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The Emperor Waltz - by Philip Hensher - £8.99
The Emperor Waltz is a single novel with three narrative strands: fourth-century Rome, 1920s Germany, and 1980s London. In each place, a small coterie is closely connected and separated from the larger world. In each story, the larger world regards t ... more
Vixen - by Rosie Garland - £12.99
DEVON, 1349
In Brauntone, where seagulls screech across the fields and the wind has a mind to change, Father Thomas arrives as the new priest. Determined to impress his congregation, he quells fears of the coming pestilence with promises of protect ... more
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - by Hilary Mantel - £8.99
Hilary Mantel is one of Britain’s most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday fa ... more
Where My Heart Used to Beat - by Sebastian Faulks - £20.00
On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life.
His host, and antagonist, is ... more
The Lives of Others - by Neel Mukherjee - £8.99
An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta – exploring a family that is decaying as the society around it fractures, and one young man who tries to reimagine his place in the world.
***Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014*** ... more
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - by Yuval Noah Harari - £8.99
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it. Us.
We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. W ... more
Spill Simmer Falter Wither - by Sara Baume - £7.99
LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015
You find me on a Tuesday, on my Tuesday trip to town. A note sellotaped to the inside of the jumble-shop window: COMPASSIONATE & TOLERANT OWNER. A PERSON WITHOUT OTHER PETS & WITHOUT CHILDREN ... more
The Silent History - by Eli Horowitz, Kevin Moffett and Matthew Derby - £9.99
A generation of children are born without speech, without comprehension, without language entirely.
At first, they are just medical curiosities. But their numbers swell, and soon they grow into an established underclass, occupying squats and com ... more
Revolution - by Russell Brand - £7.99
Russell Brand will donate 100% of his money for this book to Tre Era Cafe, a social enterprise community project on the New Era estate - whose vicotory against corporations and inefficient government exemplifies the principles in this book.
We al ... more
How to be Both - by Ali Smith - £8.99
How to be both is the dazzling new novel by Ali Smith. It is longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014.
Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.
How to be Both is a nov ... more
Shark - by Will Self - £8.99
Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, ... more
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design - by Charles Montgomery - £9.99
Why are some cities a joy to live in, and others chronically miserable? As award-winning journalist Charles Montgomery reveals, the answers lie in the intersection between urban design and the emerging science of happiness. Journeying to dozens of ci ... more
If... The Graphic Novel - by Steve Bell - £18.99
A new collection by Britain’s finest political cartoonist, covering the less than glorious days of the Cameron-Clegg coalition government.
In his daily cartoon for the Guardian and his long-running strip, IF, in the same paper, Steve Bell ha ... more
Etta and Otto and Russell and James - by Emma Hooper - £7.99
I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back.
Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very ... more
Gretel and the Dark - by Eliza Granville - £8.99
Gretel and the Dark is Eliza Granville's dazzling novel of darkness, evil - and hope.
For fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.
Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to enco ... more
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate - by Naomi Klein - £8.99
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.
In ... more
A Rough Ride to the Future - by James Lovelock - £9.99
In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock - the great scientific visionary of our age - presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system
James Lovelock, who has been hailed as 'the man who concei ... more
The Magic and Mystery of Birds: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human - by Noah Strycker - £12.00
Why do birds do what they do, and how do they offer a glimpse into the nature of humanity?
From the life-long relationships of the albatross, the remarkable memory of the nutcracker and other avian mysteries Noah Strycker illuminates the startlin ... more
The Bone Clocks - by David Mitchell - £7.99
One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking...
The Bone C ... more
Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales - by Margaret Atwood - £9.99
A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy.
A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome ... more
England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 - by Juliet Barker - £10.99
A fascinating and evocative account of the Peasants' Revolt from the acclaimed author of Agincourt.
The dramatic and shocking events of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 are to be the backdrop to Juliet Barker's latest book: a snapshot of what ever ... more
The Days of Anna Madrigal (Tales of the City, Book 9) - by Armistead Maupin - £7.99
The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupin’s bestselling “Tales of the City” series, follows one of modern literature’s most unforgettable and enduring characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary trans ... more
The Book of Memory - by Petina Gappah - £14.99
The story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and mother sold me to a strange man. I say my fa ... more
Amnesia - by Peter Carey - £8.99
When Gaby Bailleux released the Angel Worm into Australia's prison system, allowing hundreds of asylum seekers to walk free, she also let the cat out of the bag. The Americans ran the prisons, like so many parts of her country, and so the doors of so ... more
Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey - by Richard Ayoade - £9.99
In this book Richard Ayoade -- actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist -- reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself.
