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Novel:an alternative history
Hardback,
03/06/2010,
£30.00
£27.00
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After an introduction, in which the author defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, this book relaxes into a world tour of the premodern novel.
Irene
Paperback,
31/07/2014,
£7.99
£1.99
The first Camille Verhoeven investigation - a prequel to the acclaimed and bestselling Alex. Commandant Verhoeven is on the trail of a murderer with literary aspirations.
Croatian Nights
Paperback,
01/05/2005,
£8.99
£2.99
Short fiction from the most exciting new voices to emerge in Britain and Croatia
Ireland, 1905-25, Volume 1
Paperback,
01/09/1998,
£13.99
£12.59
This is a readable account of Irish history in the first quarter of the 20th century. Drawing on the most recent scholarship on this period, the author presents a balanced narrative, with a useful historiographical section at the end of each chapter.
Smiley's People
7,
06/10/1994,
£6.99
£1.99
The phone call that dragged George Smiley, once acting Chief of the Circus, from his bed, was a plea to return to active service. But only to bury the case, not to solve it. John le Carre is the author of "The Spy who came in from the Cold" and "A Small Town in Germany".
Freedom Tree
7,
03/09/1998,
£6.99
£1.99
1874, and Matthew Lidgard is 22 and recently orphaned. A fisherman by trade, he works on a fishing smack in Grimsby, jumping ship when he finds its owner is corrupt and manipulative. Rescued by the mysterious Elizabeth, he joins her and her brother in duping his old boss in a quest for freedom.
Pecked to death by ducks
Paperback,
01/09/2003,
£7.99
£1.99
From the wastes of Antarctica to the blazing oil fields of Kuwait, and from an evening of demonic possession in Bali to a session on Guatemala's Throne of Terror, "Pecked to Death by Ducks" is a grand tour of the earth's remote, exotic and dismal places.
How to Breathe Underwater
Paperback,
05/02/2004,
£10.99
£1.99
In these short stories, Julie Orringer's characters struggle mightily against the engulfing forces that threaten to overtake us all. All of them finally learn, gloriously if at great cost, how to breathe underwater.
Island of the Women and Other Stories
7,
17/02/2000,
£9.99
£1.99
In these six stories George Mackay Brown leads us back along the sweep of Orkney's past and beyond even that to the remoteness of fable. He reveals the timelessness of the lived moment and the constants of island life in the harvest of sea and land and the compulsions of voyage and homecoming.
Mark Twain : The Essential Works In One Sitting
Hardback,
21/03/2013,
£3.50
£3.15
A compact and portable guide, including comprehensive plot summaries and character profiles from fifteen of Twain's most essential works
Battle of the Beetles
Paperback,
01/02/2018,
£6.99
£4.89
The beetle adventure continues as Darkus and his friends seek wicked Lucretia Cutter's secret Biome in the Amazon rainforest. If they can't stop her from unleashing her hoard of giant
Selected Poems: John Donne
7,
25/08/1997,
£2.00
£0.50
This is a collection of poems of faith, love and revenge by a man with intense sexuality and an ardent belief in Christian doctrine.
Way We Live Now
Paperback,
05/06/1995,
£2.50
£1.99
The author paints a picture as panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of Augustus Melmotte.
Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein
Paperback,
07/07/1994,
£9.99
£8.99
Each of these four Gothic stories reveals a psychological tale of isolation and monomania. H. Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' is filled with terror and ghostly interventions. William Beckford's 'Vathek' alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence. 'The Monk', by Matthew Lewis and M. Shelley's 'Frankenstein' are also included.
Norton Anthology of Poetry 5ed
Paperback,
25/02/2005,
£36.99
£19.99
Offering over one thousand years of verse from the medieval period to the present, The Norton Anthology of Poetry is the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English.
Seagull (Trans Frayn)
Paperback,
25/04/2002,
£9.99
£8.99
Two years after its disastrous opening in 1896, "The Seagull" was successfully revived at the Moscow Art Theatre. Checkhov's self-mocking description of the play was: "A comedy - 3F, 6M, four acts, rural scenery (a view over a lake); much talk of literature, little action, five bushels of love".
XS Green: Big Ideas Small Buildings
Hardback,
26/02/2007,
£14.95
£13.46
Arranged into five themes, this book includes over forty projects that are presented in terms of their innovation and uniqueness, tapping into the current trend and passion for eco-design, and appealing to a broad readership as well as architectural practitioners.
Em and the Big Hoom
Paperback,
29/01/2015,
£8.99
£1.99
In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Her husband - Augustine, the 'Big Hoom' - and two children must endure her 'microweathers': swings from searing joy to brooding malevolence. And here is the story of how this family of four came to be.
