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Laura Dockrill performs Roald Dahl's Pig

Filmed in the shop as part of the showcase for The Imagine Festival at the Souithbank.

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Storage Stories. Jim Bob

What is Stephen Harper Reading? Yann Martel.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Sometimes he lets us help him.

For more than two years and over seventy books, the Booker Prize winning author of The Life of Pi has been sending books to the Canadian Prime Minister, each accompanied by a short essay about the book in question, about reading and about life.

Just Kids . Patti Smith

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New from Sam Shepard Short stories, short narratives, lyrics, dialogues, all set in his inimitable landscape of the American West.

US import. £16.99

Patti Smith writes movingly of her formative New York years and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.

£18.99

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The People's Manifesto Mark Thomas

The Long Song. Andrea Levy

The Pleasures of the Damned

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The definitive volume (495 pages) of Bukowski's poetry.

A bargain £14.99

The Long awaited new novel from the award-winning author of Small Island.


His mum once describe him to us thusly: 'Well he calls himself a comedian.'

A bargain at £4.99

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Raymond Carver Collected Stories.

McSweeney's number 32

The Library of America definitive edition of Raymond Carver's stories including Beginners - the never before published, original version of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.

Hardback - over 1000 pages.

£25.00


New stories by Anthony Doerr, Wells Tower, Chris Bachelder, Heidi Julavatis, Jim Shepard and more.

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This is Britain.

By the incomparable

M Sasek.

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The Satorialist Scott Schuman

Read the extraordinary story of the man who built the world famous Crystal Palace Dinosaurs.

The book of one of our favourite blogs. Very handsomely produced, too.

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New Geoff Dyer -Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

Zadie Smith calls Geoff Dyer a national treasure. Who are we to argue?

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