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Don’t Put Yourself on Toast


by Freddy Taylor
“A book close to my heart. A tragicomic triumph told with love and humour, revealing how out of darkness comes so much light.” TOM DALEY “A startling debut… This book will make you want to hold everyone you love close, [...]

I Bought a Mountain


by Thomas Firbank
Demy Hardback
Reissue of a bestselling classic that inspired a generation of ‘good life’ nature books WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK BARKHAM And an essay by Welsh hill farmer, Dafydd Morris-Jones Written on the eve of the Second World War, this memoir [...]

On Grief


by Peter J Conradi
B Format Hardback
  How do you ‘prepare’ for bereavement? Religious faith can help, as can ritualised codes of dress and behaviour that recognise different stages of mourning. But many of us feel singularly unprepared when we lose someone. No one ‘theory’ can [...]

The Interior Silence


by Sarah Sands
B Format Paperback
“Inspirational” – The Daily Mail “Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and tranquil places on earth, and introduces us to [...]

Light to Life


by Raffael Jovine
B Format Paperback
In Light to Life, biologist Raffael Jovine takes us on a journey of discovery into the intricate, beautiful and often surprising processes that convert energy from the sun into life and how all-important these are to our survival. Despite the unprecedented [...]

Sense of Belonging


by Dr Holan Liang
Demy Paperback
“Extraordinary, exceptional, incredibly timely.” PROFESSOR THALIA ELEY, Professor of Developmental Behavioural Genetics A sense of belonging – being liked, understood, accepted for who we are – is vital for our mental health. Whether it is fitting in at school, struggling [...]

Tales of a Country Parish


by Colin Heber-Percy
B Format Hardback
‘A delightful book from a gentle, generous spirit.’ – SIMON RUSSELL BEALE During the unprecedented circumstances of Spring 2020, Colin Heber Percy began writing a daily newsletter of reflections and uplifting stories to stay in touch with his parishioners. Word [...]

State of Disbelief


by Juliet Rosenfeld
B Format Hardback
‘A beautifully written, profoundly moving and immersive account of grief that will bring solace.’ – Louise France, The Times When Juliet Rosenfeld’s husband dies of lung cancer only seven months into their marriage, everything she has learnt about death as a [...]

Emotional Inheritance


by Galit Atlas
Demy Hardback
‘With elegance, Galit Atlas explains the troubling and nourishing aspects of our emotional inheritances. She deftly shows why the hurts and stuckness that can plague us can be faced and, yes, dissolved. Contemporary psychoanalysis at its best. And good storytelling, [...]

Share Power


by Merryn Somerset Webb
Demy Hardback
“Brimming with energy and hugely convincing – capitalism rescued in one short book.” – Justin Webb, Journalist and Presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme “Merryn Somerset Webb combines deep knowledge of investment with accessibility, wit and an occasional swipe of [...]

The Fast 800 Keto


by Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
“A brilliantly informative book on how to optimise a keto diet.” – Daily Mail A keto diet – where you flip your metabolic switch, going from burning sugar to burning fat for fuel – leads to significant weight loss and [...]

Velkom to Inklandt


by Sophie Herxheimer
Cloth hardback 173x256mm (narrow Crown Quarto)
The Sunday Times’ Poetry Book of the Year The Observer’s Poetry Book of the Month Velkom to Inklandt is a collection of poems in which Sophie Herxheimer brings vividly to life the voice of her German Jewish Grent Muzzer, Liesel, [...]

Perfect Pitch


by Tim Bouverie
B Format Hardback
‘A treat from the very first page… this book is written with such style and humour… It’s a perfect introduction to classical music for a beginner, a companion for the music lover, and sheer entertainment for both.’ – JOANNA LUMLEY Nearly [...]

The Land of Maybe


by Tim Ecott
B Format Paperback
‘In this excellent book, Ecott’s evocative telling makes me want to go to this weird and wonderful place.’ – PAUL THEROUX Following the natural cycle of the year, The Land of Maybe captures the essence of ‘slow life’ on the 18 remote, [...]

Barca


by Simon Kuper
Demy Hardback
“Imagine the club not as a theatre of dreams but as a workplace. What is office life like day to day? Who are the people who run the club? How much power do they actually have over the players? What [...]

Fox & I


by Catherine Raven
Demy Hardback
“A wise and intimate book about a solitary woman, a biologist by training, who befriends a fox. More than that, it’s the tale of a human mind, trained to be logical, meeting and being touched by Nature and coming to [...]

I Can’t Believe It’s Baby Food


by Lucinda Miller
Crown Quarto Hardback
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GOOD STUFF “I wish I had had this book when I was bringing up my three. Lucinda’s recipes are not only quick for a tired mum, but more importantly DELICIOUS for the children…”  Thomasina Miers [...]

Vain Glorious


by Jeremy Langmead with Dr David Jack
Crown Quarto Hardback
“My life is a constant battle between vanity and laziness. This book has brokered the perfect peace deal!”  – Graham Norton Should I tint my eyebrows? How can I get a squarer jawline? Which style of trouser would make my [...]

Your Simple Guide to Reversing Type 2 Diabetes


by Professor Roy Taylor
B Format Paperback
In this pocket version of his bestselling Life Without Diabetes, Professor Roy Taylor offers a brilliantly concise explanation of what happens to us when we get type 2 and how we can escape it. Taylor’s research has demonstrated that type [...]

