Category Archives: Travel Guides
Hidden World: Ocean
Learn about the fish and plants of the ocean with Hidden World. Filled with bite-sized facts, multiple flaps and sumptuous illustrations, this book is perfect for introducing young children to the wonders beneath the waves.
Farmyard Countdown!: Counting fun on the farm
Join the baby animals on their journey around the farm and count down from ten along the way!The animal board pieces on every page will delight and engage children in this farmyard rhyming tale.
Bug Hotel
Welcome to the Bug Hotel, a homemade habitat where creepy crawlies of all shapes and sizes can find a place to stay!Discover how a bug hotel can create a sustainable, safe environment for insects and mini-beasts by exploring each section, lifting the flaps and finding out facts about your favourite garden insects.
Bird House
Welcome to The Bird House, a homemade habitat where birds can safely rest and nest!Bird houses come in all shapes and sizes, designed to suit all different types of birds. Discover how bird houses can provide much-needed shelter, explore how we can help our gardens to become more bird-friendly and lift the flaps to find
Hello World: Bingo
Learn how to say “hello” in over 50 languages with this brightly coloured bingo game!Discover an array of global greetings, from the familiar to the unusual, and test your linguistic abilities as you play the fast-moving and beautifully illustrated Hello World Bingo. A perfect family game for up to 9 players.
Mind Your Manners
It`s okay to enjoy roaring loudly. We all deserve some time to play. But all lions should practice those soft growls, For the quieter times of the day. Welcome to the jungle! It`s full of misbehaving animals, from messy monkeys to grumpy grizzly bears. But with the help of our quirky, memorable rhymes and adorable
Who`s Who? Peek-through! Animals
Tortoise always takes last place Who shoots past him in the race? Who`s the fastest animal around? Peek under the flaps in this adorable animal board book to discover the answer!
My Peekaboo Animals
Explore the amazing animal kingdom with over 70 fun flaps to lift. See who`s hiding in the kangaroo`s pouch and who`s rustling around in the rainforest. Packed with facts and bright, beautiful artwork, this multi-layer flap book will keep your little one entertained for hours!
Animal Journeys
Use this beautifully illustrated book to find out about some extraordinary animal odysseys, from mass migrations to flying fish, from pollination to echolocation. Discover how animals adapt to their environments to help them thrive and survive in this journal of amazing animal journeys.
Across the Savannah – Nature Pop-ups
The savannah sun sets in the sky – Meerkats play, giraffes stroll by… Cross the hot savannah and discover all of its secrets with this new pop-up book, featuring stunning artwork from Clover Robin.
A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN 100 PLACES
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places you can still visit today. Part narrative history, part exploration of our national heritage, his wide-ranging selection of
Girl on the Stairs
Jane and Petra have been together for six years and after deciding to have a child, they move to Petra`s hometown, Berlin. But things do not quite go according to plan. Jane, at six months pregnant, finds herself increasingly isolated and preoccupied with the monuments and reminders of the Holocaust which echo around the city
Sorry!: The English and Their Manners
Most of us know a bit about what passes for good manners – holding doors open, sending thank-you notes, no elbows on the table. We certainly know bad manners when we see them. But where has this patchwork of beliefs and behaviours come from? How did manners develop? How do they change? And why do
Soldiers Sahibs
This text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India`s north-west frontier, which in the late 1990s forms the volatile boundary between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Known collectively as Henry Lawrence`s Young Men, each had distinguished himself in the East
Past the Shallows
Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful and hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac McCarthy and Tim Winton. `If you read only one book this year, make sure it`s this` Sunday Times `I loved Past the Shallows` Kevin Powers, author of
The King`s Grave: The Search for Richard III
Now with a new chapter. The official inside story of the life, death and remarkable discovery of history`s most controversial monarch. On 22 August 1485 Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field, the last king of England to die in battle. His victorious opponent, Henry Tudor (the future Henry VII), went on to found one
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos
The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor undertook at the age of eighteen from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. `When are
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra
`Sicily is the key to everything` Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his sights to Sicily in this beautiful book full of maps and colour photographs. The stepping stone between Europe and Africa, the gateway between the East and the West, at once a stronghold, clearing-house and observation
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science
Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast, there`s a penguin, a giant squid – even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon. His colourful adventures read like something out
Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence
Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her first novel,
