Arabian Sands

Wilfred Thesiger; Rory Stewart (Foreword by, Introduction by)

Wilfred Thesiger charts the time he spent living with the Bedu, including his legendary traverses of the Empty Quarter. Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, a legendary figure renowned for his travels though some of the most inaccessible places on earth. Arabian Sands w...

Eyrie

Tim Winton

Tom Keely's reputation is in ruins. And that's the upside.Divorced and unemployed, he's lost faith in everything precious to him. Holed up in a grim highrise, cultivating his newfound isolation, Keely looks down at a society from which he's retired hurt and angry. He's done fighting the good fight, and ...

The Noise of Time

Julian Barnes

** The Sunday TimesNumber One bestseller **A Daily Telegraph / Financial Times / Guardian / Sunday Times / The Times /New Statesman/ Observer Book of the Year'BARNES'S MASTERPIECE.' - OBSERVERIn May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through t...

You and Me on Vacation

Emily Henry

Two Friends Ten Summer Trips Their Last Chance to Fall in Love 12 Summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 Summers ago: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every ye...

Chico the Schnauzer

Taryn Brumfitt

From Australian of the Year and founder of the Body Image Movement, Taryn Brumfitt, comes the delightful story of Chico the Schnauzer, a dog who learns to embrace all the wonderful things his unique body can do! Chico the Schnauzer goes on the biggest playdate of his life, spending time with all his do...

Collision Course (#12 Friday Barnes)

R.A. Spratt

Friday Barnes is Europe's most wanted in this latest installment of the bestselling detective series. Friday's Mum, the Nobel Prize winning physicist, has been accused of espionage. The police think she's been selling secrets about the CERN Hadron Super Collider. Friday knows her mother isn't capable of...