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Christmas — £24.99
This title contains eighteen classic carols and seasonal songs, both sacred and secular and published as part of the highly successful "Songscape Series". It is ideal for bringing confidence to the classroom and concert singing. All the songs have been carefully arranged to suit vocal ranges for Key Stage 2/3+ (Scottish P3-P7+) voices. Many songs have optional additional vocal parts providing scope for part-singing and keyboard parts are well within the grasp of pianists of moderate ability. High...

Quantum of Solace — £8.99
To celebrate the release of the new James Bond film, "Quantum of Solace", all Ian Fleming's short stories are being published in one volume for the first time. From a "View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only", "Quantum of Solace", "Risico The Hildebrand", "Rarity Octopussy", "The Living Daylights", "The Property of a Lady", and "007 in New York".

The Spirit — £12.99
Created by comics legend Will Eisner, the adventures of Denny Colt - "The Spirit" - brought a new level of draftsmanship and sophistication to the newspaper strip!This attractive collection spotlights the timeless female characters created by Eisner as romantic interests, villainesses and more. From serial seducer and thief P'Gell to the deadly Sand Saref; from the virtuous Ellen Dolan, Colt's long-term girlfriend, to the hard-as-nails Silk Satin, the women of "The Spirit" are as unforgettable as...

The Picture of Dorian Gray — £4.99
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH. Dorian is a good-natured young man until he falls in with the immoral Lord Henry and discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt and decadent lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden behind a curtain, his portrait tells a different story

Empire — £7.99
This astoundingly successful, superbly reviewed book vividly recreates the excitement, brutality and adventure of the British Empire. Ferguson' most revolutionary and popular work, "Empire" is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's greatest modernising forces. It shows on a vast canvas how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries and millions of settlers.

The Art of "War" — £19.99
From the 1950s to the '70s Fleetway and its successor IPC was the world's biggest comic-book publisher and its line of digest-sized Picture Libraries was the jewel in their crown. The most popular and longest lasting titles were "War", "Battle", "Air Ace" and "War at Sea", which ran for a combined total of over four and a half thousand issues. This is a collection of over 400 of the finest "War", "Battle", "Air Ace" and "War at Sea" covers, digitally remastered from the original archived artwork...

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency — £7.99
Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, not to mention Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. And Precious is going to need them all as she...

The Wedding Collection — £10.99

Chicago — £12.99
Discover Chicago Splash in Millennium Park's Crown Fountain, with its gargoyle-style video fountain Canvass West Loop galleries, Chicago's beachhead for contemporary arts Browse Wicker Park boutiques for vintage pillbox hats, graphic novels and Tortise CDs Score bleacher seats for the Cubs at Wrigley Field In This Guide: Three authors, 1800 research hours, 97 well-tested bars, clubs and concert halls Expanded coverage of Chicago's culinary scene, from gourmet hot dogs to celebrity chefs New itinerary...

The Woman in White — £6.99
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant 'Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White sets...

Emma — £6.99
Emma is wealthy, beautiful, accomplished and a self-proclaimed matchmaker. When Emma meets Harriet Smith, a young girl of unknown parentage, Emma is convinced she can find Harriet a suitable husband. But, in her quest to find Harriet the perfect match, Emma jeopardizes Harriet's happiness and, much to her surprise, her own happiness too. The much-loved Austen novel has been given a fresh look by award-winning writer Sandy Welch. With well-known actors taking the title roles, Romola Garai and Jonny...

Beowulf — £12.72
Seamus Heaney's translation of "Beowulf" is a work that is both true to the original poem and an expression of something fundamental to Heaney's own creative gift. One of the great classics of European Literature, the poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, being exhausted by it and then having to live on, physically and psychically exposed, in that exhausted aftermath. There are obvious parallels to be found in the history of the twentieth century and Heaney's "Beowulf" cannot fail...

