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Shakespeare's Sisters: Four Women Who Wrote The Renaissance Ramie Targoff Riverrun £25 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leftovers: A History Of Food Waste & Preservation Eleanor Barnett Head of Zeus £27.99 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Leftovers: A History Of Food Waste And Preservation Eleanor Barnett Head of Zeus €32 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Rebellion Of A Dutiful Daughter: The Conflicted Life Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Emer O'Sullivan Bloomsbury £25 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Rebellion Of A Dutiful Daughter: The Conflicted Life Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Emer O'Sullivan Bloomsbury €35 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What Was Shakespeare Really Like? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What Was Shakespeare Really Like? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Picture the scene. One morning in Redhill, Surrey, during the damp summer of 1912, Eliza Woodman rises from her sleep to find a parcel on her doorstep. Inside is a dead, skinned kitten and a letter stating: 'I will blow you and your lot to blazes.' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Penning Poison A History Of Anonymous Letters Emily Cockayne Oxford €23.50 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life Anna Funder Viking £20 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life Anna Funder Viking £20 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life Anna Funder Viking €24 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Some readers of biographies feel they can skip the early chapters: all those dimly noted ancestors, devout maiden aunts, boring family firms? No such impulse, I guarantee, will trouble readers of Jane Wellesley's life of her shocking grandmother. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Seaside: England's Love Affair Madeleine Bunting Granta £20.... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Seaside: England's Love Affair Madeleine Bunting Granta £20.... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Seaside: England's Love Affair Madeleine Bunting Granta €23.... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Did I Ever Tell You This? Sam Neill Michael Joseph £25.... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Did I Ever Tell You This? Sam Neill Michael Joseph €30.... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

And Finally: Matters Of Life And Death Henry Marsh Jonathan Cape £16.99.... [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

And Finally: Matters Of Life And Death Henry Marsh Jonathan Cape £16.99 **** [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Ithink we can call of f the search for the World's Most Calmly Imperturbable Man. The winner is the patient on whom Henry Marsh once performed a bungled operation to release a trapped nerve. The next day, Marsh approached the bed and told the man, 'I'm afraid I have some rather bad news - I've operated on the wrong side of your neck.' After a thoughtful silence, the patient replied, 'Mr Marsh, I put in fitted kitchens for a living. I once put one in back to front. It's easily done. Just promise me you'll do the right side as soon as possible…' Marsh, right, is the English neurosurgeon whose bestselling 2014 memoir Do No Harm: Stories Of Life, Death And Brain Surgery described, bluntly and breezily, how it feels to drill or saw into a human skull and forage in the spongy brain for some microscopic intruder that threatens a patient's life. He also told shocking tales of NHS mismanagement - and of his own ineptitude that sometimes left his patients at least half-dead. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Paris Match: Falling In (Love) With The French John von Sothen Profile Books £12.99 When he was nine, John von Sothen visited France for the first time. Like a million other American kids on family holidays, he was bored by the cafés, the bateaux-mouches, the sights. Until, that is, they came to a seaside town near Marseille. Beside the beach's public changing rooms, he watched an adult brunette walking past wearing sunglasses, a headscarf, bikini bottoms and no top. Hardly had he registered that he was just yards from two naked breasts than his parents dragged him off. In the sea he noticed that the entire beach was filled with topless women. At that moment, he writes, 'The purpose of France hit me: you could actually live like this. It was legal.' Scroll forward a generation and von Sothen's living in Paris, married to the French Anaïs, with two children, Otto and Bibi, and has a job writing for Esquire and Vanity Fair. In this clear-eyed and charming book, he offers a guide to French love, slang, food, conversation, schools, teenagers, TV, politics, holidays and much more. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Paris Match: Falling In (Love) With The French John von Sothen Profile Books €14.99 When he was nine, John von Sothen visited France for the first time. Like a million other American kids on family holidays, he was bored by the cafés, the bateaux-mouches, the sights. Until, that is, they came to a seaside town near Marseille. Beside the beach's public changing rooms, he watched an adult brunette walking past wearing sunglasses, a headscarf, bikini bottoms and no top. Hardly had he registered that he was just yards from two naked breasts than his parents dragged him off. In the sea he noticed that the entire beach was filled with topless women. At that moment, he writes, 'The purpose of France hit me: you could actually live like this. It was legal.' Scroll forward a generation and von Sothen's living in Paris, married to the French Anaïs, with two children, Otto and Bibi, and has a job writing for Esquire and Vanity Fair. In this clear-eyed and charming book, he offers a guide to French love, slang, food, conversation, schools, teenagers, TV, politics, holidays and much more. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On September 16, Andrew Marr will visit No10 Downing Street. This isn't the first time he will stride down the noble corridors or sip wine in the panelled living room: as BBC political editor from 2000 to 2005, he was in and out of the place all the time. But this visit is different. The current occupants, David and Samantha Cameron, are throwing a party to launch his first novel, Head Of State - a thriller that reveals murder, corruption, scandal and sexual jiggery-pokery in the Palace of Westminster - and to support Action for Rehabilitation from Neurological Injury. The charity has been close to Marr's heart since he fell victim to a 'neurological injury' himself - the devastating stroke that paralysed his left side - last year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What do the following have in common? Black Beauty, Treasure Island, Tom Brown's Schooldays, The Hobbit, The Catcher In The Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Hunger Games, Twilight and Harry Potter? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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All That Heaven Allows: A Biography Of Rock Hudson Mark Griffin Harper €27.05 *** [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I play the biblical prophet a bit, and I enjoy it,' says Howard Jacobson. 'People don't realise that saying "Oh woe, the end of the world is near!" is terrific fun. I find it exhilarating to write like that.' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

'J' Howard Jacobson Jonathan Cape €20.50 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Deborah Moggach has a thing about chatty men. Jeremy, the alpha male of her new novel, Something To Hide, may be middle-aged, whitehaired, overweight and howlingly non-PC but he can chat his way into ladies' foundation garments. His creator loves him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Deborah Moggach has a thing about chatty men. Jeremy, the alpha male of her new novel, Something To Hide, may be middle-aged, white-haired, overweight and howlingly non-PC but he can chat his way into ladies' foundation garments. His creator loves him. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When SJ Watson's first novel, Before I Go To Sleep, was published in 2011, seasoned thriller writers were fulsome in their praise. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

1 Five Came Back: A Story Of Hollywood And The Second World War [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

I've been a bit of a geek for some time,' says Joanne Harris, spearing a forkful of Caesar salad. 'People are only beginning to realise this.' Sitting in her local café near Huddersfield, wearing a red jumper and trainers, Ms Harris looks far too sensible to deserve the title 'geek'. Her carefully measured speech and her startlingly direct gaze identify her as a teacher, which indeed she was for 15 years, introducing grammar school boys to French, before she became a million-selling novelist. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Novels about missing persons and family secrets are hot as Hades right now: the world smash hit Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn became a blockbuster film with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. And a British newcomer to the genre has taken the book world by storm. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]