Children of Strife
£25.00From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory.
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Murder at Gulls Nest
£9.99Nora Breen arrives inconspicuously in the seaside town of Gore-on-Sea, and takes a room at the Gulls Nest guest house. Supper is at 6 o’clock sharp, and there will be no admittance after 9 – a routine Nora likes, as it reminds her of her former life as a nun. As she settles in, she is careful not to reveal too much about herself to the other guests. Instinct tells her it’s better to watch and listen. Because Nora is not here on a whim. She has a disappearance to investigate. Before long, Nora realises that she may not be the only resident hiding something at Gulls Nest. To untangle the web of secrets and deceit, she’ll need to do more than just observe. Does she have what it takes to stop a killer?
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The News From Dublin
£20.00A profound and devastating collection of short stories by Colm Tóibìn, author of Long Island and Brooklyn
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The Beginning Comes After the End
£14.99From one of the most significant thinkers of our day, ‘The Beginning Comes After the End’ is an optimistic call to arms for our turbulent times, which maps the extraordinary revolution in politics, thinking and human rights that we are living through.
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Apple
£35.00In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company’s entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, the most valuable company in the world. The book features full-color photos, new facts that correct the record and illuminate its subversive culture, and fresh interviews with the legendary figures who shaped Apple into what it is today.
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Room on the Sea
£8.99In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as jurors. Paul is reading a newspaper. Catherine is reading a novel. So begins a whirlwind flirtation: over cappuccinos in Manhattan and gallery trips to Chelsea, Paul and Catherine escape into the illusion of an Italian getaway. Their feelings quickly evolve into something deeper, something – as mature adults with lives of their own – Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret, with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question. But as the sultry summer week draws to a close, the end of their rendezvous comes into focus, and Paul and Catherine are forced to decide whether to act on their feelings or leave the fantasy of what could have been to the annals of the past.
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Feather Vane
£7.99A fairy-tale adventure full of dangerous magical creatures, perfect for fans of Sophie Anderson and Michelle Harrison.
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Megalomaniacs
£9.99There are three things you need to know about Megalomaniacs! They are terrors from outer space! There are loads of them!They are Tiny! Bobbletown is under attack – from the cutest, silliest and zaniest alien invasion ever! The super-powered Megalomaniacs have crash-landed, and they’re going to do their very best to take over planet Earth! That is, if they don’t get in each other’s way first.
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Continental Christie
£14.99Embark on a journey across Europe with Agatha Christie and some of her most iconic creations in this collection of short stories.
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Celebrating People Like Me
£7.99Travel round the globe and discover some incredible traditions and celebrations in this beautifully illustrated picture book, packed with fun facts!
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Gertrude Stein
£12.99A biography as unconventional and surprising as the life it tells. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan. Gertrude Stein remains one of the most confounding – and contested – writers of the 20th century. The host of glamorous salons at 27 rue de Fleurus, brushing shoulders with Picasso and Hemingway in her long brown robe, Stein never ceased plotting her own legacy. She would be known as the literary innovator of her time. And her enigmatic partner, Alice B. Toklas, would make sure of it.
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South of Nowhere
£9.99In a race against time and nature, there’s only one man you want on your side.
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The Danger of Small Things
£16.99Imagine a world where honeybees have died out. It’s a patriarchal world where famines are rife. It’s a world without art, without books, without plays. Girls are sent away from home, forced to pollinate crops by hand with brushes and to marry as soon as they can. Inhabiting this world is Jess and her friends Cass, Deva, and Ruth. But even if one fourteen-year-old knows that brushes weren’t invented for pollinating, can she really stoke a revolution?
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Based on a True Story
£16.99Once upon a time there was a family. Everything else is a lie. The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.
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Diary of a Dreadful Dragon
£12.99Banished from yet another kingdom, Malgundrax the dragon has arrived in the Fairytale Woods, eager to build up a new hoard of treasures – and when he joins the three bears’ delivery company, it’s the perfect cover for sneaking into homes and stealing shiny things! But when he starts making friends, stealing begins to lose its sparkle. Can this dragon change his ways? Or once a baddie, always a baddie?