| "The Wind in the Willows"
|  Kenneth Grahame (1859 - 1932) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a lawyer, but was brought up by his Grandmother in Cookham Dene, in Berkshire. |
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"Saving Sinbad" by: Michael Foreman
|  Working as a builders mate high on the church roof, keeping an eye out for your master and on the rest of the townsfolk, taking part in a dramatic rescue at sea - why, it's all in a day's work. |
| Journey of a Lifetime - Alan Whicker
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The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe, revisiting locations of significance to his life and career.
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The Death Defying Pepper Roux - Geraldine McCaughrean
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When Pepper Roux was born his aunt foretold that he would not live past 14 years of age. Throughout his childhood his parents haven't bothered with him much, knowing that his life would be short-lived. So when Pepper wakes up on his 14th birthday he knows this will be the day that he'll die.
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| In Our Time - Melvyn Bragg
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Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time series regularly enlightens and entertains substantial audiences on BBC Radio 4. For this book he has selected episodes which reflect the diversity of the radio programmes, and take us on an amazing tour through the history of ideas, from philosophy, physics and history to religion, literature and biology.
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Andy William - Moon River and Me
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Andy Williams is one of the greatest singers of all time. During a remarkable career spaning eight decades, he has sold over 100 million albums, hosted a hugely successful TV show.
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| Notes to My Mother-In-Law - Phyllida Law
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My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.' It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) 'Mutt and Jeff'. So Phyllida began to write out the day's gossip at the kitchen table, putting her notes by Annie's bed before going to hers.
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Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey
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Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey is an ambitious journey, avoiding the beaten track and tourist hot-spots, in search of the authentic food of Southeast Asia. In this accompanying book to the major BBC series, Rick shares his favourite recipes and some well-known classic dishes inspired by the fragrant ingredients and recipes he sampled from local chefs, family-run restaurants, street vendors and market stalls.
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| Commando to Colditz - Peter Stanley
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Commando to Colditz is centred around a most unusual war hero: Michael 'Micky' Burn, soldier, poet and novelist, whose journey from fascist follower, to commander of Six Troop, 2 Commando, to prisoner in the notorious prison of Colditz forms the focal point of this powerful narrative. In 1942, Micky led his commando troop of 28 men on one of the most daring raids of the Second World War, the assault on the French port of St Nazaire.
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The Hairy Bikers Food Tour of Britain
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With their irrepressible enthusiasm for great food, Si King and Dave Myers AKA the Hairy Bikers travel the length and breadth of Britain to discover our finest traditional foods.
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| Caribbean Food Made Easy - Levi Roots
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In the BBC2 programme, "Caribbean Food Made Easy", Levi Roots travels around the UK and the Caribbean and reveals how delicious Caribbean food can be prepared at home with easy-to-prepare, mouth-watering recipes using fresh, healthy and readily-available ingredients.
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Athertons's Ashes - Mike Atherton
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With Australia having lost their invincible aura and an improving England side having home advantage, the 2009 Ashes series was always likely to be a gripping contest.
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| Up With The Larks - Tessa Hainsworth
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Having given up a high-powered job and the lifestyle to match, Tessa Hainsworth had no idea how hard she would struggle when, full of optimism, she fulfilled her dream of moving to rural Cornwall with her young family one September
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| MOTTY - Johns Motson
|  For millions in Britain, John Motson or 'Motty' is the voice of football. In a career spanning over forty years and 2,000 matches, including commentating on fifty major finals, he has had an unparalleled insight into the ups and downs of the national game. |
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What to Eat Now More Please! - Valentine Warner
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In "What to Eat Now - More Please!", Valentine Warner explores the ingredients and flavours of Spring and Summer food. Eating seasonally ties in with the zeitgeist of contemporary society and, with Valentine as our guide, we can explore the bounty of our natural larder.
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| Ghost Hunter - Michelle Paver
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As winter approaches and Souls' Night draws near, the Eagle Owl Mage holds the clans in the grip of terror. To fulfill his destiny, Torak must seek his lair in the Mountain of Ghosts. He must defy demons and tokoroths, and find his way through the Gorge of the Hidden People.
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The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
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After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote THE NIGHT WATCH, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. |
| Halfway to Hollywood, Diaries 1980 to 1988 - Michael Palin
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The second volume of Michael Palin's diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful Monty Python's Meaning of Life.
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Ben Ainslie - Close to the Wind
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Knife-edge decisions, adrenaline rushes, extreme weather, bitter rivalries, heart-stopping races - they are all in a day's work for sailing's superman' Ben Ainslie. Ben has won successive golds in the last three Olympics, making him a British hero and our greatest Olympic sailor ever. In 2012 he plans to bid for a fourth.
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| Gary Kemp - I Know this Much, From Soho to Spandau
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I Know This Much -- by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet's prime mover -- is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years. Gary's story begins in North London, where the Kemp family rented a home with no bathrooms and chickens in the yard. After a couple of failed attempts to kill his brother Martin, his parents gave him a guitar for Christmas.
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The Angels Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld.
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| Tales from Outer Suburbia - Shaun Tan
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A new picture book from the international award-winning illustrator Shaun Tan, 'Tales from Outer Suburbia' is a unique and inspiring collection of original stories and illustrations.
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| Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 - Max Hastings
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Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion.
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Life Stories - David Attenborough
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A personal view of the natural world "I daresay my mind would wander over a range of animals remarkable for the extravagance of their reproductive techniques" - Sir David Attenborough, when asked which animal he would like to be if he returned to Earth This fantasy reincarnation was reserved only when in "racy" company, said the distinguished wildlife broadcaster.
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| Nigel Slater - Tender Volume 1
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'I would like to think I know more now than I did before I picked up my trowel and dug that first furrow of red and white radishes. How to get the best out of a vegetable yes, but also what are the different ways to treat it in the kitchen, which seasonings will make it sing, what other ingredients is it most comfortable or most exciting with.
