Flower Girls
£12.99The Flower Girls. Laurel and Primrose. One convicted of murder, the other given a new identity. Now, 19 years later, another child has gone missing. And the Flower Girls are about to hit the headlines all over again.
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Existential Englishman
£25.00‘The Existential Englishman’ is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris – a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. As Peppiatt remarks: ‘You reflect and become the city just as the city reflects and becomes you’. This, then, is one man’s not uncritical love letter to Paris. Intensely personal, candid and entertaining, it chronicles Peppiatt’s relationship with Paris in a series of vignettes structured around the half-dozen addresses he called home as a plucky young art critic. Having survived the tumultuous riots of 1968, Peppiatt traces his precarious progress from junior editor to magazine publisher, recalling encounters with a host of figures at the heart of Parisian artistic life – from Sartre, Beckett and Cartier-Bresson to Serge Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve.
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Lost Connections
£12.99What really causes depression and anxiety – and how can we really solve them? Award-winning journalist Johann Hari suffered from depression since he was a child and started taking anti-depressants when he was a teenager. He was told that his problems were caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain. As an adult, trained in the social sciences, he began to investigate whether this was true – and he learned that almost everything we have been told about depression and anxiety is wrong. Across the world, Hari found social scientists who were uncovering evidence that depression and anxiety are not caused by a chemical imbalance in our brains. In fact, they are largely caused by key problems with the way we live today. Once he had uncovered nine real causes of depression and anxiety, they led him to scientists who are discovering seven very different solutions – ones that work.
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Fen Country
£8.99‘Fen Country’ is a posthumous collection of short mysteries, with only one story repeated from Crispin’s earlier collection, ‘Beware of the Trains’. The stories feature Professor Fen with Chief Inspector Humbleby of New Scotland Yard as his Watson.
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Beware Of The Trains
£8.99How acute are your powers of perception? Do they begin to match those of Gervase Fen, Oxford don and sleuth supreme? First published in 1953, ‘Beware of the Trains’ is a collection of sixteen short mysteries. Fen must link a missing train conductor to the murder of a thief, decipher cryptograms to solve the death of a cipher expert and puzzle out a locked-room mystery on Boxing Day. Erudite and complex, these Gervase Fen cases are classic crime at its finest: plot, atmosphere and anecdote, bound together by Edmund Crispin’s inimitable wit and charm.
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More Dashing
£30.00‘Dashing for the Post’, the first selection of letters from Patrick Leigh Fermor (known to all as ‘Paddy’), delighted critics and public alike. Here now is a further selection offering equal pleasure. Paddy’s exuberant letters exude a zest characteristic of the man. They contain glimpses of the great and the good: a chance conversation with the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, when Paddy opens the wrong door, or a glass of ouzo under the pine trees with Harold Macmillan. They describe encounters with such varied figures as Jackie Onassis, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Oswald Mosley and Peter Mandelson; while also relating adventures with the humble: a ‘pick-nick’ with the stonemasons at Kardamyli, or a drunken celebration in the Cretan mountains with his old comrades from the resistance, most of them simple shepherds and goatherds.
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Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle
£9.99As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden – one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party – can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself, over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot. The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer. But each time the day begins again, Aiden wakes in the body of a different guest. And someone is determined to prevent him ever escaping Blackheath.
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World Broke In Two
£9.99‘The World Broke in Two’ tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers – Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence – make over the course of one pivotal year. The literary ground is shifting, as ‘Ulysses’ is published in February and Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, by the end of the year, Woolf has started ‘Mrs Dalloway’, Forster returned to work on ‘A Passage to India,’ Lawrence has written ‘Kangaroo,’ his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished ‘The Waste Land.’
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Mother Of All Jobs
£12.99When Christine Armstrong became a mother, it never occurred to her that she would want to stop work or even work part-time. But the truth is, combining work and small kids is hard. From the broken breast pumps on business trips, to hiding chickenpox from the nursery, to the heartbreak when you come home and realise your baby smells of the childminder. When Christine Armstrong tried it, she found herself desolate with misery. Determined to make it work, she looked for answers by interviewing other working mums and found that she wasn’t alone. These are the stories of the women who shared everything (and we mean, everything) and what they want you to know.
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Churchill
£25.00When Winston Churchill suffered most severely from his ‘black dog’ he took to painting in order to express the inexpressible. Throughout his life he would withdraw to paint. His paintings throw fascinating light upon his character and its vicissitudes and thus are key to understanding his personality as a great statesman. As fellow artist Sir Oswald Birley said of him: ‘If Churchill had given the time to art that he has given to politics, he would have been by all odds the world’s greatest painter’. This book, generously illustrated in full colour with examples of his painting, consists of a substantial introduction of great critical and historic importance by Professor David Cannadine but also Churchill’s own writings about painting.
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Thousand Splendid Suns
£9.99‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ is a chronicle of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and the salvation to be found in love.
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This Is How It Ends
£7.99This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But how will it end?