When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs - £7.99
Raymond Briggs's comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple, in his usual touching, yet macabre way. ... more
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Mountains of the Moon by I J Kay - £8.99
A woman in her thirties is released from prison, with a new name and not much else. She begins to make a fresh start but the present is soon invaded by fragments from her past.   Unsettling, hallucinatory and without precedent, Mountains of the Mo ... more
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Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver - £7.99
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary es ... more
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Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner - £18.99
A dazzling history of magical thinking, exploring the power of the Arabian Nights and its impact in the West, and retelling some of its wondrous tales. Lavishly illustrated throughout.  Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a w ... more
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The Palace of Curiosities by Rosie Garland - £14.99
A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A magical realism delight.   Before Eve is born, her mother ... more
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe - £6.99
Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - ... more
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Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones - £9.99
A compelling investigation into the myth and reality of working-class life in contemporary Britain. In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goo ... more
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Fifty Shades of Feminism by Lisa Appignanesi, Susie Orbach, and Rachel Holmes - £12.99
The antidote to the idea that being a woman is all about submitting to desire. There are many more shades than that and here are fifty women to explore them.  Fifty years after the publication of The Feminine Mystique, have women really exchang ... more
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The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe - £9.99
The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship.   For the first ... more
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The Rurbanite: Living in the Country without Leaving the City by Alex Mitchell - £16.99
In cities around the world, we are redefining our sense of urban living. No longer satisfied with a grey, sterile metropolis, we want the best of both worlds – the energy and diversity of the city, but a connection with nature too.   Filled w ... more
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Who Needs the Cuts? Myths of the Economic Crisis by Barry Kushner - £7.99
The Coalition Government in the United Kingdom, like other governments, is embarking on an unprecedented round of spending cuts. Talk of deficits, the National Debt, Quantitative Easing, and other economic terminology is presented to the public as ev ... more
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The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it by Andy Wightman - £12.99
Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back?   In The Poor Had No Lawyers, Andy Wightman, author of Who Owns Scotla ... more
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The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson - £7.99
GOOD FRIDAY, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire.   A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell.   Is this a witches' Sabbat?   Two notorious Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting t ... more
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To Do Wid Me: Benjamin Zephaniah Filmed Live & Direct by Benjamin Zephaniah, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce - £12.00
To Do Wid Me is a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, drawing on both live performances and informal interviews.  It shows him performing his poetry for different audiences and talking about his work, life, beliefs an ... more
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The March that Shook Blair: An Oral History of 15 February 2003 by Ian Sinclair - £10.00
"On this evidence, the big march was shock and awe from the bottom-up; it came within a hair's breadth of derailing the warmongers and still shapes our politics today."(Joe Glenton, Afghan war veteran and author of Soldier Box (Verso)) "While our ... more
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Gaza: When the Sky Rained White Fire by Musheir El-Farra - £8.99
On 27 December 2008 Israel embarked upon a war, Operation Cast Lead, on the Gaza Strip. For over three weeks Israeli F16s, Apache helicopters, tanks and warships launched thousands of missiles, including white phosphorous and cluster bombs, wiping ou ... more
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End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman - £9.99
The Great Recession is more than four years old — and counting. Yet, as Nobel Prize winning author Paul Krugman argues in this powerful new book, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge — all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent stan ... more
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The Robin Hood Book: 131 Poets in Support of a Robin Hood Tax by Alan Morrison & Angela Topping (Editors) - £10.00
"The Robin Hood Book, unlike a number of collections of poetry, makes you feel included, not excluded. It is also the first time I’ve come across the glorious term “lumpenpoetariat”. Where do we sign?"(Greg Freeman, Write Out Loud) "Provoking, ent ... more
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Why it's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason - £9.99
Eyewitness reporting and shrewd analysis from the many centers of the global movement for liberation.   Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim, this updated edition, Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere, includes coverage of the most re ... more
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R King - £7.99
The long-awaited reissue of the very first book in the New York Times bestselling Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series.   In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles int ... more
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Utopia by Ross Bradshaw (Editor) - £9.99
*** Includes a chapter from our very own Mandy!! ***   The second annual themed compendium of writing by Five Leaves’ authors and friends. The first, Maps, received positive reviews in the Guardian and Time Out, and sold out twice in its ... more
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My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young - £7.99
While Riley Purefoy and Peter Locke fight for their country, their survival and their sanity in the trenches of Flanders, Nadine Waveney, Julia Locke and Rose Locke do what they can at home. Beautiful, obsessive Julia and gentle, eccentric Peter are ... more
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Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern by Julia Downes - £15.99
As more and more female solo artists hit the mainstream the question arises: where are the girl bands? Why aren't they getting the attention they deserve?   While the media continues to ignore them, in Women Make Noise Julia Downes invites mus ... more
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Coal to Diamonds by Beth Ditto - £18.99
Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas-a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was ... more
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The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman - £7.99
The lives of four sensuous, bold and remarkable women intersect in the year 70AD, in the desperate days of the siege of Masada, when supplies are dwindling and the Romans are drawing near. All are dovekeepers, and all are keepers of secrets - about w ... more
