Outsiders
£9.99Lyndall Gordon looks into the connections between creativity and outsiders in particular lives – the lives of Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, and Virginia Woolf.
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Deep Water
£9.99Melinda Van Allen wastes no time in flaunting her many lovers to her husband, Vic. In response, Vic lets them all know that he’s the jealous type. When one of Melinda’s exes is murdered in the city, Vic doesn’t hesitate to suggest that he might be responsible. Soon, however, fiction and reality begin to converge.
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Dud Avocado
£9.99Having made a vow to go native in a way the natives never had the stamina for, Sally Jay Gorce is busy getting drunk, having affairs, losing her money, passport and pearls. This is the timeless account of a woman hell-bent on living.
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Heartburn
£9.99Rachel Samstat is smart, successful, married to a high-flying Washington journalist – and devastated. She has discovered that her husband is having an affair with Thelma Rice.
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Two Sisters
£18.99One morning in October 2013, 19-year-old Ayan Juma and her 16-year-old sister Leila left their family home in Oslo. Later that day they sent an email to their parents saying how they had decided to travel to Syria. They’d been planning for months. By the time their desperate father Sadiq tracks them to Turkey, they have already crossed the border. But Sadiq is determined to find them. What follows is the gripping, heartbreaking story of a family ripped apart. While Sadiq risks his own life to bring his daughters back, at home his wife Sara begins to question their life in Norway. How could her children have been radicalised without her knowledge? How can she protect her two younger sons from the same fate. The author – with the complete support of the Juma family – followed the story from the beginning, through its many dramatic twists and turns.
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The Railway Children
£6.99‘The Railway Children’ tells the story of Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis, three children whose lives change dramatically when their father is mysteriously taken away. They move from London to a cottage in rural Yorkshire with their mother, where they befriend the local railway porter, Perks, and embark on a journey of discovery, friendship and adventure. But the mystery remains – where is Father, and is he ever coming back?
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The Glass Castle
£8.99This is a memoir of a successful journalist’s journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeannette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, ‘brilliant’ but alcoholic parents.
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Five Children & It
£6.99‘It’ is a Psammead, an ancient ugly and irritable sand fairy the children find one day in a gravel pit. It grants them a wish a day, but they soon find it hard to think of sensible wishes, and get themselves into all sorts of trouble.
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What Language Do I Dream In
£9.99Elena Lappin was born in Russia. Her parents speak Russian to one another, and to their children. Elena speaks Czech to her brother, but he writes in German and she writes in English. Here, Lappin explores what it is to be a writer, what language is, and much more.
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Surreal Life Of Leonora Carrington
£20.00In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father’s cousin, who had disappeared many decades earlier, was now a famous artist in Mexico. Although rarely spoken of in her own family (regarded as a black sheep, a wild child; someone they were better off without), Leonora Carrington had become a national treasure in Mexico while her paintings are fetching ever-higher prices at auction today. Intrigued by her story, Joanna set off to Mexico City to find her lost relation. Later she was to return to Mexico ten times more between then and Leonora’s death in 2011, sometimes staying for months at a time and subsequently travelling around Britain and through Europe in search of the loose ends of her tale.
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Stop The Clocks
£9.99Joan Bakewell has led a varied, sometimes breathless life: she has been a teacher, copywriter, studio manager, broadcaster, journalist, the government’s Voice of Older People and chair of the theatre company Shared Experience. She has written four radio plays, two novels and an autobiography. Now in her 80s, she is still broadcasting. Though it may look as though she is now part of the establishment – a Dame, President of Birkbeck College, a Member of the House of Lords as Baroness Bakewell of Stockport – she’s anything but and remains outspoken and courageous. In ‘Stop the Clocks’, she muses on all she has lived through, how the world has changed and considers the things and values she will be leaving behind.