These Mortal Bodies
£9.99Dark academia about a working class student’s transformative first year at a prestigious university, surrounded by gothic architecture, secret societies and witchcraft.Â
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We Are Dragons
£7.99Unleash the laughter with We Are Dragons!
Join four playful dragons on their hilarious journey through a fairytale kingdom, where fun turns into chaos at every turn.
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Bad Friend
£12.99Move over idealised BFFs, glossy gal pals and indestructible work wives. Meet the bad friends. The dangerously romantic school girls of the 1900s. The office gossips of the 1930s. The mum cliques of the 1950s. The angry activists of the 1970s. The coven – women who choose to live together in old age – of the present day. These ‘bad’ friends broke the rules about femininity they didn’t write. Their relationships were controlled, patrolled and judged too intimate, too consuming and in some cases, too powerful. In this history of women’s friendship, celebrated cultural historian Tiffany Watt Smith reckons with the ways we understand this complex and vital connection. She takes us from Japan to the Ivory Coast, The Mindy Project to Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, from prisons to film sets to hospital wards and elder communities, untangling the assumptions about good and bad friends we live by.
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Bare
£10.99Aged 15, Lorna was living on the streets of Soho, trying to avoid abuse and rape whilst battling an addiction to heroin. She worked as an escort and a stripper, lost custody of her daughter, and relapsed multiple times. But, somehow, and unlike most of the people imprisoned by the streets, Lorna didn’t just survive but she flew. ‘I’ve dodged through these streets for a lifetime. I realise I have never stopped running since the day that I left the streets, never sat still, never found peace. But the process of unpicking my life means that, for the first time ever, I am actually facing what I have to do. It’s time to tell my story.’ On any given night, tens of thousands of families and individuals across the UK are experiencing homelessness. One in three people sleeping rough have experienced violence and are nine times more likely to take their own life.
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The Cromarty Library Circle
£22.00Cromarty, The Black Isle, 1831. As seagulls shriek & rise on the coastal winds, a circulating library in the port town of Cromarty is meeting for the first time. Ostensibly united by a love of books, the demands of social convention have brought together a disparate group of people. Charlotte Mackenzie, the remote & fragile wife of the local laird, seeks an escape from a loveless marriage; her best friend, Rachel Mackay, a former governess who is ardently in love with her own older husband, the town’s minister; the young schoolmaster, John Learmonth, newly arrived from Edinburgh with secrets in tow; & the gentle bank clerk, Ludovic Cameron who dreams of a new life across the ocean, far from his erstwhile schoolmate, Farquhar Hossack. Whenthe laird befriends a wounded officer, a chain of events is set in motion that threatens to upset the delicate equilibrium of the community.
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Mediterranean Living
£50.00Travel to the heart of the Mediterranean and be inspired by the unique homes and ateliers of celebrated artists, architects, designers and artisans from all over the region. Spanning Provence and Corsica to Italy, Croatia, the Balearic Islands, Greece, and Portugal, these varied residences and studios immerse readers in the diverse architectural and decorative styles of Southern Europe, blending authenticity with modernity, natural tones with muted hues, raw materials with delicacy, and sunlight with the sea. Author Laurence Dougier and photographer Nicolas Mathéus explore minimalist houses designed by a rising generation of architects.
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Summer Houses
£39.95Explore fifty extraordinary architect-designed homes that capture the spirit of summer
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The Shadow Pony
£7.99A gorgeous story of family love through generations – perfect for fans of Hannah Gold and Katya Balen
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Garden Lover’s Puzzle Book
£12.99A gorgeous book for garden lovers and puzzlers alike. Escape into the tranquility of nature with puzzles inspired by the great outdoors.
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Mother Animal
£10.99Offers a startling new vision of motherhood: wild, intimate, diverse; as contested and extraordinary as the world in which we live and the animals with which we share it.
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The Shadow Pony
£7.99A gorgeous story of family love through generations – perfect for fans of Hannah Gold and Katya Balen
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Abundance
£11.99In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished. Progress requires the ability to see promise rather than just peril in the creation of new ideas and projects, and an instinct to design systems and institutions that make building possible. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and how we can adopt a mindset directed toward abundance, and not scarcity, to overcome them.
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Hotel Exile
£25.00The Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only ‘grand’ hotel on the city’s bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. Andre Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. It has a darker history, too. During one short period, it became a focus for some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history. In the 1930s the Hotel Lutetia attracted intellectuals and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, who met here with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service – and the centre of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich.
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I Wanna Be Loved by You
£25.00An illuminating biography of the Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe, written by award-winning biographer Andrew Wilson.Â