W. Bruce Cameron: A Dogs’s Purpose (Film tie-in)

A Novel for Humans

A Dog’s Purpose series Book 1

A Dog’s Purpose—the #1 New York Times bestseller—is heading to the big screen! Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog’s Purpose, from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The 100-Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love. The family film told from the dog’s perspective also stars Britt Robertson, KJ Apa, John Ortiz, Peggy Lipton, Juliet Rylance, Luke Kirby, Pooch Hall and Dennis Quaid. A Dog’s Purpose is produced by Gavin Polone (Zombieland, TV’s Gilmore Girls). The film from Amblin Entertainment and Walden Media will be distributed by Universal Pictures. Screenplay by W. Bruce Cameron & Cathryn Michon and Audrey Wells and Maya Forbes & Wally Wolodarsky.

Heartwarming, insightful, and often laugh-out-loud funny, A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog's-eye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose. 

W. Bruce Cameron: A Dos’s Purpose (Film tie-in)

Publication date: 2017.

Pages: 334

ISBN: 9781509830169

Price: 3790 -

Publisher: Macmillan

Form: Paperback

Category: Literary Fiction

Ted Chiang: Arrival (Film tie-in)

Previously published as Story of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve.

“Shining, haunting, mind-blowing tales . . . Ted Chiang is so exhilarating, so original, so stylish he just leaves you speechless.” —Junot Díaz

Ted Chiang has long been known as one of the most powerful science fiction writers working today. Offering readers the dual delights of the very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, Arrival presents characters who must confront sudden change. "Story of Your Life," which provides the basis for the film Arrival, concerns the presence of alien lifeforms on Planet Earth. When a linguist is brought in to help communicate with them and discern their intentions, her new knowledge of their language and its nonlinear structure helps her deal with the pangs of divorce and the death of her daughter. In each story of this incredible collection, with sharp intelligence and humor, Ted Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by wonder.

Arrival (Film tie-in)

Publication date: 2017.

Pages: 352

ISBN: 9781509835904

Price: 4190 -

Publisher: Macmillan

Form: Paperback

Category: Sci-fi, Fantasy

Orhan Pamuk: The Museum of  Innocence

The Museum of Innocence - set in Istanbul between 1975 and today - tells the story of Kemal, the son of one of Istanbul's richest families, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation, the beautiful Fusun, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart.

The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul's upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. Orhan Pamuk's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize is a stirring love story and exploration of the nature of romance.

Pamuk built The Museum of Innocence in the house in which his hero's fictional family lived, to display Kemal's strange collection of objects associated with Fusun and their relationship. The house opened to the public in 2012 in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul.

'Pamuk has created a work concerning romantic love worthy to stand in the company of Lolita, Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.' --Financial Times

The Museum of  Innocence

Publication date: 2010.

Pages: 265

ISBN: 9780571237012

Price: 2990 -

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Form: Paperback

Category: Literary 

Dragomán György: The White King

An international sensation, this startling and heartbreaking debut introduces us to precocious eleven-year-old Djata, whose life in the totalitarian state he calls home is about to change forever.

Djata doesn’t know what to make of the two men who lead his father away one day, nor does he understand why his mother bursts into tears when he brings her tulips on her wedding anniversary. He does know that he must learn to fill his father’s shoes, even though among his friends he is still a boy: fighting with neighborhood bullies, playing soccer on radioactive grass, having inappropriate crushes, sneaking into secret screening rooms, and shooting at stray cats with his gun-happy grandfather. But the random brutality of Djata’s world is tempered by the hilarious absurdity of the situations he finds himself in, by his enduring faith in his father’s return, and by moments of unexpected beauty, hope, and kindness.

Structured as a series of interconnected stories propelled by the energy of Dragom n’s riveting prose, the chapters of The White King collectively illuminate the joys and humiliations of growing up, while painting a multifaceted and unforgettable portrait of life in an oppressive state and its human cost. And as in the works of Mark Haddon, David Mitchell, and Marjane Satrapi, Djata’s child’s-eye view lends power and immediacy to his story, making us laugh and achein recognition and reminding us all of our shared humanity. 

The White King

Publication date: 2015.

Pages: 320

ISBN: 9781784161439

Price: 3790 -

Publisher: Random House UK

Form: Paperback

Category: Fiction

Wm. Paul Young: The Shack

With 20 million copies sold worldwide THE SHACK is an international bestseller that explores life's toughest questions through the gripping story of one man's struggle to find answers to his suffering. Mack's youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, still trapped in his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack. Against his better judgement Mack arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon. What he finds there will change his life forever. THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless question, 'Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?' Mack's experiences when he faces up to his darkest nightmares will astound you, and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. This is the kind of book you'll want to tell everyone about. Millions have discovered it already - now it's your turn.

The Shack

Sub-Title: -

Publication date: 2017.

Pages: 304

ISBN: 9781473654914

Price: 4190 -

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.

Form: Paperback

Category: Thrillers

Collins Dictionaries; Jeremy Butterfield: English Dictionary and Grammar

The all-in-one guide with 200,000 words and phrases

A dictionary and a grammar combined in one book, with all the words, phrases and definitions you need for every day use. The accessible grammar helps answer the most frequently-asked questions on the English language today.

This two books-in-one resource is specially tailored to meet your needs at home, school, and in the office, with comprehensive definitions and word tips to provide help with English usage. It also contains the very latest words to enter the language and extra notes in the dictionary help you choose the right word every time.

With an invaluable Grammar of English written by the Editor of Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage you will find all the answers to those lingering doubts on English grammar and usage.

English Dictionary and Grammar

Sub-Title: The all-in-one guide with 200,000 words and phrases

Publication date: 2016.

Pages: 1152

ISBN: 9780008158491

Price: 5250 -

Publisher: Harper Collins

Form: Paperback

Category: Dictionary