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Author

Title

 

 

NON FICTION

 

David Attenborough

Life On Air:  David Attenborough Memoirs *****

Antonio Damasio

The Feeling of What Happens *****

Tim Flannery

The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America

Barbara Kingsolver

High Tide in Tucson: Essays From Now or Never  (replacement copy)

Michael Moore

Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation *****

Michael Moore

Dude, Where's My Country *****  (paperback - available June 2004)

Matt Ridley

The Red Queen:  Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature *****

Matt Ridley

Nature via Nurture:  Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human *****

Simon Schama

The History of Britain Vol III:  The Fate of Britain 1776-2000

David Swenson

Ashtanga Yoga

Patrick Wall

Pain:  The Science of Suffering *****

Alison Weir

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

 

 

 

 

FICTION

 

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Sherman Alexie

Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven *****

Margaret Atwood

Oryx and Crake *****

Joan Barfoot

Life After Edgar  (in UK, Getting Over Edgar)

Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen

Out of Africa

Elizabeth Bowen

The Last September

Rita Mae Brown

Rubyfruit Jungle

Pearl Buck

The Good Earth *****

Michael Chabon

Wonder Boys

Michael Chabon

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay *****

Douglas Coupland

All Families Are Psychotic

Mark Z Danielewski

House of Leaves

Roddy Doyle

The Barrytown Trilogy - The Commitments; The Snapper; The Van

William Faulkner

Light in August

William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Molly Keane

Good Behaviour *****

Thomas King

Green Grass, Running Water

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Seamus Heaney (new translation)

Beowulf *****

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Marian Keyes

Watermelon

Marian Keyes

Angels

Marian Keyes The Other Side of the Story

Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible  (replacement copy for Mum)

Jack London

The Call of the Wild

Jack London

White Fang

Frederico Lorca

Collected Poems (in Spanish) *****

Viggo Mortenson

Coincidence of Memory *****

Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart

Haruki Murakami

DanceDanceDance *****

Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood *****

Iris Murdoch

Sea, The Sea

Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveller's Wife *****

Salman Rushdie

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

Jonathon Safran Foer

Everything is Illuminated

Dorothy L Sayers

Unnatural Death *****

Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time *****

Sarah Waters

Affinity

 

 

 

 

SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

David Brin

Earth

David Brin

Glory Season

Pamela Dean

Tam Lin *****  (see wish list at Alibris.com)

Kate Elliot

Jaran

Neil Gaiman

Neverwhere *****

Neil Gaiman

American Gods *****

Neil Gaiman

Coraline

William Gibson

All Tomorrow’s Parties

Elizabeth Lynn

The Chronicles of Tornor  - Watchtower, The Dancers of Arun, The Northern Girl  (see wish list at Alibris.com)

Vonda McIntyre

Fireflood and Other Stories *****   (see wish list at Alibris.com)

Vonda McIntyre

The Moon and the Sun  (see wish list at Alibris.com)

Patricia McKillip

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Robin McKinley

The Hero and the Crown *****  (see wish list at Alibris.com)

Robin McKinley

Sunshine *****

Robin McKinley

Deerskin *****

Robin McKinley

The Outlaws of Sherwood

Robin McKinley

The Stone Fey  (see wish list at Alibris.com

Terry Pratchett

The Fifth Elephant ***** (hardback)

Terry Pratchett

Monstrous Regiment *****  (hardback)

Terry Pratchett

A Hat Full of Sky *****  (hardback - available May 2004)

Terry Pratchett & Paul Kidby

The Art of the Discworld *****  (hardback illustrated collectors edition - available November 2004)

Terry Pratchett

Pyramids

Sheri S Tepper

The Gate to Women's Country

J R R Tolkein & Alan Lee (illustrator)

The Lord of the Rings *****  (hardback illustrated collectors edition boxed set)

 

 

 

 

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

 

Roald Dahl

Matilda *****

Roald Dahl

James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Peter Dickinson

The Changes Trilogy - The Devil’s Children; Heartsease; The Weathermonger

Louise Fitzhugh

Harriet the Spy *****

Lois Lowry

The Giver *****

L M Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables Series

J K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  (paperback only - available July 2004)

Noel Streatfield

Ballet Shoes

 

 

 

 

COOKING, FOOD AND WINE

Pepita Aris

Spanish Cooking: A Fiesta of Original Recipes *****

Anthony Bourdain

A Cook's Tour:  In Search of the Perfect Meal *****

Elizabeth David

Italian Food

Marcella Hazan

The Essentials of Classical Italian Cooking *****

Masaki Ko

The Japanese Kitchen: Delicate Dishes from an Elegant Cuisine

Mai Pham

Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table: Recipes and Reminisces of Vietnam's Best Market Kitchens, Street Cafes and Home Cooks *****

Gordon Ramsey

Chef's Secrets *****

Gordon Ramsey

A Chef For All Seasons

Gary Rhodes

The Complete Cookery Year *****

Michael Ruhlman

The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the CIA *****

Jeffrey Steingarten

It Must've Been Something I Ate:  The Return of The Man Who Ate Everything

 

 

 

 

TRAVEL

 

The Times

World Atlas *****

Rough Guides et al

France *****

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Spain

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New Zealand

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Thailand

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Vietnam

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Canada

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United States of America