Category Archives: Travel Guides
Pop-Up Peekaboo! Baby Animals
Take your toddler on a rain forest adventure and find the adorable baby animals in this lift-the-flap baby book with pictures that pop off the page!This colorful pop-up peekaboo book follows animal parents and their babies as they play hide-and-seek in the rain forest.Babies and toddlers can lift big flaps and see peekaboo surprises pop
A Moth to a Flame
“A startling novel of ferocious psychological acumen, which, to my mind, deserves a large, international readership… very much a book for our times” Siri Hustvedt, from the introductionIn a working-class neighbourhood in 1940s Stockholm, a young man named Bengt falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. As he struggles to
Wild Silence
Following the hugely successful Sunday Times Bestseller, Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize nominee and Costa shortlisted, `The Salt Path`, Raynor Winn returns with her second brilliant book.This time the narrative explores the difficulties surrounding the return to mainstream life after a period of homelessness.Recovering self-esteem and trust, in herself and in others, is harder than
The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of `The Salt Path`
Shortlisted for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing`The Wild Silence`, the incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade – the phenomenon and The Sunday Times bestselling `The Salt Path`.”Raynor Winn has written a brilliant, powerful and touching account of her life before and after `The Salt Path`,
Missing Person
One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature”Modiano is a pure original” Adam Thirlwell”I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the cafรฉ terrace, waiting for the rain to stop”Guy Roland, a private detective in Paris, is
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There
`One of the most influential books about the natural world ever published` Paul Kingsnorth, Guardian`There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,` begins Aldo Leopold`s totemic work of ecological thought. Ranging from lyrical observations of the changing seasons over a year on his Wisconsin farm to his hugely influential idea
Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them
How does Britain get its food? Why is our current system at breaking point?How can we fix it before it is too late?British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children`s favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world`s
Philosophy for Polar Explorers
The secret to a good life, seen from the ice, is to keep your joys simple.`Erling Kagge transforms and consoles us` Alain de Botton Erling Kagge was the first man in history to reach all of the Earth`s poles by foot – the North, the South, and the summit of Everest. In Philosophy for Polar
Peppa Pig: Peppa Loves Yoga
It is a very busy day at Peppa and George`s playgroup, but they have a very special visitor coming in the afternoon. Miss Rabbit is going to teach the children how to calm down and relax with yoga. The children love learning all the different positions… and the parents love picking up their calm children!
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
Carolyn Forche is 27 when a mysterious stranger calling himself Leonel appears on her doorstep, having driven direct from El Salvador. A friend has heard rumours about who he might be – a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer – but nobody seems to know for certain.Captivated for reasons
Otherlands: A World in the Making
A dazzlingly original, lyrical and epic encounter with the Earth as it used to be`As close to time travel as you are likely to get` Bill McKibbenThis is the past as we`ve never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and
Amour: How the French Talk about Love
A timeless, universal meditation on the meaning of love, based on the author`s travels through France, accompanied by stunning full-colour photographsAward-winning journalist and documentary maker Stefania Rousselle had stopped believing in love. She had covered a series of bleak assignments, from terrorist attacks to the rise of the far right. Her relationship had fallen apart.
Sister Outsider
The woman`s place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those “outside the circle of this society`s definition of acceptable women”. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
In February 1945 the Allies obliterated Dresden, the `Florence of the Elbe`. Explosive bombs weighing over 1,000 lbs fell every seven and a half seconds and an estimated 25,000 people were killed. Was Dresden a legitimate military target or was the bombing a last act of atavistic mass murder in a war already won?From the
After Midnight
“I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned insane” Sunday TelegraphNineteen-year-old Sanna just wants to drink her beer in peace, but that`s difficult when Hitler has come to town and his motorcade is blocking the streets of Frankfurt. What`s more, her best friend Gerti is in
The Faces
`One of Denmark`s most celebrated writers` New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children`s book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is
Peppa Pig: George and the Dinosaur
George`s favourite thing in the entire world is dinosaurs!All George and his friends want to do is play with dinosaurs.So, when Mummy Pig and Miss Rabbit take them to hunt for dinosaur fossils at the beach they know it`s going to be the best day ever!But no one expects George to find an entire dinosaur
Choose Llamas
It`s time to CHOOSE. Time to choose LLAMAS! This laugh-out-loud book puts the power in your hands as you build your very own llama squad. Which llama would you choose to be your superhero sidekick? Which llama would you choose to ride in a high-speed llama race? Which llama would you choose to go to
The Natural History Book: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth
A monumental and beautiful guide to Earth`s wildlife and natural history – its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms – this landmark of reference publishing has been extended and updated. In the 11 years since the book was released, thousands of new species have been identified, and new revelations have redrawn the tree of
