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HARDBACK FICTION Saturday - Ian McEwan One single day in February 2003. changes the life of a successful neurosurgeon, happily married, troubled by the state of the world and involved in a minor car accident with a small-time thug. (£15.99 at The Book Case) Runaway - Alice Munro Three stories combined into one narrative about the power and betrayals, and twists, of love, about lost children, lost chances(£13.99 at The Book Case) CONTINUE SCROLLING DOWN TO MORE BOOKS |
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NEW PAPERBACK FICTION Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh Set in the half-drowned mangrove-forested archipelago of the Sunderbans where the Ganges meets the Bay of Bengal. An eccentric, wealthy Scotsman once tried to create a utopian society here, and in 2001, a small ship arrives to conduct an ecological survey of this vast environment. From the author of "The Glass Palace". (£7.99) Nights of Rain & Stars - Maeve Binchy Four strangers, with nothing in common but a need to escape meet in a Greek taverna high above the small village of Aghia Anna. Trade paperback. (£10.99) Dreaming the Bull - Manda Scott Set in Iron-Age Britain and Imperial Rome, the second novel in the bestselling Boudica series. (£6.99) CONTINUE SCROLLING DOWN TO MORE BOOKS |
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BIOGRAPHY Perdita - Sarah Gristwood The rags-to-riches story of Mary Robinson, who started her career in a debtor's prison, yet rose to become mistress of George IV, and whose bestselling novels and diaries became a cause celebre in late 18th century England. Up for Richard & Judy. (£20) Bugatti Queen - Miranda Seymour Account of a fascinating twentieth-century life: Helene Delangle, also known as Helle Nice, dancer, lover and record breaking racing driver. (£7.99) The Longshoreman - Richard Shelton A Life at the Water's Edge. follows the author from stream to river, from pond to lake and loch, from shore to deep sea, on a journey from childhood to an adulthood spent in boats in conditions fair and foul. (£8.99) My Father’s Rifle: a childhood in Kurdistan - Hiner Saleem A coming-of-age tale of a young boy growing up in war-torn Iraqi Kurdistan, moving from a vibrant village culture, through bombing and humiliation, a refugee camp in Iran and a brief spell as a freedom fighter to exile as a film-maker in support of his cause. (£10.99) |
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HISTORY Great Warbow - Robert Hardy A vivid exploration of the bow and arrow as weapons of war, from before the Domesday Book, through Anglo-Saxon England, medieval Wales and Ireland, the Crusades, Bannockburn and the Wars of the Roses, until the time of the Tudors. (£25) Typhoid Mary - Anthony Bourdain In 1906, at a prosperous Long Island summer home, a family falls ill and typhoid is diagnosed. When Dr George Soper is called in to find the source of the contagion, he notices that the household cook has gone missing. Follows Mary Mallon, the unwitting carrier of typhoid and cook, through the kitchens of early 20th-century New York. (£7.99) |
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MBS Daughters of Joy - Deepak Chopra From the popular spiritual writer, “An Adventure of the Heart”. A young writer is sent a message, disguised as a cryptic classified ad in the newspaper: 'Love has found you. Tell no one, just come'. (£9.99) Nature Cure - Richard Mabey How the well-known nature writer’s love of the English countryside helped him defeat annihilating clinical depression. He describes how he found the courage to change his habitat, moved to Norfolk and fell in love. (£15.99) Gaia Book of Organic Gardening - Charlie Ryrie Focuses on compost, pests, weeds and soil, designed for beginners as well as advanced gardeners who want to make chemicals a thing of the past. (£14.99) |
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CHILDREN'S TITLES 10 Little Rubber Ducks - Eric Carle A book for the very young which explores numbers, directions, opposites, geography and animals around the story of ten ducks (£12.99) Harry & The Bucketful of Dinosaurs say “Raahh!” - Ian Whybrow A board book version of bestselling Harry picture book (£4.99) Cloud Cat - Caroline Pitcher The first in a new quartet following the adventures of Jez and Luka caught up in dark magic in a time of war (£4.99) The Supernaturalist - Ein Colfer Exciting new futuristic adventure now in paperback from the author of Artemis Fowl (£5.99) Hunting the Last Dragon - Sherryl Jordan A great adventure story in which a perilous journey is made to hunt the last dragon and avenge the destruction of the village (£6.99) |
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