Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Fat-Loss Plan: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes with Workouts
Joe Wicks is back with another instalment of 100 brand-new delicious recipes and speedy, effective workouts. The Fat-Loss Plan shows how to adopt a lean lifestyle in a way that suits you. Inside the book is a combination of reduced carb, post workout and snacks and sweet treat recipes – all incredibly tasty and easy
Joe`s 30 Minute Meals: 100 Quick and Healthy Recipes
Easy and quick 30-minute recipes from Britain`s best-loved healthy chef, Joe WicksBestselling author Joe Wicks, aka The Body Coach, presents this gorgeous book featuring more than a hundred nutritious recipes that are perfect for sharing. Proving once again that you don`t need loads of time to cook great food, `Joe`s 30-Minute Meals` is packed with
A Thousand Ships – Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020
Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020″With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War” Madeline Miller, `Song of Achilles` and `Circe`In `A Thousand Ships`, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for
The Gruffalo Autumn and Winter Nature Trail
Grab your wellies and learn all about the natural world around you with this colourful spotters` guide. Packed full of fun autumn and winter themed outdoor activities and over 400 stickers, The Gruffalo Autumn and Winter Nature Trail is a brilliant book for all the family.Based on the bestselling picture book The Gruffalo by Julia
Fish Dream of Trees
Axel Scheffler`s delightful artwork brings to life these playful and easily accessible poems by Frantz Wittkamp, wonderfully adapted from German to English by national treasure Roger McGough. There are lions and tigers and mice galore, not to mention a whole host of other bizarre and loveable creatures in this fully colour illustrated collection of short
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line
“Brave, compassionate and inspiring ‘“ it left me in floods of tears” Adam Kay, author of `This Is Going to Hurt`For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as a general and vascular surgeon with the NHS to volunteer in some of the world’s most dangerous war zones. From
Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir
Ken Clarke needs no introduction. One of the genuine `Big Beasts` of the political scene, during his forty-six years as the Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire he has been at the very heart of government under three prime ministers. He is a political obsessive with a personal hinterland, as well known as a
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
The Times Science Book of the YearA Sunday Times Bestseller”Thrilling… the best book on the subject written for the general reader since the 1980s.” The Sunday Times66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur
Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea
A fantastically funny story that appeals to children of all ages – and makes adults laugh out loud, with the bold simplicity of Herve Tullet or Dick Bruna`s Miffy.”very funny, very cute”GuardianMade using a collage of supermarket carrier bags, Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea is an irresistible story about empathy, diversity, and the joy
Journey to the River Sea
An Amazon adventure set in the wilderness of Brazil, Journey to the River Sea is filled with mystery and memorable characters.It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an
The Road to Ever After
Davy David, an orphan, lives by his wits in the dead-end town of Brownvale. When a stray dog called George turns Davy`s life upside down just days before Christmas, he sets in motion a chain of events which forces them to flee. A mischievous wind blows the two of them to a boarded-up museum on
Miss Jane
`As unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting.` Daily MailSince his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson`s work has been as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural,
The Hearts of Men
Camp Chippewa, 1962. Thirteen-year-old Nelson, loner and over-achiever, is nicknamed the Bugler as he proudly sounds the reveille each morning. This is the summer that everything changes, marking the beginning of Nelson`s uncertain friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan, and the discovery of his father`s betrayal, which tears his family apart.As time moves on,
Song of the Dolphin Boy
Finn has always been different, and in the tiny fishing village of Stromhead he sticks out like a sore thumb. Always told to keep away from the water, he`s felt that something was missing until one day he dives in and finds that, swimming with the dolphins, he feels completely at home. But his new
The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation`s Golden Couple
The Sahara Desert, February 1962: the wreckage of a plane emerges from the sands revealing, too, the body of the plane`s long-dead pilot. But who was he? And what had happened to him?Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller had fled a loveless marriage in Australia, longing for adventure in the London of the
The London Noisy Bus
Young children will love to press the beep-beep sound button as they journey through the sights of London on the iconic open top bus.Press the beep-beep button as you pass the fabulous sights of London including ZSL London Zoo, the wonderful toyshop on Regents Street, Westminster Tower, Big Ben and the Natural History and Science
The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War
“The greatest serial escaper of the Second World War” The Times”Endlessly fascinating. Cram`s story sizzles with adventure” Giles Milton, Sunday TimesIn November 1941 Lt Alastair Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa as a devastating tank battle unfolded as Operation Crusader struggled to relieve Tobruk. His capture began a four year-long odyssey as he passed
The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
`A lovely debut from a gifted young author. Violet Moller brings to life the ways in which knowledge reached us from antiquity to the present day in a book that is as delightful as it is readable.` Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsIn The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by
A House Without Walls
A House Without Walls is a powerful story of family, hope and redemption amidst the refugee crisis in Syria from the award-winning Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Lucy Eldridge.Thirteen-year-old Safiya and her family have been driven out of Syria by civil war. Safiya knows how lucky she is – lucky not to be living in a
The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Jonathan Coe 1930s King`s Cross, London. When aspiring film actress Estella Lamare is found dead on the cutting-room floor of a London film studio, Cameron McCabe finds himself at the centre of a police investigation. There are multiple suspects, multiple confessors and, as more people around him die, McCabe begins to