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets
Hardback,
07/04/2016,
£10.00
£1.99
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, six Hispanic and six English-language authors have each contributed a previously unpublished story in tribute to these giants of world literature. With Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Yuri Herrera, Valeria Luiselli and others, introduced by Salman Rushdie.
Blood Meridian
Paperback,
01/01/2010,
£9.99
£1.99
I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian ... A nightmare odyssey' Evening Standard
Gardener's Son
Paperback,
04/12/2014,
£8.99
£1.99
The first screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road.
Another country
Paperback,
11/09/2001,
£7.99
£1.99
After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's friends, especially the homosexual actor Eric Jones who has been Vivaldo's lover.
Wadsworth Anthology of Drama 4ed
Paperback,
23/08/2003,
£9.99
Offering introduction to drama, this title provides plays usefully situated within their historical and cultural contexts.
This Human Season
Paperback,
03/04/2006,
£7.99
£2.99
In the weeks before Christmas a mother will lose a son, and a father will gain one. Both will have to find a way to survive when everything they love is in danger of being destroyed.
Another World
7,
01/07/1999,
£8.99
£1.99
In Pat Barker's Another World, the First World War casts its shadow down the generations. At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death.
Voyage of the Dolphin
Paperback,
17/03/2016,
£8.99
£2.99
Ernest Shackleton meets P.G.Wodehouse in this heart-warming tale of three men in a ship (to say nothing of the dog, a foul-mouthed Scotsman and an iguana...) By the author of Jammy Dodger, nominated for the 2013 Desmond Elliott Prize for new fiction
Turning the Stones
Paperback,
05/03/2015,
£7.99
£7.19
An orphaned girl fights for survival in Georgian England, in a spirited novel for fans of Sarah Waters and Susan Hill.
InterRail
Paperback,
20/06/2013,
£7.99
£7.19
Born out of the author's own experiences as a young InterRail traveller, this modern picaresque novel is a celebration of a Europe without boundaries, the joy of being young and the infinite, unpredictable paths we can go down during our lives.
Death and the Arrow
7,
06/02/2003,
£10.99
£9.89
Fifteen-year-old Tom helps his father run a print shop in London. When he and old Dr Harker hear of a curious murder in the City, with the victim pierced by an arrow and holding a card of "Death and the Arrow", they are intrigued. And as more victims are discovered, the mystery closes more tightly.
Love for Lydia
7,
28/02/2008,
£7.99
£1.99
Tells a tale of love and longing, set against the backdrop of 1920s decadence, and the fall of the English upper classes.
Irish Blessings
Hardback,
04/02/1999,
£3.50
£1.99
"This tribute to the Land of Welcomes captures the spirit of the Irish people in traditional blessings and classic verse. Featuring beautiful full-color photographs of the Emerald Isle, this inspiring"
Testament of Friendship
Paperback,
11/08/1980,
£7.99
£1.99
In this book, Vera Brittain tells of the woman who helped her survive the First World War - the writer Winifred Holtby. They met at Oxford immediately after the war and their friendship continued through Vera's marriage and their separate but parallel writing careers, until Winifred's death at 37.
Tale for the Time Being
Paperback,
11/03/2013,
£8.99
£1.99
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013
Road to Urbino
Hardback,
05/07/2012,
£13.99
£10.00
Ras, a Sri Lankan who fled his country as a child following the violent death of his mother and his father's disappearance, has committed a crime. Alex has loved Dee since he was 19 but failed to realise that it was a love he wouldn't find again. When Ras' and Alex's lives connect, each man takes a new path.
Female Man
Paperback,
01/03/2002,
£6.99
£6.29
This is the story of three women from three parallel universes. Joanna's world is quite like our own, whereas Jeannine's world is a poorer, grungier version of Earth. And then there's Janet, who comes from a world where men have died off, a world without the "poisonous binary" of gender.
First Christians in their social world
Paperback,
01/09/1994,
£27.99
£25.19
An examination of how the New Testament was influenced by the social realities of the early Christian communities for whom the books were wtitten. It reveals an intimate connection between society and Gospel.
Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film and the Uses of History
Paperback,
15/07/2006,
£17.95
£16.16
Analyzes Stanley Kubrick's films from a variety of perspectives. This is a study of one of the controversial filmmakers of the twentieth century. It ends with three viewpoints on Kubrick's final film, "Eyes Wide Shut", placing it in the contexts of film history, the history and theory of psychoanalysis, and the sociology of sex and power.
Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion
Paperback,
31/12/1996,
£12.99
£2.99
"Finkel and Leibovitz have come up with a new and more satisfactory explanation of why the Second World War broke out when it did.
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