One Long and Beautiful Summer - A Short Elegy For Red-Ball Cricket (Hamilton Duncan)(Paperback / softback)

One Long and Beautiful Summer - A Short Elegy For Red-Ball Cricket (Hamilton Duncan)(Paperback / softback)

*A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPORTS WRITER* 'Hamilton's book is a marvel . . . I'm not sure he could write a dull sentence if he tried'Spectator One of Duncan Hamilton's favourite writers on cricket, Edmund Blunden, wrote how he felt going to watch a game: 'You arrive early, earlier even than you

Scruffy Bear and the Lost Ball (Wormell Chris)(Paperback)

One plucky bear, one lost ball, and one tall tree make for one fun adventureScruffy Bear sees a red ball, and does what comes naturally kicks it But the ball is lost, high up in a tree, and the owners aren't very pleased. Never fear, plucky Scruffy Bear can climb trees. Even very, very high trees

Certain Slant of Light (White Duncan)(Paperback / softback)

A unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. Duncan White's moving novel reverberates with unspoken grief. A beautifully written meditation on impermanence, in which art and human life are seen as signal flares into the

Elegy for Easterly (Gappah Petina)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, this is an unforgettable collection of powerful stories by a stunning young voice from Zimbabwe. A woman in a township is surrounded by dusty children but longs for a baby of her

For the Glory - The Life of Eric Liddell (Hamilton Duncan)(Paperback / softback)

No one has embodied the ideals of the Olympic movement quite like Eric Liddell, star of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire. After refusing to compete on religious principle in the event in which he was favourite, the 100 metres, at the 1924 Games in Paris, Liddell won an astonishing gold medal

Long and the Short of it (Taylor Jodi)(Paperback / softback)

In print for the very first time, The Long and Short of It collects eight unmissable short stories from the international bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series. With introductions plus the brand new short story, A Perfect Storm. When a Child is Born A jump back to 1066 to witness the

Homecoming (Goldie Luan)(Paperback / softback)

THE BEAUTIFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER AND AUTHOR OF WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK NIGHTINGALE POINT 'A sharp, funny, wonderful writer' Diana Evans, bestselling author of Ordinary

Leaping Lola (Hawkins Tracey)(Paperback / softback)

Lola loves to dance. She flounces and bounces all day long, practising for the Black and White Ball. But she is a brown Jersey cow, not a black-and-white cow. Can she disguise herself and have a spin on the dance

Scarlet Ibis (Lewis Gill)(Paperback / softback)

The beautiful and deeply moving new story from Gill Lewis. Red and Scarlet dream of one day flying across the ocean to Trinidad, where thousands of scarlet ibis fill the sky. When they're split up and sent to live with different foster families, Scarlet resolves to do whatever it takes to get her

Waiting For Murder (Hitchcock Fleur)(Paperback / softback)

It's a long, hot summer. And there seems to be a body in it, a body that then disappears... Daniel and Florence start to investigate and uncover a long-ago robbery, missing gold and murder. When the drought breaks, everything is swept downstream and the truth is revealed... Another thriller from

Long and the Short of It - A guide to finance and investment for normally intelligent people who aren't in the industry (Kay John)(Paperback / softback)

So Long, See You Tomorrow (Maxwell William)(Paperback / softback)

Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists. In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and

A Place Bewitched and Other Stories (riverrun editions) - a beautiful new edition of Gogol's short fiction, translated by Constance Garnett (Gogol Nikolai)(Paperback / softback)

An original selection of short fiction from one of the greats of Russian

Violets of March (Jio Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful story of love, loss and second chances. As one woman searches for hope after a devastating divorce she discovers help hidden within the pages of a 1943

Great Sex for Long-term Lovers (Bastyra Judy)(Paperback / softback)

Contains more than 200 beautiful and often explicit photographs including step-by-step sequences to demonstrate everything from the basics to more advanced positions. Includes sensitive advice on seeking help with relationship and sexual

Death In Calabria (Giuttari Michele)(Paperback / softback)

One of the wildest and most beautiful regions in Italy, known for its rugged coastline and mountains, Calabria is also home to the deadly 'Ndrangheta. An organised Mafia crime operation more feared in Italy than the Cosa Nostra or the Camorra, it is shrouded in mystery. Chief Superintendent Michele

Postcard - the perfect holiday read for summer 2019 (Fleming Leah)(Paperback / softback)

FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE LAST PEARL AND DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE, this is a beautiful novel about family secrets and redemption. How far will one woman journey to uncover a long-lost family secret? 1930s, London. Having grown up on a secluded Scottish estate with her aunt Phoebe,

Reader for Hire (Jean Raymond)(Paperback / softback)

Marie-Constance loves reading and possesses a beautiful voice. So, one day she decides to put an ad in the local paper offering her services as a paid reader. Her first client, a paralysed teenager, is transformed by her reading of a Maupassant short story. Her fame spreads and soon the rich, the

Waiting for Wolf (Dieckmann Sandra)(Paperback / softback)

A beautiful and moving picture book about learning to cope with the death of a loved one, from the creator of Leaf, shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize

Sandman and the Turtles (Morpurgo Michael)(Paperback / softback)

The Sandman and the Turtles is one of the most charming summer reads for children from Britain's best-loved children's author, Michael

Isadora Moon Puts on a Show (Muncaster Harriet)(Paperback / softback)

It's almost time for the vampire ball, and Isadora can't wait! There's just one problem: she's got to compete in a talent show with the other vampire children. Isadora's talents aren't very vampire-y, what if the audience laugh at her? The show must go on, but will Isadora be brave enough to

Maid - A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick and an upcoming Netflix series! (Land Stephanie)(Paperback / softback)

BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019. BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich

Long Weekend - Life in the English Country House Between the Wars (Tinniswood Adrian)(Paperback / softback)

There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately

Collected Poems of Ted Hughes (Hughes Ted)(Paperback / softback)

For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition. The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday