Explore the fascinating family histories of Ada Lovelace, Charlotte Bronte, John F Kennedy & many more with 30 family trees from around the world. This accessible, visually-stunning compendium of family trees features some of history`s most loved
- & loathed
- famous faces & is great fun for the whole family to explore. Genealogy & history combine to make a fascinating, fact-filled treasury of family trees belonging to famous people throughout the ages.

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Drinks companion meets cookbook in this charming package. Discover the history of Scotch whisky & the part Famous Grouse has played in its development while also learning how to mix a perfect Famous Honey & Marmalade Sour. Compiled by renowned whisky writer Ian Buxton, this captivating miscellany is packed with intriguing facts & trivia, from the story of an iconic brand
- its unconventional start named after a Scottish bird & its rise in popularity
- to a fascinating insight into how whisky is distilled & bottled. With over 45 recipes for whisky-based dishes & cocktails, including Famous Grouse Rack of Lamb, Mackerel with Snow Grouse Pickled Rhubarb & Apple Tarte Tatin with Whisky Ice Cream, this book belongs on every whisky enthusiast`s shelf.

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Morris Lessmore loved words. He loved stories. He loved books. But every story has its upsets... Everything in Morris Lessmore`s life, including his own story, is scattered to the winds. But the power of story will save the day. Stunningly brought to life by William Joyce, one of the preeminent creators in children`s literature, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore is a modern masterpiece, showing that in today`s world of traditional books, e Books, & apps, it`s the story that we truly celebrate ~ & this story, no matter how you tell it, begs to be read again & again. ...

The Far Pavilions is the classic story of an English man
- Ashton Pelham-Martyn
- brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of

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Patrick O` Brian`s Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their beginning, with Master & Commander, these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback with smart new livery. This is the tenth book in the series. It is still the War of 1812. Patrick O` Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey & his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea & as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. It is a commission after Jack`s own heart. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence. Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters
- men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder & criminal insanity. That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey`s acquaintance can take leave to doubt.
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From the author of Child 44, soon to be a major film starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace & Gary Oldman, comes an intricately-knitted thriller in the vein of John Le Carre`s A Perfect Spy. Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother`s birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother...she`s not well, his father tells him. She`s been imagining things
- terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I`m not mad...I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence & decide: who is telling the truth, his mother or his father? & he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...
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As farm shops continue to emerge all over Britain at an ever-increasing rate, Christine Mc Fadden`s timely book reflects the celebration of all things British. In a simple A-Z format Christine provides recipes, cook`s notes, tips & much more for all & everything that might be found in a fully stocked farm shop in the rural heart of any of Britain`s counties. Fruit, dairy produce, vegetables, herbs, meat, poultry, game, offal & wild foraged food are all given pages in a book whose time has truly come. As more & more of us choose to buy local & fresh, The Farm Shop Cookbook serves to acknowledge a movement where people are shopping responsibly & enjoying the absolute best that British producers have to offer. ...

It is 1937, & Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homel&. The Republic, under the iron rule of the Generalissimo, treats the Haitians as second-class citizens, & although Amabelle feels a strong sense of loyalty to her employers, especially since her own parents drowned crossing the river from Haiti, racial tensions are heightened when Amabelle`s boss accidentally kills a Haitian in a car accident. The accident is a catalyst for a systematic round-up of Haitians, ostensibly for repatriation but in fact a prelude to slaughter. Amabelle, caught up in the chaos & confusion, returns to Haiti after much hardship to make a new life, but is for years uncertain of the fate of her lover, Sebastian, & haunted by a nagging sense of guilt. A powerful, fiercely economical & deceptively moving work, blending historical accuracy with lyrical brilliance. ...

The quest for the farthest objects in the Universe remains one of the most challenging to modern astronomy. Peering deeper & deeper into space reveals the most distant & powerful objects known & so probes back to the embryonic epochs of the Universe not long after its birth in the Big Bang. Four world experts
- chosen for their ability to communicate research astronomy to popular audiences
- each contribute a chapter to this lucid survey. In clear terms they bring to the general audience the excitement & challenge of studying the Universe on the largest scales. They address the fundamental issues of scale in the Universe; the ghostly etchings seen on the cosmic background radiation; quasars & their evolution; & galaxy birth. This survey offers an exceptional chance for the general audience to share in the excitement of today`s forefront research of the early Universe in an accessible & stimulating way.

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In the 1970s, John Seymour`s book, The Complete Book of Self Sufficiency was a huge, international best-seller, inspiring a new generation to ”down-shift” to a new way of life. The book has remained in print ever since. But years earlier, Seymour had written & published The Fat of the L&, telling of how he & his family settled in Suffolk & began a life entirely separate from the modern world. This was a seminal book, published the year before Silent Spring, & offers a personal, practical & optimistic vision of a less-mechanized & less polluting world, one that works in harmony with nature, rather than against it. He goes on to document their life & struggles on the land in chapters on cows, pigs, vegetables & wild food in charming prose. More than fifty years on, The Fat of the Land remains an important & inspiring book, one which retains its power to make us think carefully about our own lives. This new edition comes complete with Sally Seymour`s original illustrations, a foreword by Anne Seymour & a new introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. ...