2007's "FORTHCOMING BOOKS" LISTINGS

DECEMBER

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story – Susan Hill
A mysterious depiction of masked revellers at the Venice carnival hangs in the college rooms of Oliver's old professor in Cambridge. On a cold winter's night, its eerie secret is revealed by the ageing don. Several reviewers have mentioned M R James. (£9.99)
 
PAPERBACK
 
The Castle in the Forest - Norman Mailer
Who was Adolf Hitler and how do we explain his hatred? Where did it come from? The late Norman Mailer explores these questions in a novel spanning three generations. (£9.99)
 
Mrs. Valley's War: The Shelter Stories of Feyyaz Kayacan Fergar, trans. Ruth Christie; Berilgen Selcuk
Translated into English for the first time, a series of stories written during the WWII doodle-bug raids on London by a former Head of the BBC’s Turkish Section. (£7.99)
 
REISSUES
 
Jane and Prudence - Barbara Pym
The setting of this very funny novel, one of Barbara Pym's earliest, is an English village where Jane's husband is the newly appointed vicar. (£7.99)
 
NON-FICTION
 
FOOD & DRINK
 
Moro East - Samantha Clark; Samuel Clark
In "Moro East", Sam and Sam Clark renew their passion for the food of Spain and the Muslim Mediterranean, but this time they find their inspiration a little closer to home ...in an East End allotment. (£25)
 
MEDIA
 
Home Truths: The Peel Years and Beyond, ed. Mark McCallum
A collection of the best stories from the radio programme hosted by John Peel from 1998 until his death in 2004. (£7.99)
 
MIND BODY SPIRIT
 
Teach Yourself Happiness - Paul Jenner
For anyone who knows they have a good life, but wants a lasting feeling of well-being. (£8.99)
 
The Holford 9-Day Liver Detox - Patrick Holford; Fiona McDonald Joyce (£10.99)
 
Overcoming Anorexia - J. Hubert Lacey; Christine Craggs-Hinton; Kate Robinson (£7.99)
 
Gem Cholesterol Counter (£4.99)
 
POLITICS
 
Desert Children - Waris Dirie
An investigation of the practice of Female Genital Mutilation in Europe - they estimate that up to 500,000 women and girls have undergone or are at risk of FGM. At the moment, France is the only European country in which offenders are convicted. Here are the voices of women who have felt encouraged and emboldened by Waris Dirie's courage. They speak out for the first time and move us to action. (£6.99)
 
REFERENCE
 
Schott's Almanac 2008 (£16.99)
 
Teach Yourself Writing Essays and Dissertations - Hazel Hutchison (£8.99)
 
Debt-free Wannabe - Martin Lewis
A debt-busting guide from the Sunday Times author of The Money Diet. (£7.99)

NOVEMBER

FICTION

HARDBACK

The People on Privilege Hill - Jane Gardam

Short stories ranging from the Lake District to Dorset; from Wimbledon, where an old Victorian mansion has been converted into a home for unmarried mothers, to wartime London, where a hospital is the scene of a job interview in the middle of the Blitz. (£10.99 at The Book Case)

Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis - Ali Smith

Ali Smith's re-mix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. (£10.99 at The Book Case)

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: and Other Stories - Nadine Gordimer

These stories illustrate the show-downs, standoffs and highlights of human intimacy while penetrating the nuances of immigration, national identity and race. (£12.99 at The Book Case)

When I Forgot - Elina Hirvonen, trans. Douglas Robinson
Successful Finnish debut novel, in which the young narrator tells of her brother’s battles with mental illness, her father’s violence and her boyfriend’s father’s traumas from the Vietnam war, while refusing to despair. (£10 at The Book Case)

The Annotated Hans Anderson ed. Maria M Tatar

Sumptuous illustrated hardback with annotations that explore the rich social and cultural dimensions of the nineteenth century and construct a compelling portrait of a writer whose stories still fascinate us today. Maria Tatar’s annotated Grimm and Classic Fairy Tales are also available. (£25)

PAPERBACK

The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield

Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once home to the March family - fascinating, manipulative Isabelle, brutal, dangerous Charlie, and the wild, untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline. But Angelfield House hides a chilling secret which strikes at the very heart of each of them, tearing their lives apart... (£6.99)

Nine Nights - Bernardo Carvalho

In August 1939, a brilliant, privileged twenty-seven-year-old American ethnologist mysteriously commits suicide in Brazil, while studying among the tribes of the Amazonian basin. Half a century later, the narrator sets out to discover the truth and becomes obsessed by the idea that the dead man must have left behind an eighth letter. An extraordinary Brazilian novel, reminiscent of Naipaul, Faulkner or Conrad. (£7.99)

Simple Genius - David Baldacci

Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are both haunted by their last case. Realizing that Michelle is teetering on the brink of self-destruction from long-buried demons, Sean arranges therapy for his reluctant partner. But instead of focusing on her recovery, Michelle unearths disturbing secrets in the hospital ...(£6.99)

Dragon's Fire - Anne McCaffrey; Todd McCaffrey (£6.99)

H.R.H. - Danielle Steel

Princess Christianna, happier in jeans and a sweatshirt than in the formal life of European royalty, leaves university to travel to East Africa as a volunteer for the Red Cross and plunges into the dusty, bustling life of an international relief camp. (£6.99)

Free Fall - John Francome

Jockey Pat Vincent has ambitions to win the best races and become a wealthy sporting hero. But he knows his dreams will never be fulfilled so he's devised a brilliant new scam which, if discovered, would see him warned off for life. (£6.99)

REISSUES

A Round of Stories by the Christmas Fire - Charles Dickens; Elizabeth Gaskell

One of Dickens' earliest collections of stories. Intended for the holiday season, it offers tales of romance, theft, justice, hauntings and heart-warming family reunions. (£6.99)

The Corsican Brothers - Alexandre Dumas; Frank Wynne

A man is travelling in old Corsica, 'the land of the Vendetta'. He lodges with the widowed Madame Savilia de Franchi, who has very different twin sons. (£6.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Letters of Ted Hughes - ed. Christopher Reid

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world'. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen, and documents the course of a life at once resolutely private but intensely attuned to other lives (including a readership comprising both adults and children). (£30; £20 at The Book Case while stocks last)

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir - Gore Vidal

The title refers to a form of navigation Gore Vidal resorted to as a first mate in the navy during World War II - an apt analogy for the hazards eluded (mostly) during his eventful life. (£8.99)

COLLECTORS

Miller's Pottery and Porcelain Marks - Gordon Lang (£12.99)

Miller's Silver and Sheffield Plate Marks - John Bly (£9.99)

Wristwatch Annual 2008: The Catalog of Producers, Models, and Specifications - Peter Braun (£25)

CURRENT AFFAIRS

ENVIRONMENT

50 Ways to Make Your House and Garden Greener - Sian Berry (£4.99)

50 Ways to Save Water and Energy - Sian Berry (£4.99)

HISTORY

Lest We Forget: Forgotten Voices from a Century of War - Max Arthur et al

Gift-format anthology of first-hand recollections from the Great War to the Second World War. (£10.99)

HUMOUR, ACTIVITES & PUZZLES

What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness - Jon Ronson

The second volume of Jon Ronson's collected Guardian journalism, demonstrating how our everyday lives are determined by the craziest thoughts and obsessions; how we spend our time believing in and getting worked up by complete nonsense. (£7.99)

How to Survive Christmas - Jilly Cooper (£6.99)

The QI Annual 2008 - John Lloyd

Imagine an edition of "The Guinness Book of Records" selected by a panel of stand-up comedians... Will offend dullards, whales and parents in no particular order. (£12.99)

Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 17 Recipes - Mark Crick

Literary ventriloquist Mark Crick presents 17 recipes in the voices of famous writers, from Homer to Irvine Welsh. (£8.99)

The Complete Guide to Uninvited Advice on Raising Children - Alice Beaven

The complete and illustrated guide to all the uninvited, unhelpful and frankly mad advice that parents have ever been given. (£6.99)

Make Your Own Contraptions: Design and Build 50 Marvellous Machines - Robert Beattie (£9.99)

Rude UK: 100 Even Ruder British Place Names - Rob Bailey; Ed Hurst

Includes our very own Slack Bottom. (£10)

Must Try Harder!: The Very Worst Howlers by Schoolchildren - Norman McGreevy (£5.99)

Christmas Tree In-a-Box - Sam Ita, ill. Karen Greenberg

Includes ten lively Christmas carols; a tasty recipe for eggnog, directions for folding five Christmas origami ornaments and instructions for assembling the kit's centre- piece: the foot-and-a-half tall Christmas tree - with ornaments. (£10.99)

Extreme Su Doku: Bk. 3 - ed. Wayne Gould (£6.99)

LANGUAGE

Toujours Tingo: Extraordinary Words to Change the Way We See the World - Adam Jacot de Boinod

A follow-up to "The Meaning of Tingo" which examines useful and unusual words from other languages: in Namibia there is a word for walking on tiptoe through warm sand and in Welsh, gwarlingo is the rushing sound a grandfather clock makes before striking the hour. Oh and Tingo is an invaluable word from the Pascuense language of Easter Island meaning "to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there's nothing left". (£10.99)

LIFESTYLE

Naming Your Baby: The Definitive Dictionary of First Names - Julia Cresswell (£6.99)

Son of a Stitch 'n Bitch: Knitting for Men - Debbie Stoller

Everything you need to know to knit and crochet for the men and boys in your life. (£10.99)

MBS

Benedictus: A Book of Blessings - John O'Donohue

An inspiring and comforting new work from the author of "Anam Cara". (£12.99)

The Fairy Bible: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the World of Fairies - Teresa Moorey (£12.99)

Calm for Women Who Worry - Denise Marek (£7.99)

Healing Words from the Angels - Doreen Virtue (£5.99)

The Invisible Force: 365 Ways to Apply the Power of Intention to Your Life - Wayne W. Dyer (£5.99)

Teach Yourself Emotional Intelligence - Christine Wilding (£7.99)

Teach Yourself Training Your Brain - Simon Wootton; Terry Horne (£8.99)

Emotional Healing: Complementary Solutions for a Stress-free Life - Jan De Vries (£7.99)

The Flower Healer: Flower-essence Medicine for Healing - Barbara Olive (£12.99)

NATURE

The Goshawk - T H White (New York Review Books Classics)
Chronicles a concentrated duel between the author and a great hawk. First published 1951. (£8.99)

Words from the Countryman: A Celebration of the Best of the "Countryman" Magazine 1927-2007 - Valerie Porter

A compilation of unusual and entertaining material from "The Countryman" magazine's long and prestigious history which elebrated its 80th anniversary in 2007. (£12.99)

POETRY

Ted Hughes: Selected Translations - ed. Daniel Weissbort

The achievement of Ted Hughes as a poet is inseparable from his achievement as a translator of poetry and poetic drama. Here for the first time, is a broad selection from Hughes' numerous translations, together with hitherto unpublished material (versions of Paul Eluard and of Yves Bonnefoy), and excerpts from essays and letters. (£12.99)

Celebrations - Maya Angelou

A collection of timely and timeless poems. (£9.99)

Chaos of the Night: Women's Poetry and Verse from the Second World War - ed. Catherine Reilly

Eighty-seven poets record the devastating upheavals WWII caused with its attendant partings, separations, bereavements. Whether as civilians or as auxiliary service- women, these women write of the fear of air attacks, of children's response to evacuation, of their horror of Nazi persecution. (£8.99)

Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth: Poems: 2004-2006 - Adrienne Rich

The newest volume of poetry from Rich, recipient of the National Book Foundations 2006 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, collects some of her most unpredictable and evocative work to date.(£14.99)

Penguin's Poems for Life - ed. Laura Barber

Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life, this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire, comfort and delight readers for a lifetime, ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy, via Shakespeare, Keats, and Lemn Sissay, this book offers something for each of those moments in life - whether falling in love, finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes - when only a poem will do. (£20)

Beowulf: an illustrated edition - (trans.) Seamus Heaney, (ill.) John D Niles (£13.99)

SCIENCE

The Universe in a Single Atom: How Science and Spirituality Can Serve Our World - Dalai Lama

His Holiness the Dalai Lama discusses his vision of science and faith working hand in hand to alleviate human suffering, drawing on a lifetime of scientific study and religious practice. (£8.99)

SPORT

The Fishing Pocket Companion - Lesley Crawford

A handy pocket book is full of fishy facts. (£6.99)

Stumped!: The Sports Fan's Book of Answers - Nicholas Hobbes

"Stumped!" will resolve all your sporting quarrels, queries and conundrums including: would it break the rules of football for all eleven players to form a human pyramid in their goalmouth after scoring? Why do female tennis players grunt? Why do cyclists shave their legs? How inbred are thoroughbred racehorses? The ideal gift for the sports fanatic. (£9.99)

TRANSPORT

Heyday of Ribble - Roger Davies

Ribble grew to become one of the largest bus operators outside London, dominating much of the northwest of England with a fleet that expanded to over 1000 vehicles and served an area from Liverpool and Manchester up to Carlisle. 85 colour photographs. (£14.99)

Trolleybus Memories: The Manchester Network - Mike Eyre; Chris Heaps (£14.99)

TRAVEL

The Traveller's Pocket Companion - Georgina Newberry

Attractive, handy pocket book contains an unputdownable assortment of facts and quotes, anecdotes and tall tales about the history and mystery of international travel. (£6.99)

The Walker's Pocket Companion - Malcolm Tait

A handy pocket book bursting with great ideas for anyone who's ever laced a sturdy boot, packed a cheese and pickle sandwich, and put one foot in front of the other in search of stimulation, observation and contemplation. (£6.99)

From the AA, new street atlases to Greater Manchester, a large-scale road atlas to France and their popular A4 one for Europe.

A new Lonely Planet guide to Central America.

Survival Wisdom and Know-how: Everything You Need to Know to Thrive in the Wilderness - ed. Amy Rost (£12.95)

Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) - Paul Carter

Paul has worked, got into trouble, and been given serious talkings to, from the North Sea to Sumatra, with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet. (£7.99)

Victoria's Empire - Victoria Wood

Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage takes her to places around the world that also share her namesake, Queen Victoria. TV tie-in. (£7.99)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Guess How Much I Love You - Sam McBratney
New paperback edition of the publishing sensation selling 18 million fifteen years ago. A classic heart warming story beautifully illustrated. Ages: Ages: 2-5yrs. (£9.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Pop-up Moby Dick - Sam Ita
The epic saga of Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for a white whale comes vividly to life in this three-dimensional graphic novel the first of its kind. With more than 1 pop-up per page surrounded by colourful comic book style panels that convey the drama. Ages: 6+ years. (£14.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Chocolates and Sweets to Make - Rebecca Gilpin
Perfect for anyone with a sweet tooth or for home made gift ideas for Christmas. this book contains fourteen step-by-step recipes with clear illustrations.Ages: 6-11yrs. (£9.99)

Teenage

Snakehead - Anthony Horowitz
The teenage spy Alex Rider enters the violent criminal underworld of the Snakeheads. A new breathtaking adventure from this most popular children’s writer Age: 10+ yrs. (£12.99)

OCTOBER 2007

FICTION

HARDBACK

The Careful Use of Compliments - Alexander McCall Smith

For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, fourteen years her junior, Isabel enters deeper and rougher waters. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

Slam - Nick Hornby

"Whoever invented skateboarding is a genius. There's only one skater, and his name's Tony Hawk." Nick Hornby's new novel for teenagers it confronts issues such as teenage pregnancy love and friendship. (£10.99 at The Book Case)

The Tain - trans. Ciaran Carson

The kingdoms of Connacht and Ulster are preparing to do battle with each other. Medb, the sly and envious Queen of Connacht, is on a mission to steal the fabled Brown Bull of Cooley from the men of Ulster. The Ulstermen, crippled by an ancient curse, face defeat from her armies, until a hero emerges in the shape of the warrior Cu Chulainn. (£15.99)

The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole - John Mortimer (£16.99 at The Book Case)

PAPERBACK

Engleby - Sebastian Faulks

Mike Engleby, devoid of scruple or self-pity, survives a 'traditional' English school, goes to university in the 1970s and his subsequent career brings us up to the present day. Beneath the disturbing surface of his outspoken observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. Trade paperback. (£12.99)

House of Meetings - Martin Amis

There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. (£7.99)

Le Bal - Irene Nemirovsky

Two lost classics from the Ukrainian born, French-educated writer are gathered together in one volume. "Le Bal" depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. "Snow in Autumn" pays homage to Nemirovsky's beloved Chekhov and chronicles the life of a devoted servant following her masters as they flee Revolutionary Moscow and emigrate to a life of hardship in Paris. (£7.99)

Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka

An idyll of the English countryside: a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field, and around their two caravans a little group of strawberry pickers is getting ready to celebrate a birthday. But who picks our strawberries these days? (£7.99)

Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier

At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. (£7.99)

The Foreign Correspondent - Alan Furst

By 1939, thousands of Italian intellectuals, teachers and lawyers, journalists and scientists, had fled Mussolini's fascist government and found refuge in Paris, where they joined the Italian resistance. Telegraph 'In the world of espionage thrillers, Alan Furst is in a class of his own' - William Boyd (£6.99)

Depths - Henning Mankell

A gripping psychological thriller. In October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was naval engineer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman. The discovery of an almost feral young woman on a barren skerry strikes him to the core. (£6.99)

The Gum Thief - Douglas Coupland

Meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker, Bethany, who's at the end of her Goth phase and realising she's facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes and replenishing the Crayola boutique in Aisle Six. (£10.99)

Far North and Other Dark Tales - Sarah Maitland

"Far North", based on an Inuit myth, is set among desperate women in the frozen north surviving against all odds; now a film. All these stories, formally bold and innovative, emotionally edgy and deeply imbued with a sense of location, address Sara Maitland's primary concerns about the links between beauty and terror, modernity and ritual. (£8.99)

Afterwards - Rachel Seiffert

To love someone, need you know everything about them? When Alice and Joseph meet, they fall quickly into a tentative but serious relationship. She is a nurse, he a painter and decorator; both are still young and hopeful of each other, but each brings with them an emotional burden. (£7.99)

I Did a Bad Thing - Linda Green

From a local author and featured at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. Sarah Roberts used to be good. Then she did something very bad. Now, years later, she's living a good life, until Nick reappears. And suddenly, what's good and bad aren't so clear to Sarah any more. (£6.99)

Nature Girl - Carl Hiaasen

A holiday to die for? In Hiaasen's extraordinary universe, anything can happen ... (£6.99)

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: v. 18 - ed. Stephen Jones (£7.99)

This is for You - Rob Ryan

A romantic and touching story of thoughts and dreams, loneliness and longing, told in magical paper-cuts. (£12)

REISSUES

The Cranford Chronicles - Elizabeth Gaskell (£7.99)

The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories: "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes", "The Friends of the Friends", " The Jolly Corner" - Henry James (£5.99)

The Penguin Book of First World War Stories - ed. Barbara Korte; Ann-Marie Einhaus (£10.99)

The Good Companions - J.B. Priestley; David Joy; Lee Hanson

Including biographical details, images and information on the music hall scene of the 1920s, to enable the reader to place the novel in its historical context. (hardback; £12.99 at The Book Case)

The Spy's Bedside Book - Graham Greene; Sir Hugh Greene

A classic compendium of espionage stories - fiction, memoir and autobiography - from the pens of some of the greatest writers and most famous spies. First published 1957 and now with an introduction by Stella Rimington, former head of MI5 (£12.99)

A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel - Mikhail Bulgakov

Semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers. (£8.99)

Brother of the More Famous Jack - Barbara Trapido (£7.99)

Noah's Ark - Barbara Trapido (£7.99)

The Woman in Black - Susan Hill (£6.99)

NON-FICTION

ART, ARCHITECTURE, CRAFT AND DANCE

Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual - ed. Kathleen Connors; Sally Bayley

A side of Sylvia Plath that is scarcely known: her serious involvement in the visual arts from a very early age. She moved between art-making and writing constantly, integrating their elements with ease and pleasure. It was only at the age of 20 that she decided to leave fine art behind her as her chosen career, and opt for the written word. Eye Rhymes presents a magnificent range of Plath's art, most of it seen in print for the first time: childhood sketches, illustrated diaries, portraits, rich modernist and expressionist paintings, fashion images, photographs, and more. (£25)

Year in Art, No. 2: A Treasure a Day 2008

A perpetual calendar that features the world's masterpieces in richly coloured double-page spreads. (£24.99)

Natural Architecture - Alessandro Rocca

"We get along better if we collaborate with nature instead of trying to dominate it." Beautifully illustrated with examples of practical dialogue between architect and site, from Princeton Architectural Press.

Barns of the Dales - Andy Singleton; David Joy, intro. Bill Bryson

Thousands of barns are scattered among the villages, meadows and pastures of the Yorkshire Dales. Stone structures of great character, they form a monument to immense labour in past centuries. David Joy comes from Upper Wharfedale farming stock and knows many individual barns at first hand. Andy Singleton has been a builder in the Dales for more than twenty-five years and covers the construction methods and materials that were used to build barns, and then explains in detail how they can be converted into dwellings. (£16.99)

Creative Spinning - Alison Daykin; Jane Deane

How to spin using drop spindles and spinning wheels and how to control singles, twists and ply. How to experiment with a variety of yarns, such as silk fibre, animal hair, vegetable fibre and how to use recycled products. (£12.99)

Woven Crystal Beaded Jewellery - Celine Marchand

If you love jewellery made from crystal beads, then the thirty stunning rings, necklaces and bracelets in this book, in both traditional and ethnic designs, are guaranteed to fire your imagination. (£9.99)

Charms - Stephanie Burnham

Over 20 funky fast bracelet designs plus variations. It provides simple techniques to get you started quickly. (£4.99)

The Meaning of Tango: The History and Steps of the Argentinian Dance - Christine Denniston (£9.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Dearest Father - Franz Kafka, trans. Anna Stokes; Richard Stokes

In this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul. (£7.99)

The Young Che: Memories of Che Guevara - Ernesto Guevara Lynch, trans. Lucia Alvarez de Toledo

This volume is assembled from two separate books never previously published in English - "My Son Che" and "A Soldier of the Americas", both written by Che's father, Ernesto Guevara Lynch. It also includes, for the first time anywhere, Che's diary of his bicycle journey around Northern Argentina. (£8.99)

The Joke's Over: Memories of Hunter S. Thompson - Ralph Steadman

In the spring of 1970, Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work. In Kentucky to cover the Derby, he met a former Hells Angel called Hunter S. Thompson. That meeting resulted in a working relationship and a friendship that lasted for more than thirty years. (£8.99)

A Voyage Round John Mortimer - Valerie Grove (£25)

Selective Memory - Katharine Whitehorn

Katharine Whitehorn pioneered the first of the personal columns. She told us how it really was. She was funny - and smart. For nearly 40 years the Observer's star columnist, she is also famous for Cooking in a Bedsitter. She is now Saga magazine's agony aunt. (£18.99)

80 Years in the Dales - Hannah Hauxwell

This first major book on Hannah for eight years traces the extraordinary life of a delightful personality who has never lost her links with the Dales countryside. It includes many hitherto unpublished photographs. (£15.99)

More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007 - Tony Benn

When Tony Benn left Parliament after 51 years he quoted his wife Caroline's remark that now he would have 'more time for politics'. And so this has proved. (£20; audio version £13.99)

Rabble-rouser for Peace: The Authorised Biography of Desmond Tutu - John Allen (£8.99)

Once in a House on Fire - Andrea Ashworth

Set in 1970s Manchester - the true story of three sisters and their mother, a close-knit and loving family forced to battle with poverty, abuse and the effects of depression. New edition. (£7.99)

CURRENT EVENTS

Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction - Klaus J. Dodds

Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places it can be a matter of life and death. (£6.99)

Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World's Vanishing Oil Resources - Dilip Hiro

China is now the world's second largest energy consumer, trailing only behind America. And India has moved up into the fourth place behind Russia, after overtaking Japan in 2001. But the number of countries able to export the commodity is shrinking. Those countries will be largely Muslim, or like Hugo Chavez's Venezuela, hostile to Western interests. (£10.99)

ENVIRONMENT

Carbon Detox: Cut Your Carbon, Improve Your Lifestyle, Save the Planet - George Marshall (£7.99)

The Global Warming Survival Kit: The Must-have Guide to Overcoming Extreme Weather, Power Cuts, Food Shortages and Other Climate Change Disasters - Brian Clegg

The first book to take a hard, scientific look at the likely scenarios and provide practical advice for you and your family on how to cope with anything global warming might throw at you. (£9.99)

