Category Archives: Travel Guides
Build a Robot Book
This super-charged book will give you a unique, interactive guide to the world of robots. Combining a fact-filled book (did you know there are robot explorers and even robot doctors?) with a slide-out box containing three motors and pre-cut card pieces. You will become an expert robot-inventor in no time.
Little Explorers – My Amazing Body
My Amazing Body is a lively introduction to the human body, where children can lift the flaps to find out what goes on under their skin. Young readers will be amazed as they find out how the brain works, what happens to a mouthful of food, how fast our fingernails grow, and what breathing is
Little Explorers on the Move
Little Explorers is a new first-information series for curious youngsters. With sturdy flaps to lift on every page, little ones can have hands-on fun discovering the amazing world we live in. On the Move is a friendly introduction to the world of vehicles, from cars and trucks to trains, planes and boats. Kids can lift
The Night Before Christmas: Templar Classics
Revel in the thrill and excitement of Christmas eve and Clement C. Moore`s timeless poem with this lavish edition of the well-loved classic. Feel the warmth of the house and the tingle of anticipation as Robert Ingpen`s award-winning illustrations bring the story of the most magical time of year to life.
Bird Therapy
“I can`t remember the last book I read that I could say with absolute assurance would save lives. But this one will” Chris Packham “Fabulously direct and truthful, filled with energy but devoid of self-pity… I was impressed and enchanted. Highly recommended” Stephen Fry When Joe Harkness suffered a breakdown in 2013, he tried all
The Last Landlady: An English Memoir
Laura Thompson`s grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican`s licence in her own name and, just as pubs defined her life, she seemed in many ways to embody their essence.Laura spent part of her childhood in Violet`s Home Counties
The Madonna of Bolton
Charlie Matthews`s love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Diana. Remembering the Green Cross Code and getting out of football are the most important things in his life, until… On his
Boy Soldier: A Memoir of Innocence Lost and Humanity Regained in Northern Uganda
Uganda`s civil war with Joseph Kony`s Lord`s Resistance Army has raged since the 1980s, claiming over 100,000 lives and displacing around 1.5 million people. Kony`s rebel force, who combine religious mysticism with extreme brutality, have abducted tens of thousands of children: their child soldiers. Their insurgency continues to this day, though most of us know
Ring the Hill
“Always engaging, charming, funny and often moving… It made me want to pull on my stoutest boots and follow in his footsteps” Stephen Fry “Sheer bloody genius… I loved it. Then I loved it more” John Lewis-Stempel, author of `Meadowlands`A hill is not a mountain. You climb it for you, then you put it quietly
A Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land
From Barnet to Richmond, explore the history of London`s Metro-LandA Guide to Modernism in Metro-Land is your essential pocket guide to the modernist architecture of London`s suburbs. Inspired by John Betjeman`s 1973 documentary Metro-Land and the writing of Ian Nairn, it examines the growth of the city`s suburbs from the 1920s up to the present
Girl with a Gun: Love, Loss and the Fight for Freedom in Iran
Diana Nammi became a fighter with the Peshmerga when she was only seventeen. Originally known as Galavezh, she grew up in the Kurdish region of Iran in the 1960s and 70s. She became involved in politics as a teenager and, like many students, played a part in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. But the new
21 miles
`This book will help so many people` Positive FertilityAn Outdoor Swimming Society Book of the Year 2018After a decade of trying and failing to become a mother, Jessica Hepburn knew it was time to do something different. So she decided to swim twenty-one miles across the English Channel no easy feat, especially for someone who
Surfboard: How Using My Hands Helped Unlock My Mind
The Surfboard is Dan s Kieran account of a week he spent in Cornwall building a seven-foot surfboard, even though he had never surfed in his life. Interspersed with the story of making the board the intricate craft he had to learn, and the clarity of mind that came with that challenge are reflections on
Another Life
In 2000, every UN state agreed on eight Millennium Development Goals. Extreme poverty and hunger were to be eradicated, primary education was to be offered to all, gender equality promoted and the battle intensified against HIV/AIDS and other diseases.In 2005, Nick Danziger was commissioned by the charity World Vision to visit eight countries and see
Help the Witch
As night draws through country lanes, and darkness sweeps across hills and darkness sweeps across hills and hedgerows, shadows appear where figures are not; things do not remain in their places; a new home is punctured by abandoned objects; a watering hole conceals depths greater than its swimmers can fathom.Riddled with talismans and portents, saturated
The House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole`s Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors` personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature.We encounter Jane Austen drinking `too
Eileen: The Making of George Orwell
This is the never-before-told story of George Orwell`s first wife, Eileen, a woman who shaped, supported, and even saved the life of one of the twentieth century`s greatest writers.In 1934, Eileen O`Shaughnessy`s futuristic poem, `End of the Century, 1984`, was published. The next year, she would meet George Orwell, then known as Eric Blair, at
Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers
Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed.Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and sorrow, the solidarity and the differences, the everyday wisdom and poetry of
The Sewing Machine
It is 1911, and Jean is about to join the mass strike at the Singer factory. For her, nothing will be the same again. Decades later, in Edinburgh, Connie sews coded moments of her life into a notebook, as her mother did before her. More than 100 years after his grandmother s sewing machine was
Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves
It doesn`t take much familiarity with the news to see that the world has become a more hate-filled place. In `Others`, a group of writers explore the power of words to help us to see the world as others see it, and to reveal some of the strangeness of our own selves.Through stories, poems, memoirs