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Kanve of Spades - Alan Titchmarch
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When Alan left school at fifteen little was expected of him. An 'O' level in art is not the most obvious passport to success, but in the ancient greenhouses of the local nursery Mrs T's little lad found his spiritual home, learning his trade and the strange ways of human nature.
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| Somthing Sensational to Read on the Train - Gyles Brandreth
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This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving account of Gyles Brandreth's unusual life
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Planting - Diarmunid Gavin and Terence Conran
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Planting explores nature's vast palette of plants, where they come from, what grows naturally in which conditions, but most importantly how they are used in gardens all around the world and how you can use them in your garden.
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| The Enemy - Charlie Higson
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They'll chase you. They'll rip you open. They'll feed on you...When the sickness came, every parent, policeman, politician - every adult - fell ill.
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| Daddy Lost His Head - Quentin Blake
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What would you do if your daddy lost his head? Make him a new one of course! All you need is some old newspapers, paint and a potato for his nose.
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Garibaldi's Biscuits - Ralph Steadman
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There was great excitement when General Garibaldi returned to his beloved Italy after many years abroad. He had come to fight the greedy French Bourbons, who had invaded the country.
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| Nigella Express - Nigella Lawson
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Featuring fabulous fast foods, ingenious short cuts, terrific time-saving ideas, effortless entertaining and easy, delicious meals, "Nigella Express" is her solution to eating well when time is short.
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The Scarpetta Factor - Patricia Cornwell
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It is the week before Christmas. The effects of the credit crunch have prompted Dr Kay Scarpetta to offer her services pro bono to New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events.
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| Lustrum - Robert Harris
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Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young rival, Pompey the republic's greatest general, Crassus its richest man, Cato a political fanatic, Catilina a psychopath, and Clodius an ambitious playboy.
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Her Fearful Symmetry - Audrey Niffenegger
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At last - another brilliant, original and moving novel from the author of "The Time Traveler's Wife". Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside their cozy suburban home.
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| My Kitchen - James Martin
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My Kitchen is the brand new collection of James Martin's favourite seasonal recipes. Be inspired in your kitchen all year round with more than 100 of James's tried-and-tested favourites. As the face of British food, James Martin knows how to cook for an audience.
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The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell
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The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist, Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century, King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health, and his heir is an untested youth.
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| Keith Floyd - Stirred But Not Shaken
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He was the first celebrity chef, the swashbuckling cook who crossed the high seas, on a BBC budget, communicating his love of food to millions of viewers.
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Anton's Dance Class - Anton Du Beke
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In his first book, Anton Du Beke shares his passion for ballroom dancing. Far more than just the basic steps, it is about the feeling of getting movements perfect, of building a relationship with your partner, of creating an emotional connection with the dances and of beautiful costumes too.
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| Venice - Peter Ackroyd
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In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon.
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Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
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Everything breaks. Some things just hurt more than others. Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease.
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| The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
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From the bestselling author of LABYRINTH and SEPULCHRE - a compelling story of ghosts and remembrance. Illustrated throughout by Brian Gallagher. The Great War took much more than lives.
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| Sufficient - Tom Petherick
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Many of us want to make a shift in our lives by slowing down and consuming less, embracing artisan foods and championing human-scale organic growing methods as safe, compassionate and pleasurable. This book guides on starting that process, however and wherever you live in the world. It aims to inspire, educate and encourage a process of change. |
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| Brian Keenan "Four Quarters of Light"
|  Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began when he was a small boy choosing his first library book in a Belfast school. The book was Jack London's wondrous Call o f the Wild. And Alaska's mesmeric wilderness has permeated Keenan's life ever since. |
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Supreme Courage - General Sir Peter de la Billiere
|  Since the 1850s the Victoria Cross has been the highest award for gallantry in the British armed forces. It bears the simple legend `For Valour', but behind it lie legends of a different kind: humbling tales of almost unimaginable bravery.
Supreme Courage tells some of those stories, bringing the history of the medal alive with blowby-blow accounts of courage in action. |
| Lord Charles Brocket
|  HIS TITLE IS LORD BROCKET OF BROCKET HALL.
He seemed like the token toff when he signed up for the hit ITV show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! But within days he was bonding with Johnny Rotten, fondling Jordan, and taking to the Australian jungle as if to the manner born.
Charlie Brocket's irrepressible sense of fun endeared him to millions. But the Brocket we saw then is only one side of his larger-than-life personality. Now, in this searingly candid autobiography, he tells his incredible tale in full. Often shocking, frequently hilarious, and always surprising, it lifts the lid on the extraordinary history of his family and shows how wrong our assumptions about the aristocracy can be. |
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Roger Penrose
|  The Road to Reality is the most important
and ambitious work of science for a generation. It provides nothing less than a comprehensive account of the physical universe and the essentials of its underlying mathematical theory. It assumes no particular specialist knowledge on the part of the reader, so that, for example, the early chapters give us the vital mathematical background to the physical theories explored later in the book. |
| "Slipstream" by Elizabeth Howard
|  In this candid and remarkable memoir, Elizabeth Jane Howard tells the story of her eventful life, using her skills as a novelist to reveal the friends, family and times that she knew and loved. |
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| Coast to Coast - Rick Stein.
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Rick Stein's passion for fresh, well-sourced food has taken him from continent to continent, across magnificent shorelines and to the very best produce the coast has to offer. From Fresh grilled cod with shellfish in garlic butter at the tip of St Ives, to Cured red duck breasts with melon, soy and pickled ginger in Sydney Harbour, this collection of over 130 recipes evokes all the pleasure and flavour associated with the coast.