Green Up!: An A-Z Guide to Making Your Home Eco-friendly - Will Anderson (£7.95)

FOOD AND DRINK

Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table - Nigel Slater (£16.99)

The Cheese Making Book - Paul Peacock

Explains what equipment is needed (which is really not much more than a big pan), and the science of making your first cheese - cottage style. It includes different milks from goat and sheep, adding herbs and flavours, selling and showing cheese, the legal implications and gearing up for a larger scale operation. (£14.99)

The Apple Source Book - Sue Clifford; Angela King

A celebration of the 2,000 or more varieties of apple we can grow in these islands, with their distinctive flavours, uses, places of origin stories and associated customs; includes recipes, a county gazetteer of apple varieties, specialist nurseries, suppliers of fruit, orchard groups, as well as Apple Day ideas such as wassailing, juice pressing and cider making. (£16.99)

Nature's Wild Harvest: The Very Best Free Food - Paul Peacock (£14.99)

Slow Cooking for Vegetarians - Annette Yates (£7.99)

Toastie Heaven: 100 Great Reasons to Dig Out the Sandwich Toaster - Karen Saunders (£6.99)

Healthy First Foods for Your Toddler - Caitilin Finch (£8.99)

Shaken and Stirred: How to Cure a Hangover - Andrew Irving (£7.99)

GARDENING

The Naming of Names: The Search for Order in the World of Plants - Anna Pavord

Takes us on an exhilarating and fascinating journey through botanical history, travelling from Athens in the third century BC, through Constantinople and Venice, Padua and Pisa to the present day. (£16.99)

HISTORY

The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius; Robert Graves

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history. (£9.99)

Great Tales from English History: A Treasury of True Stories of the Extraordinary People Who Made Britain Great - Robert Lacey

Omnibus edition taking us on a lively and captivating tour of the nation's landmark moments from prehistory to modern times. (£9.99)

God's War - Christopher Tyerman

The story of how a group of warriors, driven by faith, greed and wanderlust, carved out new Christian-ruled states in the Middle East. (£12.99)

The Black Sea: The Birthplace of Civilisation and Barbarism - Neal Ascherson

The world of Herodotus and Aeschylus; Ovid's place of exile; the decline and fall of Byzantium; the Christian Goths; the Tatar Khanates; the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, and the centuries of war between Ottoman and Russian Empires around the Black Sea; and the terrors of Stalinism and its fascist enemy. New edition. (£8.99)

Lionheart and Lackland: King Richard, King John and the Wars of Conquest - F.J. McLynn

The vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets; illustrated. (£9.99)

4ft 81/2 and All That: A Sort of Railway History - W. Mills

An irreverent look at railway history. (£9.99)

What Britain Has Done 1939-1945 - Ministry of Information 1945, intro. Richard Overy

An astonishing portrait of a society at total war, with facts and figures. (£9.99)

HUMOUR, NOSTALGIA & PUZZLES

The Christmas Letters: The Ultimate Collection of Round Robins - Simon Hoggart

Every year about this time, unwanted round robins, stuffed with news of young Chloe's nauseating excellence at - well - everything, the announcement of Janet's cousin's husband's friend's divorce, or the details of Terry's colonoscopy, accumulate on doormats. This anthology brings together Simon Hoggart’s two collections.(£7.99)

"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue": In Search of Mornington Crescent (CD) (£12.99)

"Have I Got News for You" 2 (£9.99)

Dumb Britain, ed. Marcus Berkmann (£4.99)

The "Private Eye" Annual 2007, ed. Ian Hislop (£9.99)

Prairie Home Christmas - Garrison Keillor (CD) (£14.99)

I Think the Nurses are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith - ed. Warren Lakin (£8.99)

I Have a Bream - John O'Farrell

Isn't it always the way? You wait ages for one purple flour-filled condom and then three come along at once. The latest collection of hilarious Guardian columns. (£7.99)

An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge) - John O'Farrell

"Horrible History for Grown Ups" - read how Anglo-Saxon liberals struggled to be positive about immigration; discover how England's peculiar class system was established by some snobby French nobles whose posh descendants still have wine cellars and second homes in the Dordogne today; and explore the complex socio-economic reasons why Britain's kings were the first in Europe to be brought to heel. (£16.99)

The Parking Ticket Awards: Crazy Councils, Meter Madness and Traffic Warden Hell - Barrie Segal (£6.99)

Tigger on the Couch: The Neuroses, Psychoses, Maladies and Disorders of Our Favourite Children's Characters - Laura James (£9.99)

Box 18: The Unpublished Spike Milligan, ed. Norma Farnes

This third wonderful anthology from the Spike Milligan archives uncovers a wealth of previously unpublished material from one of Britain's best loved comedians. (£12.99)

The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip Book (£12.99)

Bad Vs. Worse: The Ultimate Guide to Making Lose-Lose Decisions - Joshua Piven From the author of "The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook": the ultimate guide to making impossible choices. (£12.95)

Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with Internet Spammers - Bob Swankie

A hilarious collection of email exchanges between the anti-hero of spam, Bob Servant, a former window cleaner and cheeseburger magnate and the hapless spam merchants. (£8.99)

Eagle Annual of the 1950s (£12.99)

The Girls' Empire : An Annual for English-speaking Girls All Over the World (£9.99)

The Pocket Book for Schoolboys 1958
The Pocket Book for Schoolgirls 1958

Facsimile editions of the 1958 editions, originally published by Evans and reissued now as part of the Evans centenary celebrations. (£6.99 each)

The "Daily Telegraph" Big Book of Brain Sharpener Cryptic Crosswords (£6.99)

The "Daily Telegraph" Big Book of Brain Sharpener Quick Crosswords (£6.99)

LITERATURE

Homer's the "Iliad and the "Odyssey": A Book That Shook the World - Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel traces the lineage of these poems, starting with their inception in ancient Greece and considering their place in the greatest literature ever created from the Rome of Virgil and Horace to Joyce's Dublin and Derek Walcott's Caribbean, via Dante and Racine. (£10.99)

Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction - John Sutherland

Bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study. Examines what makes a book into a bestseller, what separates bestsellers from canonical fiction and the relationship between bestsellers and the fashions, ideologies, and cultural concerns of the day. (£6.99)

Nobel Lectures: 20 Years of the Nobel Prize for Literature Lectures

Includes Harold Pinter, Toni Morrison, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer and Orhan Pamuk. (£12.99)

MBS

5-Minute Back Relief - Royal College of General Practitioners (Collins GEM) (£4.99)

Pagan Resurrection: A Force for Evil or the Future of Western Spirituality? - Richard Rudgley

Puts forward a fascinating and controversial idea - namely that it is the pagan god Odin and not Christ who is the single most important spiritual influence in western civilisation. (£9.99)

The Bible: The Biography - Karen Armstrong

Made up of 66 'books' and divided into two Testaments, this complex and communal work has been transformed by its various translations into a single work at the heart of the world's largest and most powerful organised religions. Karen Armstrong discusses how it was collected and accepted as Christianity's sacred text and its ongoing influence. (£16.99)

Spiritual Imperative: Transforming Our Every day Lives - Satish Kumar

Spirituality must be a part of our ordinary, everyday existence: it needs to be implicitly present in business, in politics, in farming, in cooking, and in our relationships. To illustrate this, Satish Kumar draws on the Indian Ayurvedic tradition. (£9.95)

The Madness of Modern Parenting - Annie Ashworth; Meg Sanders

Does an impending child's birthday party fill you with performance anxiety? Did you spend more time on your child's homework last night than on your own employer's end-of-year report? Do you drop boastful hints about your child, saying 'George is so busy' - even though George is six? If so, you might be suffering from the madness of modern parenting. (£8.99)

Why He's So Last Minute and She's Got it All Wrapped Up - Allan Pease; Barbara Pease (£6.99)

The Angel Book - Vanessa Lampert (£12.99)

The Angel Book of Days - Vanessa Lampert (£12.99)

How to Hear Your Angels - Doreen Virtue (£4.99)

Chakra Crystals - Kate Tomas

About healing with crystals on a very personal level. Its aim is to empower you so that you can consistently and gradually change your life with the help of crystal resonance. Crystals included. (£14.99)

White Eagle Medicine Wheel Deck - Wa-Na-Nee-Che; Eliana Harvey (£8.99)

The Chakra Bible: The Definitive Guide to Working with Chakras - Patricia Mercier

A guide to understanding every aspect of chakras, the centres of energy in our body that have a profound effect on energy, health and well-being. (£12.99)

Working with Meditation: Practical Ways of Healing and Transforming Your Life

Madonna Gauding (£12.99)

A Book of Uncommon Prayer - Theo Dorgan

A collection of spiritual and devotional texts, drawn from both inside and outside the limits of the world's religious traditions. (£14.99)

IQ and Psychometric Tests: Assess Your Personality, Aptitude and Intelligence -

Philip Carter (£8.99)

MEDIA

"Strictly Come Dancing": The Official Annual 2008 - Alison Maloney (£12.99)

Who's Who in the "Archers" 2008 - Keri Davies (£4.99)

The DVD Stack - ed. Nick Bradshaw; Tim Robey

Selected, edited and written by film critics from the "Daily Telegraph", "Time Out", the "Sunday Times", "Sight and Sound" and "LOVEFiLM"; compares and rates different DVD editions of classic films from around the world, including the all-important special features. (£12.99)

Ten Bad Dates with De Niro - Richard T. Kelly

A rollicking collection of film 'Top Tens'. If you want to know the Ten Most-Deserved Oscars or Ten So-Called 'Turkeys' that are actually brilliant, then look no further.. (£12.99)

Your Life Online - Terry Burrows

Presents the ordinary, non-nerd user with a total picture of the latest developments in internet technology, details what they have to offer and shows you how to make the most of them. (£9.99)

Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown (£6.99)

MUSIC

White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - Joe Boyd

When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd.

(£8.99)

The Great Family Songbook: A Treasury of Favourite Folk Songs, Popular Tunes, Children's Melodies, International Songs, Hymns, Holiday Jingles and More - for Piano and Guitar - Dan Fox; Dick Weissman (£12.95)

NATURE

Beechcombings - Richard Mabey

The narratives of trees - and the effects of global warming; from the well-loved nature writer. (£20)

Where to Watch Birds in North-West England (£16.99)

Storm Force: Britain's Wildest Weather - Paul Hudson; Ian McCaskill; Michael Fish

Marks the twentieth anniversary of the October 1987 hurricane with many dramatic photographs. (£15.99)

The Guardian Book of Wartime Country Diaries - ed. Martin Wainwright

How the struggles between the Great European powers and against Hitler reached into the quietest corners of the British countryside. While Battle of Britain vapour trails loop over summer cornfields, diarists discuss the effect of planes on hawks and water-fowl. A lone ringed bird limps in from vanished Czechoslovakia. A naturalist studies the insect and plant life of a bomb crater. Women and children bring in the harvest as their menfolk fight in Flanders. The century's other wars, from Abyssinia to Iraq, are also noted. (£12.99)

The Royal Meteorological Society Weather Watcher's 3-year Log Book (£11.99)

Guide to Weather Forecasting - Storm Dunlop (£9.99)

PHILOSOPHY

The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty - A.C. Grayling

'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'. Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and create strategies with which to deal with them. (£7.99)

POETRY & DRAMA

Edward Thomas's Poets - ed. Judy Kendall

Edward Thomas is one of the best-loved of English poets. His poetry was written during the space of just two years, before he was killed in the First World War. Those years lie at the heart of "Edward Thomas' Poets": Judy Kendall's gathering of poems and letters embeds that brief period of intense poetic creativity within the wider narrative of Thomas' life. (£14.95)

Summoned by Bells - John Betjeman

His verse autobiography. (£10)

Darling: New and Selected Poems - Jackie Kay

Humour, Gender, Sexuality, Sensuality, Identity, Racism, and Cultural Difference. When do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. (£9.95)

Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid - Simon Armitage

Now in paperback. (£8.99)

The Laughter of Mothers - Paul Durcan

Sheila MacBride came from a political family - her uncle John MacBride was executed in 1916 for his part in the Easter Uprising - but when Sheila married into the "black, red-roaring, fighting Durcans of Mayo" she was obliged to give up a promising legal career. These poems commemorate his mother as Paul Durcan remembers her. (£12)

Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past - Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy has asked some of the brightest lights in the poetry world to chose a poem that is meaningful - or has meant something - to them, and write a response to it. (£12.99)

Homer's Odyssey - Simon Armitage

Originally commissioned for BBC Radio, this work recasts Homer's epic as a series of dramatic dialogues. (£12.99)

REFERENCE

Whitaker's Concise Almanack 2008 (£20)

Pears Cyclopedia 2007-2008 (£20)

Collins Complete DIY Manual - Albert Jackson; David Day (£25)

Haynes Laptop Manual - Gary Marshall (£15.99)

SCIENCE

The Void - Frank Close

What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? (£9.99)

Geekspeak: Why Life + Mathematics = Happiness - Graham Tattersall

The quirky offspring of 'QI' and 'Freakonomics', 'Geekspeak' melds ingenious statistical analysis with edifying trivia to explain away some curious facts of life. Curiosity is our human birthright, and destiny. (£12.99)

Why Do Moths Drink Elephants' Tears?: and Other Zoological Curiosities - Matt Walker

Now in paperback. (£7.99)

Why is Yawning Contagious?: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Human Body, and Some Things You'd Rather Not - Francesca Gould

What is pubic hair for? Can coffee sober you up? Do women have more fat cells than men? Why are bogies green? Could a frozen body be brought back to life? (£7.99)

QI: The Book of Animal Ignorance - John Lloyd; John Mitchinson

Meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. (£12.99)

SPORT

Young Wisden: A New Fan's Guide to Cricket - Tim De Lisle (£12.99)

TRAVEL

The Good Pub Guide 2008 - Fiona Stapley; Alisdair Aird (£14.99)

Good Hotel Guide 2008 (£20)

New street atlases to Manchester from the AA

Collins maps of Europe and France, £4.99 each

Philip’s Driver's Atlas of Europe 2008 (£7.99)

New Lonely Planet guide to Japan among others.

Walking in the Languedoc: 32 Routes in Haute Languedoc - John Cross (£12)

Serious Survival: How to Poo in the Arctic and Other Essential Tips for Explorers - Marshall Corwin

Over the last five years the BBC have taken groups to the world's most inhospitable places for Serious Jungle, Serious Amazon, Serious Desert, Serious Andes and Serious Arctic. This is what they had to learn to survive! Do you take a tent to the jungle, waterproofs to the Andes, does sand really get everywhere and how do you poo in the Arctic? (£16.99)

Twelve Favourite Mountains - Alfred Wainwright

Brings together in one rugged, pocket-sized volume twelve chapters from five different

"Pictorial Guides" - Blencathra; Bowfell; Carrock; Crinkle Crags; Great Gable; Harrison Stickle; Haystacks; Pike o' Stickle; Pillar; Place Fell; Scafell; and Scafell Pike. (£12.99)

A Walker's Notebook - A. Wainwright (£5.99)

Doing the Wainwrights: 214 Fells, Four Season and One Caravan - Steve Larkin

What on earth is a sixty-three year old man with a recent history of heart disease and cancer together with a marked tendency to wimpishness doing out on the Lake District fells alone in all seasons of the year? Answer: attempting to climb the 214 fells over 1,000’ described by Alfred Wainwright in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells within twelve months, raising money for charity in the process. (£9.99)

Shadow of the Silk Road - Colin Thubron

On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. (£8.99)

Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger

Thesiger spent five years exploring and wandering the deserts of Arabia. With vivid descriptions and colourful anecdotes he narrates his stories, including two crossings of the Empty Quarter, among peoples who had never seen a European and considered it their duty to kill Christian infidels. (£9.99)

The Marsh Arabs - Wilfred Thesiger

During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. (£9.99)

CHILDREN

Ages 0-5yrs

Story of the Little Mole... Plop up edition - Werner Holzwarth

A wonderful new edition of the outrageous favourite story which has sold over a million copies. Who did their business on the mole's head? Join the intrepid mole as he sets out to find the culprit and exact his revenge in his own special way. With tabs to pull and flaps to lift this is a modern classic . Ages: 2-5yrs. (£9.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Adventures of Odysseus - Hugh Lupton, Daniel Morden

As Odysseus fights to find his way back home after the long and brutal Trojan War, he has to endure harrowing ordeals and adventures, and come to terms with devastating losses. Storytellers Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden's graphic retelling breathes new life into this great classic. Age: 7-9yrs. (£13.00)

Ages 9-11yrs

Molly Moon Micky Minus and the Mind Machine - Georgia Byng

Molly Moon is on a mission to bring her long-lost twin brother, Micky, home. Luckily Molly's time-travel talents and world-stopping skills help her in her search ...until a baby-faced villain with a precocious plan to have the world's biggest brain gets in her way. Can Molly use her secret weapon mind reading to defeat the brainy babe?. Ages: 9-11yrs. (£9.99)

Teenage

Stuff of Nightmares - Malorie Blackman

A fantastic spine-tingling read for older readers from the outstanding Malorie Blackman. Kyle has always been afraid of things, especially dying. But when he gets on the train that is taking him and his class on a school trip, he has no idea how close to death he is going to come. Age: 12+ yrs (£12.99)

SEPTEMBER 2007

FICTION

HARDBACK

The Uncommon Reader - Alan Bennett

HM the Queen drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. The consequence is, of course, surprising, mildly shocking and very funny. (£9.99 at The Book Case; audio CD £12.99)

The Stone Gods - Jeanette Winterson

This new world weighs a yatto-gram... On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. (£14.99 at The Book Case)

On the Road: The Original Scroll - Jack Kerouac

The first ever publication of Kerouac's original draft for the book - transcribed from the famous 'scroll': hundreds of typed pages which constitute the manuscript taped together by Kerouac himself. (£25)

PAPERBACK

Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood

A collection of eleven stories that is almost a novel or a novel broken up into eleven interrelated stories. It resembles a photograph album - a series of clearly observed moments that trace the course of a life, and also of the other lives intertwined with it. . (£7.99)

The Ruby in Her Navel - Barry Unsworth

The Court of King Roger in 12th-century Sicily simmers with the volatile passions of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Latins and Greeks. Among them, a young Norman called finds employment under Yusuf, a Muslim who holds the Christian king's purse strings. (£7.99)

The View from Castle Rock - Alice Munro

From 19th-century Edinburgh to America - family history where imperfect recollections blur into fiction, where the past shows through the present like the tracks of a glacier on a geological map. Beneath the ordinary landscape there's a different story - evocative, frightening, sexy, unexpected, gripping. Alice Munro tells it like no other. (£7.99)

Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon

Moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York to London and Gottingen, and beyond. Meanwhile, Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. (£9.99)

The Yacoubian Building - Alaa Al Aswany

The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's main boulevards. Taha, the doorman's son, has aspirations beyond the slum in the skies, and dreams of one day becoming a policeman. (£7.99)

Mothers and Sons - Colm Toibin

Stories meditating on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships, teasing out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. (£7.99)

Wolf of the Plains - Conn Iggulden

The first in the Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants - from the bestselling co-author of 'The Dangerous Book For Boys'. (£6.99)

Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson

Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossibility of forgetting. (£7.99)

Mercy - Jodi Picoult

Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. When his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that he's killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest. (£6.99)

The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories - Susanna Clarke

Stories of petulant princesses, vengeful owls, ladies who pass their time embroidering terrible fates or with endless paths in deep, dark woods and houses that never appear the same way twice, from the author of "Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell". (£7.99)

Travels in the Scriptorium - Paul Auster

Every day an old man wakes alone in an almost empty room, unable to remember his past. The only clues to his identity are a manuscript, a pile of photos, and a visitor called Anna who sparks memories of forgotten love and tragedy. (£6.99)

The Inner Life of Martin Frost - Paul Auster

Martin Frost goes to a country house to write his novel away from the distractions of the city. Thinking that he is the sole occupant of the house, he is surprised and annoyed when he discovers a young woman in residence. She is similarly disturbed by his presence. (£8.99)

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida

When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn't her father at all. Abandoning her fiance, Clarissa travels from New York to Helsinki, and then north of the Arctic Circle - to Lapland. There, under the northern lights, Clarissa not only unearths her family's secrets, but also the truth about herself. (£7.99)

The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett

A short but perfectly formed complete Discworld novel, fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout. (£7.99)

The Friday Night Knitting Club - Kate Jacobs

It starts almost by accident: the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia's store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. (£6.99)

REISSUES

Sea Stories - Misc. (National Maritime Museum) (£7.99)

The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson (£7.99)

The Ghost - Arnold Bennett (£6.00)

Jock of the Bushveld - Sir Percy Fitzpatrick (£9.99)

A Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story - Mikhail Bulgakov

Bulgakov's surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with disastrous consequences. (£8.99)

The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories - ed. Peter Haining

A spine-chilling new anthology of 20th and 21st century tales by big name writers is in the best traditions of literary ghost stories. (£7.99)

Biggles Big Adventures - W. E. Johns

Includes: Biggles Flies North: A ripping adventure set in the Canadian arctic; Biggles Sees It Through: Biggles and his crew struggle to help a Polish scientist prevent his revolutionary aircraft designs from falling into the hands of the enemy; Biggles in the Baltic: Biggles and his crew taken by submarine to a hidden air base in the Baltic, to set up a secret unit of the RAF; and Biggles in the Jungle: Our hero lands in Belize in Central America, where he helps the local British governor destroy a gang of thugs who have enslaved native workers in the depths of the jungle. (£14.99)

Janet and John: Here We Go - Mabel O'Donnell; Rona Munro

"The Janet and John" books emerged as a popular way to help children learn to read in 1949. These classic bestsellers from yesteryear are coming back into print for Christmas! (£5.99)

NON-FICTION

ART AND CRAFT

Martin Parr - Sandra S. Phillips (£14.95)

The Woodwork Pattern Book: 100 Design Projects to Make by Hand - A.W.P. Kettless

100 practical projects that can be made by hand. including a pattern and detailed instructions, arranged by level of difficulty. Projects include: Shelving, Bookends, Toolbox, Coffee table, Dining table and chairs, Garden furniture, Desk, Gate, Window frame, Workshop or garden shed, Household steps, Side table, Chest of drawers, Boat. (£17.99)

Bags: An Illustrated History - Caroline Cox

Lavishly illustrated and intriguing story of the handbag, from its origins in the nineteenth century with reticules (essentially pockets with handles) and Louis Vuitton's revolutionary Noe bag for the female traveller, via Art Deco clutch bags moulded in Bakelite and the Hermes Kelly bag endorsed by Princess Grace in the 1950s, right up to the Mulberry Roxanne. (£25)

Tea Cozies - Guild of Master Craftsman (£9.99)

Toilet Roll Covers - Pat Ashforth; Steve Plummer (£9.99)

BIOGRAPHY

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick - Jenny Uglow

At the end of the eighteenth-century Britain fell in love with nature. Thomas Bewick's "History of British Birds" was the first 'field-guide' for ordinary people, illustrated by woodcuts of astonishing accuracy and beauty. But the vivid vignettes also showed the vanishing way of life of the country people of the North East. This superbly illustrated biography tells a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life and the beauty of the wild. (£9.99)

Edith Nesbit - Julia Briggs

E. Nesbit is one of the greatest children's writers of the century. This biography reveals her also as a wilful, demanding and adventurous woman, a true Bohemian who broke all society's rules in her search for love. Edith Nesbit's own writing reflects her dynamic energy, her sense of fun and passionate joie-de-vivre. Julia Brigg's biography explores with subtlety the complex relationship between her life and her fiction. (£12.99)

Rudyard Kipling: The Books I Leave Behind - David Alan Richards & Thomas Pinney

Celebrates the Nobel Prize winner's multifaceted achievements and, with 80 full-colour illustrations, underscores the variety and breadth of his printed production. (£16.99)

Strings are False: An Unfinished Autobiography - Louis MacNeice

An autobiography written in the 1940s but set aside, and published after MacNeice's death in 1965. (£9.99)

Betjeman - A.N. Wilson

Uses the vast archive of personal material relating to Betjeman's private life, including literally hundreds of letters written by his wife. A celebration of a much-loved poet, a brave campaigner for architecture at risk, and a highly popular public performer. (£8.99)

Gonzo - Hunter S. Thompson, ed. Steve Crist; Laila Nabulsi
A rare look into the life of Thompson: for the first time, his photographs and archives have been collected into a visual biography with an introduction by close friend Johnny Depp. (£22.95)

