Category Archives: Accessories
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine
`I enjoyed being transported, through Loxley`s vignettes, to various corners of London…Loxley`s first chapter, on Isherwood, [is] one of the most engaging I`ve read…a measured and thoughtful debut` Daisy Dunn, The Literary Review `Will Loxley has a deft touch, wit, and a panoramic eye which would have pleased Cyril Connolly himself.` John Sutherland, author of
The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes: The new novel from the author of The Keeper of Lost Things
Loved Ruth Hogan`s The Keeper of Lost Things? Keep on reading…`Warm and wise` Guardian `A book to really love … makes reading a joy` Stylist `Will soften even the hardest of hearts` Red `Subtle and poignant` Good Housekeeping `Plenty of spirit and heart` Daily Mail `An adorable heartfelt story` Prima `Filled with hope and the
Syria`s Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope
`Hugely inspiring . . . A unique tribute to the power of books and the unquenchable human spirit` MICHAEL PALIN`An inspiring read – humanity at its best` DAVID NOTT, author of War DoctorDaraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Besieged by government forces since 2011, its people were
Physical Intelligence: The Science of Thinking Without Thinking
What is it that stops us from walking into walls or off cliffs? How do you pick the right moment to cross a busy road Or decide if you can drive through a storm? What helps you discover a shortcut to a familiar route?The answer is physical intelligence.Sometimes, you need to do it to know
Hometown Tales: Birmingham
Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction – they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the
The Outsider
A horrifying crime.Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect.Except he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi.Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town?
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
`Deeply touching.` – Daily Mail`A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition… a writer well worth reading.` – The Times`A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey for many in the diaspora… Wheeler taps a rich vein of personal history… Evocative… Gripping.` – Financial Times`A timely read given the current reassessment of colonialism
How To
The world`s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling `What If?` and `Thing Explainer`For any task you might want to do, there`s a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally bad that no one would ever try it. `How To`
How To: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Randall Munroe is . . .`Nerd royalty` Ben Goldacre`Totally brilliant` Tim Harford`Laugh-out-loud funny` Bill Gates`Wonderful` Neil GaimanAN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe world`s most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the million-selling What If? and Thing Explainer For any task you might want to
The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
An indispensable roadmap and a refreshingly optimistic take on our economic future: Award-winning New Yorker staff writer and brilliant creator of NPR`s Planet Money shows us how the 21st century economic paradigm offers unprecedented opportunities for curious, ambitious individuals to combine the things they love with their careers.From `Focus on Intimacy at Scale` to `Find
Flight or Fright
Fasten your seatbelts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection, perfect for airport or aeroplane reading, includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.Stephen King hates to fly.Now he and
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: The Final Book from Stephen Hawking
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe Number One Sunday Times Bestsellerโ€A beautiful little book by a brilliant mindโ€ Daily Telegraphโ€Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and – where it matters – wittyโ€ GuardianThe world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe`s biggest
New Scientist: The Origin of (Almost) Everything
Introduction by Professor Stephen Hawking.When Edwin Hubble looked into his telescope in the 1920s, he was shocked to find that nearly all of the galaxies he could see through it were flying away from one another. If these galaxies had always been travelling, he reasoned, then they must, at some point, have been on top
Major & Mrs Holt`s Definitive Battlefield Guide Somme: 100th Anniversary
The 100th Anniversary of the most publically aware battle of WW1 – the battle of the Somme, will be on 1 July 2016 and every media form will be covering it from January onwards. The book has taken 20 years to mature from its first edition to this new `Definitive` edition, the Seventh, each time
The Somme: The Epic Battle in the Soldiers` Own Words and Photographs
The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener s famous Pals Battalions were first sent into action en masse and it was a battlefield where many of the dreams and aspirations of a nation, hopeful
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There has been a people`s revolt against the way the West has been run. Brexit, Trump, the recent British and French elections saw millions of people shouting that they were sick to death of things never getting better. In WTF Robert Peston gives us his highly personal account of what those who have ruled us
The Versions of Us
What if you had said yes …? Eva and Jim are nineteen, and students at Cambridge, when their paths first cross in 1958. Jim is walking along a lane when a woman approaching him on a bicycle swerves to avoid a dog. What happens next will determine the rest of their lives. We follow three
Maggie Smith: A Biography
`Coveney is the only writer who could get under Smith`s skin, capturing her steeliness and vulnerability` INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY From her days as a star of West End comedy and revue, Dame Maggie`s path has led to international renown and numerous accolades including two Academy Awards. Recently she has been as prominent on our screens
The Goshawk
With a foreword by Helen Macdonald, author of the multi-award-winning H IS FOR HAWK. `No hawk can be a pet. There is no sentimentality. In a way, it is the psychiatrist`s art. One is matching one`s mind against another mind with deadly reason and interest. One desires no transference of affection, demands no ignoble homage
The Grownup
A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year-old
