HARDBACK
Absolute Friends - John Le Carre
Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in the new Republic of Pakistan and Sasha, son of an East German Lutheran pastor, first meet as students in West Berlin in the late 60s, then again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in the modern world of terror. (£16.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
King of Torts - John Grisham
Clay Carter reluctantly takes on a client charged with a random street killing, but a sinister conspiracy emerges involving corrupt practices in the pharmaceutical industry. (£6.99)
Inside Track - John Francome
A young trainer tries to enlist her brother’s help - he’s an ex-star jockey, but he has his own problems. (£5.99)
Land of the Living - Nicci French
Abbie wakes in the dark to find herself bound and hooded - with a man promising he will kill her “like the others”. (£6.99)
Days Without Number - Robert Goddard
Nick’s father refuses to sell the family home despite a ridiculously high offer. Only after the old man’s death does he discover why. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
FABRICS
Headwraps - Georgia Scott
This spectacularly designed and illustrated full-colour volume takes readers on a trip around the world, exploring the world's most popular, versatile, and misunderstood sartorial statement. (£25.00)
Miniature Book of Napkin Folding - Karen Lansdown (£3.99)
FOOD
Carol Vorderman’s Detox Recipes (£10.99)
SPORT
Elland Road e:males - Dave Shack
10 fans, one season : forget TV soap operas - if you want lies, drama, intrigue and disasters on a weekly basis then look no further than Leeds United season 2002-2003. (£15.00)
TRAVEL
Ghost Riders - Richard Grant
Travels with American Nomads, from an Englishman who has never spent more than 22 consecutive nights under one roof. (£7.99)
Plus a lot of new Farm House Guides to camping, caravanning, self-catering and b&b, ready for next year.
HARDBACK
Grandmothers - Doris Lessing
Four intensely observed novellas. The title novel is about an unconventional extended family. (£13.99 at The Book Case)
Love - Toni Morrison
Women are obsessed by Bill Cosey, even after his death - but he himself was driven by secret forces. A novel on the nature of love. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Olivia Joules and the Over-Active Imagination - Helen Fielding
From the creator of Bridget Jones, a female special agent, armed only with a hatpin, razor sharp wits and a very special underwired bra. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
My Name is Sei Shonagan - Jan Blensdorf
A strong woman's story, contrasting the beauty of ancient tradition with the harsh commercialism of modern city life. (£9.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers
Two young Americans decide to travel around the world in a week and give away a large sum of money in response to the untimely death of a friend, but find it is harder than they expected. (£7.99)
Doodaa - Ralph Steadman
The 'biography' of Steadman’s artistic alter ego, Gavin Twinge - the original angry voice of contemporary art. (£6.99)
Palace Pier - Keith Waterhouse
A failed novelist, still fixated on the 1960s, plots to pass off a good novel as his own. (£7.99)
Orpheus Emerged - Jack Kerouac
Recently discovered by his estate, this novel chronicles the passions, conflicts and dreams of a group of bohemians searching of truth while studying at a university. (£6.99)
Blackwood Farm - Anne Rice
Vampires and witches, men and women, demons and doppelganger, in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate. Ideal Christmas present. (£6.99)
Morality for Beautiful Girls - Alexander McCall-Smith
Continues the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, as she expands her business to take in the world of car repair and a beauty pageant. (£6.99)
Full Speed - Janet Evanovitch
Max Holt is determined to discover why a Tennessee preacher wants him dead. (£5.99)
Visions of Sugar Plums - Janet Evanovitch
Christmas holiday adventure featuring detective Stephanie Plum. (£6.99)
Hostage to Murder - Val McDermid
Sixth Lindsay Gordon mystery. (£6.99)
REISSUES:
Face - Benjamin Zephaniah
Now in adult format, a lively and positive account of a boy who is badly scarred in a joyriding crash, and how he comes to terms with it. The acclaimed first novel from the high-profile performance poet. (£6.99)
The Story of Mr Sommer - Patrick Suskind
From early in the morning till late at night, eccentric Mr Sommer is out walking, marching through the landscape like a man possessed with his empty rucksack and his walking stick. Where is he going and why? From the author of "Perfume". (£7.99)
Among Women Only - Cesare Pavese
A successful couturier returns to Turin at the end of the Second World War. Opening a salon of her own leads her into a nihilistic circle of young hedonists, but Turin itself and its pervading melancholy is at the heart of the novel. (£9.95)
Hard Life - Flann O'Brien
The tale of two orphans, Manus and Finbarr, growing up in the odour of good whiskey and bad cooking in the house of the disputatious Mr Collopy. (£7.99)
Various Lives of Keats and Chapman and the Brother - Flann O'Brien
The fictional (and hilarious) escapades of Chapman and Keats, the translator and the poet, with puns. (£7.99)
To the Slaughterhouse - Jean Giono
From the author of 'The Man Who Planted Trees', a fiercely realistic account of the effect of the First World War on a small community in Provence. (£9.95)
Radetsky March - Joseph Roth
Charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Translated by Michael Hofmann. (£7.99)
Silence - Shusako Endo
A Japanese Catholic, Endo tells the story of two seventeenth-century missionaries attempting to shore up the oppressed Japanese Christian movement. (£9.95)
From a Crooked Rib - Nuruddin Farah
Story of a rural Somali girl’s life and unhappy marriage. (£7.99)
Books about Fiction
BBC Big Read Book of Books
Highly illustrated summaries of the Top 100 with author biographies. (£12.99)
Rough Guide to Books for Teenagers (£5.99)
Rough Guide to Lord of the Rings - Paul Simpson (£7.99)
Real Middle Earth - Brian Bates
An intelligent popular history of the early English civilisation on which Tolkien based his world of 'Lord of the Rings'. (£7.99)
NON-FICTION
ART
Hockney’s Portraits and People - Marco Livingstone
Hockney's relationships with family, friends and lovers illustrated by works ranging from the intimate to the large-scale. (£29.95)
BIOGRAPHY
Wordsworth: a life in letters - Juliet Barker
Now in paperback, Wordsworth's progress from rebellious schoolboy to radical poet to revered patriarch - in his own words, from letters and autobiographical fragments selected by prize-winning local author. (£9.99)
Byron, Life and Legend - Fiona McCarthy
Reinterprets the poet’s life and poetry for a new generation. (£9.99)
Natural Life - David Bellamy (£7.99)
Revenge: a love story - Laura Blumenfeld
After the author’s father was shot by a member of a PLO faction, she travelled across Europe, the US and the Middle East seeking revenge. In the end, her target turned out to be more complex - and in some ways more threatening - than the stereotypical terrorist she had long imagined. (£7.99)
Round-heeled Woman - Jane Juska
"My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance." Jane Juska, a smart, energetic divorcee, decided she'd been celibate too long, and placed a personal ad in her favourite newspaper, The New York Review of Books. (£10)
Gods, Mongrels and Demons - Angus Calder
101 key lives in a meticulously compiled and entertaining alternative reference work. (£16.99)
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume; Murasaki Shikibu; Izumi Shikibu; trans. Kaochi Doi
The diaries of three very different aristocratic Japanese ladies who lived around 1000 AD. (£12.95)
REISSUES
Rough Magic - Paul Alexander
A biography of Sylvia Plath. (£13.99)
Assassin’s Cloak - ed Alan Taylor 12.99
Anthology of the world's greatest diarists, laid out day by day, like a diary, (£12.99)
My Silent War - Kim Philby
Autobiography of a Spy. Foreword by Graham Greene. (£7.99)
FOOD
French Kitchen, A Cook book - Joanne Harris
Stylish collection of French family recipes by the author of 'Chocolat', with photographs and anecdotes. (£12.99)
Schott’s Food and Drink Miscellany - Ben Schott (£9.99)
A Year of Russian Feasts - Catherine Jones
Authentic and evocative with 40 recipes from the author's mother, grandmother and Russian friends. A fascinating behind-the-scenes view of Russia and its people, the feast days of the Russian Orthodox Church and the gentle rhythm of country life. (£6.99)
HISTORY
The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape - Anthony Silson
The story of how West Yorkshire's landscape had changed since the area emerged from under a sea some seventy million years ago. (£9.99)
Templars - Piers Paul Read
Reissue. History of the Knights of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, founded to protect pilgrims against infidel attack. They soon became an expert military force and powerful bankers until French king Philip IV charged them with heresy and immorality. (£8.99)
British History for Dummies (£14.99)
Real Middle Earth - Brian Bates
An intelligent popular history of the early English civilisation on which Tolkien based his world of 'Lord of the Rings'. (£7.99)
HOBBIES
Collectables Price Guide 2004 - Judith Miller (£17.99)
Cheater’s Guide to Quizzes - Chris Hughes (£5.99)
Magic Eye (£7.99)
Magic Eye Gallery (88 images) (£12.95)
HUMOUR
Historic Framley - Alex Morris et al
Based on the popular online spoof local paper and includes such dates as 11 March 1765 and Boxing Day 1989, as well as many more! There’s so much to learn, and time is slowly running out for all of us. (£12.99)
Literary Life - Posy Simmonds
50 Literary Life cartoons (Guardian Review) and some short stories! (£14.99)
Book of Bunny Suicides - Andy Riley
Cartoons of "little fluffy rabbits who just don’t want to live any more." (£7.99)
Could Do Better - Catherine Hurley
School Reports of the Great and Good. Now in paperback. (£5.99)
Time of Your Life - John Burningham
Getting On With Getting On. (£7.99 )
Punchlines - Simon Hoggart
John Prescott speaks. (£5.99)
The Times "Not Dead Yet" (£9.99)
Cat Haiku - Deborah Coates (£3.99)
Schott’s Original Miscellany Calendar Box
A fascinating fact every day. (£9.99)
MBS
Guide to the Human Body - Richard Walker
We’re always being asked for something like this! Covers anatomy and physiology, the functions of organs and systems, and disease and treatment. Home reference and comprehensive basic text for health professionals. 200 coloured photos & illus. (£9.99)
Oxford A-Z of Medicinal Drugs
A family guide to over-the-counter and prescription medicines. (£8.99)
How to Talk so Kids Can Learn - Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
How to motivate children to learn and succeed in school, from the popular parent-child communication experts. (£9.99)
Brain Child - Tony Buzan
"How smart parents make smart kids." A look at the enormous potential of a child’s brain. (£14.99)
101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life - Roger-Pol Droit
Invites us to reconsider our most ordinary actions as unexpected philosophical events; each exercises uses materials that lie to hand and has a designated effect on the spirit. European bestseller. (£6.99)
Buddhist Offerings: 365 Days - Danielle Follmi
A beautiful daybook in the style of 'Earth From the Air - 365 Days', with daily meditations from a master of Tibetan Buddhism. (£19.95)
Mary Magdelene - Lynn Picknett
Christianity's Hidden Goddess. Are the roots of Christianity partly based on spin and propaganda? (£7.99)
This Diary Will Change Your Life 2004 - Ben Carey
Part instruction manual, part therapy, part-religious cult, part-sheer anarchy (£12.99)
Big Book of Personality Tests - Salvatore Didato (£7.99)
MUSIC
31 Songs - Nick Hornby
They either have some great significance in his life or are just songs he loves. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in Body Shop. (£6.99)
New Complete Guitarist - Richard Chapman
Return of a classic, now re-jacketed, expanded, and revised. (£17.99)
Cut the Crap Guide to Guitar (£7.99)
Cut the Crap Guide to Reading Music (£7.99)
SPORT AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Fishing’s Best Short Stories - (ed.) Paul D Staudohar (£16.99)
Into the Abyss - Rod Macdonald
A collection of memorable diving stories written by Britain's top shipwreck author. (£15.99)
Times Night Sky 2004 - Michael Hendrie (£5.99)
Weather or Not! - Paul Hudson & Bob Rust
Highs & lows of Yorkshire weather with dramatic pictures of storm, flood, drought and snow. (£9.99)
Daily Telegraph Book of the Weather - Philip Eden (£9.99)
POETRY
Poems for Gardeners - ed. Germaine Greer
Poems about gardens and gardening from around the world and across time (£10)
First World War Poems - ed Andrew Motion (£12.99)
Collected Poems - Roger McGough
Culmination of over 40 years of popular poetry. (£20)
POLITICS
Dude Where's My Country - Michael Moore
The scourge of Stupid White Men everywhere is back, and plans to smoke Bush out at the next election, trashes Murdoch's media, argues for a Pope who likes ladies, and offers handy hints in 'How to Talk to Your Conservative Brother-in-Law'. (£16.99)
Get Your War On - David Rees
Comic book satire of George W Bush's fight against terrorism. (£9.99)
Understanding Power - Noam Chomsky (£9.99)
50 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know - Russ Kick
From the Disinformation Company. (£6.99)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Backroom Boys - Francis Spufford
The Secret Return of the British Boffin - a rapturous history of the amazing achievements of British engineers. . (£7.99)
TRAVEL
India in Slow Motion - Mark Tully
Comprehensive journey through India by the veteran BBC South Asia correspondent, studying its people, traditions and religions. (£8.99)
Voyage by Dhow - Norman Lewis
Collection of essays on a lifetime spent travelling, from the Russian steppes, via Yemen, to Naples and Paraguay. (£7.99)
Do Not Pass Go - Tim Moore
The stirring travelogue of one man's erratic progress around 28 stations, utilities and streets on the Monopoly board. (£6.99)
On a Shoestring to Coorg - Dervla Murphy (reissue) (£8.99)
Good Pub Guide 2004 - Alisdair Aird (£14.99)
Alan Rogers Camping & Caravanning Sites, Britain and Ireland 2004 (£9.99).
Pets Welcome 2004 (£7.99)
Best Yoga Centres and Retreats (£5.99)
New Rough Guides to Australia, India, Jamaica and West Africa and Sunflower Guides to Cyprus and Gran Canaria.
WORDS
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary - SimonWinchester (£12.99)
Mouse or Rat - Umberto Eco
An erudite demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how mistranslations can affect culture, politics and art. (£12.99)
Eats Shoots and Leaves - Lynne Truss
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. (£9.99)
Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
28th Discworld novel and the Discworld goes to war! Polly Perks, in her brother's clothes and with her hair cut off, has joined up to fight for her country, but who is the enemy? (£15.99 at The Book Case)
Rottweiler - Ruth Rendell
In a darkly atmospheric London the lives of a small group of people from very mixed backgrounds are affected dramatically by a series of apparently motiveless murders. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Kill Bill - Quentin Tarantino
On her wedding day, an assassin known only as The Bride is gunned down at the altar by the groom (her boss, Bill) - but she survives and begins her mission of revenge. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
Bleachers - John Grisham
Youth, high school football, legends and heroes .... (£11.99 at The Book Case)
McSweeney Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales No. 10- ed. Dave Eggers
The the tenth issue of a literary magazine with new work from Chabon, Eggers, Rick Moody, Neil Gaiman, Michael Crichton, Nick Hornby and more. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Little Friend - Donna Tartt
Harriet grows up haunted by her brother's murder - then one day she decides to take her revenge. (£7.99)
Baudolino - Umberto Eco
It is 1204, and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story. From the author of "Name of the Rose".(£7.99)
Rumpole and the Primrose Path - John Mortimer
Rumpole finds himself in the Primrose Path nursing home - or a hospice as he persists in describing it. (£6.99)
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
A Discworld 'Tale of One City', with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen and other children of the revolution. Truth! Justice! Freedom! And a Hard-boiled Egg! (£6.99)
Wintering - Kate Moses
Fictional account of the last months of Sylvia Plath's life, based on the "Ariel" poems. (£7.99)
Dancer - Colum McCann
Fictional account of Nureyev's life. (£6.99)
Certain Chemistry - Mil Millington
A story of hormones, infidelity and the hazards of divine intervention. (£10.99)
Blue Horizon - Wilbur Smith
The new generation of Courtneys stake their claim in the wilderness of Southern Africa (£12.99)
Russell Hoban: three novels, £6.99 each:
Bat Tattoo -
Roswell Clark wants a bat tattoo. His ideal bat image is on a bowl in the V&A Museum. where he encounters Sarah Varley, also compelled by the same bat. "Combines much about art with new angles on Christ, crash-test dummies, antiques and pornography.
Fremder
On 4 November 2052 Fremder Gorm is found drifting in space. Why is he the only survivor from "Clever Daughter", a battered old tanker.
Mr Rinyo Clacton's Offer
Jonathan Fitch is distraught when his girfriend, Serafina, leaves him and accepts the peculiar Mr Rinyo-Clacton's offer of one million pounds but only one year to live.
Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih
Sudanese student returns home from his life in London, from highly-regarded Arabic author. (£7.99)
Mammoth Book of Best New Sci-Fi - ed. Gardner Dozois (£9.99)
World Jones Made - Philip K Dick (£7.99)
Beyond the Pale - Elana Dykewomon
The stories of two lesbian Jewish women living through times of darkness and inhumanity in the early 20th century. (£11.99)
Woman Who Lives in the Earth - Swain Wolfe
Originally self-published, disarmingly simple novel, part Aesopian fable, part environmentalist parable (£9.99)
NON-FICTION
ART, CRAFT, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE
Boy - Germaine Greer
Groundbreaking work about male beauty. Tate Gallery and South Bank Show tie-in.(£29.95)
Woodworking for Dummies (£14.99)
Men and Models - Ian Marchant
Some men stay true to their childhood modelling visions . In this book, we meet some of the success stories of adult modellers, including a concrete dragon and a robotic falcon. With photos. (£6.99)
Earth from the Air 366 Days - Y Arthus-Bertrand
New 'The Earth from the Air' daybook, with over 200 completely new photographs from master photographer Arthus-Bertrand. (£24.95)
One Planet (Lonely Planet)
Beautiful coffee-table book in which Lonely Planet photographers have captured the spirit of travel and adventure. (£19.99)
England's Thousand Best Houses - Simon Jenkins
Lavishly illustrated sequel to the "Best Churches". (£30)
BIOGRAPHY
Interesting Times - Eric Hobsbawm
Autobiography of the Marxist historian who personally witnessed some of the twentieth century's major historical events. (£9.99)
My Invented Country - Isabel Allende
Autobiography of the author of "House of Spirits". "The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do." (£18.99)
Where There's a Will - John Mortimer
Following 'Summer of a Dormouse', Sir John Mortimer offers up more wickedly funny lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. (£17.99)
Free at Last - Tony Benn
Brings his Diaries right up to date, covering the Gulf War, New Labour, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the war in Afghanistan. (£9.99)
Also on CD and cassette at £19.99
Kill the Messenger Again - Bernard Ingham
New edition of Sir Bernard's memoirs, first published in 1991. (£9.99)
Calling of a Cuckoo - David Jenkins
"Not Quite an Autobiography" from the former Bishop of Durham. (£10.99)
Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian - John Beames
The memoirs of a model district officer in the Raj who succeeded in defending the powerless Indian workers against their English and Mughal bosses. (£9.99)
Bedside Stories - Michael Foxton
The hilarious and alarming experiences of a junior doctor in the NHS, as published in the Guardian. (£7.99)
Reissues: Scott's Last Expedition - Robert Falcon Scott (£8.99)
Calendar Girl - Tricia Stewart (£7.99)
FOOD AND DRINK
Delia Collection - Delia Smith :
First four are Soup, Chicken, Fish and Chocolate. (£9.99 each)
River Cottage Cookbook - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Witty, practical guide to the River Cottage lifestyle (£17.99)
Green & Black Chocolate Recipes - Caroline Jeremy
Including recipes, stories about the history and myths of chocolate, its cultivation and production, tips for handling and cooking, photographs and location pictures of the organic cocoa plantations in Belize. (£14.99)
Brian Turner's Favourite British Recipes
"Classic dishes from Yorkshire Pudding to Spotted Dick". (£18.99)
Greens, Beans, Roots and Shoots - Christine Ingram
Guide to over 180 vegetables and their uses. (£8.99)
Vegan Taste of France - Linda Majzlik (£5.99)
Reissue: Pauper's Cookbook - Jocasta Innes (£5.99)
GARDENING AND OUTDOOR
50 Ways to Kill a Slug
50 alternative, organic, natural, chemical and humane methods. (£4.99)
Mini Garden Book
A showcase of global garden design throughout history. (£5.95)
Exploring the Starry Sky - Robert Burnham
An easy-to-use guide to the stars and constellations, for the beginner. (£7.95)
HISTORY
Spartans - Paul Cartledge
Ruthless, totalitarian, militaristic and slave-owning - but Spartan women enjoyed unparalleled freedom. The civilisation from its glory days to its demise. (£7.99)
Greek Lives - Plutarch
Lycurgus, Themistocles, Pericles, Alexander, Demosthenes and others. Six cassettes, approx running time 5 hours, read by Nicholas Farrell.(£18.99)
Domesday Book
First complete translation, now in paperback. (£18.99)
Treasure of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan, trans. Sarah Lawson
Offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes and paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of 15th-century France. (£9.99)
1421 The Year China Discovered the World - Gavin Menzies
Fascinating historical detective story tracing the astonishing voyages of the huge Chinese fleet that set sail on 8th February 1421 to journey for over two years and circle the entire globe. (£7.99)
Adventure of English 500 AD-2000 - Melvyn Bragg
English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. It runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around 2000m people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. The story of the English language - from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position todayTV tie-in. (£20) (2-hour audio version on cassette £9.99)
Forgotten Voices: Ypres & Gallipoli & The Somme/Back to Ypres
Series of 3-hour CDs outlining key WWI battles from the viewpoint of German, US and ANZ soldiers. (£8.99 each).