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The Nature of Britain - Alan Titchmarsh
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Offers the reader a closer look at the animals and plants of Britain's landscape, following the structure of the series with chapters ranging from Mountains, Lakes, Forests and Seashores to Urban Landscapes. This
book paints a beautiful contemporary portrait of Britains wildlife, and features essays on each habitat. |
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| India - Sanjeev Bhaskar
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Sanjeev Bhaskar, comedian and writer behind 'The Kumars at No. 42' embarks on an epic and highly personal journey through modern India. Sanjeev's characteristic humour and unique take on the country form the heart of this beautifully illustrated book that accompanies his travels for the BBC2 series. |
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Russia - Jonathan Dimbleby
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In a timely and revealing portrait, Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People, Jonathan Dimbleby sets off on an epic journey to get beneath the skin of a country that straddles half the globe. In this compelling and highly readable account he recounts his personal reflections and insights that go far deeper than anything possible on screen |
| By Any Means - Charley Boorman.
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Four million captivated viewers watched Charley Boorman complete his last adventure - LONG WAY DOWN - which took him from John O'Groats to Cape Town. Along with Ewan Mc Gregor he achieved not only this amazing feat, but also circumnavigated the globe on the LONG WAY ROUND. In between these two incredible journeys, he found the time to compete in the Dakar Rally, telling his story in his bestselling book RACE TO DAKAR.
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Twiggy - A Guide to Looking and Feeling Fabulous Over Fourty
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When we reach our forties, something changes. Suddenly nothing - hair, skin, body shape - looks quite the way it used to. And it's a myth to think that by using Botox, working out religiously and wearing skinny jeans you're going to fool people into thinking you're thirty.
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Gennaro's Italian Year - Gennaro Contaldo
|  A celebration of Italian life as much as Italian food, this work gives us a way into Italian food, lifestyle and culture, and includes recipes for every month of the year, from summer favourites to Christmas essentials. |
| The Prawn Cocktail Years.
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Simon Hopkinson Lindsey Bareham
A few years ago, after a long day's session with Roast Chicken and Other Stories, we sat at the kitchen table and cracked open a nice bottle of Alsace. About halfway through we fell to talking about dishes we had loved and lost, those dishes that we had grown up with and memories of early restaurant outings. Before long, our giggles turned to nostalgia and we started to scribble down a list of those fondly remembered dishes. They just came pouring out: Coquilles St-Jacques, Sole Veronique, Beef Stroganoff, Mixed Grill, Swedish Meatballs, Wiener Schnitzel, Chicken Maryland, Crepes Suzette, Peach Melba and Profiteroles. And, of course, Prawn Cocktail. |
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Illistrated Olive Farm - Carol Drinkwater
|  Appassionata, the beautiful Provencal olive farm whose terraced slopes fall steeply towards the Mediterranean is the backdrop to The Illustrated Olive Farm, this newly written, sumptuously illustrated companion to Carol Drinkwater's best-selling trilogy. Many of the well-loved locations as well as her large cast of supportive and engaging characters make their appearances. |
| Rick Stein's - French Odyssey
|  Intrigued by a little book by a yachtsman who preferred to use the canal system to get to the Mediterranean rather than sailing round Spain and Portugal, Rick Stein embarks on his own journey of gastronomic discovery from Padstow to Bordeaux and then to Marseille. On the way he browses in French markets, meets the producers of wine and food, and eats in family-run cafes. Was it to be the dawning of a harsh new realty of burgers and frites, or would he find that the French rural gastronomic dream still exists? And what was this shortcut between two seas really like? |
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| Liver - Will Self
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These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs: the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In "Foie Humane" we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylised yet emotionally dead state of excess. "Prometheus" tells the story of a dazzlingly successful advertising copywriter who can sell anything to anyone at any time.
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| Crossed Bones - Jane Johnson
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With handsome pirates, beautiful slave girls, exotic mysteries and Moroccan markets, this book presents an adventure of the high seas, based on the real-life raids on the Cornish coast by 17th century Barbary
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The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe
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Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape her own story and the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party years ago.
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Crossfire - Andy McNab
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Body Guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack. Only the reporter's swift action saves his life. |
| The Ghost - Robert Harris
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The narrator jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister. But soon he realises that he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in suspicious circumstances
and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill. |
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The Other Side of You - Salley Vickers
|  Set partly in Rome, The Other Side of You explores the power of love, and art, to invade
and change our being and the difficult choices it forces us to reflect on and face. In graceful distinctive prose, this many-layered and thought-provoking novel penetrates the complexities of the human heart and suggests how lives and possibilities may be dramatically altered through another's vision and understanding.
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| Ludmila's Broken English - DBC Pierre
|  OBC Pierre's second novel charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian brides website. Determined to save her family from marauding Gnez troops, Ludmila's journey into the world and womanhood is an odyssey of sour wit, even sourer vodka, and a Soviet tractor probably running on goat's piss. |
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters - G.W.Dahlquist
|  What is there was a book made of blue glass that contained your whole life?
If your desires and wants were dragged from you in a fearful process and preserved for others to savour and revel in?
If your every secret and every dream were open to all and yet you had forgotten that you ever had them? |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Tordy.
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Dr Alfred Jones has many reasons to be content with life. His latest paper 'Effects of Increased Water o the Caddis Fly Larva' looks set to cause a stir on the pages of Trout & Salmon, his job as a fisheries scientist is satisfactory, and he and his wife, Mary, have just celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary - for which she gave him a replacement electric toothbrush. |
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The Murder Bird - Joanna Hines
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Kirsten Waller, the famous poet, is found dead in her bath in a lonely Cornish cottage. The verdict: suicide.
Her daughter, Sam, refuses to accept this. Kirsten would never have killed herself.
Besides, her mother's journal is missing and so is the poem she was working on just before she died - and the name of the poem? The Murder Bird.
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| Wilbur Smith - The Triumph of the Sun
|  In the Sudan decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion and Holy War headed by a charismatic new religious leader, the Mahdi or `Expected One'.
The British are forced to intervene to protect their national interests and to attempt to rescue the hundreds of British subjects stranded in the country.
Along with hundreds of others, British trader and businessman Ryder Courtney is trapped in the capital city of Khartoum.
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Louis de Bernieres - Birds without Wings
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Set against the background of the collapsing Ottoman Gallipoli campaign, and the subsequent bitter struggle between Greeks and Turks, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and in which friendship, even love, can transcend religious |
| Julian Barnes "The Lemon Table"
|  The characters in Julian Barnes' new collection of stories are growing old and facing the end of their lives - some with bitter regret, some with resignation and others still with raging defiance. |
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Helen Dunmore - House of Orphans
|  FINLAND 1901: Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage to work as housekeeper for Thomas, a widowed country doctor. Her challenging, independent, enigmatic presence disturbs Thomas as much as it fascinates him. Their relationship will shatter all the certainties of his life. |
| Alexander McCall Smith - Friends Lovers Chocolate
|  Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where she stands. She can review a book called In Praise of Sin with panache and conviction, but real life is ... well, perhaps a bit more challenging - particularly when it comes to her feelings for Jamie, a younger man who should have married her niece, Cat. Jamie's handsomeness leaves Isabel feeling distinctly uneasy and ethically disturbed. I am a philosopher, she thinks, but I am also a woman. |
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Julian Barns - Arthur and George
|  Arthur and George grow up worlds apart in late-nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the o vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, then a writer; George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age, while George remains in hard-working obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages. |
| Tony Parsons - Stories We Could Tell
|  Sometimes you can grow up in just one night.
It is 16th August 1977 - the day that Elvis dies - and Terry is back from Berlin, basking in the light of his friendship with legendary rock star Dag Wood. But when Dag arrives in London he sets his sights
on a mysterious young photographer called Misty, the girl that Terry loves. Will the love of Terry's life survive this hot summer's night?
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P.D. James - The Lighthouse
|  This eagerly awaited successor to The Murder Room displays the qualities which aficionados have come to expect of P. D. James: sensitive characterisation, an exciting and superbly structured plot and vivid evocation of place. The Lighthouse is a subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. |
| Ruth Rendell - End in Tears
|  A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...
It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered. Sylvia has always been a cause for concern. Living alone with her two children, she is pregnant again. What will happen to the child?
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Michael Connelly - The Lincon Lawyer
|  I hate being inside a jail. I am not sure why. I guess it's because sometimes the line seems so thin. The line between being a criminal attorney and a criminal attorney. Sometimes I'm not sure which side of the bars I'm on. To me it's always a dead bang miracle that I get to walk out the way I walked in.'
That's Mickey Haller talking. He is a Lincoln Lawyer. They are the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln Town Car, travelling between the courthouses of Los Angeles county to take whatever cases the system throws in their path.
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| Sebastian Faulkes - Human Traces
|  Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human.
As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Chariot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. Their search is made urgent by the case of Jacques's brother Olivier, for whose severe illness no name has yet been found.
Thomas's sister Sonia becomes the pivotal figure in the volatile relationship between the two men, which threatens to explode with the arrival in their Austrian sanatorium of an enigmatic patient, Fraulein Katharina von A, whose illness epitomises all that divides them.
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Zadie Smith - On Beauty
|  What are the truly beautiful things in life - and how far will you go to get them?
Howard Belsey is an Englishman abroad, an academic teaching in Wellington, a college town in New England. Married young, thirty years later he is struggling to revive his love for his African-American wife, Kiki. Meanwhile, his three teenage children - Jerome, Zora and Levi - are each seeking the passions, ideals and commitments that will guide them through their own lives.
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| Iain M.Banks - The Agebraist
|  In The Algebraist, Iain Banks returns to spectacular space opera but not to his familiar Culture universe. His new setting is a complex, war-torn galaxy with an entirely different history going back almost to the Big Bang...
For short-lived 'Quick' races like humans, space is dominated by the complicated, grandiose Mercatoria whose rule is both military and religious. To the Dwellers who may live billions of years, the galaxy consists of their gas-giant planets--the rest is debris.
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Wormwood by G.P. Taylor
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the bright star shall fall from the sky...
and many will die from its bitterness
Set against the rich historical backdrop of London in the
1700s, G. P. Taylor's second book is a gripping tale of sorcery,
treachery, intrigue and supernatural strife. It is guaranteed to
enthral readers to the very last page.
This exclusive edition contains an introduction from the author
along with maps and illustrations from the period.
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| Michelle Paver "Wolf Brother"
|  Chronicles of Ancient Darkness
The wound in his arm burned, and with every breath his bruised ribs ached savagely, but he did'nt dare stop.
The forest was full of eyes. Birch trees whispered on his passing. He begged them not to tell the bear............
Torak is alone... wounded, terrified and on the run.
An outcast like his father, he has avoided all contact with the clans - until now.
Now his father lies dead: slaughtered by a demon in the form of a great bear. |
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Anita Shreve "Light on Snow"
|  Walking through new-fallen snow in the forest near their home, twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon and her father come upon something inconceivable: there, in the pristine winter scene, an abandoned infant wails, its survival made possible only by the coincidence of their having chosen this path for their evening stroll.
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| Andy McNabb "Deep Black"
|  Nick Stone's future has never looked so bleak. The only person he's ever loved is dead. The only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs.
Until a chance encounter with a man he saved ten years ago appears to throw him a lifeline ... |
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The Close Circle by Jonathan Coe
|  previous novel, The Rotters' Club, was a novel
of innocence: a nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in 1970s Britain. The Closed Circle is its mirror image: a novel of experience.
On Millennium night, 31 December 1999, with Tony Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV in the same Birmingham house in which he grew up. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. |
| "Past Mortem" by Ben Elton
|  With old friends like these, who needs enemies?
