The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman

The Bullet That Missed - Richard Osman

Thursday Murder Club - The Record-Breaking Sunday Times Number One Bestseller (Osman Richard)(Paperback / softback)

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be

Watership Down (Adams Richard)(Paperback / softback)

40th anniversary edition of Richard Adams' picaresque saga about a motley band of rabbits - Watership Down is one of the most beloved novels of our time. Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen

Idea of You - The scorching summer Richard & Judy love affair that will leave you obsessed! (Lee Robinne)(Paperback / softback)

EVERYONE IN THE WORLD KNOWS HIS NAME . . . BUT IT'S YOU HE WANTS.To the media, Hayes Campbell is the enigmatic front-man of a record-breaking boyband.To his fans, he's the boy of their dreams.To his label, he's gold-dust.And to Solène Marchand, he's the pretty face that's plastered over her

Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 (Bassett Richard)(Paperback)

Selected as a Book of the Year in the TLS and SpectatorIn 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime,

The Ring of the Nibelung (Wagner Richard)(Pevná vazba)

A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the

Wars of the Roses: Bloodline - Book 3 (Iggulden Conn)(Paperback / softback)

Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York,

My Name Is Nobody (Richardson Matthew)(Paperback)

'PROOF THAT THE SPY GENRE IS FLOURISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY' Guardian'I know for certain that there is a mole somewhere within the intelligence services . . . His codename is Nobody . . .' Solomon Vine is a spy on a fast track to the top. But when a prisoner is shot in unexplained circumstances on

Complete Cosmicomics (Calvino Italo)(Paperback / softback)

Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all

Gulag - A History of the Soviet Camps (Applebaum Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Reveals one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century: the system of Soviet camps that are responsible for the deaths of countless millions. This work presents history of the camp: from its origins under the tsars, to its colossal expansion under Stalin's reign of terror, its zenith in the late

Complete Poems (Bronte Emily)(Paperback / softback)

The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed to her. Many poems describe the mythic

Fascism and Democracy - George Orwell

'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs'On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World WarFascism and Democracy collects five

Strangers on a Bridge - James B Donovan

The gripping first-hand account of the events that inspired the major film Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks, by the man at the centre of them all - James B. Donovan. Also featuring a foreword by Jason Matthews. With the Cold War at its height, the capture and trial of Colonel Abel, the Soviets'

The Click Moment - Frans Johansson

Shows how to stay ahead when you can't predict the future Success is random. The author tells that planning and careful analysis no longer guarantee success

Insanely Simple - The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success (Segall Ken)(Paperback / softback)

The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success Ken Segall put the 'i' in iPad. Now he explains why simplicity is the secret of Apple's success in Insanely Simple. To Steve Jobs, Simplicity wasn't just a design principle. It was a religion and a weapon. The obsession with Simplicity is what separates

A Map of Days - Ransom Riggs

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling

The Practice - Seth Godin

From the bestselling author of Purple Cow and This is Marketing comes an elegant little book that will inspire artists, writers, and entrepreneurs to stretch and commit to putting their best work out into the world.Creative work doesn't come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds

Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth William)(Pevná vazba)

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the collection broke away from traditional poetic form. Of the twenty-three poems, Wordsworth

Silverview - John le Carré

In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months

Measure What Matters - OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth (Doerr John)(Paperback / softback)

Measure What Matters is a revolutionary approach to business that has been adopted by some of Silicon Valley's most successful startups. It is a movement that is behind the explosive growth of Intel, Google, Amazon and Uber and many more. Measure What Matters is about using Objectives and Key

Undoing Project - A Friendship that Changed the World (Lewis Michael)(Paperback / softback)

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS'A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think ... What a story it is' Sunday Times 'You'll love it ... full of surprises and no small degree of tragedy' Tim HarfordIn 1969 two men met on a

Hell's Angels (Thompson Hunter S)(Paperback / softback)

It is said that the Hell's Angels could paralyse whole towns with fear. This book explores the questions such as: How much of that reputation was myth and how much was brutal reality?

The Naked Chef (Anniversary Editions) - Jamie Oliver

Jamie's first book - the one that started it all. The Naked Chef was born out of the idea to strip down restaurant techniques to their bare essentials and create cool dishes for everyone to cook at home, and get boys back in the kitchen! It's all about having a laugh with fun, delicious food from a

Antifragile - Things that Gain from Disorder (Taleb Nassim Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In this book, the author shows that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world