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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square ' a greener life' is packed with information on how to live a more natural and self-sufficient lifeclarissa and johnny explore the relevant issues-from growing your own vegetables to using alternative energies, from keeping livestock to mending your own socks-so that you have the knowledge to start living the good lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a ragtag group of elite roman soldiers are sent on a suicide mission in this epic historical thriller from sunday times bestseller and leading ancient rome expert, harry sidebottomas they journey deeper into enemy territory, the ten begin to die or disappear, one by onei loved it' - donna leon *** get ready for the return in - harry sidebottom's breakout historical thriller is now available to pre-order in hardback, ebook & audiobook *** see oxfam website for delivery information read moreno man who enters the castle of silence ever walks out alivea remote fortress prison set high in the mountains, escape is impossible - and to break someone out, unthinkablefrom the bestselling author of the last hour, the lost ten is a breathless historical thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - for fans of bernard cornwell, ben kane, simon scarrow and conn igguldenand with the rescue fast becoming a suicide mission, valens must marshal this disparate group of men - or suffer the same fate as all those who have made the journey before himpraise for harry sidebottom 'relentless, brutal, brilliant, this is jack reacher in ancient rome' - ben kane 'a cracking talebut this is exactly what roman officer marcus aelius valens must domore twists and turns than the tiber itself' - rory clements 'absorbing, rich in detail and brilliant' - the times 'grabbed me from the starttasked with rescuing the young prince sasan, valens leads a small, elite squad of soldiers across mesopotamia and into the mountains south of the caspian sea
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square one night in november , pc billy tyler is called to a mortuary in suffolk to guard the body of a notorious child& 45;killersee oxfam website for delivery information read morebut in the eerie silence of the hospital, the killer&39;s presence begins to assert itself&; a vivid evocation of an extraordinary moment in crime history, death of a murdereris a dark and gripping meditation on the fears and temptations that haunt us all
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square after the sudden loss of his wife, michael turner moves to london to start againliving on a quiet street in hampstead, he develops a close bond with the nelson family next door: josh, samantha and their two young daughtersthe friendship at first seems to offer the prospect of healing, but then a devastating event changes all their lives, and michael finds himself bearing the burden of grief and a terrible secretsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a powerful and atmospheric thriller set during the cold war, from the internationally acclaimed author of 'the bridge of sighsbeing framed for a murder should just be part of his cover storyit is the height of the cold waror is it? exiled suddenly to vienna, treacherous city of spies, sev finds himself caught up in a cat-and-mouse game where survival is the only prizeto be wrongly accused of murder once is a misfortunebut in a world where no good deed goes unpunished, loyalty can be the biggest crime of allwhen a defector mysteriously returns to the eastern european village of his birth, it's a chance for disgraced detective brano sev to redeem himselfsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretwice - and it's a conspiracy
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square there are no secrets in ireland, it is said, but there is a sinister presence in this collection of stories who is prepared to wreck lives in the pursuit of these secretsmary beckett also wrote a collection of stories called "a belfast woman" and a novel called "give them stones"see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square when constance barrington dies, she leaves behind a wealthy estate and a complex family networkit is a paltry inheritance and one that comes to symbolise the inequity at the heart of the barrington familybut it is through louise's inheritance - those dusty, long-forgotten books - that the most explosive secret of all will come to light, bringing with it a very different future for her and the rest of the familysoon, old family feuds and long-hidden resentments come to the surface - and with them, secrets start to emergesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe new provisions are far from fair; some benefit hugely and others hardly at allconstance - possessed of a long memory and a spiteful disposition - altered her will shortly before her deathconstance's granddaughter, louise, is bequeathed the copyright for her late grandfather's novels (barely remembered, long-since out of print and valuable only as a reminder of the man she loved)but when the whole family gathers to hear her last will and testament, they are in for a terrible shock
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a us national book award finalist and now a major motion picture -- one of the most buzzed-about films at sundance , starring shailene woodley and miles tellersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreaimee's cluelessfor the first time in his life, he has the power to make a difference in someone else's life - or ruin it foreverbut aimee's not like other girls, and before long he's in way over his headhe has no plans for college and will probably end up folding men's shirts for a livingokay, so he's not exactly a shining academic staraimee needs help, and it's up to the sutterman to show aimee a splendiferous time and then let her go forth and prosperhe'll get everyone dancinghe' ll get everyone in your parents' poolsutter keeley's the guy you want at your partyaimee is a social disaster
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square 'witty, funny, warm and wise' marian keyesis it a break? or is it a blip?'you've just had a holiday,' i pointed out, trying not to yawnbut as the short break becomes a chasm, can they find a way back to each other? most importantly, do they want to? see oxfam website for delivery information read morewhen what should have been a proposal turns into a break, liv and adam find themselves on opposite sides of the life they had mapped outfriends and family all think they're crazy; liv throws herself into work - animals are so much simpler than humans - and adam tries to get himself out of the hole he's dugoh wait, there is'there's nothing worse than the last day of holiday'wasn't that enough of a break?''i don't mean that kind of break
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square from the author of the acclaimed the noonday demon comes an exquisitely perceptive story of family, sexuality, and the changes wrought by grief and lossinstead, he discovers that she is terminally illpart eulogy and part confession, a stone boat is a luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his motherbut as time runs out and tragedy looms closer, it is the relationship between harry and his mother that emerges in all its stark simplicity and purityharry, an internationally celebrated concert pianist, arrives in paris to confront his glamorous mother about his homosexualitysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt and depression at the prospect of her death, he embarks on a series of intense love affairs