Barcelona — £6.99
This guide gets travellers straight to the heart of the locals' city with information on the best street parties (in Gracia), the best markets (Boqueria obviously but also smaller ones such as Placa del Pi and Placa Nova) and the best off-the-beaten-track bars (along Carrer d'Aribau).Its handy bite-sized format is perfect for short trips with style. It features four new local voices for this edition including a British ex-pat who writes novels in Catalan, and Carles Abellan, a top chef with two restaurants...

Horses — £39.95
The fruits of a fifteen-year labour of love, this is an evocative and beautifully conceived tribute to the unique bond that exists between man and horse.

New Collected Poems — £16.99
From his first publications in the early 1940s, to his final works of the late 1970s, W. S. Graham has given us a poetry of intense power and inquisitive vision - a body of work regarded by many as among the best Romantic poetry of the twentieth century. Graham died in 1986 with much of his work gathered in Collected Poems 1942-1977. However, two posthumous collections - Uncollected Poems (1990) and Aimed at Nobody (1993) - have unearthed a wealth of important new material and heightened the need...

Sea — £6.95

Host — £6.99
Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for ever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely, Joe devises a way of downloading the human brain into a supercomputer called ARCHIVE. But Joe's wife, Karen, is worried by his preoccupation with ARCHIVE, which seems to be developing signs of a distinct and sinister personality of its own. Then, just as Joe is on the brink of a scientific breakthrough, a series of macabre accidents befall him and his family - and...

Man in the White Suit, The" — £8.00
Sidney Stratton (Alec Guinness), a humble inventor, develops a fabric, which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way; they try to suppress it. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...

Prague — £12.00
Containing easy-to-use information on the most exciting and stylish facets of this fascinating European city, this guide offers the inside scoop on the cultural scene via short, candid interviews with local artists, musicians, chefs, and others at the epicenter of the scene. Includes four fold-out street and subway maps. Photos & maps.

Legacy — £5.99
Everyone at Easton Academy is struggling to recover from the death of Cheyenne Martin - especially the girls of Billings Hall. With Cheyenne gone, they need to elect a new leader, and who better than Reed Brennan, the ultimate Billings Girl? Reed revels in her new-found status but she knows that Billings leaders have a tainted legacy. Now that Reed has everything she's ever wanted, she's got everything to lose. And she's about to find out just how tough it is at the top...

Piece of My Heart — £7.99
As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been brutally murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Stanley Chadwick, is a hard-headed, strait-laced veteran of the Second World War. He could not have less in common with -- or less regard for -- young, disrespectful, long-haired hippies, smoking marijuana and listening to the pulsing sounds of rock and roll. But he has a murder to solve...

Live at Carnegie Hall — £9.79
No one renders the pathos, chaos and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate. Recorded live on October 22, 2002, LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL features excerpts from his forthcoming collection of essays, DRESS YOUR FAMILY IN CORDUROY AND DENIM. Includes: Thanks Repeat After Me Why Them? Who's the Chef? Buddy Can You Spare a Tie? LessonThree: The Feminine Mistake Lesson Four: With a Pal Like This, You Don't Need An Enemy...

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — £12.99
HarperCollins is proud to present a celebration of C.S. Lewis' timeless classic, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, lovingly brought to life in the original design and with the original illustrations. The most loved of all the Chronicles, this wonderful tale can be enjoyed again and again. "This is the land of Narnia," said the Faun, "where we are now. And you -- you have come from the wild woods of the west?" "I -- I got in through the wardrobe in the spare room," said Lucy. Lucy steps into...

For Whom the Bell Tolls — £6.99
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.

Never Let Me Go — £16.99
Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there? It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the pull of memory. What unfolds is the haunting story of how Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, slowly come to face the...

Odyssey — £39.04
The classics are rapidly receding from public consciousness, and modern revisions of them, such as the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou, are in genuine danger of never being linked to their original inspiration. Noted classicist Stanley Lombardo breathes new life into one of the most famous and beloved ancient works with an engaging and vibrant audio performance of Homer's "Odyssey. This state-of-the-art compact disc recording provides high-quality access to one of the greatest works in world literature...