Britain at War: Unseen Archives
More than 750 original photographs from the archives of the Daily Mail packed into one book. (£9.99).
Days that Shook the World - Hugo Davenport
TV tie-in examining in detail some of the most important days in history (£19.99)
Rhyming History of Britain - James Muirden
From a non-historian who "wrote this poem in order to teach myself some history", illustrated by David Eccles of "Now We Are Sixty". (£9.99)
Essential Militaria - Nicholas Hobbes
Along the lines of "Schott's Miscellany" this fascinating collection contains items such as the top 10 writers on the Gestapo's 1940 hit-list if they managed to occupy Britain (Vera Brittain, Noel Coward ...), the eight wounds of Alexander the Great, and Tim Collins's famous pre-Iraq speech. (£9.99)
HUMOUR
I'm Leaving You Simon, You Disgust Me
A Dictionary of Received Ideas, focussing on particularly annoying middle-class cliches. (£9.99)
Soddit - Adam Roberts
Parody of 'The Hobbit'. (£6.99)
Bored of the Rings
Now in paperback (£5.99)
Postmodern Pooh - Frederick Crews (£6.99)
Complete Far Side - Gary Larson
Deluxe, two-volume slipcased set containing every Far Side cartoon ever syndicated - over 4,000 plus more than 1,100 that have never before appeared in a book.We're not keeping it in stock but we can order! (£100)
Crap Towns - Idler Magazine
"The 50 Worst Places to Live in the UK." Unfortunately, there are a couple of local nominees. (£10)
Worst Case Scenario Handbook of Parenting - Joshua Piven (£9.99)
Extreme Ironing - Phil Shaw
Combining the thrill of extreme outdoor activity - rock climbing, mountaineering, canoeing, scuba diving or surfing - with the satisfaction of well-pressed clothing. Breathtaking photographs!(£7.99)
Private Eye Annual 2003 (£9.99)
Mediaballs - Private Eye (£3.99)
Unspeakable If - Steve Bell
The best of his cartoons, from the 2001 General Election to the present. (£10.99)
Darwin Awards III - Wendy Northcutt
Even more true stories of how dumb humans have met their maker. (£9.99)
Joy of Shaun (Wallace & Gromit)
Embrace Love with Shaun the Sheep. (£4.99)
Wallace & Gromit's Highway Code
All the little but important things the Stationery Office forgot to tell you. (£4.99)
Bliss - ed. Martin Parr
Postcards of couples and families - will appeal to kitsch enthusiasts! (£14.95)
The Ultimate Book of English Comics - Jon Howells
Entries for all major British comics throughout the '60s, '70s, and '80s: an essential purchase for anyone who still hasn't forgiven their mum for clearing out the attic. (£12.99)
David Beckham Jokebook - A C Parfitt (£6.99)
MBS
Twisted Fables for Twisted Minds - Barefoot Doctor
Fusion of narrative fable and traditional barefoot advice. (£12)
Runes of Elfland - Ari Berk & Brian Froud
Folklorist and poet Ari Berk provides the secret meanings of the runes in Brian Froud's paintings. (£12.99)
Silent Stones - Diana Cooper
New paperback edition of this popular spiritual novel, combining an adventure story with important lessons for the planet. (£7.99)
10-Minutes Kabbalah - Yael Li-Ron1
Judaism's most mystical text in easy to understand terms. (£7.99)
GO M A D, Go Make a Difference Again - The Ecologist
Daily Ways to Save the Planet. (£5.99)
MEDIA
New Biographical Dictionary of Film - David Thomson (£15)
Story of Emmerdale - Lance Parkin
Features every major storyline and character who has appeared in the series since it began in 1972, with archive images and specially commissioned photographs. (£14.99)
Radio Times Guide to Films 2004 (£19.99)
MUSIC
Love Supreme - Ashley Kahn
Copiously researched study of saxophone legend John Coltrane's signature album. (£12.99)
Nothing But the Blues - Lawrence Cohn (£22.50)
Rough Guide to Rock (3e) (£20)
Rough Guide to the Beatles - Chris Ingham (£6.99)
POEMS
Collected Poems - John Betjeman
The bestselling complete poems in paperback. (£8.99)
POLITICS
New Great Game - Lutz Kleveman
Blood and Oil in Central Asia. Shows how competition for the region's vast oil reserves - led by the United States and Russia - is de-stabilizing central Asia. (£16.99)
Pretty Straight Guys - Nick Cohen
British version of 'Stupid White Men' and coruscating anatomy of New Labour Britain. (£14.99)
Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky
Is America's superpower mentality leading us all towards global disaster? (£16.99)
Think Globally, Spend Locally - C. Arnander
Illustrated history of globalisation. A concise primer to the epic events of the last fifty years, illustrated throughout with cartoons of the era from Punch, the New Yorker and the Spectator. (£8.99)
REFERENCE
Guardian Year 2003 (£14.99)
Oxford Dictionary of British Placenames (£8.99)
Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore (£8.99)
Oxford Dictionary of Catchphrases (£7.99)
Oxford Quotations by Subject (£8.99)
Superstitions of the British Isles (£20)
SCIENCE
How to Dunk a Doughnut - Len Fisher
The science behind ordinary daily activities. (£6.99)
On the Shoulders of Giants - Stephen Hawking (ed)
The five classics of physics and astronomy are gathered together for the first time. (£12.99)
Rough Guide to Digital Stuff
In association with Stuff Magazine, Britain's top selling magazine title on digital equipment from DVD recorders to digital cameras and mobile phones, and all the gadgets of now and the future. (£7.99)
Ingenious Women - Deborah Jaffe
Women's scientific inventions and discoveries from the first patent application in 1637 to 1914, illustrated. (£17.99)
TRAVEL
Gervase Phinn's Yorkshire - Gervase Phinn
Lots of colour photos. (£14.99)
Kindness of Strangers - Don George
Lonely Planet explores the unexpected acts of kindness that can occur on the road, with stories from around the globe. (£7.99)
My Life and Travels - Wilfred Thesiger
Anthology of the late great explorer's writings. (£8.99)
Ghost Upon Your Path - John McCarthy
An Exploration of Irish Identity. How come one can find feelings of belonging in a place that one has never visited before? (£7.99)
Trawler - Redmond O'Hanlon
His journey on a trawler sailing from Stromness to Greenland, including fry-ups, and a slightly mad - and very scared - English scientist set down among half-a-dozen tough Scotsmen. (£20)
Pennine Cycleway - Ted Liddle
The Pennine Cycleway is a new long-distance route created principally for cyclists. This book describes the northern section from Kendal across the North Pennines, through Northumberland and the Cheviot Hills to Berwick upon Tweed. (£9.95)
Green Guide for the North West (£9.99)
Good Food Guide 2004 (£15.99)
New Lonely Planet Guides to Japan, the Maldives and Catalunya and the Costa Brava, a Time Out Guide to Eating and Drinking in Paris, and new Rough Guides to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei, Paris, Provence & the Cote d'Azur and Vietnam.
AUDIO
Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
10 cassettes, read by William Roberts. (£23.99)
Benn Tapes Vol. 1 - Tony Benn
Late each night for over twenty-five years the Labour MP and former Secretary of State, Tony Benn, sat alone and dictated on to tape his account of the daily events at the heart of the government. Double CD, running time 2 hours. (£12.99)
Benn Tapes Vol. 2 Double CD, running time 2 hours. (£12.99)
Douglas Adams at the BBC
This three CD set celebrates the life and work of Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" with archive clips of Douglas' work and radio interviews. Three CDs, running time 2hrs 30min. (£12.99)
Have I Got News for You
Two cassettes with the best of the last two series that Angus Deayton chaired, last autumn, and the spring 2003 series. Running time approx 3 hours. (£10.99)
Dylan Thomas at the BBC (£12.99)
Ladies of Letters Log On (£12.99)
Classic Ghost Stories
Double cassette, running time 3 hours, read by Michael Williams. (£7.99)
Sign of Four - Conan Doyle
Four cassettes, approx running time 5 hours, read by David Timson. (£11.99)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Six CDs, running time 6 hours, read by Joanna David. (£14.99)
Rough Guide to Latin Jazz (£11.99)
FICTION
HARDBACK
Lady and the Unicorn - Tracey Chevalier
From the author of 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' a novel centred on six mysterious medieval Flemish tapestries. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Gil Courtemanche
Powerful denunciation of poverty, ignorance, global apathy and media blindness. Canadian prizewinner (£12.99 at The Book Case)
Thursbitch - Alan Garner
An enigmatic tombstone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track, has haunted Alan Garner for 50 years. 'Thursbitch' is an exploration of an 18th century mystery; a mystery that lives on in the farms of the area. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Debut novel set in Afghanistan during the Russian invasion, about a young Afghani's journey to maturity. "If this book does not become a major film, t-shirt and car-sticker, I'll eat my bookmark" - London customer review. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
First novel since 'The Information': a post 9/11 comedy. about "unchangeable: patriarchy and the entire edifice of masculinity ... and the illusion/delusion that we can protect our future and our progeny." He hasn't been a huge seller in HB so far, but there'll be a lot of publicity. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Pompeii - Robert Harris
Recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time, focussing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist. Lots of publicity! (£15.99 at The Book Case)
Emma Brown - Clare Boylan/Charlotte Bronte
Victorian novel of mystery, atmosphere and page-turning suspense continued by Clare Boyland from 20 pages left by Charlotte Bronte in 1855. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Whistling Woman - A S Byatt
Concludes the Frederica quartet. Her new career in television in London is threatened by tumultuous events in Yorkshire. (£6.99)
Three Stories - Alan Bennett
Bind-up of 'Father! Father! Burning Bright', 'The Clothes They Stood Up In' and 'The Laying on of Hands'. (£7.99)
That Old Ace in the Hole - Annie Proulx
One man's struggle to make good in the inhospitable ranch country of the Texas panhandle. (£7.99)
Crimson Petal and the White - Michael Faber
Sugar, an alluring, nineteen-year-old whore in 1870s London yearns for a better life. Just under 900 pages and to be filmed. (£8.99)
Day in the Life
Charity anthology of original short stories for Breast Cancer Care from writers including Kate Atkinson, Maggie O'Farrell, Joanne Harris and Helen Dunmore. (£6.99)
Songs of the Kings Barry Unsworth
The Trojan War is about to break out but this is a 21st-century approach to the cast of Homeric characters. (£7.99)
Number 10 - Sue Townsend
A fading Prime Minister travels the country incognito in the company of Jack Sprat, the policeman on the door of Number 10, to find out what people really think. (£6.99)
Ringmaster's Daughter - Jostein Gaarder
From the author of "Sophie's World", the tale of a trapeze artist, a lost daughter and an imaginary midget with a green felt cap and bamboo cane. "A psychological portrait of an uncommon man written with classic Gaarder magic." (£6.99)
Fountain at the Centre of the World - Robert Newman
Takes us, via container crate and conference suite, assassination and passport theft, from refugee detention centre and Rio Bravo to the WTO protests. By the Mary Whitehouse Experience chap. (£10.99)
Starter for Ten - David Nicholls
Brian's just started university, armed with the obligatory CND membership and a complete set of Kate Bush albums. (It's 1985) But he also has a dark secret - a burning ambition to appear on University Challenge. Laugh-out-loud humour in Hornby style. (£10.99)
Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations - Alexander McCall Smith
Stories about the endlessly fascinating peculiarities of the human condition. (£6.99)
Balthasar's Odyssey - Amin Maalouf
There are ninety-nine names for God in the Koran: is it possible that there is a secret one-hundredth name? From the author of Leo Africanus and Samarkand (£6.99)
Fatal Eggs- Mikhail Bulgakov
Book Case customers have been a bit resistant to Hesperus titles so far (£6.99 for c.100 pages seems a bit steep) but you might make an exception for Bulgakov! This one combines science fiction with political allegory.
Watch Your Mouth - Daniel Handler
An incest comedy from the author of the Lemony Snicket children's novels: "audacious, quite funny, and always unusual" says an online review (but NOT a children's book!) (£6.99)
Yonder Stands Your Orphan - Barry Hannah
"A hysterical and unremittingly gothic account of obsession, violence, sex and religion in America's Deepest South," it says here. Ideal Christmas present? (£7.99)
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Elizabeth Berg is an American author we haven't tried before, similar to Anne Tyler and Alice Hoffman. This month we have at £6.99 each:
Joy School: A young girl living with her remote father falls in love with a married man.
Never Change: A spinster of 51, Myra Lipinsky is a visiting nurse. A new patient turns out to be an old school friend.
Until the Real Thing Comes Along: funny and touching story of Patty's quest for Mr Right. The man she loves is attractive, financially sound, sensitive and warmhearted - and gay.
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Voyage to the End of the Room - Tibor Fischer
Oceane likes to travel but never goes out. She brings the world into her home via satellite, the Internet and passing foreigners. A novel about what can be known, what evil looks like, why ketchup is important and how Lambeth Council was rated one of the worst. (£10.99)
Platform - Michel Houellebecq
Outrageously funny story of an attempt to create a package-holiday company for sex-tourists in Thailand and North Africa. (£6.99)
Family - Mario Puzo
30 years on from "The Godfather", the story of the greatest crime family in Italian history - the Borgias. (£6.99)
Mistress of Alderley - Robert Barnard
Crime fiction about successful actress whose idyllic life in a Yorkshire village is shattered one day when a young man unexpectedly turns up on her doorstep. (£6.99)
Q is for Quarry - Sue Grafton
This new Kinsey Millhone mystery is based on an unsolved homicide that occurred in 1969, and has generated renewed police efforts. (£6.99)
White Lioness - Henning Mankell
European bestseller about the murder of a young housewife, pillar of the Methodist church, in 1992, peaceful Southern Sweden. Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates. (£6.99)
Kings of the Dark House - Suhayl Saadi
Long dark night of the soul in a Glasgow Asian radio station. Bleak but energetic! (£9.99)
Emperor: the Gates of Rome - Conn Iggulden
Now in paperback, the early life of Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus, friends caught up in a power struggle. (£6.99)
Under Fire - Henri Barbusse
New translation of French classic, giving a graphic account of World War I from the perspective of the French trenches. It evokes the mundane degradations of trench life as well as the drama and trauma of military action. (£8.99)
New from Collector's Library, nice little dust-jacketed, gilt-edged hardbacks (with marker ribbon) at £5.99 each. The first set includes: Emma, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Mme Bovary, Mayor of Casterbridge, Mrs Dalloway, Oliver Twist, Pride and Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Tale of Two Cities, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Northanger Abbey and Wuthering Heights.
Gisli Sursson's Saga and the Saga of the People of Eyri
First edition in Penguin Classics for two powerful prose sagas, and part of a new series of Eight Icelandic Sagas. (£10.99)
NON-FICTION
ART, CRAFT, PHOTOGRAPHY & DESIGN
Children's Book Covers - Alan Powers
The most wide-ranging collection of children's book covers and jacket designs ever assembled in book form, aimed at designers, collectors, and lovers of children's literature. 400 col. photos. (£20)
Sari - Mukulka Banerjee
An exploration of the sari as a living garment rather than just a textile, and a fascinating portrait of the life of women in contemporary India. (£24.99)
Heroes and Villains - Gerald Scarfe
Caricaturist Gerald Scarfe has depicted the villainous side of well-known figures portrayed in National Portrait Gallery while Brian Sewell, Joanna Lumley, Sir Peter Hall and Melvyn Bragg et al argue their views on Henry VIII, Oswald Mosley, Virginia Woolf, Princess Diana and David and Victoria Beckham. (£20)
Martin Parr Postcards
Forty-five postcards in a presentation box taken from a comprehensive mid-career retrospective of the work of Magnum photographer Martin Parr, including images from well known series as well as earlier work. (£14.95)
Dhurries- Nada Chaldecott
The very first comprehensive guide to the dhurrie, the cotton flatweave rug that is now enjoying enormous popularity in the West. 248 col. ill.(£24.95)
Path to Buddha - Steve McCurry
100 colour photographs of Tibetan monks and pilgrims through the lens of this sympathetic photographer depicting their strong and dignified belief and reconstruction of sites destroyed by the Red Guard. (£14.95)
Red Color News Soldier - Li Zhensheng
Only known photographic documentation of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. 300 ill. (£24.95)
Wood - Bryan Sentance
In many cultures the tree represents the very force of life itself. This is a worldwide survey of wood, the many different types of wood and their uses, and woodworking techniques employed around the globe. Over 800 illustrations, a guide to collecting, a glossary and information on where to see collections. (£28)
Mass Market Classics: The Home - Wayne Hemingway
A showcase of everyday interior design of the 1950s, '60s, '70s and '80s. From toasted sandwich makers to mass-produced polypropylene or tubular steel chairs (£16.99)
Men and Collections - Brian Jenner
Peers into the cluttered world of the collector, uncovering the bloke beneath the bric-a-brac, the personality behind the paraphernalia, the method in the memorabilia. Each story is illustrated with photographs of the collector and the collection. (£6.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Rupert Bear - Caroline Bott
The author has pieced together the life of her godfather Alfred Bestall, who illustrated Rupert Bear in the Daily Express almost uninterruptedly for 30 years and collected and catalogued all his work, ranging from 'Punch' cartoons to romantic, dreamy watercolours in addition to his Rupert Bear illustrations. A beautiful gift book with lots of colour plates. (£20)
Rose of Martinique - Andrea Stuart
A Life of Josephine. The butt of one of the oldest jokes around, but her relationship with Napoleon was only a tiny fraction of the life she led as a Caribbean woman in the salons of 18th-century Paris. (But I still think of Vanessa Redgrave ...) (£20)
Memoirs of a Fellwander - Alfred Wainwright
Originally compiled in the 1950s and early 1960s, the Wainwright walking guides are perhaps the most distinctive and unusual such guides ever devised. This is the first UK paperback edition of Wainwright's touching autobiography. (£12.99)
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Lighthouse Keeper - Peter Hill
In 1973, the author, then a 19-year-old student with his head fed by Vietnam, Zappa, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Watergate and Coronation Street, spent six months working on Scottish lighthouses, "keeping" with all manner of unusual and fascinating people. Within thirty years this way of life was to have disappeared entirely. (£14.99)
Biography of Eric Morecambe - Gary Morecambe
From Eric Morecambe's son a biography of one of the most fondly remembered of all British comedy acts, plus diary extracts from Eric Morecambe and many hitherto unseen photographs from the Morecambe family archives. (£16.99)
And Why Not? - Barry Norman
Memoirs of a Film Lover. And he's coming to Hebden Bridge Picture House (24th October)! (£7.99)
David Beckham: the autobiography
His own in-depth account of his career to date, with Manchester United and England, and of his childhood, family and personal life. Col ill (£18.99)
What's It All About - Cilla Black
From the 1963 pop star to "Blind Date", published in the year of her 60th birthday. (£17.99)
Life on Air - David Attenborough
Now in paperback, the memoirs of Britain's best-known natural history film-maker. (£7.99)
Sylvia Plath - Linda Wagner-Martin
Examines the way Sylvia Plath made herself into a writer and discusses of the aftermath of her death. Updated edition. (£14.99)
Pushkin - T J Binyon
Now in paperback, the award-winning biography of possibly Russia's greatest poet. (£12.99)
Koba the Dread - Martin Amis
Tackles the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals including a 100-page study of Stalin. (£7.99)
Editor - Max Hastings
Candid memoir of his career as editor of the "Daily Telegraph". (£7.99)
Song Flung Up to Heaven - Maya Angelou
Now in paperback, the final volume in the bestselling autobiography which began with 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'. (£6.99)
800 Years of Women's Letters - Olga Kenyon
New paperback edition of unique insight into women's private thoughts and feelings over the centuries. (£7.99)
Guardian Book of Obituaries - Phil Osborne
The Guardian's obituaries are among the paper's most loved and well-read pages. This collection brings together the retrospective of over one hundred men and women who shaped the world that we live in today. It is a wonderful testimony - occasionally inspiring and often very funny - to the achievements of some remarkable people. (£12.99)
FOOD AND DRINK
French Leave - John Burton-Race
Over 200 irresistible recipes in a TV tie-in, following 2-star Michelin chef John Burton-Race, his wife, six children and Labrador dog as they escape everyday life in London and head off to rural France to set up home for a year. (£20)
Juicing Bible - Pat Crocker
250 recipes, with metric measurements throughout, for 185 ingredients. (£12.95)
Pocket Wine Book - Hugh Johnson
Now in its 27tth year of publication, with news on more than 6,000 wines, growers, and regions. (£9.99)
Good Beer Guide 2004 - Roger Protz
More than just a pub guide for beer lovers, contains details of food, pub history, architecture, transport and accommodation and the suitability of facilities for families. plus CAMRA's listing of pubs of special importance and details of new breweries, mergers and takeovers. (£12.99)
Good Bottled Beer Guide - Jeff Evans
The Good Beer Guide's little brother - focuses on bottled real ale and includes all bottled real ales brewed in the UK, with tasting notes, ingredients and background information. (£8.99)
Real Ale Pub Guide 2004
County by county directions and details of the pubs and their ales, and all the local breweries. (£11.99)
GARDENING & FARMING
Bob Flowerdew's Organic Bible
New revised edition. (£14.99)
Organic Farming - Stephan Dabbert et al
Draws on a large body of scientific research to review the organic farming sector in the 21st century, assess its contributions to the environment, food quality, farmers' incomes and rural development and makes recommendations. (£14.95)
Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance - Martin Gurdon
You don't need to be a farmer to raise poultry. This idiosyncratically written book chronicles the endless pleasures and myriad pitfalls of chicken keeping. (£8.99)
GIFTS
Now we're getting silly, but Christmas is coming, or the publishers think it is, anyway:
Build Your Own Kaleidoscope/Snow Globe/Fireplace in a Box (£5.99 each)
Executive Desk Gong / Guardian Angels Box of Miracles / Magnetic Love Signs (£3.99 each)
Playing cards of the 54 Most Unwanted Politicians : Regime Change Begins at Home
Bush is the Ace of Spades, Blair the Ace of Clubs, Clare Short a Joker ... (£5.00)
HISTORY
Great Tales of English History - Robert Lacey
"From Cheddar Man to the Peasants' Revolt." First of three volumes bringing the human interest back to English history. (£14.99)
Britain BC - Francis Pryor
The implications of remarkable new archaeological finds for the whole of British history before the Romans. Far from being the woaded barbarians of Roman propaganda, we had our own religion, laws, crafts, arts, trade, farms, priesthood and royalty. And the Scots, English and Welsh were fundamentally one and the same people (which news may not thrill the Scots and Welsh however). (£25)
Captives - Linda Colley
Britain, Empire and the World, 1600-1850. Uncovers the experiences and writings of those tens of thousands of men and women who "got caught" during Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence and shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race and American revolutionaries look different once the perspective of the captive is admitted. (£8.99)
Scurvy - Stephen R Bown
How a surgeon, a mariner and a gentleman solved the greatest medical mystery of the age of sail. (£9.99)
Sex Botany and Empire - Patricia Fara
The story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks. When Cook returned from his first voyage to Australia, the scandal writers mercilessly satirised the amorous exploits of his botanist, Joseph Banks, whose trousers were reportedly stolen while he was inside the tent of Queen Oberea of Tahiti. (£9.99)
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World - Deborah Cadbury
The story of how our modern world was forged - in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination. TV tie-in. (£20)
Canals of the Aire and Calder Navigation
This pictorial
history demonstrates how the Calder became one of the UK's most successful
inland waterways. (£9.99)
Victorian Underworld - Donald Thomas
A sweeping portrait of the vast world that did not accept Victorian values. Here, through the eyes of its inhabitants, the author portrays the nineteenth century underworld - one of night houses and cigar divans, of street people and entertainers. (£8.99)
Natasha's Dance - Orlando Figes
A Cultural History of Russia, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. (£8.99)
Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody - Will Cuppy
A lighthearted romp through history, in the tradition of '1066 and All That'. (£7.99)
They Saw It Happen - ed. Matthew Lewin
Eyewitness accounts from Ancient Greece to Hiroshima. A unique collection of more than 60 eyewitness accounts brought to life on audiobook with music of the period. 4 cassettes, approx running time 5 hours. (£11.99)
HUMOUR
Python's Autobiography by the Pythons - Graham Chapman
The book is £30, so we're just stocking the CD! Can get you the book though ... (£16.99)
Ignobel Prizes - Marc Abrahams
The Annals of Improbable Research. Looks behind the scenes of the weirdest research from a hundred years of science (£6.99)
Now We Are Sixty and a Bit - Christopher Matthew
Another collection of A A Milne-inspired poems. (£9.99)
Barry Trotter and the Shameless Parody - Michael Gerber (£5.99)
Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel - Michael Gerber (£6.99)
Morecambe & Wise
A celebration of their finest repartee. (£4.99)
How to Create a Flawless Universe
Illustrated step-by-step guide to creating your own Universe in just eight days, with cut-out-and-paste templates for easy creation of animals, birds, fishes and persons. (£9.99)
MBS
Contented Little Baby Book of Sleeping - Gina Ford (£9.99)
Child is Born - Lennart Nilsson
The beloved classic bestseller updated for the 21st century using state-of-the-art photography to show the miracle of birth. (£25)
Your Life in Your Hands - Jane Plant
Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer. Updated paperback edition of this local bestseller including new information on soya.. (£9.99)
Bitch in the House - Cathi Hanauer
Twenty-six women tell the truth about sex, solitude, work, motherhood and marriage. (£6.99)
Mirror Cards - Geoff Charley
A unique self-counselling tool to help you keep your relationship in good health. The cards are based on the principle of 'mirroring', reflecting back to you what you most need to learn. (£12.99)
Life Laundry 2 - Dawna Walter
How to stay de-junked forever. TV tie-in. (£7.99)
New Revelations Neale Donald Walsch
In the aftermath of 9/11, five fallacies about life, combined with the five fallacies about God, continue to feed a deadly misconception that leads to devastating world events governed by violence and crisis. Offers some possible answers and tools (£7.99)
My Dream Journal (£14.99)
Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace(£6.99)
Straw Dogs - John Gray
Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. Argues that the humanist belief in human difference is an illusion. (£8.99)
MEDIA
Time Out Film Guide 2004
Widely regarded as the best guide on the market, it reviews over 14,000 films. (£18.99)
Penguin TV Companion - Jeff Evans
Full cast lists and lively plot synopses of programmes broadcast in the UK, as well as entries on actors, writers, producers and directors.Updated and expanded for its second edition. (£16.99)
Guardian Media Directory 2004 - Emily Bell
Now transformed into a directory, more comprehensive and user friendly than ever before. (£17.99)
POETRY
Feminine Gospels - Carol Ann Duffy
Now in paperback. (£7.99)
Nation's Favourite Poems of Remembrance (£6.99)
POLITICS
Wages of Spin - Bernard Ingham
Sir Bernard Ingham dissects the curse of modern politics. (£8.99)
Hoo Hahs and Passing Frenzies - Francis Wheen
A updated edition of this collection of his best o commentary and analysis from the last ten years, including the war in Iraq and the collapse of Enron.(£6.99)
Political Animal - Jeremy Paxman
Why Don't We Like Politicians? And why do governments and politicians so often fail to live up to expectations? (£7.99)
Yob Society - Frank Field
Maverick Labour MP Frank Field charts the rise of anti-social behaviour and suggests radical solutions in this controversial new book. (£7.99)
Bumper Book of British Lefties - Paul Routledge
Witty pen portraits of 250 men and women who painted the political scene red - Bevin, Bevan, Foot and Castle rub shoulders with Arthur Scargill, Tom Driberg, Billy Bragg, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Tony Booth. (£8.99)
Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
A riveting account of Taliban-like theocracies in the American heartland controlled by renegade Mormon prophets. (£16.99)
REFERENCE
Collins Fix It Manual - Albert Jackson
A Complete Guide to Repairing Everyday Appliances. From hairdryers to washing machines, toasters to televisions, this essential book provides easy-to-follow solutions. (£25)
How Things Are Made - Sharon Rose
From autombiles to zippers - an entertaining illustrated A-Z of the processes behind the manufacture of everyday items. (£12.95)
CVs for Dummies (£12.99)
Chambers Dictionary (9th ed) (£30)
Chambers Concise Biographical Dictionary (£14.99)
Guinness World Records 2004 (£18)
What Not to Wear 2 - Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine
What to wear for every occasion. TV tie-in. (£14.99)
SCIENCE
Tomorrow's People - Susan Greenfield
How 21st century technology is changing the way we think and feel. Argues that the current revolution in biomedical science and information technologies will have a dramatic impact on our brains and central nervous system. (£20)
SPORT AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Mammoth Book of Mountain Disasters - Hamish MacInnes
Spans five continents - from the Appalachians to Mount Cook, from Peak Lenin to Siula Grande. (£7.99)
Rough Guide to Cult Football
The legends of the sport, from George Best and Romario to Vick Buckingham and Brian Clough plus the finest games ever played and an eclectic round-up of the clubs that have shaped the game. (£7.99)
TRAVEL
Good Hotel Guide 2004 (£15.99)
Lonely Planet Gap Year Book
Practical guide to planning and taking a year out - preparation, when and where to go, what to do, with tried and tested itineraries from real gappers. (£12.99)
Lots of new Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guides
To Catch a Tartar - Chris Bird
The author lived right in the midst of the Chechen conflict for many years and brings first-hand tales and personal experience to the book. (£7.99)
Sahara - Michael Palin
The first paperback publication of this popular TV tie-in. (£7.99)
Among the Believers - V S Naipaul
An Islamist Journey. Naipaul shows young people battling to regain the original purity of their faith, and offers an insight into modern Islam and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism. New edition. (£7.99)
Eight Feet in the Andes - Dervla Murphy
The feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south. New edition. (£8.99)
Sailing Alone Around the World - Joshua Slocum
A classic of sailing literature - one of the greatest sea adventures of all time. New edition. (£7.99)
AUDIO
Wuthering Heights
Five CDs, running time 5hrs 30mins. Read by Prunella Scales and Timothy West. (£14.99)
2004 CALENDARS AND DIARIES
Calendar Girls Calendar (Royalties to Leukaemia Research) (£9.99)
365 Tiny Paper Airplanes Calendar: Page-a-day with six basic planes instructions. (£10.99)
Origami Page-a-Day Calender (£10.99)
Thomas and Friends Sticker Calendar (£7.99)
Granta Diary 2004 (£11.99)
Redstone Music Diary 2004 (£11.95)
Mind Body Spirit Book of Days 2004 (£12.99)
My Inner Pilgrimage Journal: colour photos (£14.99)
Story of the little Mole - Holzwarth
The favourite about poo (not the bear). This one has a plush mole toy. (£9.99)
Wide-mouthed Frog - Faulkner
He has a huge mouth and he asks everyone what they like to eat, until he asks a creature who likes to eat wide-mouthed frogs. A pop-up book. (£6.99)
Smartest Giant in Town - Julia Donaldson
George the giant is scruffy. Treating himself to new clothes, he becomes smart until he meets animals who desperately need his help. (£4.99)
More the Merrier - Anne Fine
More definitely does not mean merrier when ten relatives come to stay at Christmas. (£10.99)
Last of the sky Pirates - Stewart/Riddell
New in paperback. From rock demons and rubble ghouls to banderbears, spindlebugs and a myriad of other amazing creatures. (£5.99)
Orchard Book of Stories from the Ballet - Geraldine McCaughrean
All the favourite ballets in story form. (£7.99)
Angels Command - Brian Jacques
Ben and his dog escape when the Flying Dutchman is lost off the coast of South America. Now the evil Captain Vanderecken wants them back. (£12.99)
August 44 - Carlo Gebler
Retelling the stories of Prague’s Golem. "August 44" also brings to life the terrifying atmosphere of occupied France. (£5.99)
Double Vision - Pat Barker
A man embarks on a book about the images of war, based on a late friend's photographs; he is having recurring nightmares of his time in Sarajevo. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Taxi Driver's Daughter - Julia Darling
The story of a family from the North East on the verge of collapse, caught between the escape they crave and the imperfect reality that seems to be their lot. The author recently appeared at the Little Theatre reading poems from her new book Sudden Collapses in Public Places (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Voyageurs - Margaret Elphinstone
In 1810 a young English farmer sets out to find his missionary sister, lost in the Canadian wilderness. (£9.99 at the Book Case)
Lands of Glass - Alessandro Baricco
A small-town glassmaker is commissioned to make the glass for the Crystal Palace. Add an extravagant inventor and a steam locomotive for a tale of angry visions, confused emotions and fantastic ambitions. From the author of Silk. (£7.99)
Vintage Crucial Classics:
12 classic works of 20th century literature at £3.99 each:
Death in Venice, End of the Affair, Gigi, Goodbye to Berlin, Enfants Terribles, Master & Margerita, Nights at the Circus, Slaughterhouse Five, Song Lines, Under the Net, All Quiet on the Western Front, Cider with Rosie
NON-FICTION
ANTIQUES, ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Antiques Price Guide 2004 - Judith Miller
Features unique close-up photography to identify key marks and blemishes that make all the difference. From Dorling Kindersley. (£22.99)
Millers Antiques Price Guide 2004
This one's been going for 25 years. Now in full colour, it covers traditional antiques (furniture, pottery, porcelain, glass, silver, etc.) plus decorative arts, textiles, posters, kitchenware, and more. (£24.99)
Behind the Brush Strokes - Khoo Seow Hwa
A comprehensive study of Chinese calligraphy. (£9.99)
Don McCullin
The definitive retrospective of the whole career of one of the greatest British photographers. Originally published at £50 in a larger format.(£17.50)
BIOGRAPHY
My Life as Me - Barry Humphries
'Barry, you used to be so nice', his mum used to say. Now Australia's most famous comedian reflects on his long journey away from niceness. (£7.99)
Banker to the Poor - Muhammad Yunus
"The Story of the Grameen Bank." Autobiography of the man who invented humanitarian banking and micro-credit - acknowledged by world leaders and the President of the World Bank to be a fundamental weapon in the fight against poverty. (£8.99)
CURRENT AFFAIRS
The War against Saddam - John Simpson
The summation of more than twenty years covering Saddam Hussein's Iraq, with the full story of his rise to power and the West's relationship with him throughout his dictatorship to his recent downfall. From the popular BBC World Affairs Editor, who has reported from Iraq during the conflict. (£20)
Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstad
The author lived with an Afghan family and as a woman outsider could move between the two worlds. Bookseller Sultan Khan had defied the authorities in order to supply books to the people of Kabul. He was arrested, interrogated and imprisoned by the Communists, and watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of his books in the street. But he is also a committed Muslim with strict views on family life. A moving portrait of a family and a clear-eyed assessment of a country struggling to free itself from history. (£12.99)
Inside Al Qaeda - Mohamed Sifaoui
"How I Infiltrated the World's Deadliest Terrorist Organisation." The journalist author, a committed opponent of Islamic fundamentalism, by chance met an Algerian school contemporary, now active in a Parisian Al Qaeda cell, and spent three months under cover with Al Qaeda. Over 35,000 copies sold in France. (£6.99)
FOOD
Rick Stein's Guide to the Food Heroes of Britain
Companion volume to 'Rick Stein's Food Heroes': a directory of the best food producers, suppliers and retailers in Great Britain and Ireland. Encourages readers to explore the small-scale side of food production. (£12.99)
Raw (The Uncook Book) - Juliano
A unique introduction to gourmet raw cuisine, with delicious healthy dishes made entirely from living plant foods. Much, much more than just 100 variations of salad! (£12.99)
GARDENING
Gardening and Planting by the Moon 2004 - Nick Kollerstrom
The 2004 edition of this full 15-month daily calendar by the BBC's Lunar Gardening Correspondent shows exactly how the influence of the moon can be harnessed even by urban gardeners. (£8.99)
HISTORY
Carnival in Romans - Emmanuel le Ladurie
How the winter carnival of 1580 in Romans in southern France degenerated into a bloody ambush. From the author of Montaillou. (£10.99)
Children of Kali - Kevin Rushby
The Thugs murdered more than a million travellers without spilling a drop of blood: were they freedom fighters or vicious hoodlums? This book explores the dark side of India but also the demons that exist within a traveller's own mind. (£7.99)
Victorian House - Judith Flanders
Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed. A social history of Victorian domestic life told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th century men and women. Organised room by room, the book is a complete exploration of Victorian life - dark, cold and dirty. (£20)
MBS
New Book of Magical Names - Phoenix McFarland
The only lexicon of non-Christian names and their meanings in print, taken from modern and ancient sources. Contains almost unbelievably, over 5,000 entries.(£16.99)
Women Who Think Too Much - Susan Nolen-Hoeksema
A groundbreaking new book from an award-winning researcher that challenges the notion that constantly analysing our emotions and our selves is a good thing. (£10.99)
Highly Sensitive Child - Elaine N. Aron
The follow-up to the worldwide bestseller, The Highly Sensitive Person, this book demonstrates how to raise sensitive children to be happy and confident adults. (£9.99)
I Only Say This Because I Love You - Deborah Tannen
How to improve relationships with family members by understanding what conversations in the family really mean. (£8.99)
1001 Symbols - Jack Tresidder
An Illustrated Guide to Symbols and Their Meanings. Portable guide to traditional symbolism iarranged by theme. (£7.99)
From Age Concern,
Caring for Someone Who Has Had a Stroke
Caring for Someone Who Has Dementia, (£6.99 each)
Postmodernism (Pocket Essentials) (£3.99)
Free Will (A Very Short Introduction)(£6.99)
REFERENCE
Note the two big writers' guides are now coming out nearly simultaneously!
Writer's and Artist's Yearbook 2004
Ninety-seventh edition of this bestselling guide to markets in all areas of the media, revised, redesigned and updated. Includes ghost writing, distribution, and adaptation. Listings include newspapers and magazines, book publishers and literary agents, TV and film producers, websites, picture agencies and libraries, societies, prizes, festivals and editorial services. (£13.99)
Writer's Handbook 2004 - Barry Turner
The seventeenth edition of the bestselling guide to everything to do with writing. Revised, updated and enlarged. (£12.99)
A-Z of Everything - Trevor Montague
We haven't stocked encyclopaedias for a bit, but the first edition of this was a bestseller! (£25)
What To Do If a Bird Flies in the House - Elizabeth Nix
Fresh and funny, this book will be the twenty- and thirty-something woman's quick-fix guide to a more fabulous life. Through short, easy to follow instructions and graphics, readers will learn over 70 essential skills. (£8.99)
Good Web Site Guide - Graham Edmonds (£4.99)
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
Women and Plants - Patricia Howard
Highlights the crucial role of women in plant biodiversity management and conservation, the influence of gender relations on the ways in which local people understand, manage and conserve biodiversity, and the importance of continued access to biological resources for rural women's status and welfare. Also shows up the gender biases evident in much contemporary scientific research, policy and development practice. (£16.95)
Dawkins vs Gould - Kim Sterelny (£9.99)
TRAVEL
Over the Hills and Far Away - Candida Lycett Green
Betjeman's daughter's story of her journeys round England on horseback and a memoir of her family, from her idyllic childhood, charmed youth in the Swinging Sixties and later travels. Blends lyrical impressions of landscape with echoes of her father's writing. (£7.99)
In Ethiopia with a Mule - Dervla Murphy
Famously intrepid Dervla Murphy's account of her hazardous trek through Ethiopia's remote and hostile regions with her pack-mule, Jock. (£8.99)
Ray Mears' World of Survival
Well known TV presenter Ray Mears shares his experiences from around the world to reveal how native peoples survive in some of the harshest environments on Earth. (£14.99)
Traveller’s Guide to Sacred England - John Mitchell
The classic bestselling guidebook has been revised and substantially updated to produce this completely new, easy-to-use edition. (£14.95)
New Footprint Handbooks to Central America & Mexico, and South America, plus new Lonely Planet Guides to India and Thailand.
