Summer Reading Guide
Your trusted
guide to the season's best books, CDs, DVDs, gift ideas and more.
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Gift Ideas
The Man Who Scared A Shark To Death And Other Tales Of Drunken Debauchery →
Noel Boivin and Christopher Lombardo
$19.95
Thrillers
The Thief
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
Investigator Isaac Bell is on the trail of a ruthless espionage agent . . .
On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective... Buy or find out more →
The Innocent
$32.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen.
Now, after years of searching, child... Buy or find out more →
Cell 8
$27.99 – Paperback book / Quercus
A cheap crooner by the name of John Schwarz earns his keep on a ferry between Sweden and Finland, singing evergreens for drunken passengers. One night, he loses his temper with a man harassing women in the crowd, beating... Buy or find out more →
She's Never Coming Back
$19.99 – Paperback book / Sphere
A Swedish psychological thriller dark enough to rival Stieg Larsson
Mike Zetterberg lives with his wife Ylva and their daughter in a house just outside Helsingborg. One evening, Ylva isn't home as expected after work. Mi... Buy or find out more →
Readings Recommends: History
Australia And Appeasement: Imperial Foreign Policy And The Origins Of World War II →
Christopher Waters
$39.95
The Jewish Dark Continent: Life And Death In The Russian Pale Of Settlement →
Nathaniel Deutsch
$44.95
Readings Recommends: Politics
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries Of Financial Folly →
Carmen Reinhart And Kenneth Rogoff
$31.95
Life Without Money: Building Fair And Sustainable Economies →
Anitra Nelson & Frans Timmerman (Eds)
$39.95
Travel Books
The Grand Tour: Letters And Photographs Form The British Empire Expedition 1922 →
Agatha Christie
$39.99
Readings Recommends: Gardening
The Little Veggie Patch Co: How to Grow Food in Small Spaces →
Fabian Capomolla and Mat Pember
$45.00
Food and Wine Books
Shannon Bennett's France: A Personal Guide To Fine Dining In Regional France →
Shannon Bennett
$44.99
Personal Development
This Is How: Help For The Self
$28.00 – Paperback book / Picador
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running With Scissors comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books
To say that Augusten B... Buy or find out more →
The Little Book Of Anxiety
$29.95 – Paperback book /
The Little Book Of Anxiety is for anyone who has experienced anxiety - which is pretty much everyone. It is a funny book about a serious subject: the ways in which anxiety can impact on your life and the lives of those a... Buy or find out more →
The Body Language Of Love
$19.99 – Paperback book / Pease International
From using body language to increase your mating rating to finding a long-term partner, THE BODY LANGUAGE OF LOVE will help you to identify and correct the body language that could be letting you down. This book covers e... Buy or find out more →
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love And Intimacy Alive In Committed Relationships
$29.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
The greatest sexual pleasure and emotional fulfilment in a person’s lifetime is possible in the middle and later years, when he or she has developed a mature sense of self and found genuine intimacy with another person. ... Buy or find out more →
Humour Books
Stuff White People Like (To Talk About): 50 Ways To Start Conversations With Caucasians →
Christian Lander
$19.95
The Man Who Scared A Shark To Death And Other Tales Of Drunken Debauchery →
Noel Boivin and Christopher Lombardo
$19.95
Readings Recommends: Graphic Novels & Comics
The Adventures Of Herge
$27.95 – Hardcover book / Drawn & Quarterly
A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF TINTINS CREATOR
THE ADVENTURES OF HERGE is a biographical comic of the world-renowned Georges Prosper Remi, better known by his pen name, Herge. Meticulously researched with references to many of t... Buy or find out more →
Everything Volume 1
$36.95 – Hardcover book / Drawn & Quarterly
From her first comics published in the Evergeen State College school paper to her influential weekly comic strip, ERNIE POOK'S COMEEK; from her bestselling creative how-to memoir comic books, WHAT IT IS and PICTURE THIS,... Buy or find out more →
Simon's Cat: In Kitten Chaos
$25.95 – Hardcover book / Text Publishing
Like all great cartoon creations, from Peanuts to Asterix, from Garfield to Tintin, Simon's Cat has continued to evolve by introducing new characters and developing new storylines.
After the runaway success of the origni... Buy or find out more →
Batman: Noel
$32.95 – Hardcover book / Random House
Inspired by Charles Dickens' immortal classic A Christmas Carol, BATMAN: NOEL features different interpretations of The Dark Knight, along with his enemies and allies, in different eras.
Along the way, Batman must come t... Buy or find out more →
