Category Archives: Accessories
Kick off! A Football Activity Book
A big, boisterous activity book for football-crazed kids all over the world. Draw, colour and customise your way through the world of football. Design your own uniforms, badges and boots for your fantasy starting eleven. Pick your friends alongside the greatest players the game has ever seen to create your perfect club. Complete league tables
Bigger: A Foldout Measuring Activity Book
A fantastic concertina book that serves as a height chart and a measuring tool to help curious kids get excited about mathematics and measuring. It can either be hung on a wall or kids can take it around the house filling in the activities on the reverse; what`s bigger – your teddy or a box
Phone Book
The exact size and shape of a mobile phone, this book takes the screen out of screen-time and brings distraction activities firmly into the analogue realm. Draw your best and worst selfie, copy out the funniest text exchange you`ve ever had, design your favourite game, do a faceswap with a cat, write out your life
Raising a Forest
Illustrator Thibaud Herem is nurturing a homegrown arboretum in his flat in Clapton. With over 30 species of tree ranging from oak to Japanese maple to giant redwood, this is a documentation of his obsession as well as a visual exploration of the beautiful shapes and forms found in nature. Within a personal narrative, this
The Visitors Book
In this small but perfectly formed collection of supernatural short stories, Sophie Hannah takes the comforting scenes of everyday life and imbues them with a frisson of fear, then a gust of terror. Why is a young woman so unnerved by the presence of a visitors book in her boyfriend`s inner-city home? And whose spidery
Letters from Klara: Short Stories
The rich seam that is Jansson`s adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of her Moomin fame and translated into English for the first time. In these light-footed, beautifully crafted yet disquieting stories, Jansson tells of discomfiting encounters, unlooked for connections and moments of isolation
Barn Owl
Renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with some of Britain`s most iconic and loved animals – here, the barn owl. With his inimitable passion and vision, Jim describes some of his most memorable encounters with British wildlife – and reveals the startling ways they continually adapt to the relentless encroachment of
Fox
Renowned nature writer Jim Crumley gets up close and personal with some of Britain`s most iconic and loved animals – here, the fox. With his inimitable passion and vision, Jim describes some of his most memorable encounters with British wildlife – and reveals the startling ways they continually adapt to the relentless encroachment of humans
Under the Tripoli Sky
A fascinating portrait of a pre-Gaddafi society on the verge of change. Tripoli in the 1960. A sweltering, segregated society. Hadachinou is a lonely boy. His mother shares secrets with her best friend Jamila while his father prays at the mosque. Sneaking through the sun drenched streets of Tripoli, he listens to the whispered stories
Reader for Hire
A beautiful homage to the art of reading – light and funny. A celebration of the union of sensuality and language. Marie-Constance loves reading and possesses an attractive voice. So, one day she decides to put an ad in the local paper offering her services as a paid reader. Her first client, a paralysed teenager,
The Little Book of Woodland Bird Songs
A book for the whole family to enjoy and the sequel to the bestselling The Little Book of Garden Bird Songs.Birds can be hard to spot at the best of times and never more so than in the woods, so let this book and your ears do the work instead. Listen to the wonderfully varied
