Category Archives: Accessories
A Lesson Before Dying
An Oprah Book Club selectionWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeIn a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death.
Live at the Brixton Academy: A Riotous Life in the Music Business
In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid GBP1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain`s most iconic music venue. And now he`s telling his story: full of fond – and wild – reminiscences of the famous musicians who played at the venue, including Robert Plant
The Sun is God
It is 1906 and Will Prior is in self-imposed exile on a remote South Pacific island, working a small, and failing, plantation. He should never have told anyone about his previous existence as a military foot policeman in the Boer War, but a man needs friends, even if they are as stuffy and, well, German,
Chimneys, Gables And Gargoyles: A Guide To Britain`s Rooftops
The roof lines of our towns and cities are places seldom looked at from below. Yet they contain a world of architectural delights.This easy to follow guide includes hundreds of photos and drawings of rooftops and their features from around the country and offers a fascinating glimpse into this overlooked aspect of Britain`s architectural history.Just
Port Side Pirates
-A new edition of a Barefoot bestseller with sales to date of over 22,000 copies. -Includes a dual-purpose audio and video CD to listen to the singalong on a CD player or listen and watch the video animation on a Mac or PC.
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays
A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard`s first collection of essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction.Here,
Brilliance
Short of money, the inventor Thomas Edison is captivated by the charismatic figure of J.P. Morgan, the โ€world`s bankerโ€. Accepting Morgan`s glittering offer of almost unlimited cash in return for helping the man change the way the world does business, Edison sees himself descend from being the godlike inventor of electric light to being complicit
Weeds: The Story of Outlaw Plants
Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of `thorns and thistles` in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol of Flanders Field. They are civilisations` familiars, invading farmland and building-sites, war-zones and flower-beds across the globe. Yet living so intimately
Death of a Superhero
Donald Delpe is a troubled teenager. Not only is he a `terrible teen` by default, as obsessed with sex, music, videogames and drugs as the rest of his gang, but he is also suffering from a life-threatening form of leukaemia, which makes him an even more difficult boy, both for his parents and his teachers.
The Uncommon Reader
`Oh Norman,` said the Queen, `the prime minister doesn`t seem to have read any Hardy. Perhaps you could find him one of our old paperbacks on his way out.` Had the dogs not taken exception to the strange van parked in the royal grounds, the Queen might never have learnt of the Westminster travelling library`s
Love in Small Letters
When Samuel wakes up on 1st January, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing exciting or unusual – until a strange visitor bursts into his flat, determined not to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a young stray cat, leads Samuel to a strange encounter with Valdemar and his neighbour Titus, with whom
Mediterranean Weather Handbook for Sailors
`Mediterranean Weather Handbook for Sailors` is an indispensable reference providing a general understanding of the various phenomena concurring to determine weather in the Mediterranean as well as useful forecasting aids. It is written for sailors, not meteorologists; theory is kept to a minimum, while every effort is made to provide clear interpretative tools that are
More Trees to Climb
Love, loss and competitive tree-climbing are preoccupying the hero of Coelacanth. This is a boy-meets-girl story with a twist, a tumble, several daring somersaults from the branches, and the discovery that love – like the coelacanth fish that was thought to be extinct – can lurk in the very darkest depths. In โ€Not Everything is
A Meal in Winter
One morning, in the dead of winter, three German soldiers head out into the frozen Polish countryside. They have been charged by their commanders to track down and bring back for execution `one of them` – a Jew. Having flushed out a young man hiding in the woods, they decide to rest in an abandoned
Who Cooked Adam Smith`s Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics
Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith`s mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today, economics focuses on self-interest and excludes our other motivations. It disregards the unpaid work of
Human Acts
Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend`s corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of
Such Small Hands
Her father died instantly, her mother in the hospital. She has learned to say this flatly and without emotion, the way she says her name (Marina), her doll`s name (also Marina) and her age (seven). Her parents were killed in a car crash and now she lives in the orphanage with the other little girls.
The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds
Unconscious bias: persistent prejudiced behaviour that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. Its effects can be corrosive, even lethal. It robs organizations of talent, science of breakthroughs, politics of insight, individuals of their futures and communities of justice. So what real-world steps can we take to counteract it? Drawing on ten years` immersion in the
The Worm and the Bird
**Nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and shortlisted for the British Book Design and Production Awards 2018**This is the story of a worm in the earth, a bird in the trees, and the joy to be found in life`s smallest moments, from the award-winning creator of The Fox and the Star. `Gorgeous` The Times`The
