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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Game Of Our Lives
£12.99During the last two decades, football in Britain has made the transition from a peripheral dying sport to being the very centre of our popular culture – what was once an economic basket case is now a booming entertainment industry. In this book David Goldblatt looks at how the alliance of the big clubs, FA administrators and Sky television created the Premiership out of the ashes of the 1980s.
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Watching The English
£10.99In this volume, Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks and habits of the English people. From the most famous traits through to the most bizarre reflex reactions, she holds a mirror up to the English national character.
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David & Goliath
£10.99Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In ‘David and Goliath’ Malcolm Gladwell takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Vietnam, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates how we misunderstand the true meaning of advantage and disadvantage.
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Is It Really Too Much To Ask
£20.00Jeremy Clarkson had a dream: a world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In this book, our hero embarks on a quest to set the world to rights – again.
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I Dont Know Why She Bothers
£12.99Daisy Waugh wages mini-rebellion on the repressive sentimentalists who have held the stage for too long since women ventured into the world beyond their kitchens. Daisy will add a dusting of reality to the sickly-sweet bake-your-own rubbish by covering topics such as breast pumps, other children, sleepovers, swearing (yours and theirs) and contagious diseases.
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Story Of Music
£20.00In his energetic tour through 30,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to pop, Howard Goodall does away with stuffy biographies, unhelpful labels and tired terminology and leads us through the story of music as it really happened, so that each musical innovation strikes us with its original force.
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Both Flesh & Not
£20.00David Foster Wallace was heralded by critics and fans as the voice of a generation. This book collects together 15 of Wallace’s essays, from ‘Federer Both Flesh and Not’, considered by many to be his non-fiction masterpiece, to ‘The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2’, his deft dissection of James Cameron’s blockbuster.