Published By: UnboundPages: 400Released On: 19/09/2024 This first official book for Adult Fans of LEGO® takes the reader on a visually stunning journey from the very earliest hollow bricks to the complex shapes and building techniques of today. LEGO bricks are design icons and marvels of engineering. Virtually unchanged for over fifty years, the brickContinue reading “The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks – Daniel Konstanski”
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Bibliotherapy – Molly Masters
Published By: HarperCollinsPages: 288Released On: 12/09/2024 Through turbulent times, stories keep us afloat. Books, particularly, console and guide us, feed our souls and open our eyes to worlds, possibilities and experiences we have never considered before. Many of us have been self-medicating with books for years without identifying the practice as ‘bibliotherapy’. Celebrate the positiveContinue reading “Bibliotherapy – Molly Masters”
The Future of the Self – Joanna Nadin
Published By: Melville HousePages: 128Released On: 04/07/2024 Look in the mirror – what do you see? We all feel, instinctively, that self exists. That somewhere inside us, under the clothes, the make-up, and self-tan, lurks a hard ‘pearl’, a kernel of truth called ‘me’. And it’s big business uncovering that ‘authentic’ kernel. It’s also aContinue reading “The Future of the Self – Joanna Nadin”
The Bookshop Woman – Nanako Hanada
Published By: BrazenPages: 224Released On: 06/06/2024Translated By: Cat Anderson Nanako Hanada’s life has not just flatlined, it’s hit rock bottom… Recently separated from her husband, she is living between 4-hour capsule hostels, pokey internet cafes and bookshop floors. Her work is going no better – sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, whichContinue reading “The Bookshop Woman – Nanako Hanada”
You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life – Dr Benji Waterhouse
Published By: Jonathan CapePages: 288Released On: 16/05/2024 A woman with bipolar flies from America in a wedding dress to marry Harry Styles.A lorry driver with schizophrenia believes he’s got a cure for coronavirus.A depressed psychiatrist hides his profession from his GP due to stigma.Most of the characters in this book are his patients. Some ofContinue reading “You Don’t Have To Be Mad To Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life – Dr Benji Waterhouse”
Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life – Fintan O-Toole
Published By: ApolloPages: 208Released On: 06/06/2024 The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays? In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling authorContinue reading “Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life – Fintan O-Toole”
Wild Treasures: A Year of Extraordinary Encounters with Cornwall’s Wildlife – Hannah Stitfall
Published By: GaiaPages: 272Released On: 25/04/2024 Hannah Stitfall is a TV presenter and zoologist, who regularly gets up in the early hours of the morning to try and catch sight of some of Cornwall’s best hidden wildlife. She will spend hours on end waiting for a creature to appear among a hedgerow, scurrying across Cornwall’sContinue reading “Wild Treasures: A Year of Extraordinary Encounters with Cornwall’s Wildlife – Hannah Stitfall”
History Stinks! Poo Through The Ages – Suzie Edge
Published By: Wren & RookPages: 192Released On: 11/04/2024 Did you know that you can discover loads about history just from the loo? Or piles about the past just from a poo? If not, then get ready to discover everything from Henry VIII’s dodgy diet and Aztec poop canoes, to giant, fossilized Viking plops, poo-tastic RomanContinue reading “History Stinks! Poo Through The Ages – Suzie Edge”
The Secret Library: A Book Lover’s Journey Through Curiosities of Literature – Oliver Tearle
Published By: Michael O’MaraPages: 256Released On: 28/03/2024 How much do you know about the Victorian novelist who outsold Dickens? Or the woman who became the first published poet in America? Do you know what connects Homer’s Iliad to Aesop’s Fables?The Secret Library explores these intriguing morsels of lesser-known history, along with the familiar literary heavyweights we know and love.Continue reading “The Secret Library: A Book Lover’s Journey Through Curiosities of Literature – Oliver Tearle”
The Chain – Chimene Suleyman
Published By: W&NPages: 240Released On: 28/03/2024 In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of herContinue reading “The Chain – Chimene Suleyman”
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