New Hardback Books

Joss Ackland / My Better Half and Me (Hardback)

Rosemary Ackland began writing her diary in 1945, aged just fifteen. For the next fifty-eight years, through happiness and heartache, she continued to write. Even after the tragic onset of Motor Neurone disease, which left her mute and immobile, her...

Megan Hess / Paris: Through a Fashion Eye (Hardback)

Paris is an illustrated guide to one of the world's most-loved fashion cities by one of the world's most-successful fashion illustrators. In the second of her series of books on classic fashion destinations, Megan Hess takes you on a super stylish...

Catherine Millet / Jealousy (Hardback)

Catherine Millet’s best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark book—a portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as “eloquent, graphic—and sometimes even poignant”...

Catherine Saunders / Star Wars: The Story Of Darth Vader (Hardback)

Star Wars™: The Story of Darth Vader combines DK's new three-level reading scheme with the successful Star Wars brand, and will help children learn how to read - and learn to love reading. For children who are "Starting to Read...

John Mingers / Social Theory and Philosophy for Information Systems (Hardback)

  As Information Systems matures as a discipline, there is a gradual move away from pure statistics towards consideration of alternative approaches and philosophies. This has not been incorporated into the literature of the field. Until now...

Jacqueline Bellefontaine / Barbecue (Hardback)

This comprehensive and inspirational cookbook features chapters on fish and seafood, poultry, meat, vegetables and salads, and even desserts you can prepare on the grill. Balances exciting new ingredients and recipes with a wide selection of...

Elias Canetti / Party in the Blitz (Hardback)

A stunning and unexpected new volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography. A surprise gift to celebrate the Nobel Laureate's 100th birthday.Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, at 85, beset by the desire to come to terms with his years of exile in Britain,...

Peter Leslie / Baltic Commando (Hardback)

Webster was reckless, unorthodox, a daredevil with no respect for authority and a tireless womaniser. But he got results, and as a Special Services major, that was all that mattered. His latest train a team of super-tough demolition experts and land them...

Fabrizio Blini / Mamma Mia (Hardback)

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Dorothy Koomson / La hija de mi mejor amiga (Hardback)

When Kamryn "Ryn" Matika gets a call from college friend Adele "Del" Brannon, she reluctantly heads to the hospital where Adele is dying of cancer. The two had been odd couple friends (working-class Ryn is black, posh Adele is white) while attending...

Mary Higgins Clark / The Lost Years (Hardback)

In her long career as America’s most beloved suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clark’s The Lost Years is her most astonishing and dramatic novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered...

Tamar Adler / An Everlasting Meal (Hardback)

Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf — written in 1942 during wartime shortages— An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating.Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal,...

Tim Winton / Breath (Hardback)

A modern classic of Australian literature. A deep meditation on the entrance to adulthood and the broken promises of adolescence. Bruce Pike is eleven years old and lives in a logging town near the wild coast of Western Australia. Loner by nature, he...

Joni Sensel / The Humming of Numbers (Hardback)

Aidan is poised to take his monastic vows—until a girl enters the abbey, one who hums of the number eleven. Aidan has the ability to hear the humming of numbers, a buzzing energy given off by living things. He is captivated and tormented by the...

Michael E. Gerber / E-Myth Mastery (Hardback)

The bestselling author of the phenomenally successful essential entrepreneur handbook The E-Myth Revisited presents the next big step in entreprenuerial management and leadershipIn this practical, real-world program that can be implemented real-time into...

Gee & Mike Seabrook / Turf accounts (Hardback)

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John Lahr / Dame Edna Everage (Hardback)

In 1989, the author spent a month in the wings of the Theatre Royal watching Barry Humphries perform as Dame Edna Everage. What emerges in this title is an account of the act and a portrait of the comedian and his art.   This book is second hand,...

Harvey Penick / For All Who Love the Game: Lessons and Teachings for Women (Hardback)

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AP / The Enchanted Little Egg (Hardback)

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Jean Trumpington / Coming Up Trumps (Hardback)

In this characteristically trenchant memoir, a Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller, the indomitable Jean Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, Jean Campbell-Harris...

Ivan Klima / Lovers for a Day (Hardback)

A collection of short stories by the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light includes the tale of a doctor who has escaped to London and returns to communist Czechoslovakia to be with a woman only to discover too late that he barely knows...

David Walliams / Astrochimp (Hardback)

From million-copy bestselling author David Walliams comes a laugh-out-loud animal space adventure.Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He- make rude noises from BOTH ENDS…- pick his nose with his little toe…- eat the skins of...

W.H. Auden / Lectures on Shakespeare (Hardback)

"W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden has announced that in his course . . . he proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order." The New...

Wil Tirion / Night Sky Almanac 2025 (Hardback)

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Michael Andre Bernstein / Conspirators (Hardback)

Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire, and his province. When a...

Justin Haythe / The Honeymoon (Hardback)

The first time that Gordon meets Annie they make love in a park. Soon afterwards, on the forty-fourth anniversary of D-Day, they are married. Gordon, though American-born, has never had a home; instead, he led the life of barren privilege, travelling...

Tyler Anbinder / Five Points (Hardback)

Details the notorious neighborhood that was once filled with gaming dens, bordellos, dirty streets, and tenements, that welcomed such visitors as Charles Dickens and Abraham Lincoln, and brings to light the hidden world that existed beneath its squalor...

