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Alternatives to Valium is ajoyful smash-hit memoir set in the pre-internet days of record shops, typewriters, fanzines, DIY punk bands, mass unemployment and creative ingenuity.

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(Hardback)

Two little girls, Daisy and June, have recently lost their mum. Set in London in the 1930s, "Always There" captures the misery of separation when, after spending some time in an orphanage June is adopted and years pass before they are finally reunited.

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The first three volumes of Clive Jamess brilliantly sharp and outrageously funny autobiography . . .

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Grace Tynan's life is terrifyingly planned: her career in real estate, the school car pool, her marriage to a man with seven alarm clocks. But after a dreadlocked dropout called Adam knocks the side mirror off her BMW, her friends start noticing alarming changes. Has Grace become a Rainbow Warrior

Perfect for machine mad toddlers!

(Paperback)

All your favourite rescue vehicles in one big book of adventure!

(, Main)

A comic tale of two accomplished women who lived in the shadow of the men they married .

(Paperback, Main)

A giant debut novel about the redemptive, restorative power of love; about trust and fear; hair and makeup; food and sex; it's about belonging and ... not belonging.

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* Hundreds of miles off the frozen coast of what was once California is America Pacifica, where those who fled the dawn of the new ice age have tried to recreate their former home ...

(, New edition)

America Throne is rebuilding her life after her boyfriend Jasper dumps her. She temporarily descends into a self-destructive cycle. Luckily her friend, Sadie, is on hand to kick her back into shape, but this being California, her "journey back to wholeness" involves some unconventional twists.

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'One of America's most intelligent and imaginative satirists . Not only funny but consistently compelling, fiercely written and ultimately moving.' - Daily Telegraph (UK)

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The untold story of Frank Lucas, New York's most notorious drugs lord during the 1970s. Now a blockbuster movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.

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A special illustrated edition of American Gods, the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. Illustrations by celebrated artist Daniel Egnus.

(, New edition)

Two years ago in the town of New Caxton, three people were stabbed to death and a black man imprisoned for the crime. According to congressman Owen Hall, the convicted man is innocent. Something sinister has been going on in New Caxton, something much bigger than casual murder.

(Paperback, Main)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, published in hardback to exceptional reviews in both the US and the UK, American Prometheus is as compelling a work of biography as it is a significant work of history.

(Paperback)

A captivating dual biography of the struggle between Japan's Emperor Hirohito and America's General MacArthur in the epic clash between the world's oldest culture and its newest.

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An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

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Helps you examine the Marcoses more closely - not to exonerate them but, rather, to explain the political and social roots of their regime, sustained for so long by support from Washington.

A riveting, suspenseful and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder - and risk deportation.

(Hardback)

Examines how the charity works to prevent atrocities and protect human rights around the world. The series looks at key international organisations, how and why they were set up, their structure and organisation and the different things they do.

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A new edition of this Conradian tale of maddening desire, from the master, Stefan Zweig.

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An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.

A Californian wife has left her academic husband. As she drives through the mountains in the early hours of the morning, she picks up a hitch-hiker - rugged, adventurous - who suggests a romantic stop. But no love takes place at The Bend that night. And, in the morning, a body is found.