The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit - David Blunkett

An intimate diary of the Sheffield politician’s years at the centre of power. With characteristic bluntness, Blunkett reveals the inside story of New Labour, his relationships with key Cabinet colleagues and the hurly-burly of day-to-day politics. (£9.99)

Great Lives: a Century in Obituaries - ed. Ian Brunskill

100 of The Times’s famous obituaries, mixing the well-known with the less famous but whose lives had an impact on the world today. Illustrations from the Times archive. (£12.99)

Truckers North Truckers South - Leslie Purdon

In the late 1940s, Shay leaves school as soon as he can to become a trailer-boy on a Gardner truck that is noisy, cold and limited in speed. The driver, Fred, is one of the old school, a transport man through and through, who knows the best cafes and pubs and all the tricks of the trade. (£7.95)

Joyful Voices - Doris Stokes

An omnibus of "Joyful Voices" and "Voices of Love", bestsellers in the early 1980s. Doris Stokes was a celebrated medium who confounded sceptics by the uncanny accuracy of her readings. (£8.99)

A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling - V.S. Naipaul

Naipaul brings clarity and experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel, and tackles challenges of assimilation faced by the 'serious traveller', one for whom there can be no single world view. He writes about the classical world what we have retained from it, what we have forgotten and the more recent past. (£16.99)

And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Blake Morrison

An extraordinary portrait of family life, father-son relationships and bereavement. This new edition includes a new afterword by the author who appeared at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival in 2002. (£7.99)

Shame - Jasvinder Sanghera

When she was fourteen, Jasvinder Sanghera was shown a photo of the man chosen to be her husband. She was terrified. She'd witnessed the torment her sisters endured in their arranged marriages, so she ran away from home, grief-stricken when her parents disowned her. (£6.99)

CURRENT AFFAIRS AND POLITICS

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. Yet one such crime has been erased from the global public memory: the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948. The pervasive denial of the Nakbah, as Palestinians call the catastrophe that befell them, is still a mystery today. (£9.99)

On Royalty - Jeremy Paxman

What does it mean to be royal? At a time when the monarch no longer rules by divine right and governing powers fall to our elected leaders, the concept of royalty grows ever more elusive. Jeremy Paxman seeks to find out how the role of our head of state has changed over the years and what the implications have been. (£8.99)

The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq - Patrick Cockburn

A profound and personal journey to the heart of a shattered nation. In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. (£7.99)

Planet of Slums - Mike Davis

With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and of state violence on huge populations. (£8.99)

ENVIRONMENT

Shades of Green: A (mostly) Practical A-Z for the Reluctant Environmentalist - Paul Waddington

From Eden Project Children's Books. If you want to change the world without completely changing your life, what do you do? Buy "Shades of Green". (£10.99)

Baby Green: Caring for Your Baby the Eco-friendly Way - Jill Barker (£7.99)

Eco Baby: A Guide to Green Parenting - Sally Jane Hall (£9.95)

GARDENING & HUSBANDRY

The Head Gardeners - Toby Musgrave

A fascinating study of the great Victorian and Edwardian head gardeners, a remarkable group of self-made men who transformed gardening from menial labour into a profession, recreating the social world of the great country house gardens where staffs of up to fifty might be employed in growing produce of awe-inspiring variety in prodigious quantities. (£18.99)

The Royal Horticultural Society Fruit and Veg Notebook (£5.99)

Backyard Poultry Keeping - J.C. Jeremy Hobson (£10.99)

HISTORY

The History of Human Migration - ed. Russell King

The story of our migrations across the globe from prehistory of today's global population shifts, with annotated maps, informative timelines and hundreds of photographs, paintings and artefacts.(£19.99)

World History

From the cradle of early civilization in China and Egypt, through the strife of the Middle Ages to the technological explosions of late 20th-century society.(£9.99)

Blood of the Isles - Bryan Sykes

The world's first genetic archaeologist, takes us on a journey around the family tree of Britain and Ireland, to reveal how our tribal history still colours the country today. (£7.99)

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age - Robin Waterfield

It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and Armenia, and down to the coast of the Black Sea, fighting all the way, harried on all sides by Persian forces, wild mountain tribesmen, and a bitter winter... (£9.99)

Shakespeare's Wife - Germaine Greer

Ann Hathaway has been mocked and vilified by scholars for centuries. Yet Shakespeare became the very poet of marriage, exploring the sacrament in all its aspects, spiritual, psychological, sexual and sociological. Is it possible that Ann was the inspiration? Part-biography, part-history, "Shakespeare's Wife"reconstructs Ann's life, and the daily lives of Elizabethan women. (£20.00)

A Brief History of the Age of Steam - Thomas Crump

In 1710, an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years, the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the fortunes of nations. (£8.99)

Dancing into Battle: A Social History of the Battle of Waterloo - Nick Foulkes

The summer of 1815 saw the final and desperate efforts of European powers to usurp Napoleon's reign over France, in an age where war was a social occasion; the military urgency was matched only by the soldiers and their wives' frantic efforts to keep apace of the lavish balls which were being thrown. (£8.99)

Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain - Christian Wolmar

The dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history - from the pioneering Liverpool & Manchester Railway (and of the railway mania that followed) to the chequered history of British Rail and its subsequent privatisation. (£19.99)

Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944

Another in the Bodleian Library’s "Instructions for Servicemen series:" Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied assault on Germany. This extraordinary document was intended to educate soldiers on a range of topics, and to condition them to resist the effect of German propaganda by means of a healthy dose of British propaganda. It is very much a document of the period: 'If you have to give orders to German civilians, give them in a firm, military manner. The German civilian is used to it and expects it." (£4.99)

German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 - Bodleian Library

Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain -160,000 German soldiers were to be landed along a forty-mile coastal stretch of south-east England. This book brings together a selection of the documents with maps, aerial photographs, a physical description of the British Isles - region by region, lists of strategic targets, and a short phrase book for the invading forces when it became necessary to fraternize with the local populace. (£5.99)

Guide for U.S. Forces Serving in Iraq, 1943

No comment. (£4.99)

HUMOUR, GAMES, QUIZZES & GIFTS

Get Me Out of Here!: Exit Strategies for All Occasions - David Jacobson

Whether you are looking for an excuse or an escape, this book provides the answers to all manner of social nightmares. (£9.99)

Giles Collection 2008 (£7.99)

The Complete Book of Aunts - Rupert Christiansen

Covers loveable aunts, exotic aunts, seductive aunts, sad, mad and bad aunts, aunts in jail and aunts on the razzle, aunts in novels, verse and song. This work features a guide to the wonderful and sometimes weird world of this most misunderstood of relatives. (£8.99)

The Dangerous Book for Boys Yearbook - Conn Iggulden

Packed with historical facts, seasonal activities and space to note your own adventures, 'The Dangerous Book for Boys Yearbook' will keep men and boys busy from January to December. (£20)

Beadle's Miscellany, from the "Independent" - Jeremy Beadle

The best of his weekly general knowledge brainteasers - Which is the only muscle in the human body not attached at both ends? Which fictional characters live in a block of flats named after the author of the autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom"? (£7.99)

Ayres on the Air: No. 2 - Pam Ayres (CD

Six programmes on CD. (£15.99)

Ladies of Letters Say No (CD) £10.99

Boners: Seriously Misguided Facts According to Schoolkids - Alexander Abingdon

Reissue of a humorous book of 1931 with early illustrations by Dr. Seuss.(£7.95)

Zen Wind Chimes - Jennifer Colella (£5.99)

LIFESTYLE

How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans (one with an Ill-fitting Lid) and No Fancy Gadgets - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... - Gill Holcombe (£9.99)

MBS

The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World - Lewis Hyde

An examination of the 'gift economy', this work is a defence of the place of creativity in our increasingly market-orientated society. Has been selling well in hardback. (£8.99)

Enneagram - John Waters; Ronna Phifer-Ritchie (£9.99)

Daily Guidance from Your Angels: 365 Angelic Messages to Soothe, Heal, and Open Your Heart - Doreen Virtue (£9.99)

The Healing Power of Water - Masaru Emoto (£9.99)

In God We Doubt: Confessions of an Angry Agnostic - John Humphrys

Broadcaster John Humphrys is proud to count himself among the ranks of the scorned agnostics. Doubt is not the easy option. But for the millions who can find no easy answers to the most profound questions it is the only possible one. (£18.99)

Introducing Freud - Richard Appignanesi; Oscar Zarate (£6.99)

Introducing Postmodernism - Richard Appignanesi; Chris Garratt (£6.99)

Introducing Feminism - Cathia Jenainati; Judy Groves (£9.99)

Introducing Psychology - Nigel Benson (£6.99)

Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening - Rita Marie Robinson

"The Extraordinary Wisdom of Ordinary Women" is a collection of intimate, heartfelt conversations with women spiritual teachers who live and look like ordinary people. They have kids, husbands, jobs, and bills to pay. What makes them extraordinary is that each woman has awakened to her true nature. (£11.99)

Personality: What Makes You the Way You are - Daniel Nettle

Why are some people worriers, and others wanderers? Why do some people seem good at empathising, and others at controlling? Daniel Nettle takes the reader on a tour through the science of human personality, introducing the five 'dimensions' on which every personality is based, and using an unusual combination of individual life stories and scientific research, showing how our personalities stem from our biological makeup. (£12.99)

MEDIA

The Worst it Can be is a Disaster - Braham Murray

The autobiography of Braham Murray, founding director of the Royal Exchange Manchester which in 2006 celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. (£16.99)

Seven Hundred Penguins

A celebration of Penguin covers (£20)

Granta Diary 2008: The Books They Tried to Ban

A colourful history of censorship and literary suppression, featuring the covers of books that have been banned by governments, courts and churches in the long struggle to prevent people reading what was deemed bad for them - "Lady Chatterley's Lover" in the UK, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in China, "Black Beauty" in South Africa ... (£10.99)

NATURE

RSPB Pocket Guide to British Birds - Simon Harrap (£4.99)

A Lifetime of Mountains: The Best of A. Harry Griffin's Country Diary, ed Martin Wainwright

Harry Griffin's 'Country Diary' column for the "Guardian" ran uninterrupted for some 52 years until his death in 2004. This is a collection of the best of these columns, (£7.99)

The River Cottage Mushroom Handbook - John Wright (£12.50)

POETRY

Earth Shattering: Ecopoems, ed. Neil Astley

Over two hundred poems which address environmental destruction, celebrate the rapidly vanishing natural world, or lament what has already been lost, or even find a glimmer of hope through efforts to conserve, recycle and rethink. (£8.99)

Stone Milk - Anne Stevenson

Anne Stevenson's engaging 14th collection opens with "A Lament for the Makers", an experimental sequence based on medieval dream poetry, followed by a series of shorter poems, mostly related to aging and the prospect (even the comfort) of dying. (£7.95)

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet within - Stephen Fry

A witty and entertaining guide to the mysteries of writing poetry. (£6.99)

Cats and Their Poets: An Anthology - ed. Maurice Craig (£12.50)

TRAVEL

New for 2008: the AA Pub Guide, AA Bed and Breakfast Guide and British Bed and Breakfast in the Alastair Sawday's Special Places to Stay series

A new Rough Guide to Australia, a new Lonely Planet Middle East phrasebook and guide book to India.

"Time Out" Shortlist Amsterdam 2008 (£6.99)

"Time Out" Shortlist New York 2008 (£6.99)

"Time Out" Shortlist Paris 2008 (£6.99)

"Time Out" Shortlist Rome 2008 (£6.99)

The "Which?" Good Food Guide 2008 - ed. Elizabeth Carter; Caroline Blake (£16.99)

The "Times" Map of the World (£6.99)

New Europe - Michael Palin

In undertaking his new journey through Eastern Europe, Michael fills what has been a void in his own experience and that of very many of his own generation. Starting in the mountains of Slovenia he travels down through Croatia and the former Yugoslavia to Albania before turning northwards to embrace Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, the Ukraine, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, the former East Germany, Poland, Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, opening up a new and undiscovered world to millions of viewers and readers. (£20)

Senor Nice: Straight Life from Wales to South America - Howard Marks

Howard Marks was released from Terre Haute Penitentiary, Indiana in April 1995 after serving seven years of a twenty-five year sentence for marijuana smuggling. It was time for a change of career so he wrote two best-selling books and embarked on a long-running sell-out series of one man shows. Then an elderly aunt told him of his great-great-grandfather Patrick McCarty, who had joined Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Patagonia and he decided to explore South America. (£7.99)

Island.Com - Ben Keene

Two 20-something ex-students Ben and Mark wondered if you could harness the energy of an online community to effect change in the real world. What if they put a website in charge of developing an eco tourism project on a desert island? A chance airport meeting led to Fiji where they met a local tribal leader, who agreed to lease them an island. Next they designed a website and called it Tribewanted. TV tie-in. (£10.99)

Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells: The Outlying Fells of Lakeland - A. Wainwright

Centenary edition of "The Outlying Fells of Lakeland", newly reproduced from the author's original handwritten pages. The last of the classic "Pictorial Guides" to the Lakeland Fells, this volume was compiled at the request of walkers no longer fit enough to scale the higher mountains of Lakeland. (£12.99)

CHILDREN

Ages 0-5yrs

Tiger in the Snow - Nick Butterworth
This is the second title about the lovable kitten. With a rhythmic rhyming story to encourage language skills it's full of endearing illustrations. Ages: 0-3yrs. (£5.99)

That Rabbit belongs to Emily Brown - Cressida Cowell
When the Queen steals Emily Brown's favourite toy and erstwhile companion, a toy rabbit called Stanley, Emily sets out to get him back and teach that naughty queen a valuable lesson. This title is the winner of the 2006 Nestle Gold Award.. Ages: 3-5yrs. (£5.99).

Ages 5-9yrs

Elephants - Steve Bloom
Features over 50 superb full-colour photos from the internationally bestselling photographer with text by David Henry Wilson. With five easily navigable chapters it features elephants big and small, young and old, African and Asian, and will captivate children everywhere. (£9.99).

Ages 9-11yrs

Outcast - Michelle Paver
Eagerly awaited Fourth book in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series. Torak now faces his fourth adventure in his quest to vanquish the terrifying Soul-Eaters and finds himself cut off from his clan and even from Wolf and Renn. The combination of Paver's meticulous research into prehistory and her storytelling skill have made this series an undoubted hit with readers Ages: 10+yrs. (£9.99)

Teenage

Jango - William Nicholson

Highly-anticipated second book in The Noble Warriors trilogy.The three friends Seeker, Morning Star and the Wild Man become disillusioned with the warrior sect; but they will need the remarkable physical skills they have acquired to face the challenges ahead. Publication of this paperback coincides with the third volume Noman in hardback.Ages: 10+ yrs. (£6.99)

AUGUST 2007

FICTION

PAPERBACK

The Road - Cormac McCarthy
A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. Rave reviews. (£7.99)

The Sea Lady - Margaret Drabble

Humphrey and Ailsa meet as children by a grey, northern sea. Humphrey is quiet, serious - and will in time explore the sea's mysteries; Ailsa is angry, a freckled cobra ready to strike. Yet they fascinate one another and when they meet again years later they fall briefly - and disastrously - in love. (£7.99)

Light: A Novel - Margaret Elphinstone

May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. Meanwhile the Scottish engineer, Robert Stevenson, is modernising the nation's lighthouses, and Ellan Bride - and the future of the family - are under threat. (£7.99)

Agamemnon's Daughter: A Novella and Stories - Ismail Kadare

Sacrificed to further a father's blood-soaked career; then forgotten. In this prequel to "The Successor", Kadare draws us into a land deprived of choice, and under a reign of terror where fear is an instrument of power, but the individual survives despite the odds. Published here in English for the first time, written in Albania in the 1980s and smuggled into France a few pages at a time. (£7.99)

Starbook - Ben Okri

Tells the delicate story of a prince and a maiden who are both tested by trials in a mythical land where art, initiation and dynamic stillness are supremely important. No matter where we live and who we think we are, we all have access to the oracle, and a vision of life far greater than ourselves. (£7.99)

The Fall of Troy - Peter Ackroyd

Historical novel, set during the 19th century at the time that the Bronze Age site of Troy was being excavated, with Peter Ackroyd returning to one of his favourite themes: fakes, forgeries and plagiarism. (£7.99)

The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Irvine Welsh

Black comedy about troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner. (£7.99)

Maggie's Tree - Julie Walters

Cissie is a stand-up comedienne and national darling. Helena is the toast of Broadway. Maggie is an extremely beautiful but troubled actress - and she's cracking up fast, in fact she's 'out of her tree'. (£6.99)

A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear - Atiq Rahimi, trans. Sarah Maguire; Yama Yari

From the author of "Earth and Ashes" a novel which sends the reader deep into the fractured mind and emotions of a country caught between religion and the political machinations of the world's super powers. Farhad is a typical student, interested in wine, women and poetry, and negligent of the religious conservatism of his grandfather. But one night changes all that. (£6.99)

The Right Attitude to Rain - Alexander McCall Smith

The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie edits a philosophical journal and consides how to improve the lives of those around her. (£6.99)

The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell

Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. (£6.99)

Vanishing Point - Marcia Muller

Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old disappearance of Laurel Greenwood, a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California - one of San Luis Obispo County's most mysterious cold cases. (£6.99)

Voices - Arnaldur Indridason

The award-winning continuation of the "Reykjavik Murder Mysteries" - Detective Erlendur finds himself in a grand Reykjavik hotel where the doorman - due to appear as Santa Claus - has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. (£6.99)

Thirteen Moons - Charles Frazier

At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man. From the author of "Cold Mountain". (£7.99)

The Book of Air and Shadows - Michael Gruber

A clever, pacey thriller set around the search for a lost Shakespearean play. (£6.99)

Hurting Distance - Sophie Hannah

Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins - so terrible that she never told anybody. Now she has another secret. (£6.99)

The Mission Song - John Le Carre

Bruno Salvador is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. He is inspired by his mentor Brother Michael to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages and is soon is courted by City corporations, hospitals, law courts, the Immigration services, British Intelligenceand the all-white, Surrey-born star reporter Penelope. (£6.99)

The Afghan - Frederick Forsyth

The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guantanamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year veteran of war zones around the world, a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they need inside information ... (£6.99)

REISSUES

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Marquez's first major, and controversial, work, published in a Colombian newspaper in 1955 and then in book form in 1970. In 1955, eight crew members of a Colombian destroyer were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. (£7.99)

Young Bess - Margaret Irwin

Growing up in the shadow of her dead mother, young Princess Elizabeth has learnt to be continuously on the watch for the political games played out around her. It is never certain when one might rise in, or precariously fall out of, royal favour. The first book of Irwin's historical trilogy about Elizabeth I. (£7.99)

NON-FICTION

BIOGRAPHY

Growing Out of Trouble - Montagu Don

Monty Don's own experience of recovering from depression and maintaining his sanity through gardening led him to set up an unusual project. In 2005, he began working with a group of disaffected young people. (£7.99)

Hello - Leslie Phillips

Best known for his comic roles in the Carry On and Doctor series, he took the decision in later life to take on more serious roles in films such as Empire of the Sun, Out of Africa and Scandal, as well as performing in plays such as The Cherry Orchard. Packed with hilarious anecdotes, in this long-awaited autobiography he recalls some of the great characters he has worked with, and also highlights how different he is in real life from his onscreen persona as a bounder. (£8.99)

Sheepwrecked - Jackie Moffat

Sequel to "Funny Farm" - the trials and tribulations, the occasional pitfall and the many pleasures of running a small working farm in the Eden Valley. (£6.99)

Mr Nice and Mrs Marks: Adventures with Howard - Judy Marks

"I have long wanted to write a book about my life and the extraordinary years I spent with my husband Howard Marks. I feel now is the time. I want to write it from a woman's perspective and describe what it was like to be married to such a charismatic drug smuggler." - Judy Marks Howard. (£7.99)

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Interventions - Noam Chomsky

Chomsky cogently examines the burning issues of our post-9/11 world, covering the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the Bush presidency and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. (£12.99)

Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam - Jason Burke

To most in the West, 'al-Qaeda' is seen as a deadly, highly organised fanatical group masterminded by Osama bin Laden. Burke demonstrates that in fact 'al-Qaeda' is merely a convenient label applied by the West to a far broader - and thus more dangerous - phenomenon of Islamic militancy, and shows how eradicating a single figure or group will do nothing to combat terrorism. (£8.99)

Turning Back the Clock - Umberto Eco

With his customary sharpness and wit, Umberto Eco explains the tragic steps backwards that have been taken since 2000. After the Cold War, the "Hot War" has made its come-back in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's "Great Game", we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. This book proposes not so much that we resume a forward march, but at the very least that we cease marching backwards. (£16.99)

50 Facts That Should Change the World - Jessica Williams

Updated and revised edition of Jessica Williams' hugely praised international bestseller. (£8.99)

Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Girls Gone Wild - Deborah Siegel

After forty years, is feminism today a culture, or a cause? A movement for personal empowerment, or social change? Have women achieved equality, or do we still have a long way to go? (£9.99)

HISTORY

Thermopylae - Paul Cartledge

'The world's leading authority on ancient Sparta' tells the story of that fearsome city's finest hour. ‘Go tell the Spartans, Passerby, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie'. (£7.99)

The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776-1914 - Gavin Weightman

From the ironworks of rural England to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914., a fascinating social history interweaving accounts of the achievements of giants such as Trevithick, Stevenson, Watt, Wedgwood, Daimler, Bessemer and Edison. (£20)

Love and Louis XIV - Antonia Fraser

Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. (£9.99)

HUMOUR AND PUZZLES

Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges - Guy Browning

The big things in life look after themselves. It's the little things in life that cause the most trouble. Should you cross your bridge when someone else is burning it? In a monogamous relationship is it morally acceptable to tuck your side of the duvet in? What is the best way of establishing a queue when you are the first person in it? ? (£7.99)

Quick and Cryptic Crosswords from the Daily Telegraph and Bedside Sudoku.

