Train Teasers: A Quiz Book for the Cultured Trainspotter – Andrew Martin
£14.99Great fun to be had testing your knowledge of the UK’s railway system and enjoying a cornucopia of colourful and enlightening facts, figures and anecdotes.
Trees: From Root to Leaf – Paul Smith
£40.00A sumptuous survey which celebrates the diversity and beauty of trees, enhanced by exquisite photography, paintings, drawings and infographics.
Trespass – Clare Clark
£14.50
Trespass – Clare Clark
£9.99Tess, a young activist, falls for an older protestor and is left devastated when he disappears, leaving her pregnant and alone. A psychological suspense story about the far reaching impact of undercover operations on everyday family life.
Trespasses – Louise Kennedy
£8.99Cushla, a young Catholic teacher, meets Michael, a Protestant barrister, in a pub one night and begins an ill-fated affair. A powerful debut which expertly renders fracturing family and personal loyalties against the background of 1970s Belfast.
Trust – Hernan Diaz
£9.99Free shipping within the UK.
Tudor England: A History – Lucy Wooding
£30.00Widely praised for its range and depth, this is a major reappraisal of life in Tudor England, rich in anecdote and striking detail from frequently overlooked angles.
Tyger – SF Said
£12.99Illustrated by Dave McKean
When Adam discovers an injured mythical creature hiding in a rubbish dump he senses that his life will change. A rich, absorbing adventure by the author of Varjak Paw.
Age guide: 8-12
Uncle Paul – Celia Fremlin
£9.99Fifteen years after being exposed as a bigamist and a murderer, Uncle Paul, who was married to Mildred, is about to be released from prison. Now she and her halfsisters await his return in their holiday caravan.
Unfair Play: The Battle For Women’s Sport – Sharron Davies
£20.00Free shipping within the UK.
In association with the Free Speech Union.
Unraveller – Frances Hardinge
£14.99Spellbinding tale of Kellen – born with the rare ability to unravel curses – and his companion Nettle on a quest to uncover a deadly conspiracy. Atmospheric and gripping.
Age guide: 12+
UPROAR! Satire, Scandal and Printmakers in Georgian London – Alice Loxton (Signed)
£25.00Signed by the author.
London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his way through the grimy backstreets of the capital, on his way to begin his studies at the Royal Academy Schools.
Within a few years, James Gillray and Isaac Cruikshank would join him in Piccadilly, turning satire into an artform, taking on the British establishment, and forever changing the way we view power. Set against a backdrop of royal madness, political intrigue, the birth of modern celebrity, French revolution, American independence and the Napoleonic Wars, UPROAR! follows the satirists as they lampoon those in power, from the Prince Regent to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. Their prints and illustrations deconstruct the political and social landscape with surreal and razor-sharp wit, as the three men vie with each other to create the most iconic images of the day.
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London – Oscar Jensen (Signed)
£10.99Signed by the author.
Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London’s poor from a rising star British historian – the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid life. Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers, who did not themselves come from poverty – Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Dore. Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical.
Now, for the first time, this innovative social history brilliantly – and radically – shows us the city’s most compelling period (1780-1870) at street level. From beggars and thieves to musicians and missionaries, porters and hawkers to sex workers and street criers, Jensen unites a breadth of original research and first-hand accounts and testimonies to tell their stories in their own words. What emerges is a buzzing, cosmopolitan world of the working classes, diverse in gender, ethnicity, origin, ability and occupation – a world that challenges and fascinates us still.
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London – Oskar Jensen
£10.99Free shipping within the UK.
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World – Kate Mosse
£20.00Celebration of the lives of almost 1,000 trailblazing women throughout the globe and across history whose accomplishments have been all but erased.
What We Owe The Future: A Million-Year View – William MacAskill
£20.00Inspiring call for ethical living and decision making by a young moral philosopher arguing for the immediate need to address and prioritise global issues.