Category Archives: Accessories
The Polar Bear Explorers` Club
It sounded like a respectable and worthy enough death for an explorer – tumbling from an ice bridge to be impaled upon a mammoth tusk – but Stella really, really didn`t want that to happen, just the same.Join Stella Starflake Pearl and her three fellow explorers as they trek across the snowy Icelands and come
Bone Gap
He`d been drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were a little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselves, leaving spaces one could slip into and hide . . .Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps –
Max and the Millions
Max is used to spending time alone – it`s difficult to make friends in a big, chaotic school when you`re deaf. He prefers to give his attention to the little things in life… like making awesome, detailed replica models. Then Mr Darrow, the school caretaker and fellow modeller, goes missing. Max must follow his parting
Midnight All Day
In this astonishing collection of stories, Hanif Kureishi confirms his reputation as Britain`s foremost chronicler of the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. The characters in Midnight All Day are familiar to us all: frustrated and intoxicated, melancholic and sensitive, yet capable of great cruelty.
I Like Bees, I Don`t Like Honey!
I like bees . . . but I don`t like honey!I like my imaginary friend . . . but I don`t like it when people say he`s not real. A beautifully illustrated, funny and thought-provoking book for building confidence and encouraging children to express their feelings – about anything and everything. This book will help
Wuthering Heights
He`s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.One of the masterpieces of classic literature, Wuthering Heights is a both the story of a wild, obsessive love and a terrible revenge. Catherine and Heathcliff`s, a foundling adopted by Catherine`s father, passionate but doomed love forms the
Murray the Race Horse
Murray the horse dreams of winning big races just like the rest of his family but he has one problem – he`s just not that fast! When horse Ned Plumb twists his ankle at the start line, his jockey spots Murray in the crowd and says, `Fancy a race?` Murray finally gets his chance to
Light Perpetual: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021`Dazzling.` The Times`Exceptional.` Guardian`Brilliant.` Observer`Extraordinary.` Financial TimesNovember 1944. A German rocket strikes London, and five young lives are atomised in an instant.November 1944. That rocket never lands. A single second in time is altered, and five young lives go on – to experience all the unimaginable changes of the twentieth
Friend of My Youth
In Friend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit`s mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit`s last remaining connection to the city
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
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
Big Questions from Little People … Answered by Some Very Big People
Why is the sea salty? How far away is space? Why can`t I tickle myself? Why can`t we live forever? Children ask the most interesting and challenging questions. But how are we supposed to answer them…At last!Expert answers to those big questions children ask, with help from: Sir David Attenborough; Heston Blumenthal; Kate Humble; Alain
The Faber Book of Christmas
If the most wonderful time of year is enough to plunge you into a gloom, look no further. This collection of spirited stories and vibrant poetry will brighten your mood as it brings together Charles Dickens and Philip Larkin, W.H.Auden and Wendy Cope, Jilly Cooper and Dylan Thomas. From tales of carolling and snatched mistletoe
The Golden Legend
For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people`s secrets from the minarets of the city`s mosques, striking fear into the hearts of Christians and Muslims alike. Then when shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, and Nargis`s husband, Massud, a fellow architect, is caught in the crossfire, she is unable to confess to him her
Once Upon a Snowstorm
A wordless picture book by an exceptionally talented illustrator/animator to follow in the footsteps of The Snowman.The story of a father and his son who live by themselves in a cosy cabin in the woods. But, one day they are separated out in the beautifully falling snow. The boy is lost and falls asleep. When
This Is Memorial Device
A TELEGRAPH AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE MONTHLRB BOOK OF THE WEEKCAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTHRoss Raymond and Johnny McLaughlin are two fanboys dedicated to the Airdrie post-punk scene of the early `80s – the glory years – when anything
The New Life
`I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.` So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk`s fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls in love, abandons his studies, turns his back on home and family, and embarks on restless
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist: Understanding What Happens When We Write and Read Novels
What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate connections. Pamuk
A Life of Adventure and Delight
In these elegant, unsparing and intimate stories, the Folio Prize-winning author, Akhil Sharma, exposes the paradoxes, ironies and harmonies that characterise modern life. Marrying the minimalism of Chekhov and Carver with a flair for dark comedy, A Life of Adventure and Delight is a collection full of wisdom, wonder and reflection.
