Category Archives: Accessories
Turning for Home
The deeply moving second novel from the author of the award-winning FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN.`Courageous…memorable…moving` – Guardian`One of our most exciting young writers` – The Times`Life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant` – Donal Ryan`Isn`t the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world
The White King
โ€Disturbing, compelling, beautifully translated.โ€ (The Times). โ€Electric, urgent, luminous…a coming-of-age with a difference.โ€ (Daily Mail). Eleven-year-old Djata makes sure he is always home on Sundays. It is the day the State Security came to take his father away, and he believes it will be a Sunday when his father finally comes home again. While he
Second Life
She loves her husband. She`s obsessed by a stranger. She`s a devoted mother. She`s prepared to lose everything. She knows what she`s doing. She`s out of control. She`s innocent. She`s guilty as sin. She`s living two lives. She might lose both.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can`t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization – how we got from
A Snow Garden and Other Stories
The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping couldn`t feel less like wishing glad tidings to all men. Ducking out of the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally visit. The Marriage Manual: Christmas Eve. Two parents endeavour to construct their son`s Christmas
Sirens
WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTHI stopped going to work. I went missing. We still live in a world where you can disappear if you want to. Or even if you don`t.Detective Aidan Waits is in trouble After a career-ending mistake, he`s forced into a nightmare undercover operation that his superiors don`t expect him to survive.Isabelle
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Written in 1927, but never published in Lovecraft`s lifetime, this is the iconic American author`s exploration of a mind destroyed by obsession. The novel tells the story of Charles Dexter Ward through letters, documents and other `historical sources`. A young intellectual, Charles is lured to what his doctors believe to be his doom by his
The Kew Gardens Flowering Plants Colouring Book: Over 40 Beautiful Illustrations Plus Colour Guides
A gorgeous colouring book which showcases illustrations by accomplished British botanical artists Harriet Anne Hooker Thiselton-Dyer and Walter Hood Fitch, originally featured in the world-famous Curtis`s Botanical Magazine. This title will appeal to green-fingered artists everywhere who will delight in bringing the line drawings to life in glorious colour. Founded by William Curtis in 1787
The Valley
`You`re going up the Valley` Lieutenant Black doesn`t even know its proper name. But he knows about the Valley: it`s the farthest, the hardest and the worst. You have to travel far beyond the other remote outposts, deep into a maze of interlinked mountain passes, just to get to its mouth. Stories circulate periodically, but
The Kew Gardens Exotic Plants Colouring Book
A gorgeous colouring book which showcases illustrations by accomplished British botanical artists Harriet Anne Hooker Thiselton-Dyer and Walter Hood Fitch, originally featured in the world-famous Curtis`s Botanical Magazine. This title will appeal to green-fingered artists everywhere who will delight in bringing the line drawings to life in glorious colour. Founded by William Curtis in 1787
Elegy: The First Day on the Somme
On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited `Big Push` on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible cost. In killing-grounds whose names are indelibly imprinted on 20th-century memory, German
The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce`s Ulysses
THE SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. THE ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014. For more than a decade, the book now considered the most important novel in the English language was illegal to sell, advertise or import. Its author lived in exile; his supporters on the edge of the law. THE
Orkney Twilight
Jim says he`s an undercover policeman. His daughter Sam thinks he`s a liar. On holiday in Orkney, beneath an endless midsummer sky, Sam spies on Jim as he runs secretive errands across the island. What did he take from the old watchtower on the edge of a cliff? Why is he so interested in Norse
The Lives of Tudor Women
The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education of women was minimal
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
The untold story of Winston Churchill`s precarious finances – and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years. The popular image of Churchill – grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar – conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality is that Britain`s most celebrated
The Age of Magic
From Booker Prize-Winner Ben Okri. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious mountain village. Eight film-makers arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three
Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane
In April 1871, a constable walking a beat near Greenwich found a girl dying in the mud – her face cruelly slashed and her brains protruding from her skull. The girl was Maria Jane Clouson, a maid for the respectable Pook family, and who was pregnant at the time of her death. When the blood-spattered
Admiral Collingwood: Nelson`s Own Hero
Admiral Lord Collingwood, the eldest son of a Newcastle merchant, went to sea in 1761 at the age of thirteen. In his nearly fifty years in the Navy he rose to become a fine seaman, a master of gunnery, a battle commander the equal of his friend – and rival in love – Nelson. He
Faded Glory
One boy`s journey from a life on the streets to the glory of the boxing ring. Albert Kemp is a lonely widower, whose only son was killed in the war. Now, in 1953, he is working in a pub by the railway arches. Downstairs is a traditional bar, upstairs is a famous boxing gym. It