Cat Flaps and Mouse Traps - Harry Oliver

Why did Isaac Newton invent the cat flap? How did the first mousetrap come about? Did Thomas Crapper really invent the flushing toilet? What accident led to the invention of the Microwave oven? Why did it take nearly 20 years to make sliced bread? (£9.99)

Philosophical Enquiries and Pretentious Postulations - Charlotte Hathaway
Philosophy, from Ancient Greek, philosophia, meaning 'love of wisdom'... Can you ever be in the wrong place at the right time? If 299,792,458 m/s is the speed of light, what is the speed of dark? What happens if you get scared half to death twice?... If you can argue it, it's philosophy! (£5.99)

You're Nicked: The World's Craziest Crimes - Rosemary Furber (£4.99)

Surgically Enhanced - Pam Ayres

A new collection of stories and poems from the popular poet to make you laugh and make you think. (£7.99)

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

The Writer's Handbook 2008 - Barry Turner (£14.99)

Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2008 (£12.99)

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature - ed. Margaret Drabble et al (£11.99)

She Literally Exploded: The "Daily Telegraph" Infuriating Phrasebook - Christopher Howse; Richard Preston (£5.99)

LIFESTYLE

Forgotten Household Crafts - John Seymour

Rediscover the lost world of traditional household crafts with 'the grand master of self-sufficiency'. Master tried and trusted methods that have been honed over the centuries and learn to make butter and cheese, embroider, keep bees, decorate your home, and more. (£12.99)

Organic Home - Rosamond Richardson-Gerson, ed. Gillian Emerson-Roberts

Natural, safe and healthy living for the home - do you dislike using products that harm the environment, but are put off by alternatives because they aren't as effective, or will take more time? (£12.99)

The Flatmate Survival Handbook - Tanya Sassoon

Everything you need to make the experience of flatmatedom more bearable - learn how to cope with the Dole Bludger, the Psycho and One Half of a Couple. Enforce bathroom and get your deposit back. (£5.99)

The Virgin University Survival Guide - Karla Fitzhugh

Advice and information that will see students through the whole of their uni life, including: getting ready to go - what to take and what to leave behind; freshers week - what to do and what definitely not to do; studying, accommodation, money; health and stress; campus crime and safety; work and careers. And, of course, hedonism. (£7.99)

School Smart: Make Your Child a Success - Stephen Hastings

Every parent wants their child to do well at school. But learning doesn't end in the classroom. Stephen Hastings argues that parents can make a real difference and, through a realistic, holistic approach, aims to show parents how to help their children succeed at school. (£7.99)

Kids' Parties: A Survival Guide for Parents (£6.99)

Bumper Book of Baby Names: The Intelligent Approach to Choosing Imaginative, Interesting Names - Georgina Wintersgill (£7.99)

101 Things to Do in Wartime, 1940 - B. Lille; Arthur C. Horth

This is a delightful piece of wartime publishing full of the make-do-and-mend ethos that helped win the war, from knitting balaclava helmets for the navy to making croquet games for the floor and table for blackout days. The suggestions are, by turn, funny, charming and useful, but are a fantastic insight into a nation's psyche. (£7.99)

Extreme Office Crafts: Creative and Devious Ways to Waste Office Supplies and Company Time - Jimmy Knight; Tom Chalmers

Bored, having the day from hell? Why not pillage the stationery cupboard and brighten up your day with this witty book! Create Post-it note mosaics and craft a glittering crown embellished with coloured paper clips and highlighters. Help pass the afternoon with a game of "Boss Phrase Bingo" or give yourself a Tipp-Ex manicure! (£5.99)

Official Highway Code 2007 (£2.50)

The Official DSA Guide to Driving 2007: The Essential Skills (£12.99)

MBS

Lunchbox Letters: Writing Notes of Love and Encouragement to Your Children - Carol Sperandeo & Bill Zimmerman (£5.95)

Gardening and Planting by the Moon 2008: Higher Yields in Vegetables and Flowers - Nick Kollerstrom (£8.99)

Llewellyn's 2008 Moon Sign Book and Gardening Almanac (£6.99)

Cosmic Ordering Wish Diary 2008 - Barbel Mohr (£7.99)

Llewellyn's 2008 Astrological Pocket Planner (£6.99)

MEDIA

And Now on Radio 4: A Birthday Celebration of the World's Best Radio Station - Simon Elmes

An enthusiast's guide including some wonderful forgotten corners. The audiobook is arranged in the form of a typical day from the UK Theme to "Sailing By". (Book £12.99, CD £13.99)

The Rough Guide to Film - Tom Charity; Lloyd Hughes; Jessica Winter

A bold new guide to cinema. From Altman to Zefferelli, this book puts directors and their film careers centre screen - plus thousands of recommended films reviewed for DVD. The ultimate who's who and what to watch for the world of film. (£18.99)

NATURE

RSPB Children's Guide to Birdwatching - David Chandler; Mike Unwin

This new RSPB-endorsed book is a practical, exciting and comprehensive introduction to watching birds, for children aged 8-12 years. (£6.99)

POETRY

Look, We Have Coming to Dover! - Daljit Nagra

This collection explores the idealism and reality of a multicultural Britain with wit, intelligence and no small sense of mischief. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, conjures a jazzed hybrid language to tell stories of aspiration, assimilation, alienation and love, from a stowaway's first footprint on Dover beach to the disenchantment of subsequent generations. (£6.99)

On a Bat's Wing: Poems About Bats - ed. Michael Baron (£7.99)

RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY

Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction - Helen Morales

From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? (£7.99)

Buddha - Deepak Chopra

A re-imagining of his life presents a new form of teaching from Chopra, who shows how the iconic journey of the prince who became the Buddha has changed the world forever, and how the lessons he taught continue to influence every corner of the world. (£10.99)

The Qur'an: A Biography - A Book That Shook the World - Bruce Lawrence

Few books in history are as poorly read or understood as the Qur'an. Sent down in a series of revelations to the Prophet Muhammad, it is regarded by the faithful as the unmediated word of Allah. This book describes the origins of the faith in seventh-century Arabia, looks at why the Qur'an needs to be both memorized and recited by its followers, discusses the book's many doubters and commentators and assesses its influence today - and emphasizes that the Qur'an demands interpretation, and can only be properly understood through its history. (£7.99)

A Book of Uncommon Prayer - Theo Dorgan

A collection of spiritual and devotional texts, drawn from both inside and outside the limits of the world's religious traditions, organized with attention to the occasions of prayer, prayerful thought, and meditation. In an age marked at once by religious violence and the falling away of orthodox religious observance in the West, here is a book that recognizes - and demonstrates - the universality of prayer. (£14.99)

SPORT AND OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES

An Outdoor Book for Girls - Lina Belle Beard; Adelia Belle Beard

Do you know how to make a raft of logs, find your way by the north star, or bake biscuits on a stone? From what to wear in camp to how to identify poisonous plants, making flapjacks in the outdoors to preparing a tourniquet, "An Outdoor Book for Girls" is the perfect manual for all those tomboys out there who would rather be on the trail than tied to the kitchen sink. First published in 1915. No boys allowed. (£9.99)

Playfair Football Annual 2007-2008 - Jack Rollin (£6.99)

TRAVEL

Signspotting: No. 2 - Doug Lansky

Whatever adventure you're after - whether it be a trip to the Curry Prevention Services Unit in Oregon or the Ha Ha Cemetery in New Brunswick, Canada - let this new collection of signs from around the globe continue to guide, confuse and amuse you! (£6.99)

You Can Get Arrested for That - Richard Smith

What started out as an innocent board game inspired Rich Smith to undertake a daring crime spree across the United States - a journey to break the dumbest American laws on the statute books. In the Land of the Free, it is illegal to: lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory (South Dakota); play a trumpet with the intention of luring someone to a store (California); and, catch a fish with a lasso (Tennessee). (£6.99)

Daniel O’Donnell’s Ireland: Songs and Scenes from My Homeland

In this lavishly illustrated new book, the musical star invites you to explore the stunning locations of his homeland - from its most popular beauty spots to its hidden gems - and the songs that were inspired by the landscapes and natural beauty of Ireland. (£20)

Seasons on Harris: A Year in Scotland's Outer Hebrides - David Yeadon

Most dramatic of all the Hebrides is Harris, with its dramatic mountains and huge, pristine sandy beaches bordering the open Atlantic. Yeadon captures in words and through his evocative line drawings the life of the island people, their folkways and humour and the simple life of crofting and fishing which have hardly changed in hundreds of years. (£14.95)

Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape - Raja Shehadah

This work covers over two decades of turmoil and change in the Middle East, steered via the history-soaked landscape of Palestine. Raja Shehadeh, celebrated human rights campaigner and lawyer, navigates recent Palestinian history, from Ayn Kenya to the Shukba Caves, the Ramallah hills and the Dead Sea. (£10.99)

New Lonely Planet Guides to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and Rough Guides to Amsterdam, Cuba and the Pyrenees

A variety of new phrasebooks from Berlitz, new road atlases from Michelin, and a World Atlas from AA

Children's Books

Ages 0-5yrs

Meerkat Mail - Emily Gravett

Sunny, the meerkat lives with his enormous family in the Kalahari desert. They are all very close ...so close, in fact, that one day Sunny decides he's had enough and packs his bags. He's off to visit his mongoose cousins. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn't fit in. Ages: 2+ yrs. (£5.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Mr Gum and the Goblins- Andy Stanton

Mr Gum and a wacky cast of characters is back in the third hilarious book of this series which can best be described as a cross between Roald Dahl and Monty Python. This series is a huge hit with younger independent readers. Ages: 6+ yrs (£4.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Woodenface - Gus Grenfell

Meg is a Maker, pouring life into the wooden dolls she carves. Accused of witchcraft, she flees to Halifax, only to find her father in jail, facing death by the gibbet. Desperate to save him, she must first learn what being a Maker really means. Local history and folklore combine in a compelling debut novel full of magic and suspense. Ages: 9-12 yrs (£5.99)

Teenage

Shades Children - Garth Nix

In a futuristic urban wasteland evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past their 14th birthday. This chilling science fiction thriller comes from international bestselling author of the Keys to the Kingdom series. Ages: 12+ yrs (£5.99)

JULY 2007

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Life Class – Pat Barker
In 1914, art student Paul Tarrant leaves behind his beautiful fellow student Elinore to tend to casualties on the front line. By the time he returns home he must not only confront the challenge of how to respond to all he has seen in art but also face up to the fact that life and love will never be the same again (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
World According To Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith
The fourth in the hit series revolving around the many colourful characters that come and go at No 44 Scotland Street. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
 
Cheating At Canasta – William Trevor
A husband sits in Harry’s Bar in Venice, thinking of his lost wife. At another table, a young couple quarrel. An outstanding collection of short stories from the acknowledged master of the genre. (£14.99 at The Book case)
 
Charlemagne & Roland – Allan Massie
Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards. In 800 Pope Leo III crowned him Emperor of the Romans and so of the Western Empire. Today both France and Germany look to him as a founding figure. His nephew, Roland, was renowned for his prowess in battle and inspired the Chanson de Roland. This book vividly brings to life not only their legendary battles but also the lives and loves of those around them. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
 
PAPERBACK
 
Terrorist – John Updike
Set in contemporary New Jersey, 'Terrorist' traces the journey of one young man from radicalism to fundamentalism to terrorism, against the backdrop of a fraying urban landscape and an increasingly fragmented community. But “Of those who plot, God is the best”.. (£8.99) 
 
Imperium – Robert Harris
Takes us inside the violent, treacherous world of Ancient Roman politics, to describe how one man - clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable - fought to reach the top. (£6.99)
 
Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
A sprawling, epic novel of friendships and betrayals, and of the terrible violence of an astonishing modern city and its underworld. (£7.99)
 
One Good Turn – Kate Atkinson
It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect. (£7.99)
 
Lay Of The Land – Richard Ford
It is the autumn of 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquillity he anticipated is not to be. (£7.99)
 
Escape From Amsterdam – Barrie Sherwood
Featuring yakuza gangsters, motorcycle gangs, a phoney princess, a genuine rice farmer, tetrapods, topiary dinosaurs, pre-digested coffee, high-tech love dolls, Aozora's own photographs and a selection of Japanese manga, this playful, offbeat and funny novel paints an unsettling portrait of contemporary Japan and introduces a strikingly original and inventive writer. (£9.99)
 
Kingdom Come – J G Ballard
Could Consumerism turn into Fascism? The author holds up a mirror to middle England, reflecting an unsettling image of suburbia and revealing the darker forces at work beneath the gloss of consumerism and flag-waving patriotism. (£7.99)
 
I Did A Bad Thing – Linda Green
From a local author, a debut chick noir novel. Sarah Roberts did something bad. Now, years later, she's good again. She works as a local newspaper reporter and lives with her saintly boyfriend Jonathan. She has no reason to think her guilty past will ever catch up with her. (£6.99)
 
Lisey’s Story – Stephen King
Lisey Landon lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a 25 year marriage of profound, sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was a celebrated novelist and a complex man. Lisey knew there was a dark place where he ventured to face his demons, and now it’s her turn to face them. (£6.99)

Astrid & Veronika – Linda Olsson
In the midst of a harsh winter, young writer Veronika arrives in the Swedish countryside seeking stillness and solitude to come to terms with a recent tragedy. Her arrival is silently observed by gaunt Astrid, her elderly, reclusive neighbour from the farm next door, who in turn guards her own secrets. Astrid tentatively offers comfort in the form of companionship and lovingly home-cooked meals, but their friendship is a stop-start one. As the icy winter gives way to spring, Astrid and Veronika are drawn together and begin to embark on a tender and unusual friendship. Confiding in one another over hot-smoked trout and the new season's strawberries, the two women swap memories of loves lost, and the dark secrets that surround them both begin to come to light ... (£7.99)
 
House At Riverton – Kate Morton
An old-fashioned upstairs-downstairs saga set in the first half of the twentieth century, but with a mystery at its heart. A Richard & Judy choice. (£6.99)
 
Was – Geoff Ryman
Orphan Dorothy goes to live in Kansas with Aunty Em and Uncle Henry; Baby Frances, grows up to be a famous movie star, adored the world over. Jonathan sees his first movie on television in November 1956. It will haunt him for the rest of his life. (£7.99)
 
Rumpole & The Reign Of Terror – John Mortimer
A Rumpole novel which takes on New Labour and the Timson family, and includes extracts from the memoirs of Hilda Rumpole, aka 'she who must be obeyed'. (£7.99)
 
If You Liked School You’ll Love Work – Irvine Welsh
A short-story collection which sets us five tricky questions. From one of the funniest and filthiest writers in Britain. (£11.99)
 
Paula Spencer – Roddy Doyle
Begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday - she hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. (£7.99)
 
Jamilia – Chingiz Aitmatov
A love story first published in 1956. Jamilia's husband is off fighting at the front. She spends her days hauling sacks of grain from the threshing floor to the train station in their small village in the Caucasus, accompanied by Seit, her young brother-in-law, and Daniyar, a sullen newcomer. A modern classic of Russian literature. (£7.99)
 
Maze – Panos Karnezis
Set in Anatolia in 1922, this is the story of a Greek brigade that has lost its way and is  pursued by a vengeful Turkish army. Their only chance of salvation is to reach the coast and sail home. (£7.99)
 
Moldavian Pimp – Edgardo Cozarinsky
In a bar in a Buenos Aires suburb, the narrator recalls his encounters with an old Lithuanian man. He finds script of a curious Yiddish play from the 1920s about young Jewish girls from the Ukraine recruited by Jewish pimps to go to Argentina on the promise of freedom and a new life, only to find themselves sold into prostitution. A first novel by the celebrated French-Argentine film-maker. (£7.99)
 
Blind Willow Sleeping Woman – Haruki Murakami
An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending new collection of short stories from the cult Japanese author. (£7.99)
 
Fat – Rob Grant
A satire of our obsession with body image, revolving around an overweight man, an anorexic teenager, and a self-absorbed 'conceptualist' employed to promote the government's new 'Fat Farms'. Funny, hard-hitting and moving.  (£6.99)
 
Toyminator – Robert Rankin
The sequel to 'The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse'. Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the yellow brick road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town. And things are not going well there. (£7.99)
 
Railway Viaduct – Edward Marston
A Detective Inspector Colbeck historical crime railway mystery. (£6.99)
 
Night Watch – Sergei Lukyanenko
A phenomenal Russian bestseller - a gloriously readable grunge fantasy/vampire novel set in a richly realised and post-Soviet Moscow. (£7.99)
 
End Games – Michael Dibdin
From the late Michael Dibdin, a new Aurelio Zen mystery set in remote Calabria, at the toe of the Italian boot. Beneath the surface of a tight-knit traditional community, violent forces are at work. (£9.99)
 
Collectors – David Baldacci
From the author of 'The Camel Club'. When a man is found dead by Caleb Shaw, two conspiracies are destined to meet as the Club determines to track down the dead man's long-lost wife - and Annabelle, a beautiful stranger with a mysterious past, decides to avenge the death of her beloved ex-husband. (£6.99)
 
Naming Of The Dead – Ian Rankin
The new Rebus novel. A murder has been committed - but as the victim is a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is that concerned about the crime, until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose... £6.99)
 
Ten Second Staircase – Christopher Fowler
The fourth Bryant & May mystery, involving a controversial artist found dead in her own art installation and a cape-clad highwayman atop a black stallion. (£6.99)

REISSUES
 
King Solomon’s Mines – H Rider Haggard
The first fictional adventure novel set in Africa, 'King Solomon's Mines' captured the imagination of the British public and is considered the genesis of the Lost World literary genre. (£4.99)
 
Iain Pears:
Death & Restoration (£6.99)
Immaculate Deception (£6.99)
 
Talking Heads – Alan Bennett
Combines both series of the famous programme. (£7.99)
 
NON-FICTION
 
ART AND ANTIQUES
 
Millers Antiques Price Guide 2008 – (ED) Jonty Hearnden
Still the bestselling, original Antiques Price Guide, with over 8,000 items new to each edition. Jonty Hearnden, presenter of BBC television's Cash in the Attic, now in its 10th series, is the New Miller's Consultant Editor. (£24.99)
 
BIOGRAPHY
 
Thomas Hardy The Time Torn Man – Claire Tomalin
Thomas Hardy's life was extraordinary - this seminal biography covers his illegitimate birth, his rural upbringing, his escape to London in the 1860s, his marriages, his status as a bestselling novelist, and in later life, his supreme achievements as a poet. (£8.99)
 
Sand In My Shoes – Joan Rice
“War-Time Diaries of a WAAF.” A personal account of a young woman's experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim Rice. Joan's story has lain untouched for some fifty years. Incorporating additional material from her husband's own notes, her diary is a testament to the many women who kept the RAF in the air. (£7.99)
 
Telling Some Tales – Anna Massey
The autobiography of one of the UK's most respected actresses. A candid, wry, funny and emotional account of a life intensely lived. (£8.99)
 
Sound Of Laughter – Peter Kay
The autobiography of Britain's most popular comedian. His autobiography is full of humour and nostalgia, beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school and leading up until the time he passed his driving test and found fame. (£7.99)
 
Telling Tales - Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett recalls his childhood in a sequence of talks that are funny, touching and told in his unique style. He re-lives family crises, early pieties and the last tradition of musical evenings round the piano. New small hardback edition. (£7.99)
 
Nobbut A Lad – Alan Titchmarsh
Evocative and hilarious childhood memoir from one of Britain's favourite TV presenters. Alan Tichmarsh grew up and developed his passion for nature in the wild and beautiful landscape of Yorkshire. (£6.99)
 
Python Years Diaries 1969-1979 – Michael Palin
Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s. In this first volume of his diaries he tells for the first time how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys - Jones and Gilliam - and Eric Idle, came together and changed the face of British comedy. This first volume of the Michael Palin diaries is perceptive, revealing and often very funny. (£9.99)
 
Unaccompanied Women – Jane Juska
Jane Juska is back with a spring in her step and a space in her heart - more about life, sex, growing up and growing old with humour and daring, from the bestselling author of 'A Round-heeled Woman'. (£6.99)
 
Left To Tell – Immaculee Ilibagiza
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. In 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. A moving testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit. (£7.99)
 
Home From Home – George Alagiah
The moving autobiography of George Alagiah's own immigrant life, and a wider examination of the immigrant experience in the UK. Born in Sri Lanka and growing up in Ghana, his family came to Britain in the '60s. Gradually discovering his immigrant identity, George wanted to be Sri Lankan again. Or, at least, allow Sri Lanka to be a part of him again. George Alagiah appeared at Hebden Bridge Arts Festival last year. (£7.99)
 
COOKERY
 
Animal Vegetable Miracle – Barbara Kingsolver
“Our Year of Seasonal Eating.” A year in the life of the novelist Barbara Kingsolver and her family as they try to eat local produce, grow their own, and reduce their ecological footprint. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and complete with original recipes, 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle' makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the centre of family life, and diversified farms at the centre of our diet. (£16.99)
 
Heat – Bill Buford
The story of an amateur cook trying to survive - in a professional kitchen. Three years Buford, an enthusiastic but chaotic home cook, was asked by The New Yorker to write a profile of Mario Batali, chef at one of New York's most famous 3 star restaurants. This is a memoir of Bill Buford's kitchen adventure. (£9.99)
 
CURRENT AFFAIRS
 
Big Babies - Michael Bywater
“Or Why Can't We Just Grow Up?” - makes a fierce and often hilarious case about the infantilisation of Western culture. And so say all of us. (£7.99)
 
Talk To The Hand – Lynne Truss
The Utter Bloody Rudeness of Everyday Life, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door. Sticklers unite! The queen of zero tolerance takes on the sorry state of modern manners... (£7.99)
 
GARDENS
 
The Art and Craft of Stonescaping: Setting and Stacking Stone - David Reed
A master stonemason guides homeowners through every step of dry-laid stonework. Have a sloped garden? Build a beautiful retaining wall with built-in benches and flowers growing out through the stone joints. Crave the soothing sound of water? Try the dramatic waterfall project constructed with two stone-lined pools. A wealth of colour photography offers plenty of inspiration. (£19.95)
 
GIFTS
 
Great Big Glorious Book For Girls - Rosemary Davidson
Home-made scones, pom-poms, daisy chains... This book will take women back to a time when we made cup cakes with our grandmothers, when girls weren't obsessed with all things pink, when they didn't wear 'hot to trot' t-shirts aged eight and when a bit of sticky-backed plastic and a tissue box could be the answer to your dreams. Perfect for mothers, grandmothers, aunts and godmothers (as well as daughters, granddaughters, nieces and goddaughters, of course), this is a book for all women who secretly, or not so secretly, loved playing French elastics, dream of making elderflower cordial and need reminding of how to play cat's cradle. (£18.99)
 
HISTORY
 
Ancient Greece (Collins Gem)
From theatre to politics, no other single civilisation has influenced the Western world more profoundly than that of ancient Greece. (£4.99)
 
Gem Ancient Egypt (Collins Gem)
All the essential facts on ancient Egypt covering mummification, the pharaohs, the pyramids and the mysterious rituals. (£4.99)
 
Ancient Rome (Collins Gem)
From the Colosseum to Hadrian's Wall, this book shows us how Rome's vast empire laid the foundations of today's civilisation. (£4.99)
 
Why Alfred Burned The Cakes – David Horspool
“A King and His Eleven-Hundred-Year Afterlife.” When the BBC conducted their Greatest Briton poll, Alfred the Great was the only king to make it into the top twenty. This book attempts to recover a popular Alfred, understanding how he came to be 'Great' and how much myth had to do with that. (£8.99)
 
Templar Code For Dummies
Reveals the meaning behind the cryptic codes and secret rituals of the medieval brotherhood of warrior monks known as the Knights Templar. (£13.99)
 
HUMOUR
 
Playing The Moldovans At Tennis – Tony Hawks
 In September 1997, Tony Hawks, the author of 'Round Ireland with a Fridge', and Arthur Smith were watching England playing Moldova in the football World Cup. Somehow this led to a bet that Tony couldn't play all of the Moldovan national football team at tennis and beat them all. (£7.99)
 
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
 
Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2008 (£14.99)
 
Fight For English – David Crystal
The story of a thousand years of argument about 'correct' English. An original and authoritative counter-argument to the idea of 'zero tolerance' in language. (£6.99)
 
Eats Shoots & Leaves – Lynne Truss
The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. (£7.99)
 
History Of Britain Revealed – M J Harper
The Shocking Truth About the English Language. Do you think you know where the English language came from? Think again. A truly original, blistering attack on the standard history of Britain. (£7.99)
 
MBS
 
Need To Know –Timothy Good
“The Military and Intelligence Reports that Prove UFOs Exist.” This is a major piece of research on UFOs, with cases from around the world. Timothy Good is widely acknowledged as an expert in this area - his books are properly researched, his evidence is sound and his conclusions are balanced. (£8.99)
 
PaGaian Cosmology – Glenys Livingstone
Ecospirituality grounded in indigenous Western religious celebration of the Earth-Sun annual cycle. Can be used as a resource for individuals or groups seeking new forms of devotional expression and an Earth-based pathway to wisdom within. (£12.99)
 
Rudolf Steiner – Gary Lachman
An Introduction to His Life and Work. The first popular biography of the influential twentieth-century mystic and educator. (£11.99)
 
Life – Paulo Coelho
A treasury of selected quotations from one of the world's best-loved and bestselling writers and the author of 'The Alchemist'. (£10)
 
MUSIC
 
They All Sang – Studs Terkel
A collection of radio interviews by Studs Terkel with some of the greatest musicians of all time. A 22-year-old Bob Dylan tells how he came to write A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall; Janis Joplin recalls her teenage years in Texas spent listening to old Leadbelly and Bessie Smith records; Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie talk about their sense of kinship with fellow jazz geniuses Joe Oliver and Charlie Parker. (£9.99)
 
PUZZLES
 
Daily Telegraph Sun Sea & Sudoku (£6.99)
 
Daily Telegraph Bumper Beach Cryptic Crosswords (£6.99)
 
Daily Telegraph Bumper Beach Quick Crosswords (£6.99)
 
SCIENCE
 
What Is Your Dangerous Idea – (ed.) John Brockman
The follow-up to the acclaimed 'What We Believe But Cannot Prove', a collection of thought-experiments by some of the most eminent thinkers and scientists alive, including Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond and Steven Pinker. (£7.99)
 
Pleasurable Kingdom – Jonathan Balcombe
”Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good.” Focuses on new evidence that animals, like humans, enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival. (£8.99)
 
Goldilocks Enigma – Paul Davies
“Why is Everything Just Right for Life?” Tackles all the 'big questions', introduces the latest discoveries that have allowed scientists to piece together the story of the universe in unprecedented detail and explains why, despite all this, cosmologists are more divided than ever. (£8.99)
 
TRAVEL
 
Scent Trail – Celia Lyttelton
“A Journey of the Senses.” A travel memoir and vividly-drawn portrait of today's exotic world of perfume. Entering the heady, exotic world of oils and essences at a bespoke perfumer’s, she was transported from a leafy London square to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences and felt compelled to trace the origins, history and culture of the many ingredients that made up her unique perfume. (£15)
 
Connemara – Tim Robinson
“Listening to the Wind.” Tim Robinson, author of 'Stones of Aran', moved from Aran to Connemara over twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its often terrible history: a work as beautiful and surprising as the place it attempts to describe. (£8.99)
 
Guerra – Jason Webster
Following 'Duende' and 'Andalus', Jason Webster embarks on a journey across Spain, this time in order to look at the Spanish Civil War and explore its lasting effects upon modern Spain. (£7.99)
 
Mirrors Of The Unseen – Jason Elliot
Journeys in Iran. The country - its culture, its history and its people - behind the headlines. (£8.99)
 
Magic Bus – Rory MacLean
“On the Hippie Trail from Istanbul to India.” Through a landscape of breathtaking beauty, the author retraces the path of the once well-worn hippy trail from Turkey to Iran, Afghanistan to Pakistan and India to Nepal, meeting trail veterans and locals on his way, and relives wide-eyed adventures as he witnesses a world of extraordinary and terrifying transformation. (£8.99)

Longest Crawl – Ian Marchant
According to GK Chesterton, the act of getting to and from a pub is central to understanding British life and the landscape. So bon viveur, pub singer and writer Ian Marchant set off with photographer Perry Venus on a gruelling month-long British pub crawl. On the way they unearth the origins of gin and tonic, find out how pork-scratchings are made and how to make moonshine at an illegal still in the Welsh hills. (£7.99)
 
Hashish: A Smuggler's Tale - Henry De Monfreid
Nobleman, adventurer and inspiration for the swashbuckling gun runner in the "Adventures of Tintin", the author is associated with the Red Sea and the raffish ports between Suez and Aden in the early twentieth century. This book tells how became a collector and merchant of the fabled Gulf pearls and was then drawn into the shadowy world of arms trading, slavery, smuggling and drugs. (£9.99)
 
Into The Abyss – Benedict Allen
Looks at the motivation and experiences of some of history's most intrepid characters. Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations? And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do they find the resources to survive? (£8.99)
 
Road To Oxiana - Robert Byron (£8.99)
 
New Rough Guide to Canada
 
AA Road Atlas Britain 2008 (spiral) (£14.99)
AA Highway Code (£2.50)
AA Theory Test & the Highway Code (£9.99)
 
2008 CALENDARS & DIARIES
 
Tolkien, Wolves, Weather, Wilderness Paddling, Unforgettable Places, Astronomy, Flower Fairies, Beatrix Potter,  RHS, Coelho’s Enigma - the first wave of many!