Over ten brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines Ayoade ful ... more
A Socialist History of the French Revolution - by Jean Jaurès - £25.00
"Every revolutionary party, every oppressed people, every oppressed working class can claim Jaurès, his memory, his example, and his person, for our own"(Leon Trotsky)
Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1 ... more
Popular Protest in Palestine: The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance - by Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby - £16.99
Popular Protest in Palestine provides an overview and analysis of the role and significance of unarmed civil (popular) resistance in the Palestinian national movement. The main focus is on the contemporary popular resistance movement in the Occupied ... more
Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth - by Kevin Ovenden - £12.99
The world’s eyes are on Greece. Elected in January 2015 under the leadership of Alexis Tsipras, the radical Syriza party sought to challenge the European economic status-quo and secure a better future for the Greek people. The fierce confrontation wi ... more
From a Rock to a Hard Place: Memories of the 1984/85 Miner's Strike - by Beverley Trounce - £12.99
By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners’ strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences. Thirty years on people are ready to look back and talk about what happened in England during this defining moment of industrial action. Beverley ... more
Lobster is the Best Medicine: A Collection of Comics About Friendship - by Liz Climo - £9.99
Fans have fallen in love with Liz Climo’s charmingly quirky animal kingdom, which was first featured in The Little World of Liz Climo — a place where porcupines, anteaters, and grizzly bears all grapple with everyday life with wit and humor.
... more
NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies and Deception - by Jacky Davis, John Lister and David Wrigley - £10.95
In 2010 David Cameron's coalition government discarded pre-election promises about the NHS. Instead they imposed savage spending cuts and pushed through 'reforms' which put at risk the health and lives of all of us. As a result the NHS is now in cris ... more
We Go to the Gallery - by Miriam Elia - £8.99
Miriam Elia's new take on a 1960s Ladybird book. Peter, Jane and Mummy go to a gallery and learn about sex, death and contemporary art. ... more
Don't Mention the Children - by Michael Rosen - £8.95
Michael Rosen is one of our best-loved and writers for children. He has written and edited over 140 books, including contemporary primary-school classics like Mind Your Own Business, Wouldn’t You Like to Know, Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Grav ... more
Radical Feminism: Feminist Activism in Movement - by Finn Mackay - £19.99
Feminist activism is enjoying a global resurgence. A new wave of feminists is taking to the streets in protest against rape, abuse, prostitution and inequality, and asserting a powerful new vision for women's liberation. The future of feminism has be ... more
Women in Dark Times - by Jacqueline Rose - £9.99
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German–Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe.
Together t ... more
If It Fits, I Sits - by Various authors - £9.99
A photographic celebration of cats in awkward places ... and being awkward.
Anyone who has met a cat knows how much they enjoy squeezing themselves into weird places and uncomfortable-looking positions.
Will we ever know why?
... more
Everyday Sexism - by Laura Bates - £10.00
Women are standing up and #shoutingback. In a culture that's driven by social media, for the first time women are using this online space (@EverydaySexism www.everydaysexism.com) to come together, share their stories and encourage a new generation to ... more
Hopeful: An Autobiography - by Omid Djalili - £9.99
A beautifully written, joyously funny memoir about growing up and finding fame as a young Iranian in London.
Omid Djalili's childhood was unconventional, to say the least. He was raised in a beautiful, chaotic, cramped, colourful and legally dubiou ... more
Socialism ... Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation - by Danny Katch - £9.99
Opinion polls show that many people in the U.S. prefer socialism to capitalism. But after being declared dead and buried for decades, socialism has come to mean little more than something vaguely less cruel and stupid than what we have now. That's no ... more
My Life, My Body - by Marge Piercy - £11.99
In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the homeless and ... more
Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs - by Hal Buell - £20.00
The bestselling, complete collection of more than 600 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs, from the first awards in 1942 through the 2015 honors.
