Corner Shop. 'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater: A Radio 4 Book of the Week, Hardback - Babita Sharma

A personal story from the child of corner shop owners that explores how these tiny open-all-hours shops changed our country -- as heard on Saturday...

A personal story from the child of corner shop owners that explores how these tiny open-all-hours shops changed our country -- as heard on Saturday...

An extraordinary, moving and funny coming-of-age memoir about identity, chip shops and pop songs.

'She [Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it ... she's the reason I started singing, really' - Janis Joplin'[Jackie Kay] offe...

Reducere. Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music. --Daniel Levitin A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Edward EnninfulNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 240 x 32Cover type: Hardb...

A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman ahead of her t...

One family's escape from the Taliban and their fight to save their son.

The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfuln...

'A stark and important warning about the value of knowledge . . . Vital reading for this day and age' PETER FRANKOPAN

A beautiful memoir of unexpected pregnancy, of growing things and caring for plants, and how they return the favour.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoA...

A heartbroken young widow joins the police force during World War Two in Manchester.

Guy de la Bedoyere's new book is a history of a key period in ancient Egypt's astonishing history that tears away the gold and glamour to show how ...

A cricketing history of the last 20 years.Publisher: Octopus Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Felix WhiteNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Book Two in a brand-new series by Nicola May, author of ebook sensation THE CORNER SHOP IN COCKLEBERRY BAY.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): ...

12-year old Alex receives an old tin robot from his grandfather. A quest across Europe ensues, with the goal of unraveling the riddle of the little...

Reducere. Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) Love is "one of the greatest dramas of human existence, " writes Pope John Paul II. In this illuminating three-ac...

An immersive historical account of a fascinating and important untold story.

Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Nigel SlaterNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 249 x 180 x 46Cover type: HardbackR...

A lively diary chronicling the running of a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of WWII. Kathleen Hey kept a diary for the ...

Explores London both from the viewpoint of the many writers who have used it as a stage for their plots and their characters; and of the readers wh...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND OFFICIAL COMPANION TO THE HIT BBC SERIESBBC's The Repair Shop is a place where Britain's most skilled and caring cr...

Reducere. The Romance of a Shop (1888) is a novel by Amy Levy. Published the year before her tragic death, The Romance of a Shop is the debut novel of a pion...

Reducere. Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical...

Reducere. To a woodworker, there is nothing more personal than the workshop. Creating your ideal sanctuary involves hundreds of practical decisions from wher...

If you are thinking about setting up your first woodworking shop, or expanding your existing one, this book will show you how to save both time and...

An extraordinary story.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Julia LaiteIllustration(s): photos/diagrams throughoutNumber of pages: 432Publication...

Reducere. Pioneer Girl is the true story of Grace McCance Snyder. In 1885, when Grace was three, she and her family became homesteaders on the windswept prai...

Publisher: Broadview Press LtdAuthor(s): Amy LevyIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 278Collection: Broadview EditionsPublication date: ...

More than eight recipes set to lighten the load of busy lives through the Batch Method.

The story of Little Nell and her "tragedy of sorrows, " told in a blend of realism and fairy-tale The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell,...

Book Three in a brand-new series by Nicola May, author of ebook sensation THE CORNER SHOP IN COCKLEBERRY BAY.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s)...

A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving readers a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories.

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Selma BlairIllustration(s): 30-40 black and white photographsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

Throughout it all, her indomitable spirit - and her vivid sense of humour - kept her alive. A vivid, intimate and darkly funny account of a life le...

Brought up amid near-Dickensian squalour in the tough East End of Glasgow and sexually abused by her uncle, Janey married into a Glasgow criminal f...