AUDIO
Alan Bennett at the BBC
A unique anthology of Alan Bennett's radio and television work featuring extracts from his diaries and readings, tributes to Russell Harty and Peter Cook plus commentary and specially recorded links by Bennett himself. Running time 2hrs 30mins. (£12.99)
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Double cassette, running time 3 hours. Read by Jan Francis. (£7.99)
Quilt for Baby - Kim Lewis
Whilst mother makes a patchwork quilt she tells the story of each picture square. (£4.99)
Elmer and the Butterfly - David McKee
Elmer rescues a butterfly and she promises to help him in return. He doesn’t think that a tiny butterfly could ever help him but he finds out sooner than expected. (£4.99)
Go Maisy Go - Lucy Cousins
Featuring vehicles of all kinds. Here is the new Maisy flap book. (£7.99)
Castle Diary and Pirate Diary - Richard Platt
Winner of the 2002 Smarties Silver Prize now available in paperback.(£3.99)
Horrid Henry’s Underpants - Francesca Simon
Henry’s biggest and naughtiest adventure yet. (£4.99)
Spiderwick Chronicles - Tony Diterlizzi
Books 1 & 2. Jared Grace found their great uncle’s book and realises that they are not alone in their new house. The faeries do everything to stop them telling their story. Get ready to enter a world that you never knew existed. (£5.99)
Wish List - Eoin Colfer
Life, death and the unexpected hereafter in this bestseller now in paperback. (£5.99)
At the Sign of the Sugared Plum - Mary Hooper
Hannah is excited at the prospect of joining her sister in her sweatmeats shop in 17C London but the Plague is sweeping through street by street, house by house. (£5.99)
Fat Boy Swim - Catherine Forde
Jimmy Kelly is bullied at school. He’s a talented chef and when the school sports coach sees his potential this becomes a story of triumph over adversity. Memorable and emotional. (£4.99)
HARDBACK
Rules of Engagement - Anita Brookner
Old school friends Elizabeth and Betsy meet again in their thirties. Are their lives taking off, or are they just making more of the wrong choices? (£14.99 at The Book Case)
Boy who Taught the Beekeeper to Read - Susan Hill
An exciting event: a new collection of short stories by Susan Hill - elegant, poetic, intelligent and brave. (£9.00 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
High Society - Ben Elton
The war on drugs has been lost for want of the courage to face the fact that the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. Hilarious and terrifying journey through a kaleidoscope world from which the law offers no protection. (£6.99)
Next Big Thing - Anita Brookner
Herz is seventy-three. He must do something with the time left - but what? Comedy about what it really means to be old. (£6.99)
This is Not a Novel - Jennifer Johnston
Irish Book of the Year shortlisted - Johnny, an outstanding young swimmer, went missing nearly thirty years ago: drowned, or so everyone except his sister Imogen believes. As Imogen gradually pieces together bits of her family history, we hear the tragic echoes that connect her with the Great War and Ireland in the nineteen-twenties. (£6.99)
In Arcadia - Ben Okri
A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to discover the real Arcadia. (£6.99)
Dead Air - Iain Banks
Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian, radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people start dropping things from a balcony on to a deserted car park ten storeys below. But mobile phones ring and they're a plane has just crashed into the World Trade Center... (£7.99)
Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Prize-winning novel set in Western Australia Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Then a dangerous new element enters her life: Luther Fox, the local poacher, (£6.99)
Seahorse - Tania Unsworth
When Vanessa West and her mother Marion travel to Ashagiri, the Indian hill town where Marion grew up, they embark on a journey in search of the past. (£6.99)
For Matrimonial Purposes - Kavita Daswani
Debut novel about the differences between Indian and American culture. "One meeting, two worlds, one hour to decide." (£6.99)
Wake Up - Tim Pears
John plans to change the world with GM potatoes injected with edible vaccines. (£6.99)
Standing in the Rainbow - Fannie Flagg
Feelgood novel from the author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe".(£6.99)
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
The people of Nollop worship the author of the pangram 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' and erect a statue to their hero, but one day the letter 'z' falls from the inscription. The council see this as Nollop's message from beyond the grave. (£6.99)
Stillness - Courtney Brkic
Puts a human face on the lost, missing, exiled, and invisible, from all sides of the recent Yugoslavian conflict. (£9.99)
Learning to Talk - Hilary Mantel
This collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Being dramatised on "Woman's Hour". (£6.99)
Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age - Kenzaburo Oe
Last novel from the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. A poignant picture of the strange, loving, burdensome relationship between father and son."(£7.99)
Englishman's Wife - Louis Sanders
Sexual jealousy and vioilence in the Dordogne. An antidote to "Chocolat", it says! (£8.99)
Enemy Women - Paulette Jiles
Literary Western set in 1865 Missouri, with cinematic sweep, a galloping pace and a memorable heroine. Cold Mountain by Sebastian Faulks! (£6.99)
Babes in the Wood - Ruth Rendell
When a couple get back from a weekend in Paris, they find both teenage children and their minder vanished - assumed drowned. 19th Chief Inspector Wexford mystery (£6.99)
REISSUES:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver
Stories set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time: one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s. (£6.99)
Will You Please Be Quiet Please - Raymond Carver
His first collection. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
Mad Madge - Katie Whitaker
The Flamboyant Civil War Duchess of Newcastle. One of the first Englishwomen to make a living through her writing, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was a dazzling figure - brave, eccentric, loving, clever and energetic - who wrote of herself: 'My mind's too big'. Her colourful story is told against the background of the Civil War and the Restoration. (£20)
Lost King of France - Deborah Cadbury
"The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette's Favourite Son". The brief life and many possible deaths of Louis XVII. Radio 4 Book of the Week, "reads like a gothic novel". (£8.99)
Carlyle's House and Other Sketches - Virginia Woolf
First publication of one of Virginia Woolf's very earliest notebooks, recently unearthed. It contains a series of six striking and semi-autobiographical sketches, experimental in style, and heralding the later masterpieces. Foreword by Doris Lessing. (£4.99)
At War with Waugh - Bill Deedes
From the original of Boot in Waugh's satirical novel "Scoop", the real story of his adventures in Abyssinia in the 1930s. (£12.99)
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me - Josef M Bauer
Extraordinary true story of one man's dramatic escape from a Siberian Labour camp and his three year trek to freedom, originally published in 1955. (£8.99)
Steps Along Hope Street - David Sheppard
"My Life in London and Liverpool". Autobiography of the Captain of the England cricket team and former Bishop of Liverpool, a combination of personal journey, theological exploration and political memoir. (£8.99)
Little Princesses - Marion Crawford
The Queen and Princess Margaret's childhood by their nanny. (£6.99)
Death and Life of Sylvia Plath - Ronald Hayman
Not a conventional biography, this book offers an explanation of Sylvia Plath's death in 1963, and discusses her life with her husband Ted Hughes. Previously unpublished photographs. (£7.99)
Outsider- Keith Hellawell
The tough life of one of Britain's most senior policemen, who rose through the ranks from poverty and deprivation to the highest office, and went on to become Blair's 'Drug Czar'. (£8.99)
Readers Digest Complete DIY Manual (£19.99)
Building Your Own Home - Tony Booth
The ultimate guide to managing a self-build project and creating your dream home. Co-written by a property developer/estate agent and an architect/self-builder. (£12.99)
Tranquillity Fountain - Micky Baskett
"Projects for a Serene Lifestyle." Learn to construct small fountains from a variety of materials. (£12.99)
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
"A Story of Love, Books and Revolution." When Azar Nafisi was fired from teaching English literature at Tehran University because she refused to wear a veil, she gathered a group of her female students and resumed her classes at home, privately and discreetly. (£14.95)
Sewing Circles of Herat - Christina Lamb
"The terrible human cost of the Taliban experiment and the enduring strength of spirit of those who refused to join it." (£7.99)
Secret History of the IRA - Ed Moloney
At the heart of a a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness lies one man: Gerry Adams. How did a man who condoned atrocities that resulted in huge numbers of civilian deaths also become the guiding light behind the peace process? (£8.99)
News from No Mans Land - John Simpson
Third riveting volume of the popular frontline BBC reporter's autobiography, focussing on how journalists set about finding the stories that make the headlines. (£7.99)
Middle East Illusions Noam Chomsky
The roots of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, why the US-brokered 'peace process' repeatedly fails to deliver peace, the interests that underlie current US strategic doctrines in the Middle East and possible more peaceful and viable alternatives. (£14.99)
Middle East for Dummies (£13.95)
We are Everywhere - Notes from Nowhere
A celebration of direct action movements across the planet told through the words and images of the people who are still there. (£9.00)
Global Woman - Barbara Ehrenreich
Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. The unexplored consequences of globalisation on the lives of women worldwide. (£8.99)
Just Another Kid - Torey Hayden
An educational psychologist describes her work with emotionally disturbed teenagers. One of a series. (£5.99)
History of Women's Bodies - Edward Shorter
A social and medical history of women: the social anthropology of women and the history of childbearing and the family. (£8.99)
Real Bluebeard - Jean Benedetti
The horrific deeds of Gilles de Rais, the precursor of our own time's serial killers and a founding father of the cult of the child-snatching bogeyman. A gripping story, told with great verve and an authoritative grasp of the historical context. (£8.99)
Pilgrimage of Grace - Geoffrey Moorhouse
The Rebellion that Shook King Henry VIII's Throne. The dramatic story of a forgotten 16th century rebellion by the North of England against the Crown. (£8.99)
Black Hole of Calcutta - Noel Barber
The notorious episode in Imperial Indian history, when on the night of June 21, 1756, 123 English prisoners suffocated to death on the orders of Siraj-ud-Daula, Nawab (ruler) of Bengal. A classic work involving detection, story-telling and the skills of reconstruction of past events. (£8.99)
Tragically I was an Only Twin - Peter Cook
Collection of the late great comedian's work including his dualogues with Moore as Pete and Dud, and Derek and Clive, to transcripts of TV appearances, and a selection of his journalism. (£7.99)
One Hit Wonderland - Tony Hawks
Tony Hawks' unique assault on the world of music, as memorably demonstrated at Hebden Bridge Picture House! (£6.99)
Finding New Goddesses - Barbara Ardinger
New and wildly inventive goddesses to help frustrated individuals cope with life in the 21st century. Goddesses from Acme to Zombonie and more than 20 computer goddesses come to the rescue of mortals looking for a parking spot, sending an e-mail attachment, working a temp job, laboring at the gym, seeking decent day care, or panicking about what to take to a potluck dinner. (£10.99)
What Not To Wear - Susannah Constantine and Trinny Woodall
Straight-talking BBC Television style experts reveal the secrets of looking good and offer advice on making the most of your body. Brutally frank, deliciously rude, spookily spot-on. (£7.99).
Letting Go as Children Grow - Deborah Jackson
An updated guide to relaxed parenting, previously titled 'Do Not Disturb'. (£7.99)
Three in a Bed- Deborah Jackson
The benefits of sleeping with your baby. (£7.99)
That's My Boy - Jenni Murray
The latest research on the development and education of boys, from the voice of Woman's Hour, who has two sons herself. (£9.99)
Who Moved My Cheese for Teens - Spencer Johnson
How to anticipate change and adapt quickly; bestseller adapted for young people. (£8.99)
Tai Chi Mind & Body - Tricia Yu
Easy-to-use programme from Dorling Kindersley. (£12.99)
Nobody's Perfect - Anthony Lane
Collection of film, book, art and culture reviews from the witty New York Times critic. (£12.99)
Beatles Anthology
For the very first time, the story of The Beatles from birth to break up - in their own words. Paperback edition. 1000 colour photos and illus. (£20)
Blue Note Records - Richard Cook
Chronicles the most famous and influential jazz label of them all, from its 1939 beginnings to the present day. Plus a parallel analysis of all the major records released by the label throughout its history. (£10)
Do You Mr Jones - Neil Corcoran (ed)
Simon Armitage, Paul Muldoon and others explore every aspect of Bob Dylan's work. (£10)
Best-Loved Poems of John Betjeman (£7.99)
Pears Cyclopaedia - Chris Cook
112th edition covering politics and economics, literature, music and art, science, medicine and the environment. (£16.99)
Roget's Thesaurus
Completely updated with hundreds of new words. (£11.99)
Out of Eden: the Peopling of the World - Stephen Oppenheimer
Presents new findings that radically change our views of humanity's global migration. Accompanies Discovery/Channel 4 documentary. (£18.99)
Dictionary of Science and Technology - S M H Collin (£9.99)
Knowledge is Power - John Henry
How magic, the government and an apocalyptic vision helped Francis Bacon to create modern science. (£6.99)
Philosopher at the End of the Universe - Mark Rowlands
If you understand "The Matrix", you can understand Descartes! (£9.99)
Le Tour: a history of the Tour de France - Geoffrey Wheatcroft
History of the event's first hundred years - a blend of history, sport and culture published to coincide with the centenary Tour de France in July 2003. (£16.99)
Parallel Lines - Ian Marchant
The story of two railways: the real railway and the railway of our dreams & memories. Bill Bryson meets Michael Palin! (£12.99)
Pub Crawls 2 - Barrie Pepper
Ranging from city centres, through suburbs, to country towns; and villages, and including some country rambles. (£7.99)
Way of a Ship - Derek Lundy
Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late nineteenth century and over one hundred years later Derek Lundy, his great-great nephew, has re-created that journey. (£7.99)
Through the Embers of Chaos - Dervla Murphy
A truly people-focused account of travels in the troubled former Yugoslavia. (£8.99)
New travel guides include a Lonely Planet guide to Cycling in Ireland and Rough Guides to Amsterdam, Andalucia, Brittany and Normandy, and the Ionian Islands.
We're boosting our Talking Books section, and Audio items in July include:
World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
Double CD, running time 90 minutes approx, read by Eileen Atkins, Jill Balcon and Elizabeth Bell. (£12.99)
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
Read by Timothy West. Double cassette, running time 3 hours. (£7.99)
Audience with Tony Benn
Tony Benn's hugely successful stage show. Double CD, running time 2 hours. (£10)
Dr Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Four cassettes, running time 6 hours. (£12.99)
2004 Calendars include:
Babar's Yoga for Elephants (£8.95), British Walks (£7.99), Cirque du Soleil (£8.95), Extraordinary Chickens (£8.95) Flower Fairies (£7.99 & £4.99), Lady Cottington's Fairy Album (£8.95), Lonely Planet (£8.99), Peter Rabbit (£6.99), Wicca (£7.99)
2004 Diaries include: Beatrix Potter Diary (£5.99), British Library (£12.99), Flower Fairies (£5.99), Lonely Planet (£9.99), National Railway Museum (£10.99), Peter Rabbit (£4.99) RHS (£11.99 and £5.99)
Crossing the Lines - Melvyn Bragg
Continuing from The Soldier's Return and A Son of War Joe moves from working-class Wigton to the rarefied atmosphere of Oxford. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
Finding Myself - Toby Litt
From the author of Exhibitionism. "Best beach book ever" it says here. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
All He Ever Wanted - Anita Shreve
Novel about love, jealousy and loss by theauthor of The Pilot's Wife (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Brick Lane -Monica Ali
The story of a girl from Bangladesh who moves to London's East End. Debut novel. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
City of the Beasts - Isabel Allende
Ecological romance and Amazonian adventure story in one. (£6.99)
Everything is Illuminated- Jonathan Safra Foer
Prize-winning novel about a young man who arrives in the Ukraine to search for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis, aided by an incompetent translator, a 'blind' old man and an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. (£6.99)
Fragrant Harbour - John Lanchester
The story of four people whose intertwined lives span 70 years in Asia: the complacency of colonial life in the 1930s; the horrors of the Japanese occupation during World War II; and the post-war boom and transformation of Hong Kong all surface in this epic novel. (£7.99)
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
"Tales of the Otori 1": set in a mythical, feudal, Japanese land, a world both beautiful and cruel, the intense love story of two young people takes place against a background of warring clans, secret alliances, high honour and lightning swordplay. (£6.99)
Seven Sisters - Margaret Drabble
When Candida Wilton arrives alone in London, divorced and rejected and without much money, she is filled with a strange sense of excitement. (£6.99)
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
"I was 14 when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighbourhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer."' A novel about life, death, forgiveness and vengeance, memory and forgetting. (£6.99)
Party in San Niccolo - Christobel Kent
Set during one week in springtime Florence, this book follows the events leading up to the 75th birthday party for Frances Richardson, a much-loved English resident. (£6.99)
Not the End of the World- Kate Atkinson
Short stories from the popular Whitbread winner, exploring the world we think we know whilst offering a vision of another world which lurks just beneath the surface of our consciousness. (£6.99)
Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About - Mil Millington
Funny and original first novel about love, fatherhood, librarians and Anglo-German relations, from the creator of the cult website, Things My Girlfriend and I have Argued About, and one of The Guardian's top 5 debut novelists for 2002. (£6.99)
Rule of Night - Trevor Hoyle
From Hebden Bridge publishers Pomona, a reissue of this chillingly detailed novel about the seamy side of Rochdale in the 1970s. (£8.99)
Dorian - Will Self
Set against the Aids crises of the '80s and '90s, a reworking of Oscar Wilde's novel. (£7.99)
Stump - Niall Griffiths
"After the darkness of (his) first three books, there is the relief of black farce and scabrous banter, and a move towards a sense of regeneration." From the author of Grits and Sheepshagger. (£10.00)
Kelly and Victor - Niall Griffiths
Dark and disturbing
novel about sadomasochism. (£6.99)
Atom Station - Halldor Laxness
From the author of Independent People and Fish Can Sing, a satire on politics, politicians, Communists, anti-Communists, phoney culture fiends, big business, and all the pretensions of authority. Translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson. (£9.99)
Virginia - Jens C Grondahl
Novel of love and relationships from Denmark; European bestseller. (£7.99)
Red Poppies - Alai
"An epic saga of old Tibet" - in the 1930s, a wealthy family make a bargain with the Chinese Nationalists. (£7.99)
Refusal Shoes - Tony Saint
Comic novel exposing the secretive and surreal world of passport control and immigration. (£10.00)
Manual of the Warrior of the Light - Paulo Coelho
A collection of inspirational thoughts and stories from the author of The Alchemist. (£6.99)
Boomeritis - Ken Wilber
A novel that will set you free." A naive young graduate in computer science seeks meaning in a fragmented world. (£14.99)
The Rock - Kanan Makiya
Whose rock is enshrined inside the golden Dome of Jerusalem, the Rock of Moses or of Muhammad? This historically based account of the building of the Dome of the Rock reconstructs the paths of the actual individuals whose spiritual journeys revolved around the Rock. (£7.99)
Highland Fling - Katie Fforde
Jenny Porter goes to Scotland to investigate a woollen mill for a client - and finds herself helping run The Homely Haggis, a mobile burger bar. (£6.99)
Pandora - Jilly Cooper
About the international art world - where successful young artists strut around like rock stars, where artful and crafty dealers indulge in every kind of gallery-pokery, and where the more beautiful the painting, the greater the backstabbing. (£6.99)
Summer Magic - ed. Gil McNeil
New collection of short stories by some of the best-selling writers today (Joanna Trollope, John O'Farrell ... ) to raise funds for the charity PiggyBankKids. (£6.99)
Crime Fiction:
No 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall-Smith
Wayward daughters, missing husbands, philandering partners, curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. Now in mass-market paperback. (£6.99)
Full Cupboard of Life - Alexander McCall-Smith
Mr J.L.B. Matekoni has other things on his mind than naming a day for his wedding with Mma Ramotswe: notably a frightening request made of him by Mma Potokwani. Another super cover. (£8.99)
Hard Eight - Janet Evanovich
Bombshell bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back on her Harley. (£6.99)
Missing - Karin Alvtegen
For 15 years Sibylla Forsenstrom has been one of the homeless in Stockholm; then one night she charms a businessman into paying for her dinner and room. His dead body is discovered the following morning and Sibylla is the prime suspect. (£9.99)
Jupiter Myth - Lindsey Davis
Lindsey Davis' fourteenth novel in the bestselling Marcus Didius Falco series is a Londinium noir tale of gangsters, gladiators and love. (£6.99)
Mist of Prophecies - Steven Saylor
During the Roman Civil War, Gordianus the Finder starts to investigate the murder of a woman about whom no one seems to know very much at all. (£6.99)
Used Women's Book Club - Paul Bryers
On the night the Used Women's Book Club meet to swap novels and exchange literary views, the adulterous husband of one of its members is being brutally murdered. (£9.99)
Historical Fiction (see also Crime fiction above):
Last of the Amazons - Steven Pressfield
Full of brutal, bloody battles and wonderfully realised characters: the Amazon tribes march on Athens when their queen falls in love with Theseus. (£6.99)
ART & MUSIC
World Textiles: a Concise History (£8.95)
BBC Proms Guide 2003 (£5.00)
Gypsies and Flamenco - Bernard Leblon (£11.99)
BIOGRAPHY
Slipstream - Elizabeth Jane Howard
Illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a highly personal insight into the life of one of our most beloved British writers. (£7.99)
The Kindness of Strangers - Kate Adie
Now in paperback, the career autobiography of the BBC's Chief News Correspondent. With photos. (£7.99)
Footnote - Boff Whalley
From Hebden Bridge publishers Pomona the autobiography of Chumbawamba founder member Boff Whalley: from smalltown Lancashire reconciling Mormonism and punk rock to international hit single Tubthumping. (£8.99).
