Category Archives: Travel Guides
You`re Called What?
Ice Cream Cone Worm. Monkeyface Prickleback. Pink Fairy Armadillo. You`re called WHAT?!Welcome to the Ministry of Silly Animal Names where all the creatures have one thing in common: they want to change their names.A unique and rip-roaringly funny, tongue-twisting story full of weird and wonderful real creatures and facts at the end that will amaze.
Collected Poems: 1958 – 2015
Clive James`s reputation as a poet has become impossible to ignore. His recent poems looking back over his extraordinarily rich life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty, such as `Japanese Maple` (first published in the New Yorker in 2014), became global news events upon their publication. His most recent collection, Sentenced to Life, was a
The Little Book of Calm Colouring: Portable Relaxation
Alleviate anxiety and soothe all stress with The Little Book of Calm Colouring from David Sinden and Victoria Kay, the perfectly-formed sought-after antidote to a busy life. Beautifully hand-illustrated and thoughtfully designed to be the perfect size for portability, you can now take colouring art therapy with you wherever you go. With beautiful anti-stress designs
To Die in Spring
Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel 2018`[To Die in Spring] holds its own against [Gunter] Grass and [Erich Maria] Remarque; it is an excellent work, and one deserving of its wide readership.` GuardianWalter Urban and Friedrich `Fiete` Caroli work side by side as hands on a dairy farm in northern
The Macmillan Alice Colouring Book
The Macmillan Alice Colouring Book is a beautifully produced colouring book, with black line illustrations by Sir John Tenniel, taken from the original Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with added decoration and imagery to stimulate the imagination and soothe the mind, as you lose yourself in Wonderland. This gorgeous colouring book, from
My Turn: The Autobiography
Johan Cruyff is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in football history. Throughout his playing career, he was synonymous with Total Football, a style of play in which every player could play in any position on the pitch. Today, his philosophy lives on in teams across Europe, from Barcelona to Bayern Munich and
100 Hugs
100 Hugs is a gorgeous collection of illustrated hugs from Chris Riddell, Children`s Laureate 2015-2017. This is the perfect gift for a loved one, or to cheer yourself up on a dark day when all you need is a hug. The one hundred beautiful and intricate illustrations from the three-times winner of the CILIP Kate
Every Third Thought: On Life, Death, and the Endgame
As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week`Moving, intellectual and unsentimental. I think it will become a classic` Melvyn Bragg`Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful` Kate Mosse In 1995, at the age of forty-two, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke. Since that life-changing event, McCrum
The Hills is Lonely: Tales from the Hebrides
“I got the impression that they could imagine only two reasons why a woman should choose to settle down in Bruach: either that she was running away from the police, or escaping from a lurid past.” Neither reason applies to Lillian Beckwith, in these classic stories based on her convalescence on an isolated Hebridean island
Busy Christmas
Join in the festive fun as two small children prepare for Christmas day. There`s something to push, pull or spin on every spread. Watch snowmen grow, sledges slide and trees being trimmed, then push the tab to see what happens on Christmas Eve …have the children been good? Will Santa come? Busy Christmas is a
Chameleon People
From the international bestselling author, Hans Olav Lahlum, comes Chameleon People, the fourth murder mystery in the K2 and Patricia series.1972. On a cold March morning the weekend peace is broken when a frantic young cyclist rings on Inspector Kolbjorn `K2` Kristiansen`s doorbell, desperate to speak to the detective.Compelled to help, K2 lets the boy
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest
Mr Smiley
Howard Marks is the most famous drug smuggler of his age, and a hero to a generation. On his release from one of America`s toughest prisons, Howard made a promise to himself to go straight. No more drugs, no more smuggling, no more fake passports. He would retire to a quiet life with his family
The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley
A showstopping luxury gift book to cherish for years to come, The Moomins: The World of Moominvalley is the ultimate guide for any Moomin fan, old and new.Step into the magical world of Moominvalley with this beautiful one of a kind book; a fun, fascinating, behind the scenes look at the wonderful world of the
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain`s elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that rapidly advancing fascism must be halted in Spain; if
Killing It: A Memoir of Love, Life, Death and Dinner
After losing her job as a food journalist, Camas Davis felt totally lost, out of love with her life and the world. She had spent her career writing about food, but she had never forced herself to grapple with how it got to her plate. Now she wanted to change that, she wanted to experience
Fathers and Sons
Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is? As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell`s sense of self was dominated by his father`s absence. Now, years later, he is a father, and his daughter is becoming
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. It is the oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in the country, and preoccupied the monarchs and parliaments of England, Scotland, and France. After most of its population
Gruffalo Crumble and Other Recipes
`Gruffalo Crumble and Other Recipes` is packed full of sweet treats, healthy snacks and simple meals – all based on the bestselling picture book `The Gruffalo` by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Is your tummy beginning to rumble? Make your own owl ice cream, scrambled snake and roasted fox, and of course… Gruffalo crumble! With
Wilding: The return of nature to an English farm
Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary PrizeHighly Commended by the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize`A passionately personal, robustly argued and uplifting book . . . One of the landmark ecological books of the decade.` Sunday Times `Books of the Year`In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the `Knepp