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The Nao of Brown by Glyn Dillon - £16.99
“A young woman’s struggle with love, life and murderous thoughts”   Nao Brown has OCD of the purely obsessional kind. She's also an strugling illustrator looking for love. When she meets the man of her dreams, she realizes that dreams can be quite ... more
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Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe - £10.99
'Worshipping a dictator is such a pain in the ass.' Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are three like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppressi ... more
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The First Cut by Fiona Corridan and Natasha Howes (Editors) - £12.99
The First Cut is a major exhibition featuring new and recent works by over 30 international contemporary artists who work with paper in revolutionary ways.  Featuring established and emerging artists from America, Australia, China, Denmark, F ... more
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Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by A.S. Byatt - £7.99
From the author of Possession and The Children's Book comes an extraordinary tale, inspired by the myth of Ragnarok.   Ragnarok is the story of the end of the world. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods the ... more
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The Trapeze Artist by Will Davis - £12.99
The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision - a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of hi ... more
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Cain by Jose Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa - £8.99
A controversial book in the mode of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and the last novel to be written before the death of the great Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago.  Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Lau ... more
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane - £20.00
In The Old Ways Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes criss-crossing the British landscape and its waters, and connecting them ... more
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson - £8.99
It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The mayor is going to be there. The press is going to be there. But, as i ... more
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein - £13.99
The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent.   Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influen ... more
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The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje - £7.99
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadh ... more
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Ru by Kim Thuy - £8.99
A book of rare beauty: Ru is a lullaby of Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland.   Ru: In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, and money. Kim Thuy's Ru is literature a ... more
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The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy - £9.99
The new collection from the Poet Laureate.  The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection of new poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book ... more
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The Exciting Life of Being a Woman: A Handbook for Women and Girls by Feminist Webs - £10.00
"The Exciting Life of Being a Woman is part of an urgent and wholly necessary movement which reflects millions of women's hopes, fears, jokes, passions, questions, activism and energy in a way which is accessible, enjoyable, stylish and intelligent." ... more
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell - £8.99
'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!'   Tressell's novel is about survival on the und ... more
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Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi - £7.99
An exhilarating new direction for Helen Oyeyemi with a mischievous story of love, lies and inspiration.  It’s an ordinary afternoon in 1938 for the celebrated American novelist St John Fox, hard at work in the study of his suburban home – unti ... more
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A Little, Aloud for Children by Angela Macmillan (Editor), with a foreword by Michael Morpurgo - £9.99
Research shows that the seemingly simple act of being read to brings remarkable health and happiness benefits. It stimulates thought and memory, encourages the sharing of ideas and feelings, hopes and fears. It enriches our lives and minds.   This ... more
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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern - £7.99
In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, Le Cirque des Rêves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire.   Although ... more
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Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie - £8.99
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered, what is it that we’re just not seeing?   Five years after Findings broke the mould of nature writing, Kathleen Jamie subtly shifts our focus on landscape and the living world, dari ... more
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The Arrival by Shaun Tan - £14.99
What drives so many to leave everything behind and journey alone to a mysterious country, a place without family or friends, where everything is nameless and the future is unknown?  This silent graphic novel is the story of every migrant, every refug ... more
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Habibi by Craig Thompson - £20.00
Habibi, based on a Middle Eastern fable, tells the story of Dodola, who escapes being sold into slavery and rescues an abandoned baby she names Zam. They live in isolation in an old boat in the desert. As they age their relationship shifts from mothe ... more
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Why be Happy When You Could be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson - £8.99
The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.   In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pen ... more
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett - £7.99
Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...  There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her o ... more
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The Buddha Walks into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation by Lodro Rinzler - £12.99
This isn’t your grandmother’s book on meditation. It’s about integrating that “spiritual practice” thing into a life that includes beer, sex, and a boss who doesn’t understand you. It’s about making a difference in yourself and making a difference in ... more
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Bicycle: Love Your Bike: The Complete Guide to Everyday Cycling by Helen Pidd - £14.99
- Which bike is right for me?  - How can I avoid getting knocked off?   - How can I buy a good secondhand bike?   - Do I need to wear a helmet?   - Must I don a luminous tabard?  - How do I thwart a bike thief? ... more
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Stop What You're Doing and Read This! by Various authors - £4.99
A mission statement about the transformative power of reading; about the way it inspires us, the tangible impact it can have on our wellbeing, the importance it holds for us now and will continue to hold in the future.   In any 24 hours th ... more
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How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran - £7.99
1913 – Suffragette throws herself under the King’s horse.  1969 – Feminists storm Miss World.   NOW – Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunuch from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller.   There’s never be ... more
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