Sweetness and Lightning 1 (Amagakure Gido)(Paperback)

Sweetness and Lightning 1 (Amagakure Gido)(Paperback)

'This season's number one feel-good anime Grade A.' -Anime News Network 'A beautifully drawn story about comfort food and family and grief, it's a delightful read. Recommended.' -Otaku USA Magazine A Recipe for Family Having lost his wife, math teacher K hei Inuzuka is doing his best to raise his

Sweetness of Forgetting (Harmel Kristin)(Paperback / softback)

A tale of baking, love, hope and faith across generations - with

The Autobiography of Mark Twain (Neider Charles)(Paperback)

'A book filled with richnesses of humor and tragedy of disappointment and triumph, of sweetness and bitterness, and all in that unsurpassed American prose.'--New York Herald Tribune Book ReviewMark Twain was a figure larger than life: massive in talent, eruptive in temperament, unpredictable in his

Sweetness of Water (Harris Nathan)(Paperback / softback)

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING 2021 SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' ObserverLandry and Prentiss are two brothers born into

Marshlands (Gide Andre)(Paperback)

A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. Andr Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of Marshlands is a

Corydon (Gide Andr)(Paperback)

First published nearly one hundred years ago, Andr Gide's masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard, draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, and history to support the author's assertion that homosexuality is a natural human trait At the

Sweetness In The Belly (Gibb Camilla)(Paperback / softback)

A richly imagined tale of one woman's search for love and belonging. In Thatcher's London, Lilly, a white Muslim nurse, struggles in a state of invisible

Love, Nina: A Nanny Writes Home (Stibbe Nina)(Paperback)

'Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.' --Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, BernadetteIn 1982, 20-year-old Nina Stibbe moved to London to work as a nanny to two opinionated and lively young boys. In

Sweetness of Life (Heritier Francoise)(Paperback / softback)

If you assume an average life expectancy of 85 years, and deduct the hours we spend daily on sleeping, shopping, eating, working, tending to our relationships and on everything else that is obligatory, then how much time is left for the average person to enjoy those activities that are the

Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (Hern Matt)(Paperback)

Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises.Confounded by global warming and in search of an affirmative politics that links ecology with social change, Matt Hern and Am Johal set off on a series of

The Sweetness of Venus: A History of the Clitoris (Chadwick Sarah)(Paperback)

For millennia, scientists thought women were inside-out versions of men, and male anxiety about female sexuality generated ludicrous ideas and perpetuated inaccurate information. The Sweetness of Venus is a provocative, straight-talking history that exposes the denial, misunderstanding, brutality,

Black Lightning (Mais Roger)(Paperback)

Part of Peepal Tree's Caribbean Modern Classics series, Black Lightning is the third and final novel by Roger Mais, originally published in 1955, the year of his death. Set in the Jamaican countryside, it follows the story of Jack, a sculptor and blacksmith who idolises the biblical Samson as a

Atemi: The Thunder and Lightning of Aikido (Von Krenner Walther)(Paperback)

Atemi: The Thunder and Lightning of Aikido revisits the source of the art by teaching the striking methods that made Ueshiba's techniques so effective. This is the most comprehensive text on striking in Aikido, and it begins with the notion that strikes should not be disregarded in modern dojo. It

The Psychology of the Yogas (Ifergan Gidi)(Paperback)

The Psychology of the Yogas explores the dissonance between the promises of the yogic quest and psychological states of crisis. Western practitioners of yoga and meditation who have embarked upon years-long spiritual quests and who have practiced under the guidance of a guru tell of profound and

Honey from the Rock: Sixteen Jews Find the Sweetness of Christ (Schoeman Roy)(Paperback)

Roy Schoeman, a Jewish convert to Catholicism, and best-selling author of Salvation Is From The Jews, once again shows the clear links between Judaism and Catholicism in these inspiring stories of sixteen Jews who became fulfilled Jews, as Schoeman says, through their spiritual journeys to the

The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings (Descartes Rene)(Paperback)

'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between them, and in his later writings he concentrated on

Too Close to Home (Barclay Linwood)(Paperback / softback)

A superb, lightning-paced thriller from the No. 1 bestselling author of NO TIME FOR GOODBYE and FIND YOU

Life Intended (Harmel Kristin)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of the international bestseller The Sweetness of Forgetting comes a captivating novel about the struggle to overcome the past when our memories refuse to be

Budapest Noir (Kondor Vilmos)(Paperback)

A dark, riveting, and lightning fast novel of murder, intrigue, and political corruption, set in 1936 Hungary during the rise of Adolph Hitler and the Nazis in Germany, Budapest Noir marks the emergence of an extraordinary new voice in literary crime fiction, Vilmos Kondor. Kondor's remarkable

The Jumbie God's Revenge (Baptiste Tracey)(Paperback)

Huracan summons the wind and rain and wields lightning like a sword. He doesn't miss and he never falters. He will destroy everything in his path if he desires. When an out-of-season hurricane sweeps through Corinne's seaside village, she knows it's not an ordinary storm. At first Corinne believes

Immoralist (Gide Andre)(Paperback / softback)

Michel had been a blindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis. His will to recover brings self-discovery and the growing desire to rebel against his background of culture, decency and morality. But the freedom from constraints that Michel finds on his restless travels is won

Faster Than Lightning: My Story (Bolt Usain)(Paperback)

The autobiography of the fastest man of all time and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on the planet.Whether you know Athletics or not, and even whether you know sport or not, chances are you know Usain Bolt. The fastest man on the planet, not just

Beast Quest: 41: Ellik the Lightning Horror (Blade Adam)(Paperback)

Battle fearsome beasts and fight evil with Tom and Elenna in the bestselling adventure series for boys and girls aged 7 and up. The land of Tavania slips further towards ruin as portals rip the sky and terrible Beasts roam the land. Tom and his companions must now defeat a giant electric eel: Ellik

Lightning Catcher (Weze Clare)(Paperback / softback)