has written almost every day of his long life (he's now 91 years old): notebooks, jottings, drafts of letters to heads of state; and perhaps most movingly of all, letters from his long imprisonment on Robben Island. Conversations with Myself is a very personal book, a book of private thoughts and lessons learned. But, as we have come to expect from , this book shines with hope and gentle wisdom. These letters and diaries give readers a chance to share recollections of a long life, fully lived.
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Body Trade by is a road novel that follows Rosie and Tanya, two Canadian women who leave the Northwest Territories and head south on an ill-conceived road trip through California, Mexico and Central America. The haunting story takes a life-defining twist when their search for freedom and adventure brings them into contact with predators of the Central American sex trafficking trade. Finding themselves in a hell on earth, they are forced to make life-and-death choices in this "sophisticated, substantive and poetic" novel
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We first became aware of when he won the Impac Dublin Award for his novel Ingenious Pain. Set at the beginning of the Enlightenment, that novel made the rounds of MR booksellers amid much conversation and enthusiasm. So it came as no surprise to us when was awarded this year's Costa Book Award in the UK for his newest novel Pure. Here goes back to the Enlightenment, deep in the heart of Paris, where its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged by the king with demolishing it.
At first Baratte sees this as a chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
Take a chance on . You won't be disappointed.
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Happy Valentine's Day!
Since today is one of the most sincere days of the year I thought I'd offer some balance with the help of the folks at . Love, Sex and Other Natural Disasters offers more than one hundred news stories of high-school sweethearts, college hook-ups, dating disasters, weddings, divorces, and restraining orders. With headlines like "Newlyweds Regret Saving Sex for Marriage", "Longtime Sexual Fantasy Awkwardly Fulfilled", "Girlfriend Changes Man into Someone She's Not Interested In", and "Boyfriend Ready to Take Relationship to Previous Level", these reports capture the heartbreak and hilarity of the human experience.
This is the perfect gift to add laughter to that sincere bunch of roses and box of chocolates.
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Hands up those of you engrossed in the happenings at Downton Abbey! Well so are we and here is the official companion edition to the miniseries, The World of Downton Abbey, written by Jessica Fellowes. Illustrated with sketches and research from the production team, as well as on-set photographs from both seasons - this book takes us even deeper into the world of the Crawley family and their servents, with fresh insights into the story and characters as well as the social history.
We also have both Season 1 and Season 2 on DVD. And if you're looking for further reading to steep yourself in the world of Britain around the First World War then check out our list of Downton Abbey reading.
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