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If one aircraft was to represent the First World War, it could be the distinctive red Fokker Triplane of Manfred von Richthofen. With an astonishing eighty aerial victories, the Red...

Horrible Histories Gruesome Guide: London takes readers on a full-colour, gore-tastic tour of the streets of London, exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets. With this book tourists can plot...

The Horrible History of the World presents the foul but fascinating story of humans from brain-nibbling Neanderthals to terrified teenage soldiers in the twentieth century. You can discover: Why Alexander...

Readers can discover all the foul facts about ROTTEN RULERS, including: who gave the job of high priest to a donkey, who choked to death while eating a crow and...

A brand new collection of short stories from the incredible Sir Terry Pratchett.*This deluxe collector's edition comes in a beautiful slipcase, and includes AN EXTRA SHORT STORY (the brilliant tale...

Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A...

You were born at Queen's Hospital in Romford, on February 25th, 1990. 'Congratulations! It's an Essex girl!' announced the midwife, scooping up the false eyelashes and bottle of fake tan...

The book opens in January 1969, the beginning of The Beatles' last year as a band. The Beatles (The White Album) is at number one in the charts and the...

In The Dance of Intimacy, the bestselling author of The Dance of Anger outlines the steps to take so that good relationships can be strengthened and difficult ones can be...

A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer...

Almost everyone knows an explosive child, one whose frequent, severe fits of temper leave his or her parents standing helpless in their fear, frustration, and guilt. Most of these parents...

'CAPTIVATING EPIC FANTASY FROM A MAJOR NEW TALENT' Anthony Ryan, on The Rage of DragonsDesperate to delay an impending attack by the indigenous people of Xidda, Tau and his queen...

This edition of the Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary offers essential coverage of Latin words and grammar, as well as extra information on Roman history and culture. It takes account of...

Joe Muscolino's The Muscular System Manual: The Skeletal Muscles of the Human Body, 4th Edition is an atlas of the muscles of the human body. This approachable, yet detailed, musculoskeletal...

A guidebook to walking the 2000km Via Francigena pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome. Part of a three-volume set, this volume covers the middle 726km, from Lausanne, Switzerland, to Lucca,...

A guidebook to walking the 2000km Via Francigena pilgrimage route from Canterbury to Rome. Part of a three-volume set, this volume covers the final 411km through Italy, from Lucca to...

The critical and biographical introduction tells of Lady Wortley Montagu's travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. Her lively letters offer insights into...

CHOAS. FURY. DESTRUCTION.THE GREAT CHANGE IS UPON US . . . 'Dazzlingly gruesome and gripping' Daily Mail* * * * * * * * * * * * * *Some...

"Spicy, heartfelt and laugh-out-loud funny" KATEE ROBERT"The perfect grumpy meets sunshine swashbuckling romantasy" NADIA EL-FASSI"Thea Guanzon can convert me to any fandom" JULIE SOTO__________This gorgeous hardcover edition features beautiful designed...

From the author of the best-selling Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes: find out how birth order influences a child's personality.Discover your child's lunar sign and personality - before it even develops...

`When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard...

In Engines, the always entertaining and informative Theodore Gray explores the glorious guts and intricate innards of dozens of impressive machines. Through his engaging and unexpected stories and Nick Mann's...

As we devote ever-increasing resources to providing, or prohibiting, access to information via computer, Theodore Roszak reminds us that voluminous information does not necessarily lead to sound thinking. "Data glut"...

When it was published twenty-five years ago, this book captured a huge audience of Vietnam War protesters, dropouts, and rebels - and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak found common ground...

"An engrossing human drama . . . The Shift is one nurse's story, but it contains elements of every nurse's experience."-The Wall Street Journal Practicing nurse and New York Times...

The always funny, frank, and down-to-earth medium began communicating with Spirit at the age of four, but didn't fully accept her gift until she was thirty-three years old. Since then...

How to Sit is part of a charming series of books from Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practise.How to Sit provides explicit,...

This concise, easy to read guide provides the perfect foundation to mindfulness, setting you on the path to peace and tranquillity.'The monk who taught the world mindfulness' - TIME'Hyde's book...

'Thich Nhat Hanh shows us the connection between personal, inner peace and peace on earth' The Dalai LamaHow do we say what we truly mean? How can we learn to...

One of the most influential and well-loved books of Christianity, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis appears here in Penguin Classics in a new translation by Robert Jeffery,...

Ireland has rarely been out of the news during the past thirty years. Whether as a war-zone in which Catholic nationalists and Protestant Unionists struggled for supremacy, a case study...

LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL HOFMANN'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the...

LRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GEOFF DYER'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the...

In 2005, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, and Thomas Campbell, MD, co-authored The China Study, in which they detailed the ground breaking research results showing that a whole food, plant based...

For readers of Plague of Corruption, Thomas S. Cowan, MD, and Sally Fallon Morell ask the question: are there really such things as "viruses"? Or are electro smog, toxic living...

From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the twenty-first century, Thomas Crump traces the ever more sophisticated means...

Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting...