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Jaws
د.إ55.00It’s never safe to go back in the water. Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with 20 million copies sold, Peter Benchley’s Jaws is the gripping pulp thriller that inspired Steven Spielberg’s classic, blockbuster film adaptation.
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The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year
د.إ55.00The bridge is shut.
The phones are down.
And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room three days before Christmas . . .Meet Maggie Chase and Ethan Wyatt: She’s the new Queen of the Cosy
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The World’s Biggest Cash Machine: Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football’s Soul
د.إ55.00‘Jaw-dropping’ – Daily Mail
‘A gripping tale, full of insight. Blackhurst is an enormously talented writer’ – City A.M.A gripping and tightly reported account of how the Glazers, owners of Manchester United, became the
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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944
د.إ555.00With an introduction read by Max Hastings. The famous D-Day landings of 6 June, 1944, marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe.
Republished as part of the Pan Military Classics series, Max Hastings’ acclaimed account overturns many traditional legends in this memorable study. Drawing together the eyewitness accounts of survivors from both sides, plus a wealth of previously untapped sources and documents, Overlord provides a brilliant, controversial perspective on the devastating battle for Normandy. Max Hastings, author of over 20 books, was born in 1945. He was a scholar at Charterhouse and University College, Oxford, before working as foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television, reporting from over 50 countries. He was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, and then for six years edited the Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism, particularly for his dispatches from the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002.
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How Big Things Get Done:
د.إ55.00Best Books of the Year – The Financial Times and The Economist
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023World expert Bent Flyvbjerg and bes
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Date with Justice
د.إ55.00Julia’s Chapman’s latest witty and engaging Dales Detective novel sees Delilah’s brother under suspicion of murder. Can Delilah and Samson prove he’s innocent? Perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Robert Thorogood, this is cosy crime at its very bes
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In the lives of puppets
د.إ55.00In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.
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Platonic: How Understanding Your Attachment Style Can Help You Make and Keep Friends
د.إ55.00The instant New York Times Bestseller
In Platonic, psychologist and friendship expert Dr Marisa G. Franco unpacks why undervaluing friendship in our culture has led to an epidemic of isolation, and what we can do about it.
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Dragons, Wyverns and Serpents
د.إ60.00Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers a
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Unicorn Academy #4: Isabel and Cloud
د.إ30.00Isabel and Cloud are finding it hard to get along. Isabel is impetuous and hasty, and Cloud is more cautious and (Isabel thinks) dull. But when they go off on a thrilling adventure along the coast of Unicorn Island, the two become firm friends in the
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Dead-End Memories
د.إ75.00There was no past, no future, no words, nothing – just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun.
Japan’s internationally celebrated storyteller returns with five stories of healing and hope. Effortlessly beautiful, nostalgic and melancholy, the stories in Dead-End Memories explore the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, find solace in the blissful moments in everyday life.
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Good Girl, Bad Blood
د.إ70.00The New York Times No.1 bestselling YA crime thriller that everyone is talking about now in this special collector’s gift edition. From TikTok Author of the Year, Holly Jackson. Soon to be a major BBC series!
Pip Fitz-Amobi is not a detective anymore.
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Master of Iron
د.إ50.00Eighteen-year-old Ziva may have defeated a deadly warlord, but the price was almost too much. Ziva is forced into a breakneck race to a nearby city with the handsome mercenary, Kellyn, and the young scholar, Petrik, to find a magical healer who can save her sister’s life. But the plan goes awry and Ziva and Kellyn are captured by an ambitious prince. Once again, Ziva is forced to use her powers for sinister purposes, magicking dangerous weapons meant for world domination. The forge, once her safe space from anxiety, is now Ziva’s prison – and she’s not sure how much she’ll need to sacrifice to keep herself and Kellyn alive.
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Things My Children Think I’m Wrong About
د.إ70.00‘Memorable, musical, witty and just brilliant in every way. Nic is hands down the best new poet to emerge in the last 20 years.‘ – Sophie Hannah
Perfect for sharing and demanding to be read aloud, this funny, pithy, highly relatable collection of small but perfectly formed poems provides the antidote to the manifold frustrations and absurdities of adult life. A verse companion to modern parenthood, it is the ideal gift for any mother or father whose children know they are wrong about everything.
