket. Not only did he manage to drink 52 cans but he then went on to play a cracking game. So who bet …

The 21st-Century Screenplay

Linda Aronson

RRP: £17.99

The 21st-Century Screenplay is the long-awaited, much-expanded successor to the author’s internationally acclaimed Scriptwriting Updated. Many books in one, it offers a comprehensive, highly practical …

Where Have All the Good Times Gone?

Louis Barfe

RRP: £9.99

Louis Barfe’s elegantly written, authoritative and highly entertaining history charts the meteoric rise and slow decline of the popular recording industry. Barfe shows how the 1920s and 1930s saw the …

If Wishes Were Horses

Susanna Forrest

RRP: £20.00

Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich and, like many a girl, she yearned for a pony. She never did get one of her own, but this didn’t stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine.If …

The Last Decision You’ll Ever Make

Mark Connelly

RRP: £8.99

The Last Decision You’ll Ever Make is a wedding survival guide written by a man for other men. There are no references to ‘your special day’ and no floral motifs-this book offers sensible and realisti …

The Last Decision You'll Ever Make

Mark Connelly

RRP: £8.99

The Last Decision You’ll Ever Make is a wedding survival guide written by a man for other men. There are no references to ‘your special day’ and no floral motifs-this book offers sensible and realisti …

Turned Out Nice Again

Louis Barfe

RRP: £9.99

With a cast of thousands, including Peter Cook, Ken Dodd, Dusty Springfield, Spike Milligan, Rolf Harris, Bruce Forsyth and Reeves and Mortimer, Turned Out Nice Again reveals a world of comedians and …

Untouchable

Randall Sullivan

RRP: £14.99

Drawing on never-before-seen material, this definitive biography exposes the true extent of the Jackson family’s dysfunctionality — evidence of which is still in the public eye as they dispute the st …

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World

Stephen Trombley

RRP: £12.99

Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in.

Saving Private Sarbi

Sandra Lee

RRP: £9.99

Powerful, dramatic, heartwarming, this is the true story of Sarbi, the scruffy black Labrador-cross trained by the Australian Army as an explosives detection dog for the most dangerous combat mission …

The Joy of X

Steven Strogatz

RRP: £10.99

Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths’ most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of ev …

History's Daybook

Peter Furtado

Every day of the year carries the memory of great and terrible events…From the founding of Rome to the twenty-first century’s war on terror, History’s Daybook presents a vivid, day-by-day perspectiv …

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Holidays in Hell

P.J. O'Rourke

RRP: £8.99

P.J. O’Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe in Holidays in Hell, looking for trouble, the truth, and a good time. After casually sight-seeing in war-torn Lebanon and being pepper-gassed in Kor …

You'll Be Sorry When I'm Dead

Marieke Hardy

RRP: £12.99

He was wearing a pair of leather pants that clung like terrified orphans to his muscular thighs, and a revealing black mesh t-shirt. The outfit seemed at odds with the cream-coloured settee and floral …

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