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 [...]

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 [...]

101 Reasons Why We Love The Queen


by E. Dunne & H. Sutcliffe
190 x 129mm
Did you know that the Queen likes to wake up to the sound of bagpipes? That her favourite flower is the primrose? Or that she has established a whole new dog breed, the dorgi, a cross between a corgi and [...]

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 [...]

The State of Disbelief


by Juliet Rosenfeld
B Format Hardback
”A beautifully written, profoundly moving and immersive account of grief that will bring solace to readers who have been bereaved, and guide anyone who knows them, who feels at a loss how to understand what they’re going through. Which pretty [...]

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.”

Snow


by Giles Whittell
B Format Hardback
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 [...]

MESSI


by Jordi Punti
B Format Hardback
Since landing in the FC Barcelona youth academy at the age of thirteen, Lionel Messi has demonstrated an innate and awe-inspiring talent for football – in the process creating a sort of poetry in the game. For so many fans [...]

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 [...]

The Story of Emily Davison


by Claudia FitzHerbert
B Format Hardback
Emily was angry. She worked as hard as any man, but she couldn’t change laws that affected her – laws made by men. Because women didn’t have the right to vote. She and her fellow suffragettes had patiently put their [...]

The Story of Nelson Mandela


by Adrian Hadland
B Format Hardback
Nelson was a young South African with a reputation for trouble-making. Who would have thought he would one day lead his people to freedom? Nelson grew up at a time when black South Africans suffered terrible injustice. He was determined [...]

The Imperial Tea Party


by Frances Welch
B Format Hardback
The British and Russian royal families had just three full meetings before the Romanovs tragic end in 1918. In The Imperial Tea Party, Frances Welch draws back the curtain on those fraught encounters, which had far-reaching consequences for 20th-century Europe and beyond.  [...]

The Inflamed Mind


by Edward Bullmore
Demy Hardback
  Worldwide, depression will be the single biggest cause of disability in the next 20 years. But treatment for it has not changed much in the last three decades. In the world of psychiatry, time has apparently stood still… until [...]

The Orchid Hunter


by Leif Bersweden
B Format Hardback
In the summer after leaving school, a young botanist sets out to fulfil a childhood dream –­ to find every species of orchid native to the British Isles. Battling the vagaries of the British climate in his clapped-out car, Leif [...]

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, whose [...]

The Story of Jane Austen


by Gill Hornby
B Format Hardback
Bicentenary Edition: celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen In a country parsonage in the late 18th century, there lived a large family of seven children. They were all bright and clever and noisy, so nobody really noticed when little Jane [...]

The Story of Ada Lovelace


by Lucy Lethbridge
B Format Hardback
Ada Lovelace was a child prodigy. Brilliant at maths, she read numbers like most people read words… At a young age Ada came to the attention of Charles Babbage, a scientist and inventor who had built a miraculous machine called [...]

The Story of David Livingstone


by Amanda Mitchison
B Format Hardback
At 12 years old David Livingstone was sent to work in a cotton mill. He knew he had to escape. And ten years later he had saved enough money to plan his first adventure. This is the incredible story of [...]

The Story of Queen Victoria


by Kate Hubbard
B Format Hardback
Victoria was just 18 when she was crowned Queen in 1837 – a tiny figure, with a will of iron. Never was there so queenly a queen. She made Britain great and the people loved her for it. But in [...]

The Story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel


by Amanda Mitchison
B Format Hardback
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a man with a brilliant brain for design, and never tired of building new and exciting things – the deepest tunnel, the longest bridge, the fastest train. For Brunel, the average and the ordinary were just not [...]

The Story of Florence Nightingale


by Charlotte Moore
B Format Hardback
Florence knew she did not want a life of fancy clothes and parties, like all the other girls. She was going to do something different – and important. But what…? In 1854, she shocked everyone. Florence set out for the [...]

The Story of Charles Dickens


by Andrew Billen
B Format Hardback
Charles Dickens’s happy childhood came to a sudden end when his father was jailed for debt. At the age of 12, young Charles was sent to work in a factory making shoe polish… But Charles could write stories. And he [...]

Vital Little Plans


by Jane Jacobs
B Format Hardback
Edited by Samuel Zipp & Nathan Storring and with a Preface by Will Self From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities  No one did more to change how we look [...]

Pugh’s New Year’s Resolutions


by Jonathan Pugh
Cutdown B Format Hardback
The very best of Jonathan Pugh, Daily Mail pocket cartoonist Day in, day out, Jonathan Pugh delights Daily Mail readers with his uniquely affectionate and witty cartoons. He has a disarming ability to poke gentle fun while cutting right to the heart [...]

A Tale of Trees


by Derek Niemann
Demy Hardback
“He would come to the farm with his bulldozer every year. I still remember the smell of the harvest, the bullocks and bales in the background. He would bulldoze round a large oak tree, dig down eight or nine feet [...]