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Ladybird Books 3/2: A great selection from Ladybird including phonics titles, Read It Yourself, fiction and non-fiction. Something to capture the inagination of every child!. Ages: 2+ yrs. (£2.50 each, 3 for 2)

Ages 5-9yrs

Horrid Henry’s Evil Enemies - Francesca Simon
A third collection of favourite stories from this perrenial favourite. This book is complete with colour pictures and extra features. Ages: 5-7yrs. (£8.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Starring Tracy Beaker - Jacqueline Wilson
Tracy Beaker is desperate for a role in her school play. They're performing 'A Christmas Carol' and for one worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the main role. Can she manage to act grumpy, difficult and sulky enough to play Ebeneezer Scrooge? Ages: 8+ yrs.(£5.99)

Teenage

Way of the Warrior - Andrew Matthews
Vowing to avenge his parents' death, Jimmu becomes a Samurai, an expert and lethal fighter. After infiltrating his sworn enemy's personal guard, his skills and loyalties come under heavy attack.this is a thrilling tale of revenge set in the Japanese world of the Samurai. 11+ yrs (£5.99)

JUNE 2007

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Road Home – Rose Tremain
The up-to-the-minute story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe. A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
After Dark – Haruki Murakami
The midnight hour approaches in an almost empty all-night diner. Mari sips her coffee and glances up from a book as a young man, a musician, intrudes on her solitude. Both have missed the last train home. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
 
Falling Man – Don Delillo
"Falling Man" begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. This is the inner seam of
history, a novel that traces the way the events of September 11 reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
Camel Bookmobile – Masha Hamilton
Once a fortnight, the nomadic settlement of Madidima awaits the arrival of three camels laden down with panniers of books. This is the Camel Bookmobile. Into their world comes an unexpected wealth of literature. The only condition of the Camel Bookmobile is that every book must be returned or else the visits will cease. Then one day a book is stolen...  (£10.99 at The Book Case)
Reissues

The Best of Wodehouse – P G Wodehouse
In an Everyman hardback edition,  two novels (“The Code of the Woosters” and “Uncle Fred in Springtime”, fourteen short stories and extracts from Wodehouse's autobiography. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
 
PAPERBACK
 
Inheritance Of Loss - Kiran Desai
Man Booker Prize for Fiction Winner 2006. In the north-eastern Himalayas, in an isolated and crumbling house, there lives an embittered old judge, who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and the son of his chatty cook trying to stay a step ahead of US immigration services, this is far from easy. (£7.99)
 
Dream Angus - Alexander McCall Smith
The troubled alter-ego of Dream Angus, the Celtic God of Dreams searches for his true family in twentieth-century Scotland. Weaving together the tales of the Celtic god and the Scottish scientist, Alexander McCall Smith unites dream and reality, leaving us to wonder: what is life, but the pursuit of our dreams? (£6.99)
 
Fair Play – Tove Jansson
A charming, quietly radical and inspiring book which portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island. In the generosity and respect they show each other and the many small shifts they make to accommodate each other's creativity we are shown a relationship both heartening and truly progressive. (£6.99)
 
Hav – Jan Morris
The well-known travel writer’s only novel - she describes a visit to a magical city - but when she returns twenty years later, everything has changed. The first part was Booker shortlisted in 1985. (£7.99)
 
Just In Case – Meg Rosoff
The day David Case saves his brother's life, his whole world changes. Suddenly, every moment is fizzing with significance, full of what ifs? He must hide, become an entirely new person. From the author of 'How I Live Now'. (£6.99)
 
Theft: A Love Story - Peter Carey
Highly charged and lewdly funny new novel told by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two hundred and twenty pound brother' Hugh. (£7.99)
 
JPod – Douglas Coupland
Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. (£7.99)
 
Tuvalu – Andrew O'Connor
“Tuvalu... Everyone has a place like that. A dream land or life they're working towards, however vaguely ...” A blackly funny, offbeat, inconclusive and strangely beguiling Australian story of ennui, escape, exile and dreams. (£7.99)
 
Whitethorn Woods – Maeve Binchy
The people of Rossmore are divided about a new road which will bring jobs and relieve traffic in the town: but destroy businesses and leave the town a backwater. The decision rests on Neddy Nolan who wants to do the right thing... (£6.99)
 
Chart Throb – Ben Elton
Chart Throb is the ultimate pop quest: ninety-five thousand hopefuls, three judges, just one winner. And that's Colin Simms, the genius behind the show. A savagely hilarious deconstruction of the world of modern television talent shows. (£6.99)
 
Spot Of Bother – Mark Haddon
George Hall doesn't understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. 'The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things completely' – but family events intervene. A disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely. From the author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time'. (£7.99)
 
Wish I Was Here – Jackie Kay
Tales of passion and jealousy, lust and romance from the author of 'Trumpet'. In 'Wish I Was Here', Jackie Kay explores every facet of the most overwhelming and complicated of human emotions, love. Jackie Kay has appeared twice at the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. (£7.99)
 
Helix – Eric Brown
An epic space opera tale from one of the genre's greatest authors – and a local author! Colony vessel Aurora is forced to land on a polar section of the Helix, and the surviving crew members proceed up-spiral in search of a habitable section. Combines scientific mystery, high adventure and depth of characterization. (£7.99)
 
Harsh Cry Of The Heron – Lian Hearn
A beautiful and haunting sequel to the 'Tales of the Otori'. Lian Hearn's ancient mythological world of fierce chivalry is compelling, timeless storytelling. (£6.99)
 
Murder At Deviation Junction – Andrew Martin
Fourth in the “Jim Stringer Steam Detective” series. The latest case takes him across country in a breathless, thrilling and deadly pursuit when train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. The author talked about the locally-based “Blackpool Highflyer” at the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival a few years ago  (£10.99)
 
Risk Of Darkness – Susan Hill
Simon Serrailler in love at last... the third crime novel about Susan Hill's fictional Detective Chief Inspector. This book follows up the child abduction of the first in the series and explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband, a derangement which turns to obsession and threats, violence and terror. (£6.99)
 
Under Orders – Dick Francis
The first new Dick Francis thriller in six years! The starter's pistol isn't the only gunshot heard at Cheltenham on Gold Cup Day. Former champion jump-jockey Sid Halley knows the perils of racing all too well - but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest.. (£6.99)
 
Innocent Traitor – Alison Weir
The popular historian has chosen as her subject the bravest, most sympathetic and wronged heroine of Tudor England, Lady Jane Grey. (£6.99)
 
Boat Girls – Margaret Mayhew
It is 1943, and three very different girls are longing to do their bit for the war effort. The three become friends when they join the band of women working the canal boats, delivering goods and doing a man's job while the men are away fighting. It is a tough, unglamorous task - but one which brings them all unexpected rewards.  (£6.99)
 
National Short Story Prize 2007
The National Short Story Prize is the largest award in the world for a single short story; in this book the complete shortlist of five, including the winner, will be published side by side. They’ll also be on Radio 4. (£4.99)
 
Mammoth Book Of Monsters – (ed) Stephen Jones (£7.99)
 
Reissues
 
Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing (£7.99)
Good Terrorist - Doris Lessing (£7.99)
Stranger In A Strange Land – Robert A Heinlein (£6.99)
 
From Penguin, six end-of-empire adventure tales with nostalgic covers, aimed at the Father's Day market. “A dashing collection for any middle-aged boy's bookshelf.” (£7.99 each)
 
Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
She – H Rider Haggard
Thirty Nine Steps – John Buchan
Prisoner Of Zenda – Anthony Hope
Man Who Was Thursday – G K Chesterton
Riddle Of The Sands - Erskine Childers
  
NON-FICTION
 
ART & TEXTILES
 
Silk - Mary Schoeser
This gorgeously illustrated volume not only offers a tour through the fascinating history of silk but also a glimpse into the future, when imaginative designers and
textile producers will be changing the boundaries of what is possible with this extraordinary material. (£29.99)
 
Hundreds & Thousands – Emily Carr
Although best known as a painter, Emily Carr first gained critical acclaim as an author for her seven popular books about life as an artist and her journeys to Native communities. (£9.99)
 
Pause  -  Emily Carr                 
Combines Emily Carr's art and writing, with intimate and engaging and sometimes humorous sketches in words and pictures of her companions, both human and animal, and their trials and misadventures.  (£7.99)
 
Pop Art: Contemporary Perspectives - Johanna Burton; Kevin Hatch; et al
"Princeton University Art Museum Monographs" is a new series of in-depth explorations of the museum's rich collections. Includes Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana, and Alex Katz who have all come to define the revelatory and controversial Pop art movement that emerged in America in the 1960s. Handsomely illustrate. (£16.99)
 
BIOGRAPHY
           
Beatles, Football & Me – Hunter Davies           
Hunter Davies is one of the most well-known and respected sports writers in the country. Now, he describes his own extraordinary life, from growing up on a Carlisle council estate in the 1950s and his student days at Durham to his introduction to Fleet Street, his enduring obsession with football and memorabilia, and the many fascinating characters he has met, interviewed and written about over the last 40 years. (£7.99)  
 
Trains & Buttered Toast – John Betjeman                   
“Selected Radio Talks.” Betjeman's infectious enthusiasms made him a keystone of England's common culture. (£7.99)
 
Like The Flowing River - Paulo Coelho                       
A collection of thoughts and stories from the author of 'The Alchemist', with jewel-like fables and personal reflections on a wide range of subjects from archery and music to elegance, travelling and the nature of good and evil. (£7.99)            
 
Heart Of The Dales CD – Gervase Phinn (£12.99)
The latest in the series. Also available in hardback at £16.99. Paperback next year.
 
CURRENT AFFAIRS AND POLITICS
 
Yob Nation – Francis Gilbert
”The Truth About Britain's Yob Culture.” A devastating look at the state of Britain today - a country being steadily corroded and coarsened by the advance of Yob Culture. (£7.99)
 
Heat – George Monbiot
“The New Politics to Stop the Planet Burning.” We all know that climate change is the greatest problem facing our world but does that mean the problem is now too big to deal with? George Monbiot, one of the world's leading environmental activists proves, with passion and rigorous analysis, that there is a way. (£8.99)
 
GARDENING
 
Success with Shade Loving Plants – Guild of Master Craftsmen (£12.99)
 
Strange Blooms – Jennifer Potter
“The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants.” In 17th-century Britain, a breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stolen into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change, as gardeners and as collectors. (£9.99)
 
HISTORY
 
Homo Britannicus – Chris Stringer
The epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps to the present day. describing times when Britain was so tropical that man lived alongside hippos and sabre toothed tigers, times so cold we shared the land with mammoth and reindeer - and times colder still when we were forced to flee altogether. (£8.99)
 
Islamic Imperialism: A History - Efraim Karsh
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. September 11 can be seen as simply the latest expression of this dream. (£9.99)
 
The Conquest of the North Atlantic – G J Marcus
The early voyages into the deep waters of the Atlantic rank among the greatest feats of exploration. In tiny, fragile vessels the Irish monks searched for desolate places in the ocean in which to pursue their vocation; their successors, the Vikings, with their superb ship-building skills, created fast, sea-worthy craft which took them far out into the unknown, until they finally reached Greenland and America. G. J. Marcus looks at the history of these expeditions not only as a historian, but also as a practical sailor. (£8.99)
 
Rough Guide To The Templars (£9.99)
 
Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 - J. H. Elliott
This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus' arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. (£14.99)
 
Chartism: A New History - Malcolm Chase
From Manchester University Press, a vivid narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material), (£18.99)
 
True Adventures For Boys – Paul Safont
Thrilling tales of derring-do from an age when the truth was more dangerous than fiction. Amazing-but-true tales of survival such as 'I Fell 20,000 Feet', 'A Fight with a Leopard', 'Over Niagara In a Rubber Ball' and 'The Bird Man's Final Gamble'. (£12.99)
Kristallnacht – Martin Gilbert
Examines the build-up to and aftermath of one of the most decisive moments of the Second World War - Kristallnacht - not only for the Jewish population, suddenly identified as a group to be destroyed, but also in terms of the international response it inspired and its larger implications. (£7.99)
 
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
 
Complete Polysyllabic Spree – Nick Hornby
A collection of the author's 'Stuff I've Been Reading' columns, from McSweeney's Believer magazine, exploring  everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. His writing, full of all the joy and surprise and despair that books bring him reveals why we still read, even when there's football on TV or a good band playing at our local pub. (£7.99)
 
Beyond Words – John Humphrys
From the well-known R4 Today presenter, a provocative look at the hidden attitudes that lie behind so many of our current phrases and expressions. (£6.99)
 
What To Say: Words for All Occasions (Penguin) (£6.99)
 
MBS
 
Don't forgot the wide range of MBS books new in at bargain prices!
 
How To Be Free – Tom Hodgkinson
Have you ever wondered why you bother to go to work? What stops us from doing what we want to do? Whether there might be a better, freer, happier way to live our lives? (£7.99)
 
Overcoming Tiredness and Exhaustion – Dan Rutherford (£7.99)
Coping with Emotional Abuse – Susan Elliot-Wright (£7.99)
 
Old Moore’s Almanack 2008 (£1.99)

Your Chinese Horoscope 2008 – Neil Somerville (£8.99)
 
Your Personal Horoscope 2008 – Joseph Polansky (£8.99)
 
NATURE
 
From the British Library Sound Archive, new CDs of the sounds of nature at £9.95 each:
Sounds of the British Coastline
Sounds of the Deep
Also in stock:
Dawn Chorus, Songs of Garden Birds, Bird Mimicry, Vanishing Wildlife CDs
 
OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
 
Pocket Dangerous Book For Boys – Conn Iggulden
If ever there was a book to make you switch off your television set, 'The Dangerous Book for Boys' was it. And now, from the same authors, comes the pocket book of things to do - packed with exciting and fun things to keep boys entertained all summer. (£10)
 
POETRY
 
101 Poems About Childhood – Michael Donaghy (£7.99)
 
Thing In The Gap Stone Stile – Alice Oswald (£8.99)
 
Spoken Word: W H Auden (2 CDs)
The two discs feature Auden in live and studio readings of his own poetry taken from rare BBC radio broadcasts from 1936 to 1973. Over 40 poems are included, and the majority of the recordings are being released for the first time. (£15.95)
 
SCIENCE & MATHEMATICS
 
God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
From the author of 'The Selfish Gene', a hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. (£8.99)
 
Bad Science – Ben Goldacre
An informative and witty expose of the 'bad science' we are all subjected to in the daily media. Ben Goldacre writes the Bad Science column in the Guardian. (£12.99)
 
Letters To A Young Mathematician – Ian Stewart
The Art of Mentoring. An astute and lively exploration of what it's really like to do mathematics, by a well-known mathematician. (£7.99)
 
TRAVEL
 
Don’t Tell Mum – Simon Hoggart
“Hair-raising Messages Home from Gap-year Travellers.” (£7.99)
 
Rock Me Amadeus – Seb Hunter
 “When Ignorance Meets High Art, Things Can Get Messy.” Once he reached his 30s, Seb knew it was time to try to grow up and enjoy classical music. He embarked on a haphazard journey across Europe that involved angry eunuchs, hallucinating nuns, frustrated minstrels, vomiting at the opera, an assault on the Kremlin and several run-ins with his mother. But will Beethoven roll over? (£7.99)
 
Olive Route – Carol Drinkwater
“A Personal Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean.” Fourth in the olive series, with epic and colourful stories about its transportation. (£7.99)
 
Adrift In Caledonia – Nick Thorpe
A quirky, off-beat tour boat-hopping around the coasts and canals of Scotland. (£7.99)
 
Places To Hide In England Scotland and Wales – Dixe Wills
An indispensable guide to places to hide from modern life. Offering a wide range of hiding places in urban, rural, coastal and mountainous settings throughout Britain, this is the essential guide for anyone who needs to disappear for a bit. (£7.99)
 
Lonely Planet Africa Phrasebook
Covers the key 13 African languages - Afrikaans, Arabic, Ethiopian Amharic, French, Hausa, Malagasy, Portuguese, Shona, Swahili, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba and Zulu. (£5.99)
 
Pennine Way - Trailblazer
Britain's best-known National Trail winds for 256 miles over wild moorland and through quiet dales following the backbone of Northern England, and crossing three National Parks - the Peak District, the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland. Scale just under 1:20,000 (8cm or 3 1/8 inches to one mile). Second edition. (£11.99)
 
The Lakes – Nick Williams (Pocket Mountains series)
Handy little guide to 40 circular walks in the lower and upland fells of the Lake District. Instructions, sketchmaps and colour photos. (£5.99)
 
A new Rough Guide to Crete and new Lonely Planet Guides to Belgium & Luxembourg and Africa, plus
Volunteer - “A Traveller's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World.” (£12.99)
 
 

MAY 2007

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
From the author of “The Kite Runner”, a gripping drama of beauty, destruction, sadness, and suspense, a chronicle of the last thirty years of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and the salvation to be found in love. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
Engleby – Sebastian Faulks
Mike Engleby, devoid of scruple or self-pity, survives a 'traditional' English school, goes to university in the 1970s and his subsequent career brings us up to the present day. Beneath the disturbing surface of his outspoken observations lies an unfolding mystery of gripping power. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
 
Lollipop Shoes – Joanne Harris
Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Vianne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully above their little chocolate shop. Then into their lives blows the lady with the lollipop shoes, and everything begins to change... (£15.99 at The Book Case)
 
Post Birthday World  - Lionel Shriver                       
It all hinges on one kiss, whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player. From the author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'. (£13.00 at The Book Case).    
 
PAPERBACK
 
Boleyn Inheritance – Philippa Gregory
From the bestselling author of 'The Other Boleyn Girl' comes a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII, and the one woman who destroyed two of his queens. (£6.99)
 
Double Fault – Lionel Shriver
From the author of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin', a novel about love and marriage. 'Love me, love my game,' says 23-year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf ... (£7.99)
 
Alentejo Blue - Monica Ali
The story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through - men and women, children and old people, locals, tourists and expatriates. From the author of 'Brick Lane'. (£7.99)
 
Secret Of Crickley Hall – James Herbert
Explores the darker, more obtuse territories of evil and the supernatural. With brooding menace and rising tension, he masterfully and relentlessly draws the reader through to the ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. (£6.99)
 
So Many Ways To Begin – Jon McGregor
Against the backdrop of post-WW2 Britain, an exploration of what happens when our lives fail to take the turns we expect, and the ways we learn to let go of the people we might have been. From the author of 'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things'. (£7.99)
 
Talk Talk – T C Boyle
Combines a thrilling road trip across America with a moving story about language, love and identity. (£7.99)
 
White Man Falling - Mike Stocks
A tale of domestic catastrophe, accidental crime-busting, deluded match-making and mystical absurdity set in a small town in South India. (£7.99)
 
Chronicle In Stone – Ismail Kadare
The Second World War is about to start but life, for a young boy in a small town in Albania, is still a game. Yet, as the country falls to the Italians, then the Greeks, then eventually to the Nazis, and is mercilessly bombed by the British, the boy grows up. From the winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize 2005 (£7.99)
 
Daniel Isn’t Talking – Marti Leimbach
Explores the effects of autism on a young family. The author has experienced and dealt with the condition within her immediate family. (£6.99)
 
Calligrapher’s Night  - Yasmine Ghata  
Blending elements of magical realism with a vivid description of Turkey at a turning point in its history, this evocative debut novel is set in 1923. The young Rikkat is being brought up in the belief that her entire life will be the devoted to the art of calligraphy. That same year, Ataturk's republic breaks away from the venerable Islamic tradition and progressively abolishes the Arabic language and scripts in favour of a modified version of the Latin alphabet. (£8.99)

Wicked – Jilly Cooper
Two schools - both in leafy Larkshire, but worlds apart. Jilly Cooper turns her pen to the explosive world of education. (£7.99)
 
Love Over Scotland – Alexander McCall-Smith
The third in the series revolving around the many colourful characters that come and go at No 44 Scotland Street - the stalwart Tory chartered surveyor, the pushy mother and, most importantly in this novel, the Italian-speaking prodigy, Bertie. (£6.99)
 
Lost Luggage Porter – Andrew Martin
Edwardian detective Jim Stringer goes undercover into the Yorkshire underworld of drifters, pickpockets and train-robbers in winter 1906. Third in the Jim Stringer: Steam Detective  series. (£7.99)
 
Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven – Alan Warner
Visually inventive novel that manages to be provocative, profound, shocking and riotously funny. From the author of 'Morvern Callar' and 'The Sopranos' and 'The Man Who Walks'.(£7.99)
 
Penguin Book of the Beach – (ed) Robert Drewe
Twenty-five contemporary writers and stimulating, startling, moving and humorous writing about the beach. (£7.99)
 
REISSUES
 
Widow Barnaby – Fanny Trollope
First published in 1839, this was one of Mrs Trollope’s most popular novels – about a comically vulgar and pretentious woman. Fanny Trollope deserves a revival and several TV series! (£6.00)

Le Grand Meaulnes – Henri Alain-Fournier, trans. Robin Buss (£8.99)  
 
Red Earth & Pouring Rain – Vikram Chandra
The gods of Poetry and Death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live: a tale of nineteenth-century India: of Sanjay, a poet, and Sikander, a warrior; of great wars and love affairs and a city gone 'mad with poetry'. (£7.99)
 
Murphy – Spike Milligan
Murphy is Irish and poor. Unable to hold down his job on a building site he turns to robbery but is discovered trapped inside a suit of armour … (£6.99)
 
NON-FICTION
 
ART AND CRAFT
 
Graffiti World Calendar 2008: Street Art Throughout the Year - Nicholas Ganz (£9.95)
 
Tribal and Village Rugs: The Definitive Guide to Design, Pattern and Motif - Peter F. Stone
Newly available in paperback, the definitive book on the rich weaving traditions of the Near East and Central Asia. (£19.95)
 
BIOGRAPHY

View From Here – Joan Bakewell
A celebration of what life can be like at 70 - which is, according to Joan, the new 50. The sequel to 'The Centre of the Bed'. (£8.99)
 
Life & Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, and the curious world of 1950s America. (£7.99)

