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		London - City of Disappearances ed. Iain Sinclair Cover: Hardback Price: £25.00 Iain Sinclair gathers together writers as disparate Will Self and Thomas de Quincy, in this masterful collection of observations on disappearing London.

		J Pod Douglas Coupland Cover: Paperback Price: £12.99 Ennui and angst in I.T. Douglas Coupland puts together a cast of oddly endearing characters in this comic, wry and refreshingly straightforward book. Very, very funny.

		The Door Magda Szabo Cover: Paperback Price: £7.99 "I know now, what I didn't then, that affection can't always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else." A story about friendship, love, the past and obsession.

		The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf Cover: A bull that doesn't want to fight. Ferdinand stops to "smell the roses" on the way into the bull-ring. First published in 1936, it has been handed down through generations to never ending delight.

		W H Auden's Book of Light Verse W H Auden Cover: Paperback Price: £14.00 New edition of this 1930's anthology, which now includes previously censored poems, is a celebration of the popular voice in English. As well as poems, limericks and nursery rhymes, it also contains some of the great English ballads such as Scarborough Fair, Green Grow the Rushes Oh and My Dancing Day. Wonderful to know all the words at last.

		A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers Xiaolu Guo Cover: Paperback Price: £12.99 exquisite - adj. 1 very beautiful and delicate 2 highly refined 3 intensly felt ...yes, really.

		Oceans of Sound David Toop Cover: Paperback Price: £7.99 Toop's most readable and interesting voyage through experimental music. Essential for anyone wanting to expand their perception of music and sound.

		The Periodic Table Primo Levi Cover: Paperback Price: £8.99 Don't be put off by the science. The author uses the elements to frame stories from his life as a Jewish Italian chemist before, during and after the Second World War, some of which he spent in concentration camps. Deceptively easy to read, it's a truly humbling account of a man trying to make sense of the world in his own particular way.