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The Knowing
د.إ60.00Beautiful, intoxicating and full of suspense, The Knowing is a story of love and obsession, betrayal and retribution and how women survive and weaponize trauma.
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All That is Wicked: The ‘Victorian Hannibal Lecter’ and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
د.إ45.00Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer – some have called him a ‘Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter’ – whose crimes spanned decades, but by 1871 he was captured, chained in a cell – a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century ‘mindhunters’ got to work.
From alienists (early psychiatrists who tried to analyse the source of his madness) to neurologists (who wanted to dissect his brain) to phrenologists (who analysed the bumps on his head to determine his character), each one thought he held the key to understanding the essential question: is evil born or made? -
Aliss at the Fire
د.إ45.00A haunting exploration of love and loss by the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde).
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The Singularity
د.إ65.00A lyrical and devastating study of grief, migration and motherhood from one of Sweden’s most exciting new novelists.
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Out on a Limb
د.إ55.00Independent, confident, and not held back by her disability, Winnifred McNulty has been determined to prove to herself and others that she can do anything without needing anyone.
That all changes when Win meets Bo at a Halloween party, a charming boy in a pirate costume who has more in common with her than she realises. Bonding over the fact that they both have a visible disability, Win and Bo develop an electrifying connection with each other that they just can’t ignore.
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Record of a Night Too Brief
د.إ45.00“Evocative… Astonishing, strange, and wonderful” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A trio of surreal, dazzlingly imaginative short stories set in contemporary Japan that explore desire and loss, talking animals, and odd disappearan
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The Bell Jar
د.إ50.00I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s life begins to slide out of control. She finds herself spiralling into depression and eventually a suicide attempt, as she grapples with difficult relationships and a society which refuses to take women’s aspirations seriously.
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The Red-Haired Woman
د.إ45.00Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
‘Saturated with sympathy and sense of place, the book charts a boy’s journey into manhood and Turkey’s into irreversible change’ Financial Times
‘An ending that makes you immediately start the book all over again.’ The Sunday Times
‘Enchanting.’ Wall Street Journal‘Many years have now gone by, and jealousy compels me to keep her name a secret, even from my readers. But I must provide a full and truthful account of what happened.’
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That’s not my reindeer
د.إ40.00A furry body, a hairy tail and a shiny nose are some of the tactile patches on the reindeer that plod through the snowy scenes in this sturdy board book. There’s lots to share and talk about, as well as the familiar little white mouse to spot on e
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Supersquirrel and the Crazy Rain Maker
د.إ40.00When a top secret formula is stolen, it’s a job for Supersquirrel. Using her amazing superpowers, she tracks down the culprit, the ruthless Dr Drizzle, who has a plan to make a fortune. Help Supersquirrel to solve a variety of puzzles and put a stop to Dr Drizzle’s evil scheme.
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The Mummy Mystery
د.إ40.00Jade and Jack are ready for another trip back in time. An Ancient Egyptian scarab beetle transports them to 1250 B.C. where they investigate plots, pyramids and a mummy that seems to have come to life.
This second title in the brand new Puzzle Adventures series is packed with all sorts of problems to solve from picture puzzles to cryptic codes, with all the answers in the back. -
Agent Arthur’s Jungle Journey
د.إ35.00Arthur is the newest recruit to the Action Agency. This mission finds him crash-landing into a jungle filled with danger. He needs your help to solve a series of brain-teasing puzzles to outwit a gang of ruthless crooks. Packed full of interactive puzzles and comic-strips, this Usborne classic has been updated and enhanced for a whole new generation of puzzle adventurers.
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Izzy the Inventor and the Teeny-Tiny Ogres
د.إ35.00La science se mêle à la magie dans cette nouvelle collection pleine d’humour dont les héros sont Lisa l’inventrice et une adorable licorne.
Avec ses nombreuses illustrations et son texte tout simple, cette collection est idéale pour les lecteurs d
