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Written by authors with experience of implementing major strategic change in a variety of organizations, this book bridges the gap between strategy formation and implementation. It aims to provide managers...

... rich and thought-provoking... That kind of collaborative writing is feminist scholarship at its best, and exhaustingly difficult." -The Women's Review of Books A substantial contribution to women's studies and...

Coe's brilliantly funny skewering of modern Britain - in the tradition of What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections...

July 2005 sees a major relaunch of Chandler's Philip Marlowe series to tie in with Harrogate Crime Festival. Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem- his millionaire wife is dead...

Simply Jamie is about celebrating the joy of cooking, and making it easy for us to fit cooking into our busy lives In five knockout chapters covering Midweek Meals, Weekend...

A beautiful guide for learning to love ourselves, from the author of the internationally bestselling The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down Many of us respond to...

When Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter. But as she gets to know the animals...

This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to...

A dark, distinctive and addictively compelling novel set in fin-de-siecle Vienna and Nazi Germany - with a dizzying final twist Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about...

One of the most celebrated heroines of the Second World War, Odette Churchill was 27 and living in England with her English husband and their three children when war broke...

Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly the most famous detective in the world. His adventures have been portrayed in fourteen different TV series and twenty different TV movies as well as around...

A brand new edition of this fascinating book on M15 intelligence operations. Updated and expanded with brand new material on the war on Terrorism such as insider reports on the...

In a time of reckoning, this year's National Magazine Awards finalists and winners focus on abuse of power in many forms. Ronan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning revelation of Harvey Weinstein's depredations...

How to Create Emotional Health is a guide to leading a more enjoyable and fulfilling life. Rather than seeking to be happy, Oliver James encourages the idea of wellbeing -...

In How to Be Alone, Sara Maitland asks how we have arrived in a culture that values individualism, personal autonomy, independence and fulfilment higher than ever before in human history...

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he...

This is the new blockbuster from the international Number One bestselling author. This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some...

The word is out- horses really are for courses. Interest in cooking with horsemeat has been piqued by the recent horsemeat scandal, with butchers across the UK reporting customers curious...

Palm Island may be the most beautiful tropical island in Australia, but its name is synonymous with violence. It is home to one of the country's largest Aboriginal communities, descendants...

The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII s second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in the annals of English history. It was sensational in its day,...

After his last blag, Ged Brennan's had enough. He sees young kids making a name for themselves in Liverpool. Worse still, they're making big money. Ged wants some of that...

Will is a bright, happy five-and-a-half-year-old. The grown-ups - his mother Jody, a photographer, her devoted boyfriend Mel, and Will's father, Wayne, perpetually down on his luck and living with...

Chronicles of a crazy canine ! the Search for Selby Society is hot on his trail and eager to tell the world his secret. And, as if that isn't bad...

A change is as good as a holiday but for Selby, the two go hand in hand. to coincide with the summer school holidays, HarperCollins will re-release four Selby favourites...

What do you do when your school librarian starts dressing in leopard-skin and goes off chasing dinosaurs? A school excursion to the Big Koala goes horribly wrong when Phredde, Pru...

A change is as good as a holiday t for Selby, the two go hand in hand. to coincide with the summer school holidays, HarperCollins will re-release four Selby favourites...

The book covers all kinds of flower displays - from arrangements for festive occasions, such as weddings, through to table arrangements and still-life displays. Peach Panfili believes that anyone can...

How is it that some companies are rewriting the rules of competition in their markets, selling wholly new standards of quality, innovation and customer service? What sets these companies apart?...

This new edition of the Oxford Japanese Mini Dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential day-to-day vocabulary for both Japanese and English, with over 15,000 words and phrases, and 20,000 translations....

This helpful guide to correct English usage takes the reader through all aspects of English writing and conversation, illustrated with copious examples. Advice is included on spelling, punctuation, grammar, pronunciation...

Britain possesses a literary heritage which is almost unrivalled in the Western world. In this lavishly illustrated volume, the richness, diversity, and continuity of this tradition are explored by a...

What are the most challenging aspects of freelancing in the creative Industries? Freelancing requires a breadth of skills across managing projects and timelines, having the space and energy to maintain...

This introductory women's studies text synthesizes ideas from a variety of disciplines to explore the simultaneously political, social, and personal topic of how patriarchal society has imposed an inferior identity...

The second edition of "Global Environmental Crises: An Australian Perspective" explores the pressing environmental probems facing the Earth from an Australian viewpoint.

One of James's most underrated but excellent later works.

From writing poems to writing birthday cards, and from the garret to the classroom, the Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes has what every writer (or budding writer) needs. It contains rhymes...