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Why should kids have all the fun? With the bestselling Brain Games for Clever Kids in the charts, Dr Gareth Moore turns his hand to creating a simi...

The third in a series of books in association with the Royal Institution on their world-renowned Christmas Lectures, this time exploring the intrig...

A celebration of failures, doom, disaster, mistakes, miscalculations, hubris, folly and really, really bad albums. Written by the author of the cul...

Contains 90 brilliant, ten-minute puzzles, to help train your brain. The wide variety of timed puzzles and exercises will keep you guessing and giv...

A definitive treasury of philosophers from around the world, from ancient times to the modern day. A must-read for anyone wanting answers to the mo...

The second in a series of books in association with the Royal Institution on their world-renowned Christmas Lectures, this time exploring the secre...

An exploration of space and time and a journey of discovery, through thirteen of the most fascinating Christmas Lectures given at the Royal Institu...

'Accessible, informative, enjoyable' - All About History _____________________ Spend 24 hours with the ancient Athenians. See the city through the...

Spend 24 hours with the ancient Chinese. Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and ...

Walk a day in a Roman's sandals ... What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities - one that was eight t...

From the tough to spell to the downright funny, these are the 365 words all kids should know! Some words have strange double meanings. Others seem...

CRESTFALLEN at CHICANERY and CIRCUMLOCUTION? Have no TRUCK with TOMFOOLERY and TRUMPERY? Or OMNISCIENT about OBLOQUIES and OPSIMATHS? Whether you'...

Want to know how to speak like a spy, make a balloon sword or hypnotize a chicken? This is the book for you. From the weird and wonderful to the hi...

Ever wanted to ameliorate your atavistic lexicon, engage in a little intellectual badinage or been discombobulated by tricky diction? 500 Words You...

If you've ever wanted to know what a panda does all day long, how your heart manages to shift all that blood around your body or what makes a rainb...

A Million Mermaids is a colouring book designed for mermaid lovers of all ages. Its humour and adorable charm will appeal to both children and ad...

A Million Sloths is a colouring book designed for sloth lovers of all ages. Its humour and adorable charm will appeal to both children and adults...

Your cool pocket companion and one-stop guide to capturing confidence! From the best-selling author of The Mindfulness Companion and The Can’t Sle...

The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilization. It is a vessel for sharing stories, dispersing knowledge, examining th...

Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesar’s decep...

Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesar’s decep...

Product Description Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first cen...

A Word a Day contains 365 carefully selected words that will enhance and expand your vocabulary, along with their meanings, origins and sample usag...

Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (c.1400 BC), which saw a ...

Warm and heartfelt stories and amusing anecdotes from the life of a vet in God's Own County. Julian Norton has been a vet for over twenty years, ...

Sunday Times bestselling author Caroline Taggart brings her usual gently humorous approach to punctuation, pointing out what really matters and wha...

Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about? Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance...

The perfect gift for girls everywhere, this interactive journal enables readers to make a detailed record of exactly who they are, right here, ri...

When you’re feeling disappointed or just a little blue, there’s nothing like good a laugh at some groanworthy jokes to raise the spirits – and that...

Quotations - or snippets from them - are commonly used in everyday speech, most often without the speaker knowing where they came from. From words ...

Anything Goes, John's first book, gave you the story so far. I Am What I Am reveals more about the man behind the television sensation, focusing on...

A new title in the hugely successful Clever Kids series, this book is packed with memory, word and number games for you to solve. From battleship...

This fun-packed book is brimming with amazing pen-and-paper puzzles. Rediscover the well-known classics and learn how to play brand-new games. Fr...

Whether you paid much attention to the mathematics you were taught at school or not, the inescapable truth is that one day, an equation could just ...

Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Can beggars be choosers? Is it always better late than never? Proverbs are short, well-known, pith...

The perfect gift, this notebook features the incredible artwork of Kerby Rosanes. With a mixture of images to colour and doodle, and blank and line...

This postcard pack is made up of 20 cards featuring artwork from talented illustrator Kerby Rosanes. These are the perfect way to share colouring...

Welcome to this weird and wacky colouring challenge. There are pictures to colour in, drawings to complete, spaces to scribble in and lots of thing...

A question that doesn't require an answer - what kind of question is that? The rhetorical question is one of those grammatical quirks that just do...

Children can blast off to Planet Anti-Boredom in this quirky new neon activity book. It's packed with weird, wild and wacky activities that are sur...

About the Author Geoff Tibballs has written many bestselling books, including Senior Jokes (The Ones You Can Remember), Seriously Senior Moments (...

Ariana Grande captured the hearts of a nation with her One Love Manchester concert. Less than a fortnight after a terrorist killed twenty-two peo...

The Art of the Dot teaches the reader how to complete and create stunning kolams. A form of drawing that is practised in southern India, kolams ...