Category Archives: Accessories
Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s
Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro`s visit to New York.`With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall`s book is a rare pleasure to read.`DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Literary Review`A lively account . . . Ten Days in Harlem doesn`t stint
The Owl and the Nightingale
Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures
A Vertical Art gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his acclaimed four-year tenure as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Armitage tries to identify a `common sense` approach to an artform that can lend itself to grand statements and vacuous gestures, questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the
Wow, No Thank You.
THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER`Irby might be our great bard of quarantine.` New York Times`SO funny. Samantha Irby makes staying in feel like like a luxury, and reminds you that going out is actually quite annoying. I laughed out loud so much reading this — I honestly couldn`t be more in awe of
Days Without End
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the YearWinner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017`Pitch perfect, the outstanding novel of the Year.` ObserverAfter signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you`ve read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape, he pricked his finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell onto
All My Puny Sorrows
Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015Sunday Times Top Choice Summer ReadElf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters.Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die.Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive.When Elf`s latest
The Country of Others
`A panoramic, ambitious tale.` The Times`Exceptional.` Salman Rushdie`Powerful.` Christine Mangan`Captivating.` Elle1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here is unrecognisable to this brave and passionate young woman. Her life is now that of a farmer`s wife – with all the sacrifices and vexations that brings. Suffocated by
Heroes: Incredible true stories of courageous animals
For as long as there have been wars, animals have been out there saving lives. Courageous dogs, cats, birds, horses, and even a bear have shown courage and devotion, and this book tells you their extraordinary stories. Includes the story of Jet the Alsatian who became a hero of the Blitz, pulling survivors from burning
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton – the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Nightmare Before Christmas, among others – now gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children: misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel
Planet Awesome
`Hi, I`m Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome.`In this hilarious and informative book filled to the brim with eye-opening, kid-friendly facts about our planet, you`ll find scientifically accurate information from beloved children`s book author Stacy McAnulty and vibrant art by award-winning illustrator David Litchfield.
Death Comes to Pemberley
Two great literary minds-master of suspense P.D. James and literary icon Jane Austen-come together in Death Comes to Pemberley, a bestselling historical crime fiction tribute to Pride and Prejudice. Conjuring the world of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and combining the trappings of Regency British society with a classic murder mystery, James creates a
Christmas Dinner of Souls
It`s a dark and lonely Christmas Eve in the dining room of ancient Soul`s College. The kitchen boy, 11-year-old Lewis, has helped prepare a highly unusual meal, made with unrecognisable ingredients, cooked by a mysterious chef. And then the guests arrive … and carnage ensues. They are ex-students of Soul`s College, and they are all
My Bed is an Air Balloon
When night falls my bed is an air balloon.I sail through the slipsiverse, close by the moon.I float above treetops where fluttertufts are sleepingAnd flowering hills where the whifflepigs go creeping;Ponds strung with starlight that glitter like glass,A floog with her velvet nose bent to the grass. Such treasures I spy on! My bed in
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
WINNER – COSTA CHILDREN`S BOOK AWARDTHE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES CHILDREN`S BOOK OF THE YEARThe second sensational middle-grade standalone that follows an epic voyage from England to France in the aftermath of WW1, from the bestselling author of The Children of Castle Rock.In the aftermath of World War One, everyone is trying to rebuild their
A Taste for Death
Winner of the CWA Crime Awards Silver DaggerTwo men lie in a welter of blood in the vestry of St Matthew`s Church, Paddington, thier throats brutally slashed. One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently-resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up to investigate crimes of
Arlington Park
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYArlington Park is an ordinary English suburb. Over the course of a single day, the novel moves from one household to another, revealing its characters: Juliet, enraged at the victory of men over women in family life; Amanda, warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework;
Jane Eyre
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.`Plain` orphan Jane Eyre is not expected to amount to much. A pleasant existence as a governess is all she is supposed to hope for – but Jane desperately wants more. And an appointment at the gothic
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAnil Seth`s radical new theory of consciousness challenges our understanding of perception and reality, doing for brain science what Dawkins did for evolutionary biology.`A brilliant beast of a book. Seth proposes to explain not just what and how we are, but why we are the way we are. Hugely inspirational.`DAVID BYRNE`Insightful