This revision of a Black Dog classic is the only book to include every Pulitzer Prize-winning p ... more
Bricksy: Unauthorized Underground Brick Street Art - by Jeff Friesen - £9.99
From Jeff Friesen, award-winning photographer and author of United States of LEGO®, comes a hilarious new book of diorama photographs that uses LEGO bricks to spoof the famous work of the mysterious anonymous graffiti artist known as Banksy. Fr ... more
Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy - by Kerry-Anne Mendoza - £9.99
Wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country – and by the poor and disabled most of all. ... more
101 Things to Do Instead of Playing on Your Phone - by Ilka Heinemann - £5.99
Our phones have become a constant distraction; it’s time we put them down and rediscovered the simple art of taking a few minutes out.
This book offers an imaginative list of games and tips aimed at curing us of our portable tech addiction.
... more
The Lost Child - by Caryl Phillips - £8.99
Caryl Phillips’s The Lost Child is a sweeping story of orphans and outcasts, haunted by the past and fighting to liberate themselves from it. At its centre is Monica Johnson, cut off from her parents after falling in love with a foreigner, and her bi ... more
Hiding in Plain Sight - by Nuruddin Farah - £8.99
When Bella, an internationally known fashion photographer, dazzling and aloof, is forced to return to Nairobi to care for her teenage niece and nephew, she feels an unfamiliar surge of protectiveness and responsibility. But when their mother unex ... more
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism - by David Harvey - £9.99
Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world's leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that will lead inexorably to the demise of our system.
You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. ... more
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime - by Val McDermid - £8.99
Bestselling crime writer Val McDermid picks up the scalpel to uncover the secrets of forensic medicine, from the crime scene to the courtroom.
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how ... more
The Muslims are Coming! - by Arun Kundnani - £20.99
The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States and across Europe. Domestic surveillance has mushroo ... more
Look Who's Back - by Timur Vermes, translated by Jamie Bulloch - £8.99
Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have changed – no Eva Braun, no Nazi party, no war. Hitler barely recognises his beloved Fatherland, filled with immigrants and run by a woman.
Peop ... more
The Bedside Guardian 2015 - by Malik Meer (Editor), with a foreword by Naomi Klein - £14.99
It was the year of an unexpected general election result and a dramatic Labour leadership contest; ‘Je suis Charlie’ and #BlackLivesMatter; a year in which FIFA spectacularly imploded on the world stage and a transgender woman appeared on the front o ... more
Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good - by Christian Felber - £12.99
Is it possible for businesses to have a bottom line that is not profit and endless growth, but human dignity, justice, sustainability and democracy? Or an alternative economic model that is untainted by the greed and crises of current financial syste ... more
Life in Strangeways: From Riots to Redemption, My Thirty-Two Years Behind Bars - by Alan Lord and Anita Armstrong - £7.99
A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was drawn to trouble like water to a sponge. After experiencing a troubled childhood during wh ... more
The Best British Short Stories 2015 - by Nicholas Royle (Editor) - £9.99
“Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year...”
Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new se ... more
The Best of Benn - by Tony Benn, compiled by Ruth Winstone - £9.99
Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. The Best of Benn showcases his powers of original thinking and communication over seven decades.
From 'the baby of the house' to a retired widower, he was a consistently rad ... more
Capitalism: A Ghost Story - by Arundhati Roy - £7.99
An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world
In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy—a nation of 1.2 ... more
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg - by Kate Evans, edited by Paul Buhle - £12.99
A graphic novel of the dramatic life and death of German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just ... more
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - by James Meek - £8.99
How the British government packaged and sold its people to the world.
In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing – have been sold to remote, unaccountable pr ... more
Inequality and the 1% - by Danny Dorling - £8.99
Can we afford the rich? Why the growth of the wealthy is making the UK a more dangerous place to live.
Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and th ... more
Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe - by Pablo Iglesias - £10.99
A manifesto for a new, democratic left: a political programme poised to transform Europe.
Since 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical left party in Spain that is reframing the nature of modern politics. Under his guidance, the pa ... more
Outsider in the White House - by Bernie Sanders, with Huck Gutman - £9.99
The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate.
Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency of the United States has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, and social justice into the spotlight, ... more
Upstairs at the Party - by Linda Grant - £8.99
The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Clothes on Their Backs.
'If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only ... more
The Underground Girls of Kabul: The Hidden Lives of Afghan Girls Disguised as Boys - by Jenny Nordberg - £8.99
Uncovers the hidden true story of the age-old tradition of 'Bacha Posh' - girls masquerading as boys - in a society that does not value females.
