Category Archives: Travel Guides
English Visual Dictionary
A photographic guide to 3000 key words and phrases in British English. This attractive pocket-sized book is a perfect English language travel companion and guide to life and culture in the UK. Everyday words are arranged in themes with carefully selected up-to-date images to illustrate key words and phrases. A helpful index allows you to
What We`ll Build: Plans for Our Together Future
A spectacular new title from world-renowned artist Oliver Jeffers, creator of the million-copy selling, global phenomenon `Here We Are`! What shall we build, you and I? I`ll build your future and you`ll build mine. We`ll build a watch to keep our time. A father and daughter set about laying the foundations for their life together.
Baby Animals!: Amazing Adorable Facts
Who doesn`t love baby animals?`Amazing Facts About Baby Animals` is an adorable celebration of all kinds of fuzzy, fluffy, scaly, and feathery animal babies and their parents.Full of interesting, weird, and funny facts about animals before they are born (elephants are pregnant for 22 months!), when they are born (whales are born tail-first so they
Inspire: How To Live A Wild Life
The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place? How can the isolation of the
Inspire: Life Lessons from the Wilderness
The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. What can rowing across the Atlantic teach us about boredom and about patience? Can coming down from Everest take more resilience than climbing up in the first place? How can the isolation of the
Britain and Northern Ireland Collins Big Road Atlas 2021 A3 PAPERBACK
The ultimate 3.2 miles to 1 inch scale large format paperback road atlas of Britain, featuring Collins` popular and well established road mapping, and designed for exceptional clarity and ease of use. The atlas has a wide range of urban area maps at even larger scale and 64 detailed town centre street plans. This fully
Britain and Northern Ireland Collins Essential Road Atlas 2021
This A4 road atlas with popular lie-flat spiral binding features clear, detailed road mapping, at a scale of 3.2 miles to 1 inch (1:200,000) for England, Wales and Southern Scotland and at 4.2 miles to 1 inch (1:266,000) in Northern Scotland, with land height shown by attractive layer colouring. Main features* Route planning section including
Britain and Ireland Collins Handy Road Atlas 2021 A5 SPIRAL-BOUND
This easy-to-use, handy A5 sized road atlas with popular lie-flat spiral binding features extremely clear route planning maps of Britain and Ireland and fits neatly into your glove box, briefcase or bag. The atlas has been fully updated. The maps of Britain are at 9.9 miles to 1 inch (1:625,000) and the whole of Ireland
Ireland Collins Road Map 2021
Full colour map of Ireland at 9 miles to 1 inch (1:570,240), with clear, detailed road network and counties and new administrative areas shown in colour. This double-sided map covers the whole of Ireland, and is ideal for reference or route planning. This map of Ireland shows the road network in detail. It is ideal
Ultimate Explorer: British Wild Flowers
This fun, photo-filled, fact-packed wild flower guide will encourage kids to get outdoors and discover the different types of flowers around them.From honeysuckles and snowdrops, to mugworts and creeping thistles, kids will learn all about different kinds of wild flowers, where to look for them, and how to spot them in this wonderful wild flower
Ultimate Explorer: British Trees
This fun, photo-filled, fact-packed guide will get kids outdoors to discover the different types of trees around them.From the hearty monkey-puzzle to the noble fir, the Norway spruce to the Scots pine, kids will learn all about different kinds of trees and how to spot them with this spectacular field guide. With tons of info,
Who They Was
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 `A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth – or with such brutal honesty – as only lived experience can tell ` Graeme Armstrong, author of The Young Team `An astonishingly powerful book` Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of
Who They Was – Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize “A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation… I cannot conjure another work which captures this culture in such depth – or with such brutal honesty – as only lived experience can tell” Graeme Armstrong, author of `The Young Team` “An astonishingly powerful book” Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of `The
One More Croissant for the Road
`Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it` – DIANA HENRY `Whether you are an avid cyclist, a Francophile, a greedy gut, or simply an appreciator of impeccable writing – this book will get you hooked` – YOTAM OTTOLENGHI The nation`s `taster in chief` cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic
The Pale Horse
One of Agatha Christie`s darkest and most sinister mysteries, newly adapted for BBC Television by the award-winning team behind `And Then There Were None`, `Witness for the Prosecution`, `Ordeal by Innocence` and `The ABC Murders`.When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so desperately that Father Gorman`s already ragged cassock is torn
The Curse of the School Rabbit
The brand new, laugh-out-loud story of a boy, a rabbit, and a lot of bad luck, from the one and only Judith Kerr, creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat’ฆIt all started with the school rabbit’ฆSnowflake is the school rabbit, and Snowflake is TROUBLE.At least that’s what Tommy thinks,
River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
“Astonishing and compelling” Bernard Cornwell”Replete with witches, human sacrifice, Greek fire and funeral orgies… one of the most thrilling works of archaeological detective work I have ever read” William Dalrymple, FT Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman – and the cutting-edge forensic techniques central to her research – as she uncovers epic stories of the Viking age
The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya
“A tour de force of luminous writing.” Mark Cocker In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. `The Frozen River` is his extraordinary account of the time he spent there, living alongside the Zangskari people,
Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story
In 1980, Carlos Acosta was just another Cuban kid of humble origins, the youngest son in a poor family named after the planter who had owned his great-great-grandfather. With few options and an independent spirit, Carlos spent his days on the streets, dreaming of a career in football.But even at a young age, Carlos had
Pizza Girl
“Great inventiveness, unfailing intelligence and empathy, and best of all a rare and shimmering wit” Richard Ford A moving story about an unforgettable young woman trying to find her place in the world… Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl, our dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about