The Best of Betjeman — £9.99

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror — £5.99
Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the gothic genre: "Olalla...

Cabaret — £15.95
Simply the best book and backing track package available for female vocalists, "All Woman" is a flagship series! This book features the cream of the current crop of female vocalists and is perfect for auditions, performances, semi-professional, or professional singers, or anyone who just wants to have a bit of fun! The book contains piano arrangements (if you have an accompanist), vocal line and guitar chord symbols, while on the accompanying CD you will find authentic, sound-alike, backing tracks...

Don Quixote — £10.99
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist...

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books — £6.99
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other...

Made in England — £13.95

Moby Dick — £6.99
This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession, and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. The tale of Captain Ahab's frantic pursuit of the cunning and notorious white whale Moby Dick, is packed with drama, and draws heavily on the author's own experiences on the high seas. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discussed the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery.

Pizza — £8.99
"Pizza" describes the history and evolution of one of our favourite foods in Italy, the United States, and throughout the world, from its humble origins in eighteenth-century Naples to its current status as one of the world's most popular fast foods. The book looks at the history of pizza by focusing on what pizza has meant to people, and in turn the different things people have done to it. In Italy, pizza has constituted the diet of the Neapolitan poor, has been a source of opportunity for Italian...

Charlotte Gray — £7.99
In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusiastic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through...

Hedda Gabler" — £8.99
Condemned by British critics in 1890 when it was written, "Hedda Gabler" has since become one of Ibsen's most frequently performed plays. Its title role is elusive and complex: Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage. When writer Eilert Loevborg, an old flame returns to Hedda's life with a masterpiece that might threaten her husband's career under his arm, Hedda decides to take drastic and fatal action, drawing all in her...

White Fang — £6.99
Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang - half-dog, half-wolf - is the only animal in the litter to survive. He soon learns the harsh laws of nature, yet buried deep inside him are the distant memories of affection and love. Will this fiercely independent creature of the wild learn to trust man again? Richard Adams, prize-winning author of "Watership Down", introduces this chilling, beautiful tale of the wild.

The Art Book — £14.95
The Art Book is the first fully illustrated art dictionary. It presents a feast of famous, varied and colourful images by 500 of the greatest artists from the Middle Ages to the present day. Arranged in alphabetical order by artist, it is easy to use. With one large, quintessential image per artist, and an informative text that discusses the work in detail as well as offering information about its creator, The Art Book is both educational and fun. With the turn of every page The Art Book reveals...

Rhapsody — £7.99
The ten stories of Rhapsody, together with the three previously uncollected pieces added to this edition, are distinctive in voice and sensibility. At least three of the Rhapsody stories -- 'A Country House', 'Days', and the brilliant, allusive, and enigmatic 'A Garland of Earth' -- are small masterpieces. Not bad by the age of twenty-four. All of them are extremely controlled studies of constrained desire, loneliness, and incomplete relationships for which Edwards was developing a non-realist world...

Colossus — £10.99
Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is the greatest military and economic colossus of all time. What's more, it always has been an empire, with its founding fathers battling westwards for territory and their successors spreading freedom across the world - at gunpoint if necessary. Yet is the US really equipped to play Atlas, bearing the weight of the world on its shoulders? America...

Stormbreaker — £6.99
When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercises. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission to Cornwall, where Middle-Eastern multi-billionaire Herod Sayle is producing his state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers. Sayle has offered to give one free to every school in the country - but there's more to...

Human Traces — £7.99
"Human Traces" explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when the story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As psychiatrists, they travel on a quest from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in...

Vivaldi: Four Seasons — £11.56

Collected Stories — £7.99
This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas's short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the inimitable comedy of his later autobiographical writings. With PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG and ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE, Thomas found a new voice for his irreverent memories of lust and bravado in south-west Wales and London, leading to a sequence of classic evocations of childhood magic and the follies of adult life...