King of the Castle - Martin Plimmer
Entertaining account of domestic chaos as the writer's freelance career collapses around him. (£6.99)
HISTORY
Ancient Egypt: Mammoth Book of How It Happened
Using over 150 eyewitness documents, reconstructs Ancient Egyptian history from the unification of the kingdoms in c.3150 BC to the conquest by Rome in 30BC (£7.99)
Letters to Auntie Fori - Martin Gilbert
"5000 Years of Jewish History" told in 70 letters, a wonderfully readable overview and introduction to Jewish history and faith by a bestselling author. (£8.99)
Blood and Guts - Roy Porter
"A Short History of Medicine", startlingly illustrated (£6.99)
Workhouse - Norman Longmate
New edition of this study of the Victorian workhouse first published in 1974. (£12.50)
Boer War - Denis Judd
The Boer War was an epic both of heroism and of bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters. A fresh view, debunking some myths. (£8.99)
Women who lived for Danger - Marcus Binney
"The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War." Thirty-seven young women volunteered for extremely dangerous undercover work in occupied France during WWII. 13 never returned. (£8.99)
Gold Train - Ronald Zweig
The closing months of Fascist Europe told via the journey of a single train crammed with valuable booty from the genocide and a desperate group of collaborators, racist ideologues, civil-servants and bodyguards trying to reach the Nazi "Alpine redoubt" from Budapest as the Soviet army closes in in 1944.
MBS
Blank Slate - Stephen Pinker
Following 'How the Mind Works', Pinker now asks: what makes a person?, challenging conventional widom that our thoughts and feelings seep into our heads from the surrounding culture. (£7.99)
Pooh and the Magicians - J. Tyerman Williams
At the very heart of the Ancient Mysteries of the World sits the Great Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, master of every branch of ancient lore. (£7.99)
MEDIA
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies (3rd ed.) - ed. John Walker (£17.99)
When Will I Be Famous - Martin Kelner
How we are entertained nowadays: pubs, clubs & reality TV. (£7.99)
NATURE AND OUTDOORS
Dr.Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation - Olivia Judson
"Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex" in witty question-and-answer format. Short-listed for the Dr Samuel Johnson Non-Fiction Prize 2003. (£6.99)
Remarkable Trees of the World - Thomas Pakenham
Thomas Pakenham goes in search of the oldest, most unusual and most impressive trees of the world. A new portable hardback format, illustrated. (£12.99)
Essential Bushcraft - Ray Mears
Based on the bestselling 'Bushcraft', an illustrated, handy portable compendium of vital survival skills and wisdom from around the world. (£9.99)
POLITICS
Stasiland - Anna Funder
Extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany (£12.99)
Age of Consent - George Monbiot
"A Manifesto for a New World Order." - tackles the political and economic presumptions and prejudices on which our society has rested since the Second World War. (£14.99)
Extra Time: World Politics Since 1989 - Perry Anderson
An alternative route to general theories of globalization, sampling the historical situations of a range of nation-states, and attempting to move beyond them. (£20.00)
We Did Nothing: The Untold Story of the Modern Battle for Peace - Linda Polman
What really happens when the young men in blue helmets reach the frontline? Linda Polman witnessed the UN missions to Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda and Sierra Leone and met their frightened soldiers, mystified locals, and jaded mercenaries. (£12.99)
Among the Heroes - Jere Longman
The story of Flight 93 and the passengers who fought back. (£6.99)
SCIENCE
I Have Landed - Stephen Jay Gould
The late scientist's tenth and last volume of essays from Natural History magazine. (£7.99)
SOCIETY
Man Walks into a Pub - Pete Brown
A Sociable History of Beer. (£10.99)
Good Women of China - Xinran Xue
For 7 years, Xinran Xue hosted a daily radio phone-in programme on which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves; the show became famous for its powerful, honest discussions of what it means to be a woman in today's China. (£6.99)
In Search of British Heroes - Tony Robinson
Boudicca, Macbeth, King Harold, William Wallace and Robin Hood. Although all but one died a failure, each was seen as symbolising something great during their lifetime. Tony Robinson seeks the real people were behind the myths, and looks at how these myths have woven themselves into our nation's character. Channel 4 tie-in. (£18.99)
Smokescreen - Robert Sabbag
Allen Long led a group of dope smugglers who violated Colombian and US airspace, landed on jungle mud-tracks in bandit country and avoided detection by America's most tooled-up law enforcement agencies. (£7.99)
TRAVEL
Travels of Ibn Battutah - ed. Tim Mackintosh Smith
Abridged edition of the great masterpiece of Muslim geography, written by a Moroccan who journeyed for a quarter-century across Asia and Africa on the eve of the Black Death in the 14th century, giving an unequalled picture of medieval civilisation. (£10.00)
Seeking Robinson Crusoe - Tim Severin
In search of the world's most famous castaway, Tim Severin travels where men were shipwrecked or abandoned in the days of the pirates and buccaneers, and lived to tell their tales of survival. (£7.99)
Outposts - Simon Winchester
"Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire." Reissue. (£7.99)
Southern Gates of Arabia - Freya Stark
In 1934 Freya Stark travelled alone to the Hadhramaut in what is now Yemen. (£9.99)
Seek - Denis Johnson
"Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond." (£7.99)
Brazil - John Malathronas
Odyssey through the adrenaline-fuelled, chaotic city bars, the extravagant and exotic Carnaval, and the destitute shanty towns of this remarkable country. (£8.99)
Bay of Tigers - Pedro Rosa Mendes
"A Journey Through War-torn Angola" in 1997. (£9.99)
Hokkaido Highway Blues - Will Ferguson
Funny and illuminating account of journey along the length of Japan on the Cherry Blossom Front. (£7.99)
Bon Courage - Richard Wiles
"A Renovation in France's Rural Limousin". Doing up a dilapidated, rat-infested stone barn set amidst thirteen acres of overgrown woodland and starting a llama farm. (£7.99)
Water Road - Paul Gogarty
The account of a four-month circumnavigation by narrowboat of "The Grand Cross", the inland waterway linking the Thames to the Humber, Severn and Mersey, the world's most concentrated canal network.(£8.99)
New Lonely Planet Guides to Russia and Belarus, Boston, East Africa, the Philippines and East Africa amongst others.
New Rough Guides to Ireland, France, Croatia, Turkey, the Netherlands, Sweden, amongst others
New Time Out Guides to Rome and Vienna
Lots of new Berlitz editions too - we can usually order in overnight.
CALENDARS & DIARIES
Early I know, but expected are Tolkien Calendars and Diaries, Faeryland and Goblin Calendars, a Hobbit Calendar, a Year of the Monkey Calendar and a Goddess Calendar.
CHILDREN'S
Bright Penny - Geraldine McCaughrean
When a farmer challenges his three children to fill his barn completely using £1, they try using feathers, light and magic! (£5.99)
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Colin and Jacqui Hawkins
Colourful and hilarious lift-the-flap version. (£5.99)
Bing and Bong Story Book: Be a Sport - Rod Green
Picture book based on the TV series. (£3.50)
Abe's Team - Will Gatti
When Abe magically sets free a team of 11-year-old footballers from a 1942 photograph, he has to save them from the witch-headmistress who imprisoned them. 8 + (£4.99)
All Day Saturday - Charles Causley
A new edition of his poems with pictures by Tony Ross. (£4.99)
Bullies, Bigmouths and So-Called Friends (Girls/Boys) - Jenny Alexander
Two books designed to raise self-esteem as a way to combat bullying, with exercises and quizzes. 9-12 years. (£4.99)
Wind on Fire 3: Firesong - William Nicholson
Third and final title in the trilogy as the wind is rising! (£6.99)
Shadowmancer - G. P. Taylor
Frightening feelgood story written by a vicar. (£5.99)
Worry Website - Jacqueline Wilson
Lots of the kids in Mr Speed's class have problems to worry about and it's sometimes difficult to discuss them. So Mr Speed sets up the Worry Website on the classroom computer. Anybody in the class can anonymously enter their worry and anyone else can type in advice to help out. (£4.99)
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's first novel since the Booker-winning The Blind Assassin. Earth has been left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster. (£14.99 at The Book Case).
The Colour - Rose Tremain
Historical novel set during the New Zealand gold rush in the mid-19th century. ('The Colour' is miners' slang for gold.) "Combines terrifically strong narrative and brilliant characterisation with lovely writing, extraordinary imagery and a touch of magic." (£14.99 at The Book Case).
Cosmopolis - Don De Lillo
"A stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who owns a forty-eight room apartment and a decommissioned nuclear bomber, and who has recently married the heiress to a European fortune. ... A mesmeric tour de force of character, stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit." (£14.99 at The Book Case).
Crabwalk - Gunter Grass
The Nobel Literature prizewinning author of The Tin Drum tackles a taboo subject: the the sinking of a German refugee ship by a Soviet submarine in 1945, with the loss of 9,000 women and children. Already in stock. (£14.99 at The Book Case.)
Holy Fools - Joanne Harris
Set in 17th century France against the backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, this is the story of Juliette, a travelling actress and rope dancer. From the author of Chocolat (£13.00 at The Book Case).
Maid's Request - Michele Desbourdes
An artist has journeyed from Italy to lead his school of students in the design and construction of a chateau in the Loire Valley. This novel is about the enigmatic relationship between a 16th-century Italian painter and his servant. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon
Unusual murder mystery in which the murder of a neighbour's dog sets a 15-year-old autistic boy onto a terrifying trail of discovery. Funny, moving and convincing. (£9.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Booker Prize winner. The only survivor from the wreck of a cargo ship on the Pacific, 16-year-old Pi spends 221 days on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger called Richard Parker. (£7.99)
Shelters of Stone - Jean Auel
Ayla and Jondalar end their epic journey, but Ayla cannot forget the Clan, the Neanderthals who raised her. The long-awaited fifth book in the hugely successful Earth's Children series. (£7.99)
Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are, after all, Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It is 1921. But eight-year-old Lucy can't bear to leave the seashore, the old house, the woods - so she hatches a plan. Booker shortlisted. (£7.99)
Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
Alex-Li Tandem sells autographs. It is his business to give the people what they want: a little piece of fame. From author of bestselling White Teeth. Orange Prize Long List. (£7.99)
The Cutting Room - Louise Welsh
Acclaimed debut novel from one of the Guardian's "most promising novelists" of 2002. When an auctioneer finds a collection of violent erotic photographs, he feels compelled to find out more about their deceased owner. Orange Prize Long List. (£6.99)
I Don't Know How She Does It - Allison Pearson
The guilty secret lives of working mothers, the self-recriminations, comic deceptions, forgeries, giddy exhaustion and despair. (£6.99)
If No One Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
"Remarkable first novel", longlisted for the Booker Prize 2002. On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence - street cricket, barbecues, painting windows - when a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. (£6.99)
Annie Dunne - Sebastian Barry
Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in the 1950s. When Annie's nephew and his wife go to London in search of work, their two children are sent to spend the summer with their great aunt. (£6.99)
Cold Water - Gwendoline Riley
An isolated twenty-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar forges strange alliances with her customers, and daydreams, half-heartedly, about escaping to Cornwall. From one of the Guardian's top new young writers of 2002. (£6.99)
Man Who Walks - Alan Warner
After the scandalous theft of a pub's World Cup cash kitty, a homeless drifter pursues his eccentric uncle up into the Highlands to recover the money. "Wickedly hilarious." From the author of Morvern Callar. (£6.99)
The Body and Seven Stories - Hanif Kureishi
In the title story a middle-aged man is offered the chance to trade in his sagging flesh for a much younger and more pleasing model. (£7.99)
Man and Wife - Tony Parsons
Harry Silver returns to face life in the 'blended family'. Can be read as a sequel to the million selling 'Man and Boy', or on its own. (£6.99)
This is Your Life - John O'Farrell
As Jimmy Conway steps out blinking into the spotlights of the London Palladium live on national television, he's aware he's there under false pretences. From the author of Things Can Only Get Bewtter and The Global Village Idiot. (£6.99)
Ted and Sylvia - Emma Tennant
Probably more about Emma Tennant than about either of the talented poets named in the title but presented as a fictionalisation of the early days, meeting, marriage and separation of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Described variously online as "a huge annoyance", "insulting to the reader", poorly structured and written, "ghoulishly judgmental", "exploitative", "florid" and presents Hughes as "a brutal womaniser". However the Fort Worth Star Telegram describes it as "a fascinating, harrowing tale of genius and betrayal." (£6.99)
Phoenix Irish Short Stories 20 - (ed) David Marcus (£6.99)
Discovery of Slowness - Sten Nadolny
First UK publication of this brilliantly realised fictional 'memoir' of Sir John Franklin, one of Britain's pioneering Arctic explorers, one of the classics of contemporary German literature. (£6.99)
Book of Splendour - Frances Sherwood
In the old city of Prague, Emperor Rudolph II seeks the secret of eternal life. Sending courtiers to England to bring back alchemists, he unleashes a storm among his foes - and among the troubled inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto. (£10.00)
Visit of the Royal |Physician - Per Olov Enquist
Adultery, insanity, enlightenment and the bluest blood in eighteenth-century Denmark. A bestseller in Germany, Denmark, Holland and Enquist's native Sweden. (£6.99)
Street Boys - Lorenzo Carcaterra
Naples, late September, 1943. A gang of street urchins fight to liberate the city of Naples from the German army. (£6.99)
Summer Book - Tove Jansson
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds, sudden storms and an occasional passing boat. Autobiographical fiction from the creator of the Moomins. (£6.99)
Little Infamies - Panos Karnezis
Karnezis observes the inhabitants of a nameless Greek village with a forgiving eye, and creates a world where magic invariably loses out to harsh reality, a world at once universal, funny and utterly compelling. (£6.99)
Payback - Gert Ledig
Controversial German novel about the effects of an Allied raid on an unnamed German city in July 1944 over 70 minutes recounted in horrifying detail. As American planes discharge their bombs over the city, far below, in the midst of the inferno, an elderly couple trapped in their apartment try to live out their last moments with dignity. (£8.99)
Rush Home Road - Lori Lansens
In the spirit of The Color Purple, a story about a seventy year old woman who relives her life when a five year old girl is abandoned on her doorstep. (£6.99)
The God Who Begat a Jackal - Nega Mezlekia
Set in a timeless vision of Africa, the ethnic, religious and class struggles of pre-colonial Africa form a vivid backdrop to a story of forbidden love between a slave and his mistress. First novel from the author of Notes From the Hyena's Belly, a remarkable memoir about an Ethiopian childhood. (£6.99)
Beyond Illusions - Duong Thu Huong
Vietnamese dissident Duong's first novel. Phuong Linh, the heroine of this novel, is compelled to face her illusions. In deciding whether or not to divorce her journalist husband, she soon discovers that virtually everyone has been corrupted. (£6.99)
Maura's Game- Martina Cole
New novel of East End violence and corruption from this bestselling author. (£6.99)
Presumption of Death - Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
Another continuation of the Wimsey series by Jill Paton Walsh on the basis of notes left by Dorothy Sayers. (£6.99)
Dead Midnight - Marcia Muller
Sharon McCone is asked to investigate the circumstances surrounding the suicide of a young man apparently driven to death by overwork. Follows Point Deception. (£6.99)
Nine Lives - Bernice Rubens
Psychotherapists are being strangled with guitar strings all over the place. A black comedy that mixes whodunnit with whydunnit. (£7.99)
Mammoth Book of the Science Fiction Century - ed. David Hartwell
Spans 100 years of science fiction writing, from the 1890s to the future it predicted. (£6.99)
Noteworthy Reissues:
The Green Dwarf - Charlotte Bronte: An early work set in the imaginary state of Verdopolis. Two suitors do battle for the heart of the beautiful Lady Emily. "Freshly re-edited to make it more accessible" it says ... (£6.99)
Lois the Witch - Elizabeth Gaskell: a troubled and sombre novella set against a backdrop of the Salem witch-hunts. Foreword by Jenny Uglow.(£6.99)
Moviegoer - Walker PercyFirst published in 1961, won the National Book Award, a genuine original and an American classic (£6.99).
Red Sorghum - Mo Yan (£6.99)
Cancer Ward (£7.99) and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (£6.99) - A. Solzhenitzyn
Strong Motion and Twenty-Seventh city - Jonathan Franzen (£7.99 each)
Bar on the Seine and My Friend Maigret (among others) - Georges Simenon (£6.99 each)
My Cousin Rachel (among others) - Daphne Du Maurier (£6.99)
Carol - Patricia Highsmith (£6.99)
Swimming Pool Season and Garden of the Villa Mollini - Rose Tremain (£6.99 each)
Rates of Exchange/Why Come to Slaka - Malcolm Bradbury (£7.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Samuel Pepys, the Unequalled Self - Claire Tomalin
Prize-winning biography of the great 17th-century diarist now in paperback. May 2003 is the 300th anniversary of his death..(£8.99)
John Wesley, a personal history - Ralph Waller
Celebrating his 300th birthday this year is John Wesley, who might qualify as a local author! This is a major new biography and analysis of his life and work. (£12.99)
Geisha of Gion - Mineko Iwasaki
"The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha". The real-life inspiration behind Arthur Golden's bestselling 'Memoirs of a Geisha', lifts the veil on geisha life revealing a true story of abandonment, rape and an overwhelming dedication to art. (£7.99)
The Red Queen - Anne Perkins
aka Barbara Castle. Authorised biography of the anti-Blairite Labour activist. (£20.00)
First Light - Geoffrey Wellum
Gripping memoir of his experiences as a fighter pilot during WWII. The author left school at 17 to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 squadron (£6.99)
Kingdom of Fear - Hunter S Thompson
Memoir of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes. Plus what it's like to be accused of trying to kill Jack Nicholson. (£16.99)
Auto da Fay Fay Weldon
The feminist anti-feminist novelist's turbulent life story. (£6.99)
Thousand Pieces of Gold - Adeline Yen Mah
A memoir of China's past through its proverbs from the author of 'Falling Leaves' (£6.99)
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
"The Story of an Iranian Childhood." Funny, moving story of a child's life in Tehran witnessing the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. (£12.99)
Girl from the Fiction Department - Hilary Spurling
A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. The author, who knew her, argues that she was not the manipulative gold-digger commonly thought. (£5.99)
Story of My Father - Sue Shephard
Moving account of her father's decline into Alzheimer's and her response. (£12.99)
CLIMBING & SURVIVAL
Two new books on Everest: one edited by Christine Gee at £8.99 with a collection of specially-written pieces (a minimum of 25% of net income from the book will be paid to the Sherpas) - and one by Geoff Tibballs (50 Years of Struggle to Reach the Top of the World, at £14.99, with colour photographs. In addition the Stephen Venables whopper already in stock at £35.
