Pyramids: (Discworld Novel 7)

Terry Pratchett

'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.' Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse - and indeed treasury - is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to hon...

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton

'He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface'. Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Ze...

Tropic Of Capricorn

Henry Miller

Banned in America for almost thirty years because of its explicit sexual content, this companion volume to Miller's Tropic of Cancer chronicles his life in 1920s New York City. Famous for its frank portrayal of life in Brooklyn's ethnic neighborhoods and Miller's outrageous sexual exploits, The Tropic o...

Notes from the Velvet Underground

Howard Sounes

"COMPELLING". (The Sunday Telegraph). "CONTROVERSIAL ...Sounes' book pushes the standard Reed narrative". (The New York Times). Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was ...

The Burning Girls

C. J. Tudor

C. J. Tudor is back with her darkest, twistiest novel yet. Welcome to the small village of Chapel Croft where all your worst nightmares come true . . .Reverend Jack Brooks is looking for a fresh start.Chapel Croft appears the perfect place, but the village has a dark and dangeroushistory - and the ghost...

Astronomy Activity Book for Kids: 100+ Fun Ways to Learn About Space and Stargazing

Aurora Lipper

Explore planets, stars, and constellations with this "out of this world" educational activity book for kids ages 5?7Space is awesome, and we can explore a lot of it from right here on Earth using our eyes, binoculars, and telescopes. In this interactive activity book, kids ages 5?7 get to be astronomers...