Victor Pelevin / Homo Zapiens (Hardback)

In post-Soviet Russia, a man tamed Tartarsky is hired as a copywriter to help push new products on the populace. A former clerk in a shop, Tartarsky is overwhelmed by the success of his efforts, and has to figure out what to do when he begins to lose...

John Batt / Stolen Innocence: A Mother's Fight for Justice (Hardback)

The tragic story of Sally Clark, wrongly imprisoned for the deaths of two of her sons, and her eventual exoneration three years later. With the power of a thriller, the book lays bare the nightmare of being on the wrong side of the law.   This book...

George Klein / Elvis: My Best Man (Hardback)

When George Klein was an eighth grader at Humes High, he couldn’t have known how important the new kid with the guitar—the boy named Elvis—would later become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he was nicknamed by Elvis) heard...

Philip Davison / The Illustrator (Hardback)

Lawrence Butler, a commercial illustrator in London, is desperately seeking his wife, who has walked out on him, leaving behind a reminder to water the plants. Disconsolate, Lawrence designs British postage stamps with Sheila's face on them. He rashly...

Eduardo Galeano / Hunter of Stories (Hardback)

This is Eduardo Galeano's last book, a masterful, deeply considered, and poetic autobiography, written in his signature style of short essays, fables, stories, snippets of dialogue, and epigraph-length fragments with illustrations. A mix of old and new...

Juan Gabriel Vasquez / The Secret History of Costaguana (Hardback)

London, 1903. Joseph Conrad is struggling with his new novel ('I am placing it in South America in a Republic I call Costaguana'). Progress is slow and the great writer needs help from a native of the Caribbean coast of South America. Jose Altamirano,...

Joan Haslip / Madame du Barry (Hardback)

Jeanne du Barry, courtesan and Louis XV's official mistress until his death, was the last of the French royal favourites, succeeding Madame de Pompadour. For four years she was feted as one of France's most beautiful women, patron of artists such as...

Leila Aboulela / Bird Summons (Hardback)

  BIRD SUMMONS is a magic carpet ride into the forest of history and the lives of women. Deep and wild' Lucy Ellmann, author of SWEET DESSERTS and MIMISalma, happily married, tries every day to fit into life in Britain. When her first love contacts...

John D. Spooner / No One Ever Told Us That (Hardback)

This is the book that every grandparent (or parent) has always meant to write for their children.... but has never found the time to do so.In short, John D. Spooner has been carefully crafted a series of essential life lessons that every young person...

David A. Hollinger / Postethnic America (Hardback)

Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist...

Claudio Magris / Microcosms (Hardback)

Translated from the Italian, Magis delves into the environment of his Triestine homeland and uncovers the whole of human striving in a microcosm. The city's homes, cafes, markets and railway stations are all forums where humanity descends to transact its...

Mark Kharitonov / Lines of Fate (Hardback)

A philosophical mystery novel populated with artists, criminals, and drug addicts, Lines of Fate is one of the most extraordinary novels to emerge from the last years of the Soviet Union. Written at the height of Gorbachev's power in 1985 but not...

Cole Porter / You're the Top (Hardback)

A Valentine keepsake, this greeting-card sized package brings to life the loving and tender words of one of Porter's most popular and poignant songs, with lyrics complemented by beautiful black and white photographs. 75,000 first printing.   This...

Yrsa Sigurdardottir / My Soul to Take (Hardback)

“American readers first met Icelandic lawyer and investigator Thóra Gudmundsdóttir in Last Rituals. In My Soul to Take, internationally acclaimed author Yrsa Sigurdardóttir plunges her intrepid heroine...

Ann Beattie / Park City (Hardback)

  Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career.Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and...

Zsuzsa Bank / The Swimmer (Hardback)

Hungary, 1956. Without a word, Katalin leaves her family and sets out for the West. Her husband, Kalman, abandons the family farm and begins a long and circuitous journey through Hungary with his two young children, Kata and Isti. Staying briefly with...

Patrick deWitt / Ablutions (Hardback)

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives,...

Professor Jan Kott / Still Alive (Hardback)

Still Alive recounts the perilous odyssey of a renowned man of letters through the endless political crises of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth-century. Jan Kott - Polish essayist and theater critic, author of the landmark work Shakespeare Our...

Martin M. Simecka / The Year of the Frog (Hardback)

Denied entrance into college because of his father's political views, Milan, a young Czech, finds solace in long-distance running and in his developing relationship with Tania, a university student   This book is second hand, and while you may not...

Thomas Swick / Unquiet Days (Hardback)

The author describes life in Poland during the two years he lived in Warsaw, drawing on history, politics, and personal experience to reveal the traditional ways of Polish life and the realities of living under martial law   This book is second...

Klaus Wagenbach / Kafka (Hardback)

  In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man...

Martha Wells / Artificial Condition (Hardback)

It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research...

V.S. Naipaul / The Writer and the World (Hardback)

  For 40 years, Naipaul has been traveling and, through his writing, creating one of the most wide-ranging and sustained meditations on the world. Now, for the first time, his finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage--nearly all of them...

Julian Barnes / The Porcupine (Hardback)

With the brilliant wit and idiosyncratic intelligence that have marked his previous novels—and with a bold, sure grasp of intricate political realities—Julian Barnes now gives us a startling look at the fallout from the recent transformation...

James Sidanius / Social Dominance (Hardback)

This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. Using social...