Progressive Patriot  - Billy Bragg
Part-autobiography, part polemic about what it is to be English by someone The Times recently described as a 'national treasure'. An urgent and passionate response to the 7 July 2005 London bombings. A firm believer in toleration and diversity, Billy Bragg felt himself hemmed in by fascists on one side and religious fanatics on the other (£7.99)
 
Kabul Beauty School  -  Deborah Rodriguez
The author arrived in Afghanistan in 2002 with nothing but a desire to help and a beauty degree. The Afghan beauty salons had been all but destroyed by the Taliban, and she founded a new one, to which Afghan women flocked, bringing their stories. (£12.99)

Iran Awakening – Shirin Ebadi
A memoir of revolution and hope, by the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian, to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (£7.99)
 
Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq - Jo Tatchell
True story of one family's experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for poetry but by the end of the 1970s, Saddam's rise to power was encroaching on his life, and that of his family. Nabeel's brothers were arrested and he himself was denounced as an enemy of the state and fled Iraq in 1980, leaving his family behind. (£7.99)

Isolation Shepherd  -  Iain R Thomson
In August 1956, a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was to be their home for the next four years. (£6.99)

Humble Pie  -  Gordon Ramsay
The real story of a man seen as rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. (£7.99)
 
ENVIRONMENT
 
New Green History Of The World – Clive Ponting
The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. Clive Ponting's best-selling study of man's despoliation of the planet revised and updated. (£8.99)

Low Carbon Diet – Polly Ghazi
 “How to Get the Planet Back Into Shape.” An easy to follow step-by-step programme for individuals and families to cut down the carbon calories they consume at home, on the road and at play. Practical, achievable, everyday actions that will make a difference - not just to your waistline and your bank balance, but to the health of the only planet we have. (£12.99)

It’s Easy Being Green  - Mark Mann
101 Ways to Save the Planet. This book highlights simple changes that can be easily incorporated into everyday life to reduce the use of energy, chemicals and water, and the waste and pollution that is created. It shows how being green is not only better for the planet, but can also save money and make us happier and healthier. (£3.99)

GARDENING & SMALLHOLDING
 
101 Grow To Eat Ideas
 “Failsafe Varieties for the Kitchen Garden.” From the BBC and Gardeners' World Magazine. (£4.99)
 
101 Ideas For Pots
“Foolproof Recipes for Year-Round Colour.” From the BBC and Gardeners' World Magazine. (£4.99)

Hen Keeping: Inspiration and Practical Advice for Would-be Smallholders – Jane Eastoe (£14.99)

Home Grown Vegetables: Inspiration and Practical Advice for Would-be Smallholders – Stephanie Donaldson (£6.99)
 
Concise Self Sufficiency – John Seymour
Start living 'the good life': from creating an urban organic garden to harnessing natural energy. New compact format. (£12.99)
 
Right Way To Keep Chickens – Virginia Shirt
A detailed guide for anyone considering keeping chickens in their own back garden - and enjoying a free supply of freshly laid eggs! This book is fully illustrated throughout, with detailed visual references for sections on chicken biology, health, handling, building coops and more. (£7.99)
 
HISTORY

Secrets Of The Labyrinth  - Greg Mosse
Cathars, Templars and bloodshed -  shows how the region was home to the Cathars, who clung to this dramatic mountain landscape in stone fortresses and battled against siege, inquisition and massacre to keep their faith, and keep some much older secrets. Explores the history, mysteries and conspiracies that inspired Kate Mosse’s novel Labyrinth. (£12.99)
 
Victorian Engineering  - L T C Rolt
Reissue of the 1970 classic, describing the course of British engineering throughout the 19th century, giving accounts of such major developments as the building of the railways, the growth of ship-building and the introduction of gas and electricity. (£9.99)
 
History Of The Russian Revolution  - Leon Trotsky
Published for the 90th anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, this edition of Trotsky's masterpiece, with a new foreword by Ahmed Shawki, tells the epic story of the remarkable events that transformed Russian and world history forever. (£18.99)
 
Dunkirk – H Sebag-Montefiore
Rescuing the British army from Dunkirk was not just about what happened at sea and off the beaches. This book tells the story of the officers and ordinary British, and French, soldiers who were ordered to hold a series of strong points inland while their comrades were evacuated. They were to fight to the last man. (£8.99)
 
P.O.W. – Adrian Gilbert
 “Allied Prisoners in Europe, 1939-1945.” Just under 300,000 Allied servicemen from Britain, the Commonwealth and the United States were captured in Europe and North Africa between 1939 and 1945. Using new sources, this book describes their experiences, with eleven individual stories threaded through the narrative. (£8.99)

Mammoth Book Of Cover Ups – Jon E Lewis
The 100 Most Terrifying Conspiracies of All Time. The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, The Da Vinci Code, Roswell, The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor, The Illuminati, The Face of Mars, Protocols of Zion and Many More. Possibly this should have gone in Fantasy Fiction … (£7.99)

HUMOUR
 
Millions Of Women Are Waiting/Meet You – Sean Thomas
“A Story of Life, Love and Internet Dating.” Sean Thomas was single, 37 and by his own admission, just a tiny bit desperate to meet the woman of his dreams, when he was asked by the editor of Men's Health to try internet dating. (£7.99)

The Idler (Issue 39): How to Start a Revolution From Your Bed
Is protest worth the effort? How about making a revolution in your everyday life? (£10.99)

Spike Milligan A Celebration  (£7.99)
 
LANGUAGE

Oxford English Minidictionary  (£4.50) 

Gem Polish Dictionary  (£4.99)
 
Collins German School Dictionary  (£5.99)
 
The BBC are bringing back their useful “Get By In” series, with Travel Packs comprising books and CDs of essential phrases in context at £9.99 in French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
 
Collins Gem are producing a joint phrasebook and CD for £7.99 in Arabic, Japanese, Polish and Russian

and Lonely Planet (Fast Talk) are doing the same at a startling £3.99 for Spanish, Italian and French.
 
MBS
 
Mars and Venus Collide: Why Men and Women Have Changed and How to Make Your Relationships Work - John Gray
From the author of  'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus', a look at how the pressures of our modern work-oriented lifestyles are putting added stress on our relationships and making it harder and harder for them to work out long term. Men and women deal with stress in different ways and their different needs often lead to misunderstandings, miscommunication and resentment. (£8.99)

My Dearest Enemy, My Dangerous Friend: Making and Breaking Sibling Bonds - Dorothy Rowe (£9.99)
 
Yoga To Go Travel Deck Mini Kits
Suitable for business travellers, this kit provides a workout with up to 9 separate routines designed to stretch and tone muscles in the body. It includes a set of 45 cards that show the positions. (£5.99)
 
MUSIC
 
Complete Lyrics – Nick Cave
The complete collection of Nick Cave lyrics spanning his entire career, from 1978 until 2006, revised and updated by the cult rock star. (£10.99)
 
NATURE
 
In addition to our bargain nature books on display on the central table:

Wildlife Pond Handbook - Wildlife Trusts
A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own wetland for wildlife. A £12.99 book at £3.99.

From Flame Tree, compact Identification Guides on:
Birds and Wild Flowers  (£8.99 each)
 
From Readers Digest, guides to
Birds and Wild Flowers (£7.99 each)

POETRY

Forty Five - Frieda Hughes
Ted Hughes' and Sylvia Plath's daughter breaks a lifetime's near-silence on her personal story, with this book of paintings and poetry which takes the reader on a journey through the difficult and inspirational events defining each year of her life so far. (£9.95)

POLITICS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

Fair Trade:  A Beginners Guide - Jacqueline Decarlo (£9.99)

Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
Looks at familiar situations in unfamiliar ways, and provides a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges. (£7.99)

Islamist – Ed Husain
“Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and Why I Left.” Uncovers how young British Muslims are being turned into extremists by subversive fanatics. This is the first time an ex-member openly discusses life within radical Islamic organisations. (£8.99)

Fiasco -  Thomas E Ricks
 “The American Military Adventure in Iraq.” A gripping, first-hand armed forces account of the entire Iraq 'fiasco' by a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post team reporter. (£8.99)

Spectrum – Perry Anderson
Provides a unique analysis of contemporary thinkers, ranging across fields of history, philosophy, politics; right, left and centre. (£14.99)
 
TRAVEL
 
AA are doing new Street by Street guides to London, Berlitz have new regional motoring maps including  Languedoc Roussillon  (£4.99) and there’s a new compact Times Atlas of the World (£10.99)
 
Notes From The Hard Shoulder  - James May
From the Top Gear presenter and columnist for the Daily Telegraph a collection of his tales of motoring adventures through India, Russia and Iceland and articles on essential subjects such as driving songs and haunted car parks. (£7.99)


CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

More Pants - Giles Andreae
You can never have enough pants as this exuberant celebration of lots and lots more pants proves! Giles Andreae's brilliant rhyming text and Nick Sharratt's hilarious vibrant illustrations will delight children and adults alike. Ages: 1+ yrs. (£10.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Intergalactic Bus Trip - Martin Oliver
A thrilling adventure story packed with entertaining puzzles for children to solve. Young children seem to love these puzzle books. they are especially good for t he reluctant reader. Ages 7+ yrs.(£3.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

How To Survive Summer Camp - Jacqueline Wilson
Stella's mum and step-dad have gone off on holiday and have dumped Stella at the Evergreen Holiday Camp. She's not happy! Especially when she finds out she's expected to learn to swim - the one thing her mum promised she wouldn't have to do. She's determined not to enjoy herself and settles down for a nightmare summer. Ages 8+ yrs.(£5.99)

Teenage

Artemis Fowl & The Lost Colony - Eoin Colfer
The stunning new Artemis Fowl adventure - the fifth in Eoin Colfer's number-one mega-selling series. Has the teenage criminal mastermind finally met his match? A second juvenile genius has discovered that fairies do exist and she is determined to trap a demon, the most human-hating species known to mankind.... Ages: 10+ yrs. (£5.99)

APRIL 2007

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Children Of Hurin – J R R Tolkien
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous story, the epic tale of 'The Children of Hurin'. (£16.99 at The Book Case)
 
On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
 
South Of The River – Blake Morrison
A tale of five people, two rivers, and many Englands, metropolitan and rural, black and white: a tour de force. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
 
Tranquil Star – Primo Levi
Unpublished stories of Primo Levi. The first publication in English, on the 30th anniversary of Levi's death, of a significant selection of his stories, all in new translations. (£18 at The Book Case)
 
Ines Of My Soul - Isabel Allende
The story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on the shores of Chile with the Conquistadors in the 1500s. A real historical figure, Ines Suarez helped to claim the territory for Spain and to found the first Spanish settlement in Santiago. (£15.99 at The Book Case)
 
Witch Of Portobello - Paulo Coelho
A new novel set in London. Athena, who has been dubbed 'the Witch of Portobello' for her seeming powers of prophecy, disappears dramatically, leaving those who knew her to solve the mystery of her life and abrupt departure. (£12.99 at The Book Case)
 
Farewell Britannia – Simon Young
“A Family Saga of Roman Britain.” From a former Hebden Bridge man who "wears [his] considerable learning lightly", a historical novel telling the dramatic story of 400 years of Roman rule in Britain via a Roman-Celtic family saga. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
PAPERBACK
 
Damned Utd – David Peace
Boxing Day, 1962. A frozen pitch at Roker Park and the painful premature end to a career as one of football's most deadly marksmen. Yorkshire, 1974. Leeds United hate Brian Clough. Brian Clough hates Leeds United. (£7.99)
 
Be Near Me – Andrew O'Hagan
When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. Trapped in class hatreds, threatened by personal flaws, Father David begins to discover what happened to the ideals of his generation. Booker long-listed in 2006. (£7.99)
 
My Father's Notebook – Kader Abdolah
In a holy mountain in Persia is a cave with a mysterious cuneiform carving. Aga Akbar, a deaf-mute mountain boy, develops his own private script from these symbols and writes passionately of his life, his family and his efforts to make sense of the changes the 20th century brings to his country. Later, exiled in Holland, his son struggles to decipher the notebook. (£7.99)
 
Seizure – Erica Wagner
A first novel from the author of “Ariel’s gift” and Literary Editor of The Times. Janet grew up with her father; her mother, she was always told, died when she was three. But now, living an ocean away from her childhood home, she unexpectedly inherits a house. (£10.99)                      
 
Londonstani – Gautam Malkani
Reveals a Britain that has never before been explored in the novel: a country of young Asians and white boys (desis and goras) trying to work out a place for themselves in the shadow of the divergent cultures of their parents' generation. Funny, crude, disturbing, and written in the vibrant language of its protagonists, this is a clever and convincing novel. (£7.99)  
 
Book Of Lost Things – John Connolly
'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother...' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved of his dead mother, he finds the real world and the fantasy world begin to blend. (£6.99)
 
Tenth Circle – Jodi Picoult                
A mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past; his 14-year-old daughter in love for the first time - until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. (£6.99)
 
The Year of Pleasures - Elizabeth Berg
A new widow honours a promise to her husband to move to a small town and start a new life. Without minimizing her great sorrow, she nevertheless attempts to find pleasure on a daily basis. (£7.99)
 
A Perfect Life - Raffaella Barker
What do you do when you should be happy, but you're not? Who do you blame when you realise you don't love your husband any more? What can you change when you see your family is falling apart? (£6.99)
 
No Word From Gurb – Eduardo Mendoza
A riotous satire highlighting the contradictions of Western society - a shape-shifting extraterrestrial named Gurb has disappeared in Barcelona, having assumed the form of Madonna, whose image he glimpses on a street poster. His partner, desperate to get him back, goes about trying to find him in a more discreet guise. (£6.99)
 
Chronicler Of The Winds – Henning Mankell
A departure from the crime genre with this mesmerising fable of the African continent. (£7.99)
 
Dead Fathers’ Club – Matt Haig
A  poignantly funny poignant update on Hamlet, through the eyes of a boy whose recently-dead father appears and demands revenge – on Uncle Alan. (£7.99)
 
Everyman – Philip Roth
A painful human story of the regret and loss and stoicism of a man who becomes what he does not want to be. The terrain of this savagely sad short novel is the human body, and its subject is the common experience that terrifies us all. (£6.99)
 
Naming Of The Dead – Ian Rankin
A murder has been committed - but as the victim is a rapist, recently released from prison, no one is that concerned about the crime - until Detective Inspector John Rebus and DS Siobhan Clarke uncover evidence that a serial killer is on the loose. (£10.99)
 
Pelagia & The White Bulldog - Boris Akunin
From the creator of Russian detective Erast Fandorin, the First Sister Pelagia Mystery. In the dying days of the nineteenth century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a dangerously persuasive manner. (£6.99)
 
A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil - Christopher Brookmyre
Only once you've been through school with this painfully believable cast of characters will you be equipped to work out what really happened decades later. (£7.99)
 
Troy: Shield of Thunder - David Gemmell
The war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder. Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers. (£6.99)
 
Mammoth Book Of Modern Ghost Stories (£7.99)
 
NON-FICTION
 
ART AND CRAFT
 
L S Lowry: A Life - Shelley Rohde
To coincide with the 30th anniversary of Lowry's death, this fascinating biography includes extracts from private letters which have come to light since Lowry's death and facsimile reproductions of major exhibition catalogues. The author, who lives in Cragg Vale, talked to Lowry several times. (£25)
 
Basketry: A World Guide to Traditional Techniques - Bryan Sentence
Explores in depth the techniques and materials used to construct baskets around the world. Illustrated. (£16.95)
 
Weaving: Methods, Patterns and Traditions of an Ancient Art
Gift book on recycled papers in black and sepia inks. (£4.99)
 
BIOGRAPHY
           
Clap Hands For The Singing Molecatcher - Roderick Grant
Scenes from a Scottish childhood. (£7.99)
                       
Born On A Blue Day – Daniel Tammet
“The Gift of an Extraordinary Mind.” Daniel Tammet has the extremely rare condition Savant Syndrome. He can perform extraordinary maths in his head, and learn to speak a language fluently in three days; and has a compulsive need for order and routine. But virtually unique amongst those with severe autistic disorders, he is capable of living a fully functioning, independent life. (£6.99)
 
My Life On A Hillside Allotment – Terry Walton
Terry Walton has kept an allotment for over 50 years in the Rhondda Valley, starting when he was 4, helping on his dad's plot on the side of the mountain, and being sent to cut bracken and collect sheep manure to feed the rows of vegetables. By the time he was 11 he had his own plot and soon established an allotment empire to grow the vegetables and flowers he sold to local customers.(£12.99)     
 
Beautiful Child – Torey Hayden
The story of a child trapped in silence and the teacher who refused to give up on her. (£6.99)
 
You Can’t Take It With You – Jane Tomlinson
In a sequel to 'The Luxury of Time', young mother Jane Tomlinson continues to defy her terminal cancer diagnosis by taking part in extreme physical challenges, most recently an epic cycle ride across the breadth of the US. (£7.99)
 
ENVIRONMENT
 
What Would Jesus Buy? – Bill Talen
The Church of Stop Shopping founded by performance artist and activist Bill Talen on a mission to protest against the modern culture of commercialisation and consumption that leads to environmental devastation, social iniquity and other dangers both measurable and immeasurable. (£7.99)
 
How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take To Change The Planet? – Tony Juniper
95 articles for comfort, security and survival. An impassioned manifesto for ecological action in the face of rapid climate change by the UK director of Friends of the Earth. (£12)
 
When The Rivers Run Dry – Fred Pearce
“What Happens When Our Water Runs Out?” Fred Pearce has travelled the world to provide the most complete portrait yet of the causes of the world water crisis - THE resource crisis for the 21st century. Calling for a 'blue revolution', he finds new solutions that will surprise most readers. (£8.99)
 
GARDENING
 
Diggers Diary: Tales from the Allotment  – Victor Osborne (£7.99)
 
RHS Plant Finder 2007-2008   
The 20th Anniversary Edition of Britain's No 1 gardening annual. More than 73,000 plants and  handy contact details with maps for over 750 nurseries. (£14.99)
 
Your Organic Allotment - HDRA (£12.99)
 
Pest & Weed Expert
In the popular Dr Hessayon series (but probably not terribly organic). (£7.99)
 
HISTORY
 
Megalithic Measures and Rhythms: Sacred Knowledge of the Ancient Britons -
Anne Macaulay
The huge stone circles built in the British Isles and northwest France from 6,500 to 3,500 years ago have only in modern times begun to reveal their remarkable complexity. They were precisely aligned to major celestial events – but how did the megalithic builders achieve such extraordinary accuracy in their measurement? (£20)
 
The Megalithic Monuments of Britain and Ireland - Christopher Scarre
From Stonehenge to Newgrange, the richest array of megalithic monuments in Europe is found in Great Britain and Ireland. (£12.95)
 
Jesus Tomb – Simcha Jacobovici
The one there’s all the hooha about. Were the remains of Jesus's body found over 25 years ago and the truth hidden? Accompanies Channel 4's 90-min documentary by Jacobovici & James Cameron. (£17.99)
 
Dancing In The Streets – Barbara Ehrenreich
“A History of Collective Joy.” The origins of communal celebration in biology and culture -  the same elements come up in every human culture throughout history: a love of masking, carnival, music-making and dance, until 16th-century Europeans began to view mass festivities as foreign and 'savage'. (£12.99)

'Black Tom': Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution - Andrew Hopper
The creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to 1650 also had a political side. (£16.99)
 
That Sweet Enemy – Robert Tombs
The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present. (£12.99)
 
Fatal Purity- Ruth Scurr
Robespierre and the French Revolution. How idealism turned to blood: a powerful new portrait of the most enigmatic politician of all times, and a vivid re-reading of the turbulent French Revolution itself. (£8.99)

The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain
Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a rare first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade - who expresses a warm attachment towards individual slaves which was sometimes reciprocated. (£15.99)
 
Last Mughal – William Dalrymple
“The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857.” The last of the Great Mughals was Bahadur Shah Zafar II. One of the most talented, tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty, he found himself in the position of leader of a violent uprising he knew from the start would lead to irreparable carnage. (£8.99)

A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-class Home in Victorian England - John Tosh
In the early decades of the 19th century, men placed a new value on the home as a reaction to the disorienting experience of urbanization and as a response to the teachings of Evangelical Christianity. By the 1870s, they were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home - especially once the rights of wives were extended by law and society - and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before. (£12.99)
 
Lost Voices Of The Edwardians – Max Arthur
Recaptures the day-to-day lives of working people in the Edwardian era -  the first generation who were able to record their lives on film. (£8.99)
 
Mr Punch’s History Of The Great War
A month-by-month account of World War I through the eyes of Mr Punch, a satirist without mercy and a British institution. (£16)
 
Somme – Martin Gilbert
“The Heroism and Horror of War.” The definitive story of the First World War's bloodiest conflict. (£8.99)

Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War - Peter Barham
The first time the history of the rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties of the First World War has been told. (£16.99)
 
Ten Days That Shook The World – John Reed
The first-person chronicle of a legendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution. (£9.99)                        
 
Revolutionaries – E J Hobsbawm
Classic essays on revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara. Revised and updated edition. (£9.99)

The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons - Alvin Kernan (£12.99)
 
Five Gold Rings
“A Royal Wedding Souvenir Album - From Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II.” To celebrate The Queen's Diamond Wedding Anniversary in 2007.  (£9.99)
 
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
 
Words, Words, Words – David Crystal
A celebration of what we say and how we say it. (£8.99)
 
Chambers Paperback Dictionary (£5.99)

Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present - ed. Janet Badia; Jennifer Phegley
A study of the evolution of the woman reader in the 19th and 20th century - what, how, and why women read and the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. (£18.00)

MBS
 
How the Mind Forgets and Remembers: the Seven Sins of Memory - Daniel L. Schacter
Looks at common memory glitches - transience, absentmindedness, blocking, misattribution, suggestibility, bias, and persistence, and explains why and how memory weaknesses occur. (£12.99)
 
Final Reminder: How I Emptied My Parents' House - Lydia Flem
The lonely process of bereavement is intensified by having to clear away things symbolic of parents and early childhood. Lydia gets to know her mother more truly after death. (£9.99)
 
Rough Guide to the Brain (£10.99)

How To Tell If Your Boyfriend is the Antichrist – Patricia Carlin
A hilarious and handy guide to telling the difference between a quirk and a severe personality disorder. (£7.99)
 
Dowsing
A Journey Beyond Our Five Senses. On 100% recycled papers in black and sepia. (£4.99)

From SPCK:

The Open Gate: Celtic Prayers for Growing Spiritually - David Adam (£7.99)

Mirror Images: Seeing Yourself in Other People - David Adam (£7.99)

How to Become a Saint: A Beginner's Guide - Jack Bernard (£8.99)

Book of Mary - Nicola Slee (£9.99)

From Sheldon a range of practical books at £7.99 each:

How to Talk to Your Child
How to Make Life Happen: When You're Too Busy to Live
How to Approach Death
Coping with Age-related Memory Loss
Coping with Candida
The Depression Diet
Stress-Related Illness
 
NATURE & ANIMALS
 
Wild Foods – Ray Mears
 Ray Mears and Gordon Hillman lead us into the wildest parts of Britain to demonstrate the huge variety of indigenous foods that can be found. BBC2 tie-in. (£20)
 
Food For Free – Richard Mabey
New edition of the classic bestselling guide to Britain's wild foods first published in 1972. (£12.99)
 
Guide To Birds Of Britain & Europe – Lars Svensson,
An easy-to-use rapid identification guide to more than 500 species - all the resident and regular migrant birds in the geographical continent of Europe. (£9.99)
 
Shroom – Andy Letcher
 “A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom”. Informative, lively, and impeccably researched - a unique and engaging study of this most extraordinary of psychedelic drugs. (£8.99)
 
Dogs Behaving Badly – Gwen Bailey
Handbook for any dog owner experiencing behavioural or training problems with their dog or puppy. Written by a well-known dog behaviourist, it contains easily followed advice on a wide selection of common problems, as well as a number of fascinating case histories. (£7.99)

Rough Guide to Weather (£12.99)
 
NOVELTIES
 
Mini Desk Construction Site
Brighten up your desk with construction chic! Contains 6 traffic cones, 3 hazard sign magnets, 2 sawhorses, 'Do Not Cross' tape and an office blueprint in a mini internal envelope. (£4.99)
 
Mini Boomerang Kit
Learn the ancient aboriginal art of the boomerang, Kit contains - 2 mini boomerangs, 2 magnets and a 32 page book. (£4.99)
 
POETRY
 
Ariel: the restored edition – Sylvia Plath
This facsimile edition restores the selection and arrangements of the poems Sylvia Plath left at the point of her death. Now in paperback. With a foreword by Frieda Hughes. (£9.99)
 
Selected Poems - Michael Rosen
A moving sequence of prose poems extracted from Rosen's autobiographical triptych, 'Carrying the Elephant', 'This is Not My Nose' and 'In the Colonie'. Covers a vast terrain, collating memories from his left-wing Jewish upbringing, his teenage holiday at a socialist summer camp in France, his London childhood and the death of his 18-year-old son from meningitis. He takes in, along the way, marriage, divorce, births and the undiagnosed illness from which Rosen suffered for 10 years. (£8.99)
 
In Faber’s Poet to Poet series, £3.99 each:
William Barnes, ed. Andrew Motion
John Clare, ed. Paul Farley.
D H Lawrence, ed.  Tom Paulin.
 
