Summer Reads

**New edition updated with a foreword by Manny Pacquiao.**A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter.Once upon a time, of all the...

'Rahaman has, at last, written the definitive biography on his late brother, which tells the real Ali story' - Mike Tyson 'The real life of the Great One' - George Foreman 'A must for fight fans' - Sunday Sport 'A welcome and insightful addition to Ali...

Growing up in Dublin, John Kavanagh was a skinny lad who was frequently bullied. As a young man, after suffering a bad beating when he intervened to help a woman who was being attacked, he decided he had to learn to defend himself.Before long, he was...

ACHIEVE OLYMPIC STRENGTH WITH THIS HARDCORE GUIDE TO WEIGHTLIFTINGEvery four years, the world's most powerful athletes showcase their amazing abilities at the Olympics. This book takes you step by step through the same primary lifts, assistance...

HOW A PLANT-BASED DIET IMPROVES PERFORMANCE - AND HOW TO DO IT YOURSELF'Well-written, well-researched, highly recommended!' --  Gene Stone, co-author of How Not to Die'Whether you're looking to kickstart a healthier lifestyle or take your training to the...

Powerlifting: Training Techniques and Performance is a guide to athletes and coaches in powerlifting as well as a more general reading for the lover of sport. It takes a coach-led, athlete-centred approach that is intended to empower the individual,...

The sorority girls are real witches.From New York Times bestselling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige comes a thrilling, dark contemporary fantasy about a prestigious sorority of witches and two girls caught up in its world of sinister magic and...

An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who...

Introduced by ZADIE SMITH'One of the greatest writers of our time' -- TONI MORRISON'There is no novel I love more' -- ZADIE SMITH'A wonderful writer and a fabulous person' -- MAYA ANGELOU'There is no book more important to me than this one' -- ALICE...

Discover this groundbreaking work of twentieth-century literary fiction about one day in the life of a woman preparing to give a party.In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a...

'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' GuardianIt is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell the stories of English history, as it does every year. Yet the...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on his wings -...

THE THIRD GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL.Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall for his British masters. Now Control wants to bring him in at last - but only after one final assignment. He...

THE SIXTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVELGeorge Smiley, now acting head of the Circus, must rebuild its shattered reputation after one of the biggest betrayals in its history. Using the talents of journalist and occasional spy Jerry Westerby, Smiley launches a risky...

Proving as adept at the global eco thriller as he was at Cold War page turners, The Constant Gardener combines probing character study with precision plotted and gripping storytelling. Tracking a bereaved husband’s path through a web of international...

…It’s a dangerous world out there, Perry. Perhaps you haven’t heard about that, but the rest of us have, and we endeavour to live with it. With all due respect, I would strongly advise you to go with the flow. Britain is in the depths of recession...

'One of the most sophisticated fictional responses to the war on terror yet published' -- GuardianAn illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his name is Issa. To the...

THE FIRST GEORGE SMILEY NOVELAfter a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the death, he begins his own investigation, meeting...

…Smiley, his damp hand cupped round the end of his cigarette, watching and hating, triumphed that he knew his enemy. Dead men receive no calls. Dead men write no letters. After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan...

THE FIFTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL.A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in...