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square the orient expressas the train sweeps on, revelations, confessions and assignations unfold against the most romantic and infamous setting in the worlda mysterious errand; a promise made to a dying friend; an unexpected proposal; a secret reaching back a lifetimesee oxfam website for delivery information read morefor one group of passengers settling in to their seats and taking their first sips of champagne, the journey from london to venice is more than the trip of a lifetime
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a post-modern puzzle about self and identityalexander embarks on a remarkable experiment, the likes of which no one has attempted before, maybe that's why there is a detective watching himit is remarkable how quickly the mood shifts from talk of big questions (religion, god, beauty, how mirrors lie) to the perfectly ordinary nuances between a couplewith penny, alexander is a gadfly, mucking her about, unable to see past her beauty; but with melanie, he has met his matchsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square "passion for vegetables" is a celebration of 60 different vegetables (from carrots to salsify), with over 150 recipes featuring ingredients from around the world: asian-inspired corn cakes with panee and green chillies and algerian swiss chard and potato stew with yoghurtevery course is covered, from hot and cold soups to sauces, conserves and condiments (paul even includes a few 'vegetable-inspired desserts'using beetroot in wickedly rich chocolate brownies), and applies traditional techniques to less familiar vegetables to show how to incorporate them into everyday cookingthe introduction discusses vegetable storage, selection, preparation, nutritional values and ethnic originssee oxfam website for delivery information read morepaul gayler shares new ideas for vegetables we take for granted (e
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square norman mailer portrays the monumental artist in the vital, intimate and formative days of his youthat the heart of mailer's interpretation is picasso's relationship with his first great love, fernande olivier, conducted over a seven year period that included revolutionary works such as les demoiselles d'avignon, the mysteries of cubism and picasso's friendships with apollinaire and gertrude steinsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a breathtaking story of bravery, friendship and fighting for what you believe in, umbrella mouse to the rescue is the eagerly anticipated sequel to anna fargher's bestselling and award-winning the umbrella mouse, based on the true stories of the heroic animals caught in the conflict of wwiibeautifully illustrated by sam usher, pip will take you on an incredible journey through a war that reaches even the smallest of creaturesyoung mouse pip hanway is in france as she continues fighting for the french resistance group noah's ark: a secret gang of animals operating beneath the feet of human soldiers, whose aim is to liberate france and secure the victory of the alliesbut as pip makes the perilous journey through occupied territory, she soon realizes that danger comes from all sides and that the enemy is all around, and she does everything she can to fight for her friendssee oxfam website for delivery information read moredetermined to reach her ancestral home of the umbrella museum in italy, pip hopes she can find long-lost family and a home
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a history of the mediterranean sea published in two volumes by the folio society inan excellent gift for someone with an interest in all things mediterraneanattractively illustrated with colour photographs and comes with own pictorial sleevesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas new condition
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square a humorous book looking at the etiquette rules for women planning social engagements in the ssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square after the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue pacificthe crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound royal bengal tiger and pi - a 16-year-old indian boyyann martel's life of pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measurethe scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent yearsit is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in godsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square on the night of march the royal navy and british commandos assaulted the german held french atlantic port of saint-nazaire in one of the most audacious raids of the second world wartheir plan was simple: to drive an old destroyer packed with three tons of explosives at full speed into the outer gate of the dockit's complement of commandos would then rush out to engage the town's garrison and blow up a series of carefully selected targetssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square denzel washington stars in the eponymous role of this legal drama directed by dan gilroywhen his partner has a heart attack roman is forced to take the reigns of the firm and, in doing so, discovers secrets that his partner had kept from him including the fact that the firm is bankruptas he looks for a new job, roman finds work with george pierce (colin farrell), a big-time lawyer with a very different way of workingwhen george assigns roman the case of derrell ellerbee (deron horton), a young black man accused of killing a bank clerk, derrell convinces roman that he is innocent and that he will testify against the real killerisrael has spent years of his life working hard to fight for justice at his small law firm in los angelesbut once roman has this information, will he use it in an ethical way? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only childits blend of a page-turning story, evocative tokyo setting and utterly surprising ending make it a must-read for anyone interested in international fictionbut when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shatteredone of the biggest-selling japanese thrillers ever, and the inspiration for a cult film, the devotion of suspect x is now being discovered across the worldwhen detective kusanagi of the tokyo police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigatedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morenothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square as this riveting tour-de-force opens, the police already want to talk to the photographer cass neary about a mysterious death she was involved with previously, but before they can bring her in, cass accepts a job offer from overseas and hops on a planein this eagerly awaited sequel to the award-winning generation loss, cass neary finds her own worst fears confirmed: it's always darkest before it turns completely blackpaid off by her shady employer, she buys a one-way