Winner of the Smarties Prize Bronze Award.How much fruit do you think one small girl can manage to eat in one day? In the case of the narrator of this counting poem, the answer is…
Fun and informative guide for the historical traveller, finding themselves living in Medieval England.
Work can leave you frazzled – but it shouldn’t. What you need is some sane advice to get you through. Your body aches. Your brain feels like a mouldy wrung-out dishcloth. You…
Blowing away folkloric cobwebs, this enlightening new history dispels many of the misconceptions surrounding witchcraft and magic that we still hold today.
‘Ambitious, defiant, angry and gripping . . . the bitter story of slavery through the experience of four women’ Guardian''Jackie Kay’s work, formally expansive and inclusive…
The Colour of Hope is a powerful story about how love can lift people up - and that sometimes it means letting them go - from billion-copy bestselling author Danielle Steel.
Ever wondered if Cheapside really is cheap, what you do in Threadneedle Street, or who the knights of Knightsbridge were?Did you know that Piccadilly is actually an insult? And…
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world''s most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.In 2013, Chelsea Manning was sentenced to thirty-five…
The perfect book club read FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE.''A riveting mother-daughter tale'' Elle''Spellbinding and intricately layered'' E.M. Tran ''A gripping tale…
''Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship''TELEGRAPH''I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study…
Death drew them together. Life could tear them apart.Elise is cursed. Every time she touches someone, she experiences how they will die. And when she predicts, but is unable to…
Now 20 years since its first publication, Jan Fook returns to update her seminal text. Celebrating the ageless ideals of the profession, this book throws a life belt to all social…
The astonishing inside story of the Wagner Group, the world''s deadliest militia.In July 2023, the Wagner Group assembled an armed convoy that included tanks and rocket launchers…
In a world where the ordinary is unsettling and the grotesque is exquisite, a parade of animals shows us what it means to be human. Examining the traits and fates of cats and…
