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  • World Cup Fever

    £11.99

    The football World Cup is the biggest sporting competition on Earth – a chance every four years for the greatest players to win international glory, and a month-long media spectacle that’s watched by an audience of billions. But the tournament has changed beyond recognition since the inaugural event in Montevideo, Uruguay, in July 1930. What was once a semi-professional meeting beset by haphazard play has evolved to become a game of multinational buyouts, dubious ethics and questionable aims – and the new era of football has much to tell us about the globalised world. Simon Kuper is among the vanishingly small number of writers who have attended every World Cup since 1990. This is his journey to find the heart of football, through the nine tournaments he’s experienced first-hand.

  • Oops!

    £7.99

    A hilarious picture book about the importance of saying ‘sorry’ . . . and what happens if you don’t!

  • The Queer Thing About Sin

    £12.99

    A gripping new journey through ancient history, uncovering the origins of homophobia and the untold stories of those who dared to love.

  • The Last Titans

    £12.99

    A compelling dual biography of Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle that shines new light on two of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.

  • World of Football

    £9.99

    The ultimate guide to football – PACKED with players, facts, stats and more – from No. 1 bestselling authors Marcus Rashford and Carl Anka.

  • Before I Knew I Loved You

    £14.99

    The sixth book in the unstoppable, multi-million bestselling Japanese series; four guests with four poignant stories get another chance at lasting happiness.

  • My Only Boy

    £20.00

    Elle is a successful PR executive at a fast-growing tech company in London, whose carefully controlled life begins to fracture after a workplace tragedy exposes the human cost of the business she represents. While navigating mounting pressure at work and unrest in the city around her, Elle meets Ed at a house party and falls into an intense, unexpected romance. Having previously dated only women, she is unsettled by the relationship and what it reveals about her identity, desires, and future. As the romance deepens, Elle must decide what she is willing to sacrifice – love, security, or ambition – as both her personal life and the wider world move toward crisis.

  • Blitz

    £25.00

    From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Spitfire and The Unknown Warrior, Blitz is a searing account of a nation at war, told through the eyes of those who endured the onslaught.

  • The Long Shoe

    £9.99

    Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury apartment. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back. But, as events unfold, it starts to dawn on him that perhaps she didn’t leave of her own accord after all?

  • Circle of Days

    £10.99

    Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Rite, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offers Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community. Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain. Joia’s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life’s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders.

  • A Spy in the Blood

    £9.99

    Mark Wolfe was the greatest spy of his generation. Now retired from active service for over two decades, his family know him as a quiet, affable civil servant. Mark still works for MI6, helping to recruit new agents. But he hasn’t got his hands dirty since the spying game involved dead-dropping intel beneath railway station clocks in East Berlin, Czechoslovakia and other foreign lands that no longer exist. When his daughter reveals an unhealthy obsession with joining the service, he is reluctantly thrown back into a terrifying new world of modern espionage.

  • Coming Home

    £10.99

    This is Freddie Flintoff’s life in full, in his own words, through the moments that made him. Told in short scenes, Fred zeroes-in on the crucial instances that shaped his career and life – some highly celebrated, others less well-known, private, away from the cameras, but pivotal in shaping the man he is.