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The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared ...

Product Description THE NEW BOOK FROM WAGAMAMA, COMPLETE WITH VEGAN AND VEGETARIAN OPTIONS FOR EVERY RECIPE Featuring more than 70 fresh, vibrant...

Review Praise for The Nation of Plants: This artfully crafted exposition delightfully delves into the lives of plants by presenting the eight pill...

About the Author WESLEY SO is one of the world's top players. In 2016 he won two gold medals at the Olympiad and was overall winner of the Grand C...

Product Description RUNS, JUMPS AND SKIPS From Richard Williams' The Animator's Survival Kit comes key chapters in mini form. The Animator's Survi...

Review Pomerantsev is one of the most brilliant observers of Putin's Russia ... an electrifying, terrifying book. -- Anne Applebaum A riveting ac...

About the Author Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex. Iwona Blazwick is Director, Whitecha...

Review If you like football, read it. If you don't like football, read it -- Simon Barnes ― The Times This is a wonderful book written under grea...

Product Description Filled with easy step-by-step instruction from a variety of artists and a wealth of inspiring images to study and admire, The ...

"​On the first day of Christmas� my true love gave to me a partridge in a pear tree." Celebrate the magic of Christmas time with this well-loved...

Product Description There are over 500 recipes in this classic work from one of the UK's most respected food writers. First published in the 1980 ...

'Let's eat Grandma' OR 'Let's eat, Grandma'? This fun yet informative book offers bite-sized tips and advice on everything you need to know about g...

Review "A lyrical, painful and yet hope-filled memoir . . . Shattering, light-searching" ― Observer "Searing . . . Unputdownable . . . My Name Is...

The number one hit by multi-million copy bestselling author Kate Mosse. 'LABYRINTH is a reader's Holy Grail . . . a heart-wrenching, thrilling tale...

Beautiful book plus amazing interactive app! This fact-packed book-plus-app is an interactive guide to key planets from the Star Wars galaxy. Liv...

An official publication, this is the definitive illustrated history of the world's most famous cycling event, the Tour de France. This new edition ...

In this straight-talking guide to the real world of work, discover over 120 irreverent, unusual but always useful insights for anyone who wants to ...

How Numbers Work is a tour of the mind-blowing but beautiful realm of numbers and the mathematical rules that connect them.

Product Description Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about hi...

Product Description 'Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the pr...

Review Budding ecologists will unearth a warren of astonishing facts (did you know, for instance, that one handful of soil contains more organ...

About the Author Francis Fukuyama is the author of The End of History, The Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future, State Building,After the Ne...

Your pets can rival movie stars with these easy tricks from the trainer behind the Harry Potter movies, Julie Tottman. Whether your cat is clever,...

Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Sanskrit offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, en...

Product Description THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of the Y...

What is gender dysphoria? How does it affect people? What do terms like intersex, cisgender, and transsexualism mean? This book, the first of its k...

The first Westerner to meet Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936, Edgar Snow came away with the first authorised account of Mao's...

Review ‘The detective novels of M C Beaton, a master of outrageous black comedy, have reached cult status.’ -- Anne Robinson ― The TimesAgatha...

Embark on a voyage of self-discovery with this spellbinding introduction to astrology. Learn ways to interpret your birth chart and how your star s...

Product Description Originally published in the 1930s and 1940s and never before collected, these stories by the incomparable Angela Thirkell ...

Review Fascinating and elegantly humane ... refreshingly interdisciplinary in its insistence that philosophy and literature are going to be ju...

Product Description THE FASCINATING SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAssaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suic...

Review A wide-ranging and lively history of the Greek East that offers a rare combination of erudition and accessibility. -- Andrew Erskine, U...

Product Description How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously u...

Product Description Winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL (August Derleth Award) at British Fantasy Awards 2016She comes in the night. She looks into yo...

Review Intriguing ... a challenging but rewarding trip through a quantum world of uncertainties. ― Publisher's WeeklyPraise for Ian Stewart: S...

Review Terrific medieval fantasy with three-dimensional characters, realistic battle scenes, intricate plotting and attention to the minutiae ...

Product Description The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller'Gorgeous.' Glennon Doyle'Sharp observations on modern womanhood.' Sunday Times'E...

Product Description One of the Food Programme's Cookbooks of the Year 2021!'The recipes are nourishing, so full of goodness, so tasty and a j...

From the Family - pushy mother, long suffering father and sensitive daughter to the Nervous Adult Learner, The Yard Know It All and Dressage Diva i...

Product Description Work deadlines, to-do lists, family commitments, pressure to perform... Our frantic lives demand so much from us that we can ...

Product Description AS SEEN ON BBC TWO'S HIT TV-SHOW 'THIS FARMING LIFE''A heartwarming tale of life on the land' Alan Titchmarsh'There's love an...

Product Description THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE STORYTELLERNEARLY ONE BILLION COPIES SOLDWhat if falling in love means learning who to trust?Bettina Da...

A monumental, enthralling work charting the greatest land battle of all time which changed the course of World War Two, by a highly regarded milita...

Product Description A secret diary. A forbidden love. A centuries old mystery to solve.When a rare sixteenth-century manuscript lands on her desk...

A heartbreaking, powerful true story from Britain's most-loved foster carer, perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Casey Watson. When a terrified yo...

Product Description A vengeful ghost comes back to haunt the living?Reports of a haunted house soon have Agatha snooping around, but it turns out...

A new, updated, revised edition of JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY, the wider history of the Middle East through the lens of the Holy City, covering from ...