It's a question mild-mannered detective Edward Newson is forced to ask himself when, in romantic desperation, he logs on to the Friends Reunited website in search of the girlfriends of his youth. Newson is not the only member of the Class of '88 who has been raking over the ashes of the past. As his old class begins to reassemble in cyberspace, the years slip away and old feuds and passions burn fiercely once more.
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Tim Moore - Spanish Steps
|  Being larger than a cat, the donkey falls into that
category of animal which Tim Moore is at least
slightly scared of. Yet intrigued by epic accounts of
a pilgrimage undertaken by one in three medieval
Europeans, and strangely committed to historical
authenticity, he finds himself leading a Pyrenean
ass named Shinto into Spain, headed for
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| In the company of cheerful ladies
|  IN THE COMPANY
OF CHEERFUL LADIES
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful private investigator of `traditional build', is well-known to millions across the world through the bestselling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Those who have been following her exploits in five previously published novels can now read the next instalment, in which, as usual, circumstances are never as straightforward as they seem. |
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Martin Amis "Yellow Dog"
|  When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. |
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Jonathan Stroud "The Amulet of Samarkand"
|  The sulphur cloud contracted into a thick column o f smoke that vomited forth thin tendrils... There was a barely perceptible pause. Then two yellow staring eyes materialized in the heart o f the smoke.
Hey, it was his first time. I wanted to scare him. |
| Melvin Bragg "Crossing the Lines"
|  Set in Britain during the 1950s, this absorbing novel follows the intertwined fates of people crossing boundaries in their lives. As a teenager in the small northern town of Wigton, Joe Richardson falls in love with Rachel, whose life threatens to be wrenched from its roots. |
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Robert Harris "Pompeii"
|  All along the coast, the Roman Empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seaside resorts of Baiae, Herculaneum and Pompeii. |
| Melvin Burgess "LADY - My life as a bitch"
|  Sandra Fancy is 17 and having too much fun. Everyone wants to stop her but the problem is, she likes it. When she accidentally turned into a dog she's horrified at first but soon starts to wonder if being human is worth the effort. |
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Lindsay Davis "The Accusers"
|  Fresh from his trip to Britain, Falco needs to re-establish his presence in Rome. A minor role in the trial of a senator entangles him in the machinations of Silius Italicus and Paccius Africanus - two real-life lawyers at the top of their trade. These notorious ex-consuls play a dangerouse game, where success brings rich pickings but a mistrial or a wrong verdict entails huge penalties. |
| Rose Tremain "The Colour"
|  The Colour is a gripping drama of sacrifice and greed set during the mid-nineteenth century gold rush in NewZealand. |
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Super-Cannes by J.G. Ballard
|  Paul Sinclair is calm, sane and curious.He and his bright young wife Jane drive down to the south of France in his vintage Jaguar so she can take the post as a doctor.
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| Minette Walters "Fox Evil"
|  When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body |
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Jason Donovan - Between the Lines
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Jason Donovan burst onto our TVs in the 80s as Scott Robinson from Neighbours, one half of TV couple Scott and Charlene with Kylie Minogue. Kylie and Jason became the celebrity couple of the eighties and released the number one Stock, Aitken and Waterman hit Especially For You in 1988. |
| Coming Back To Me - Marcus Trescothick
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A true-life sporting memoir of one of the best batsman in the game who stunned the cricket world when he prematurely ended his own England career. Trescothick's brave and soul-baring account of his mental frailties opens the way to a better understanding of the unique pressures experienced by modern-day professional sportsmen. At 29, Marcus Trescothick was widely regarded as one of the batting greats.
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The American Future: A History - Simon Shama
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"The American Future: A History", written by an author who has spent half his life there, takes the long view of how the United States has come to this anguished moment of truth about its own identity as a nation and its place in the world.
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| Grumpy Old Rock Star - Rick Wakeman
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Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, but he quickly became known as Rick. Rick was a likeable little fellow who had a talent for the piano and for making trouble.
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| Sissing Hurst - Adam Nicolson
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A fascinating account from award-winning author, Adam Nicolson, on the history of Nicolson's own national treasure, his family home: Sissinghurst. Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of calm and beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of a rose-pink Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended?
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| By Any Means - Charley Boorman
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Four million captivated viewers watched Charley Boorman complete his last adventure - LONG WAY DOWN - which took him from John O'Groats to Cape Town. Along with Ewan Mc Gregor he achieved not only this amazing feat, but also circumnavigated the globe on the LONG WAY ROUND. In between these two incredible journeys, he found the time to compete in the Dakar Rally, telling his story in his bestselling book RACE TO DAKAR.
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Ghost Train to the Eastern Star - Paul Theroux
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Starting off on the Eurostar from London, Paul Theroux once again sets out on a railway journey through the East, travelling overland through Eastern Europe, and eventually reaching India and Asia. Infused with the changes that have shaped the exterior landscape and enriched with developments to his own perceptions and psychology, "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" is an absorbing and beautifully written follow-up to "The Great Railway Bazaar". Full of life and impeccably evoked, "Ghost Train to the Eastern Star" is Paul Theroux at his very best.
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| The Best XI - Geoffrey Boycott
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Who'd make it into the best England team ever? And you can chose anyone, regardless of when they might have played. Would W.G. Grace be playing alongside Denis Compton and David Gower? Or Kevin Pieterson? The debate could be endless, so who better to make the selection than Geoffrey Boycott, himself one of England's all-time highest scoring Test batsmen and now the game's most forthright, shrewd and iconoclastic commentator.Based on his own fresh analysis amd interpretation of the statistics, Boycs has come up with his own, sometimes surprising Best Eleven of all time.
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein - Peter Ackroyd
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"It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks." The long-haired poet - 'Mad Shelley' - and the serious-minded student from Switzerland spark each other's animated interest in the new philosophy of science which is over-turning long-cherished beliefs.
