OLD HARDCOVER

The history of Britain from its early days until the 1950s is described here, largely in pictures. Clarke Hutton has traced with humour and inspira...

Jez is the author and illustrator of 48 books for children. In 2018 he published The Story of 'You' his first book for adults, the first in a serie...

The largest and most intelligent sea creatures whales have fascinated people for centuries. Along with dolphins seals and manatees they are mammals...

A look at how water is used for transport and how it provides power to drive machinery. Each of the 12 water projects has specially commisioned ste...

A further title in the POINTERS series, illustrated throughout in full colour. Designed to complement National Curriculum activities

Gain unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to Downton Abbey in this official Season 4 tie-in book, complete with never-before-seen photos giving f...

The third in the Banning Sisters trilogy that began with the New York Times bestsellers Scandalous and Irresistible, Shameless marks a dazzling ret...

To Be Irrevocably In Love With A Vampire Is Both Fantasy And Nightmare Woven Into A Dangerously Heightened Reality For Bella Swan. Pulled In One Di...

Magnus Chase Has Always Been A Troubled Kid. Since His Mother's Mysterious Death, He's Lived Alone On The Streets Of Boston, Surviving By His Wits,...

What do you do when your girlfriend’s sixtieth birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s thirtieth?Is it better to die of Botox or die of ...

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, a brilliant tale of seduction, love, betrayal, and murder, is generally regarded as Thomas Hardy’s finest novel. This is...

Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for 64 years, longer than any British monarch in history. During that time the Queen has endured ...

Black Beauty is the autobiography of a horse. This gentle book follows the life a well bred horse, from his early childhood in a pleasant meadow, t...

When the HMS Beagle set sail in 1831, the science of biology was not far removed from the Dark Ages. When the ship returned to England nearly five ...

Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems...

Who could tell the origin stories of the gods of Olympus better than a modern-day demigod? So begins Percy Jacksons Greek Gods, in which the son of...

‘My name is Sherlock Holmes. it is my business to know what other people dont know.’ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Cona...

George Eliot is not only one of the world's greatest women novelists, she is one of the world's great novelists. In accomplishment and influence, h...

Laurence Senelick has contributed to British Music Hall, 1840-1923: A Bibliography and Guide to Sources, with a Supplement on European Music-Hall a...

One of the best accounts of an American life you'll likely ever read." -Julia Keller, Chicago TribuneAs moving, disarming, and elusive as one of he...

Josephine Cox was born in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When ...

The first half of the biography is somewhat anthropological in tone. Not surprisingly, a post-war Glasgow upbringing is somewhat alien to the an...