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A source of uncompromising elemental warmth' Ali SmithBy turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in flux, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life and fragments of our damaged enviro...

Conceived of as a 'pharmacopoeia' - an ever-evolving circle of stones, plants and flotsam sculptures all built and grown in spite of the bracing winds and arid shingle - it remains today a site of fascination and wonder. Pharmacopoeia brings together the best of Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and Prospect Cottage.

A powerful and gripping novel about love, loyalty and obsession set during WWI and the Irish War of Independence. Annie, Francie and Archie were inseparable growing up, but in 1914 the boys are seduced by the drama of the Great War.

A totally engaging, brilliantly characterised read that had me hanging on every twist and turn. An absolute 5* cracker of a book' Gytha LodgeSorry.Beth Lomas thought she knew her late husband. But this one small word, written on the back of a discarded envelope and left on their kitchen table convinces the police that Oscar took his own life. As the police announce they are not seeking anyone else in connection with Oscar's death, Beth is conv...

A biography of Bernard Hinault, one of France's greatest cyclists, from the author of "Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike" and "Put Me Back On My Bike: In Search Of Tom Simpson".

The first novel from award-winning novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron in almost 15 years. A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood. Will their memories be consumed forever by the flames?

War photographer, Don McCullin's memoir of his experiences in the job.

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin in 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne¿s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death in 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made...

Raw, tender and urgent" Jessica AndrewsThis is the story of an abortion. She feels alone in her pain and confusion. Part diary, part prose poem, part literary collage, Larger than an Orange is an uncompromising, intimate and original memoir.

Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory.

One unremarkable Saturday morning Clive sees the biggest alternative-pop star of them all walking down the high street with his dry-cleaning: Lance Webster, disgraced ex-singer of Thieving Magpies ('the biggest British band to emerge from the late-eighties indie-boom' Rolling Stone).

It's 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. Life is as normal as it gets for Maxine, until she starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO. With occasional excursions into ...

It's autumn in Gothenburg. An anxious mother calls the police, it seems her little boy was lured into a car by a man offering sweets then returned unharmed. The same happens with a little girl, and then another. As each child attends a different day nursery, and each parent contacts a different police station, no connection is established between the incidents. DCI Erik Winter is investigating a series of random GBH attacks on university stude...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLOne morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years previously he slept with another man's wife.

Her study shows how Paris has drawn into its magnetic field people who have variously found there education or enlightenment, a refuge or a secret garden, even a different identity.

Andrea Eames was born in 1985.She was brought up in Zimbabwe, where she attended a Jewish school for six years, a Hindu school for one, a Catholic convent school for two and a half, and then the American International School in Harare for two years. Andrea's family moved to New Zealand in 2002.Andrea has worked as a bookseller and editor and now lives in Austin, Texas with her husband. Her first novel, The Cry of the Go-Away Bird, was publishe...

Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and allows him occasionally to abandon himself to his most corrupt inclinations as the monstrous Mr Hyde.

When Mr Shaw meets Caroline on his summer holiday she turns his world upside down. She plays chess magnificently, charms his colleagues and, most importantly, Caroline re-awakens in Mr Shaw an appetite for life he thought he'd lost. Unfolding with the beauty and power of fable, Caroline depicts a glorious Indian summer in one man's life.

Anna Del Conte was born in Milan, came to England as an au pair in 1949, married an Englishman and has lived in Britian ever since. Her books have won many prizes: Gastronomy of Italy received the Duchessa Maria Luigia di Parma award, Entertaining All'Italiana was shortlisted for the Andre Simon award, and The Classic Food of Northern Italy won awards from the Guild of Food Writers and the Accademia Italiana della Cucina. Her most recent book ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTONIt lies somewhere beneath the snow, high in the Dolomites: Nazi gold, tainted with the blood of murdered men. A tense battle of wits leads to an explosive finale in Innes' classic tale of revenge and deadly greed.