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Glasgow zen
A superb new collection of haiku and other short poetic forms on the theme of Glasgow - its people, landscape, culture. As always, Spence is uniquely illuminating, witty and delightful. Incorporating some of the poems which appeared decades ago in the much sought-after collection of the same titl...
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The past master
Elle and The Infinites are back for a final thrilling adventure! They must leap to the end of time to stop Millennia's quest for world domination and save the planetIt's New Year's Eve and there's trouble on the timeline. Elle is sent on an urgent trip to the 31st of December 1999, the eve of the...
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The fall of kelvin walker
From the genius of Scottish letters, a satire of religion, the media and London
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Beautiful thing
The Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year 2011
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Weight
A strikingly original and profound slice of mythology from the award-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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The valley at the centre of the world
Set against the rugged west coast of Shetland, in a community faced with extinction, The Valley at the Centre of the World is a novel about love and grief, family and inheritance, rapid change and an age-old way of life. The exquisite debut novel from one of Scotland's most exciting new writers
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Featherweight
A compelling story of overcoming all the odds, and a woman centuries ahead of her time, set on the canals of nineteenth-century England
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Kingdoms of experience
In March 1985, Mal Duff led a new expedition to conquer Everest by the unclimbed north-east ridge.The last attempt by a Chris Bonington team had ended in failure and tragedy - with the deaths of two great climbers, Joe Tasker and Pete Boardman.Everyone knew the risks as well as the excitement of ...
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Between the monster and the saint
Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives but our minds are unpredictable places. We are susceptible to forces we don't understand. We are capable of inflicting immense cruelty on one another and yet we also have the capacity to be tend...
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Albert einstein speaking
This unique, funny, warm and moving novel spans an entire lifetime, and tells the story of the most famous man of the twentieth century: Albert Einstein
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Dead man's embers
In the aftermath of the Great War, Non Davies wakes one morning to find her husband crouching underneath the kitchen table in a cold sweat, shouldering an imaginary rifle. What has changed her Davey so completely? A clue arrives inside a mysterious letter, which takes her to London in search of t...
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Between britain
A walking tour of the border region where England and Scotland meet by the award-winning writer, meditating on a complicated, storied relationship through historyThe border between England and Scotland is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. But it c...
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Tales of the south seas
sland Landfalls � The Wrecker � The Ebb-TideDriven to the South Seas by ill health, Stevenson could not close his eyes to the impact of colonialism, the 'stirabout of epochs and races, barbarisms and civilisations, virtues and crimes'. Setting his imaginative writings within the social and po...
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My first summer in the sierra
In the summer of 1869, John Muir set out from California's Central Valley with a flock of sheep and trekked into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. His journals describe the summer he spent in what would become Yosemite National Park. Celebrating the Sierra's lizards and mountain lions, tall tre...
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Death and the dolce vita
On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach. Some said it was suicide; others, a tragic accident. But as the police tried to close the case, darker rumours bubbled to th...
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Transformer
'Does anyone in this room think that I can do wonders? I’m a normal guy from the Black Forest… I am the "normal one"' Jurgen Klopp, 9 October 2015Jürgen Klopp’s announcement in January 2024 that he was to step down as Liverpool manager at the end of the season would see an unprecedented outpourin...
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A beleaguered city and other tales of the seen and the unseen
A prolific writer with many novels to her name, Margaret Oliphant could produce her few supernatural tales 'only when they came to me'. And they came with the twilight uncertainties and the philosophical depth of 'The Library Window', or with the extraordinary vision of purgatory imagined as ...
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A caledonian feast
Scottish cuisine reflects both the richness of the country's resources and the frugality often imposed on its inhabitants. From the ninth century to the present, from the simplicity of porridge and oatcakes to the gourmet delights of fish and game, this is a fascinating history of Scotland, compl...
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The biggest footprint
A fun, wildly original, fact-packed and beautifully illustrated book by the Sears brothers, revealing our giant species as we've never seen ourselves before and showing us how - together - we can do a better job of looking after the planet
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Household ghosts: a james kennaway omnibus
Tunes of GloryHousehold GhostsSilenceThis volume collects three of the very best works by James Kennaway, the brilliant young novelist and screenwriter who tragically died in a car crash at the early age of forty.Memorably filmed with Alec Guinness and John Mills, Tunes of Glory is a gripping...
