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Review John Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils ― Observer Comedy's poet laureate ― Independent The Peter Kay of poetry ...

Review Everything a picture book should be: funny, engaging, slightly odd and utterly original ... A delight from start to finish ― The Irish Time...

It is difficult to think of a more quintessential symbol of the British countryside than the British Hedgerow, bursting with blackberries, hazelnut...

The Quiet Masterpiece of American Literature William Stoner is an unassuming, intensely private man born into a struggling farm family in rural Mis...

Review John Higgs's book lets in a glittering stream of revelatory light . . . [he] has us wrestling with flow states and default mode networks, N...

This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of ...

Moscow, 1938. A dangerous place to have a sense of humour; even more so a sense of freedom. Mikhail Bulgakov, living among dissidents, stalked by s...

It is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With disorientating ideas such as relativity, cubism, the id, existentia...

Veterinary practitioners are faced with an explosion of information in many media, but the core of their professional development remains keeping u...

A gripping departure from the courtroom, John Grisham presents a high-stakes story of basketball, ambition, and the American dream. Samuel "Sooley"...

'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seat...

Wonderfully preserved Greek vases are a unique source of information about the mythology, religion, drama and daily life of the ancient Greek world...

Product Description For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of...

The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors an...

This book focuses largely on enabling technologies for network convergence. A principal aim is to show where parallel functions exist in fixed and...

ARE YOU READY TO SAVE A LIFE? WHY HER? Becca Palmer has just lost her job as assistant to Simon Jones MP - the highly-regarded Policing Minister,...

'With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s...