MONDAY MAY 11th - THURSDAY MAY 28th.
Sneak preview with wine and nibbles at the Kelburn shop, from 3pm, Thursday May 7th.
‘Tis the season of twisted umbrellas, so it's time to stock up on books which will keep you enthralled despite the weather. Our famous sale features fiercely discounted fiction, politics, history, art & architecture, sciences and current affairs. University Press & other academic books, quality hardbacks and paperbacks, children's books and more.
During the sale we will also be holding special discount days:
Thursday May 14th: for one day only, 25% off all children's books not already discounted.
Thursday May 21st: for one day only, 25% off all fiction not already discounted.
Thursday May 28th: for one day only, 25% off all non-fiction not already discounted. |
 Singularity
by Charlotte Grimshaw $32.99 Random House Characters from Grimshaw's Montana Medal-winning Opportunity reappear in this book. Also a series of short stories which can be read as a novel, Singularity investigates the motives and connections that link her five main characters. Buy now  Blind Singer by Chris Price $24.99 AUP Music, science and history come together to make poetry in Price's new collection. Her long sequence "The Angel Question", originally written for the Are Angels Okay? science-literature project, brings the languages and imagery of nursery rhymes and physics into counterpoint. Buy now |  Mother's Day by Laurence Fearnley $28.00 Penguin Books
Solo-mother Maggie's three children continually give her grief, something she doesn't really need any more of. When her work as a home-help caregiver brings her into contact with a wheelchair-bound guitarist, things start looking up, and she recovers her enthusiasm for singing. But as her family gather for Mother's Day, tragedy awaits... Buy now  Further Convictions Pending: Poems 1998 - 2008 by Vincent O'Sullivan RRP $35.00 vicbooks price $32.00 Forty or so poems from each of his last four collections, along with forty-two new poems, make this the definitive collection of O'Sullivan's recent work. Buy now |
 The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters $38.99 Virago Physically and emotionally scarred from his World War II service, Roddie Ayres struggles to keep up with the demands of his family's crumbling Georgian estate. His mother and sister seem content to mimic the lifestyles of their predecessors, and have little contact with the outside world. But one day a doctor is needed, and his arrival stirs up the uneasy spirits of the past. Buy now In the Kitchen by Monica Ali $37.99 Doubleday A death in the cellars of a cosmopolitan hotel throws the staff into consternation. As the mystery unravels, so too do the disparate stories of the "psychos, exiles, culinary artists and people who just need a job" who have ended up working in the London hotel's kitchen. Buy now Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie $37.99 Bloomsbury When Nagasaki is bombed, all that remains of Hiroko Tanaka's former life are the shadows of three cranes which had decorated her kimono, and have now burned into her back. In search of another life, she travels to join her fiancée's half-sister, her husband and their Urdu-speaking employee. But the Partition of India and later the furore surrounding 9/11, reveal that disasters and misfortunes can erupt anywhere without warning. Buy now Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro $35.00 Faber & Faber Five interconnected stories of musicians and music-lovers, critics and students, grappling with the vicissitudes of talent, reputation and love. From the author of The Remains of the Day. Buy now |  ***Fourth Estate 25th Anniversary*** Fourth Estate are celebrating twenty-five years of business with a "3 for 2" deal. Buy two of any of the twenty-five specially marked books and receive a free book of your choice from that selection.  The Children's Book
by A S Byatt $38.99
Chatto & Windus Olive Wellwood, a fêted author, writes individual books for her many children. Theirs is a privileged life, though visitors such as a working-class boy, a mysterious German puppeteer and their mother's passionately argumentative political friends, all give them glimpses of other worlds. But the golden Edwardian summer is soon to be broken, as war looms and the two generations' differing aspirations and philosophies rip them apart. Buy now The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen $38.99 Vintage The Smithsonian Institution awards a genius mapmaker with a major scientific prize, little suspecting that the recipient is the twelve-year-old son of a cowboy and an entomologist. Young T.S. is determined to attend the awards dinner, and sets off in the middle of the night to ride the rails across the USA. He's seeking his fortune, but he may need more than just his telescope, theodolite and four compasses to find it. Buy now Stone's Fall by Iain Pears $38.99 Jonathan Cape Before he fell to his death from a window of his London home, John Stone bestrode the world as an arms manufacturer and financier, able to manipulate international markets. The novel travels backwards through time to reveal how he arrived at that point. A quest, a love-story and an espionage murder-mystery set within the world of high finance and the arms race of the early twentieth century. Buy now |
 The Age of the Warrior by Robert Fisk $26.99
Fourth Estate A selection of Fisk's "Comment" pieces for the Saturday Independent, combining his thoughts on international and especially Middle-Eastern politics, the leaders and dictators he has interviewed and the conflicts he has reported on, along with essays on more personal topics. Buy now |  The Thoughtful Dresser by Linda Grant $36.99 Virago Clothes can be a sign of identity - chosen or inate. They can be a passport into a social scene, or mark out those who don't belong. Grant provides stories of immigrants trying to assimilate, a woman whose hat saves her life in Nazi Germany and other portraits to illuminate the ways in which, regardless of how we feel about fashion, how we look and what we wear can define us in the eyes of others. Buy now |
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