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Dating can be hard at the best of times, but imagine having to sit through over 50 dates! Here within these pages, is a true recount of a single woman's...

Eight years ago, Lieutenant Luke Ripton made a hasty wartime marriage to protect a Spanish girl, Isabella, planning to leave her in a remote mountain convent and have the marriage...

This comprehensive guide, developed in conjunction with Diabetes Australia and Diabetes New Zealand, offers more than 700 clever hints and tips to use in every part of your life -...

We all know parenthood brings massive changes. But not every couple is prepared for the impact pregnancy and childbirth can have on their intimate relationship. Sure, we expect to put...

In one strand, a young family bumps and scrapes through life. The hapless father balances demanding factory shiftwork, while the mother constantly prioritises the needs of others over her own....

An uplifting story of healing and recovery that will warm your soul and get you into the garden. Eleanor Oliphant meets The Authenticity Project on a well-being retreat in this...

We can all be better in every aspect of our lives. Kevin Duncan (author of the bestselling The Diagrams Book and The Ideas Book) draws together 50 ingenious thoughts and...

The Little Riddlewood amateur crime-solving sleuths have been called to investigate a murder in neighbouring Enigma Bay - use your detective skills to help Ben, Emily and Harold discover who...

All businesses today face increasing pressure from customers and legislation to improve their sustainability credentials. Moreover, companies' employees and shareholders are demanding the same. Yet, many companies are playing catch-up...

The Greens Cookbook is a rarity; it is a book that created a revolution in cooking when it first appeared in 1987. It has now become a classic and has...

At the beginning of June the river floods, ducks swim through the drawing-room windows and Ebin Willoweed rows his daughters round the submerged garden. But the flood is only the...

Archigram comprised Warren Chalk (1927-88), Peter Cook (1936-), Dennis Crompton (1935-), David Greene (1937-), Ron Herron (1930-94), and Michael Webb (1937-). Together they envisioned the future of architecture in ways...

James Batty seldom ventures further than about 20 miles from his Cornish home, west of Penzance. He fishes from the rocks and beaches in a handful of places and this...

Sally Lachlan has a secret that has haunted her for a decade, is it now time to let it go? A chance meeting with the charismatic geneticist, Anthony Blake, reawakens...

Ruth leaves Wales to serve the war effort, firstly in Cardiff and then in Blackpool. But the moment she meets Edward who is on the rebound from Sarah, she is...

This two-volume book combines the memoirs and selected writings of Ian Ritchie CBE RA (b.1947), one of Britain's most original contemporary architects. As his essays chart his development from a...

For over 40 years, Robert Kudielka has documented Bridget Riley's career progress and artistic development in an academic and personal manner, reflecting his relationship with the artist. Moving from an...

Few painters could be said to have shaped posterity's image of a particular society against the historical and social background as did Bronzino. His portraits, religious subjects and mythological scenes...

It is 1980's Los Angeles. Alys, a wealthy young dilettante accepts the invitation of a stranger to "get you into pictures" and suddenly finds himself behind the movie screen in...

Gathered over the centuries by successive British monarchs, the Royal Collection contains some 7000 paintings. This book describes the formation of the collection by three successive connoisseur sovereigns, Charles I,...

Wharves to the World: The Development of Melbourne's World Trade Centre is a photographic chronicle of the history of the World Trade Centre and its surrounds. The book traces the...

'I'm going to kill her. You'd better come if you want to save her.' Lorraine - 'Rainy' - lives at the top of Tiger Mountain. Remote, moody, cloistered in pine...

The book titled The Flower Boy by the author Karen Roberts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For more than 600 years livery companies have played a leading role in commercial activities and social and political life in the City of London. These trade associations, each representing...

The book titled Design Museum Book of Twentieth Century Design: Pocket Edition by the author Catherine McDermott. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

An American, who received his training at the University of Oregon, Mather moved to England at a time when American urban fabric was dissolving in a sea of business parks...

Through a wide range of illustrations, the author demonstrates how an artist or designer fills a blank canvas - nothingness - with points, lines, shapes, textures and colours in order...

Accompanying a London Weekend Television series, this book traces the history of popular entertainment in London from the end of the 19th century to the present day. From the Victorian...

This volume comprises tributes to Sir Leslie Martin, together with detailed historical descriptions of his major works in the UK and Portugal. Architect and urbanist, Sir Leslie Martin was Professor...

This study of Alsop and Stoermers building features the international award-winning competition scheme for the regional government offices in Marseilles. The building, completed in Spring 1994, has been acclaimed in...

For Terry Farrell urban design should be based on a number of principles: a notion of continuum with the history and traditions of a specific area, a priority given to...

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Five centuries of private collecting are represented in this publication of some of the finest art treasures preserved in Britain's historic houses. In addition to paintings by Canaletto, Van Dyck,...

Easy Rawlins is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But living around desperate men means...

Explores the inner meanings of the symbolism, the language, the historical background, and the architecture of religious buildings and their contents.

Failure to foresee and defend against the US terrorist attacks of 11th September 2001 has drawn unprecedented public attention to the intelligence services and modern-day global espionage. From the CIA's...

This, the newest title in the highly acclaimed Design Series focuses on the work of John Piper (1903 - 1992). Piper remains something of an enigma: an antiquarian who was...

An illuminating look at a controversial architectural style - and its finest examples. Post-modernism was the 1980s' counter to Brutalism but fell out of fashion until its best buildings began...

A celebration of Britain's diverse housing styles from the twentieth and twenty-first century. A fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first...

Dark Renaissance is the thrilling story of the writer who transformed culture in Elizabethan England, bringing it out of the darkness and into the light. Poor boy. Dark star. Spy....

Which borough of London is the happiest? Where are the city's tweeting hot spots? How many animals does the fire brigade save each year? Which London residents have left their...

A groundbreaking book redefining wealth and success from international bestselling author whose books have sold over 25 million copies. *NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* A REVOLUTIONARY METHOD TO BECOME TRULY WEALTHY...

In the seventeenth century antiquarianism was a well-respected profession and antiquarian works were in demand, particularly amongst the gentry, who were especially interested in establishing lineage and the descent of...