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Ideas for Valentine’s Day:
The Picador Book of Love Poems edited by John Stammers £9.99
Award-winning poet John Stammers has created a unique collection: by pairing some of the finest love poems from centuries past with modern counterparts, he presents a book of surprising connections, echoes and juxtapositions, where classic and contemporary love poems shed new and unexpected light on one another.
Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance £10.00
Over the ages handwritten letters have facilitated some of the most intimate exchanges between people. The words of love letters allow us insights into the private relationships of people across centuries, cultures and continents. While many anthologies of love letters exist, a book reproducing actual love letters in the author’s own hand has not previously been published and this book features letters from ancient Egypt to the present day.
Me Before You by Jo Jo Moyes £7.99
Destined to be the novel that friends press upon each other more than any other next year, it is a tremendous example of what commercial fiction can do when in the hands of an expert. Moyes does a majestic job of conjuring a cast of characters who are charismatic, credible and utterly compelling (The Independent )
Ten Poems About Love £4.95
I love this range - ’Instead of a card’ by Candlestick press are pamphlets of poems that come with a book mark and envelope to send to your loved one. At a very good price too!
Guess How Much I Love You: 30 Gorgeous postcards £6.99
Thirty gorgeous postcards from the bestselling picture book. Send them to your friends or lover – if you can bear to part with them!
All You Knit is Love: 20 patterns for Romantic Handmade Gifts by Debbie Harrold £5.99
Features 20 knitted characters, including perfect patterns for Valentine’s Day, anniversaries, engagements or weddings.
Jane Eyre/Lady Chatterley’s Lover/Wuthering Heights: Penguin Clothbound Classics £14.99
Beautifully designed cloth bound classics. A classic gift that looks great on the bookshelf!
Valentine’s Things to Make and Do £4.99
This is a fresh new edition of this popular children’s activity book. This title comes with 18 great ideas for gifts to give your sweetheart, including sparkly heart love tokens, tissue paper flowers and a valentine bracelet. Every activity is clearly and vividly illustrated in an appealing and colourful style, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions
All You Need is Love £4.99
A little book packed with quotations that will have you feeling the love in no time!
Penguin ‘Together’ Mug £8.95
by Andrew Miller
£17.99
Shortlisted for the Costa prize, we thought this book was “As compassionate as it is ingenious. Pure confirms Miller as a superlative technician – a master of register, narrative and characterisation.” Set in 1785 one man is commissioned to clear the cemetery of Les Innocents. (Beautifully designed cover too!)
by P.D. James
£18.99
Set to be our hardback fiction bestseller. I was talking to a very well read customer who waxed lyrical about this! If you like Jane Austen and Crime you are in for a real treat! Definitely one for my list
by Stella Gibbons
£7.99
A glorious collection of stories from the author of ‘Cold Comfort Farm’. The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste.
by Philip Pullman
£15
Everyman Classics have released the trilogy (Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass) in a single volume with a beautiful jacket. For young adults and grown-ups alike.
by Louisa Young
£16.99
Unashamedly another from the Costa list. One of my most enjoyable reads of this year. Balances the
experience of women left behind during the first World War, with the atrocities and emotional challenges faced by the men in the trenches. Brilliantly written.
by Anita Desai
£12.99
A triptych of beautifully crafted novellas makes up Anita Desai’s exquisite new book. Set in modern India, but where history still casts a long shadow. One of Tessa’s favourite fiction books this year.
by Nancy Mitford
£8.99
Published a year after Nancy Mitford’s first novel ‘Highland Fling’, ‘Christmas Pudding’ gives a flavour of life for the Bright Young Things of the twenties and thirties, and a taste of what was to come in her later novels. And for a real Mitford fan Penguin have published all her novels in a handsome hardback (£30) or paperback (£18.99). A must for the bookshelf!
by Claire Tomalin
£30
Claire Tomalin has earned her reputation is one of Britain’s most respected biographers after her books on Thomas Hardy and Samuel Pepys. Here she captures brilliantly the complex character of this great genius.
