 | The narrator of Rober Harris's gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain's former prime minister, especially as it means flying to the American resort of Martha's Vineyard in the middle of winter and finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious house. But it doesn't take him long to realise he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in circumstances that were distinctly suspicious, and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him - secrets with the power to kill. | 350B |
 | Book of Thai baby names. | 80B |
 | From 2004 so out of date, but still come good stuff in here. | 100B |
 | From 2005 so out of date, but still useful information about dealing with the Thais. | 100B |
 | Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is it that our leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings? Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't diminish; it grows | SOLD |
 | It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door. It's a job for life. But, as former conman Moist von Lipwig is learning, life is not neccessarily for long. The Chief cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), and it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins' Guild might get him first. In fact, a lot of people want him dead. Oh, and every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies. Everywhere he looks he's making enemies. What he should be doing is Making Money. | 600B |
 | Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into...a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Geting the moribund Postal Service up an running again, however, may prove and impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, greedy Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical headman. But if the bold and undoable are what's called for, Moist's the man for the job - to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every being, human or otherwise, requires: hope. | 40B |
 | China has invaded the oil-rich Spratly Islands. The American response has been swift - and deadly. And the Third World War has begun.... Captain Bartholomew Mackey is the skipper of the USS Cheyenne, a nuclear submarine dispatched to the Spratlys to protect a carrier group. But in a few moments, the Cheyenne's mission - and the world - have changed, as a tense situation has exploded into a full-scale war of nightmarish proportions. Tom Clancy presents fifteen thrilling scenarios - fact-based mission profiles for Captain Mackey and the Cheyenne - stirring plots and characters, perfectly accurate details, and the chilling knowledge that it reall could happen. | 120B |
 | Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." In this deeply funny new book, he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was, in the curious world of 1950s America. It was a happy time, when almost everything was good for you, including DDT, cigarettes and nuclear fallout. This is a book about one boy's growing up. But in Bryson's hands, it becomes everyone's story, one that will speak volumes - especially to anyone who has every been young. | 300B |
 | Full of promise is how anyone would have described Elizabeth Wurtzel at ten, a bright-eyed child who painted, wrote stories and excelled in every way. By twelve, she was cutting her legs in teh girls bathroom and listening to scratchy recordings of the Velvet Underground. College was marked by a sweries of breakdowns, suicide attempts and hospitalizations before she was given Prozac in combination with other psychoactive drugs, all of which have worked sporadically as Elizabeth's mood swings rise and fall like the lines of a sad ballad. Prozac Nation is a collective cry for help, which is both harrowing and hilarious. It gives voice to the hgh incidence of depression amongst young people who are fully entrenched in the culture of divorce, economic instability and AIDS. Writing with a vengeance Elizabeth Wurtzel will not go gentle into that good night. She wants off medication, she wants a family and most definitely, a life worth living. | 250B |
 | Pooh knew what he meant, but, being a Bear of Very Little Brain, couldn't think of the words. Despite being a self-confessed Bear of Very Little Brain, Winnie-the-Pooh has managed some startling Thoughts and said some extraordinary Things. This Very Useful Book contains the Collected Thoughts of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends from teh Hundred Acre Wood. Here you will find not only Wit and Wisdom, but an abundance of Useful Information, Sustaining Thoughts, Remarks and Observations. | 150B |
 | One of the finest war novels ever written, The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his own life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, sabateur and deadly killer; Commander Shears, who escaped from hell but was ordered back. Ordered by the Japanese to build a bridge, the Colonel refuses, as it is against regulations for officers to work with the other ranks. The Japanese give way but, to prove a point of British superiority, construction of the bridge goes ahead - at great cost to the men under Nicholson's command. | 250B |
 | Every year Elizabeth and David Beck return to Lake Charmaine, a place that has been a part of their lives ever since they were children. But on their thirteenth visit, Elizabeth is kidnapped and murdered, while David is left for dead. For the next eight years, Dr David Beck relives the horror of what happened every day of his life. Although Elizabeth has been buried, and her killer waits on death row, for David, it still feels as if more than one life ended on that night. Then an image of Elizabeth appears on his computer screen, brutally ripping open old wounds. Is it just a practical joke? Or evidence that somehow Elizabeth is still alive? Suddenly Beck is running away from his safe, ordinary life, and all the people he trusts. He's chasing a ghost whose messages hold out a desperate hope - and warn him to tell no one. But soon Dr Beck himself is being hunted down. | 200B |
 | The essential A-Z guide for deciding a child's name. It contains over 1,500 possible choices, from Aaron to Zuleika, through the old-fashiioned (Hazel and Gilbert), the modern (Jade and Devon), the unusual (Anselm and Tanith) and the most popular (Chloe and Jack). Best Baby Names reveals who has influenced the popularity of names, including film stars (Mia), biblical figures (Isaac) and fictional characters (Harry), and suggests why Chelsea, April, Rose, and Ebony might be appropriate for your child. Names with shared roots are gathered together in the same entry: you might decide against Helen in favour of Ellen, Elaine or IIona, or even need to switch at the last minute from Sean to Shauna. | 200B |
 | On a Long Island beach at dusk, Bud Mitchell and Jill Winslow conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera, set to record each steamy moment. Suddenly, a terrible explosion lights up the sky. Grabbing the camera, the couple flee as approaching police cars speed towards the scene. Fiver years later, the crash of TWA flight 800 has been attributed to a mechanical malfunction. But for John Corey and Kate Mayfield, both members of the elite Anti-Terrorist Task Force, teh case is not closed. Suspecting a cover-up at the highest levels and disobeying orders, they set out to find the one piece of evidence that will prove the truth about what really happened to Flight 800. | 250B |