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| Bomb Book Compass - Simon Winchester
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Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest love affairs of his life - Miss Lu, and China. Miss Lu inspired Needham to travel to China where he initially spent three dangerous years as a wartime diplomat.
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Wolf Island - Darren Shan
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PAPERBACK
Grubbs Grady treads new ground in this, the eighth dramatic title in the Demonata. But beware - Trespassers will be eaten!
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| Dark Calling - Darren Shan
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Events take an unexpected turn in this ninth awesome foray into the worlds of the Demonata..."I know it's ridiculous. Lights can't whisper. But I swear I heard a voice calling to me.
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Far North - Marcel Theroux
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PAPERBACK
Every day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol this dingy city. Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace patrols the ruins of a dying city and tries to keep its unruly inhabitants in check. Into this cold, isolated world comes evidence that life is flourishing elsewhere - a refugee from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to take to the road to reconnect with human society.
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| Rides A Dread Legion - Raymond E Feist
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The first book in a brand new series by the master of epic fantasy, Raymond E. Feist. Ten years after the cataclysmic events of Wrath of a Mad God took place, Midkemia now faces a new danger thought buried in myth and antiquity.
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Nigella Lawson - Nigella Christmas SIGNED LIMITED
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Nigella Christmas comprises reliable, practical, easy-to-follow recipes and reassuring advice about planning and cooking ahead, presented in a gorgeous glittering package which will make this the ultimate gift to yourself and for family and friends. Illustrated with 150 fabulous full-colour photographs by Lis Parsons (photographer of the bestselling NIGELLA EXPRESS)
This Limited to 1000 copies boxed book is signed.
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| Parky - Michael Parkinson
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From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson's starry career spans over four decades.
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Brute Force - Andy McNab
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Days after his car erupts in a ball of flame, Nick Stone narrowly cheats death a second time when a gunman opens fire on him from the back of a motorcycle. Who knows his movements? Who wants him dead, and why? |
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Oceans - Paul Rose
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The oceans are the single most important feature of our planet. They shape our climate, our culture, our future. Yet we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about Earth's watery depths.
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| Home Made - Tana Ramsay
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Nothing beats the taste and comfort of real home made food. Bestselling cook Tana Ramsay has devised a fabulous range of mouth-watering recipes that will leave family and friends begging for second helpings. Always easy to make, you'll be free to spend more time with the people that count.
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Seven Troop - Andy McNab
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Seven Troop is Andy McNab's account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men -- from the day, freshly-badged as a member of the SAS Regiment, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, that he handed in his sand-coloured beret and started a new life.
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| Pasties - Lindsey Bareham
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Lindsey Bareham has created the definitive word on Pasties. This little book contains many variations on the humble pasty. It includes traditional recipes and unusual recipes from around the world, in fact wherever the Cornish miner went... so did the pasty!
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Folly - Alan Titchmarsh
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Jamie Ballantyne and Artemis King were never meant to fall in love. The feud between their families has run for three generations. But whatever Jamie's head might tell him, his heart will always belong to Artemis.
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| The Clatter of Forks and Spoons - Richard Corrigan
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A cookbook with memoirs and opinions by Richard Corrigan, presenter of the BBC's Full on Food and one of Britain's leading chefs. Richard Corrigan is one of Britain's most respected and outspoken chefs.
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Chinese Food Made Easy - Ching-He Huang
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Ching-He Huang is one of the brightest stars in modern Chinese cooking in the UK. Each week in her new BBC2 series she re-invents the nation's favourite Chinese dishes, modernising them with fresh, easy to buy ingredients, and offering simple practical tips and techniques. These are brought together in this beautiful book to accompany the series.
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| Double Cross - Malorie Blackman
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Everyone assumes the bomb that killed Callie Rose's grandmother was the work of a nought terrorist. But Callie Rose knows the truth - and her fear of the past leaves her afraid for her future. Her boyfriend Tobey is worried about his own future.
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A Mercy - Toni Morrison
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In the 1680s, the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class division, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were carefully planted and took root. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a smallholding in the harsh North.
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| Silent Comedy - Paul Merton
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Traces the evolution of silent comedy through the 1900s and considers the works of the genre's greatest exponents - Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and others - showing not only how each
developed in the course of their career but also the extent to which they influenced each other.
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| Taste Of My Life - Raymond Blanc
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Raymond Blanc knows more about food and cooking than pretty much anyone else. His cooking has been described as 'an extraordinary process of creativity, passion, subtlety, indeed genius'. His life and career to date have been utterly dedicated to the search for culinary perfection.
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| By Royal Command - Charlie Higson SIGNED LIMITED
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Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school - and his country.
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Psycho Geography - Will Self and Ralf Steadman
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A post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in globalised world, bringing together the selections from the 'Psychogeography' columns from the "Independent". It contains an
introduction, 'Walking to New York', which is both a prelude to the verbal and visual essays that make up this collaboration.
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| Matthew Pincent - A Lifetime in a Race
|  A SPORTING AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SUCH QUALITY AND PASSION THAT IT IS DESTINED TO BECOME A CLASSIC.
Matthew Pincent and Steve Redgrave were the greatest sporting partnership of the last decade. Winning three Olympic Golds together.
In the summer of 2004, Matthew faced the race of his life in Athens - In search of a fourth Gold. |
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Martin Brundle - Working the Wheel
|  A Nail-biting account of driving the great race tracks of the world, told through a Formula One drivers eyes.
A gripping and dramatically vivid account of what it's like to drive the worlds greatest race tracks.
