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Color your way to peace and calm while exploring the picturesque enclaves of New York City

The gripping story of the toy car wars: how Dinky, Corgi and Matchbox drove our childhoods!

A new collection of botanical British folk tales about plants and wild flowers, journeying through the seasons of the year

The first comprehensive study into the problem of the break-up of Titanic's hull

Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors - for the first time this book tells the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them.

This anthology recalls Christmas in Shakespeare's day, when it was an expansive festival, dominated by strict religious observance on the day itself, but including a long season of merrymaking, feasting and, most important of all, masques and plays. "Measure for Measure" was one of many of Shakespeare's plays first performed by "His Majestie's plaiers" during the 12-day festival at the Royal Court. Also included are little-known delights such as: the story of how Elizabeth I interrupted Shakespeare's performance by walking across the stage and dropping a glove at his feet; the 32 dishes expected to grace the table of a "modest home", including delectable Elizabethan desserts and Shakespeare's "roasted crabs hissing in the bowl"; how the barristers at Inns of Court danced before the judges; the ballad by George Wither of an Elizabethan Christmas, celebrated 16th-century poet Robert Herrick's verse on the ceremonies for Christmas, and the winter poem by the Catholic martyr, Father Robert Southwell. "The Masque of Christmas" by Shakespeare's contemporary, Ben Jonson, appears here complete, and readers learn of the ignoble goings-on of the Lord of Misrule.

A compelling and entertaining history of Welsh naval history

Virgins, Weeders and Queens

The entire history of the county in a succinct little book!

A social history of wartime dining and a collection of over sixty delicious and healthy seasonal recipes with a vintage twist.

Overlooked & Underrated? Not Any Longer... presenting sixty forgotten, neglected or misunderstood classics

Growing up in the 1930's and 1940's left me with a lasting impression of a life far distant from the life we all live today.It is my hope that these stories bring back great memories to many of you who shared those years. For those of who are younger it will enlighten you about life during your parents' and grandparents' time.

Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written. Prize-winning biographer Oliver Soden combines meticulous research with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat praised as 'a mixture of gravity and waggery'. The narrative roams from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound, witty and deeply moving, Soden's biography plays with the genre like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem, while setting Jeoffry's life and adventures against the roaring backdrop of eighteenth-century London.

The return of the high successful biography of a modern legend by Alan Turing's nephew

New expanded edition of popular photographic book

The finest and most authentic collection of Icelandic folk tales to be published in the English language

A compelling autobiography detailing life in Rothwell Children's Home and the years beyond