*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday TelegraphA toy train.
***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE 2020****LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2020**'Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.
Empowering, inspiring and full of badass attitude, this small book is big on motivational mantras and awe-inspiring photography to help you take on the world.
*Get your pub on with 10% more content than other beer and pub guides, and over 80 new entries this year*The 36th edition of this much-loved guide is as invaluable as ever.
Over the past nine years the Orient Foundation has compiled a database that brings together information on over 600 Tibetan-related organizations throughtout the world.
'A daily taste of eternity in the midst of time'BBC Radio 4 staple Thought for the Day has been running for 50 years, aiming to capture the mood of the country and speak to it in a way that reaches people of all faiths and none.
*With 10% more content than other beer and pub guides, and over 100 new entries this year*The 35th edition of this much-loved guide is as invaluable as ever.
A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writersFrom a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness.
A Year of Festivities & Feasting is a delightful collection that celebrates the bounty of nature, the joy of seasonal cooking, and the stories that connect delicious foods with some of our most sacred annual traditions.
'I love Jonn Elledge's brain, and his tireless quests to boggle everyone else's' MARINA HYDEThe Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything is a treasure trove of random knowledge.
The Independent's Best Sports Book of the Year, 2015Christmas Day 1959 and legions of schoolboys up and down the country feverishly unwrapped the very first Topical Times Football Book.
From bookstores to the Internet to Susie Bright's own tremendous success with the BEST AMERICAN EROTICA series, we are clearly reading and writing erotica more than ever.
The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the worldThis annual anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world.
No matter where you are in your writing journey, multi-award winning romance author Liz Fielding's straight-forward, no jargon guide to writing Bestselling Romance shows you what it takes to get there.
