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This sketchbook is full of prompts for doodling and sketching fashion in every sense of the word, from the classic (a brass button) to the trendy (a peplum blouse), iconic...

With their signature, opinionated sense of style, Thomas and Veysset, the authors of the bestselling Paris Street Style, explore the significance of the shoe as fashion icon and its deeply...

In this latest in their bestselling Beauty Bible series, health and beauty experts Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey bring together everything a woman needs to know about feeling great, looking...

From best-selling author and global makeup mogul Bobbi Brown, this beautiful guide presents Bobbi's Pretty Powerful philosophy and inspires women to use makeup to be their best selves. With step-by-step...

Bobbi Brown Beauty Rules: Fabulous Looks, Beauty Essentials, and Life Lessons for Loving Your Teens and Twenties From best-selling author and global makeup mogul Bobbi Brown, this inspiring beauty book...

Do you open your wardrobe with a heavy heart?Do you tell yourself you'll make over your look once you've lost weight/gained weight/won the lottery?Does the thought of going shopping fill...

When Cecil Beaton died in 1980, it was not surprising that one of his tailors was telephoned with the news before Buckingham Palace, despite his close association with the Royal...

Following the wonderfully moving In Loving Memory, this anthology offers a delightful and provocative collection of readings and poems, comic and profound. The perfect partner for weddings and valentines, wedding...

Make biscuits with Manolo Blahnik or customise your bike with Paul Smith. Let Charlotte Olympia put a spring in your step and turn a magazine into a millinery with Stephen...

Internationally recognized makeup artist and trailblazing entrepreneur Trish McEvoy reveals her revolutionary, proven system that teaches women everywhere at any age to achieve total beauty security and confidence in this...

Over 200 iconic products that are among the best and most influential in the beauty world - past, present and future. 'Sali Hughes has created a universe filled with galaxies...

Extraterrestrial life is a common theme inscience fiction, but is it a serious prospect in the real world? Astrobiologyis the emerging field of science that seeks to answer this question.The...

*Levison Wood's documentary series on WALKING WITH ELEPHANTS is available to watch now on Channel 4*This book comes at a critical time. Fifty years ago, Africa was home to just...

WINNER OF THE WALES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021Winner of the Naim Frasheri Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia Winner of the European Lyric Atlas Prize 'Fiona Sampson's voice...

2017 begins the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote in some states, culminating in national suffrage three years later. This book documents the milestones in that...

'ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I'VE READ IN RECENT YEARS . . . PACKS A HELL OF AN EMOTIONAL PUNCH' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of TimeFrom one of the...

FIVE HEROES. NO HOPE. A WAR AGAINST DEVILS.Once a warrior queen, now a pariah among her own people, Cold Zosia wakes in the ashes of a burning city. Her vengeance...

'Heartbreaking, beautiful, epic. I loved it.' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE, author of The MerciesWhat does it mean to be adored?Aida is the defining rock star of her age; her every move...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019'A true force of fierceness and beauty' OLIVIA LAING 'A vital book' ANDREW MCMILLAN'This Brutal House leaves its reader full of a powerful, protesting...

'An inspirational and motivational must-read, packed with practical tips to push for positive change' Zanna van DijkThe climate is changing, so why aren't we? After all, we are the generation...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTH (APRIL 2017) Humans have become subservient to algorithms. Every day brings a new Moneyball fix - a maths whiz who will crack...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-fictionHow do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol -...

'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud AtlasThe vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and...

If there was ever a time to stand up for your planet, for Mother Earth, this is the time. But what are the most pressing environmental issues affecting us today?...

In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel,...

Flatmates, friends or family? It's complicated...Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as flatmates. They've also just slept together, which was either a catastrophic mistake, or the best decision...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEPenang, 1939. Sixteen-year-old Philip Hutton is a loner. Half English, half Chinese and feeling neither, he discovers a sense of belonging in an unexpected friendship...

'Breathtaking . . . filled with twists and turns' JEFFERY DEAVER 'A vivid portrait of a seedy world' GRAHAM MOORE*Featured on Crimereads' Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2022!* ______________A small...

A brave young girl rows out to meet her destiny in a lavishly illustrated original tale steeped in fairy lore, from a traditional Irish storyteller.A daughter embarks on a perilous...

Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the...

The town of Bethlehem carries so many layers of meaning--some ancient, some mythical, some religious--that it feels like an unreal city, even to the people who call it home. Today,...

May 1992, and after four LAPD officers are acquitted following the savage beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles is ablaze. As looting and burning take over the city, law and...

DC Entertainment is pleased to present the official graphic novel adaptationof Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," brought to life by best-selling mysterynovelist Denise Mina and illustrated by Leonardo Manco and Andrea...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021'A classic, but with contemporary urgency thumping through it.'Claire-Louise Bennett, author of PondA woman invites a famed artist to the remote coastal landscape where she...

'My daddy always told me, if it looks too good to be true - then it probably is.'Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best friends since childhood. Having founded their...

'Hilariously funny and often moving memoir ... we loved every word *****' Heat'Open, honest ... her misadventures are hilariously described...charming and funny' Daily ExpressThe hilarious and heartwarming memoir of Miranda...

30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'NdranghetaImages of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what...