Category Archives: Accessories
The Diary of a Nobody
`I fail to see – because I do not happen to be a “Somebody” – why my diary should be not be interesting`Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, impudent young clerks and wayward friends? And what is he
Black Cake: 2022`s most unforgettable debut soon to be a major Hulu series produced by Oprah
**A Grazia Instagram `IT` book to watch out for** Everyone wants to discover what they`re made of . . . Juggling lives and crossing continents, BLACK CAKE is the extraordinary story of how the inheritance of secrets, betrayal and memories can shape a family for generations`A story that is as meaningful as it is delicious.
Call for the Dead
A beautiful 60th anniversary special edition of the first George Smiley novel, now with a new introduction by John le CarreAfter a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man`s death, he begins his own investigation,
A Shot to Save the World: The Remarkable Race and Ground-Breaking Science Behind the Covid-19 Vaccines
This is the definitive account of the global effort to develop a vaccine for Covid-19, charting the failure and success of every major vaccine in use.When the coronavirus pandemic hit, many of the world`s biggest drug and vaccine makers were slow to react or couldn`t muster an effective response. It was up to a small
Second-Class Citizen
`Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women`s writing . . . powerful fictions written from and about our lives` Bernardine Evaristo `Most dreams, as all dreamers know quite well, do have setbacks. Adah`s dream was no exception, for hers had many`They nicknamed Adah `the Igbo tigress` at school in Nigeria, she was so
The Wild Cards: A 100 Postcard Box Set
From the bestselling, prize-winning authors of beloved cult phenomena The Lost Words and The Lost Spells`Breathtaking and magical. Jackie Morris has created something that you could spend all day looking at` New Statesman`Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have made a thing of astonishing beauty` ObserverDiscover and share the wonders of the wild world as seen
The People Opposite
`You`ll get used to things, you`ll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.`Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Black Sea, he receives only suspicion and hostility from the locals. His one intimacy is a growing, wary
Abolition. Feminism. Now.
In this landmark work, four of the world`s leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the
Covid By Numbers: Making Sense of the Pandemic with Data
`I couldn`t imagine a better guidebook for making sense of a tragic and momentous time in our lives. Covid by Numbers is comprehensive yet concise, impeccably clear and always humane` Tim HarfordHow many people have died because of COVID-19? Which countries have been hit hardest by the virus? What are the benefits and harms of
Capitalism and Slavery
`If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing an object or a concept, Eric Williams`s study supremely passes that test` Seymour DrescherArguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain`s economic progress, Eric Williams`s landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism,
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland
A gripping account of one man`s ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic CircleScorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in which Tete-Michel grew up in 1950s Togo, West Africa. When he discovered a book on Greenland as a teen, this distant land became an instant
Britons Through Negro Spectacles
`We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasure at night. If you will walk about the first City in the British Empire arm in arm with Merriman-Labor, you are sure to see Britons in merriment and at
How to Raise a Global Citizen: For the Parents of the Children Who Will Save the World
A cheerful, optimistic handbook for parents and carers shaping the next generation of responsible global citizens – ready to change the world for the better!Our children have the energy, capacity, and passion to create and nurture a global culture in which inclusion, acceptance, respect, and participation are the core values that underpin a human being`s
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles. Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER`Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.` In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is `illegal.` Qian is just seven when she moves to America, the `Beautiful Country`, where she and her parents find that the roads of
Steppenwolf
`The unhappiness that I need and long for …is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and die with lust. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for`. Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him into
Help Your Kids with Geography, Ages 10-16 (Key Stages 3 & 4): A Unique Step-By-Step Visual Guide
Help your kids to be the best in their geography class. This book will help you to understand what they`re being taught so you can help out with their homework. This book is what every frustrated parent needs. Its innovative approach combines colourful diagrams and illustrations with step-by-step explanations, making geography easier to understand than
Smiley Eyes, Smiley Faces: A lift-the-flap face-mask book
Have fun with face masks in this lift-the-flap, out-and-about adventure!Toddlers today are growing up in a world where adults wear face masks outside the house. Everyone is wearing them, from the bus driver to the shop assistant!In Smiley Eyes, Smiley Faces, they can take an interactive journey through the town, meeting different face-mask-wearers along the
This Is Your Mind On Plants: Opium-Caffeine-Mescaline
`It`s a trip – engrossing, eye-opening, mind altering` New Statesman`Fascinating. Pollan is the perfect guide … curious, careful, open minded` The GuardianFrom the international bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind comes a ground-breaking exploration of our relationship with natural drugsOf all the many things humans rely on plants for, surely the most curious
Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Racism is not a simple matter of good people versus bad. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized. She also made a provocative claim: that white progressives cause the most daily harm to people of colour. In Nice Racism, her follow-up work, she explains