An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappo ... more
Lila - by Marilynne Robinson - £8.99
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015
Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story about a girl who lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.
Lila, h ... more
WTF: Why Parents Should Never Text - by Anon - £5.99
When parents get hold of a mobile phone for the first time, the results can be hilarious. Now, in WTF: Why Parents Should Never Text, the extent of their unbelievable lack of street cred is fully exposed. This laugh-out-loud collection will mak ... more
Dip: Wild Swims from the Borderlands - by Andrew Fusek Peters - £12.99
In Dip, Andrew Fusek Peters describes an extraordinary year of wild swimming. He leads us to rivers, lakes, waterfalls and hidden pools, into untamed landscapes that have the potential to surprise and move us in unexpected ways. Following in the wake ... more
The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling - by Ben Okri - £3.99
‘In every moment, we are part of the infinite stories that the universe is telling us and that we are telling the universe.’
Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling ... more
The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction - by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich (Editors) - £9.99
Featuring Banana Yoshimoto, Osamu Hashimoto, Toshiyuki Horie, Shūichi Yoshida, Hiromi Kawakami, Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Hitomi Kanehara, Hideo Furukawa, Kaori Ekuni & Mitsuyo Kakuta
A shape-shifter arrives at Tokyo harbour in human form, set to e ... more
The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire - by Atef Abu Saif, with a Foreword by Noam Chomsky - £9.99
On 7 July 2014, in an apparent response to the murder of three teenagers, Israel launched a major offensive against the Gaza Strip, lasting 51 days, killing 2145 Palestinians (578 of them children), injuring over 11,000, and demolishing 17,200 homes. ... more
The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales - by Kirsty Logan - £9.99
Winner of the Scott Prize
Winner for the 2015 Polari First Book Prize
Winner of the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection
The Herald: Book of the Year 2014
Shortlisted for the 2014 Green Carnation Prize
Twenty tales of l ... more
Brunt Boggart: A Tapestry of Tales - by David Greygoose - £8.99
Brunt Boggart is a tapestry of folktales, myths and storytelling. The connecting thread follows Greychild, abandoned in the woods by his mother. Mistaken for a wolf, he is taken to Brunt Boggart, a village of primal energies where people live close t ... more
Sculptor's Daughter: A Childhood Memoir - by Tove Jansson - £8.99
Tove Jansson’s first book for adults drew on her childhood memories to capture afresh the enchantments and fears of growing up in Helsinki in the 1910s and 20s. Described as both a memoir and ‘a book of superb stories’ by Ali Smith, Jansson’s s ... more
My Life's Battles - by Will Thorne - £9.99
My Life’s Battles is one of the first true working-class autobiographies, the story of Will Thorne, who helped to make a better world for ordinary people. Thorne’s life story is a journey from tenements and factories to the corridors of power and the ... more
Plotted: A Literary Atlas - by Andrew DeGraff - £16.99
This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps — all inspired by literary classics — offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds.
Andrew DeGraff’s stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscape ... more
A Year in Photography: Magnum Archive - by Magnum Archive - £16.99
Now available again in a stunning new format, this generously illustrated book for lovers of photography includes 365 images from the greatest photojournalists of today and yesterday.
Founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos is the iconic in ... more
Lady Screever - Alice Colman: The World's First Female Pavement Artist - by Philip Battle - £12.99
Lady Screever is the story of Alice Coleman, the world's first female pavement artist. At the end of the 19th century, Alice endured inclement weather, overzealous policing, sexism, physical threats and marriage proposals to support her family by ill ... more
All That is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster - by Danny Dorling - £9.99
Housing was at the heart of the financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on the housing market. In this groundbreaking new book, Danny Dorling argues that housing is the defining issue of our times. Tracing how we got to our c ... more
Shakespeare's Guide to Parenting - by James Andrews - £8.99
William Shakespeare, dad of three, knew a few things about parenting – and there is nothing better than a Shakespeare quote when it comes to having the last word with your kids.
Ever wondered why your baby is crying?
Why your teenager neve ... more
A Literary Christmas: An Anthology - by Various authors - £10.00
For as long as Christmas has been celebrated, poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect of it, whether the story of the Nativity or the festive traditions that have grown up over the centuries. A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology ... more
What Would Alice Do? Advice for the Modern Woman - by Lewis Carroll - £5.99
Timeless quotes from favourite Wonderland characters, with an introduction by Lauren Laverne, who has loved Alice since she was a child, and finds inspiration in her character.