Inside out — £18.70
A classroom tested English-course for adults and young adults, "Inside Out" has been designed to develop real-life communicative skills and powers of self-expression. Creative grammar work: learners organize and develop their knowledge of grammar. Easy-to-use exercises put rules into pratice - and are then recycled as speaking activities. All grammar work is backed up with clear summaries. Personalized speaking tasks: a series of challenging speaking tasks focuses on learners' own experiences and...

The Sonnets — £8.25
Like the plays in the Cambridge School Shakespeare series, The Sonnets has been specially prepared to help all students in schools and colleges. Each sonnet is presented with accompanying material which aims to enrich your own experience of the poem, whilst leaving you to make your own mind up about the sonnet rather than having someone else's interpretation and judgement handed down to you. You will find help with unfamiliar words, with imagery, and with other 'poetic' features, as well as suggestions...

The Music of Life — £2.50

The Garden in Winter — £22.99
In this beautifully packaged gardening treasury, Suzy Bales offers a guide to creating visual garden interest that will add brightness, warmth, and cheer to those cold winter months when the outdoor landscape is often bare and drab.In this idea-packed guide, gardeners will find: lists of best trees, shrubs, groundcovers, perennials, and grasses for winter impact; striking suggestions for stand-out decorating and unusual plantings in pots, urns, window boxes, hanging baskets, and other containers...

Another World — £8.99
Nick's grandfather Geordie lies dying. As Nick watches, Geordie starts to relive the horrors surrounding his brother's death and his own terrible experiences during the First World War. Meanwhile, Nick and his wife Fran are trying to unite their increasingly fractious young family, despite the discovery of an obscene Victorian drawing which reveals the tragic history of their house and casts a terrifying shadow over the family.

Merlin — £3.99

Selected Letters — £11.99
'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a tyranny. His letters to friends and family are an astonishingly detailed record of daily life and politics in Rome. This selection, covering the years 68-43 BC, not merely documents in detail Cicero's career but simultaneously provides a month-by-month...

The Ice — £9.99
Stephen Pyne's overwhelming fascination with Antarctica is the compelling force behind this major book on this stark and largely unknown continent. It combines a geophysical examination of the ice with an inspirational survey of how one of the most alien landscapes of our planet has shaped and affected man's life on earth throughout the centuries. The sheer immensity of the ice sheet is staggering. Its weight is sufficient to deform the globe. Interleaved with each scientific examination are historical...

With the Flow — £6.99
M. Folantin is a government employee who is overwhelmed by the quotidian misery of life. The story follows his Quixotic quest for enjoyment - as he goes to a restaurant, to the cinema, and to a prostitute - but ultimately finds that nothing can shake from him his disgust and boredom with the business of living.

Archangel — £7.99
When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel, and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past.

Double Vision — £7.99
Insomnia, exhaustion, recurring nightmares Stephen Sharkey is suffering the aftereffects of his career as a war reporter, most recently in Afghanistan, where Ben Frobisher, war photographer and friend, has been shot dead on assignment. Hanging up his flak jacket and turning his back on the everyday reality of war, Stephen moves into a quiet and peaceful cottage in the north of England. It seems the perfect environment in which to write his book on the representations of war one that will be based...

The Ghost Writer — £7.99
The Ghost Writer introduces Nathan Zuckerman in the 1950s; a budding writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovering the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his literary idol, E. I. Lonoff. At Lonoff's, Zuckerman meets Amy Bellette, a haunting young woman of indeterminate foreign background who turns out to be a former student of Lonoff's and who may also have been his mistress. Zuckerman, with his active, youthful...

