Category Archives: Travel Guides
Boogie Bear
From Number One bestselling author David Walliams comes a hilarious and heartwarming picture book, brilliantly illustrated by the artistic genius, Tony Ross, and read by the author himself.This book and CD edition comes with audio read by the author himself!Up at the North Pole, a big furry polar bear is swimming, fishing and eating. But
Walking Through Spring
`The most effective advertisement for the countryside I`ve ever encountered` Daily MailWalking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland`s journey as he traces a new national trail, walking north with Spring from the South Coast to the Borders.Hoyland connects a labyrinth of ancient footpaths, marking each mile by planting an acorn and drawing a path of oak
Desolation
THE EPIC NEW THRILLER CONTINUES. Book two in the mind-blowing new supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant. Reeling from their bloody encounter in New York City at the end of Demon Road, Amber and Milo flee north. On their trail are the Hounds of Hell – five demonic
Desolation (the Demon Road Trilogy, Book 2)
THE EPIC NEW THRILLER CONTINUES. Book two in the mind-blowing new supernatural thriller from bestselling author DEREK LANDY, creator of international sensation Skulduggery Pleasant. Reeling from their bloody encounter in New York City at the end of Demon Road, Amber and Milo flee north. On their trail are the Hounds of Hell – five demonic
The Little Bakery on Rosemary Lane: The perfect feel-good read
If you want to move forward, sometimes you have to go back … Prepare to fall in love with beautiful village of Burley Bridge. Growing up in a Yorkshire village, Roxanne Cartwright couldn`t wait to escape and make her place in the world. Now, thirty years later, she`s a fashion editor living a glamorous life
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland
Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019″A must read” Gillian FlynnOne night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of the brutal crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
“The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus`s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father`s flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of 16th-century Europe” Honor Clerk, Spectator, Books of the Year This is the scarcely believable – and wholly true – story of Christopher Columbus` bastard son Hernando, who sought
Astronomy Photographer of the Year: Collection 4: Collection 4
All the winning and shortlisted images from the 2015 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, which is organized by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The images are submitted in one of the following categories: * Earth and Space * Our Solar System * Deep Space * Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year And can also be
Sword Song
ENGLAND IS BORN. BBC2`s major TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell`s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Sword Song is the fourth book in the series. Season 2 of the epic TV series premiers this March. It is 885. England
A Single Thread
If she was to make a mark on the world, she would have to do so in another way… “Told with a wealth of detail and narrative intensity” Penelope Lively “I loved it. So compelling and warm and subtle, and very moving” Bridget Collins “Deeply touching … careful, beautiful” Louisa YoungIt is 1932, and the
Essex Poison (The County Guides)
October 1937. Swanton Morley, the People`s Professor, sets off to Essex to continue his history of England, The County Guides. Morley`s daughter Miriam continues to cause chaos and his assistant Stephen Sefton continues to slide deeper into depression and despair.Morley is an honorary guest at the Colchester Oyster Festival. But when the mayor dies suddenly
The Doldrums (The Doldrums, Book 1)
Archer B. Helmsley longs for adventure. But how can he have an adventure when he can`t even leave his house? Archer B. Helmsley has grown up in a house full of oddities and treasures collected by his grandparents, the famous explorers. Archer longs for grand adventures but ever since his grandparents went missing on an
Beetles (Collins New Naturalist Library)
Beetles are arguably the most diverse organisms in the world, with nearly half a million beetle species described and catalogued in our museums, more than any other type of living thing. This astonishing species diversity is matched by a similar diversity in shape, form, size, life history, ecology, physiology and behaviour. Beetles occur everywhere, and
The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy. Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London`s gangland during the 60s with a ruthlessness and viciousness that shocks even now. Building an empire of organised crime that has never been matched, the brothers swindled, extorted and terrorised – while enjoying
Early Humans
Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure`s A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their environment. In this long overdue new book,
To Catch A King: Charles II`s Great Escape
How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history? In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might
Aurora: In Search of the Northern Lights
The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends. The ancient stories of the Sami people warn that if you mock the lights they will seize you, and their mythical appeal continues to capture the hearts and imagination of people across the globe. `Aurora` explores the visual beauty, ancient myths and science of
The Lords of the North
ENGLAND IS BORN. BBC2`s major TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell`s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. The Lords of the North is the third book in the series. Season 2 of the epic TV series premiers this March. The
Mapping the Second World War: The History of the War Through Maps from 1939 to 1945
Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert historian. Over 150 maps tell the story of how this global war was fought. Types of maps
The Peregrine: The Hill of Summer & Diaries: the Complete Works of J. A. Baker
Reissue of J. A. Baker`s extraordinary classic of British nature writing Despite the association of peregrines with the wild, outer reaches of the British Isles, The Peregrine is set on the flat marshes of the Essex coast, where J A Baker spent a long winter looking and writing about the visitors from the uplands –
