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We've selected just a few books from the hundreds we have on offer, to give you some suggestions. But if there's nothing on this page which appeals then feel free to look around - we're sure you'll find something to interest you.


bookA Stillness Heard Round the World
Stanley Weintraub

Stanley Weintraub draws on a wealth of personal recollections to convey how it felt to live at the end of the war and on Armistice Day itself. The book has a vast range quoting from personalities as diverse as Agatha Crhistie, King George V, Adolf Hitler and Virginia Woolf. £1.49

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bookWhere Do I Go from here
George Best

Bestie is no longer with us, but this account of his flamboyant life from 1981 reminds us of his glory days, with a poignant foreshadowing of the tragedy to come as the Belfast boy succumbed to alcoholism... £1.29

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bookSex, Lies and Videotape
Steven Soderbergh

Screenplay for the movie which signalled Steven Soderbergh's arrival on the scene and marking the start of a movement among independent American film-makers opposed to the and formats of the Hollywood system. The script is an unerringly elegant, witty and literate study of contemporary perversity. £1.59

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bookNotes on a Scandal
Zoe Heller

The story is centred around Barbara and Sheba, teachers at St George's, where Sheba, the new pottery teacher, livens up the proceedings at the school, first with her charisma and then with her affair with a student. Guaranteed to have you hooked from the first word to the last. £1.49

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bookThe Arsonists
Max Frisch

Max Frisch's parable about our accommodating the very thing that will destroy us premiered at the Royal Court In 1961. The Arsonists was first presented in this translation by Alistair Beaton at the Royal Court on 1 November 2007. £1.39

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bookNice Work
David Lodge

The campus novel meets the industrial novel. as David Lodge charts an improbable but highly entertaining relationship between Vie Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering firm) and Dr Robyn Penrose (temporary Lecturer in English and fully paid-up devotee of semiotic materialism)... £0.89

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