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Not Right in the Head

Michelle Wyatt

RRP: £14.99

Michelle Wyatt’s mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer’s like her own mother-Michelle’s grandmother-they should put her in a home and throw away the key. When she did u …

Disrupted

Dan Lyons

RRP: £12.99

Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old …

Freeman's Home

John Freeman

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The third literary anthology in the series that has been called ‘ambitious’ (O Magazine) and ‘strikingly international’ (Boston Globe), Freeman’s: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and s …

Primary School Confidential

Mrs Woog

RRP: £14.99

Primary school, that special place where little kids turn into big kids, where letters turn into words, numbers turn into more confusing numbers and lunchboxes turn into bacterial breeding grounds. Wh …

How the Hell Did This Happen?

P. J. O'Rourke

RRP: £9.99

An essential take on the stranger-than-fiction 2016 presidential election from a quintessential voice on American politics and culture.With new, updated material, P. J. O’Rourke covers the whole elect …

Prick With a Fork

Larissa Dubecki

RRP: £12.99

Before she was one of Australia’s top restaurant critics, Larissa Dubecki was one of its worst waitresses. A loving homage to her ten-year reign of dining-room terror, Prick With a Fork takes you wher …

Our Tiny, Useless Hearts

Toni Jordan

RRP: £7.99

‘Witty, observant, laugh-out-loud funny. It’s rare to find a novel that keeps you laughing as this one does; the characters are sharply drawn and frighteningly familiar and the story never stops throw …

Women I've Undressed

Orry-Kelly

Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed all the biggest stars, from Bette Davis to Marilyn Mo …

England

Nicholas Hobbes

RRP: £25.00

Despite a thousand years of glorious history, the people of England know surprisingly little of the facts and fables, people and places and events and emblems that have shaped their country and its he …

Even More Things That Nobody Knows

William Hartston

RRP: £12.99

There are many, many more things that nobody knows…!Why do we have five fingers? Do animals have a sense of humour? Did the universe have a beginning? What causes déjà vu? Why do cats purr? How fast …

Highgate Mums

Dan Hall

‘Her first words were “shoes” and “brioche”.’ ‘There’s no nicer way to put this, but frankly anyone can afford to go skiing these days.’ ‘Of course I said “no”. A trampoline in the garden gives out en …

Rules for My Daughter

Walker Lamond

Rules For My Daughter is a collection of traditional, humorous, and urbane fatherly advice for young women and girls. From internet dating (“Never trust a profile pic”) to the practical (“The right fr …

Rules for My Son

Walker Lamond

Rules For My Son is a collection of traditional, humorous, and urbane fatherly advice for boys. From the sartorial (“Men should not wear sandals. Ever”) to the practical (“Keep a copy of your letters. …

Scotland

Edwin Moore

RRP: £9.99

A compact cornucopia of fascinating and hilarious revelations about all things Scottish – from monarchs and malts to tartans and Taggart.As the proud possessors of a fiercely independent creative heri …

The Age of the Horse

Susanna Forrest

RRP: £14.99

Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of meat, an industrial and agricultural machine, a luxury good, a cherished dancer, a comrade in arms an …

The Short and Excruciatingly Embarrassing Reign of Captain Abbott

Andrew P Street

RRP: £14.99

In August 2013, Australia welcomed Tony Abbott as its new prime minister. This promised to be a marriage between responsible government and a nation tired of the endless drama of the Gillard-Rudd year …

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