 A 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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 Where 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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 Sex, 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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 Notes 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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 The 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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 Nice 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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