"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things b ... more
Switch It Off! - by Emlyn Rees and Josie Lloyd - £8.99
From the authors of We're Going on a Bar Hunt, the paper smartphone full of cool stuff to get you really connected with the people in your life...
Bored of seeing everyone you know glued to their phones all the time?
Feeling the need to get real ... more
Frog - by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt - £8.99
Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.
Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern ... more
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution - by Rachel Moran - £10.99
‘When you are fifteen years old and destitute, too unskilled to work and too young to claim unemployment benefit, your body is all you have left to sell.’
Rachel Moran came from a troubled family background. Taken into State care at fourteen, she ... more
The House of Hidden Mothers - by Meera Syal - £14.99
Little India, East London: Shyama, aged forty-four, has fallen for a younger man. They want a child together.
Meanwhile, in a rural village in India, young Mala, trapped in an oppressive marriage, dreams of escape.
When Shyama and M ... more
Good Ideas: How to be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher - by Michael Rosen - £10.99
We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines, bodies, languages, cities, votes, mountains, energy, movement, plays, food, liquids, collisions, protests, stones, windows. But the way we've been taught ... more
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary - by Anita Anand - £14.99
In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities ... more
Out of the Woods: The Armchair Guide to Trees - by Will Cohu, illustrated by Mungo McCosh - £8.99
Out of the Woods is an affectionate, convivial guide to Britain’s 50 commonest trees, in which Will Cohu takes you on a revelatory journey – from the wildest woodland to municipal carpark, via field hedgerow and orchard garden.
Stunningly il ... more
The Republic of Imagination - by Azar Nafisi - £8.99
From the author of the bestselling memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran comes a powerful and passionate case for the vital role of fiction today.
Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her million-copy bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran ... more
Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances - by Neil Gaiman - £7.99
A collection of short stories from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
Global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of sho ... more
Happy (Mini Edition): Secrets to Happiness from the Cultures of the World - by Lonely Planet - £4.99
HAPPINESS. One word, nine letters, roughly seven billion definitions, one for each person on the planet.
Share in the planet's lessons on youth, old age, love, death, work and family. This Lonely Planet title features fascinating insights into ... more
Rose Gold - by Walter Mosely - £8.99
Easy Rawlins is back - and this time its personal...
When four armed policemen turn up at Easy Rawlins's door, he thinks he's in trouble. He is. They want him to find Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a millionaire arms dealer. And Easy can't a ... more
The Secret Footballer's Guide to the Modern Game - by The Secret Footballer - £7.99
The outspoken anonymous author is back with the ultimate book to challenge conventional footballing wisdom.
With his trademark wit, intelligence and candour, the Secret Footballer will guide you through formations, tactics, mind games and ever ... more
Nora Webster - by Colm Tóibín - £9.99
* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards * * *
Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today.
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her ... more
Modernity Britain 1957-1962 - by David Kynaston - £14.99
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour governments of the late 1940s in Austerity Britain and through the growing prosperity of Family Britain's more placid 1950s. Now Modernity Britain 19 ... more
A Place Called Winter - by Patrick Gale - £7.99
Picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book Club
To find yourself, sometimes you must lose everything.
A privileged elder son, and stammeringly shy, Harry Cane has followed convention at every step. Even the beginnings of an illicit, ... more
One Year Wiser: 365 Illustrated Meditations - by Mike Medaglia - £12.99
In One Year Wiser, the wisdom of the world's great thinkers is brought to life in the beautiful hand-drawn illustrations of Huffington Post blogger and Zen Buddhist practitioner Mike Medaglia.
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From Rumi to Roosevelt, the Buddha to Martin Luther ... more
Prejudice and Pride: LGBT Activist Stories from Manchester and Beyond - by Various authors - £12.00
LGBT activist and civil rights history from the 1960s to the 2000s has had a huge impact on our social and political landscape in the UK, yet much of this history remains hidden.
Prejudice and Pride: LGBT Activist Stories from Manchester and ... more
Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to the Climate Crisis - by Tim Flannery - £7.99
Is there anything we can really do about climate change? Have we left it too late? Or is there still hope?