Artificial Intelligence — £51.99
For one or two-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in Artificial Intelligence. The long-anticipated revision of this best-selling text offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence. More

Millions — £5.99
Two bothers, Damian and Anthony, are unwittingly caught up in a train robbery during Britain's countdown to join the Euro. Suddenly finding themselves with a vast amount of cash, the boys have just one glorious, appalling dilemma how to spend it in the few days before it becomes worthless. Torn between the vices of buying a million pizzas and the virtues of ending world poverty, the boys soon discover that being rich is a mug's game. For not only is the clock ticking the bungling bank robbers are...

Waterland — £7.99
In the twenty-five years since its first publication, "Waterland" has established itself as one of the classics of the twentieth century. This anniversary edition, with a new introduction by the author, celebrates a novel that is a visionary tale of England's Fen country, a sinuous meditation on the workings of history, and a family story startling in its detail and universal in its reach.'Graham Swift has mapped his "Waterland" like a new Wessex. He appropriates the Fens as Moby Dick did whaling...

Where Rainbows End — £6.99
From the no. 1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You comes an enchanting novel about two childhood friends whom fate and destiny can't help toying with! From naughty children to rebellious teenagers, Rosie and Alex have stuck by each other through thick and thin. But just as they're discovering the joys of teenage nights on the town and dating disasters, they're separated. Alex's family moves from Dublin to America -- and Alex goes with them. For good. Rosie's lost without her best friend. But on...

Elementary Algebra — £60.90

A Man of No Importance — £6.00
When he meets an enchanting young passenger, Adele (Tara Fitzgerald), Alfie is inspired to mount a production of Wilde’s Salome – with Adele as the lead. With the rest of the cast filled out by his regulars, including a gruff butcher (Michael Gambon – Harry Potter), he sets off to produce Wilde’s controversial play – but not everyone is pleased with the choice. With production woes piling on, Alfie is forced to overcome his fears and be happy with who he is.

Mass in G Minor — £4.99

Puccini: Tosca — £10.34

Off the Record — £12.49
In this hard-hitting inside story, Norman Pearlstine shows that confidentiality has become a weapon in the White Housea (TM)s war on the press. Pearlstine calls on Congress to pass a federal shield law protecting journalists from the needless intrusions of government; at the same time, he calls on the press to name its sources whenever possible. Off the Record is a powerful argument, with the vividness and narrative drive of the best long-form journalism.

Teach Yourself One Day Spanish — £6.99
This one-day course is specifically written for the holiday maker for whom a short holiday does not justify a complete language course. It comes on one 75-minute CD and teaches only basic, core words, as few as the holiday maker can get away with, and a few useful phrases, which will be supported by body language. The accompanying 16-page booklet simply lists the words and phrases taught on the recording - no pronunciation guide, no grammar summary, just a written record of what has been learned...

Rubicon — £10.99
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama. This was the century of Julius Caesar, the gambler whose addiction to glory led him to the banks of the Rubicon, and beyond; of Cicero, whose...

Headlong — £7.99
A young would-be art historian suddenly sees the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to perform a great public service, and at the same time to make his professional reputation - perhaps even rather a lot of money as well...

Norwegian Wood — £7.99
"A masterly novel. . . . Norwegian Wood bears the unmistakable marks of Murakami's hand." -"The New York Times Book Review" "Norwegian Wood . . . not only points to but manifests the author's genius." -"Chicago Tribune" "[A] treat . . . Murakami captures the heartbeat of his generation and draws the reader in so completely you mourn when the story is done." -"The Baltimore Sun" "Vintage Murakami [and] easily the most erotic of [his] novels." -"Los Angeles Times Book Review"

Teenagers — £18.50
Provides advice and activities to make working with teenagers a rewarding and enriching experience. Teenagers encourages learners to notice how language works, promotes cultural awareness, develops creative thinking and problem-solving skills, and appeals to teenagers' curiosity beyond the confines of media-driven popular culture. Name of Series: Resource Books for Teachers

Christmas Carols for Ukulele — £4.95
Take your uke along while dashing to your holiday gatherings this year and don't forget to bring this essential collection of 26 holiday classics: Away in a Manger * Deck the Hall * Go, Tell It on the Mountain * God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen * Good King Wenceslas * Hark! the Herald Angels Sing * Jingle Bells * Joy to the World * O Christmas Tree * Silent Night * Up on the Housetop * What Child Is This? * and more.