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We are now beginning our descent
From the bestselling author of The People's Act of Love
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Mr nice
A classic of modern true crime: the whirlwind adventures in the drug trade of the extraordinary Howard Marks
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Cookin': hard bop and soul jazz 1954-65
Following on from Giant Steps, comes the second instalment in Kenny Mathieson's series of jazz histories.Cookin' examines the birth and development of two of the key jazz styles of the post-war era, hard bop and its related offshoot, soul jazz. Hard bop was the most exciting jazz style of its day...
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The cutting room
The award-winning and atmospheric crime cult classic from bestselling author Louise Welsh - 'Unputdownable' Sunday Times
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Clear light
Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit. Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the momentary. Simple in form, these haiku request a fr...
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The raw shark texts
The award-winning cult classic. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award
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How to lose a country
An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe – with a new foreword to the 2024 editionHow to Lose a Country is a warning to the world that populism an...
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The goddess chronicle
A fantastical retelling of the Japanese myth of Izanami and Izanagi from the internationally bestselling author of Out
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Empire antarctica
Recognised by five literary awards and receiving instant acclaim, this is bestselling author Gavin Francis's account of a year as base camp doctor in AntarcticaWINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGavin Francis spent fourteen months in one of the remotest places in the world: Halley, a re...
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Lion's honey
A daring retelling of the story of Samson, from the author of the Man Booker International Prize-winning A Horse Walks Into a Bar
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The howling miller
A deliciously sinister Finnish fairytale of difference and belonging
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Gold from the stone
New work and old favourites from national treasure and one of Britain's most exciting poets, Lemn Sissay
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Sunset song
The Scottish masterpiece - introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon
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Mcgrotty and ludmilla
A fantastical comedy from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray
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Awaydays
A powerful portrait of a time and culture, of late 70s to early 80s and football hooligan gangs, of working-class lives and men left abandoned by Thatcher’s BritainFor Paul Carty, 19, and his mystical, Joy Division-loving mate Elvis, life revolves around The Pack, a mob of violent Tranmere Rovers...
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The good man jesus and the scoundrel christ
The number one Sunday Times bestseller from award-winning and critically acclaimed author Philip Pullman
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Climbing days
A forgotten classic of 1920s mountaineering literature; Dorothy Pilley broke new ground for women in a sport dominated by men with her true account of adventure, endurance and daringDorothy Pilley was a pioneer of women's climbing a hundred years ago. She founded a club celebrating women's climbi...
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Ragnarok
An odyssey of childhood, mythology and the imagination from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children's Book
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Its colours they are fine
Alan Spence’s debut collection of short stories is a timeless portrait of Glasgow, and an acknowledged piece of classic Scottish writing
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The story of my boyhood and youth
A memoir of childhood and a celebration of the natural world, from one of the founding fathers of modern conservation'When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures.'John Muir was eleven...
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True north: travels in arctic europe
The first book from Sunday Times bestselling author Gavin Francis, a travelogue of his adventures in the far north The stark, vast beauty of the remote Arctic Europe landscape has been the focus of human exploration for thousands of years. In this striking blend of travel writing, history and myt...
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The last holiday
'Leave it to Scott-Heron to save some of his best for last . . . He's a real writer, a word man, and [The Last Holiday] is as wriggling and vital in its way as Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One' New York Times
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The people's act of love
The international bestseller; longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Ondaatje Prize
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Springfield road
A moving and poetic memoir about growing up without a father and a vivid portrait of the seventies from award-winning author and poet Salena GoddenThis is the story of a home. A story rooted in love. The story of a poet born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer, an absent father ...
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Unlikely stories, mostly
The first short story collection from the irreplaceable Alasdair Gray, sublimely decorated throughout
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The secret river
Kate Grenville's modern classic of one man's loss, struggle and survival in the Australian wilderness, introduced by Diana Athill
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The siege
A vivid historical novel set in the fifteenth century, by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize
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Now and then
'A poet and polemicist whose lyrics have inspired and galvanised generations' GQ. Introduced by Kate Tempest
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Notes from underground
A groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky's most radical work of fiction. Introduced by DBC Pierre
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The cello and the nightingales
The memoirs of cello prodigy Beatrice Harrison, the woman who brought the music of the nightingale to millions worldwide - and created the first interspecies collaborationIn 1924, Beatrice Harrison broadcast a miracle to the world: a wild nightingale singing with her cello. Over a million people ...