Looking for an Enemy


by Jo Glanville
B Format Hardback
“Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew.” Hadley Freeman, author of House of Glass Conspiracy theories about Jews are back in the mainstream. The Pittsburgh gunman who murdered [...]

Light to Life


by Raffael Jovine
B Format Hardback
“This book is about the magic of photosynthesis and how plants and algae turn sunlight into energy to make life on this planet possible.  Read it and you will learn how photosynthesis was discovered, how it works, and how we [...]

The Interior Silence


by Sarah Sands
Demy Hardback
“Sarah Sands has written about stillness with an eloquence that fizzes with vitality and wit. This wonderful book charts a journey to some of the most beautiful and tranquil places on Earth, and introduces us to people whose inner peace [...]

The Art of Repair


by Molly Martin
210 x 148mm
‘Nothing lasts, nothing is finished and nothing is perfect.’  Japanese proverb   For Molly Martin, it all started with a pair of socks. Her favourite pair. When the heels became threadbare, her mother got out her darning mushroom and showed [...]

A Modest Book about How to Make an Adequate Speech


by John-Paul Flintoff
B Format Paperback
What some audiences said after John-Paul Flintoff followed the guidance provided in this book: “To tell you the truth, I only went to see this guy to get the afternoon off work… So I was really surprised that I enjoyed it.” – Attendee, in-person event “I did enjoy listening. The best thing was that he didn’t just keep going on about himself, like one or two that had come earlier that week.” – Attendee, in-person event “There are few occasions when you can genuinely forget that you are ‘inside’ when you are a guest of Her Majesty, but this was surely one of them, and it lasted for a whole afternoon.” – Attendee, in-person event at HMP Dumfries “One of the most powerful talks that I have ever been to. It was so raw, honest and exceptionally brave.” – Attendee, illustrated talk online “I was the one at the back, sobbing and snotting.” – Attendee, in-person talk, Mishcon de Reya

The Fast 800 Easy


by Clare Bailey, Justine Pattison
Crown Quarto Paperback
130 brand-new recipes to cook up at home, any day of the week… Following their bestselling Fast 800 Recipe Book, Dr Clare Bailey and Justine Pattison return with a fabulous new cookbook, featuring super-simple recipes to enable you to eat well [...]

The Magic Hour


by Charlotte Moore
B Format Hardback
“Reading a poem gives us a glimpse of past and future possibilities, other worlds and other lives. It makes a gift of unfamiliar words, and refreshes parts of the mind that other art forms cannot reach…” Charlotte Moore, a writer [...]

Secrets of a Devon Wood


by Jo Brown
210x 148mm
“Things of such magnitude deserve respect and understanding. They deserve to be remembered…” Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small wonders of the wood behind her home in Devon. This book [...]

The Food Mood Connection


by Dr Uma Naidoo
Demy Paperback
The definitive book on how to eat for mental health, from a go-to expert on the impact of food on the brain. Did you know that blueberries can help you cope with the after-effects of trauma? That salami can cause [...]

Growing Old


by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Demy Hardback
From the revered author of the bestselling The Hidden Life of Dogs, a witty, engaging, life-affirming account of the joy, strength, and wisdom that comes with age. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs [...]

The Wake Up Call


by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
B Format Paperback
Good government is now the difference between living and dying…  The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is accelerating a shift in the balance of power from West to East. After a decade where [...]

The Land of Maybe


by Tim Ecott
B Format Hardback
Following the natural cycle of the year, The Land of Maybe captures the essence of the 18 mysterious Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic. Here, a fast disappearing world is home to a close-knit society where just 50,000 people share [...]

A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs


by Peter J Conradi
224
Tin Tin’s Snowy, Odysseus’s Argos, Darwin’s Polly, Mary Queen of Scot’s 22 lap-dogs, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Flush… Behind every great man or woman is a dog.     A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs is a rich compendium of the [...]

Undressing


by James O’Neill
B Format Hardback
“Every therapist is changed by the people they work with. But just occasionally someone comes along whose determination to find their way through suffering challenges us to rouse our own courage and go beyond the limits of what we perceive to be comfortable, known, or even possible.”

The Fast 800


by Michael Mosley
B Format Paperback
Six years ago, Dr Michael Mosley started a health revolution with The 5.2 Fast Diet, telling the world about the incredible power of intermittent fasting. In this book he brings together all the latest science (including  a new approach: Time [...]

Snow


by Giles Whittell
B Format Paperback
How many snowflakes are needed to make a snowman? Where is the snowiest place on Earth? When will the last snowflake fall? Snow has a lot in common with religion. It comes from heaven. It changes everything. It creates an [...]

The Good Stuff


by Lucinda Miller
Crown Quarto Hardback
Healthy food that children will actually eat? Most parents would go to the moon and back for the secret…. In this game-changing book, designed for busy parents, top child nutrition expert Lucinda Miller shows you how to cook nutritious food [...]

Singing in the Rain


by Rachel Kelly
Crown Quarto Hardback
Thinking often makes us sad but doing rarely does. This book is about action: it is full of inventive and accessible activities, one for each week of the year, to help you rediscover your creativity and, little by little, build [...]

The Clever Guts Diet Recipe Book


by Clare Bailey
Crown Quarto Paperback
  Your gut is key to y​our ​physical and mental wellbeing ​ – home to your microbiome, an army of microbes that influences your weight, mood and immune system​.​ In this companion book to Dr Michael Mosley’s bestselling Clever Guts [...]

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