The Patch — £4.99
Becca has amblyopia and needs to wear both glasses and an eye patch to strengthen her weak eye. She doesn't want the kids at school to know why she's wearing a patch, and leads her friends on imaginative adventures before she confesses to the real reason why she's wearing the eye patch.

The Holographic Universe — £8.99
Despite its apparent materiality, the universe is actually a kind of 3-D projection and is ultimately no more real than a hologram, a 3-D image projected in space and made with the aid of a laser. Using this model, a world-renowned physicist and a Nobel prize winning neurophysiologist has developed a new description of reality. It encompasses not only reality as we know it, including hitherto unexplained phenomena of physics, but is capable of explaining such occurrences as telepathy, paranormal...

Gladiators — £10.99
Ancient Rome is back at the movies...Superfit, muscled, macho, the gladiator is hero-worshipped. Here, ingeniously pieced together, their true stories from grave epitaphs, grafitti, mosaics, frescoes and engravings.

Totem and Taboo — £8.99
Widely acknowledged to be one of Freud's greatest cultural works, when Totem and Taboo was first published in 1913, it caused outrage. Thorough and thought-provoking, Totem and Taboo remains the fullest exploration of Freud's most famous themes. Family, society, religion - they're all put on the couch here. Whatever your feelings about psychoanalysis, Freud's theories have influenced every facet of modern life, from film and literature to medicine and art. If you don't know your incest taboo from...

The Last Cigarette — £7.99
This is the final volume of the trilogy that began with "The Smoking Diaries". Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of twenty and his two lighters? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why leave...

American Splendor — £6.00
* Introduction to DVD features by Harvey Pekar. * Group audio commentary with directors, cast & Harvey Pekar. * Harvey meets the BBC collective: an interview with Harvey Pekar. * Sundance Channels 'Road to Splendor'. * Behind the scenes featurette on characterisation. * Title sequence and Robert Crumb, trailers.

Calculus — £10.99
Who else want to be successful in mathematics? Calculus often causes panic in students, but with this book, that soon can be a thing of the past. Full of clear explanations and written by a highly experienced and sympathetic teacher with many years of experience in preparing students for advanced mathematics examinations, this is a definite must-have book for all students studying mathematics.

Verdi: Requiem — £16.99
Verdi's Messa da Requiem is one of the most frequently performed works of the choral repertoire, and one of Verdi's most important non-operatic works. This new handbook offers an up-to-date account of the work's genesis, its performance history, and issues regarding performing practice. The central chapters provide a descriptive analysis of the work, while exploring some of the critical issues raised by individual sections, such as Verdi's interpretation of the text, his reactions to previous Requiems...

Have a Nice Day — £14.99

The Man of Feeling — £12.99
Henry Mackenzie was an 18th century Scottish writer known as "Addison of the North." Mackenzie was an attorney for the crown in Scotland. Mackenzie tried getting The Man of Feeling published even to the point of offering it as a gift. He finally published it himself anonymously. Harley is the "Man of Feeling," He is a weak creature, dominated by a futile benevolence, who travels to London and falls into the hands of people who exploit his innocence. Harley helps the down-trodden, looses in love and...

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha — £7.99
Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom in the classroom to increasing isolation at home, "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" is the story of a boy who sees everything but understands less and less.

Death in a White Tie — £14.67
The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene. But someone else got there first...

The Things We Do for Love — £8.99
An intriguing, compulsive romantic thriller from the highly acclaimed author of A Good Woman and Memory and Desire. How well do you know the person you're married to? Cambridge. Tessa and Stephen's marriage is quietly foundering. She wants a baby, but seemingly cannot have one. Stephen, an introverted scientist, will not talk about it. Tessa can't talk about anything else. A mysterious French voice on the ansaphone leads her to suspect Stephen of infidelity. When he leaves for a conference in...

