London: Canongate, 2017. First Printing. Trade Paperback. A TIME magazine Top 10 YA Book of 2016! Mara’s senior year is proving to be a lot less exciting than she’d hoped, until the day - KABAM! - Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period. Katelyn is the first, but she won’t..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. Jennifer Heuer (cover design). Reissued Norton Paperback Edirion. Paperback. In this reissue of her seventh volume of poetry, Adrienne Rich searches to reclaim―to discover―what has been forgotten, lost, or unexplored. "I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. /..... More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie! More than 100 million copies sold and now a Lifetime TV movie. Ten people, each with something..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. In Agatha Christie’s classic, Five Little Pigs, beloved detective Hercule Poirot races to solve a case from out of the past. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other “little pigs”..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Nick Castle (cover art). 13th Printing. Paperback. It is Christmas Eve. The Lee family reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture, followed by a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. But..... More
London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2013. Reprint. Paperback. Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time" Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2014. Cat Johnston (cover illustrations). Reissued Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture..... More
London: Picador Classic, 2015. Reprint. Paperback. 'De Botton is a national treasure.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black With an introduction by Sheila Heti A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind..... More
New Haven: Leete's Island Books, 1980. Fifth Printing. Paperback. This anthology gathers into a single volume 30 essays which embody the history of photography. Contributors include : Niepce, Daguerre, Fox Talbot, Poe, Baudelaire, Emerson, Hine, Stieglitz, Weston, Abbot, Barthes, and others. Their writings encompass the technical origin and development of..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Trade Paperback. With an introduction by Olivier Todd Translated by Anthony Bower A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2003. H.T. Willetts (tr.). Twentieth Printing. Paperback. With a foreword by Alexis Klimoff. THE OFFICIALLY APPROVED TRANSLATION OF SOLZHENITSYN'S SEARING DEBUT NOVEL The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the..... More
New York: Library of America, 2018. Christopher Sergio. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “Alexander Wolff has put together this collection like a master point guard distributing the ball, deftly providing both a chronology of the game and a full, rich accounting of its place in..... More
London: Biteback Publishing, 2017. UK Edition. First Printing. Paperback. Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having..... More
Lebanon, New Hampshire: John Murray, 2018. Alejandro Giraldo (illustrations). First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Algorithms—processes that are made up of unambiguous steps and do something useful—make up the very foundations of computer science. But they also inform our choices in approaching everyday tasks, from managing a pile of clothes fresh out..... More
New York: Harper Perennial, 2010. Andrea Cardenas (cover design). Reissue. Trade Paperback. With a foreword by M.F.K. Fisher Long before Julia Child discovered French cooking, Alice B. Toklas was sampling local dishes, collecting recipes, and cooking for the writers, artists, and expats who lived in Paris between the wars..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2001. Trade Paperback. In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film Hateship Loveship), Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know..... More
New York: Vintage International, 2001. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman–is an insightful, honest book, “autobiographical in form but not in fact,” that chronicles a young girl’s growing up in rural..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes–the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart..... More
London: Vintage Books, 1995. Reprint. Paperback. In these eight tales, Munro evokes the devastating power of old love suddenly recollected. She tells of vanished schoolgirls and indentured frontier brides and an eccentric recluse who, in the course of one surpassingly odd dinner party, inadvertently lands herself a wealthy suitor from..... More
UK: Penguin Classics, 2020. Doryl Jensen (tr.). First Penguin Classics Science Fiction Edition. First Printing. Paperback. In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach's mysterious, poignant space opera explores the..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 2017. Erica Williams (cover art). Trade Paperback. The roars of the hungry Minotaur came nearer and nearer – his feet could be heard thundering along the echoing floor of the labyrinth . . . Meet the original heroes of Greece as they battle the mythical..... More
New York: Del Rey, 2018. Reprint. Trade Paperback. WELCOME TO ARTEMIS. The first city on the moon. Population 2,000. Mostly tourists. Some criminals. Jazz Bashara is one of the criminals. She lives in a poor area of Artemis and subsidises her work as a porter with smuggling contraband onto..... More
New York: Del Rey, 2014. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Robinson Crusoe on Mars A survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain. I’m stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with..... More
London: Vintage Books, 2006. Parra (cover illustration). Reprint. Paperback. Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves -..... More
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