The 1966 World Cup Final: Minute by Minute


by Jonathan Mayo
Royal Hardback
30th July 1966. For millions it was the greatest day of the greatest decade. They may never have seen the Beatles in the Cavern or danced at Woodstock, but they got to see the finest moment in English sporting history. [...]

Just Soup


by Henrietta Clancy
Royal Hardback
Soup is the ultimate in healthy eating. Studies have shown that food, when blended with water, performs a remarkable nutritional trick: it remains in your stomach for longer, allowing the absorption of maximum nutrients while at the same time keeping [...]

The Anonymous Revolutionary


by Max Edwards
B Format Hardback
The Anonymous Revolutionary began in the winter of 2014/15 as a political blog centred on the theme of Marxism. Its intention was this: to discuss revolutionary socialism in today’s climate, over two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, [...]

Strictly Ballroom


by Diana Melly
Cutdown B Format Hardback
AT THE AGE OF 76, DIANA MELLY TOOK UP BALLROOM DANCING. She was suffering from bereavement, having recently lost her husband George to dementia, and was told that dancing might help. It has done much more than that, opening up [...]

Walking on Sunshine


by Rachel Kelly
Cutdown B Format Hardback
Walking on Sunshine offers 52 tips, tools and positive ideas (one for each week of the year) to guide you through the seasons and better manage the pressures of everyday life. In a diary of her year, Rachel Kelly shares [...]

How Good Is Your Grammar?


by John Sutherland
B Format Hardback
John Sutherland, one of Britain’s most celebrated professors of English literature, is here to test, stretch, amuse and instruct you with his definitive quiz on all things grammatical. Why do purists insist that ‘television’ is wrong while ‘telephone’ is correct? [...]

Hitler’s Last Day: Minute by Minute


by Jonathan Mayo, Emma Craigie
Royal Hardback
On 30th April 1945 Germany is in chaos… Russian troops have reached Berlin. All over the country, people are on the move – concentration camp survivors, Allied PoWs, escaping Nazis – and the civilian population is fast running out of [...]

A Nazi in the Family


by Derek Niemann
Royal Hardback
WARTIME BERLIN: The Niemann family – Karl, Minna and their four children – live in a quiet, suburban enclave. Every day Karl commutes to work, a business manager travelling around inspecting his “factories”. In the evenings he returns home to [...]

Ten Million Aliens


by Simon Barnes
Royal Hardback
Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It’s weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we’re all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a [...]

Hows Your Father


by Rose Boyt
Demy
What goes on behind closed doors? Hows Your Father tells the story of four generations of one Hackney family on a rollercoaster ride of drugs, violence, sickness, infidelity and the redeeming joys of motherhood.  I am smiling. It ain’t just [...]

Scream: The Tyson Tapes


by
Demy Hardback
Michael Gerard Tyson grew up in almost indescribable poverty in the ghettos of Brooklyn. Incarcerated in a young offender institution at the age of ten and plucked fro reform school by a former boxer at twelve – when he was [...]

D-Day: Minute by Minute


by Jonathan Mayo
Royal Hardback
This is the story of D-Day as seen through the eyes of the people who were there – from soldiers, French villagers and journalists, to schoolchildren and nurses, who found themselves placed in often extraordinary situations on that historic day [...]

Rasputin


by Frances Welch
Cutdown B Format Hardback
Grigory Rasputin, Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was both fascinating and unfathomable. As the only person able to relieve the symptoms of haemophilia in the Tsar’s heir Alexis, he gained almost hallowed status within the Imperial court. Yet he played the role of [...]

The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute


by Jonathan Mayo
Royal Hardback
 As read on:      This is the story of JFK’s assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people – from the highest to the lowest – who were caught up in that four-day whirlwind in November [...]

Fred’s War


by Andrew Davidson
Royal Hardback
THE CARRYING OF CAMERAS IS FORBIDDEN. One doctor, a thousand soldiers, the weight of the unstoppable German Army bearing down upon them – and plenty of time to break War Office orders by taking pictures as they fight. Fred’s War [...]

The Complete and Utter History of the World According to Samuel Stewart Aged 9


by Sarah Burton
Cutdown B Format Hardback
When his teacher sets the class a History project, Sam cannot choose which bit of History he prefers, so decides to do ALL OF IT.  His version of History is a rumbustious collection of half-remembered facts, assembled roughly in the [...]

The Explorer Gene


by Tom Cheshire
Royal Hardback
With a foreword by James Cameron

A Good Bullet


by Freddy Syborn
Cutdown B Format Hardback
“Doctor, doctor, what do you call a book about comedy that tries to be funny, argumentative, wide-ranging, silly, weirdly personal and fairly well-researched?” “Doomed to failure” Bullets are violent. Jokes are violent.  Can either be used for good?  What is [...]