From Adelaide and Monte Carlo to Suzuka and Rio de Janiero, Brundle reveals the character and damger of each track. As well as recounting his own personal experiences. |
| Gangs - Ross Kemp
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In groups, street gangs fight, stab, rob, rape and murder anyone who isn't one of their own. |
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Tribe - Bruce Parry
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Over several years, the author spent a month living with fifteen different tribes in remote regions of the world. This work is an insight into wildly differing cultures that are vibrant, hospitable and full of spirit despite numerous hardships. |
| SOLO by: Pen Hadow
|  Pen Hadow is an authentic British hero, one of the most highly acclaimed polar explorers of his generation. His most recent and remarkable Arctic endeavour earned him a reputation as 'The Human Icebreaker'.
In spring 2003, fulfilling a deathbed vow to his father, Pen Hadow became the first man ever to complete a solo trek, without resupply, to the North Pole from the more arduous North American sside, surviving a fall through thin ice into the freezing Arctic waters that almost cost him his life. |
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David Starkey "Six Wives"
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Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived.
The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth... one of the most zestful pieces of narrative history |
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My Life So Far - Jane Fonda
|  An account of an extraordinary woman - Oscar winner, controversial political activist, groundbreaking fitness guru, wife, mother, lover, philanthropist. |
| The Mitfords - Charlotte Mosley
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The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely
gifted family.
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| Joanna Lumley "No Room for Secrets"
|  PATSY STONE in "Absolutely Fabulous"
Purdey in "The New Avengers"
Bond Girl in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
Sapphire in "Sapphire and Steel"
A Castaway in "Girl Friday"
Actress, Model,Writer, Campaigner, Inventor,TV Presenter and Journalist:
Joanna Lumley has played many roles in her lifetime, but rarely had the opportunity to reveal her true self |
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Toyah Wilcox Diary of a Facelift
|  Like many women in her mid-forties, Toyah Willcox felt an increasing distance between the lively, energetic person she knew herself to be, and the tired, lined face that stared back at her in the mirror. And working in an industry which places such a high value on the marketability of `youth', she knew that at some point she would have to confront her options. After a few years' experimenting with diet and Botox, she vowed to take the plunge. She would have a facelift.
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| Alan Bennett - Untold Stories
|  Untold Stories is Alan Bennett s first collection of prose since Writing Home and takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret.
Also included are his much-celebrated diaries for the years 1996 to 2004, as well as essays, reviews, lectures and reminiscences ranging from childhood trips to the local cinema and a tour around Leeds City Art Gallery to reflections on writing, honors and his Westminster Abbey eulogy for Thora Hird. At times heartrending and at others extremely funny, Untold Stories is a matchless and unforgettable anthology. |
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Senor Nice - Howard Marks
|  Howard Marks was released after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career. |
| Blind Faith - Ben Elton
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As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating igure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Or does he have something to hide? |
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| Johnson Beharry VC - Barefoot Soldier
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On 18 March 2005, Johnson Beharry, a private with the 1st Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, received Britain's highest award for gallantry. He became the first living recipient of the Victoria Cross for nearly forty years.
Born a world away, in an isolated village on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Johnson forged his instincts for survival against a backdrop of grinding poverty. One of eight children, with a volatile, alcoholic father, he grew up in a tiny wooden shack, never knowing what challenges the next day would bring.
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| The Devil May Care - Sebastian Faulks' New James Bond novel
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Sebastian Falulkes has written the latest in James Bonds adventures. Due out on the 28th of May, we will have signed copies soon after that date.
Due to the popularity of this book any orders received after the 7/05/2008 at 1:00pm will be put onto a waiting list and spare copies allocated as they become available.
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| Hurricane Gold - Charlie Higson
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Caribbean island of Lagrimas Negras - Criminals come here to hide, with blood on their hands and escape on their minds. On the mainland, in the town of Tres Hermanas, ex-flying ace Jack Stone leaves his son and
daughter in the company of James Bond. But a gang of thieves lies in ambush - they want Stone's precious safe. |
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Ian McEwan - Saturday
|  Saturday, February 15, 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man - a successful neurosurgeon, the devoted husband of Rosalind, a newspaper lawyer, and proud father of two grown-up children, one a promising poet, the other a talented blues musician. Unusually, he wakes before dawn, drawn to the window of his bedroom and filled with a growing unease. What troubles him as he looks out at the night sky is the state of the world - the impending war against Iraq, a gathering pessimism since 9/11, and a fear that his city, its openness and diversity, and his happy family life are under threat. |
| Salman-Rushdie - Shalimar the Clown
|  Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown.
The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America's counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. |
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Sharon Osbourne - Survivor
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Sharon Osbourne’s life has always been full of drama, heartbreak and passion. When she completed her bestselling first book, Extreme, she had hoped to find some peace and stability after her rollercoaster years. It was not to be. |
| Rolf Harris "Can you tell what it is yet?"
|  Rolf Harris "My Autobiography"
"Can you tell what it is yet?"
In 1952, a young Australian stepped off a ferry in Dover with dreams of being a famous portrait painter like his grandfather. |
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Jimmy Greaves - The Heart of the Game
|  'It Is football's power to so readily and regularly corrupt emotions and senses that is the addictive and enduring appeal of the game - the heart of the game.' So said Spurs skipper Danny Blanchflower.
In THE HEART OF THE CAME, Jimmy Greaves examines our undying passion for football and its development over the fifty years he has been associated with the sport. He takes us into the world of players, managers, agents and fans to make sense of our lasting obsession with the beautiful game.
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| Alan Ball - Playing Extra Time
|  Alan Ball always wanted to be the best. Small in stature, red-haired and fiery, Alan was one of the most easily recognized players of his generation. Fans on the terraces and teammates immediately took to his wholehearted enthusiasm and never-say-die attitude. Alan is a fighter - from overcoming his diminutive size to become a professional player and the youngest member of the 1966 England squad, to the rejection he repeatedly faced as a club manager. |
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Shape Your Self - Martina Navratilova
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One of the greatest tennis players of all time, Martina Navratilova is still playing at the top levels of the sport as she nears her fiftieth birthday. She easily outruns many women who are half her age, and engages in all the other sports she loves: basketball, hockey, skiing and more. Everywhere she goes, people ask her: why can you still move the way you do? How do you stay in such good shape? What's your secret?
