Category Archives: Travel Guides
I Saw It First! Ocean: A Family Spotting Game
Three hundred ocean creatures populate the board of this carefully engineered game. Pick a counter from the box and be the first to spot that animal on the board! Coming in a triangular box with a hexagonal double-sided board, I Saw It First! Ocean features charming illustrations by Caroline Selmes. Simple to understand but addictive
From Above: The Story of Aerial Photography
Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air – with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, this book tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were created and the photographers that have propelled image-taking to bold new heights.Taking advantage of the
The Story of Trees: And How They Changed the Way We Live
`The Story of Trees` takes the reader on a visual journey from some of the earliest known tree species on our planet to the latest fruit cultivars.The chosen trees have all had a profound effect on the planet and humankind. Starting with the Ginkgo biloba, fossils of which date back 270 million years, we learn
Make a Living Living: Be Successful Doing What You Love
`Make a Living Living` is for anyone who has ever wished they could build a successful career doing something they love. Structured around the stories of inspiring individuals, from a vegan chocolatier to a nomadic photographer and a tiny-house builder, the book explains how they achieved their ideal existence, and the challenges they faced along
Terrific Timelines: Dinosaurs: “Press out, put together and display!”
Learn all about dinosaurs with this beautiful and unique display timeline. Featuring 20 of the top dinosaurs from all three prehistoric eras (Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous), each dinosaur has its own factfile and press-out model to add to your dino display. Beautifully illustrated by Aude van Ryn, this ingenious and eye-catching timeline slots together easily
Match a Mummy: The Ancient Egypt Game
Travel back in time to Ancient Egypt with this new children`s matching game, developed in partnership with the British Museum. Locate and match up the pairs to learn more about how the Egyptians lived. Why did they shave their heads but wear wigs, use dark eye make-up and worship dung beetles? How did they invent
Around the World in 80 Trees
Trees are one of humanity`s most constant and most varied companions. From India`s sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration – not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup. In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan Drori uses plant science
Shakespeare Playing Cards
Play your favourite card games with Romeo and Juliet as King and Queen of Hearts, Lady Macbeth as Ace Villain, and let Adam Simpson`s artwork bring Shakespeare`s plays to life. Arranged in four suits – with hearts = lovers, clubs = fools, diamonds = heroes and heroines, and spades = villains, plus two jokers, of
Monsters!: A Scary Trump Card Game
Which monster has the most horrible habits? Who has the biggest sweet tooth? Compete to win the most cards as you pit 30 scary and smelly monsters against each other. With awesome illustrations and hilarious descriptions of each creepy creature, this is the perfect game to play with your friends and family!
Around the World in 80 Trees Signed Copy
Signed by the authorTrees are one of humanity’s most constant and most varied companions. From India’s sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration ‘“ not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup.In `Around the World in 80 Trees`, expert Jonathan Drori uses
Read This if You Want to Be a Great Writer
This book demystifies the writing process, empowering you to write your own novel or short story. The author explains expert technique in a clear and jargon-free way, with examples from twenty-five masters of prose. For aspiring writers of all ages and abilities, Read This If You Want to Be a Great Writer will motivate and
Story Box: Animal Adventures: Animal Adventures
Bored of simply piecing together images of landscapes, animals or flowers? Learn about art with an exciting new range of jigsaws, beginning with Impressionism and Surrealism. The 500-piece Surrealism puzzle features a dazzling scenario of the Surrealists in action – and appropriately enough their paintings are taking part too. See Dali dance with a lobster
Barcelona Sketchbook: Homage to Catalan Architecture
The perfect introduction to the city`s architectural heritage, Barcelona Sketchbook gives visitors and residents insight into a wealth of sights, both grand and intimate in scale. Many facets of the Catalonia capital and surroundings are recorded here, as Graham Byfield strolls with his sketchpad through the Ramblas, the glories of Antoni Gaudi, the great ceremonial
The Death of Democracy
*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING?In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning point, with many looking to the Nazi phenomenon as part of widespread resentment towards cosmopolitan liberal democracy and capitalism. This was a
Florida
**A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR****2018 National Book Awards Finalist**In these vigorous stories, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling to a world in which storms, snakes and sinkholes lurk at the edge of everyday life, but the greater threats are of a human, emotional and psychological nature. Among those navigating it all are a
On the Red Hill: Where Four Lives Fell Into Place
“A moving, multilayered memoir’ฆ extraordinary, ambitious… its scope is immense. A book that is deep in riches.” Simon Callow”A marvellous book… an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise.” Simon Jenkins”There are worlds on worlds within this lyrical and profoundly cultured book. In an age of toxic artifice,
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
`Sharp, moving memoir . . . Wamariya tells her own story with feeling, in vivid prose. She has remade herself, as she explains was necessary to do, on her own terms.` New York TimesA riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories to break or save usClemantine Wamariya was six years old when
The Secrets We Kept
“Tantalising” Sunday Times”Thoroughly enjoyable” Guardian”Irresistibly charged” Mail on SundayNo one looks twice at the women in the typing pool.No one knows that two of them are trading secrets.The secret is a book, the size of the one in your hands, and within its pages, a love story that could change the world.But where there is
The First Woman – Winner of the Jhalak Prize 2021
Winner of the Jhalak Prize 2021″Jennifer Makumbi is a genius storyteller” Reni Eddo-LodgeFor one young girl, discovering what it means to become a woman in a family, a community and a country determined to silence her will take all the courage she has.Growing up in a small Ugandan village, Kirabo is surrounded by powerful women.
