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Taiye Selasi Tells the story of a family who take generations to make a good life for themselves only to see it crumble in an evening. This title tells the story of... | Rhian E. Jones Political and media policing of female social and sexual autonomy, through the neglected but significant gendered dimensions of the discourse surrounding 'chavs', has been accompanied by a similar restriction and... |
Iona Opie; Peter Opie; Marina Warner First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature... | Chris Bradford Jack Fletcher is running for his life. The port of Nagasaki is within reach, but the Shogun's samurai are closing in fast for the kill. So is too Jack's old... |
Graeme Simsion Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One... | Judith Schalansky An atlas that takes us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. It features rare animals and lost explorers, marooned slaves and lonely scientists, mutinous sailors and... |
Siobhan Wall Quiet London is a guide to interesting, attractive and quiet places to meet, drink, eat, swim, rest, shop, sleep or read. It includes short descriptions, travel and contact details and... | Paul Hollywood The last word in baking from the nation's favourite expert |
Phaidon Editors Forget the restaurant guides compiled by a panel of mysterious experts, this guide is by the real insiders: more than 400 of the world's leading chefs. Listing their favourite places... | Moleskine Bound in cardboard, with a 'moleskine' cover having rounded corners and an elastic enclosure, this title features 192 lined acid-free pages that are thread bound, and the includes an expandable... |
Iain Sinclair Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence of death... | Ned Beauman The wildly compelling, award-winning debut novel from the author of THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT. |
Rebecca Wait An astonishing and powerfully moving debut novel. | Posy Simmonds In May 1977 the author, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the "Guardian". It began as a silly parody of girls' adventure stories, making satirical... |
Carlene Bauer Inspired by the real-life friendship between two giants of American letters, Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell, this book offers a sparkling tribute to the wonder of kindred spirits and bittersweet... | April Lindner This epic, chunky hardcover debut is a modern and romantic retelling of Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre, with an alluring rock star twist. |