ticket to reykjavik, in search of a lover from her own dark pastin helsinki, she authenticates a series of disturbing but stunning images taken by a famous fashion photographer who has cut himself off from the violent nordic music scene where he first made his reputationbut when the fashion photographer's mutilated corpse is discovered back in finland, cass finds herself sucked into a vortex of ancient myth and betrayal, vengeance and serial murder, set against a bone-splintering soundtrack of black metal and the terrifying beauty of the sunless icelandic wildernesssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square meet fahner, the retired small-town doctor who resorts to the garden axe when his patience with his cruel wife runs outa nameless lawyer invites us to read an extraordinary dossier of violent and unspeakable actsmeet patrick, so entranced by the sight of his sleeping girlfriend that he cuts a small piece out of her back, just to see what she tastes likebut however heinous the crime, the narrator shows how the human circumstances behind events can tell a different storysee oxfam website for delivery information read moremeet the silent assassin who calmly despatches two neo-nazi thugs on a railway platformall the crimes have one thing in common: the guilty have never been convicted in a court of law
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square in ha'penny, england has completed its slide into fascist dictatorshipsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe last hopes of democracy seem extinguishedfrom the ha'penny seats in the theatre to the ha'pennys that cover dead men's eyes, the conspiracy and the investigation swirl inexorably to a stunning conclusionwhat he finds leads him to a conspiracy of peers and communists - of staunch king-and-country patriots and hardened ira gunmen - to murder the prime minister and his ally, adolf hitlerthe brilliant but compromised inspector carmichael of scotland yard is assigned the caseagainst a background of domestic espionage and suppression, a band of idealists blackmails an actress who holds the key to the fuhrer's deaththen a bomb explodes in a london suburb
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square an eagerly awaited collection of brand new, specially commissioned short stories from the master of historical crime fiction edward marston, featuring his quick-witted railway detective, inspector robert colbeckin this thrilling selection of stories, a young porter is found dead in a coal tub; colbeck devises a trap to catch a thief; and a burnt train carriage holds a gruesome secret in a small coastal villagewith a new suspect at every turn, can the duo unearth the real villains? including 'the end of the line' and 'the barber of ravenglass', jealousy, vengeance and duplicity all collide in this supercharged anthology, proving once again, that inspector colbeck is the master of mysteriesas colbeck and his trusty aide sergeant victor leeming begin to piece together clues and motives for each crime, it becomes clear the pair must stay a step ahead of the culprits to solve the casessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square londonhowever, the further he delves into the case, the more mysterious it becomesfaced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noosewhen it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner, colbeck realizes that this must be intrinsically linked to the killer's choice of weaponon the shocking discovery of a passenger's body on the great western railway excursion train, detective inspector robert colbeck and his assistant, sergeant victor leeming, are dispatched to the scenewhen a second man is strangled by a noose on a train, colbeck knows that he must act quickly; can he catch the murderer before more lives are lost? the memorable characters, first featured in the railway detective, again lead you down unexpected paths in their quest to solve the mystery of the noose murderssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square york, winter, - two brothers have been shot to deathjim is off on the trail of pickpockets, 'station loungers' and other small fry of the york underworldbut then in a tiny, one-room pub with a badly smoking fire he enters the orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villain who is playing for much higher stakeshe tells jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always walk in twossee oxfam website for delivery information read moremeanwhile, jim stringer meets the lost luggage porter, humblest among the employees of the north eastern railway company
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square tie-in edition of ian rankin's bestselling stand-alone thriller, which became a major drama adaptation for itvsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremike mackenzie is a self-made man with too much time on his hands and a bit of the devil in his soulhe is looking for something to liven up the days and settles on a plot to rip-off one of the most high-profile targets in the capital - the national gallery of scotlandso, together with two close friends from the art world, he devises a plan to lift some of the most valuable artwork aroundbut of course, the real trick is to rob the place for all its worth whilst persuading the world that no crime was ever committed
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square freya wyley meets nancy holdaway amid the wild celebrations of ve day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendshipflitting from war-haunted oxford to the bright new shallows of the s, freya plots the unpredictable course of a woman's life and loves in extraordinary timesfreya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on fleet street while nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel publishedboth friends become entangled with robert cosway, a charismatic young man whose own ambition will have a momentous bearing on their livessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square after a decade of wanderlust which took him to nearly 70 countries around the world, alastair scott decided it was time to make "home" his destinationsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreencompassing issues of the land, eccentrics in castles, the state of the gaidheal, homelessness in edinburgh, and all the idiosyncrasies of history, development and decline in between, scott's journey covered miles of island, mountain and lowlandand home for him is scotlandhis native land deserved more than a cursory glanceit reveals a personal vision of the scottish consciousness today, examining its nature and importance, and its potential for future changeresolving to explore scotland and the scottish people in as much depth and breadth as possible, the author drew up an itinerary which would take him from the outermost isle to the innermost city, sampling the experiences of modern scotland in all their diversitybut for a man who has tracked across alaska with a pack of dogs, armed only with determination, it was to be no ordinary journeythe variety of place and circumstance was exceeded only by that of the characters encountered en routethis work is the story of one man's rediscovery of his own country
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