Mornings in Jenin
£9.99A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppression
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What writers read
£9.99Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What’s the book you wish you had written? What’s the book that changed your life? In ‘What Writers Read’, Pandora Sykes – herself a voracious, omnivorous reader – collects short essays from bestselling and beloved writers to discover the books they hold most dearly and made them who they are.
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Believe
£22.00The remarkable story of the footballer who battled against the odds to achieve his dreams – only to see his country having to fight to survive, after the shocking invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Written with candour and bravery, ‘Believe’ is no ordinary tale of success on the pitch, but one of unwavering strength and integrity, tempered by sadness and anger. It provides unique insights into the methods of Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta. It is the story of a selfless man who prioritised his homeland’s welfare before his own – delivering his best on and off the field.
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The great when
£20.00When Dennis comes into possession of a book that shouldn’t exist, a new chapter in his life begins and a different, alternate London reveals itself – and with it a cast of characters each more unlikely and fantastical than the last. Long London occupies precisely the same geographical space as our London – but it is a city built from dreamscapes and art, from fiction and nightmares.
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Held
£9.991917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present, as ghosts begin to surface in his pictures: ghosts whose messages he cannot understand. So begins a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence igniting and re-igniting as the century unfolds.
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The rest is history returns
£20.00The second book from the creators of the smash-hit number 1 podcast takes us on a dizzying A–Z through the past
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Want – SIGNED
£18.99What do you want, when no one is watching? What do you want, when the lights are off? What do you want, when you are anonymous? When we talk about sex, we talk about womanhood and motherhood, infidelity and exploitation, consent and respect, fairness and egalitarianism, love and hate, pleasure and pain. And yet for many reasons – some complicated, some not – so many of us don’t talk about it. Our deepest, most intimate fears and fantasies remain locked away inside of us, until someone comes along with the key. Here’s the key. In this generation-defining book, Gillian Anderson collects and introduces the anonymous letters of hundreds of women from around the world (along with her own anonymous letter). ‘Want’ reveals how women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous.
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The Golden Road – SIGNED
£30.00For a millennium and a half, from about 250 BC to 1200 AD, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas, an ‘Indosphere’ where its influence was predominant. During this period, the rest of Asia was the willing recipient of a mass-transfer of Indian soft power. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific, connecting different places and ideas to one another. Like ancient Greece, ancient India came up with a set of profound answers to the big questions about what the world is, how it operates, why we are here and how we should live our lives.
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Speedy weeknight meals
£20.00With every recipe under 30 minutes, ‘Speedy Weeknight Meals’ is the go-to book for quick, easy and delicious dinners every time. Chapters cover ‘Fast and Flavourful’, ‘Quick Comforts’, ‘Family Favourites’, ‘Speedy One Pan’, ‘Low Calorie’, ‘Few Ingredients’ and ‘Sweet Treats’. Jon’s recipes span classic crowd-pleasers like Chilli Con Carne to fresh flavours like Bang Bang Chicken.
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Absolution
£9.991963. Saigon. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney working for US Navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. The two women form a wary alliance as they struggle to balance the pressure to be respectable wives for their ambitious husbands, with their own dubious impulses to ‘do good’ for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene’s daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam veteran, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, discovering how their lives as women on the periphery – of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands’ convictions – have been shaped and burdened by the unintended consequences of America’s tragic interference in Southeast Asia.
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Agent Zigzag
£12.99‘Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining and often very moving.’ JOHN LE CARRÃ -
Empires of the steppes
£14.99The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced some of the world’s greatest conquerors: Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, among others. And, as Kenneth W. Harl illustrates in this glorious work of narrative history, their deeds still resonate today. Indeed, these nomads built long-lasting empires, facilitated the first global trade of the Silk Road and disseminated religions, technology, knowledge and goods of every description that enriched and changed the lives of so many across Europe, China, and the Middle East. In this history, Professor Kenneth Harl draws on a lifetime of scholarship to vividly recreate the lives and world of these often-forgotten peoples from their beginnings to the early modern age.