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The Merchant Navy suffered proportionately the highest casualties of any of the Services in the Second World War, approximately 30,0000 of the 185,000 seamen who served being killed. Yet their...

While on a business trip to Singapore in 1992, 41-year-old Peter Couche, a London-based stockbroker and father of three, suffered an irreversible brain-stem stroke. Twenty-four hours later he was paralysed:...

Ready for a LIFESIZE adventure? Step into the book and see how you measure up against some of the world's most incredible LIFESIZE OCEAN ANIMALS. Go face to face with...

Ready for a LIFESIZE adventure? Step into the book and see how you measure up against some of the world's most incredible LIFESIZE OCEAN ANIMALS. Go face to face with...

"Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s" is a stunning survey of magazine artwork from the Swinging Sixties. It not only gives a fascinating insight into the extraordinary artistic talents of the...

The most famous police officer in Sweden is found murdered in his bed. His four-year-old son is missing. His wife is suspected of killing both of them. No one believes...

Based on the Myers-Briggs personality test, this guide will help readers develop a complete, accurate psychological self-portrait and show them how to achieve success in life.

Learn simple conversational French with this engaging book. This interactive flap book will help children to learn simple conversational French for various situations. Topics include greetings and farewells, emotions and...

What's plastic made of? How does it get into the ocean? Can we live without plastic? Learn all about plastic, recycling and how plastic affects the environment in this revealing...

A powerful exploration of what it means to be a refugee. With simple, direct questions, thoughtful, compassionate answers and stunning illustrations by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Drachkovska, this book explores...

A stylish picture word book with flaps to lift to encourage word and picture association.Age 3+ Children can have fun matching words to pictures in this charming flap book. Each...

Lifting the Lid - a memoir born of adoption is a compelling story told by a distinctive voice with heart and humour about identity, belonging and a woman's search for...

This work is a study of the sexual politics of death. It explores the specific relationship women of many colours, cultures, ages and sexual orientations have to their own deaths,...

Life can bring us many challenges, uncertainties and sorrows. Many believers through the centuries have felt like this at times and left us a rich treasury of writings to help...

Light food means summery food just right to suit the season before and after the indulgences of holiday time. These great recipes are light in taste and texture and are...

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 6 in the series that Stephen King calls a `driving, torrential narrative'. All eyes are on Perdido Beach. The barrier wall is...

These totally awesome, kid-friendly experiments teach the scientific basics of light and sound and they're easy to carry out, using the most ordinary materials found around the house. Just grab...

McKenna Brady thinks her junior year of high school is going to be the best ever when she's welcomed into the elite group of popular girls at Weeping Willow High...

Buddhist teachings on Awakening to our natural intelligence Fresh and direct Buddhist teachings on how our natural wish to be happy is the best tool we have for true spiritual...

Included is a special collection on "Funny Men" which captures Joe Orton's laughter in the face of Halliwell's notorious scowl, pinpoints why the "outlaw stance" of Bill Hick's delights in...

A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander. Includes an introduction by the author. AUTHOR:...

A photographic essay, this book explores the changes in light in Australia, from the subtle filtered glow of a rainforest to the harsh brilliance of the desert interior. The photographs...

'I watched my father run forward in his snowshoes the way one sometimes does in dreams, unable to make the legs move fast enough. I ran to the place where...

An novel poking fun at modern mores and delving into what we should really treasure in our precarious lives. From the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Sometimes we must...

An novel poking fun at modern mores and delving into what we should really treasure in our precarious lives. From the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Sometimes we must...

Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary...

Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice. But what do you do when...

An enchanting tale about all different kinds of love, Light Up My Heart is a beautiful addition to our ever-popular Picture Flat range.

Learn how to use light to boost your mood and wellbeing, create a happier, healthier home and enhance your life. The light that surrounds on a daily basis us has...

"Light is beautiful and educational... I wouldn't hesitate to give it as gift or keep it at the front of the bookshelf" - Physics World This exciting non-fiction picture book...

This richly illustrated book chronicles lighter-than-air flight from Archimedes' discovery of the principle of buoyancy to the latest in sport balloons and plans for future airships. Far more than a...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Join the Adamson family on their second holiday in the sun, sand and surf. Become intrigued as mystery unfolds on the South Coast of NSW as the kids...

On a hot, dry day a four-year old girl named Raisa was taken out into a busy street by her parents and abandoned. As young Raisa is passed among orphanages...

Michael Grecco is one of the best-known celebrity photographers in the world. His beautiful, insightful work is all around us--on movie posters, in advertising, on magazine covers, "everywhere." I delight...

this jargon-free guide to photographic lighting for the amateur photographer adopts a unique DIY approach. the book shows how to improvise lighting sources by using torches, table lamps and slide...

By the author of "The Gift". This is the story of a woman whose life is changed by one swift, unexpected stroke of fate, challenging the strength of her marriage.

Sophie goes to a light show and helps a lightning bug performer in this twenty-first sweet book in The Adventures of Sophie Mouse! The traveling Lightning Bug Troupe is visiting...

In his first book professional boxer and social media star, Tommy Fury, reveals what life is like juggling his many identities: boxing champion, TV star, mental health advocate, and father,...

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon,...

Return to a dark world of deadly secrets in the final instalment of the Fogg Lake trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Olivia LeClair, psychic investigator,...

A warmhearted and turbulent novel showing how the folk of one small Liverpool street are affected in the first year of the Second World War.