Selected Poems – Louis MacNeice (£12.99)

POLITICS

Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism - Bruce Ackerman
Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. Bruce Ackerman presents a practical alternative. (£10.99)

Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror - Mary Habeck
The one voice missing from the analysis of the 9/11 and subsequent attacks is that of the terrorists themselves. This book presents the inner logic of al-Qaeda and like-minded extremist groups. (£10.99)

Tricks Journalists Play: How the Truth is Massaged, Distorted, Glamorized and Glossed Over - Dennis Barker, ed. Giles de la Mare
A hard-hitting expose of the erosion of standards and values in the media world of newspapers, TV and radio over the past twenty years, in particular those of integrity, independence of thought and accuracy. (£14.99)

SCIENCE
 
Rough Guide to the Earth (£10.99)
 
TRAVEL
 
The Yorkshire Dales (Pocket Mountains series) - Dominic North (£6.99)

Empire Of The Mind – Iqbal Ahmed
“In Search of Great Britain.” As a child in Kashmir, Iqbal Ahmed imagined a Great Britain as the mother country of the Empire, a place full of wonders and delight. Living in London, he goes in search of the nation he once dreamt of, visiting the many different cities and towns of his imagination. From the author of “Sorrows of the Moon.” (£7.99)
 
Terra Nullius – Sven Lindqvist
 “A Journey Through No-One's Land.” A journey across Australia's desert, and into its shocking past, telling the history of the country, and revealing the shocking treatment of its Aboriginal peoples. (£10)
 
Badlands – Tony Wheeler
“A Tourist on the Axis of Evil.” From the founder of Lonely Planet (who once put a note through the door of The Book Case), a fascinating account of life in closed off countries - Afghanistan, Albania, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea and Saudi Arabia. What makes a country truly evil? and how bad is really bad? (£8.99)
 
Mammoth Book Of Polar Journeys (£7.99)
 
Magic & Mystery In Tibet - Alexandra David-Neel
The author was the first European woman to meet the Dalai Lama and to enter the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. In the 1920s she journeyed through Tibet which was then a closed and mysterious world. Rarely out of print for nearly eighty years, this is a classic of travel writing. (£9.99)
           
As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela – Mark Thomas
“Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade.” A hard-hitting, funny and unsettling expose of the arms trade. (£7.99)
 
On The Road To Kandahar – Jason Burke
“Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World” from an expert in modern Islamic militancy. (£8.99)

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

Sharing a Shell -Julia Donaldson
The tiny hermit crab loves his brand new shell. But sharing with a blobby purple anenome and a tickly bristleworm is getting a bit cramped! Join Crab, Blob and Anenome as they part ways, and only then discover how much they need each other. This is a tale of sea, shells and friendship, presented in a board book format. Ages: 0+3 yrs. (£4.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Hugo Pepper - Chris Riddell
Part of the "Far-Flung Adventure" series, this is the tale of a small boy, Hugo Pepper. Raised in the Frozen North by reindeer herders, his parents eaten by polar bears when he was just a baby, Hugo discovers that the sled they arrived in has a very special compass - one that can be set to 'Home'. The third in an excellent series from this award winning childrens author 7-9yrs (£4.99)

Little Guide to Wildflowers - Charlotte Voake
Arranged by colour for speed of identification and wonderfully illustrated, this is a beautiful introduction to the flowers that can be seen every day. A special book and a lovely gift . Ages: 5-7 years. (£5.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Why is Snot is Green? - Glenn Murphy
Why is snot is green? Do rabbits fart? What causes earthquakes? Do birds kiss? What is colour blindness? Why do we snore? Why do tigers have stripes? What makes our tummies rumble? This book answers these and 192 other questions frequently asked at the Science Museum. It covers topics ranging from The Big Bang to bodily functions and cool gadgets.Ages: 7+yrs.(£4.99)

Teenage

Nightrise - Anthony Horowitz
The battle with the Old Ones continues in the third exciting volume of the bestselling Power Of Five series from the creator of Alex Rider. Fourteen-year-old twins are performing a mind-reading act in a dingy theatre until a sinister multinational corporation gets involved. Ages: 12+. (£6.99)

MARCH 2007

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Two Caravans – Marina Lewycka
From the author of 'A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian'. It is a beautiful summer's evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry-pickers celebrate a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at your supermarket, and who picks our strawberries? (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
Good Husband Of Zebra Drive – Alexander McCall Smith
Latest in the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series: Precious Ramotswe  is experiencing staffing difficulties, so Mr JLB Matekoni becomes involved in the agency's work when he investigates an errant husband. But can a man investigate such matters as competently as one of the ladies? (£10.99 at The Book Case)
 
Burning Bright – Tracy Chevalier
 Set in 1792, against the backdrop of a London jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, and entwined with the life of poet, printer and radical, William Blake, recreates Georgian London as vividly as 17th-century Delft in the same author’s 'Girl With a Pearl Earring'. (£13.99 at The Book Case)
 
Widow & Her Hero – Thomas Keneally
In 1943, when Grace and Leo Waterhouse married in Australia, they were part of a young generation ready to sacrifice themselves to win the war, while being confident they would survive. Sixty years on, as Grace recounts what happened to her doomed hero, she can say what she suspected then: that men are fundamentally childish and for many of them, bravery is its own end. (£14.99 at The Book Case)
 
Over – Margaret Forster
From an author known for her convincingly and disturbingly real fiction, a merciless look at a mother's anguish. (£14.99 at the Book Case)     
 
PAPERBACK
 
Tent – Margaret Atwood
Imaginative tales tackle a broad range of subjects, reflecting the times we live in with deadly accuracy and knife-edge precision. (£6.99)
 
Iliad – Alessandro Baricco
From the author of 'Silk', the siege of Troy through the voices of twenty-one Homeric characters. Sacrificing none of Homer's panoramic scope, Baricco forgoes Homer's detachment and admits us to realms of subjective experience. (£9.99)
 
Imperium – Robert Harris
Trade paperback version of the story of Cicero's rise to power, from radical young lawyer to first citizen of Rome, competing with men such as Pompey, Caesar, Crassus and Cato. (£11.99)
 
Other Side Of You – Salley Vickers
From the author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel'. 'There is no cure for being alive,' says Dr David McBride, a psychiatrist for whom death exerts an unusual draw. One day, a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, is admitted to his hospital. (£7.99)
 
Place Of Greater Safety – Hilary Mantel
Recounts the events between the fall of the Ancien Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists - George Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins. (£9.99)
 
Queen Mum – Kate Long
Ally has everything she ever wanted - until her glamorous, dynamic next-door neighbour and friend, Juno signs up for Queen Mum, a reality-TV show. For two weeks, she will live with another family in another town, while her opposite number will be moving in next door to Ally. (£6.99)
 
Keeping The World Away – Margaret Forster
This is the story of an actual 20th-century painting, one of a series by Gwen John, its fictional adventures through the century and of the women whose lives it touches. (£7.99)
 
Book Of Dave – Will Self
The rants of Dave, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his woes down and buries them...only to have them discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London. (£7.99)
 
In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
Booker-shortlisted.  On a white-hot day in Tripoli, Libya, in the summer of 1979, nine-year-old Suleiman is shopping in the market square with his mother. His father is away on business – but Suleiman is sure he has just seen him, standing across the street... (£7.99)
 
Match - Romesh Gunesekera
Thirty years after a cricket match in Manila, Sunny goes to watch the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team play at the Oval. “Few novelists have so skilfully underlined the beauty of patience as a redeeming virtue.”  (£7.99)
 
Poppy Shakespeare – Clare Allan
N has been a patient at a day hospital in North London for 13 years with the ambition never to get discharged. Then in walks Poppy Shakespeare in her six-inch skirt and 12-inch heels. She is certain she isn't mentally ill and desperate to return to her life outside. (£7.99)
 
Man Walks Into A Room – Nicole Krauss
Samson Greene, a young professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert with total memory loss since the age of twelve. The removal of a small brain tumour saves his life, and he is returned to a world in which everything is strange and new. (£7.99)
 
Skin Lane – Neil Bartlett
At 47, Mr. F's working life on London's Skin Lane in 1967 is one governed by calm, precision and routine. So, when he starts to have frightening, recurring nightmares, he does his best to ignore them. The images that appear in his dream are disturbing - Mr. F can't for the life of him think where they have come from. (£10.99)
 
One Night At The Call Centre – Chetan Bhagat
A provocative romantic comedy with a unique perspective - set in a call centre in India on the night six troubled friends get a call from God. (£6.99)
 
The Last Witchfinder - James Morrow
Jennet is the daughter of the Witchfinder of Mercia and East Anglia. Whilst her father roams the countryside in search of heretics, Jennet is left behind to be schooled by her aunt Isobel in the New Philosophy principally expounded by Isaac Newton. But her aunt's style of scientific enquiry soon attracts the attention of the witchfinders. (£7.99)
 
Through A Glass Darkly – Donna Leon
A new outing in Venice for Commissario Brunetti. (£6.99)
 
Grave Tattoo – Val McDermid
Present-day murder has its roots in the eighteenth century and the mutiny on the Bounty in this psychological thriller. (£6.99)
 
Piece Of My Heart - Peter Robinson
As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. (£6.99)
 
Mr Monk & The Blue Flu – Lee Goldberg
The police plan to call in sick until they get a better contract. The labour dispute means Monk is back on the force. The bad news is it means he'll be a scab. (£5.99)
 
Human Is - Philip K Dick
The best short fiction from the celebrated SF author. A number of his books are being reissued to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death: see below(£10)
 
REISSUES
 
From Philip K Dick, £7.99 each:
Flow My Tears The Policeman Said                
Dr Bloodmoney
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Martian Time Slip                 
Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch
 
Mammoth Book of Golden Age SF
“Ten Classic Novellas from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing.” The Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing including authors such as Asimov, Heinlein, and Arthur C Clarke. (£7.99)
 
NON-FICTION
 
ART, CRAFT & ARCHITECTURE
 
The Architecture of Happiness - Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. (£9.99)
 
Wire & Bead Celtic Jewellery – Linda Jones
35 step-by-step jewellery projects inspired by the art of the ancient Celts. With only some beads, a spool of wire, and a few simple tools, you can begin straight away to create beautiful twisted wire and bead pieces. (£12.99)
 
BIOGRAPHY
 
Wordsworth: a Life in Letters - ed. Juliet Barker, £12.99
Reissue as a Penguin Classic of this selection by award-winning local author from the poet's letters and autobiographical fragments, showing him as a rebel, a radical, a devoted family man and a revered patriarch. (£12.99)

Fred – David Hall
The Definitive Biography of Fred Dibnah. (£6.99)

Good Good Pig – Sy Montgomery
A story from an award-winning nature writer and adventurer about finding herself and a connection to others through her remarkable pet pig. (£6.99)

Lessons in Taxidermy - Bee Lavender
Diagnosed with cancer at age twelve and perilously pregnant at eighteen, surviving surgeries and violent accidents: an inspiring story of triumph over tragedy (£6.99)
 

CURRENT AFFAIRS AND POLITICS
 
Perilous Power - Noam Chomsky & Gilbert Achcar
“Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice.” The internal dynamics of the Middle East and the role of the US. (£16.99)
 
Failed States America - Noam Chomsky
 The US government has routinely cited the threat to global security of 'failed states', asserting the right to intervene with military force to prevent their further collapse. Noam Chomsky argues that America itself is a failed state, and is as such a danger to its people - and, increasingly, to the world. (£9.99)
 
Freedom Next Time – John Pilger
The latest hard-hitting investigative book from John Pilger. (£8.99)
 
Londonistan – Melanie Phillips                       
“How Britain is Creating a Terror State Within.” Updated edition of the controversial book arguing that we have an enormous fifth column of Islamist terrorists and their sympathizers  as a result of the collapse of traditional English identity (£7.99)
 
Dark Heart Of Italy – Tobias Jones
Now fully updated with chapters on Berlusconi's demise and the 2006 corruption scandal that hit Italian football. (£8.99)
 
Young Citizens Passport - Citizenship Foundation (£4.99)
 
Screw It Lets Do It -  Richard Branson
Lessons in Life. The successful entrepreneur shares his secrets of success and exciting plans for the future. (£7.99)
 
ENVIRONMENT
 
It’s Not Easy Being Green – Dick Strawbridge
TV tie-in:  Dick Strawbridge and his family leave their comfortable home for  a self-sufficiency project in Cornwall. The aim is to have little negative impact on the planet by producing no waste and removing their dependency upon fossil fuels, without compromising on their modern 21st-century lifestyles..  (£12.99)
 
A Year in Green Tea and Tuk-Tuks: My Unlikely Adventure Creating an Eco Farm in Sri Lanka - Rory Spowers
BBC journalist and environmentalist Rory Spowers moved with his wife and two toddler sons to a 60-acre abandoned tea estate in Sri Lanka, to create a model organic farm and earn his livelihood from the land. The story begins with the tsunami and Rory's sudden involvement with the relief efforts, and charts the course of his adventures over 12 months culminating in the launch of his new business (making a living by selling the produce he grows). (£7.99)
 
Fast Food Nation – Eric Schlosser
”What the All-American Meal is Doing to the World.” Reveals the full price of our appetite for instant gratification. Now a film  (£7.99)
 
GARDENING
 
Organic Gardening Basics – Bob Flowerdew
“Five Easy Steps to Growing Organically.” Expert advice on everything from basil to Brussels sprouts and plums to pansies from one of Britain's leading organic gardeners. (£5.99)
 
Gardening With Children – Kim Wilde
Bursting with fun ideas for getting - and keeping - kids interested in the outdoors. (£9.99)
 
Allotment Days – Matthew Biggs
“A Celebration of the Wonderful World of Plots and Planting.” (£9.99)
 
Starting Out With Native Plants - C De La Bedoyere
Whether you have a tiny piece of woodland, a pond area, a piece of grassland or even a native hedge, this book shows you how to start up and maintain a wonderful natural garden. (£14.99)
 
No Nettles Required – Ken Thompson
“The Reassuring Truth About Wildlife Gardening.” (£6.99)
 
HISTORY
 
Great Transformation – Karen Armstrong
“The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah.” The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Karen Armstrong examines this phenomenal period. (£9.99)
 
Dogs Of God – James Reston
“Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the Moors.” The pivotal events of 1492, a year that changed the world for ever. (£8.99)
 
Short History Of Slavery – James Walvin
A powerful combination of historical narrative and selected historical documents explaining how slavery flourished for so long and how it eventually ended. For the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 1807. (£9.99)
 
War Of The World – Niall Ferguson
“History's Age of Hatred 1914-1989.” The 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history. (£9.99)
 
Twice A Stranger – Bruce Clark
“How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey.” An account of the first example of mass ethnic cleansing in Europe - in 1923 nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean because they were the 'wrong' religion. (£9.99)
 
Zigzag – Nicholas Booth
“The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Eddie Chapman” - womaniser, blackmailer, safecracker and also great hero - the most successful double agent of the Second World War. Recently read on Radio 4 (£20)
 
HUMOUR
 
Crazy Cat Lady Magnetic Sculpture Kit (£4.99)
 
It’s A Mum Thing (£3.50)
 
LANGUAGE
 
How Language Works – David Crystal
“How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die.” (£9.99)
 
Brewer’s Dictionary Of Phrase & Fable – John Ayto
Expanded and revised 17th edition,, now available in paperback. (£19.99)
 
Lonely Planet British Language & Culture                       
A history of the British English language and culture; how to speak it and its place in life and society. (£4.99)
 
MBS
 
Beyond Fear - Dorothy Rowe (20th Anniversary Reissue) (£12.99)
 
MEDIA
 
The Guardian Book of April Fools Day – Martin Wainwright
How April Fool's Day first came about, when it developed into a media phenomenon, and the best examples of April Fool spoofs. (£9.99)
 
Woman’s Hour
“From Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne - Celebrating Sixty Years of Women's Lives.” (£8.99)
 
Derek Acorah: Extreme Psychic
Stories of his scariest, most bloodcurdling encounters with the other side. (£6.99)
 
NATURE
 
Cloudspotters Guide - Gavin Pretor-Pinney            
A journey through our cloudscape, drawing on science, art, literature and personal obsession. (£7.99)
 
POETRY
 
Talking To The Dead – Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein's most passionate collection of poetry to date, 'Talking to the Dead' evokes her long marriage, and the remembered voice of her dead husband. (£9.95)
 
Glance - Rumi
Songs of Soul Meeting: a new kind of love lyric for our time - one of longing, connection and wholeness. (£8.99)
 
Sylvia Plath’s Poetry            
A Reader's Guide to Sylvia Plath's work, its composition and its relationship to her life. (£9.99)
 
SCIENCE
 
Dawkins vs Gould – Kim Sterelny
Survival of the Fittest. Over the last twenty years Richard Dawkins and Jay Gould have engaged in a savage battle over the nature of evolution. This is the new and updated edition of this expose of the most notorious punch-up in modern science. (£7.99)
 
Origins Of The British: A Genetic Detective Story – Stephen Oppenheimer
Dramatic findings about the origins of the British people: the roots of English identity lie over 6000 years ago, not with the Anglo-Saxons. The majority of English people derive directly from before the first farmers. New findings on Celtic genetic identity prove  the continued existence of a discrete, British Atlantic coast-based population. And Orkney and Shetland were part of the Scandinavian world long before the Viking onslaught and participated actively in raids on Ireland and the colonization of Iceland. (£8.99)
 
SOCIAL HISTORY
 
Can Any Mother Help Me? – Jenna Bailey
“Fifty Years of Friendship Through a Secret Magazine.” In 1935 a young woman wrote a letter to the women's magazine, Nursery World. 'Can any mother help me? I live a very lonely life. Can any reader suggest an occupation that will intrigue me and cost nothing?' Women from all over the country replied expressing similar frustrations and started a private magazine through the Co-operative Correspondence Club. An intimate and moving set of brilliantly written personal stories that also form a document of women's lives throughout the century. (£16.99)
 
TRAVEL & OUTDOOR ACTIV ITIES
 
Outdoor Survival Manual
An update of this tough bestseller. Learn how to master basic skills, from staying warm and dry to finding food and water. (£12.99)
 
Lonely Planet Small Talk Western Europe                       
Ten Languages for City Breaks. Provides the traveller with useful words and phrases for fun and easy communication in all languages for short city trips in Western Europe. (£3.99)
 
Lonely Planet Small Talk Eastern Europe                       
Ten Languages for City Breaks. Provides the traveller with useful words and phrases for fun and easy communication in all languages for short city trips in Eastern Europe. (£3.99)            
 
Greek Phraseguide – Thomas Cook (£3.99)
 
Great British Bus Journeys - David McKie
'Bus Journeys' travels to Britain's most unfashionable towns (using the least reliable method of transport) and uncovers the nation's secret history from the Forest of Bowland to Bradwell-on-Sea. (£8.99)    
 
Ghosts Of Spain – Giles Tremlett
Guardian journalist Giles Tremlett travels through contemporary Spain examining the darker sides of its history - a tinder box of disagreement for Spaniards. (£7.99)
 
On Trying To Keep Still - Jenny Diski
From this award-winning unique writer comes a most unusual series of journeys from Lapland to New Zealand to Somerset. (£7.99)
 
Beer Bed & Breakfast – Susan Nowak/CAMRA                 
A comprehensive guide to more than 500 pubs throughout the UK that serve fine real ale and offer good quality bed and breakfast accommodation. (£14.99)                    
 
New Lonely Planet Guides to Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany and a new Rough Guide to the Netherlands
 

FEBRUARY 2007

FICTION
 
HARDBACK

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen – Paul Torday
A fisheries scientist finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen: a project that will change his life, and the course of British political history for ever. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
 
Certain Age – Lynne Truss
Twelve fictional monologues on family relationships from the radio series. (£10.00 at The Book Case)
 
Concise Chinese English Dict For Lovers – Xiaolu Guo
What happens when a Chinese woman falls in love with an English man and realises that learning the language doesn't necessarily lead to understanding. Funny, sexy, romantic and terribly sad - a love story for a global age. (£10.99 at The Book Case)
 
PAPERBACK
 
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, this Booker and Orange-shortlisted novel tells the story of four Londoners - three women and a young man with a past. (£7.99)

Boudica : Dreaming The Serpent Spear – Manda Scott
The final novel of the quartet. AD 60: The tribes of Britannia are ready to seek bloody vengeance. Twenty thousand warriors are poised to reclaim their land from their captors. Colchester is burning. London has been destroyed. Amidst fire and bloody revolution, Boudica and those around her must fight to keep what matters most. (£6.99)
 
Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky, trans. Sandra Smith
The first two parts of what was intended to be a five-volume epic, begun in 1941. The author, an émigré Russian Jew who died in Auschwitz, set out to convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. (£7.99)
 
Blue Shoes and Happiness  - Alexander McCall Smith
Finally and happily married to her long-term suitor Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency of Botswana might have expected life to grow more sedate. But the many problems that lead customers to her door seem to have multiplied. (£6.99)
 
House Of Orphans – Helen Dunmore
Set during the Finnish uprising against Russia in 1901, in a chilly orphanage run by a compassionate widowed doctor.  (£7.99)
 
My Mother’s Lovers – Christopher Hope
Funny, inventive and peopled with a fantastical cast of characters, this novel shows how the hunger to be loved and to belong affects us all. (£7.99)
 
Observations – Jane Harris
Original, funny, intriguing story, set in 1863 Scotland, of Irish Bessy Buckley who, in an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. (£7.99)
 
Whitethorn Woods – Maeve Binchy
The people of Rossmore are divided about a new road will bring jobs and relieve traffic in the town: but destroy businesses and leave the town a backwaterTthe decision rests on Neddy Nolan who wants to do the right thing... (£10.99)
 
Pratt A Manger - David Nobbs
From the creator of Reginald Perrin - a return to the life of Henry Pratt. The previous three novels are reissued in one volume. (£7.99)
 
Runt – Niall Griffiths
A 16-year-old boy goes to stay with his uncle on a remote Welsh hill-farm where his aunt has recently committed suicide. (£11.99)
 
Killing Johnny Fry – Walter Mosley
A man questions for the first time the social and sexual rules we take for granted - and the powerful, disturbing connections that can be made between people when these rules are subverted. Sexually explicit. (£10.99)
 
Good Life – Jay Mcinerney
In the shadow of 9/11, a story of love, family and conflicting desires. The sequel to 'Brightness Falls'. (£7.99)
 
Asbo Show – Tony Saint
Welcome to the new reality show - on your local housing estate now. A dystopian vision of class warfare.  (£7.99) 
 
Blag - Tony Saint
Scam and counter scam - fast moving funny novel exposing the murky underworld of immigration, from the perspective of an immigration lawyer. (£7.99) 
 
Taqwacores - Michael M Knight
Set in a Muslim punk house in New York: an introduction to the cracks in the surface of mainstream Islam. (£8.99) 
 
Pig Island – Mo Hayder
What has happened to the leader of a secretive religious community on a remote Scottish island? And why will no one discuss the strange apparition seen wandering the lonely beaches of Pig Island? (£6.99)
 
Wizard Of The Crow - Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
A sprawling satirical fable about sordid African despotism from the exiled Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic. (£8.99) 
 
Kept – D J Taylor
Madness, greed, love, obsession, Machiavellian plotting and a great train robbery... in a captivating Victorian mystery about the extreme and curious things men do to get - and keep - what they want. (£7.99)
 
Lords Of The North   - Bernard Cornwell
Bloody battles and heroic deeds combine in the historic struggle to unite Britain in the face of a common enemy. The third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's King Alfred series. (£6.99)
                       
