Eek! Time seems to have turned from a trot into a gallop. To give you a bit of help in seeing what appeals this Christmas here is a quick rundown of the books, DVDs, games & other things that we think will appeal to you. Included are some highlights from both our Music shop and our Art shop…
- The World of Ornament
- We sell guitars in our Music shop!
- Re-live the greatest telly this year!
- Our ‘premium’ globe – the Commander II
- Amaze your friends, bemuse your family…
- A board game conceived around the Elements
- Another of our Books of the Year – thought-provoking, imaginative, and beautifully produced
- John Rutter CD
- Another selection of brilliant philosophical Q +As
- I have been drooling over this selection from the Rare Book Archive of the Museum of Natural History Library
- The World’s Coolest Lawyer teddy bear
- Yep.
- A rip-roaring adventure – third in the series
- These mushroom aprons are flying out from our cookery section
- Royal Horticulural Society Diary
- Ouch! Poor Barbie. That’s all that I am saying
- Giorgio Agamben’s speech given in Notre Dame is a provocative look at the relationship between church and state
- The Complete Box Set. I have no doubt that this is an accurate portrayal of modern political life
- Who wouldn’t want to own a copy of a book with a cover as beautiful as this?
- The new Roald Dahl!
- Check out our Barrister Ducks sitting in our Scales of Justice
- Chinua Achebe on very personal form
- An extraordinary life told with brio
- A quirky publishing sensation from the Georgian period
- Because kids ask the best questions and experts give the best answers
- We have an enormous selection of leather satchels – different colours, different sizes. Just ask!
- Reduced from £135 to £100
- A revelatory book
- Memory is an extraordinary, breath-taking thing…
- New designs in our wildly popular Literary T shirts have arrived – including Alice
- The former Archbishop of Canterbury as thoughtful and eloquent as you would expect
- If you can never have enough books then, logically, you can never have enough bookplates
- Another of our favourite books this year A History of Opera over the past 400 years
- A searingly honest biography of an extraordinary writer and reporter
- Approaching Christmas
- A Billion Jokes! (er, metaphorically)
- This stunning pictorial history of the Queen has £10 off
- Whether you agree with Dalrymples politics or not he is always worth reading
- Woman in White DVD
- Hide you embarassing reads with these lovely leather book jackets
- Inkblot Tests – easy to turn into a game around the dining room table
- Great Gizmos for the curious
- The Solar System? As a make it yourself mobile? And it glows in the dark? Oh yes
- Illustrations by the incomparable Maurice Sendak
- Mission CD by Cecilia Bartoli
- Bodleian Publishing’s joyous book on medical advice from 1769
- Box sets of Postcards from Penguin – 2 for £20
- This makes me laugh out loud every time I dip into it
- I can resist everything but this Oscar Wilde mug
- Love this – a wall map of London on which you can pin your places of interest
- Available from our Art Shop these Tin Tin posters looked resplendent in our coffee shop
- Signed by the Reverend Awdry this rare copy of the childhood favourite is available from our Rare Books department
- A thumping tome on the History of Political Thought from a New College Professor
- An illustrated history of the golden age of cartography
- Mushroom notebook
- Just look at this. Gorgeous
- From the very popular …and Philosophy series
- Want, want, want these Buck Swashling Bookends
- The Large Hardon Collider wins my ‘typo of the year’ hands down
- Nativitas – New College Choir. Festive fabulousness
- Signed Richie McCaw biography for the rugger lover
- Because everything we know will pass its sell by date…
- The Children’s Book Tree has been a highlight of our year – still time to buy a book for a disadvantaged child. Please.
- Tells the story of how Newton came to apply his unique ways of thinking to problems of history, theology, and mythology.
- Everyone should own a Quentin Blake book
- Wood on the Downs by John Nash. A fine art print £350.00
- Because it was there…
- The Wallbook of Sport – also available are Wallbooks of Hisory and the Natural World
- This book is almost too good. One of our Books of the Year
There’s still time to do your shopping but the tock is ticking. Loudly.
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