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But, as one might expect, Rogers' encounters with celebrity have their own unexpected outcomes. Burt Lancaster rants to him about transsexuality. Rita Hayworth is most worried about her neighbour's TV...

Choosing and caring for dogs, cats, small mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, fish, with 1200 photographs. Whether you are a first-time pet owner or you are looking after an existing menagerie,...

Famous Robots and Cyborgs is a high-octane voyage through the history of our metallic friends and foes. Dan Roberts narrates the history, strengths, weaknesses, quirks and foibles of a plethora...

The American Television Industry offers a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States. The authors outline how programs are made and marketed,...

As we enter the digital age, advances in technology are turning robots that were once pure fantasy into real artificial beings that can walk, run and talk like human beings....

This information book about sex and reproduction covers all the main areas: babies, reproduction, bodies, chromosomes, genes, growing up, love, health and lots more. As before, the information is imparted...

One day Merchant's Worldwide Bank ceased to exist. Its creditors discovered what its employees had known for some time, that the firm's equity had never existed and that its sole...

An extraordinarily haunting, subtle and moving first novel about secrets and lies and moths From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister...

Mere Marie-Helene once turned her back on life, sealing up her heart in order to devote herself to God. Now the formidable Mother Superior of an Irish convent, she has,...

Sharing her family history of unique characters Joan Wyndham explores her ancestors' experiences of bygone eras, at home and at war. Starting with her aristocrat grandfather who built a vast...

Drawing on the wealth of material on the "Mumsnet" website, this guide presents the collected wisdom of real parents who have been through it all and survived to pass on...

Manet's career was surrounded by controversy almost from the very start. The hard-edged technique of his early works was not what Salon audiences expected, and when he started painting subjects...

This is the unofficial guide to 24, the hit espionage thriller starring Emmy Award Winner Kieffer Sutherland, where each episode marks another hour of real-time drama. With a detailed breakdown...

This is the story of how a bad man called Edward Miller lost his job, his house, his wife, his hair and his front teeth, but in the process becomes...

The story of Jennie, Clara and Leonie Jerome is one of glamour, money and love in equal measure. Their father Leonard was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife...

Following on from the success of The Big Book of Greetings Cards, this is another highly practical and inspirational book from Vivenne Bolton. In this book there are over 50...

Glass has a magic all of its own, and the techniques of painting glass can customize everyday household objects and transform them into original decorations for your home. Glasswork helps...

Part thriller, part detective story, Vengeance is an utterly compelling novel about the nature of revenge. Through the dark, icy streets of London flits a man on a mission: he's...

The ancient art of feng shui has long been used to maximise the energy of homes and living spaces. Now expert author Simon Brown shows you how to use the...

A is for Apple that grows on the tree, B is for Busy and Big Bumble Bee. K is for Kissing a cool Kangaroo, L is for Loving, like Daddy...

It is 1914 and Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson are back in Egypt for another season of archaeological excavation. But this year a new menance threatens the dig. The...

The autobiography - the dangerous life and wild times - of Sonny Barger, the legendary leader of the Hell's Angels. Sonny Barger is the Hell's Angel of all Hell's Angels,...

Major developments in English Roses have increased the number of varieties to more than 80. Forty best-loved and forty recently developed varieties, exquisitely photographed by Andrew Lawson, are at the...

This is a stylish collection of timeless photographs from the Hulton Getty Picture Collection, perfectly complemented with classic quotations about friends and friendship from everyone from Lord Byron to Bette...

Until he ate a bluebottle, William Buckland had always maintained that the taste of mole was the most repulsive he knew. But that was before he ate the embalmed heart...

When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to Kent to write a play, he encounters Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist who has invented a material that counteracts gravity. This discovery enables...

From the rain forests of Almayer's Folly to the Mediterranean coast of The Rover, Conrad's first and final completed novels are played out against contrasting backgrounds. Almayer, in Borneo, is...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies 'I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about him...and there issued out of them a monstrous...

"Everyone who cares much for the largest-brained Englishwoman who has written will read this biography with interest. For popular purposes, the book is indeed all that can be desired" -...

This work starts with an introduction by J.H. Stape, St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill. Written in 1930, "Bernard Shaw: An Unauthorised Biography" (1930) appeared shortly after Frank Harris' death....

'Henry V' is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry...

'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure', better known as 'Fanny Hill', is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as 1963 an unexpurgated edition was the...

With an Introduction by Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. 'The Wings of the Dove' is a tale of desire and possession, of love and death. It is in essence a...

These 29 books all feature the works of a legendary artist, each a master of the period in which they painted. From old masters Rubens and Rembrandt, to impressionists Monet...

These 29 books all feature the works of a legendary artist, each a master of the period in which they painted. From old masters Rubens and Rembrandt, to impressionists Monet...

This guide, which is suitable for beginners as well as more experienced collectors, examines what you need to know about collecting British and American books from the late 19th century...

Winner at the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards Shortlisted for the 2018 Waterstones Book of the Year Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________ Daily Telegraph 's Best Books of the...

Drawing on science, literature, art and psychology, Jacqueline Yallop explores our fascination with the dark. Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as...

'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' - VOGUE 'Harpy...

In The One, particle physicist Heinrich Pas presents a bold idea: fundamentally, everything in the universe is an aspect of one unified whole. This idea, called monism, has a rich...

On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'....

'A love story about a woman and a mouse. I found myself pulling for this unlikely duo on every page. Loaded with charm, resilience, and the deep desire for connection...

Explore the beauty and power of planet Earth with this fantastic book. Packed with hundreds of mind-blowing photographs and extraordinary facts, children aged 9 will be pulled in and engrossed...

The story behind the mythic brutality of Genghis Kahn, one of the most successful leaders in human history. A new title in the series created for the modern reader, introducing...

The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to...

The new novel from the Blue Peter Book Award shortlisted author of DANNY CHUNG DOES NOT DO MATHS Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu lives in Glasgow with her grandad Wai Gong, and...