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A short history of myth
A 'visionary . . . crisp and lucid exploration of myth-making' (DAVID MITCHELL) from the bestselling author of A History of God
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Girl meets boy
A bold and joyous retelling from Ovid's Metamorphoses by the award-winning, bestselling author of How to be Both
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Dream angus
The powerful retelling of the Celtic myth of Angus, god of dreams, from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author
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Dante's divine trilogy
Alasdair Gray's remarkable retelling of Dante's Divine Comedy; this edition brings Gray's Hell, Purgatory and Paradise together into a single edition for the first time
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Together
Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the po...
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The penelopiad
The 20th anniversary edition of Margaret Atwood’s iconic tale with a new foreword by the author and an afterword by Philip Pullman.A fresh take on what follows Homer’s The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale.Now that all the others have run out of air, it’s my ...
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A night out with robert burns
The definitive collections of poetry by Robert Burns, arranged and introduced by award-winning writer Andrew O'Hagan. 'Save this collection a place at your Burns table' Guardian
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The lieutenant
From the author of the Booker-shortlisted The Secret River and winner of the Orange Prize, The Lieutenant is a story of unlikely friendship, a voyage across oceans and a journey towards understanding
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Hark
We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like, or how it feels to be expected to listen in a world of noise made by men.Like so many of us, Alice Vincent had become overwhelmed by the sensory overload punctuating our every mo...
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The artist's journey
Guidance and wisdom for young artists, from award-winning artist and writer Kent Nerburn
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One moonlit night
WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVELThis outstanding novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their innocence is exchanged for the shoc...
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The private memoirs and confessions of a justified sinner
It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself Gil-Martin. Under his influence Robert commits a series of murders which he regards as 'justified' by God ...
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Mrs death misses death
Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel
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The new testament in scots
The Greek scholar William Lorimer spent the last ten years of his life working on this project. Each Gospel has a different form of Scots to match the different forms of Greek used by the various apostles and scribes, and the vigour and immediacy of the language is everywhere apparent.Transcribed...
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Breadwinners
Huge social changes occurring in real time are leading us to rethink traditional roles in our homes, workplaces and in society. So why do women who outearn their male partners still tend to do more housework and childcare? Why are unemployed men generally happier if their female partners are also...
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Love and zen in the outer hebrides
This collection marks the arrival of a major new talent in Scottish poetry. Kevin MacNeil's voice and vision, while rooted in the Hebridean islands, is open to a wide range of cultures, not only those of Scotland - from Gaeldom to urban Scotland - but to the wider European and American mind and, ...
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My name is monster
Inspired by Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein, My Name Is Monster is a novel about power, about isolation, and about female relationships
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How the light gets in
First novel by Man Booker Prize shortlisted author.
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Stevenson under the palm trees
In the lush, uninhibited atmosphere of Samoa, Robert Louis Stevenson is languishing with the disease that will soon kill him; when a chance encounter with the mysterious Scottish missionary, Mr Baker, turns his thoughts back to his conservative, post-Reformation Edinburgh home.As Stevenson's meet...
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Telling tales
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remixFrom below-the-belt base to the topnotch;I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatchwhen the tales overrun, run offensive,or run clean o...
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Restless dolly maunder
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024The international bestselling author of The Secret River and A Room Made of Leaves returns with a fictionalised account of her grandmother’s life, commemorating a strong female character making the best out of the times and society she was born in...
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The bruce
This is a full translation of the Scottish epic "The Bruce". The poem is regarded as one of the key sources for the life of Robert the Bruce. It contains detailed notes explaining and simplifying the narrative, as well as contemporary accounts. The book includes "The Declaration of Arbroath".
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The country diaries
The unique beauty of the British countryside has been celebrated down the ages in music, poetry, and art. It has also been celebrated in countless private diaries. This delightful treasury gathers together the very finest - from Rev Gilbert White's journal of life at his famous home in Selborne t...
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Pity
The debut novel from award-winning poet Andrew McMillan exploring community, masculinity and post-industrialisation in Northern EnglandAN INDEPENDENT BEST FICTION TO READ IN 2024 AN i-D FICTION HIGHLIGHT TO BE EXCITED FOR IN 2024 AN INDEPENDENT AND LUNATE JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A deeply felt a...
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Poyums
From Len Pennie, the performance poet sensation, comes an electric debut collection about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving - an instant Sunday Times bestsellerTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SUNDAY POST AND iPAPER BESTSELLERAnd I have done more than just simply get bySo much m...
