Category Archives: Accessories
Portobello Voices
Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers and film directors, receives over a million visitors a year …and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that
Ancestors on the Move: A History of Overseas Travel
Ever wanted to understand more about your ancestor`s sea travels? What was life like aboard ship for both passengers and crew, how long did the journey take, what kind of conditions could be expected and what exotic locations might they have visited along the way? Following the tried and tested routes established by cargo ships,
The Pythons` Autobiography by the Pythons
This is the definitive, the official, the most lavish, the completely-different-to-anything-done-before Pythons` autobiography, reissued to coincide with the eagerly-anticipated live shows. Over forty years ago, a group of five Englishmen – and one wayward American – rewrote the rules of comedy. MONTY PYTHON`S FLYING CIRCUS, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show of sketches, hilarities, inanities
The Maltese Falcon
One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O`Shaughnessy, and when Spade`s partner Miles Archer is shot while on
Scientist in Training
Find out how to become a scientist in this interactive title for curious kids. Packed with bitesize information and fun facts about the life of a scientist, this book will teach you the basics of chemistry, biology and physics!Simple activities will test your skills and reinforce the information you read in the book. Can you
Birdie Bowers: Captain Scott`s Marvel
Henry `Birdie` Bowers realised his life`s ambition when he was selected for Captain Scott`s Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, yet he also met his death on the journey. Born to a sea-faring father and adventurous mother on the Firth of Clyde, Bowers` boyhood obsession with travel and adventure took him round the world several
Wow! Dinosaurs
Shout “WOW!” when your read about some surprising facts in this lively and fascinating picture book all about dinosaurs. Did you know that the word dinosaur means “terrible lizard”, the heaviest dinosaur weighed as much as 17 African elephants and that Stegosaurus had a brain the size of a walnut? Learn more surprising facts in
My First Spanish Word Book
Featuring first words, numbers, colours and shapes, alongside a clear, colourful layout and bold images, this introduction to Spanish helps young children learn basic vocabulary. An introduction for parents and teachers suggests strategies for helping children learn most effectively. A complete English-Spanish word list at the end of the book repeats the words and includes
Walt Whitman`s Guide to Manly Health and Training
TO YOU, IDLER. UP! Though your limbs may be corpulent and weary from your sedentary repose, your head a-thunder from an evening of indulgence, your spirit weary from the wretched nine-to-five – fret not, dear man, for within these pages are strategies to replenish and rejuvenate your manly health and well-being. Heed not those who
Birmingham: The Hidden History
For those who have always assumed that Birmingham started life in the Industrial Revolution this book will be a revelation. The physical remains left by its past inhabitants reveal a story that starts in the Old Stone Age and continues, through later prehistoric, Roman and medieval times, right up to the Cold War of the
Blackpool: Britain in Old Photographs
There can be no better example of Victorian enterprise than the amazing success story of Blackpool whose pioneering spirit embodied all the unflagging, indomitable confidence of that age – “He who dares wins”. This was the watchword, and bold publicity coupled with diligent application of the town`s motto “Progress” proved it to be true. There
A 1950s Childhood: From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping
Do you remember Pathe News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s seems like another age. But for those born around
The Shipwreck Cannibals: Captain John Dean and the Boon Island Flesh Eating Scandal
In the fierce winter of 1710, in a North American port, a boat ferried ten shipwreck survivors to the safety of shore. Fourteen Englishmen had taken refuge on Boon Island, a sparse 100-yard long stretch of rock, without food or adequate shelter, uncertain of when or if they would be rescued. They endured for 24
The Little Book of Aviation
The Little Book of Aviation is a collection of facts, figures and interesting stories from the world of flight. Sad, humorous, baffling and astounding stories abound, from the pioneering days of the Wright Brothers to the present day, and covering everything from great milestones, famous names who`ve served, and the greatest of aircraft icons; phantom
