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This revised, updated and expanded edition Joy Larkcom's classic guide to growing your own vegetables contains everything you need to know to creat...

The Rough Guide to Paris is the definitive handbook to one of Europe''s most glamorous and romantic destinations. This edition includes a 24 page f...

A wise and entertaining guide to writing English the proper way by one of the greatest newspaper editors of our time. Harry Evans has edited everyt...

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Discover Mongolia Cling to your camel as a Gobi sandstorm sweeps past Learn the 'three manly sports' while visiting nomad families on a Ger-to-Ger ...

In this guide for all writers and speakers of the English language, the author indicates common pitfalls and errors of grammar and syntax and expla...

An indispensable compendium of popular misconceptions, misunderstandings and common mistakes culled from the hit BBC show, QI . From the bestsellin...

Book by ROBERT C. ATKINS

From the coming of the Roman legions to the present day, this book tells the story of Britain and her people over 2,000 years.18 maps.

In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature , Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help u...

Book by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. Prologue

ENGLISH FOOD reveals the richness and surprising diversity of England's culinary heritage. Fully updated and revised by Jane Grigson before her dea...

Nigel Slater presents over 350 creative, delicious and nourishing recipes and suggestions for those who'd rather spend more of their time eating th...

How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State ha...

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the ...

The Pocket Book of General Ignorance is an illuminating collection of fun facts, perfect for general knowledge, trivia and pub quiz enthusiasts. Th...

You've heard of the Horse Whisperer -- now meet the woman who uses similar methods to train dogs. Jan Fennell's remarkable gifts have earned her th...

Going to see 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot? Studying Shakespeare and want to know who's who? Teaching the 'Henrys' and need a...

Jon E. Lewis explores the 100 most terrifying cover-ups of all time, from the invention of Jesus' divinity to Bush and Blair's real agenda in invad...

Martin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year...

Anne Bradford is the number one name in crossword solving. She has spent over 50 years solving and analysing crossword clues to compile this list o...

The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including ...

How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words ...

With an all-star cast, including Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, John Spencer and Richard Schiff, The West Wing is the NBC network's biggest hit drama show...