Power Of Now
£12.99This text shows how to live a better life by living in the present moment. If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the now, we will be opening ourselves to the experience of the power of now.
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This text shows how to live a better life by living in the present moment. If we are able to be fully present and take each step in the now, we will be opening ourselves to the experience of the power of now.

One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, ‘White Teeth’ is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing – among many other things – with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his flair for spotting ace reporters. Acting on a dinner party tip he feels convinced he has found a chap to cover a little war in Ishmaelia.

Hemingway’s passion for Spain and the bullfight is renowned. This book contains some of the finest short stories Hemingway ever wrote, inspired by the intense life as well as the inevitable death of those hot, violent afternoons.

Set in the 50 years after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of the Trasks and the Hamiltons. Adam Trask marries Kate. When she abandons him and their twin sons to run an infamous brothel, the family is consumed in a bitter struggle.

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams.

Inspired by Jane Eyre, Wild Sargasso Sea is Jean Rhys’s powerful and compassionate story of Antoinette Cosway who is haunted by her brother’s death and the madness of her mother and who is trapped in an unstable marriage.

Max’s night-time adventure in the land of the Wild Things is a classic of 20th century children’s picture books.

Immortalised in the film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote’s classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s is full of sharp wit. Its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, slightly madcap era of early 1940s New York.

A masterpiece, a dazzling social satire, and a milestone in twentieth century literature, The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.

Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. Orwell’s allegoric story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption is as fresh today as when it was first published in 1945.

The Jolly Postman has a new and most surprising adventure in the Ahlbergs’ third story about him – and meets many familiar characters en route. Children and adults alike will delight in following him on his journey, with the aid of a magnifying glass.

The Jolly Postman delivers cards & letters to many fairy-tale characters. He has a letter of apology for the three bears from Goldilocks, a postcard from Jack for the giant, a solicitor’s letter on behalf of Little Red Riding Hood for the wolf, & more.


Okada is apparently a happy man – his domestic life seems familiar and comfortable, but admittedly he has just quit his job, the cat has disappeared and a strange woman is bothering him with explicit phone calls.