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The man who wanted to smell books
Elspeth Davie is one of Scotland's finest and most underrated short-story writers. Her prose style is as clear and occasionally unnerving as that of Muriel Spark, yet her work reveals a gentler and more compassionate, but no less penetrating eye for the beauty and the strangeness of the daily...
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Growing up in the west
Edwin Muir - POOR TOM, J.F. Hendry - FERNIE BRAE, Gordon M. Williams - FROM SCENES LIKE THESE, Tom Gallacher - APPRENTICE. Growing Up in the West presents four very different and memorably vivid accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 193...
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Summit fever
When poet Andrew Greig was asked by Scottish mountaineer Mal Duff to join his ascent of the Mustagh Tower in the Karakoram Himalayas, he had a poor head for heights and no climbing experience whatsoever. The result is this unique book.Summit Fever has been loved by climbers and literary critics a...
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Our brains, our selves
'Powerful' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Thought-provoking' NEW SCIENTIST 'Fascinating' DAILY MAILWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZEAward-winning author and leading neurologist Masud Husain shares seven fascinating cases of brain disorders from across his career – and shows what they can t...
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Person unlimited
'The Gil Scott Heron of his generation' CHARLIE DARKYou've fought and you've run away.You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise.Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held.With all that you've endured, you are nothing less than miraculous.From choirboy to...
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A gift from nessus
Eddie Cameron is a salesman for Rocklight Ltd., an electrical equipment firm in Glasgow, where he has been fiddling the firm's expenses. Eddie's life is in tatters - his wife hates him, and his violent temper has left his mistress teetering on the edge of sanity.
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The accident
From the International Man Booker winner - a fever dream of a novel where love, jealousy and obsession collide
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Footprints in the woods
The elusive lives of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and more are rendered in John Lister-Kaye's enchanting lyrical styleFootprints in the Woods is John Lister-Kaye's account of a year spent observing the comings and goings of otters, beavers, badgers, weasels and pine martens. This family - Mu...
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Don't ask the dragon
Don’t Ask the Dragon is a beautifully illustrated picture book exploring friendship, belonging and overcoming your fearsWaterstones - The Best Books of 2022: Baby & ToddlerThis is the story of Alem, a curious little boy who realises today is his birthday. The only problem is that Alem does no...
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Losing the plot
A vital and honest book exploring the pain of the immigrant experience and the turmoil it can carry across generations, from the winner of the Desmond Elliott PrizeDEREK OWUSU NAMED GRANTA'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PR...
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The coward
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKAfter a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job, a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers and strangers treating him like he's an idiot. Worse still, he...
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The devil stone
A macabre massacre of a wealthy family brings DCI Christine Caplan to the Highlands in her first thriller in a new seriesIn the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing sto...
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Tunes of glory
Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier's soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks. Colonel Barrow, an officer graduate of Oxford and Sandhurst, had a wretched war in Japanese prison camps. But he has come to take command ...
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The haunted book
� What unspeakable horror glimpsed in the basement of a private library in West Yorkshire drove a man to madness and an early grave?� What led to an underground echo chamber in a Manchester recording studio being sealed up for good?� What creature walks the endless sands of Lancashire's Fleetwoo...
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The golden bough
Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures. Frazer's learning inspired a whole ...
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The divinities
The first in a compelling contemporary London-set crime series, featuring DS Drake and forensic psychologist Dr Crane
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That beautiful atlantic waltz
Set in Shetland, That Beautiful Atlantic Waltz is a soulful and moving exploration of the notion of home and belonging, from one of Scotland's trailblazing literary writers1957. Sonny is working on a whaling ship in the South Atlantic, reckoning with the most vicious storms he has ever seen. It’s...
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Waiting for the last bus
A radical, joyful and moving invitation to reconsider life’s greatest mystery by one of the most important and beloved British religious leaders of our time
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Elon musk's billionaire school: easy lessons for galactic domination
Waterstones - The Best books of 2022: HumourWant to be a rocket-riding tech titan? You've come to the right school.Elon Musk's Billionaire School makes it simple to follow in Elon's footsteps and accumulate the wealth and power of a medium-sized nation in just 30 days.Discover lessons drawn from ...
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Choose your own apocalypse with kim jong-un & friends
The world is going to hell in a handcart; at least with this book by bestselling author of The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump, you get to choose how it ends
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