Category: Special Stuff
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Earthlings
A genre-defying novel from the bestselling author of Convenience Store Woman, newly translated into English. Natsuki has spent her whole life not fitting in, failing to live up to the expectations of her family. She confides in her mysterious cousin Yuu and her toy hedgehog, Piyuut, who she believes is an emissary sent by the…
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
Paperback, Vintage, 7.99 Ashamed of not having read anything by Anne Bronte but only her sisters I recently began reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and was astonished (though perhaps should not have been) firstly by how psychologically convincing the characters are, and secondly by the strangely addictive quality the writing possesses; considering its length…
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Being a Beast, Charles Foster
Hardback, Profile Books, £14.99, out now If the belated but welcome Spring sunshine has you feeling newly mindful of our wildlife and hankering for all things natural then I couldn’t recommend anything better than Charles Foster’s latest book, Being a Beast ( – short of actually departing for the country and taking up residence in…
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Hilary Mantel – prices chopped
Get £2 off the Booker winner’s backlist To mark the paperback of Bring Up The Bodies (£9.99), the sequel to Wolf Hall (both of them Booker Prize winners), we’re offering £2 off the author’s earlier books. So it’s a chance to explore her epic take on the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, the…
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Wisden: 150 not out
It’s set to be a thrilling summer of cricket with Test matches against New Zealand, the ICC Champions Trophy and the Ashes Test series against Australia. There’s also a publishing landmark with the 150th edition of Wisden, the cricketers’ almanack, available now priced £50. The annual reference book was first published in 1864 by John…
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Celebrate 150 years of the Tube
Since 1863, vast, silent crowds of people have been heading underground every day to read a book (and maybe go to work). So the 150th anniversary of the London Underground – and the 80th anniversary of Harry Beck’s iconic map – is a good opportunity to pick up some top Tube books here at the…
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David Bowie Is: V&A exhibition catalogue
Museum exhibition catalogues are probably purchased more out of a sense of self-improving duty rather than pure pleasure, but the accompanying volume to the V&A’s blockbuster Bowie exhibition (until 11 August) is essential reading for fans – and it seems everyone’s a fan since the surprise comeback – of the man who defined an era…
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Charles Dickens: Dickens at Christmas
If you devoured the works of Dickens with an eye on the seasons, you wouldn’t necessarily single out a festive theme. The Old Curiosity Shop opens with the narrator describing early morning summer roaming through fields and lanes; the journey that begins The Pickwick Papers starts quite specifically at sunrise on 13 May; Dickens’s Night…
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London Hidden Interiors
Special Price: £35 THIS time last year we began excitedly exploring Panoramas of Lost London (still available at the special discount price of £25) and now we’re revelling in London Hidden Interiors. This sumptuous volume will appeal to anyone who loves London and feels a frisson of excitement at the idea of entering a hidden…
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John Banville: Ancient Light
New hardback from the Man Booker Prize winner comes nicely signed, only at our little shop of horrors.
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Juliet Nicholson: Abdication
We still have couple of signed copies in stock but that won’t last long so hurry up and pay us a visit!
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José Pizarro: Spanish Flavours
£3 Special Discount Something special from our favourite local culinary genius: book of delicious recipes comes with a delicious discount of £3, whilst stock lasts! For details about the restaurant visit: http://www.josepizarro.com/
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Puffin Classics
It has been said here before and it will doubtless be said again, but it is nice when books look nice, when a real effort is made with their appearance. Penguin, who like their reissues, seem to be keen on this idea too (also as we have said here before), and have of late been…
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The What on Earth Wallbook? of Sport…
It’s big. It’s clever. It’s filled with colourful pictures. It’s about all things sport. What more could you want? Except for it being only £15. And also except for the other two wallbooks – The What on Earth? Wallbook (about everything) and The What on Earth? Wallbook of Natural History (about natural history). Also…
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The Penguin English Library
Not that it is acceptable to judge a book by its cover (although in the literal sense it is, because that is kind of the point of book jackets), but it helps. Especially if the cover is nice. And Penguin, who are reissuing some of their classics (not for the first time), are taking thorough…