The Actual
£12.99Featuring essays from the author originally written for radio, a new edition of the Rathbone Folio Prize-longlisted collection by firebrand poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams
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Kill Shot
£22.00Harry is out of the police force. He has left a history of violence and grief behind him and is trying his hands at a new career. But when a woman is found murdered, her killing styled after a scene from a famous movie, and two more bodies turn up in rapid succession, newly minted homicide investigator Oleg Fauke turns to Harry for advice. As gruesome films begin to appear and the victims pile up, Harry’s unique expertise is needed. He is drawn back into helping his old colleagues, and his personal relationships grow as complicated as the mind of the killer he is trying to catch.
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Beauty and the Beast
£19.99This stunning die-cut picture book tells the enchanting story of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast.
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If I Had a Penguin
£11.99The story starts innocently enough when a single Adélie penguin appears at the front door. What our protagonist hasn’t anticipated is that this penguin is part of a colony. Their adventures include a visit to the waterpark, the seaside and the jazz club, before cramming themselves onto the sofa to watch a film and into the bathtub before bed. As ever, this book will delight readers with its rollicking rhymes and hilarious gags.
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ATP No. 1 Club
£39.95A striking visual journey through modern men’s tennis, celebrating the twenty-nine players in the elite ATP No. 1 Club
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The Creativity Con
£12.99Innovation and creativity have been the defining watchwords of American exceptionalism for decades, used by business thinkers, tech gurus, military strategists, educators, and urban planners to describe the country’s unique standing in the world. While other countries supposedly suffer from regimentation and a fatal lack of imagination, the United States is often portrayed as an unmatched dynamo of new ideas and products. In his book, Thomas Frank disabuses us of this notion, offering a bold account of the way creativity and innovation have been used as a kind of ideological cover for policies that reinforce the class system. Frank uncovers the insidious effects of centring innovation and creativity in rhetoric while, in practice, nurturing exactly the opposite.
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The Hill
£16.99Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now, every Saturday, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children, each dressed as if for celebration. Inside there is a nursery and a cemetery; there are watchful guards and distractable nuns; there are women counting down to release and women like Suzanna’s mother, who will never be released. At home, Suzanna is raised by her grandmother, who is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s crime and refuses to visit the prison. Surrounding Suzanna are her grandmother’s friends, who know one another from their years in the Communist Party and still spend extended cocktail hours debating the Hitler-Stalin pact. Though these women once insisted on changing the world, they are torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it.
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The Village in Britain
£25.00We are a nation of villages, from the rural, picturesque hamlets of Castle Combe and Clovelly, to the tight-knit urban communities of Leeds’ terraces and Cricklewood’s backyards. Villages link us with our past and are the stuff of art, poetry, folklore and song – and for many they offer a place of community and sanctuary. And yet Britain today is one of the most centralised political systems in Europe, with decisions on local matters made by national government and local communities feeling increasingly disempowered and disconnected. In ‘The Village in Britain’, Simon Jenkins, author and former chair of the National Trust, delves into the past, present and future of this powerful national symbol, and argues that we need to find a way of embedding the qualities of the village into our modern lives.
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F1 Activity Book
£4.99Design your dream race cars, match stickers to iconic circuits, and create your ultimate race track with the 100% official F1« Activity Book.Packed with activities û complete sticker puzzles of F1 cars, follow the track to discover whoÆs won the championship, test your knowledge of race flags, and much more. With more than 200 stickers.
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After Dark
£10.99This volume takes us out into the night to discover the natural world after dark, its rarely seen spectacles and curiosities. With acclaimed nature writer John Lewis-Stempel as our guide, we spot a moonbow, an arch of white light in the heavens; we watch hares box in a star-charmed, wave-earthed ploughfield; we tip our hat to a badger as he snuffles down the path. The book shows us our human insignificance by gazing up at the cosmic sprawl of the Milky Way.
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In Rome’s Long Shadow
£25.00A fascinating history of the republican tradition that modern states inherited from ancient Rome. Julius Caesar, Lucretia, Cincinnatus, Augustus, the Gracchi brothers: Roman figures have had an extraordinary influence on modern republics from America to France. Here historian Jamie Gianoutsos traces the Roman republic and its afterlives through the revolutionary birth of modern republics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to reveal how ancient ideas of liberty, virtue, and corruption shaped the political imagination of a new age. Moving from stories of tyranny and collapse in ancient Rome to moments of crisis in early modern Europe and the Atlantic world, Gianoutsos uncovers recurring patterns in the rise – and fall – of republics.
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A Christmas Memory
£12.99Selected from across Capote’s writing life, these sparkling tales convey both the wonder and the chill of Christmas time. They range from nostalgic portraits of childhood to more unsettling works that reveal the darkness beneath the festive glitter. In the Deep South of Capote’s youth, a young boy, Buddy, and his beloved maiden ‘aunt’ Sook forage for pecans and whiskey to bake into fruitcakes, make kites – too broke to buy gifts – and rise before dawn to prepare feasts for a ragged assembly of guests; it is Sook who teaches Buddy the true meaning of good will. In other stories, an unlikely festive miracle, of sorts, occurs at a local drugstore and a lonely woman has a troubling encounter in wintry New York.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
£20.00Set in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who have little in common. A young girl, a drunk and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, John Singer, whose presence changes their lives.
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The Outsider
£16.99Set in Camus’ native Algeria, this story centres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvement in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental values of society.
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In Cold Blood
£20.00Agent Al Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has a horrific murder to solve – and precious few clues. Capote’s reconstruction of the slaughter of an entire family shows a gripping mix of journalistic skills and imaginative power.
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The Other Love
£12.99A mouse is like a heart: it sleeps in winter; it knows uncertain love. None of us knows what to expect out there. Surely pain is to be a part of it. This collection offers a way of seeing – passing through ageing, through loss, while staying open to the beauties and mysteries of the world and the people in it. Henri Cole, one of America’s finest poets, balances ecstasy with a constant awareness of devastating violence, whether inside our threshold, or glimpsed from afar. These observant lyrics resist easy answers; they gleam with desire and doubt, bracing for uncertain love, for certain pain, for sudden joy, in our ever-strange bodies.