Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (Wade Francesca)(Paperback / softback)

Square Haunting - Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (Wade Francesca)(Paperback / softback)

Five exceptional women; one London square. A spellbinding group biography by a luminous new

Buddha in the Attic (Otsuka Julie)(Paperback / softback)

Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to

Sunstroke and Other Stories (Hadley Tessa)(Paperback / softback)

Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. These stories about family life are somehow

All the Rivers (Rabinyan Dorit)(Paperback / softback)

A haunting love story between a young Israeli translator and a Palestinian

Cambridge (Phillips Caryl)(Paperback / softback)

Cambridge is a powerful and haunting novel set in that uneasy time between the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of the

Dear Evelyn (Page Kathy)(Paperback / softback)

Born between the wars in working-class South London, Harry is a scholarship boy. Full of literary dreams, he visits Battersea Library and discovers Evelyn, a magnetic girl from a narrow street not far from his own. Dear Evelyn is an unconventional love story of two people shaping each other as

Poet and Dancer (Jhabvala Ruth Prawer)(Paperback / softback)

A haunting tale of the complex and perilous relations between two young cousins, Angel and Lara. A masterful novel which explores the dangers of love and

Dollmaker (Arnow Harriette)(Paperback / softback)

'A terrifying lesson in US history - and a haunting tragedy' GuardianGertie is the young mother of five children - uneducated, determined,

Freedom and Death (Kazantzakis Nikos)(Paperback / softback)

The context is Crete in the late nineteenth century, the epic struggle between Greeks and Turks, between Christianity and Islam. A new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878, and the island is thrown into confusion yet again. The life of the local community continues shakily,

Star Wars: Allegiance (Zahn Timothy)(Paperback / softback)

A Star Wars novel set between the events of Epsiode IV: A New Hope and Epsiode V: The Empire Strikes Back, it features a younger Han, Leia, and Luke, as well as Mara Jade. The paths of all of them will crisscross back and forth as they come closer and closer to meeting up with one another...but

Between the Wars - 1919-1939 (Ziegler Philip)(Paperback / softback)

Renowned biographer and historian Philip Ziegler tackles the great cultural and social events, flashpoints and diplomatic wrangles that led the world from the First to the Second World

Blood and Roses (Castor Helen)(Paperback / softback)

The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485, four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield, and thousands of the men who followed them met violent deaths. This title tells how a family survived one of

Lost Boy (Staff Duncan)(Paperback / softback)

Between 1963 and 1965 the Moors Murderers - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - kidnapped and murdered five children before they were caught and sentenced to life in prison. Three of the children - Pauline Reade, John Kilbride and Lesley Ann Downey - were discovered in shallow graves on Saddleworth

Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide (Berardi Francesco)(Paperback / softback)

What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age. Spanning an array of

USA Between the Wars 1919-1941: A depth study (White Carol)(Paperback / softback)

Give Us Freedom - The Women who Revolutionised the Modern World (Miles Rosalind)(Paperback / softback)

'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'So said,in 1913 ,the brilliant orator and suffragette ,Emmeline Pankhurst, just one of the inspiring women who won the vote for women.She remains a heroine for those determined to go to any lengths to change our world and one of

Money (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. 'Terribly, terminally funny: laughter in the dark, if ever I heard it'

Subversive Stitch - Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine (Parker Rozsika)(Paperback / softback)

Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and

Lancaster And York - The Wars of the Roses (Weir Alison)(Paperback / softback)

The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton, - some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's

Star Wars: Tarkin (Luceno James)(Paperback / softback)

And to bring down a band of elusive freedom fighters, the Emperor turns to his most formidable agents: Darth Vader, the fearsome new Sith enforcer as remorseless as he is mysterious, and Tarkin - whose tactical cunning and cold-blooded efficiency will pave the way for the Empire's supremacy...and

Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed (Blackburn Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Tells about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. This guide looks at relativism and absolutism, toleration and belief, objectivity and knowledge, science and pseudo-science, and the moral and political implications, as well as the nuances, of all

Women of the Dunes (Maine Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

A spellbinding and beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The House Between Tides, winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year

Circle of Five (Joshua Harris)(Paperback / softback)

A Circle of Five is a compilation of stories from five women of the Windrush generation. Transcribed from interviews recorded by H V Joshua, the book takes us through the memories, trials and tribulations of these women, charting their genesis in the Caribbean all the way to their new lives in the

Five - The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Rubenhold Hallie)(Paperback / softback)