The Chinaman – Friedrich Glauser, trans. Mike Mitchell
European crime classic by diagnosed schizophrenic morphine addict, and the fourth in the Sergeant Studer series. One foggy November morning the enigmatic James Farny, nicknamed the Chinaman, was found lying on Anna Hungerlott’s grave. Murdered, a single pistol shot to the heart that did not hole his clothing. (£9.99)
 
The Depths of the Forest – Eugenio Fuentes, trans. Paul Antill
In a remote nature reserve in Spain, a young and attractive painter is found brutally murdered, a female hiker dies, and a park ranger is shot at point blank range while on patrol. (£7.99)
 
The Third Shore: Women's Fiction from East Central Europe – (ed) Agata Schwartz & Luise Von Flotow
A rich compendium of fiction by twenty-five women from eighteen different nations ranging from Lithuania to Ukraine to Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Albania, and Slovenia. (£13.95)
 
Low Life - Michael Duff
Drinking and thieving in 1980s Manchester. (£7.99)
 
REISSUES
 
Secret Gospel Of Mary Magdalene – Michelle Roberts
Before, there were four Gospels - by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Now there is a fifth - the Gospel according to Mary Magdalene. (£7.99) 
 
Complete Pratt – David Nobbs
From the creator of Reggie Perrin and reissued behind the paperback of 'Pratt a Manger' - the first three novels about the life and times of Henry Pratt: 'Second From Last in the Sack Race', 'Pratt of the Argus' and 'The Cucumber Man'. (£12.99)
 
At The Crossing Places – Kevin Corssley-Holland
In a new adult edition, the second volume of the Arthur trilogy: it is 1200, and young Arthur de Caldicot is all set to accompany Lord Stephen de Holt on the Fourth Crusade. (£6.99)
 
Mythago Wood – Robert Holdstock
Fantasy classic. Ryhope Wood may look like a three-mile-square fenced-in wood in rural Herefordshire on the outside - but inside, it is a primeval, intricate labyrinth of trees, impossibly huge, unforgettable... and stronger than time itself. (£9.99 hardback)
 
From Headline, a reissue of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes books at £4.99 each:
Study In Scarlet             
Valley of Fear              
Sign of Four
Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Hound Of The Baskervilles
His Last Bow
Return Of Sherlock Holmes
 
NON-FICTION
 
BIOGRAPHY
 
Heart in My Head: A Biography of Richard Harries - John S. Peart-Binns
The first biography of the Bishop of Oxford, written with his full approval, using personal papers and interviews. 'Throughout his life, ministry and episcopate, Harries has explored the reasonableness of Christianity. He has not abandoned orthodox belief to fit the current climate, and presents a mature vision of Christian faith which can meet contemporary criticism.' Local author. (£20)
 
Still Suitable For Miners - Billy Bragg
The biography of the much-loved songwriter and performer, updated with his thoughts on the London bombings and the BNP's success in his hometown of Barking in May 2006, both of which lead to debates on multiculturalism and Englishness, subjects increasingly close to Billy's heart.  (£9.99)
 
Treehouse – Naomi Wolf
A portrait of the author’s father and his unconventional wisdom on how to live, love, and see the world with wonder. (£7.99)
 
Salaam Stanley Matthews – Subrata Dasgupta
Subrata Dasgupta was six years old when his parents came to Britain from Calcutta in 1950. In his affectionate portrait of a Britain that seems as foreign to us now as it was to him then, he recalls growing up in Nottingham and Derby in the 1950s: holidays in Blackpool, the dreaded Eleven-Plus, the first stirrings of rock and roll – and one small Indian boy's devotion to the greatest footballer of the day. (£7.99)
 
In The Name Of Honour - Mukhtar Mai
Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an 'honour crime' allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which there was never any proof. This is her story, dictated to a journalist. (£12.99)
 
Only Half Of Me – Rageh Omaar
“Being a Muslim in Britain.” The story of his childhood in Somalia, his family's attitude to religion, his double life as a British Muslim and that of other British Muslims: the failed suicide bomber from Somalia; his cousin who was stabbed in the neck on a London street on 8th July 2005. (£8.99)
 
Blood & Sand – Frank Gardner
The BBC security correspondent’s memoir about the attempt on his life, his recovery and his experiences in the Middle East. (£7.99)
 
One Day a Year - Christa Wolf, trans. Bangerter
In 1960, East German writer Christa Wolf received a phone call from a Moscow newspaper asking if she would describe her experiences on a single day, September 27, "as precisely as possible." She was intrigued by the request and has continued recording her thoughts and feelings on that day ever since. This book collects forty of these intimate essays, written between 1960 and 2000. (£14.95)
 
ENVIRONMENT
 
Revenge Of Gaia – James Lovelock
“Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity.” (£8.99)
 
What Can I Do – Lisa Harrow
A comprehensive guide to eco-friendly internet sites, ideas and information in the UK. (£5.00)
 
GARDENING
 
Delias Kitchen Garden – Gay Search
Follows a year in the life of Delia's kitchen garden, with detailed advice on sowing and planting, fruit and vegetable varieties and how to harvest. With recipes by Delia that use the produce at its peak. Over 300 colour photographs. (£15)
 
RHS Grow Your Own Veg - Carol Klein
TV tie-in.  (£16.99)
 
Allotment Specialist
Practical information, year-round calendars on key tasks, A-Z directories of vegetables and fruits. (£4.99)
 
HISTORY
 
English Civil War – Diane Purkiss
A People's History. A remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history. (£8.99)
 
Inferno – Keith Lowe
“The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943.” The horrific story of the firebombing of Hamburg that left the city in ruins, told by the people who dropped the bombs and those who were there. (£20)
 
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War – Richard Holmes
Draws on the testimonies of the 700 soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment to capture the soldier's day-to-day experience of war. (£8.99)
 
LIFESTYLE
 
Organic Directory 2007 – C Litchfield (ed.)
A county-by-county guide to buying organic - from bedlinen to beansprouts - with over 2,000 listings of retailers, producers, wholesalers and manufacturers. (£8.95)

LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
 
12 Books That Changed The World – Melvyn Bragg
Explores  a wide and controversial selection of British books and their huge impact on history, presenting a rich variety of human endeavour and a great diversity of characters. (£8.99)
 
Dictionary Of Rhymes
From Oxford, an easy-to-use dictionary of rhymes contains rhymes for over 45,000 words including excellent coverage of proper names. (£8.99)
 
How Not To Write – Terence Denmann
Sets out the basics and destroys a few myths. (£6.99)

MBS
 
Are Men Necessary? – Maureen Dowd
“When Sexes Collide.” A controversial and fun look at the relations between men and women from Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Maureen Dowd. (£6.99)
 
Toxic Childhood – Sue Palmer
“How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It.” One in six children in the developed world is diagnosed as having 'developmental or behavioural problems', and the number is rising by 25% each year - this book explains why and shows what can be done about it. Covers issues from bullying to dyslexia, from ADHD to obesity. (£7.99)
 
Self Esteem Affirmations CD - Louise Hay
A series of positive affirmations created and narrated by Louise Hay. (£10.95)
 
MEDIA
 
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s - Chris Strodder
The 250 most interesting personalities of the ‘60s, with sidebars providing a trip down memory lane. (£15.99)
 
Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies (Deluxe Edition) - Jason Surrell  (£14.99)
 
NATURE
 
Insects Of Britain & Western Europe - Michael Chinery                       
Over 2,000 of the most commonly observed and most distinctive insect species of Britain and western Europe, from all orders and most families. (£14.99)                      
 
POETRY
 
Choice Of Shakespeare’s Verse – (ed.) Ted Hughes
For this new edition, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and completely rewrote his accompanying essay, to demonstrate how Shakespeare's language unites, in its sinews and substance, the full range of Elizabethan preoccupations, philosophical and social. (£8.99)
 
Songs Of Innocence & Of Experience – William Blake
New facsimile edition from the Tate Gallery (£9.99)
 
Collected Love Poems – Brian Patten (£8.99)
Selected Poems – Brian Patten
Beautifully calculated poems, informed - even in their darkest moments - with courage and hope. (£8.99) 

Poems From A Northern Soul – John Siddique
Through poignant homecomings cinematic street scenes and candid portraits, this poetry collection aims to take the reader to the limits of human experience. Local author. (£6.95)

Glad Of These Times – Helen Dunmore
Haunting, joyous and wry narratives. (£7.95)
 
POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS
 
Did David Hasselhoff End The Cold War? – Emma Hartley
“50 Facts You Need to Know: Europe.” (£7.99)
 
Unspeak – Steven Poole
Every day, we are bombarded with those apparently simple words or phrases that actually conceal darker meanings: 'Climate Change' is less threatening than 'Global Warming'. How everyday words are changing the way we think. (£7.99)
 
Man Without A Country  Kurt Vonnegut
Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of GW Bush from the author of 'Slaughterhouse 5'. (£8.99)
 
Enemy Combatant – Moazzam Begg
“A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back.” The extraordinary account of one of nine Britons held without trial or charge at Guantanamo Bay - what he endured there and elsewhere, why he was arrested in the first place, and what it means to an intelligent Muslim man in a world where to be so places you under suspicion. (£7.99)
 
Infidel My Life - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The astonishing story the Somali-born Dutch parliamentarian and campaigner for women’s rights and reform of Islam, now under 24-hour police protection following the brutal murder of the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh. (£12.99)
 
Caged Virgin - Ayaan Hirsi Ali
This collection of essays draws on the author’s own first-hand experience and cultural background to assess the role of women in Islam both in practice and in theory, the rights of the individual, fanaticism, and Western policies towards immigrant communities (£7.99)
 
SCIENCE
 
Eight Little Piggies - Stephen Jay Gould  
Essays on natural history and evolutional biology. (£8.99)
 
The Universe (Pocket Essentials) - Richard Osborne (£9.99)
 
Fermat’s Last Theorem (reissue) – Simon Singh (£5.99)
 
TRAVEL
 
The Caliph’s House – Tahir Shah
Funny, entertaining, magical account of the author's struggle to restore a house and set up home in Morocco. Woven into the narrative is the author's own journey of self-discovery, of learning about a grandfather he hardly knew, and of coming to love the multi-faceted, contradictory country that is Morocco. (£7.99)
 
The Road To Oxiana – Robert Byron
Reissue of the classic 1930s travelogue - regarded by many as one of the most iconic books about the Middle East. (£7.99)
 
Crete – Barry Unsworth
The respected novelist’s travel memoir of his time spent in Crete - largest of the Greek isles, mythical birthplace of Zeus and home to the Minoan civilization of 1500 BC, which was one of the most glittering and sophisticated cultures the world has ever seen. (£6.99)
 
Penguin is issuing a Great Journeys series at £4.99 each:
Across The Empty Quarter – Wilfred Thesiger
Adventures In The Rocky Mountains - Isabella Bird
Cobras Heart - Ryszard Kapuscinski
Fighting In Spain - George Orwell
Hunt For The Southern Continent - James Cook
Journey To The End Of The Russian Empire - A P Chekhov
Life On The Golden Horn - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Snakes With Wings & Gold Digging Ants - Herodotus
Sold As A Slave    - Olaudah Equiano
To The Holy Shrines - Richard Burton
 
New Lonely Planet guides to Morocco and Eastern Europe, and a new Rough Guide to Spain.
 
New Lonely Planet phrasebooks to Eastern Europe and Central Europe
 
New AA maps, £4.99 each:
Britain, France and Benelux, Northern England, Western Europe, 
 
Michelin National Maps, 2007, £4.99 each: France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain & Portugal, USA; World Map.

February 2007 Forthcoming Titles

CHIDREN'S BOOKS

Ages 0-5yrs

I'm Not Scary - Rod Campbell
From the acclaimed author of Dear Zoo comes a fun touch-and-feel title. A sritchy-scratchy grasshopper, a shiny beetle and a slimy snail aren't scary - touch them and find out! It's sure to delight brave young readers with its gentle humour and pop-up surprise ending. Ages: 1+ yrs. (£6.99)

Ages 5-9yrs

Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionare - Andy Stanton
Mr Gum is back in the second hilarious book of this series and he is as nasty as ever! But this book is not just about him, you will also meet all our favourite characters. The first book in the series was a huge hit with younger independent readers. Ages: 7+ yrs (£4.99)

Ages 9-11yrs

Why the Whales Came - Michael Morpurgo
Gracie and Daniel have always been warned to stay away from the Birdman. But they soon discover that he is not who they thought. Should they believe him when he says the island is cursed? Find out in this brand new edition of a Michael Morpurgo favourite. Ages: 8+ yrs.(£4.99)

Lionboy: The Truth - Zizou Corder
The third and final part in the acclaimed Lionboy trilogy brand new in paperback! Charlie Ashanti finds himself kidnapped by Maccomo and thrown onto a boat with an unknown destination. But help is on its way. Ages: 9-12 yrs (£5.99)

Teenage Darkling Plain - Philip Reeve
Now in paperback this is the breathtaking conclusion to the Mortal Engines quartet Natsworthy is enjoying life as an aviatrix, but the truce between the Green Storm and Traction Cities splinters and war breaks out again. 'An extraordinary imaginative achievement' The Guardian. Ages: 11+ yrs (£5.99)
 

JANUARY 2007

FICTION
 
HARDBACK
 
Cleft – Doris Lessing
A mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from men. Confronts the themes of how men and women, two similar and yet thoroughly distinct creatures, manage to live side by side in the world, and how the specifics of gender affect every aspect of our existence. (£13.99 at The Book Case)
 
PAPERBACK
 
Second Honeymoon – Joanna Trollope
Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style. Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two he's the youngest in the family. His mother Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back, after decades of family life. (£6.99)
 
Mother’s Milk - Edward St Aubyn
A witty, perceptive and complex family portrait that examines the shifting allegiances between mothers, sons and husbands. Booker short-listed. (£7.99)
 
Keeping Faith – Jodi Picoult
Mariah White catches her husband with another woman (again), witnessed by Faith, their seven-year-old daughter. In the aftermath of a sudden divorce, Mariah struggles with depression and Faith begins to confide in an imaginary friend … and starts reciting passages from the Bible. (£6.99)
 
Disturbing The Peace – Richard Yates                       
From the author of 'Revolutionary Road'. Everything began to go wrong for Janice Wilder in the late summer of 1960. And the worst part, she always said afterwards, the awful part, was that it seemed to happen without warning. (£7.99)
 
Snatches - Martin Rowson
From the award-winning political cartoonist, “Snatches” retells the stories of the worst decisions the human race has ever made, with cast that includes St Simeon Stylites, Hernando Cortes, Adolf Hitler, Evelyn Waugh, Sigmund Freud, Josef Stalin and Candide in Las Vegas, and with supporting roles from Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Pol Pot and Osama Bin Laden (as well as Superman and a talking sturgeon).  (£7.99)
 
In The Company Of The Courtesan – Sarah Dunant
While the Papal city of Rome burns - brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics - two of her citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed. (£6.99)
 
Young Turk – Moris Farhi
Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Turkey giving sanctuary to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, teenage friends struggle to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescence. (£7.99)
 
Tooth & Claw – T C Boyle
 Inventive, wickedly funny, sometimes disturbing stories about drop-outs, deadbeats and kooks: Boyle maps the strange underworld of America. (£7.99)
 
Stick Out Your Tongue – Ma Jian
A Chinese writer travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover to the walls of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama. Short stories set in Tibet from the author of Red Dust. (£6.99)
 
Footprints In The Sand – Sarah Challis
When Emily Kingsley arrives at the church, late and sad, for her Great Aunt Mary's funeral, she has no idea that her life is about to change completely. (£6.99)            
 
Brief History Of The Dead – Kevin Brockmeier
Laura Byrd is in trouble. Three weeks ago she and her friends found themselves alone in one of the coldest, most remote places on earth. Her friends set out in search of help, and now Laura realises that they are not coming back.  (£6.99)
 
Racists – Kunal Basu
1855: the most ambitious experiment in race science begins on a deserted island, where two infants, a black boy and a white girl, are raised together in the wilderness. (£6.99)
 
I Heard Lenin Laugh - Martin Sixsmith
When young Zhenya Gorevich’s mother confesses the unlikely secret of his parentage, he determines to escape Russia and find his long-lost father – and journeys from his dreary home town of Vitebsk to Moscow and, eventually, to swinging London and the 1966 World Cup in an effort to reclaim his birthright. (£6.99)
 
Getting Rid Of Matthew – Jane Fallon
What do you do if your secret lover finally decides to leave his wife and move into your flat, just when you've been thinking that you might not want him anymore...? (£6.99)
 
Helen Of Troy – Margaret George
Daughter of a god - wife of a king - prize of antiquity's bloodiest war – from a bestselling novelist. (£6.99)
 
Cell – Stephen King             
A virus carried by every cell in the world: within ten hours, most people world be dead or insane. Clayton Riddell realises what is happening and flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone...(£6.99)           
 
Three Evangelists – Fred Vargas
Sophia Simeonidis, a Greek opera singer, wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and nobody worries too much until her body is found burned to ashes in a car. (£6.99)
 
REISSUES
 
Cunning Of The Dove – Alfred Duggan
Was Edward the Confessor a failure - or a winner? Alfred Duggan's classic novel set in Dark Age Britain, featuring Machiavellian survival tactics by King Edward. (£7.99)
 
Metamorphosis & Other Stories – Franz Kafka (£8.99)
 
Mary & The Wrongs Of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft
Two novels from the author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”: in both, the heroines have to rely on their own resources to establish their independence and intellectual development. (£7.99)
 
Why Shoot A Butler – Georgette Heyer
One of the historical fiction writer’s series of detective novels.  (£7.99)
 
Have Mercy On Us All – Fred Vargas (£6.99)
 
AUDIO
 
War Of The Worlds CD – H G Wells
The 1967 radio dramatisation based on HG Wells' novel, starring Paul Daneman. Three CDs, running time 2hrs 50mins approx. (£15.99)          
 
 
NON-FICTION
 
BIOGRAPHY
 
The Man Who Wrote Mozart – Anthony Holden
“The Extraordinary Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte.” The many and varied lives of the librettist of Mozart's three greatest operas: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Cosi Fan Tutte begins in Venice, lingers in Vienna and London and ends in New York, where today he lies buried in an unmarked grave in the world's large cemetery. (£8.99)
 
Mao The Unknown Story – Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this book is the story of the life of Mao. It is full of revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing completely unknown Mao. New paperback. (£9.99)
 
Liar’s Landscape – Malcolm Bradbury
When Sir Malcolm Bradbury died in 2000, he left behind a lifetime's work. This book is about books, about writing and writers, about being a writer - and about being Malcolm Bradbury. (£8.99)
 
Foreign Babes In Beijing – Rachel Dewoskin
 Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, the author went to work for an American PR firm in China. Before she knew it, she was making Chinese culture - as the sexy and aggressive, fearless Jiexi, star of a wildly successful soap opera. (£7.99)
 
Twilight Children – Torey Hayden
 “Three Voices No One Heard - Until Someone Listened.” A memoir of three people's victimisation and abuse - and their successful steps to recovery. (£6.99)
 
My Horizontal Life – Chelsea Handler
A raucous and hilarious memoir of one woman's one-night stands told by the cult US comedienne and extrovert, Chelsea Handler.. (£7.99)
 
Thin – Grace Bowman
A bright, beautiful teenager, popular with her peers, Grace lived a perfectly ordered, ordinary life. Until one day, aged 18, she went on a diet - that didn't stop, then couldn't stop; that trapped her in 'a secret world of eating-related happiness and unhappiness', and saw her weight swiftly drop to below six stone. (£8.99)
 
CURRENT AFFAIRS
 
Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror - Alexander Litvinenko
The book that contains the attacks of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London by poisoning. In the book he and the academic Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the secret service has been hatching a secret plot to destabilise the country and return to the terror that was the hallmark of the KGB. (£14.99)
 
Writing On The Wall – Will Hutton
China in the 21st Century - the emergence of China as an economic power. (£20)
 
City of Oranges: Arabs and Jews in Jaffa - Adam Lebor
Jaffa - famed for its orange groves - was for centuries a city of traders, merchants, teachers and administrators, home to Muslims, Christians and Jews alike. The founding of the state of Israel was a moment of jubilation for the Jews and a disaster - the Naqba - for the 100,000 Arabs who fled Jaffa in 1948. Through the stories of six families - three Arab and three Jewish - Adam LeBor delicately illuminates the complexity of modern Israel.(£8.99)
 
Mediated – Thomas de Zengotita
“How the Media Shape the World Around You” - a provocative tour of our media-drunk society. (£8.99)
 
ENVIRONMENT
 
Gem Carbon Counter
What effect are you having on the environment? If you buy Kenyan green beans what is the CO2 cost? What about your journey to work, your fridge or your clothes? Starting with your home gas and electricity supplies and usage, this work takes you through each part of your life and helps you add up the impact you are making on the environment. (£4.99)
 
Last Generation – Fred Pearce
“How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change.” Nature is fragile, environmentalists tell us. Not so. The truth is far more worrying. She is strong and packs a serious counter-punch. And it could be on the way. This is the story that scientists are scared to tell us, because they fear they won't be believed. Man-made global warming is on the verge of unleashing unstoppable planetary forces. Biological and geological monsters are being woken, and they will consume us. (£8.99)
 
HISTORY
 
First World War: A Very Short Introduction (£6.99)
 
HUMOUR
 
Purple Ronnie’s Little Book for the Perfect Lover  (£4.99)
                       
LIFESTYLE
 
WI Wisdom In The Garden (£6.99)
WI Wisdom In The Home (£6.99)
WI Wisdom In The Kitchen (£6.99)
WI Wisdom On the Road (£6.99)
 
MBS

The Backpacker's Guide to the New Spirituality By Michael Conneely
A magical child has been conceived in the modern west. A new spiritual form has been born out of Hinduism, Buddhism, the Pagan religions of Northern Europe, Shamanism, utopian community and astrology. This reforging of ancient traditions gives us new spiritual tools: ritual, meditation, tantra, body-energy-work, trance and vision; we find new beauty and power in what it means to be a woman or a man. Michael Conneely reports on this spiritual revolution, based on the findings of a five-year field study in Glastonbury, now a world-wide centre of pilgrimage. (£9.99)
 
Super Brain - Carol Vorderman
A practical, fun brain workout for all those wanting to improve and expand their mind. With 101 exercises for your brain, she shows that mental decline isn't inevitable with age. (£9.99)
 
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast - Lewis Wolpert
Why does every society around the world have a religious tradition of some sort? This book nvestigates the nature of belief and its causes, its psychological basis and its possible evolutionary origins in physical cause and effect, and the different types of belief - including that of animals, of children, of the religious, and of those suffering from psychiatric disorders. Is it possible to live without belief at all? (£8.99)
 
Fairies & Fairy Stories: A History – Diane Purkiss
We think of fairies as sweet, dainty creatures with wands and butterfly wings. But they have a far darker and more menacing history - as troublemakers, child-snatchers, seducers and changelings, representing our deepest fears and desires regarding birth, sex and death. (£12.99)
 
Maxims  - La Rochefoucauld (£5.95)
 
NATURE
 
Reading The Rocks – Marcia Bjornerud
The Autobiography of the Earth. For readers of John McPhee and Stephen Jay Gould, this engaging armchair read to the making of the geologic record shows how to understand messages written in stone. (£9.99)
 
RSPB Garden Birdwatch
Spotter's guide to attracting and observing garden birds for all the family with identification chart. (£5.99)
 
Whale Nation CD – Heathcote Williams
Two CDs, unabridged, running time 2hrs 30mins. (£10.99)
 
POETRY

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Simon Armitage
The strange tale of a green knight who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Christmas festivities, challenging one of their number to a wager. Gawain accepts, and decapitates the intruder with his own axe. Gushing blood, the knight reclaims his head, orders Gawain to seek him out a year hence, and departs. Next Yuletide Gawain sets forth. His quest for the Green Knight involves a winter journey, a seduction scene in a dream-like castle, a dire challenge answered, and a drama of enigmatic reward disguised as psychic undoing. Simon Armitage's new version is meticulously responsible to the original - but equally can be read as an original new poem. As read by Sir Ian McKellen on Radio 4. (£12.99)

SCIENCE
 
Chaos: a Very Short Introduction
One of the most exciting and fast-growing areas of mathematics and physical science explained for the non-mathematician. (£6.99)
 
Universe A Biography – John Gribbin
The story of the developments in cosmology of the 20th and 21st: a narrative history of the universe, from the big bang to the present day (and beyond...). (£25)
 
TRAVEL
 
Alan Rogers Camping Guides to Europe and France
 
A new Rough Guide to Turkey among others and Lonely Planet Guides to Amsterdam and France.
 

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