I Know You’re Going to be Happy


by Rupert Christiansen
Cutdown B Format Hardback
A young man pushed forward by family expectations, a young woman pulled back … A wedding at a fashionable London church in 1948 between two brilliant journalists, deeply in love – the ambitious and sophisticated son of a famous Fleet [...]

The Romantic Economist


by William Nicolson
Cutdown B Format Hardback
‘I know that this sounds like a bit of a cliché, but really, it’s not you…’ His torturer was funny, talented, and unbearably beautiful. His mother had said she wanted him to marry her. And he had lost her in [...]

Birds in a Cage


by Derek Niemann
Hardback
Soon after his arrival at Warburg PoW camp, British army officer John Buxton found an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment. Passing his days covertly watching birds, he was unaware that he, too, was being watched. Peter Conder, also a passionate ornithologist, had noticed Buxton gazing skywards. He approached him and, with two other prisoners, they founded a secret birdwatching society. This is the untold story of an obsessive quest behind barbed wire.

For the Love of Letters


by John O’Connell
Hardback
In this richly entertaining book, O’Connell puts forward a passionate case for the value of letter-writing in a distracted, technology-obsessed world. A properly crafted letter is something to be cherished, an act of exposure which gives shape and meaning to the chaos of life. In the words of John Donne, ‘Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls;/For, thus friends absent speak.’

Superlatives.


by The Superlatist
Hardback
The 21st century is, undoubtedly, the century of exaggeration. Armed with nothing but a cameraphone, The Superlatist has travelled up and down the country photographing his own personal world of exaggeration. Let him guide you through it: the greatest journey you’ll ever make.

An Insomniac’s Guide to the Small Hours


by Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Kath Walker
Hardback
This is a book for anyone who has ever spent a night tossing and turning, worrying about life’s worst scenarios. The Insomniac’s Guide takes you on a journey that will have you laughing in your sleep (or lack of it).

How to be Danish


by Patrick Kingsley
Hardback
From Lego to lava lamps – via Borgen, The Killing, and the Muhammed cartoons – Patrick Kingsley takes us on a journey into the mysterious heart of Denmark.

An Almost English Life


by Miriam Gross
Hardback
Miriam Gross has worked on the Observer, as deputy literary editor and then as woman’s editor; on the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as arts and literary editor; and as senior editor on Standpoint magazine. She is the editor of two collections of essays, The World of George Orwell and The World of Raymond Chandler and the author of So Why Can’t they Read?, a pamphlet on literacy in London’s state schools.

The Conundrum


by David Owen
Hardback
The Conundrum is a mind-changing manifesto about the environment, efficiency and the real path to sustainability. We are consumers, and obviously we like to consume efficiently. But as David Owen argues our best intentions are still at cross purposes with our true goal.

Dreaming In Chinese


by Deborah Fallows
Paperback
In this charming, original book, Harvard linguist Deborah Fallows provides the answers to these puzzles and many more, based on her experiences of three years living and travelling in China.

Baskerville


by John O’Connell
Paperback
Based on real events, Baskerville is a thrilling exploration of friendship and rivalry, ambition and the limits of talent. It takes us from the clattering heart of Edwardian London to the eerie West Country…

The Three Hungry Boys


by Trevor Brinkman, Thom Hunt and Tim Cresswell
Hardback
Last year, Tim, Thom and Trevor – three best mates who shared a love of the outdoors – decided not to waste a single summer more. They undertook the journey of their lives, setting off in a beaten up VW camper van, with the aim of surviving for a month on their collective knowledge of nature and the wild and not much else.

Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed


by Simon Barnes
Paperback
This vital book – with a free podcast – takes you from winter into spring. You start with robin, and end up with nightingales.

Dinner with Churchill


by Cita Stelzer
Hardback
In this riveting, entertaining book, Cita Stelzer examines ten of the key dinners at which Churchill presided during WWII, and shows how in this crucial period he used his superlative social and rhetorical skills to bring about serious political change.

The Pocket Book of Good Grannies


by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hardback
In this delightful new book, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall features 50 deliciously recognisable types – from Glam Gran (she descends on the newborn’s cradle like a fairy godmother with her designer baby clothes and cashmere wraps) to Wise Gran.

Low Life


by Jeremy Clark
Hardback
Meet Jeremy Clark. Author of Low Life columns in the Spectator. Encouraged by small publisher to rehash old columns in book form. 53 years old, a grandfather. Unmarried. Coughing and sneezing in a remote cottage on Dartmoor, hoping for a large royalty cheque...

Notes On Them And Us


by Justin Webb
Hardback
Notes on Them & Us is a wry account of the transatlantic friendship as it actually exists today – how Americans see us, how we Brits see them – and Webb is perfectly placed to comment.

