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Mr B's Bestsellers
An ever-changing list of some of the books that are stars in our store whether or not they're flying off shelves elsewhere
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365 Penguins jean-Luc Fromental It’s bold, funny, has an environmental message, lots and lots of penguins and helps with maths – What’s not to like? A family starts mysteriously receiving a penguin a day for every day of the year. Cute at first, but increasingly things get noisier and smellier and they always hog… |
£9.95 | |
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A Fraction of the Whole Toltz, Steve For something fresh, different, cool, a bit crazy and not at all fluffy in any way whatsoever, then this is for you. And Ed’s with me on this. Set in Australia, Toltz takes the reader on a fast-paced, funny, devastating and philosophical journey though the life of the dysfunctional Jasper, his… |
£8.99 | |
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A Tangled Summer Caroline Kington The debut novel by Caroline Kington. A tangled (as the title suggests) web of antics woven by the inhabitants of the fictitious west country village of Summerstoke - drama and love in the farmyards of the south west. Paperback - Orion - 2007… |
£5.99 | |
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Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the 2nd World War Alistair Cooke Alistair Cooke's American Journey: Life on the Home Front in the Second World War Alistair Cooke, well known journalist and broadcaster, journeyed across the U.S. as World War II broke out, talking to all the ordinary folk he came across, from miners to lumberjacks, recording a fascinatin… |
£8.99 | |
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Anonymous Lawyer Jeremy Blachman Bad day at the office? Had a run in with your boss? Buy this book. It’ll cheer you up no end because at least you don’t work for this guy! The anonymous lawyer is a recruitment partner at a U.S. law firm and “PC” or “model employer” he is not. He doesn&rsquo… |
£7.99 | |
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Death and the Penguin Andrey Kurkov Ukrainian writing - If the name and the jacket image is not enough to make you want to buy this modern Ukrainian classic immediately, then how about the fact that it does actually feature a Ukrainian penguin! Viktor (a journalist) shares an apartment with Misha (a depressed penguin rescued… |
£6.99 | |
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Harry the Dirty Dog Gene Zion The Harry books (there are 3 in still in print in the UK ) are simply wonderful picture book stories about a little black and white spotted dog. In this, the original story, Harry loves everything except having a bath and so buries his bath brush in the garden and runs away when at bath time. Aft… |
£5.99 | |
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House of Orphans Helen Dunmore Another excellent historical novel by Helen Dunmore, this has been chosen by the Bath Literature Festival as the "Bath Big Read". Helen has popped into Mr B's in a pre-Festival whizz round, and signed lots of copies, so if you can't see her at the Festival or if you want to read it… |
£7.99 | |
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How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup J.L.Carr We took a different approach with our 2006 World Cup promotion – we tracked down an excellent translated fiction title from authors born in each participating country to create a World Cup of Books (thank goodness we only opened the shop after the group stages were over!). While most books wer… |
£6.99 | |
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How to be Free Tom Hodgkinson Having reminded us all just how to be idle in his previous, hugely successful book, Hodgkinson turns his attention to freeing us from the bonds of an overly consumer-focused bureaucractic existence. Drawing on French existentialists, British punks, US beats, hippies, anarchists and medieval thinkers… |
£7.99 | |
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Lost and Found Oliver Jeffers A gorgeous story of a little boy who finds a penguin on his doorstep. He thinks the penguin must be lost and so he tries to take hime home to the south pole in a home-made boat. But as he leaves the penguin all by himself, he realises that in fact, maybe the penguin was just lonely and looking for s… |
£5.99 | |
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Sea of Poppies Ghosh, Amitav In the running for the 2008 Booker Prize and deservedly so, this is the new novel from the much-acclaimed author of The Glass Palace. In nineteenth century India, amidst her poppy-fields alongside the Ganges, Deeti has a vision of a tall-masted ship ocean-faring ship that she could never … |
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