Both Sides of the Fence — £18.99
John Cannon gave up his Metropolitan Police career for his partner, Liz Makepeace, when he took revenge on those who had hurt her whilst she was working undercover. Now the troubled couple must make a new life for themselves as proprietors of 'The Trap' a Fenland public house. In time, and with growing acceptance from the locals, they find happiness. They have come to love this strange land of marshes and dykes - but their past has not done with them yet. A young girl found unconscious brings the...

Ancient — £5.95

Dead Man's Footsteps — £6.99
Abby stepped in the lift and the doors closed with a sound like a shovel smoothing gravel. She breathed in the smell of someone else's perfum, and lemon-scented cleaning fluid. The lift jerked upwards a few inches. And now, too late to change her mind and get out, with the metal walls pressing in around her, they lunged sharply downwards. Abby was about to realize she had just made the worst mistake of her life ...Amid the tragic unfolding mayhem of the morning of 9/11, failed Brighton businessman...

The Dying Animal — £7.99
David Kepesh is a white haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder and haunts him for the next eight years. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960's freed him from his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an emancipated manhood beyond the reach of family...

Herman — £6.99

The Kalahari Typing School for Men — £7.99
'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where one of the apprentices has discovered the Lord, problems at home with the mysterious death of a hoopoe, and romantic...

Shah of Shahs — £8.99
"Shah of Shahs" depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power - a vain hope that proves a complete failure. Yet, even as Iran becomes a behemoth of riches' and as the Shah lives like a European billionaire...

Raising Hell on the Rock 'n' Roll Highway — £19.95
As a friend and cohort of some of rock music's biggest legends - The Who, Rod Stewart and The Faces, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Joe Walsh and many others - photographer Tom Wright was given unparalleled access to almost every aspect of the musicians' lives, on and off stage. With a foreword by The Who's Pete Townshend, "Roadwork" is a compilation of Wright's groundbreaking photography and the true stories behind the captivating pictures. Gritty and realistic, poignant and beautiful, Wright's...

Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales — £12.99
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. This fabulous celebration of strong minds...

Number Story — £13.00
Numbers have fascinated people for centuries. They are familiar to everyone, forming a central pillar of our understanding of the world, yet the number system was not presented to us 'gift-wrapped' but, rather, was developed over millennia. Today, despite all this development, it remains true that a child may ask a question about numbers that no one can answer. Many unsolved problems surrounding number matters appear as quirky oddities of little account while others are holding up fundamental progress...

The Usborne History of Britain — £25.00
This is a truly luxury book and a must-have for every family bookshelf, with cloth binding, a beautiful jacket and ribbon marker. It offers a comprehensive compendium of the history of Britain, encompassing everything from prehistoric times to the turn of the new millennium. This truly luxurious title is a must for every family bookshelf. It features internet links to additional resources, including video clips, games and interactive features.

Rare, Wild and Free — £18.99
"Rare, Wild and Free" is a testament to the work of one of the finest nature writers Britain has ever produced - Mike Tomkies, who spent 35 years in the wildest and most remote places in Scotland, Canada and Spain to study and photograph the rarest and most dramatic wild creatures. The eminent critic J N P Watson commented in Country Life, 'Mike Tomkies is Mowgli, Robinson Crusoe and Konrad Lorenz rolled into one, a field of exceptional and practical knowledge'.This judgement, and much other critical...

The Essential Jazz Collection — £9.95

William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude — £14.99
This volume is an excellent introduction to Wordsworth's poetry. His great autobiographical poem The Prelude runs to thirteen books in the text of 1805. But by 1799 the poet had already written a version covering his childhood and adolescence in under a thousand lines. This complete, self-contained work includes most of the beautiful poetry that has made the longer Prelude famous. The text of this two-part Prelude has been in print since 1973 but has not until now been readily available. It is prefaced...