Lion A Long Way Home
£10.99‘Lion’ is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home 25 years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.
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Gates Of Europe
£10.99Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long been the meeting place of empires – Roman to Ottoman, Habsburg to Russian – and they all left their imprint on the landscape, the language and the people living within these shifting borders. In this authoritative book, Harvard Professor Serhii Plokhy trace the history of Ukraine from the arrival of the Vikings in the tenth century to the current Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine and annexation of Crimea.
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Edward IV Penguin Monarchs
£12.99In 1461 Edward, Earl of March, a handsome 18-year old of massive charisma and ability, usurped the English throne from his vacant Lancastrian predecessor Henry VI. Ten years on, following outbreaks of civil conflict that culminated in him losing, then regaining the crown, he had finally secured his kingdom. The years that followed witnessed a period of rule that has been described as a golden age: a time of peace and economic and industrial expansion, which saw the establishment of a style of strong monarchy that the Tudors would make their own. Yet, argues A.J. Pollard, Edward, who squandered his undoubted talents in a frenzy of sexual and epicurean excess, was a man of limited vision, his reign remaining to the very end the narrow rule of a victorious faction in civil war.
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Walk Through Walls
£20.00This memoir spans Marina Abramovic’s five decade career, and tells a life story that is almost as exhilarating and extraordinary as her groundbreaking performance art. Taking us from her early life in communist ex-Yugoslavia, to her time as an a young art student in Belgrade in the 1970s, where she first made her mark with a series of pieces that used the body as a canvas, the book also describes her relationship with the West German performance artist named Ulay who was her lover and sole collaborator for 12 years.
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Battle
£20.00There has never been a rugby player quite like Paul O’Connell. He is synonymous with passion, heart and determination; but he is also the thinking man’s rugby player, a legendary student of the game. As the heartbeat of Munster, British and Irish Lions captain in 2009, and captain of the first Ireland team to defend a Six Nations championship, O’Connell has emerged as perhaps the most beloved of the golden generation of Irish rugby players. In an autobiography as intense as its author, he tells the story of his remarkable career.
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Margaret Thatcher
£14.99Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the 20th century and one of the most influential figures of the postwar era. Volume two of Moore’s acclaimed biography covers the central, triumphal years of her premiership, from the Falklands to the 1987 election. Based on unrestricted access to all Lady Thatcher’s papers, unpublished interviews with her and all her major colleagues, this is the indispensable portrait of a towering figure of our times.
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Making It Up As I Go Along
£8.99A collection of hilarious, poignant, and moving essays from Marian Keyes. Her tales of her eye-lash extension horrors, domestic goddess attempts, and the time that she decided to become a yoga instructor will have you crying with laughter.
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Orphan X
£9.99‘Do you need my help?’ It was always the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. As a boy he was chosen, then taken from the orphanage he called home. Raised and trained as part of a top secret programme he was sent to the worst places in the world to do the things his government denied any knowledge of. Then he broke with the programme, using everything he’d learned to disappear. He wanted to help the desperate and deserving. But now someone’s on his tail. Someone who has issues with his past. Someone who knows he was once known simply as Orphan X.
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Good Liar
£7.99This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con? What has he had to do to survive a life of lies? And who has had to pay the price?
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Swimming Pool
£7.99It’s summer, and for teachers Ed and Natalie Steele this means six weeks off work with their young daughter Molly. Their lives are predictable and uncomplicated – or, at least, they were – until they met the Channings. Suddenly, glamorous Lara Channing, a former actress leading an eccentrically lavish lifestyle, is taking Natalie under her wing and the stability of summer takes an exciting turn. But are there hidden motives behind this new friendship? And when the end-of-summer party at the lido is cut short by a blackout, Natalie realises that she’s been kept in the dark all along.
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£7.99A woman drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast. CCTV watches her enter but doesn’t see her leaving. She is never seen again and no trace of where she went can be found. The woman’s sister calls missing persons investigator, David Raker. As Raker tries to find her whereabouts, featuring the worst, he learns that she was recently widowed from a reclusive film director. It seems going through her husband’s belongings she found a secret so dark and shocking that it forced her to leave her entire life behind.
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Front Runner
£7.99Jefferson Hinkley is back. In his role as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff is approached by the multi-time champion jockey, Dave Swinton, to discuss the delicate matter of purposefully losing races. Little did Jeff expect that this call would result in an attempt on his life. Dave Swinton is then found dead, burnt beyond recognition in his car at a deserted beauty spot. The police think it’s a suicide but Jeff is not so sure. Hinkley starts to investigate, but soon discovers that others are out to prevent him from doing so, at any cost.