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Teach Your Dog Gaelic
A light-hearted, fully-illustrated retro-style picture book with 50+ words and phrases you can use to practise your Gaelic with your furry best friend. — Welsh Books Council
Hello Friend We Missed You
HELLO FRIEND WE MISSED YOU is a deeply poignant and bleakly comic debut novel about loneliness, the `violent revenge thriller` category on Netflix, solipsism, rural gentrification, Jack Black, and learning to exist in the least excruciating way possible. Its story of depression and death on the small Welsh island of Mon, of people armed with
The Hound of the Baskervilles
When the owner of Baskerville Hall is found lifeless, his face distorted with horror, it is the beginning of an unsettling adventure that takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson from the bright, gas lit thoroughfares of London into the dark remoteness of Victorian Dartmoor. Soon Holmes and Watson are faced with a macabre phenomenon –
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle`s wonderful tales of the inimitable โ€consulting detectiveโ€ at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover`s shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes`s bustling Victorian London; the misty moors of
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle`s wonderful tales of the inimitable โ€consulting detectiveโ€ at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover`s shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes`s bustling Victorian London; the misty moors of
The Valley of Fear
Set before the events of the Reichenbach Falls, the formidable Sherlock Holmes is back. Tested to the extreme by cyphers, cryptic clues, and Professor James Moriarty – his greatest adversary. This is the last of the four Sherlock Holmes novels.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes`s observation to Dr Watson at the start of A Case of Identity is certainly borne out by the twelve short stories in this collection, characterised by the originality and inventiveness that has made Conan Doyle a household name. The familiar sanctuary of 221B Baker Street is regularly invaded by a procession of puzzled
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle`s wonderful tales of the inimitable โ€consulting detectiveโ€ at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover`s shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes`s bustling Victorian London; the misty moors of
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Baker Street Classics Sherlock Holmes collection is a retro-inspired full set of Conan Doyle`s wonderful tales of the inimitable โ€consulting detectiveโ€ at work. Featuring original illustrations from editions of the 1920s, this collection will adorn any booklover`s shelf and transport the reader back in time to Holmes`s bustling Victorian London; the misty moors of
The Truth About St. Kilda: An Islander`s Memoir
The Truth about St Kilda is a unique record of the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the twentieth century, based on seven handwritten notebooks written by the Rev. Donald Gillies, containing reminiscences of his childhood on the island of Hirta. It provides a first-hand account of the living
Great Barrier Reef
A captivating illustrated introduction to The Great Barrier Reef, written by renowned Oceanographer and author, Helen Scales. Illustrated by up and comer Lisk Feng, this is perfect for intrepid young snorkelers or children curious about the world under the sea.With nearly 400,000 square kilometres of dazzling colour, intricate ecosystems and unique creatures large and small,
Puzzle Girl
Clued-up career-girl Cassy Brookes has life under control until one disastrous morning changes everything. When she finds herself stuck in a doctor`s surgery, a cryptic message left in a crossword magazine sends her on a search to find the mysterious puzzle-man behind it. Cassy is soon torn between tracking down her elusive dream guy, and
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking
โ€Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness.โ€ -Soren Kierkegaard Duncan Minshull has always walked and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and publishing books on the subject. He has described the
Winter 8000: Climbing the world`s highest mountains in the coldest season
`He appeared, without a word, in the tent`s entrance, covered in ice. He looked like anyone would after spending over twenty-four hours in a hurricane at over 8,000 metres. In winter. In the Karakoram. He was so exhausted he couldn`t speak.`Of all the games mountaineers play on the world`s high mountains, the hardest – and
D-Day and Normandy: A Visual History
Operation Overlord, the codename given to the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe in 1944, was arguably the most challenging, complicated and risky military operation in history. It began on 6 June with Operation Neptune, the largest seaborne invasion ever seen, when 150,000 troops crossed the Channel and attempted to land on the beaches at
Green Hands
It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and Pauline are dispatched to a remote farm in ruralScotland. Here they are introduced to the realities of `lending a hand on the land`, as back-breaking work and inhospitable weather mean they struggle to keep their spirits high.Soon one of the
Squadron Airborne
In the summer of 1940, the Battle of Britain rages in the skies over southern England. Nineteen-year-old Pilot OfficerPeter Stuyckes arrives at RAF Westhill and is immediately put to the test.Based on the author`s own service as an RAF Flight Engineer,Squadron Airborne takes place over one unforgettableweek that summer, depicting with intensity and brilliance the
