Category Archives: Travel Guides
Barbarossa: How Hitler Lost the War
`With his customary literary flair and capacity to master and mobilize very many and varied sources, Jonathan Dimbleby gives us the best single-volume account of the Barbarossa campaign to date` Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny`Like a fast-moving juggernaut of horror, Dimbleby`s Barbarossa is a page-turning descent into Hell and back. Part warning,
My First Words
Give your toddler a head start with 16 colourful flashcards, expertly designed to develop early language skills and ideal for preschool play. With a vibrant image on every flashcard, DK`s My first Words sturdy picture cards make learning first words fun. Talking points on the back of each card reinforce learning, helping to familiarise children
Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
The Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential vocabulary guide to the world around you. With over 10,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme, language learning has never been easier.Perfect for tourist and business travellers alike, DK`s Bilingual Visual Dictionary series is by your side when buying food, talking about work, discussing health, and
Star Wars Visual Encyclopedia
With a galaxy of information on every page, Star Wars (TM): The Visual Encyclopedia is the ultimate illustrated guide to everything Star Wars. Throwing the spotlight onto carefully curated images and beautiful photography, DK`s Visual Encyclopedia showcases characters and objects from episodes I-VII, Star Wars Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Rogue One: A
Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
The Italian English Bilingual Visual Dictionary is your essential vocabulary guide to the world around you. With over 10,000 fully illustrated terms arranged by theme, language learning has never been easier.Perfect for tourist and business travellers alike, DK`s Bilingual Visual Dictionary series is by your side when buying food, talking about work, discussing health, and
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 1: Fever and Spear
`Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so` Observer`One of contemporary literature`s major works … you have to open this book` Ali SmithDeza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess just from their faces what will become of them. When he encounters the enigmatic Bertram
Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 2: Dance and Dream
`Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his generation … Your Face Tomorrow is rich, haunting, intriguing` Observer`This trilogy must be one of the greatest novels of our age` Antony BeevorDeza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying
Books That Changed History
Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world`s most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury. Books That Changed History is a unique encyclopedia spanning the history of the written word, from 3000 BCE
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well
Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That`s down to one thing: hygge. `Hygge has been translated as everything from the art of creating intimacy to cosiness of the soul to taking pleasure from the presence of soothing things. My personal favourite is cocoa by candlelight…` You know hygge when
And Quiet Flows the Don
The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, `And Quiet Flows the Don` follows the turbulent fortunes of the Cossack people through peace, war and revolution – among them the proud and rebellious Gregor Melekhov, who struggles to be with the
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
A stunning clothbound edition of William S. Burroughs`s cult classic, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs` virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece `Naked Lunch` follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels
The Hand
A new translation of George Simenon`s taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new play by award-winning playwright David Hare. `I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or
What We Really Do All Day: Insights from the Centre for Time Use Research
Are we spending more time at work than we would have 50 years ago? Are we sleeping less? How has the Internet affected the way we use our spare time? Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities
Mary Berry`s Complete Cookbook
Packed with over 650 everyday Mary Berry recipes, this is the biggest ever cookbook from Britain`s best-loved cookery writer that no kitchen should be without.This updated edition of Mary`s million-selling cookbook is the only Mary Berry book that you need. Every delicious recipe is accompanied by beautiful photography to inspire your cooking, with an eclectic
My Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals
Silver Winner for the Best Children`s Book in the Junior Design Awards 2017.For little animal lovers who want to know everything. From birds and frogs to sharks and dogs, this book is perfect for the curious little animal lover in your life. Mixing photography and charming illustration, kids will discover important facts about the wonderful
Sabor: Flavours from a Spanish Kitchen
`These are the sort of recipes that I can`t wait to cook: honest, rugged and colourful, you know everything is going to taste deeply Spanish.` Rick Stein Nieves Barragan Mohacho has a Michelin star and is best known as the former head chef at Barrafina, the world famous tapas restaurant. But Sabor: My Spanish Cooking
Maigret is Afraid
`This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town like this, of course there are the worthies, who are few and who inevitably meet each other several times a day, even if it is only in the street. Then there
StarFinder for Beginners
With a foreword by Maggie Aderin-Pocock, budding astronomers will love this stunning, new approach to stargazing, featuring step-by-step guides to identifying the key constellations across the northern hemisphere, StarFinder for Beginners makes the night sky easier to navigate than ever before.From discovering the constellations of the Zodiac to learning about the real-life milky way, StarFinder
Really Feely Wild Animals
With texture patches, bumpy patterns, and tactile glitter, babies and toddlers will find this touch-and-feel wild animals book really fun and really feely! Meet the stripy tiger cub, the elephant calf with big flappy ears, the scaly chameleon, and other favourite wild animals. Gentle text builds knowledge, and invites you to explore as you find
Explanatorium of Nature
Jaw-dropping, up-close photography shows the natural world and animals as you`ve never seen it before.From fruit to flowers, from shells to sharks, from ants to elephants, this extraordinary new encyclopedia will keep animal and nature enthusiasts from ages 9 to 109 utterly absorbed by amazing, close-up images. Did you know that baby foxes are born