Fragile Edge - Maria Coffey
"Loss on Everest". Eloquent presentation of the human side of high altitude mountaineering. Maria Coffey describes her love affair with elite British mountaineer Joe Tasker, who perished with his partner Peter Boardman while attempting Everest's then unclimbed Northeast Ridge in 1982. (£6.99)
Climbing Free - Lynn Hill
"My Life in a Vertical World "from the world's foremost female rock climber. Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Priz.e (£7.99)
SAS Survival Handbook - John Wiseman
How to survive in the wild, in any climate, on land or at sea, revised and updated. (£12.99)
COOKERY
Delia Smith's Summer Collection
First time in paperback. A celebration of summer and all its glorious ingredients (£9.99)
In the Devil's Garden - Stewart Lee Allen
"A Sinful History of Forbidden Foods". From the forbidden fruit of the Old Testament to the numerous laws broken at Francois Mitterand's final meal, 'a mouthwatering history of food taboos from around the world. (£7.99)
GARDENING AND CRAFT
Making Wildflower Meadows - Pam Lewis (£16.99)
Home DIY Expert - D G Hessayon (£6.99)
Woodworking - Anthony Bailey
Illustrated collection of articles from New Woodworking and The Router magazines with practical guidance (£14.95)
HISTORY
Coal - Barbara Freese
A historical journey that begins three hundred million years ago, showing how a simple black rock has altered the course of history. (£15.50)
A History of Britain - Simon Schama (£12.99 each)
Vol. 1: At the Edge of the World 300BC - AD1603
Vol. 2: The British
Wars 1603-1776.
Vol. 3. The Fate of Empire 1776-2000.
Now in
paperback.
Stone Voices - Neal Ascherson
A story of deep time - the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend - interwoven with the story of modern Scotland and its rebirth. (£8.99)
White Mughals- William Dalrymple
Love and betrayal in eighteenth-century India. From the early 16th century, when the Inquisition banned the Portuguese in Goa from wearing the dhoti, to the eve of the Indian Mutiny, the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations. Long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. By the author of 'From the Holy Mountain'. (£8.99)
Gulag - Anne Applebaum
First book to draw together the mass of memoirs and archival materials about the vast network of labour camps once scattered across Russia - from the White Sea to the Black Sea, and from the Arctic circle to the plains of Central Asia. (£25)
HUMOUR
Pooh and the Philosophers - John Tyerman Williams
Reissue of this introduction to philosophy based on the premise that Winnie-the-Pooh anticipated all major philosophical theories. (£7.99
Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Work - Joshua Piven (£10.99)
Sound of Paint Drying - John Hegley
Latest collection from the popular performance poet. (£12.99)
Zelda Rules on Love/Zelda Wisdom/Zen of Zelda - Carol Gardner
Advice from a 60-lb bulldog! (£4.99 each)
MEDIA AND MUSIC
Coronation Street Saga - Catrin Collier
The story of 40 years of The Street, with nearly 1,000 pages detailing the lives, loves and losses of characters.(£12.99)
British Hit Singles: 16th Edition (£15.99)
Empire of the Song - Olivia Bailey
An illustrated look at the development of Victorian popular music, from which our modern popular music industry has developed. Includes a CD (£11.95)
NATURE
River Cottage Year - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Colour-illustrated follow-up to 'River Cottage Cookbook', about the year on a Dorset smallholding, told month by month. (£17.99)
Oak, a British History - Esmond Harris
Cultural history of the tree that became a metaphor for Britishness with an appendix giving details of over 700 particularly significant oak trees, with notes on their location. (£16.99)
Beastly Nuisances - Val Porter
A comprehensive guide to understanding, identifying and dealing with different kinds of pests in the garden and home, written in a highly readable, lively style with anecdotes, fact boxes and useful illustrations. (£8.99)
POETRY
Universal Home Doctor - Simon Armitage (£6.99)
An account of numerous personal journeys.
SOCIETY
Bachelor Girl Betsy IsraelA witty, engaging and thought-provoking cultural history of single women in America and Europe over the past 150 years. (£10.99)
Shelter from the Storm - Bruce D Thompson
Story of a refugee centre in Manchester during and after the 1999 Kosovan conflict and how and why a comfortable suburban church community became deeply involved in the shattered lives of the Kosovan Albanian families who had experienced 'ethnic cleansing' (£9.99)
TRAVEL
Art of Travel - Alain de Botton
With the help of a selection of writers, artists and thinkers - including Flaubert, Edward Hopper, Wordsworth and Van Gogh - Alain de Botton's bestselling 'The Art of Travel' provides invaluable insights into everything from holiday romance to hotel mini-bars, airports to sight-seeing. 7.99
Yorkshire Tour - Ella Pontefract
A travelogue that covers the length and breadth of the county at the outbreak of WWII. (£6.95)
Game of Polo with a headless Goat - Emma Levine
A single woman goes in search of the ancient and frankly bizarre traditional sports of Asia, from camel wrestling in Turkey to bull racing in India. (£8.99)
In Search of King Solomon's Mines - Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah's extraordinary journey in search of King Solomon's mines in the highlands of Ethiopia, using as his leads the earliest form of the Bible, as well as geological, geographical and folkloric sources. (£8.99)
Reissued, by Peter Matthiessen, £7.99 each:
Under the Mountain Wall
In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. Matthiessen illuminates their lives with respect and sympathy, capturing a culture untouched by civilisation and vanishing along with the wilderness lying beneath the dramatic peaks of the Snow Mountains.
Cloud Forest
A South American journey that took him from the Sargasso Sea to the jungles of Amazonia, from the Andes to the bleak rocks of Tierra del Fuego.
Eight Men and a Duck - Nick Thorpe
An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island. (£7.99)
Pubs for Families - CAMRA
Traditional pubs with real ale which also cater for children - from toddlers to teenagers. (£9.99)
Room at the Inn - CAMRA
Quality overnight accommodation in real ale pubs. (£9.99)
New Lonely Planet guides to Estonia Latvia & Lithuania (£14.99), Walking in Ireland (£14.99) and Florence (condensed)(£6.99), a new Footprint Handbook to England (£14.99) and new Eyewitness Guides to Brittany and Venice & Veneto (£12.99 each).
The Official Theory Test for Car Drivers 2003 (£11.99)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Nursery Rhymes mini edition -Usborne
More than 40 well known songs with music specially arranged for young children’s voices. Perfect for bedtime reading and sharing. (£4.99)
Go Maisy Go - Lucy Cousins
New novelty board book with 40 flaps to flip featuring vehicles of all types. (£7.99)
Birdwatchers - Simon James
Jess and Grandad tell us about reSpecting and caring for our natural world. (£4.99)
That Pesky Rat - Lauren Child
Rat is homeless. When he is tucked into his crisp packet he looks up at the cosy windows and wonders what it would be like to live with creature comforts. (£4.99)
Power and Stone - Alice Leader
Set in 130 AD on Hadrian’s Wall just as work on the wall is nearing completion. Good background reading for Key Stages 2&3. (£4.99)
Meet the Weirds - Kaye Umansky
New feel-good family story from the author of Pongwiffy. Good for reluctant readers. (£4.50)
Artemis Fowl: Eternity Code - Eoin Colfer
Artemis needs the help of the fairy folk once more as he is tricked into handing over the C Cube super computer he has constructed from stolen fairy technology, to Chicago businessman Joe Spiro.(£12.99)
We Free Men - Terry Pratchett
Junior Discworld. Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny might have been a witch but now Granny is dead and it’s up toTiffany to work it all out when strange things happen. (£12.99)
Series of Unfortunate Events 8: Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket
Latest in this glum and distressing series. (£6.99)
Mistress Class - Michelle Roberts
Desire and envy, siblings, stalkers and obsessive love, set in contemporary London and the 1970s, with a thriller element. (£13.99 at The Book Case)
The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break - Steven Sherrill
Five thousand years on and the Minotaur, inarticulate and socially inept, is working as a line chef at Grub's Rib in the American Deep South, trying in vain to put his past behind him. But then the delicate balance tips. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
The Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
A landmark new translation of a masterpiece of Japanese literature telling the story of Prince Genji, the son of an emperor, whose passionate character, love affairs and shifting political fortunes offer a glimpse into the golden age of Japan. (£16.99 at The Book Case)
Gould's Book of Fish - Richard Flanagan
Prize-winning story of a convict in Van Dieman's Land who falls in love with a black woman, is condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. (£7.99)
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
Booker-shortlisted novel about a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease, forced to live with his daughter's family. (£7.99)
The Impressionist - Hari Kunzru
A pale-skinned infant is cast out from his wealthy home when his true parentage is revealed. So begins an odyssey of self-discovery from the streets of Agra, via the red light district of Bombay, to the green lawns of England. (£6.99)
Office of Innocence - Thomas Keneally
Gripping tale of a priest and a serial killer in World War II Australia. (£7.99)
Granta 81: Best of Young British Novelists - (ed.) Ian Jack
Today's equivalents of Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Pat Barker 20 years ago? (£9.99)
Still Here - Linda Grant
Alix, arrogant, middle-aged and angry, comes home to the derelict port of Liverpool as her mother lies dying. Irritably resigned to living alone for the rest of her life, she suddenly finds herself attracted to a stranger. Prize-winning author. (£6.99)
Quentins - Maeve Binchy
Every table at Quentins Restaurant has a thousand stories to tell, tales of love, betrayal and revenge. Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the renowned Dublin restaurant. (£6.99)
Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett
First novel from winner of 2002 Orange Prize; this one's set in a home for unmarried mothers in 1960s Kentucky. (£6.99)
Critical Injuries - Joan Barfoot
Isla and her two grown children are trying to recover from the horrific end of her marriage. While Isla has a second husband her son is in search of more to life but his ill-timed escape plan has terrible consequences. (£6.99)
Isabel & Rocco - Anna Stothard
Debut novel about siblings who share an attic room, eavesdropping on their parents' turbulent relationship. But when their parents suddenly and inexplicably abandon them, they find themselves alone. (£6.99)
Poet Game - Salar Abdoh
In the wake of the World Trade Center bombing of 1993, Sami Amir arrives in Brooklyn via Iran, and into a world of militants, arms suppliers and spies. (£5.99)
Shifu You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh - Mo Yan
Eight darkly humorous, surreal stories from a critically acclaimed Chinese writer, capturing the current concerns of the Chinese: lack of income, famine, and the devastating effects of the one-child policy. (£6.99)
Adios Muchachos - Daniel Chavarria
Using just a broken bicycle and her own voluptuous charms, the beautiful Alicia squeezes the maximum sympathy and cash out of wealthy foreign visitors to Castro's Cuba. Erotic and brutally funny. (£8.99)
Tropical Animal - Pedro Gutierrez
From the author of Dirty Havana Trilogy a "sexy, sordid and sleazy" sequel. (£7.99)
Another Elvis Love Child - Janette Jenkins
Tragi-comic novel set in 1970s Bolton, exploring family life through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy, who has a few dodgy friends, market-stall clothes and a burnt-out school. (£6.99)
Powder Monkey - Karen Sainsbury
Set in deepest Somerset, this is the story of Keith, our hero, his brothers Tam and Cameron, his Da who is a sheep farmer, his Ma who wants to flee to Albania and Arthur the dysfunctional postman. It's also the story of a dirty-minded milkman and of Maria who is going out with Tam but who should be going out with Keith. (£6.99)
Goodnight Steve McQueen - Louise Wener
Danny McQueen's day job in the video shop is just to pay the rent until his band makes it big. But when his girlfriend is offered a job in Bruges he's faced with an ultimatum. (£6.99)
My Fat Brother - Jim Keeble
Scott Baron has a beautiful girlfriend, a dazzling career as a published poet and a honed, slim-line physique. His brother Jes is an overweight unpublished travel-writer, content to pile on the pounds in front of the TV with his wife Sam. From a pupil of Nick Hornby’s! (£6.99)
Dream of Scipio - Iain Pears
Set in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation, the collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century, the Black Death in the fourteenth and the Second World War in the twentieth, following the fortunes of three men.(£6.99)
Coffee Trader - David Liss
A financial thriller set in 17th century Amsterdam. Lienzo, a Portuguese Jew, stumbles across a new commodity which could make him the richest man in Holland. (£7.99)
The Painter - Will Davenport
In January 1762 the artist Rembrandt, bankrupted in the great tulip crash, accidentally stows away on a boat for Hull. To pay for his passage he must paint the Captain's portrait. For himself he paints a portrait of the Captain's beautiful wife.(£6.99)
In this Mountain - Jan Karon
This is the seventh book in the Mitford series about life in a South Carolina town. It's got a nice cover, so we thought we'd try it! (£6.99)
Hiding from the Light - Barbara Erskine
From this bestselling author a gripping tale of witchcraft and romance, past and present, as her modern-day characters are caught up in a battle that has been raging for hundreds of years. (£6.99)
Grave Secrets - Kathy Reichs
Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist for the medical examiners in Montreal and North Carolina, departs from home turf to journey to Guatemala, where her skills will be tested to the limit. (£6.99)
REISSUES:
Haunted House & Other Stories - Virginia Woolf
Complete collection of Virgina Woolf's shorter fiction from 1906 until the month before she died in 1941. (£7.99)
Silk - Alessandro Baricco
Reissue of this world bestseller about the silk trade between France and Japan in the 1860s. (£6.99)
Life, a User's Manual - Georges Perec
Reissue. -Set in a Paris apartment block, this novel describes the lives of the inhabitants and the apartments they inhabit at a specific moment in time. (£7.99)
And the Ass saw the Angel - Nick Cave
New edition of his first and only novel: a fantastic journey into the twisted world of deep Southern gothic tragedy. (£11.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Congenial Spirits - Virginia Woolf
The best of Virginia Woolf's letters in one volume. (£16.00)
Telegram from Guernica: the extraordinary life of George Steer, war correspondent - Nicholas Rankin
Biography of the dapper special correspondent whose report shocked the world, galvanized Picasso into painting "Guernica", and earned him a place on the Gestapo's "Special Wanted List"? (£14.99)
A Life Inside: a prisoner's notebook - Erwin James
From the Guardian's prison correspondent, a memoir of over 19 years spent in prison, with the who, what, why and when of the prison system. (£7.99)
Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman - Sue Townsend
Funny, perceptive and touching collection of her monthly pieces for Sainsbury's Magazine. (£6.99)
HISTORY
Berlin - Anthony Beevor
The storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since Germany's invasion of Russia in 1941. When Soviet soldiers finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945, they had many accounts to settle. Antony Beevor reconstitutes the experience of those millions caught in the nightmare crescendo of the Third Reich's final defeat. (£12.99)
A Brief History of the Hundred Years' War - Desmond Seward
"The English in France 1337-1453". For over a century, England, small and poor, repeatedly invaded her large unwieldy neighbour, for the most part victoriously (Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt) - then lost the lot in four years. This account traces the changes that led to France's final victory and shows how the intrigue and colour of the last chivalric combats gave way to a more brutal modern warfare.
A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
Back in print. Daniel Defoe was just five at the time of the plague, but he later called on his own memories, as well as his writing experience, to create this vivid chronicle of the epidemic and its victims. (£5.99)
Last Journey of William Huskisson - Simon Garfield
How the opening of the world's first passenger railway turned to tragedy, now in paperback. (£8.99)
MBS
God and the Evolving Universe - James Redfield and Michael Murphy
From the author of Celestine Prophecy, the next step in personal evolution - at this very moment, each act of self-development is creating a new stage in planetary evolution and the emergence of a human species with vastly expanded personal abilities. (£7.99)
Ten Thoughts about Time - Bodil Jonsson
Western society, and increasingly the rest of the world too, is ruled by the clock. Jonsson observes how the arrival of measured, accurate timekeeping became first our tool, and then our master. We now live longer on average than ever before, yet most of us feel we have no time. (£8.99)
NATURE
Wild Flowers and Where To Find Them in Northern England, Volume 3: Acid Uplands - Laurie Fallows
That'd be us. 140 colour photos and maps. (£7.99)
Good Breeding - Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Extraordinary Chickens - Stephen Green-Armytage
Photographs of highly-bred livestock and their owners, and some very strange-looking ornamental chickens. (£7.95 each)
POETRY
Everyday Eclipses - Roger McGough
"Whether shamelessly offering advice to Bob Dylan, as well as Paul McCartney and Jimi Hendrix, in a series of imaginary rock meetings, or dicing with death in the Alps, Roger McGough's new poems are as vigorous, as funny and as eye-opening as his very best." (£7.99)
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth - Alice Walker
In this collection of poems which reflect on recent world events, she writes about love, friendship, racism and about nationhood. (£12.99)
POLITICS
New Rulers of the World - John Pilger
A selection from his recent Guardian and New Statesman essays on power, its secrets and illusions, covering Iraq, Indonesia, and the causes of September 11th, amongst other topics. (£8.00)
Clash of Fundamentalisms - Tariq Ali
Crusades, Jihads and Modernity. Analyses both the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and new forms of western colonialism and challenges assumptions on both sides, arguing that Islamic civilization has an important role in western modernity, and what we have experienced with the rise of fundamentalism is the return of history in a horrific form. (£8.00)
Globalisation and its discontents - Joseph Stiglitz
The most recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics argues that though globalization should be a powerful force for good, it has been badly mishandled by the West (especially its lead institutions, the World Bank and the IMF) and that the anti-globalizing protesters have much to say that we should listen to. (£7.99)
Paradise and Power - Robert Kagan
"America versus Europe in the Twenty-First Century". The much-discussed and controversial analysis of the widening chasm between America and Europe; force vs negotiation.
Free Radical - Tony Benn
A selection of his Morning Star articles from 2001-2002. (£9.99)
From Nothing to Zero - Janet Austin
Letters from Refugees in Australia's Detention Centres. Provides a rare glimpse into the world of refugees who have fled war and persecution in their own countries, only to be detained in Australia's desert camps. All profits to be donated to asylum-seeker organisations. (£7.99)
No-Nonsense Guide to Indigenous Peoples - Lotte Hughes
Looks beyond the exotic images, tracing the stories of different indigenous peoples from their first (and often fatal) contact with explorers and colonizers. Much of this history is told by indigenous people themselves. (£7.00)
REFERENCE
Collins-Robert Concise French Dictionary: 5th edition (£18.99)
A CD-ROM of the big dictionary is also available at £29.99.
SCIENCE AND MATHS
The Universe: 365 Days - Robert J Nemiroff
365 images of the cosmos based on the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" website, each with an explanatory text. (£24.95)
Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea - Charles Seife
Clashes over zero shook the fundamentals of philosophy, science, of mathematics and of religion. The science book of the year in paperback. (£9.99)
Rosalind Franklin, the Dark Lady of DNA - Brenda Maddox
Biography of Rosalind Franklin, the single-minded young scientist whose contribution to arguably one of the most significant discoveries of all time went unrecognised when Crick and Watson announced they had discovered the meaning of life. (£7.99)
SOCIETY
A Voice for Now : Changing the Way We See Ourselves as Women - Anne Dickson
From the author of Woman in Your Own Right a wake-up call to women of all ages to look beyond the personal - beyond our individual frustrations or achievements - to understand what has fallen out of balance. . (£12.99)
The Atlas of Women - Joni Seager
A graphic portrait of women today, demonstrating that the better the state of women, the better the state of the world. (£12.99)
Rudolph Steiner: his life and work - Gilbert Childs (£6.99)
Waldorf Education - Christopher Clouder
A basic introduction to the Steiner/Waldorf School and its philosophy. Newly revised with colour photographs. (£6.99)
Ahead of the Class - Marie Stubbs
"How an Aspiring Headmistress Gave Children Back Their Future." In a single year, an elegant 61-year-old grandmother rescued the failing and despairing inner-city comprehensive where Philip Lawrence was murdered and gave the pupils back their self-respect, receiving a glowing report from OFSTED.
TRAVEL
Yorkshire Encounters - Lin Watts
The author has chosen seven of the landscapes of Yorkshire and devotes one chapter to each, travelling from North Yorkshire via Haworth and Wensleydale to York. Colour illustrated. (£15.99)
Everest, the Summit of Achievement - Stephen Venables
Chronicling the history of Everest exploration from the early years of the 20th century this illustrated volume is published to celebrate the 50th anniversary in May 2003 of the first successful ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on 29 May 1953. 200 colour and 200 b&w photos. (£35.00)
A Very Peruvian Practice: travels with La Senora- John Lane
When John Lane arrived for six weeks as advisor to the privately-run Women's Health Care Centre of Lima, he had little idea what he was taking on. As yet there was no lift between the delivery room and the wards, so business was limited. (£14.99)
Ripe for the Picking - Annie Hawes
Sequel to Extra Virgin. Local culinary superstar Ciccio gradually takes over as Annie's constant companion. How irresistible is a man who first demonstrates his affection and esteem by inviting her into his vineyard to help him mix up cow manure, which she spends the afternoon slapping on to an old pizza oven. (£6.99)
African in Greenland - Tete-Michel Kpomassie
The author was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland and knew that he must go there. This book is a well-observed and entertaining record of his adventures among the Inuit. (£8.99)
Audience with an Elephant - Byron Rogers
A book about the sheer idiosyncratic individualism of the British, written with wit and compassion, and the best turn of phrase you could wish for. (£6.99)
Eating the Flowers of Paradise - Kevin Rushby
Drawn back to the Yemen by idyllic memories of ancient cities, spectacular mountains and most of all, the dreamy afternoons spent chewing the stimulant of the qat tree, the author set out to travel the old trade route from the highlands of Ethiopia to Yemen. (£7.99)
Olive Season - Carol Drinkwater
Sequel to The Olive Farm - the double love story of a real-life romance and the love of an abandoned Provencal olive farm.
From Rough Guides, new editions on Tuscany & Umbria, Scandinavia and China - and a new CD of the Music of Turkey.
Children Welcome 2003 (£5.99)
Harry and the Dinosaurs Romp in the swamp - Whybrow
The fifth picture book in the Harry series. (£4.99)
Flora’s Flowers - Debi Gliori
Flora the rabbit wants to grow something very special. (£4.99)
Zebra’s Rainbow
Help Zebra’s friends to make her a rainbow and learn all about colours on the way.(£3.99)
My Grandmothers Clock - Geraldine McCaughrean
A picture book on the theme of time.(£4.99)
Little Bo-Peep has Knickers that Bleep - Laurence Anholt
Seriously silly rhyme told with a twist.(£3.99)
Cabbage Patch Pong - Paul Jennings
Sequel to the Cabbage Patch Fib and the Cabbage Patch War.(£3.99)
Daughter of Venice - Donna Jo Napoli
A romance set in sixteenth Venice. It examines the constraints imposed on young women in Venetian society and the emancipation experienced by Donata when she breaks free. (£10.99)
Spindles End - Robin McKinley
Retelling of "The Sleeping Beauty" which takes the reader into a magical world filled with modern characters, encountering adventure, love and loss. (£5.99)
My Story: Agincourt - Michael Cox
France 1415. Latest in the My Story series.(£4.99)
Alva & Irva - Edward Carey
When reclusive Irva refuses to leave the house, her identical twin Alva reports back to her with notes and measurements so that Irva can painstakingly construct a miniature plasticine town. From the author of the equally strange Observatory Mansions. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
Diary of an Ordinary Woman - Margaret Forster
Diary or novel? Apparently the edited journal of a real-life woman of the 20th century woman. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
North of England Home Service - Gordon Burn
While foot-and-mouth pyres burn, a faded comedian returns to the North East, peopling it with imagined figures. From the author of Somebody's Brother, Somebody's Son on the Yorkshire Ripper. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
PAPERBACK
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Booker Prize winner The only survivor from the wreck of a cargo ship on the Pacific, 16-year-old Pi spends 221 days on a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal Tiger called Richard Parker. (£7.99)
Spies - Michael Frayn
Now in paperback, the Whitbread Best Novel winner about two boys playing sleuths in a claustrophobic WWII British suburb. (£6.99)
Unless - Carol Shields
Reta Winters seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat from university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only 'goodness'. Unflinching, often very funny meditation on society from prize-winning author. (£6.99)
Clara - Janice Galloway
Novel is based on the life of Clara Schumann, celebrated nineteenth-century concert pianist and composer and wife of Robert Schumann. From the author of The Trick is to Keep Breathing, has been selling well in trade paperback. (£6.99)
A Married Woman - Manju Kapur
An educated middle-class Delhi woman embarks on an extra-marital affair with a young female activist. (£9.99 at The Book Case)
Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa
Thirty years after the overthrow of the hated Dominican Republic dictator Trujillo, a woman returns from exile in New York. (£7.99)
The World Below - Sue Miller
When Catherine Hubbard inherits her grandmother Georgia's home in Vermont she finds not only the ghosts of her own past but those of Georgia's as well. (£6.99)
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
A partner to the Forster above? The story of Logan Mountstuart, whose life spans the twentieth century, told through his journals. His travels take the reader through Uruguay, Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York and Africa (£7.99)
In the Forest - Edna O'Brien
Inspired by a notorious true-life triple murder, the story of a young man, 'not all there in the head', who shoots dead three people in a forest glade in the West of Ireland. (£6.99)
Flight - Victoria Glendinning
Loner engineer Martagon falls in love for the first time while constructing an airport in Provence. The land belonges to a feuding brother and sister; and it is the sister, beautiful and flamboyant, who throws Martagon so totally off balance. (£6.99)
Memory Stones - Kate O'Riordan
Set in Paris and Ireland, the story of a woman in her forties, dealing with her sexuality, a damaged daughter and a fear of returning to her roots. Good cover. (£6.99)
Sunday's Silence - Gina Nahai
From the author of Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith a story about religious fervour and extreme love. (£6.99)
From Haruki Murakami
Dance, Dance, Dance
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose - part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation. (£6.99)
and reissues of
Hard-boiled Wonderland/The Edge of the World
Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel. Murakami unites East and West, tragedy and farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy: wildly inventive fantasy and a meditation on the many uses of the mind.
and Norwegian Wood
When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships. (£6.99 each)
Secret History of Modernism - C. K. Stead
From a New Zealand novelist, a novel recalling London in the late 1950s. The Empire might be in a state of collapse, but for young 'colonials', England remains a mythical place that draws them from the farthest corners of the globe. (£6.99)
Wilful Behaviour - Donna Leon
From this popular crime writer, a case involving the murder of a young girl and secrets dating back to WWII. (£5.99)
Everything's Eventual - Stephen King
Bumper collection from this bestselling writers featuring the best stories of recent years and an enlightening introduction. Also contains 'Riding the Bullet', only previously available as an ebook. (£6.99)
Spartan - Valerio Manfredi
Passion, courage and adventure in ancient Sparta, by the author of the Alexander trilogy. (£6.99)
Mammoth Book of Future Cops - ed. Maxim Jakubowski
Noir
crime tales from a future where science and society may be twisted but the
human connection still remains. (£6.99)
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Philip K. Dick
Reissue of this classic taking his perennial interest in the fragile nature of reality to a new level of imaginative intensity. (£6.99)
NON-FICTION
BIOGRAPHY
Head over Heels in the Dales - Gervase Phinn
The popular school inspector, begins his third year with a spring in his step for in April he will marry Christine Bentley, head teacher of Winnery Nook School. (£7.99)
Hitchhiker: a biography of Douglas Adams - M J Simpson
Well-researched with anecdotes from friends and colleagues, the definitive biography of an extraordinary man, novelist, ecologist, technologist and inventor of words. (£20.00)
A Woman of Today - Sue McGregor
Her story, from her early life in South Africa to some of the top jobs in BBC Radio, including fifteen years on Woman's Hour, and covering the dramatic changes she saw in South Africa, women's issues, and elements of her private life.(£7.99)
American Scoundrel - Thomas Keneally
On the last, cold Sunday of February 1859, caddish good-looking Dan Sickle shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. A recreation of the period when women were punished for violating codes of society that did not bind men. (£8.99)
My Last Breath - Luis Bunuel
New edition of this superb autobiography of Bunuel's extraordinary career. (£7.99)
From the Land of Green Ghosts: a Burmese Odyssey. - Pascal Khoo Thwe
The story of a young man's upbringing in a remote tribal village in Burma and his journey from his strife-torn country to the tranquil quads of Cambridge. (£7.99)
COOKERY
Gary Rhodes at the Table
Gary Rhodes investigates the riches of the British culinary tradition, why different courses are grouped together and the social influences which have formed our eating habits, with a collection of wonderful new recipes. Paperback. (£12.99)
Rick Stein's Seafood Lover's Guide
Rick (and Chalky his trusty dog) discover great dishes and small delicacies amongst the tidal estuaries, shingle banks and rocky shores of Britain. Illustrated. Paperback. (£12.99)
Thai Vegetarian Cookery - Vatcharin Bhumichitr
From the proprietor of the Chiang Mai restaurant in Soho, 130 recipes ranging from the seductively delicate to the more robust and tangy. Col. photos. (£9.99)
Vegan Cooking for Everyone - Leah Lenemann (£12.99)
GARDENING
How to be a Gardener 2- Alan Titchmarsh
The first book set out the basic principles; this one looks in depth at all areas of designing and planting to ensure you make the most of your garden. (£19.99)
Natural Gardner - Chris Beardshaw
Based on his TV series, The Flying Gardener, in which Chris looks at plants in different habitats and discovers how nature achieves what the gardener strives for. He reveals how to put this knowledge into practice when selecting and cultivating plants for a domestic setting. (£20.00)
Container Gardening for All Seasons
From Reader's Digest, ideas and information on the latest container plants, practical tips on choosing the right type and shape of container to suit the plants you want to grow, whatever the time of year. Illustrated. (£14.99)
Simple Stonescaping - Phili Raines
Meticulous guidelines for stone projects including patios, waterfalls, stone benches, steps, paths and walkways. Make a feature of it! Col. ill. (£16.99)
HISTORY
Salt: a world history - Mark Kurlansky
A blend of political, commercial, scientific, religious and culinary records. (£7.99)
Voices of Morebath: Reformation and rebellion in an English village - Eamonn Duffy
In the 50 years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being a lavishly Catholic country to being a Protestant nation. Exploring Morebath, a remote and tiny sheep-farming village on Exmoor, this work offers a window into a rural world in crisis as the Reformation progressed. (£9.95)
Mediaeval Children - Nicholas Orme
A history of children in England from Anglo-Saxon times to the 16th century, including birth, baptism, birthdays, upbringing, daily life, oral culture and coming of age. (£14.95)
The Tournament in England 1100-1400 - Juliet Barker
New into paperback with eight pages of colour plates, surveying the tournament from its emergence in the 12th century to the beginning of the 15th century when it changed its very nature. (£16.99)
The Making of the English Bible - Benson Bobrick
The dramatic story of the translation of the Bible into English by John Wycliffe, William Tyndale and the experts assembled under James I - and its enormous ramifications on politics, literature and law. (£7.99)
The Mechanical Turk - Tom Standage
"The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine that Fooled the World". The story of the infamous 18th century automaton, links an unlikely cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age. (£6.99)
The Corset: a cultural history - Valerie Steele
Lots of illustrations - sold well at £30 so this paperback version should be even more popular! (£15.00)
The Great War - Corelli Barnett
In his classic and updated text on the First World War, military historian Correlli Barnett illuminates its complex story. Timed to coincide with the retransmission of the 26-part television series narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave,(£12.99)
The Battle of the Atlantic - Andrew Williams
Recounts numerous untold stories of the 'U-boat peril', a savage and strategically important campaign in which over 30,000 merchant seamen lost their lives and 85% of the U-boat crew were killed. Interviews with survivors reveal stories of enormous personal courage on board a vessel with appaling conditions. Photos. (£7.99)
Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War - Peter Hennessy
Reveals for the first time the full extent of Britain's preparations for nuclear war during the Cold War. Peter Hennessy's archival discoveries and accessible style make this an exciting and chilling read. (£7.99)
Battlefields - Richard Holmes
His fascinating study of the Second World War, now in paperback edition. It uses eye-witness accounts to illuminate the horror, confusion and sheer enormity of war. (£7.99)
LITERATURE, MUSIC AND MEDIA
The Child that Books Built - Francis Spufford
Now in paperback, the highly acclaimed memoir on childhood reading. (£8.99)
New York Notes on Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage (£3.99)
31 Songs - Nick Hornby
Most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to the author - encompassing singers as varied as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, songs as different as 'Thunder Road' and 'Puff the Magic Dragon' (reggae style). He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and singers whose teeth whistle, and the sort of music you hear in the Body Shop. (£12.99)
BBC Proms Pocket Guides to Great Symphonies and Great Concertos - Nicholas Kenyon (ed) (£7.99 each)
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Robert Sellars
The life and times of HandMade Films. (£16.99)
MBS
Why Are They So Weird - Barbara Strauch
What's Really Going on in a Teenager's Brain? (£9.99)
Wifework - Susan Maushart
Becoming a wife will erode your mental health, reduce your leisure, decimate your libido, and increase the odds that you will be physically assaulted or murdered in your own home. Provocative and witty look at the mixed blessing of being a wife! (£6.99)
How to Manage Your Mother - Alyce Faye Cleese & Brian Bates
With stories from well known personalitites, shows that it is possible to improve your relationship with your mother, or at the very least begin to understand it. (£6.99)
Healing through Cranial Osteopathy - Tajinder Deoorer
The first book on cranial osteopathy written for the lay person. Straightforward, no-jargon text makes the subject accessible to those with no prior knowledge. (£12.99)
REISSUES:
Raising Boys - Steve Biddulph
Why boys are different and how to help them become happy and well-balanced men. New edition (£7.99)
By Tony Buzan:
- Mind Map Book: Radiant Thinking
Explains both the fundamental operation of the human brain in terms of its thinking processes and how to unleash and harness its untapped power. Offers new ways of using and improving memory, concentration and creativity in planning and structuring thought on all levels. (£7.99)
- Use Your Head
Innovative Learning and Thinking Techniques To Fulfil Your Mental Potential. Worldwide seller since 1974. Learn how to learn.
NATURE
The Character of Cats - Stephen Budiansky
A scientific look at the world of cats: why they do what they do, why they are what they are and how they got to be that way in the first place. By the author of 'The Truth About Dogs'.
POLITICS
The Wages of Spin - Bernard Ingham
A first hand account of how spindoctoring developed, from Sir Bernard who spent 24 years as a press officer for Labour and Conservative governments, the last eleven of them as Margaret Thatcher's chief press secretary. (£18.99)
The World We're In - Will Hutton
Widening his perspective from The State We're In, Will Hutton calls for Britain and Europe to offer alternatives to the American Way.
Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser
"And Other Tales From the American Underworld". The author of 'Fast Food Nation' explores three of the most prominent and least understood features of globalisation; drugs, pornography and migrant labour. (£10.99)
Base - Jane Corbin
Definitive investigation into the background, personnel and methods of al-Qaeda. Jane Corbin is a senior reporter for the BBC's flagship current-affairs programme, Panorama. (£8.99)
Bad Moon Rising - Gilles Keppel
An expert on Islam and Islamism, Kepel returned to the Middle East even as New York was still struggling with shock and dust. His account shows that the realities are more complex than commonly understood. Religious fervour is on the rise, but many people have also found the path of moderation without blunting their critical instincts. Kepel also asks why is there so much resentment towards, but fascination for, the West. (£7.99)
Eco-Economy - Lester R. Brown
How the world's economy can - and must - negotiate the challenges of rapidly growing population and consumption and a deteriorating environmental base. (£12.99)
Chosen People: the big idea that shaped England and America - Clifford Longley
Anglo-American Myth and Reality. Why do the British and Americans so often stand shoulder to shoulder? What are the real roots of their common history? (£7.99)
REFERENCE
Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (£8.99)
Family and Local History Handbook - Robert Blatchford
Seventh edition, updated and revised, of the bestselling Family and Local History publication in the British Isles. (£9.99)
Penguin Dictionary of British Place-Names - Adrian Room
Covers every significant settlement in England, Scotland and Wales. (£8.99)
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
Imagining Numbers - Barry Mazur
(Particularly the Square Root of Minus Fifteen). The imagination in general and the mathematical imagination in particular. (£9.99)
The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister's Pox - Stephen Jay Gould
Uses the centuries-old conflict between science and the humanities - between the notion of relying solely on experiment and that of reason and imagination - to delve into burning scientific issues of the past and present. (£18.99)
Flatterland - Ian Stewart
A hugely enjoyable updating of one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics, 'Flatland' by Edwin A Abbott. (£7.99)
Hidden Connections - Fritjof Capra
A Science for Sustainable Living. A fierce attack on globalism and a manifesto for change. (£8.99)
The Nobleman and his Housedog - Kitty Ferguson
Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler: the Strange Partnership That Revolutionised Science. Set in one of the most turbulent and colourful eras in European history, at the turning point where mediveval gave way to modern, this highly original book tells the story of a major watershed in the history of human thought. (£7.99)
Mammoth - Richard Stone
A real walk with a dinosaur, as two teams of scientists race to bring back to life the long-extinct woolly mammoth, using DNA from a frozen mammoth discovered in a cliff face in Northern Siberia. (£7.99)
TRAVEL
The Road to McCarthy - Pete McCarthy
Finally into paperback, this funny and affectionate account of the author's journey around the weird and wonderful Irish communitites of the world. (£7.99)
Season with Verona - Tim Parks
Tim Parks goes on the road to follow the fortunes of Hellas Verona football club. A book that combines the tension of cliff-hanging narrative with the pleasures of travel writing. (£6.99)
Europe: a Right of Passage - Tales from Backpackers (Lonely Planet)
Every year thousands of youngsters from America, Britain and Australia head to Europe for the trip of a lifetime. Armed with little more than a newly acquired backpack, guide book in one hand, Eurail pass in the other, they embark on a journey that has become a de-facto rite of passage into the adult world. (£7.99)
From Lonely Planet, new editions on Britain, Portugal, Spain and Turkey, from Time Out, Barcelona and New York, and from Rough Guides a miniguide to Corfu.
Nicholson Guide to the Waterways 5: North West and the Pennines (new edition) £9.99
Pennine Way South (new edition) (£12.99)
CHILDREN'S
Chimp and Zee - Catherine Anholt
Having eaten all the bananas, Chimp and Zee are taken shopping by Mumkee but they monkey around in Jungletown. A Smarties gold award winner now in paperback. (£5.99)
Miffy - Dick Bruna
Miffy and the little bird, Miffy flies a kite and Miffy's birthday party are back with new illustrations. (£3.99)
Tiny - Paul Rogers and Korky Paul
Tiny the flea lives on a dog. This quirky story will help young readers grasp the concept of the universe and our place within it/ (£5.99)
Lola Rose - Jacqueline Wilson
Jayni re-invents heself with a glamorous name when she escapes domestic violence with her mother and brother (£9.99 at The Book Case)
Muddle Earth - Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell
As the third moon rises over the perfumed bog the twinkling lights are lit on the house of Randalf and his familiar, a very sarcastic budgie. Surely this is enough to show this as the book of the month? (£12.99)
Triss - Brian Jacques
The latest in the Redwall series which has been hugely popular for many years. (£5.99)
Secrets - Jacqueline Wilson
India lives with her Nan due to problems with her parents. She imitates her heroine Anne Frank as she writes in her diary in a hidden attic. (£4.99)
Aquamarine - Alice Hoffman
A story of true friendship and the magic all around in everyday life.
