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Lynn Barber An Education ENLynn Barber's true story is now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby. At 16, Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford, when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Barber's fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode, revealing how it left her with an abiding…
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Diana Gabaldon An Echo in the Bone ENJamie Fraser is an eighteenth-century Highlander, an ex-Jacobite traitor, and a reluctant rebel in the American Revolution. His wife, Claire Randall Fraser, is a surgeon from the twentieth century. What she knows of the future compels him to fight. What she doesn’t know may kill them both. With one foot in America and one foot in Scotland, Jamie and Claire’s adventure spans the Revolution, from sea battles to…
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Beth M. Schwartz, R. Eric Landrum, Regan A.R. Gurung An EasyGuide to APA StyleWritten by experienced psychology instructors Beth M. Schwartz, R. Eric Landrum, and Regan A. R. Gurung, all active and respected members of the American Psychological Association (APA) Society for the Teaching of Psychology...
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M.K. Gandhi An Autobiography'I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills' Gandhi united India in a national movement and changed the course of history. In this classic autobiography, first published under the title The Story of...
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Agatha Christie An Autobiography ENAgatha Christie's most absorbing mystery her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings of Agatha dictating excerpts from more than 40 years ago. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie's readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography, written…
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Agatha Christie An Autobiography ENAgatha Christie's most absorbing mystery - her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings of Agatha dictating excerpts from more than 40 years ago. Over the three decades since her death on 12. January 1976, many of Agatha Christie's readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography,…
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Agatha Christie An Autobiography ENAgatha Christie`s `most absorbing mystery` her own autobiography, with new exclusive CD containing newly discovered priceless recordings of Agatha dictating excerpts from more than 40 years ago. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie`s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography,…
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Chris Colfer An Author's OdysseyThe 5th book in the No.1 New York Times bestselling series by Chris Colfer . In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories! W
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Chris Colfer An Author's Odyssey ENThe 5th book in the No.1 New York Times bestselling series by Chris Colfer In the highly anticipated continuation of the Land of Stories series, Conner learns that the only place to fight the Masked Man's literary army is inside his own short stories! When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's imagination, finding allies no one else could have ever dreamed of, the race begins to put an end…
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Charles Silver An Auteurist History of Film ENBeginning in 2009, The Museum of Modern Art offered a weekly series of film screenings titled An Auteurist History of Film. Inspired by Andrew Sarris’ seminal work The American Cinema, which developed on the idea of ‘auteur theory’ first discussed by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in the 1950s, the series presented cinematic works from MoMA’s expansive collection with particular focus on the role of the director…
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An Atlas of Natural BeautyAllow yourself to be transported back to beauty’s golden age with An Atlas of Natural Beauty. First established as a Parisian trendsetter in the 19th century, the beauty emporium has been reincarnated as L'Officine Universelle Buly on Rue Bonaparte in Paris. Invention and natural beauty are at the heart of Buly and this exquisitely designed book allows you to sample their unique aesthetic heritage as a French…
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Travis Elborough An Atlas of Improbable Places ENIt is perhaps the eighth wonder of our world that despite modern mapping and satellite photography our planet continues to surprise us. Hidden lairs beneath layers of rock, forgotten cities rising out of deserted lands and even mankind's own feats of engineering eccentricity lie in the most unusual of destinations. Travis Elborough goes in search of the obscure and bizarre, the beautiful and estranged. Taking in the…
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Anuradha Roy An Atlas of Impossible Longing ENBeginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in which a sensitive and intelligent foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the motherless granddaughter of the house, grow up together. The boy, Mukunda, spends his time as a servant in the house…
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Nick Middleton An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist ENA stunning gift hardback featuring beautiful maps and stories of unrecognised countries. Acclaimed travel writer and Oxford geography don Nick Middleton takes us on a magical tour of countries that, lacking diplomatic recognition or UN membership, inhabit a world of shifting borders, visionary leaders and forgotten peoples. Most of us think we know what a country is, but in truth the concept is rather slippery. From…
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Gary Fildes An Astronomers Tale ENA Bricklayer's Guide to the Galaxy, The inspirational memoir of a former brickie who followed his passion for the stars and built his own observatory. Will be enjoyed by readers of Robert Macfarlane, Helen Macdonald and James Rebanks - as well as fans of Brian Cox and the BBC’s Sky at Night Gary Fildes left school at sixteen, got a trade like most of his mates and was soon married with four kids. His life seemed set…
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Chris Hadfield An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth ENColonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, been temporarily blinded while clinging to the exterior of an orbiting spacecraft, and become a YouTube sensation with his performance of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' in space. The…
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William Morris An Arts and Crafts Coloring Book ENWilliam Morris’s patterns are enduringly popular for their originality and color, and have captured the imagination of countless designers and artists. This coloring book explores the intricate work of William Morris, and allows the reader to invent their own colorways to complete Morris’s patterns.
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Kazuo Ishiguro An Artist of the Floating World ENIt is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually…
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Jodi Taylor An Argumentation of HistoriansThe ninth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist...
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Richard Dawkins An Appetite for Wonder ENBorn to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life and intellectual development? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? In An Appetite for Wonder we…
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Richard Dawkins An Appetite For Wonder ENBorn to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? In An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal…
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