Kitchen Confidential
£12.99The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations: twenty-fifth anniversary edition. Before there was The Bear, there was Bourdain.
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A history of Britain in ten enemies
£10.99Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on Earth, some say. And we did it all on our own. Didn’t we? Well, as it happens Britannia got its name from the Romans, and for the past two centuries we have been ruled by Germans. But then, as ‘Horrible Histories’ author Terry Deary argues, nations and their leaders are defined by the enemies they make. The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten if it weren’t for the Ninth Legion, Elizabeth I a minor royal without the Spanish Armada, and Churchill an opposition windbag without the Nazis. Britain loves its heroes so much we have been known to pickle them in brandy to keep them fresh. This book is an entertaining gallop through history that will have you laughing as you find out what they didn’t teach you in school.
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The cat and the king
£7.99Nick Sharratt’s fabulously funny début novel is illustrated throughoutwith his irresistible wit and humour. The King and his catmust find a new home when their castle burns down in an UnfortunateIncident with a dragon. The King discovers lots of new experiences,from washing-up to shopping – then danger looms when the dragonmakes its return!
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Unruly
£10.99Think you know the Kings and Queens of England? Think again. In ‘Unruly’, David Mitchell explores how early England’s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects’ destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits.
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The happy couple
£9.99Luke and Celine, are in mutual unrequited love with each other, set to marry in a year’s time. The best man, Archie, is meant to want to move up the corporate ladder and on from his love for Luke; yet he stands where he is, admiring the view. The bridesmaid, Phoebe, Celine’s sister, has no long-term aspirations beyond smoking her millionth cigarette and getting to the bottom of Luke’s frequent unexplained disappearances. Then there’s the guest, Vivian, who with the benefit of some emotional distance, methodically observes her friends like ants. As the wedding approaches and these five lives intersect, each character will find themselves looking for a path to their happily ever after – but does it lie at the end of an aisle?
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The Psychopath Test
£10.99Jon Ronson’s screamingly funny and deeply disturbing classic exploration of psychopathy.
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How to Be Perfect
£10.99How can we live a more ethical life? This question has plagued people for thousands of years, but it’s never been tougher to answer than it is now, thanks to challenges great and small that flood our day-to-day lives and threaten to overwhelm us with impossible decisions and complicated results with unintended consequences. Plus, being anything close to an ‘ethical person’ requires daily thought and introspection and hard work; we have to think about how we can be good not, you know, once a month, but literally all the time. To make it a little less overwhelming, this fascinating, accessible and funny book by one of our generation’s best writers and adept minds in television comedy, Michael Schur, boils down the whole confusing morass with real life dilemmas, so that we know how to deal with ethical dilemmas.
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I Feel Bad About My Neck: Dolly Alderton introduction
£10.99Acclaimed Hollywood filmwriter and director Nora Ephron turns her sharp powers of observation back onto herself in these autobiographical essays as she examines the indignities of ageing for the Baby Boom generation.
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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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So Youve Been Publicly Shamed
£10.99From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a brilliant and hilarious book exploring the consequences of public shaming.
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Notes From A Small Island
£10.99In ‘Notes From a Small Island’, Bryson, who moved to England from the USA and lived in England for almost two decades with his family, turns an affectionate but ironic eye on his adopted country.