Category Archives: Accessories
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
`Based on meticulous research in original sources … Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was … Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated` Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books A bold new history of how botany and global plant collecting – centred at Kew Gardens and driven by Joseph Banks –
Lost and Found
Set sail on a wonderful adventure in this toddler-friendly board book from award-winning, bestselling picture book creator, Oliver Jeffers! There once was a boy and one day he found a penguin at his door…The boy decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin.
Letters of Not
A collection of remarkable and completely made-up correspondence from the great and the good across history. Many books have collated the exceptional letters and personal writing of the famous, offering a fascinating insight into well-known figures` personal lives and hidden desires. But what of the undistinguished epistles of the renowned? Can their less auspicious musings
A Lighter Way to Bake
In this fabulous new book, Lorraine Pascale, Britain`s beloved chef and tv personality, brings together the two hottest trends in cookery right now: baking and eating lighter, healthier meals! Lorraine`s dreamt up 100 delicious, easy recipes, all fully illustrated, ranging from savoury scones and coconut and lime loaf to apricot and ginger chiffon cake, sesame
Predator
LET THE HUNT BEGIN. HECTOR CROSS, ex-SAS officer, private security expert, widower. His wife was taken much too soon, by a cruel man with evil intentions. JOHNNY CONGO, psychopath, extortionist, terrorist, the man who murdered Hector`s wife. Cross wants him dead. So does the US government. Congo is locked up on Death Row in the
Mary Poppins
The original best-loved classic about the world`s most famous nanny – Mary Poppins. When Jane and Michael Banks draw up an advertisement for a nanny, Mary Poppins and her talking umbrella appear out of the sky, ready to take them on extraordinary adventures. Mary Poppins is strict but fair, and soon the Banks children are
Purity
The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections Pip Tyler doesn`t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she`s saddled with student debt and a reclusive mother, but there are few clues as to who her father is or how she`ll ever have a normal
Giant Jelly Jaws and the Pirates
A rollicking, swashbuckling adventure, full of cheeky humour! From the creators of Rudey`s Windy Christmas. Jake, the new cabin boy, isn`t brave like the rest of the crew on the pirate ship; he can`t even climb the rigging and he still sleeps with a teddy! So how ever will he scare away the enemy pirates
Farmer Giles of Ham
A commemorative golden anniversary edition of Tolkien`s classic book, including a new introduction, a map, a copy of Tolkien`s unpublished short story which he expanded for publication, his notes for an aborted sequel, and the original first edition illustrations by Pauline Baynes. Farmer Giles of Ham did not look like a hero. He was fat
Time Travel
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. Gleick`s story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale
The Way Inn
`The Way Inn` takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee and the free wifi, and twists them into a nightmare. The Way Inn is a global chain of identikit mid-budget hotels, and Neil Double is a valued member of its loyalty scheme. Neil is a professional conference-goer, a man who will attend
Hero Rising (Darkmouth, Book 4)
The edge-of-your-seat, monstrously-exciting, laugh-out-loud adventures of the most unfortunate monster-hunter ever to don armour… continue. Things can`t get any worse. Legends are running riot. Half-hunters are out of control. Darkmouth has been taken away from Finn and Emmie, and Finn`s dad Hugo – proud Legend Hunter – is washing dogs for a living. But something
Chaos Descends (Darkmouth, Book 3)
The third book in the monstrously funny and action-packed Darkmouth series. It`s going to be legendary. The adventures of the most unfortunate Legend Hunter ever to don fighting armour and pick up a desiccator continue…Finn`s been through so much, he`ll now be allowed do what he wants with the rest of his life, right? Wrong.
Worlds Explode
The second book in the monstrously funny and action-packed new series: Darkmouth. It`s going to be legendary. The adventures of the most unfortunate Legend Hunter ever to don fighting armour and pick up a Dessicator continue…On a list of things Finn never thought he`d wish for, a gateway bursting open in Darkmouth was right up
We Are Not Ourselves
LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD A stunning, heartbreaking debut – `We Are Not Ourselves` is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century. Raised in the 1940s in the mostly Irish neighbourhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, by an alcoholic mother and a union-wage father, Eileen yearns for
The Islands of Chaldea
The brand new and final novel from the magical pen of `the Godmother of Fantasy`, Diana Wynne Jones; co-authored with her sister Ursula Jones. Now in paperback. How are you supposed to turn into a Wise Woman if your powers just won`t show up? Aileen is convinced she`ll never become as magical as her Aunt
How to Catch a Star
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of How to Catch a Star with this new toddler-friendly board book edition! An inspirational story from internationally bestselling, multi-prize-winning picture book creator Oliver Jeffers. Once there was a boy who loved stars so much that he wished he had one of his very own. Every night he watched the stars
Curtain: Poirot`s Last Case (Poirot)
A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place… The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile
