Category Archives: Accessories
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister
In the summer of 1990, Cathy`s brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on
White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society
Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to disadvantage those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Kalwant Bhopal explores how neoliberal policy making has increased rather than decreased discrimination faced by those from non-white backgrounds.
The Nursery Alice
โ€I wrote to Macmillan to suggest a new idea: a `Nursery Edition` of Alice with pictures printed in.โ€ Lewis Carroll`s diary, 15th February, 1881 The Nursery Alice, originally published by Macmillan & Co. in 1890, was the very first colour edition of Alice. It was intended, wrote Carroll, โ€to be read by Children aged from
The Gentle Art of Tramping
`An absolute gem of a book` Alastair HumphreysKnow how to tramp and you know how to live… Know how to meet your fellow-wanderer, how to be passive to the beauty of nature and how to be active to its wildness and its rigour. The tramp is a friend of society; a seeker, they pay their
Bridget Jones`s Diary
The multi-million copy Number One Bestseller A dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Helen Fielding`s first Bridget Jones novel, Bridget Jones`s Diary, sparked a phenomenon that has seen three books, newspaper columns and the smash-hit film
The Lavender Ladies Detective Agency: Death in Sunset Grove
Good detectives come in all manner of guises…Meet Siiri and Irma, best friends and the queen bees of Sunset Grove, a retirement community for those still young at heart. With a combined age of nearly 180, Siiri and Irma are still just as inquisitive and witty as when they first met decades ago. But when
The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ordinary Viennese world is beginning
Voyage to Magical North
Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past …if only she could remember what it is. Found alone in a rowboat as a child, clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting, she`s spent every day since housekeeping for an irritable magician and his obnoxious apprentice, Peter. But everything changes when Brine
Journey to Dragon Island
Since accidentally joining the crew of pirate ship the Onion, the lives of twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne, her magician friend Peter and former-librarian Tom have been turned upside down. Having battled the world`s most evil magician, Marfak West, fought off sea monsters and found Magical North, they thought they were prepared for whatever the eight oceans
The Butcher Boy: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Ross Raisin A modern classic of Irish fiction, shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize. When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent. Francie Brady is
The Book of Evidence
With an introduction by Colm Toibin. Shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize, a dark and unsettling crime classic. 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH EXTRA MATERIAL Frederick Charles St John Vanderveld Montgomery. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Don`t make me laugh. Freddie Montgomery has committed two crimes.
The Reader on the 6.27
An irresistible French sensation – Mr Penumbra`s 24-hour Bookstore meets Amelie – The Reader on the 6.27 explores the power of books through the lives of the people they save. It is sure to capture the hearts of book lovers everywhere. Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory
Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland: the Little Folks` Edition
First published by Macmillan in 1907, this charming miniature edition of Carroll`s classic tale is specially abridged for younger readers, a sixth of the length of the original 1865 edition. It features 32 brightly coloured illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, uniquely featuring Alice in a red dress. Faithfully reproduced from a rare archive copy, this
The Evening and the Morning: The Prequel to The Pillars of the Earth, A Kingsbridge Novel
From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins.A Time of ConflictIt is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king`s grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better
Through the Looking-Glass
Alice`s second adventure takes her through the looking-glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. She finds herself caught up in the great looking-glass chess game and sets off to become a queen. It isn`t as easy as she expects: at every step she is hindered by nonsense characters who crop up and insist on
Who Lives Here?: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Who`s that behind the tree? Lift the flaps to find all your favourite characters from the Gruffalo. A brand new title from the My First Gruffalo pre-school and baby range. A chunky board book with sturdy flaps – perfect for small paws. Publishing alongside My First Gruffalo: Spot and Say, a first words board book
Wilful Disregard: A Novel About Love
Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. She knows what she thinks and she acts according to her principles. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on renowned artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, and when the two meet afterwards, he has the same
Sentenced to Life
In his new collection of poems – several of which have already become famous before their book publication – Clive James looks back over an extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty. There are regrets, but no trace of self-pity in these verses, which – for all their open dealings with death and
One Hundred Days of Happiness
`Charming, touching, surprising and ultimately uplifting. Funny, moving …I defy anyone to finish this story without tears in their eyes` Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project `Hilarious but heart-wrenching` Daily Mail What would you do if you only had 100 days left to live? Lucio Battistini has a list: To win back his wife
The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher
The life of the salmon is a predictable one: swimming upstream to the place of its birth to spawn, and then to die. This is the story of a salmon whose silver scales mark him out as different – who dares to leap beyond his fate. It`s a story about growing up, and about aching