Internationally acclaimed scientist and world-renowned climate expert Professor Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers, shows that ... more
The Death's Head Chess Club - by John Donoghue - £7.99
Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?
In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish f ... more
Class War Conservatism: And Other Essays - by Ralph Miliband, with an introduction by Tariq Ali - £12.99
Essential writings from a leading British socialist thinker.
When, in 2013, the Daily Mail labeled Ralph Miliband “The Man Who Hated Britain,” a diverse host rallied to his defense. Those who had worked with him – from both left and right – pr ... more
The Moth: This Is a True Story - by Various writers, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman - £8.99
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.
Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, ... more
Arguments Yard: Thirty Five Years of Ranting Verse and Thrash Mandola - by Attila the Stockbroker - £14.99
Launched into public consciousness by John Peel in the early 1980s, poet, musician, journalist and political activist Attila the Stockbroker has since spent thirty five years touring the world as a self-sustaining, one man DIY cottage industry. Havin ... more
Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend - by Karen Bartlett - £9.99
Known the world over for her unique musical style, distinctive look and a voice that propelled her into the charts time and time again, Dusty Springfield was undoubtedly one of the biggest and brightest musical stars of the twentieth century.
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Blueprint for Revolution - by Srdja Popovic - £9.99
how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world
How do ordinary people become revolutionaries?
In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid ... more
The Rosie Effect - by Graeme Simsion - £7.99
The Rosie Effect is the wonderfully charming and hilarious sequel to Graeme Simsion's bestselling debut novel The Rosie Project.
Until a year ago, forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date. Until he met Rosie, 'the wo ... more
Desert Songs of the Night: 1500 Years of Arabic Literature - by Various authors - £12.99
A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years.
From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colour ... more
Social Class in the 21st Century - by Mike Savage - £10.99
A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.
Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?
How has the meaning of class changed?
What does this mean for social mobility and in ... more
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - by Haruki Murakami - £8.99
A mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestseller author of Norwegian Wood.
Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’ ... more
Just Your Average Muslim - by Zia Chaudhry - £8.99
This fascinating and original book provides a better insight into the life of "just your average Muslim" than you will find anywhere else. A powerful antidote to common but exhausted stereotypes, it challenges non-Muslims to reexamine their per ... more
Fly Away Home - by Marina Warner - £8.99
A long-awaited new collection of Marina Warner’s short stories. Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, ... more
Your Fathers, Where are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? - by Dave Eggers - £8.99
In a barracks on an abandoned military base, miles from the nearest road, Thomas watches as the man he has brought wakes up. Kev, a NASA astronaut, doesn't recognize his captor, though Thomas remembers him. Kev cries for help. He pulls at the chain. ... more
The Magical Christmas: A Colouring Book - by Lizzie Mary Cullen - £9.99
From Lizzie Mary Cullen, the illustrator behind hit colouring book The Magical City, comes a brand new treat for the winter.
Settle down by the fire and immerse yourself in this mesmerising new colouring book for adults and children alike. J ... more
Dancing in the Dark: My Struggle, Book 4 - by Karl Ove Knausgaard - £8.99
The fourth part of a sensational literary cycle that has been hailed as ‘perhaps the most important literary enterprise of our times’ (Guardian)
18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman’s village fa ... more
The Vagenda: A Zero Tolerance Guide to the Media - by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter - £9.99
A funny, hard-hitting examination of women and the media, for anyone who has ever had niggling doubts about the sidebar of shame.
As students, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter spent a lot of time laughing at magazine pieces entitled t ... more
Love: The Song of the Universe - by Jason Martineau - £5.99
Jason Martineau takes us on a journey through the landscape of love, combining themes from traditional psychology and the modern sciences to explore life's most prominent and provocative theme. ... more
I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That - by Ben Goldacre - £9.99
In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. Now the pick of the journalism by one of our ... more
Off the Mic: The World's Best Stand-up Comedians Get Serious About Comedy - by Deborah Frances-White and Marsha Shandur - £14.99
What is it to be a stand-up comedian? To be funny, solo? You have no character-role, no double-act partner, and nowhere to look but out into the darkness, with just a microphone, an audience and your imagination.
This is a job without an annual app ... more
How to Speak Money - by John Lanchester - £9.99
Money is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elite can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffling. Above all, the language of money is the language of power - power in the hands of the same economic ... more
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism - by Slavoj Zizek - £10.99
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.Â
There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist ... more
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