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