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Mr B's BBC Somerset Sound Book Club Books
Yes Mr B's is now "on air" and we're very excited about it too. Starting on Friday 24th August 2006 you can hear more about some of our recommended books on the radio as Mr B chats to presenter Elise Rayner during her BBC Somerset Sound Friday afternoon show (Between 2 -4 pm, Frequency 1566AM).
This list will have all the books that we've talked about on the show so far and the ones that are coming up the following week. As ever, all are available to buy on-line or, if you're coming into town soon, just give us a call or e-mail to have a copy put aside for you.
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A History of Bath Graham Davis and Penny Bonsall A gorgeous, glossy new book on the history of Bath. It takes an inspirational look at this wonderful city from it origins and early history, through frivolity and fashion, its residents, its workers, urban politics and the emergence of Bath as we know it today. With beautiful colour i… |
£20.00 | |
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A Pinch of Posh - A Beginner's Guide to Being Civilised Mr & Mrs Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen "A Pinch of Posh" takes a seriously light-hearted look at how to lead a more civilised and, frankly, posh existence. If you fancy learning what's posh food and what's not, how to spot a fake prada from 100 paces, how to break in a waiter with an eyebrow command or just how to prope… |
£12.99 | |
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A spot of Bother Mark Haddon Q - Will the follow up to "The Curious Incident..." disappoint? A - Very different but just as good. T - Oh yeah, how so? - Well, all the characters are dysfunctional but in a run-of-the-mill English way. So it's about you! Beyond the humour and t… |
£7.99 | |
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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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Any Human Heart William Boyd This was chosen as our first “book of the week” because in my pre-bookselling life it was almost universally liked by everyone I recommended it to. A contemporary novel of huge scope that follows a long lifetime of diary entries of its main character, Logan Mountstuart, trackin… |
£7.99 | |
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Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw Will Ferguson That no-one knows anything about Canada is not because there is nothing to know. History meets travel writing meets modern anthropology in this entertaining account of Canada and its culture as told from West to East in helicopters, seaplanes, canoes, the Underground Railroad etc. Not… |
£8.99 | |
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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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How to Live Forever or Die Trying B. Appleyard Inspired by the possibility of human life extension, Bryan Appleyard takes a close look at our historic obsession with immortality. "There are already those who believe that the first person to live to be 1,000 years old has already been born. If they are right, what would it mean for us as hum… |
£12.99 | |
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In Praise of Slow Carl Honoré In the midst of a hectic "must dash" world Carl Honoré has documented the increasingly popular counter-movement of "Slow". Designed to change our outlooks on the way we live our lives, this book urges us to do less slowly rather than more manically. He points out… |
£7.99 | |
![Jake Jellicoe and the Dread Pirate Redbeard [Kids]](/internetshop/images/uploads/thumbs/thumb_Jake_Jellicoe.jpg "Jake Jellicoe and the Dread Pirate Redbeard [Kids]") |
Jake Jellicoe and the Dread Pirate Redbeard [Kids] Joanna Nadin Jake is so thin if he turned sideways he’d disappear! From a poor family who can’t feed him or themselves properly, Jake signs up as a cabin boy on a ship when the captain offers him part of any loot they find. With twists, turns, jokes and lots of swashbuckling evil pirates t… |
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Mr Thundermug Cornelius Medvei This new novella is a superb fantastical fable about a charming talking monkey who appears in an un-named but seemingly far-Eastern city. The reactions of the locals to Mr Thundermug are superbly understated throughout - no widespread panic and disbelief, just bemu… |
£10.00 | |
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Restless William Boyd A tense drama based on the confession by a mother to her daughter that she was a Russian émigrée and one-time spy. Recruited by the secret service in France she learns to become the perfect spy but one by one others in her "team" are betrayed and begin to disappear.… |
£7.99 |