Join Ned, Ruby and Mungo the dog for a code-cracking, maze-solving, clue-finding puzzle quest! Unravel the riddle to open the magic box, decipher the code on the scroll inside and then follow the clue
Take your tangles under the sea with this fun and creative book! Clear step-by-step instructions show you how to draw a wonderful selection of marine-themed tangles. The book is also packed with beaut
Zentangle is an accessible and creative artform that is immensely popular with readers around the world. In this innovative book, certified Zentangle teacher Jane Marbaix guides people through a range
How did a former Austrian corporal in the Bavarian army with no apparent gift for leadership or strategy become the leader of one of the most civilized countries in Europe and turn it into a nightmare
Considered to be perhaps the most significant America contribution to political thought, The Federalist Papers first appeared in New York newspapers in 1787 under the collective pseudonym of 'Publius'
This revised and updated presentation of the bestselling Easyway method features an audio CD with Allen Carr himself reading a stop smoking session. The Easyway method really works. Allen Carr has sol
This super collection of more than 250 sudokus promises hours of puzzling fun for the most ardent enthusiast, from the beginner to the seasoned expert. They're the perfect way to give your brain a wor
Involving over a hundred defendants, the Nuremberg Trials took place between 1945 and 1945 and broke new ground. Twenty-one Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes
This gently practical title shows users how to find relaxation through the creation of a wide range of paper projects. Taking time out from the daily routine to make things will help to alleviate stre
Rudyard Kipling's classic story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, is brought to life in this brand new slipcase edition. Follow Mowgli as he embarks on a series of incredib
Allen Carr’s Easyway is the most effective stop-smoking method of all time and it has now been successfully applied to a wide range of other issues. Here the method focuses on one of the fastest-growi
Drawing exclusively on interviews and personal letters and diaries from the earliest days of the Nazi party to the final hours of the thousand-year Reich, this book reveals how the Hitler cult influen
Joining a series of dots to create a finished picture can be wonderfully therapeutic as well as rewarding. The artworks in this compilation have been selected for their uplifting, relaxing properties.
The Beauties of Nature Colouring Book contains colour guides accompanied by outlines of flowers, birds, butterflies and other wildlife subjects for you to colour and make your own. It includes illustr
The Divine Comedy remains one of the pillars upon which the European literary tradition has been built. Dante’s allegorical analysis of the mystery of divine revelation to the unsuspecting human soul
This clothbound edition includes over one hundred delicately detailed and informative contemporary illustrations, many of them relating to the discoveries Darwin made during the second voyage of the r
The Return of Sherlock Holmes consists of 13 hugely enjoyable detective stories featuring ingenious plots and Arthur Conan Doyle's elegant prose. A very welcome addition to the enduringly popular Arct
Fanny Hill, the rags-to-riches tale of a young woman in Georgian London, has been a byword in racy reading for over 250 years. A very welcome addition to the enduringly popular Arcturus Classics serie
Described by Agatha Christie as 'a shining light' and by The New Yorker as 'the best of mystery writers', Margery Allingham is justly recognized as one of the greats of detective fiction writing. Alli
Dickens's Little Nell became one of his best-known heroines when The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in 1841. Virtuous and stoic, Nell takes care of her grandfather in his gloomy shop until his
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson appear in a second series of twelve intriguing cases. They include The Adventure of Silver Blaze, with the famous 'curious incident of the dog in the night-time'; The Adv
Edith Wharton's novella Ethan Frome (1911) is a classic of American literature. A young girl, Mattie Silver is hired to keep house on the bleak New England farm belonging to Ethan Frome and his sickly
The Great Gatsby (1925) is F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of the American Jazz Age. It is the story of a fundamentally innocent man drawn to his own destruction through infatuation with a girl ca
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) was the first of Hardy's Wessex novels and remains one of his most popular. The strong-willed and beautiful Bathsheba Everdene arrives to take charge of her late uncl
Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures u
Justice, courage, loyalty, self control: the qualities essential to the Samurai warriors of Japan are those that we all aspire to. In this classic work, originally published as Bushido: The Soul of Ja
A classic study of statesmanship and power politics,The Prince is one of the most influential books ever written. Used by businessmen and political leaders through the ages, Machiavelli’s shrewd and i
Written some 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is the most influential Chinese book of all time. The title can be translated as The Book of the Way and Virtue and its verses are no less than an attemp
The Art of War enjoys enduring popularity among readers. It is a classic study of strategy and how to shape your tactics to cope with an ever-evolving situation - in some cases how to fight without ac
Written in 1879, A Doll's House has been called the first truly feminist play. A scathing critique of the traditional roles of men and women in nineteenth century marriage, it caused scandal throughou
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) introduces Richard Hannay, the original gentleman-hero of spy thrillers and a forerunner of James Bond. This tale of intrigue and treachery pits Hannay against not only a
The Professor, eventually published in 1857, was actually Charlotte Bronte's first novel, completed as early as 1846. The deliberately unromantic hero is William Crimsworth - the only time the author
'The horror! The horror!' Seaman Charlie Marlowe takes a decaying steamboat on a perilous voyage to the heart of Africa. His mission is to relieve an ivory agent named Kurtz, taken sick at his remote
Presents the classic story about a married woman who turns away from a sterile marriage for a passionate affair with her spiritually independent gamekeeper.
Originally published in 1923, The Prophet continues to inspire millions worldwide with its timeless words of love and mystical longing. Kahlil Gibran's most celebrated work is a timeless tale that spe
The collection features nearly 500 poems, making this a particularly wide-ranging collection. With themed sections: e.g. nature, love, family, faith, work and death; biographies of the poets; and inde
The structure of ['Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'] follows a path as indirect and elusive as its multiple narrative voices. With its obliquely recorded incidents, its eyewitness accounts and sealed confessi
Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all,
As is often the case with Ms. Austen's fiction, "Persuasion" deals with the social issues of the times and paints a fascinating portrait of Regency England, especially when dealing with the class syst