Wintering - Kate Moses
Based on Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" poems,
this is a fictional account of her last months of life, beginning with her
initial elation at moving from Devon to London following Ted Hughes' departure
and ending as she prepares optimistically for spring's rebirth. (£13.99
at The Book Case)
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Sue, orphaned at birth, is born among petty thieves. From the moment she draws breath, her fate is linked to another orphan, growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away. (£7.99)
Girl from the South - Joanna Trollope
Coming to London to escape her wealthy, conventional South Carolina family, Gillon moves in with Tilly and Henry replacing Henry's mate William and William's girlfriend Susie. (£6.99)
Embers - Sandor Marai
Two men, inseparable in their youth, meet for the first time in 41 years at a castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the 1930s. Four decades earlier a murky, traumatic event had led to their sudden separation. (£6.99)
Horned Man - James Lasdun
This excursion into panic and urban paranoia opens with a man losing his place in a book, then deepens into a dark and terrifying story of a man losing his place in the world. (£6.99)
Happiness TM - Will Ferguson
Satirical novel - when a self-help MS arrives on an editor’s desk he bins it and sets off a disastrous chain of events. (£6.99)
Heaven’s Edge - Romesh Gunesekera
From the Booker-shortlisted novelist. Marc leaves London and sets out for the island where his grandfather was born and where his father's plane was shot down. There he meets Uva. (£6.99)
One Man’s Justice - Akira Yoshimura
Translated from the Japanese. Takuya, an ex-officer in the Imperial Army, takes to the road, when he learns that the Occupation authorities are intensifying their efforts to apprehend suspected war criminals. (£9.99 at The Book Case)
Dancing with Minnie the Twig - Mogue Doyle
Rural Ireland in the 1960s. If you were a boy you listened to the wireless and went to the pictures, your mam ruled the house and your father flew into rages. (£6.99)
Fathers and Forefathers - Slobodan Selenic
Epic Serbian novel translated from the Serbo-Croat. (£9.99 at The Book Case)
Basket Case - Carl Hiaasen
Outspoken disgraced journalist stumbles on a whale of a story that might save his career. (£6.99)
Last Temptation - Val McDermid
A clinically efficient killer is murdering psychologists on the continent. Tony Hill investigates. (£6.99)
The Torso in the Town - Simon Brett (£6.99)
Years of Rice and Salt - Kim Stanley Robinson
In this "what if?" novel, all Europeans have been wiped out by a plague and their place taken by peoples from Africa and the East. (£6.99)
Druid King - Norman Spinrad
In 30BC Vercingetorix moves to oppose the might of Rome. Can he harness the powers of the Druids? First in a trilogy. (£9.00 at The Book Case)
1000 Country Roads - Robert James Waller
Sequel to Bridges of Madison County. (£5.99)
And the Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy is released in audio version by the BBC - £10.99 per vol. on cassette, £12.99 on CD.
BIOGRAPHY
Abraham Lincoln - Thomas Keneally
Shows that Lincoln was an epitome of the American dream. Keneally has long been absorbed by Lincoln's life and letters, upon which he draws for his biography. (£14.99)
Long Recessional: the imperial life of Rudyard Kipling - David Gilmour
Kipling’s public role and his influence on the way Britons saw both themselves and their empire. (£12.50)
Home and Exile - Chinua Achebe
One of Africa’s most celebrated writers uses his personal experiences to examine the political nature of culture and literature, and shows why literature matters. "The closest we are likely to get by way of an Achebe autobiography." (£7.99)
Hamlet’s Dresser - Bob Smith
Memoir of a man damaged in childhood but redeemed by his love of Shakespeare. Praised by Derek Jacobi! (£7.99)
Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose (8) - Sandy Balfour
Combination of memoir and crossword puzzle. Each chapter begins with a clue and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it. (£12.99)
Running with Scissors: A memoir - Augusten Burroughs
Bizarre, harrowing, funny childhood biography of a story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of grandeur) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa Claus and a certifiable lunatic into the bargain. (£14.99)
Head Full of Blue - Nick Johnston
Memoir of a life of alcoholism (£6.99)
Where Did It All Go Right? Growing Up Normal in the 1970s - Andrew Collins
The author delves back into his first 18 years in search of something - anything - that might have left him deeply and irreparably damaged, but his only emotional scar is from when Anita Barker mocked his bike stabilisers. Aims to bring a little hope to all those out there living with the emotional after-effects of a really nice childhood. (£9.99)
Speckled People - Hugo Hamilton
The author’s childhood world in Dublin was a confused place: his father was a brutal Irish nationalist, while his mother was a German who escaped the Nazis. (£15.99)
Silvertown - Melanie McGrath
Critically acclaimed East End London family memoir. (£6.99)
Maggie - Brenda Maddox
Thatcher biography to tie in with high-profile TV documentary series. (£20.00)
Momentum - Mo Mowlam
Autobiography. (£7.99)
FOOD & DRINK
Quick Wok - Ken Hom
"The fastest food in the East". (£12.99)
HISTORY
Walking with Cavemen - John \Lynch and Louise Barrett
The history of our ancestors, to accompany BBC TV series. (£19.99)
Terracotta Warriors - Maurice Cotterell
Why were the 7000 massive warrior figures buried with the Emperor in 206BC? To guard him in the afterlife, or is there more to it? (£18.99)
Asssassins: a radical sect in Islam - Bernard Lewis
History of the extremist 11th-12th sect. (£6.99)
Great Battles: Agincourt - Christopher Hibbert (£7.99)
New Jerusalem - Adrian Gilbert
The reconstruction of London after the Great Fire in 1666 was overseen by men from the Royal Society, founded on Rosicrucian principles. They believed that London was the chosen site for the New Jerusalem. This book shows the mystical significance of such well-know sites as St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Monument and Temple church. (£7.99)
Islam’s Black Slaves - Ronald Segal
"A History of Africa’s Other Black Diaspora", now in paperback (£8.99)
Wellington the Iron Duke - Richard Holmes
Historical analysis combined with semi-biographical examination. (£7.99)
Army at Dawn - Rick Atkinson
The War in North Africa 1942-3. First volume of monumental trilogy about the liberation of Europe. (£20.00)
Neighbours - Jan T Gross
An account of the Jedwabne massacre of 1600 Jews in Poland, 1941 - carried out not by the Nazis but by their fellow townsfolk. (£7.99)
On the Natural History of Destruction - W G Sebald
Explores the strange silence surrounding the destruction of German cities by Allied bombing. Probably the last book by this author who died in 2001. (£16.99)
HUMOUR
Naked Bachelor - Darrel Bristow-Bovey
Pokes fun at "an impossible dream of how life should be" - be charming, attractive and hunt caribou in a manly and humane fashion. (£5.99)
MIND BODY SPIRIT
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
New translation of these wise and practical spiritual exercises. (£6.99)
Raphael’s Astronomical Ephemeris 2004 (£3.99)
Encyclopaedia of Homeopathy - Gerard Pacaud (£9.99)
Joy of Sex (Pocket Edition) - Alex Comfort
Now appropriate for the 21st-century, and the man with the beard has gone. (£9.99)
Haiku for Lovers - Manu Bazzano
Valentine’s Day is coming! Nice pictures, 250 pages. (£9.99)
Haiku Landscapes: in sun, wind, rain and snow - Addiss & Yamamoto
Over 120 haiku by well-known poets including Basho, Issa and Buson, as well as colour and b&w pictures of Japanese landscapes by Korin, Sekka and Ike no Taiga among others. (£12.99)
The Universal Heart - Stephanie Dowrick
"Grow confident in love and create lasting happiness with others." From the author of Intimacy and Solitude. (£7.99)
365 Pep Talks from the Buddha - Robert Allen (£4.95)
365 Smiles from the Buddha - Robert Allen (£4.95)
Year of Spirituality - Ingrid Collins (£6.99)
Is It Me or Is It Hot in Here? - Jenni Murray
"A Modern Woman’s Guide to the Menopause" (£6.99)
NATURE, SCIENCE, MATHS & TECHNOLOGY
RSPB Pocket Guide Birds - Jonathan Elphick & John Woodward
Detailed coverage of 320 species and more than 1350 colour photographs. (£8.99)
See also Travellers’ Nature Guides in "Travel"
When Life Nearly Died - Michael J Benton
Popular science writing about the mass extinction of 90% of life during the Permian age, 250 million years ago. (£16.95)
Our Cosmic Habitat - Martin Rees
Astronomer Royal takes us on a lucid and awe-inspiring guided tour of the Universe. (£7.99)
Rough Guide to the Universe - John Scalzi (£10.99)
How the Universe Got Its Spots - Janna Levin
"Diary of a finite time in a finite space" - the quest to discover the size and shape of the universe. (£7.99)
Euclid’s Window - Leonard Mlodinow
The story of geometry through five revolutions, from parallel lines to hyperspace (£7.99)
It Must be Beautiful - Graham Farmelo
Great equations of modern science explained and discussed by some of the greatest living scientists. (£9.99)
Gutenburg Revolution - John Man
The invention of printing. (£7.99)
SOCIETY AND POLITICS
Hard Work - Life in Low Pay Britain - Polly Toynbee
Expose of poverty and work in the 21st century. (£6.99)
Last Man Down - Pitch Picciotto
Bestseller about the fireman who survived the collapse of the Twin Towers and led his men to safety. (£6.99)
TRAVEL
New from Oxford University Press, Travellers Nature Guides to France, Spain, Portugal and Greece. Site by site descriptions with maps, photos and illustrations (£14.99 each)
Green Volunteers, 4th ed - Fabio Ausenda
Details of over 100 projects and organisations around the world through which volunteers can work, year round, with marine mammals, sea turtles, primates and so on, in national parks, rainforests and a wide variety of unusual locations. (£10.99)
New Rough Guides include Egypt and Corsica.
Snow Geese - William Fiennes
The author followed the geese on their northward migration from Mexico to the Canadian Arctic, and in the process writes about very much more than the geese. (£7.99)
Spirit of the Sea - Marie-France Boyer (£15.95)
Nostalgic photographic journey to fishing communities on North Atlantic, North Sea and Channel coasts.
On Foot to the Golden Horn - Jason Goodwin
Prize-winning account of a walk to Istanbul through Eastern Europe. (£7.99)
Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds - Gary Pomerantz
If you’re planning to fly, look away now. This is the true story of 29 people caught in a passenger plane crash. (£7.99)
HarperCollins are bringing out a new series of Gem Phrase Books (French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, German) at £2.99-£3.99, or with CD for £6.99.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Frog cloth book - Fiona Watt
Babies and toddlers will follow the stitched trails, lifting flaps, feeling textured patches and listening to sounds. Hen cloth book also. (£4.99)
Let's Build - Jane Chapman
Die-cut board book introducing different vehicles and machines to young children.(£5.99)
Lighthouse Keeper Stories Cassette - Armitage
Tape of the favourite stories. (£3.99)
Gardening Book - Jane Bull
Basic gardening skills whether you live in a flat or on a farm. Creative and craft techniques. (£6.99)
Kingdom of the Sun - Jacqueline Mitton
Follows on from Zoo in the Sky introducing planets in our solar system. (£6.99)
Sleeping Sword - Michael Morpurgo
Blinded in an accident, Bun Bendle stumbles into an underground tomb containing a beautiful, ancient sword. (£4.99)
The earth, my butt and other big round things - Carolyn Mackler
Virginia Shreves, with her medium-sized inferiority complex loves web chat rooms and cheesy movies, but hates mirrors and the popular crowd. (£4.99)
That Old Ace in the Hole - Annie Proulx
One man’s struggle to make good in the Texas panhandle where they don’t like hog farms. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
Dancer - Colum McCann
Beginning with starving Russian soldiers trudging home through a frozen wasteland, this novel tells the story of Rudolf Nureyev’s life. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
Emperor: the Gates of Rome - Colin Iggulden
First in an epic series about the life of Julius Caesar. (£10.00 at The Book Case)
The Birthday of the World - Ursula Le Guin
Stories from the Hainish cycle and a stand-alone short novel, Paradises Lost. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
The Big Snow - David Park
Love, death and murder in 1963 Northern Ireland. For fans of Niall Williams. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
English Correspondence - Janet Davey
A novel that condenses all of the major questions of adult life, covering love, marriage, children, loss and grief, into the time and space needed to arrange a funeral and discover what happened to a missing letter. (£11.99 at The Book Case)
The Salmon of Doubt and other writings - Douglas Adams
50 pages of his unfinished novel and a selection of writings left on his computer hard drive. (£6.99)
Coastliners - Joanne Harris
Now in paperback, this bestseller about an embattled French fishing community. From the author of Chocolat. (£6.99)
Niagara Falls all over again - Elizabeth McCracken
The comedy team of Carter and Sharp thrives for 30 years, from the vaudeville backwaters to Hollywood, until one unforgivable act leads to another. From the author of The Giant’s House. (£6.99)
Why don’t you stop talking - Jackie Kay
Stories from the author of Trumpet. (£6.99)
House of Blue Mangoes - David Davidar
Three generations of an ancient Indian family come and go in a village by the sea, spanning nearly fifty years of turbulent Indian history. (£6.99)
Lake of Dead Languages - Carol Goodman
Scholarship girl Jane Hudson returns to Heart Lake School as a Latin teacher; but the memory of an old tragedy comes back to haunt her. (£6.99)
69 Things to do with a Dead Princess - Stewart Home (£6.99)
Anna acts out her psychodramas involving perverse sex amongst the stone circles in Aberdeen.
Cloud of Sparrows - Takashi Matsuoka
Historical novel set in 19th-century Japan where Lord Genji plans to escape the foreigners by fleeing to his ancestral home. (£9.99)
Miracle at Sant’Anna - James McBride
Based on a WWII massacre in Tuscany and on the experiences of the 92nd Division Buffalo soldiers, this is the story of four American Negro soldiers, a band of partisans, and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle. (£6.99)
Blessed are the Cheesemakers - Sarah Kate Lynch
A feel-good tale of love, life and Irish dairymaids.(£6.99)
Personal Velocity - Rebecca Miller
Short stories about women’s lives from the daughter of Arthur Miller. (£6.99)
Fourth Treasure - Todd Shimoda
Family history and Japanese calligraphy meet when a teacher suffers a stroke. (£6.99)
Wanderers and Islanders - Steve Cockayne
Legends of the Land Book 1. Highly original fantasy debut. (£6.99)
Athenian Murders - Jose Carlos Somoza (£6.99)
As a presentday translator annotates an ancient Greek murder mystery a second story unfolds.
BIOGRAPHY
Sleeping with Cats - Marge Piercy
Emotional and literary memoir from the author of Woman on the Edge of Time. (£8.99)
The Gatekeeper - Terry Eagleton
The story of the literary theorist’s journey from the back streets of Salford to a glittering academic career at Oxford and Cambridge. (£6.99)
The Guvnor - Lenny McLean
Biography of the much-feared bare-knuckle fighter who turned to acting. (£7.99)
Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor - Rick Marin
Witty memoir about being newly single in New York. (£10.00)
See also Travel: Climbing
FOOD
Nation’s Favourite Food
Results of the BBC’s major online poll to find the public’s 100 favourite dishes in 10 categories; ties in with 10-part TV series. (£12.99)
Diet Trials - Lyndel Costain Dietician delves into causes of weight gain and outlines the pros and cons of each dietary approach. (£6.99)
HISTORY
Empire: How Britain made the Modern World - Niall Ferguson
A major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world’s great modernising forces. (£25.00)
The Dig Tree: the extraordinary story of the ill-fated Burke and
Will - Sarah Murgatroyd
The race between the eccentric lavishly
equipped Burke and dour Scot Stuart to become the first European to cross the
Australian continent in 1860. (£7.99)
Fatal Shore - Robert Hughes
Reissue of the story of the transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian England into a horrific penal system in Australia. (£9.99)
Road to Verdun - Ian Ousby
Paperback edition of the acclaimed history of the battle that saw over 700,000 casualties. (£8.99)
Ireland, a history - Robert Kee
Updated paperback of the book of the TV series, tracing the emergence of various political and religious groups in Ireland. (£9.99)
Concise History of Islam - Justin Wintle
From Rough Guides, an illustrated history with sectional introduction, time-line, sidebars, quotations and index. (£7.99)
History of Clocks and Watches Handbook - Eric Bruton (£14.99)
Colour & b&w illustrations.
M.B.S.
Netherworld – Robert Temple
Temple follows up an archaeological rumour that the entrance to the Underworld had been rediscovered in Italy in 1962. He has gained permission to descend into the Netherworld and through this new work we shall go with him. (£6.99)
Still we can’t quite seem to catch a collective glimpse of all the strange, curious and wonderful creatures that inhabit our islands. Paul Harrison will undoubtedly bring us one small step closer to understanding these mysteries. As president of the Loch Ness Monster society who better to do so! (£9.99)
This is a wonderful addition to the Dummies series. In the well-known user-friendly format it discusses and demystifies a wide variety of spiritual practices and traditions in plain uncomplicated language. (£18.99)
A beautifully produced small hardback. Your dowsing rods will be going wild in the surrounding waterlogged Pennines! Packed with information on the history, development and practice of dowsing, it’s a must for all us thirsty souls! (£6.50)
How to Get What You Want in the Workplace – John Gray
John Gray of Mars and Venus fame turns his healing advice towards work and success in this powerful new title. Stressing the need to focus on what we love and what is important in our lives, this is indeed insightful advice to create lasting success! (£6.99)
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Palestine - Joe Sacco (£12.99)
Prizewinning combination of eyewitness reportage with comic-book graphics.
Class War - Chris Woodhead (£7.99)
The state of British education. Do we have the schools we deserve?
What are Children for? - Laurie and Matthew Taylor (£6.99)
The ethos of having children in today’s world.
Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Human Freedom - ed. Jon E. Lewis (£7.99)
300 extracts tracing seminal moments in humanity’s halting march to civilisation.
Philosophy without Women: the birth of sexism in Western Thought - Vigdis Songe-Moller (£16.99)
TRAVEL
New Lonely Planet Guides to France, Andalusia, and Eastern Europe amongst others.
Vegetarian Visitor 2003 - AnneMarie Weitzel (£2.50)
Walk along the Tracks - Hunter Davies
An exploration of some of Britain’s disused railway lines suitable for walkers, with a list. (£7.99)
At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig - John Gimlette
Despised and feared by their neighbours, the Paraguayans adore Britain, have a taste for soccer and, when the Vice-President is murdered, they call in Scotland Yard. Their country is among the most beautiful and captivating in the world. (£14.99)
Worst Journey in the Midlands - Sam Llewellyn
From
Llandiloes on the River Severn through the canals of the Midlands to London in
an open rowing-boat in the wettest October on record. (£7.99)
Hearing Birds Fly - Louisa Waugh
A woman’s loneliness and depression facing life as an outsider in a remote Mongolian village. (£7.99)
- Climbing:
Kingdoms of Experience - Andrew Greig
Chronicles the 1985
attempt on Everest via the unclimbed north-east ridge, with the complex
inter-relationships of 19 very different individuals. (£9.99)
Dougal Haston: the philosophy of risk - Jeff Connor The most colourful character in British mountaineering, based on his private journals. (£9.99)
The Beckoning Silence - Joe Simpson
Now in paperback, the inner truth of climbing from the author of Touching the Void. (£6.99)
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Watchfrog - Paul Stewart An early reader about a mysterious frog written by the author of The Edge Chronicles. (£3.50)
Quacky Quack-Quack - Ian Whybrow
An amusing picture book
shortlisted for the Smarties Book Prize and the Mother Goose Award.
(£4.99)
A Shocking Accident: Stories with a sting in their tail. - Sara
Corrin
A collection of classic literary tales. Stories by Roald Dahl,
Saki, P.G. Wodehouse and Jack London. (£4.99)
Crossfire - Alan Gibbons
New from the Blue Peter award
winning author of Shadow of the Minotaur. Set in a northern town where
six teenagers’ lives are woven together by a series of tragic events.
(£4.99)
The Folk Keeper - Franny Billingsley
A gripping gothic
mystery for young readers set in the north of England in the 18th Century.
(£5.99)
The Last Wolf - Michale Morpurgo
Dramatic story about a
boy’s adventures with an orphaned wolf cub which takes him from the
Scottish Highlands to the high seas. (£4.99)
No Breathing in Class - Michael Rosen
A collection of
original and previously unpublished poems about school with colour
illustrations by Korky Paul. (£3.99)