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Adult fiction: Travelling Light - Tove Janssen (£7.99)
Adult non-fiction: Plot: A Biography of an English Acre - Madeleine Bunting (£8.99)
Children's book: Eating Things on Sticks - Anne Fine (£5.99)
CD: Venice by Jan Morris, Read by Sebastian Comberti - Naxos CDs (£16.99)
Adult fiction: Travelling Light - Tove Janssen (£7.99). This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray when a disconcerting young boy arrives; an artist returns to an old flat to discover that her life has been eerily usurped.
Adult non-fiction: Plot: A Biography of an English Acre - Madeleine Bunting (£8.99). After "Guardian" columnist Madeleine Bunting’s deeply conservative father’s death, in an attempt to understand him better, she began to explore his passionate, lifelong attachment to a small plot of land in North Yorkshire, and uncovered traces of its Neolithic inhabitants and of the Cistercian monks. The result sheds a fascinating light on what a contested, layered place England is, and on what belonging to a place might mean to all of us.
Children's book: Eating Things on Sticks - Anne Fine (£5.99). Harry is in trouble. He's burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer hols with his uncle Tristram - who's heading off to stay with a new girlfriend - Morning Glory - on a tiny British island. Harry doesn't expect it to be a lot of fun - with just a wacky competition at the end of the week to look forward to. Ages 8 -12yrs
CD: Venice by Jan Morris, Read by Sebastian Comberti - Naxos CDs (£16.99). To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first publication of one of the finest travel books on the world's most famous tourist destination! "To be heard on the way to Venice, whilst there, and on return."
