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DIARY OF A SECRET TORY MP: (ALMOST!) TRUE STORY

Book number: 95022 Product format: Paperback Author: HENRY MORRIS

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The long-awaited diary from Whitehall's most scandalous MP, the book is an outrageous spoof of the classic political journal that pulls back the Lulu Lytle curtains to expose extraordinary goings-on at the Houses of Parliament during a tumultuous 12 months. From Brexit to Covid, parties to pig culling, the Conservative government has lurched from crisis to crisis. With a front-row seat on the, erm, backbenches, the Secret Tory MP has picked up on all the petty rivalries, bad decision-making, and scandalous affairs that Whitehall has to offer and has no qualms about sharing it all. Join the mystery MP as he drunk-texts Liz Truss after a crate of WKD, accompanies Jacob Rees-Mogg (and his kids) to picket a foodbank, takes on the French in the 'Trawler Wars' and euthanises Rishi Sunak's dog - and that's just October. Scarily realistic, 320pp, paperback.

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ISBN 9780008535209
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GOOSE GREEN: THE DECISIVE BATTLE OF THE FALKLANDS

Book number: 95025 Product format: Paperback Author: NIGEL ELY

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Falklands War veteran, 2 Para and SAS, here is a true story of a great victory against all the odds, told by the men who won it. In April 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic. On 28th May, 450 men of the 2nd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, went into action to retake the settlement of Goose Green on East Falkland, where more than 1,000 Argentine soldiers were holding 119 Falkland Islanders - men, women, children and one baby - in squalid conditions. 40 years on, Goose Green is still the biggest and bloodiest battle the British Army has fought in modern times, and this book is the living narrative of that battle. It is told by the very men who fought it, not just the soldiers but also the SAS, the Royal Navy and Merchant Navy, and others, in more than 100 exclusive personal accounts which are horrifying, touching, occasionally heart-breaking and sometimes extremely funny, presenting the most vivid and authentic records of battle ever published. Includes maps and Roll of Honour, 410pp in paperback, 16 pages of colour and black and white photos.

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ISBN 9781789465549
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LIBRORUM RIDICULORUM: A COMPENDIUM OF BIZARRE BOOKS

Book number: 95028 Product format: Hardback Author: BRIAN LAKE

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How to be Happy Though Married, How I Got Licked and Why, The English: Are They Human?, Erections on Allotments, Drummer Dick's Discharge, Planet of the Knob Heads, Tosser Gunman, How to Avoid Being Drowned, Scouts in Bondage, The Art of Faking Exhibition Poultry, Moles and Their Meaning - here is a celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to treat all bibliophiles, booksellers and fans of the bizarre. Complete with covers from our past and books that have inexplicably fallen out of print - now never be forgotten. Beautifully produced full page colour covers, marbled endpapers. 128pp.

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ISBN 9780008545543
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REN: THE ANCIENT CHINESE ART OF FINDING PEACE

Book number: 95029 Product format: Hardback Author: YEN OOI

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A beautiful look at the Ancient Chinese philosophy of Rén and how it can help us with our hectic modern lives. The Chinese character Rén combines the word for 'person' and the number 'two', representing human connection. In the teachings of ancient philosopher Confucius, Rén is the study of our relationship with those around us. This practical, beautiful and remarkable book explains the various facets and explores how it applies to everything from our relationship with ourselves, people in our lives, to how we relate to society and the wider world and how we can connect better with family, friends and colleagues and become helpful members of society and find fulfilment in ideas of community, justice, morality and compassion. It looks at roles of being independent, mindful empathy, doing something new, loyalty and trust, thoughtful criticisms, respect, multiple roles, appreciating calm and better understanding ourselves through the people around us. There are activities like smiling at strangers, changing habits and along the way useful quotations to ponder such as from The Analects: 'The learned is ashamed when their words overshadow their actions.' Easy to dip into, beautifully designed and presented, line art. 256pp.

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ISBN 9781787398221
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TREACLE WALKER

Book number: 95031 Product format: Paperback Author: ALAN GARNER

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Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize and a Guardian Best Fiction Book of 2021, the novel is a fusion of myth, magic and the stories we make for ourselves. An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock, squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds' eggs and plays with his marbles. One day a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph's pyjamas and a lamb's shoulder blade. A mysterious friendship develops between them. Treacle Walker has magical powers and bestows magical gifts on the boy and a human-like spiritual creature who lives in a bog. Possibly written for young adults in a slightly old-fashioned, comic book style and with many made up words like 'clanjandering'. A slim quick read, 152pp, paperback.

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ISBN 9780008477806
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