In SHAPE YOUR SELF, this amazing athlete shares - through personal anecdotes from her life and tennis career - the simple strategies, tips, and small lifestyle changes that will enable anyone to tune up their body, mind and spirit.
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| Lee Sharp - My Idea of Fun
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When 17-year-old Lee Sharpe joined Manchester United in 1988, he was a boy among men, lining up alongside iconic figures such as Bryan Robson. His exuberant skills on the left wing gave the club's fans something they'd long been missing: hope for the future, and the beginning of a new production line of young talent. |
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The Sait - Ian St John
|  The fascinating inside story of one of Liverpool and Scotland's greatest ever footballers, from his playing days to his role as a TV pundit on ITV's legendary 'Saint and Greavsie'
This is the life story of the legendary Liverpool and Scotland 1960s footballer known as 'The Saint'. Bought by Bill Shankly from Motherwell in 1961, Ian St John was widely thought of as one of the most significant signings ever made by Liverpool FC, and was a key component in Shankly's first successful team. |
| Fighting Back - Frank Bruno
|  At the age of eleven Frank Bruno was sent to reform school.
At thirty-three he was crowned undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
At forty-one he was committed to Goodmayes psychiatric hospital.
Now, for the first time, Frank Bruno tells his real story: how the tearaway kid became one of Britain's best-loved sports stars; how he was written off, but came back to win the world championship - at the fourth attempt; his descent into mental illness; and his painful journey back to health. |
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Nasser Hussain "Playing with Fire"
|  When Nasser Hussain first met Duncan Fletcher in 1999, it marked the beginning of a partnership that was to transform the English cricket team.
They injected steel into the team; they gave it back-bone. No longer it seemed, did the fall of the first wicket herald an inevitable batting collapse. England became a hard team to beat - and they started to win test matches, at home and abroad. |
| The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
|  FRANKIE DETTORI is that rare thing in horse racing - a genuine superstar. The Italian-born jockey's ability in the saddle, cheeky good humour, immaculate dress sense and spectacular flying dismounts have made him a household name around the world. |
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Keeping the World Away - Margaret Forster
|  Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over, a picture makes its way from Paris to Hampstead, pops up on a London market stall after the Great War, finds its way to the Cornish coast and back to London after the Second World War, eventually making a brief and risky trip to Scotland, before events take another unexpected turn at the beginning of a new century. |
| Whitethorn Woods - Maeve Binchy
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Full of Maeve Binchy's warmth, humour and compassion, Whitethorn Woods tells of the people of Rossmore, each with their own story, as they wait for the great road of progress . . . |
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Brothers in War - E.V. Thompson
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CORNWALL 1915. In Britain, men and women are still reeling from the outbreak of the Great War. For Ben Retallick, owner of the great Ruddlemoor clay works in Cornwall, the conflict will affect all that he has ever known as his life becomes entwined in a saga of suspicion, secrecy and troubles - in love as well as war . . .
Ben is asked to help with an incredible secret mission - to wrest control of Lake Tanganyika from the Germans. Two gunboats are to be transported to the other side of the world, then hauled three thousand miles overland. Meanwhile, Ben's own priorities lie elsewhere, in Switzerland, where his wife Lily is awaiting his arrival to bring her home.
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| The Prawn Cocktail Years
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Simon Hopkinson Lindsey Bareham
A few years ago, after a long day's session with Roast Chicken and Other Stories, we sat at the kitchen table and cracked open a nice bottle of Alsace. About halfway through we fell to talking about dishes we had loved and lost, those dishes that we had grown up with and memories of early restaurant outings. Before long, our giggles turned to nostalgia and we started to scribble down a list of those fondly remembered dishes. They just came pouring out: Coquilles St-Jacques, Sole Veronique, Beef Stroganoff, Mixed Grill, Swedish Meatballs, Wiener Schnitzel, Chicken Maryland, Crepes Suzette, Peach Melba and Profiteroles. And, of course, Prawn Cocktail. |
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Alex James - Bit of a Blur
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'Dad opened the piano lid and raised his eyebrows. There was a slight but deliberate dramatic pause. Then he slammed into the keys and rattled out some rock and roll. It was amazing. I'd never heard him play. I had no idea that he could. I hugged him, pushed my sister out of the way and demanded to be shown how to make a noise like that.' |
| A History of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr
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A History of Modern Britain confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions, and rival idealisms, of a new Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan age came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. |
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Sea of Lost Love
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Epic romance and dark mystery, exotic places and glamorous epochs - such are Santa Montefiore's unique trademarks. Allow yourself to be swept away by her superlative storytelling as you enter a world of love and lies. |
| The Quest - Wilbur Smith
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A spectacular epic adventure set in ancient Egypt from one of the world's most celebrated novelists. |
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| The Steep Approach to Garbadale - Iain Banks
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The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been living wild and evading the family tentacles for years, is run to ground and persuaded to attend the forthcoming gathering - part birthday celebration, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, the Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board. |
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Burning Bright - Tracy Chevalier
|  The last decade of the eighteenth century brought huge political upheaval to Britain. The execution of the King of France, the scenes of the jubilant revolutionaries dancing around the guillotine, the seizure of property, brought hope to some and fear to others. |
| Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Paul Tordy
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Dr Alfred Jones has many reasons to be content with life. His latest paper 'Effects of Increased Water o the Caddis Fly Larva' looks set to cause a stir on the pages of Trout & Salmon, his job as a fisheries scientist is satisfactory, and he and his wife, Mary, have just celebrated their twentieth wedding anniversary - for which she gave him a replacement electric toothbrush. |
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