Category Archives: Travel Guides
Big Pencil and Paper Games Pad
This giant pad is crammed full of puzzles and games that will keep children occupied for hours. There are 17 solo games and 13 to play with a friend, including classics such as 0s and Xs, word searches, matching games and Sudoku, as well as little known gems. The tear-off sheets are ideal for sharing
Big Activity Pad
A fun-packed, write-in activity pad containing 30 tear-off sheets that will keep children entertained for hours on end. Each giant page features a different scene overflowing with things to spot, puzzles to solve and details to colour, doodle and draw. Sure to keep children entertained during holidays, rainy days and quiet times.
Welcome To The Christmas Market
This book opens to form one long, continuous Christmas market scene to colour. Children, and adults too, will love colouring the intricate designs and details such as twinkling decorations and carollers in the town square, and once completed, it makes a lovely Christmas decoration. There are over 100 colourful rub-down transfers to add, too.
Fingerprint Activities Animals
This book, with its own brightly coloured inkpad of seven colours, is bursting with ideas for fingerprinting animals from hedgehogs to koalas. Each page has step by step instructions, pictures to complete and lots of space for fingerprinting. With a spiral binding so the book lies flat to make it easy for children to create
Wipe-clean Travel Puzzles
This lively book is the ideal companion for holidays and journeys, allowing young children to practise their early learning skills whilst having fun. Children find their way through mazes, match and recognize patterns, draw and trace shapes and more. Durable, wipe-clean pages allow children to enjoy the puzzles again and again.
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real China, he started driving a cab – and discovered a country amid seismic political and economic change.The Chinese economic boom, with its impact on the environment, global trade,
Exciting Times
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children.Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than `I like you a great
On the High Wire
In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging
Small Pleasures – Longlisted for the 2021 Women`s Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2021 Women`s Prize for Fiction”Beautiful” Jessie Burton”Wonderful” Richard Osman “A wonderful novel. I loved it” Nina Stibbe “This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. I honestly don`t want you to be without it” Lucy Mangan”Gorgeous… If you`re looking for something escapist and bittersweet, I could not recommend
The History of the Countryside
From its earliest origins to the present day, this award-winning, beautifully written book describes the endlessly changing character of Britain`s countryside.”A classic” Richard MabeyExploring the natural and man-made features of the land – fields, highways, hedgerows, fens, marshes, rivers, heaths, coasts, woods and wood pastures – he shows conclusively and unforgettably how they have developed
An Improbable Life: The Autobiography
Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man – and he has led an improbable life. Now in his 80th year, he is known and loved by people the world over for his humility, charm and natural ease. As a natural storyteller and communicator, he has few equals.In `An Improbable Life`, Sir Trevor recounts his personal
The Foghorn`s Lament: The Disappearing Music of the Coast
`A truly unusual and strangely revealing lens through which to view music and history and the dark life of the sea` Brian Eno`As memorable, pleasurable and irrational as all the highest quests` John Higgs`A perfect example of the power and beauty of industrial music` Cosey Fanni TuttiWhat does the foghorn sound like?It sounds huge. It
Venus and Aphrodite
Through ancient art, evocative myth, exciting archaeological revelations and philosophical explorations Bettany Hughes shows why this immortal goddess endures through to the twenty-first century, and what her journey through time reveals about what matters to us as humans.Charting Venus`s origins in powerful ancient deities, Bettany demonstrates that Venus is far more complex than first meets
The Camel Bookmobile
A superb novel of a travelling library, the Kenyan landscape – and the threat to a fragile way of life.Perfect for fans of Alexander McCall SmithDeep in the heart of the dusty Kenyan desert a train of heavily laden camels wind their way slowly through the bush. The camels are not carrying grain or medical
Red at the Bone – Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020
Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2020From the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of `Another Brooklyn` and `Brown Girl Dreaming`.An unexpected teenage pregnancy brings together two families from different social classes, and exposes the private hopes, disappointments and longings that can bind or divide us.Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening of
The Paper Lantern
`Will Burns is a soulful English poet of the kind we don`t make enough of` MAX PORTER`Hugely affecting and timely` LUKE TURNER`A boldly struck chord, one that contains many of the dissonances, but also the harmonies, found in England today` CHRIS POWERIn THE PAPER LANTERN, a single speaker charts and interrogates the shifts in mood
Spanish Dictionary for Beginners
An illustrated dictionary with over 2000 words and phrases, and amusing pictures of busy everyday scenes. Arranged thematically so words appear in context with topics on `buying food`, `at work` and `in the countryside` and more. An online pronunciation guide allows readers to listen to every word in the book, read by a native Spanish
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
Best known for his unforgettable roles in Monty Python, from the Flying Circus to The Meaning of Life, Eric Idle reflects on the meaning of his own life in this brilliantly entertaining memoir that takes us on an unforgettable journey from his childhood in an austere boarding school through his successful career in comedy, television,
Santa`s Christmas Journey With Wind
Wind up the sleigh and follow Santa as he flies around the frosty night sky delivering presents on Christmas Eve. The colourful scenes with tracks embedded in the pages show Santa leaving the elves` village, flying around a busy city, soaring over snowy mountains and landing on the rooftops to deliver presents to sleeping children.