Calamities and Catastrophes


by Derek Wilson
Hardback
In this fascinating, revelatory book, Derek Wilson picks the ten very worst years in world history and shows how history has a horrible habit of repeating itself.

Graven With Diamonds


by Nicola Shulman
Paperback
Courtier, spy, wit, diplomat, assassin, lover of Anne Boleyn, and favourite both of Henry and his sinister minister Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant Wyatt was admired and envied in equal measure.

Nigel Dempster & the Death of Discretion


by Tim Willis
Hardback
In this riveting book, Tim Willis charts Nigel Dempster’s bibulous journey through old Fleet Street and society as a tragic-comic romp. In so doing, he provides a portrait of an age.

The Midlife Manual


by John O’Connell, Jessica Cargill Thompson
Hardback
Embracing everything from blogging and Boden to wine and worry lines, Rye bread, infidelity and Ikea, The Midlife Manual is your very own guide to getting through the middle years more gracefully. It will make you laugh. It may at times even be genuinely helpful.

For Better, For Worse


by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hardback
For Better, For Worse is a celebration of marriage in all its comic frustration and gloriousness. Whether you are about to be married, or you are on your paper, your brass or your diamond wedding anniversary, it will keep you and your other half entertained till death do you part.

Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War


by Peter J Conradi
Hardback
This treasury of writing by one of the great women writers and thinkers of the 20th century sheds new light on a brilliant mind in development, and is also a remarkable historical document of life behind the scenes in the Second World War.

The Diary of Miss Idilia


by Genevieve Hill (ed)
Hardback
One summer’s day in 1851, a seventeen-year-old Scottish girl, on holiday with her family in the German Rhineland, sets off with her sketchbook, and disappears – never to be seen again.

The Boy Who Invented Christmas


by Andrew Billen
Hardback
In The Man Who Invented Christmas, Andrew Billen tells the story of how Dickens became England’s most famous writer – and chased the dream of a perfect Christmas for the rest of his life.

Ghoul Brittania


by Andrew Martin
Hardback
In this engrossing new book, Martin searches out the dark corners of our subconscious in an attempt to explain our most deep-seated fears – why, despite famously being a nation of cynics, we just cannot quite ignore that bump in the night.

Britain’s Rottenest Years


by Derek Wilson
Hardback
Think you’ve had a rotten year? Thing again… as this horrible history of Britain shows, whatever life is throwing at us in the 21st Century, our ancestors had it a whole lot worse.

It’s All Greek To Me


by Charlotte Higgins
Paperback
Why are some laws draconian? What is an Achilles heel? Why were the Spartans spartan? Charlotte Higgins answers all these questions and more in this indispensable guide to the greatest civilisation the world has ever known.

The Old Boys’ Network


by John Rae
Hardback
The Old Boys’ Network, the diaries of the headmaster of Westminster School, captures the spirit of the times, and of a man at the very heart of things - with humour, passion and a refreshing honesty.

A Chance Acquaintance


by Charles Chadwick
Paperback
A Chance Acquaintance is a beautifully crafted novel of reparative love. Chadwick evokes the precarious balance of comedy and melancholy at the heart of things, and the bewildering resilience of the human spirit.

The Good Granny Companion


by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hardback
Packed with seasonal activities and pastimes, The Good Granny Companion contains great ideas both to brighten up ordinary days and make those Very Important Days truly memorable.

Dear Blue Peter


by Biddy Baxter
Hardback
In this wonderfully entertaining book, Biddy Baxter introduces some of the very best letters received. Original, engrossing, funny – and sometimes remarkably rude – they provide a unique snapshot of life in the second half of the 20th century.

Once More With Feeling


by
hardback
This collection has, alongside brief introductions by Rupert Christiansen, the words and tunes of all your favourite hymns and carols, and vocal lines for the traditional tunes.

Ever Dated a Psycho?


by Paul Duddridge
Hardback
The world of psycho dating can be scary and confusing. Where do you meet psychos? How will you know what they look like? What kind of music do they like? And how do you apply for police protection?

Latin Love Lessons


by Charlotte Higgins
hardback
Forget about battles and spears and rediscover all the best bits of Latin love poetry – from Ovid’s tips on picking up girls and how to get away with cheating, to Catullus on how to deal with a broken heart and Virgil’s textbook case of how not to dump a girlfriend.

Out of the Woods


by Will Cohu
Hardback
Out of the Woods is an affectionate, convivial guide to Britain's 50 commonest trees, in which Will Cohu takes you on a revelatory journey - from the wildest woodland to municipal carpark, via field hedgerow and orchard garden.

The Romanov Fantasy


by Frances Welch
Hardback
Did the 17-year-old Anastasia survive the massacre of the Russian Royal family in 1917? The possibility that she, the youngest of the Tsar’s daughters, might have escaped, and the universal longing to salvage some thread of hope from the tragedy, has provided a rich spawning ground for claimants.