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Durham is an amazing county with breathtaking dales, a dramatic coastline, a vale steeped in history and a vibrant city at its heart. From award-wi...

Based on two walks, this guide takes in all the best on offer in Scotland's capital city, detailing all its history, romance, culture and tradition...

Based on two walks, this guide takes in all the best on offer in Scotland's capital city, detailing all its history, romance, culture and tradition...

Inspiration and practical tips on incorporating the everyday into textile art. In Embroidering the Everyday, acclaimed textile artist Cas Holmes ex...

England's Post-War Listed Buildings is a comprehensive and stylish guide to over 500 of the country's most striking and historically relevant archi...

12 classic English fairy tales and their history, from tales of dragons to Robin Hood. Folk tales and legends are an intrinsic part of English nati...

The evacuation of Britains urban children to the countryside was a uniquely emotional decision by the British government during the Second World Wa...

A humorous and informative book, debunking a range of commonly held myths about animals. Camels store water in their humps and magpies love to stea...

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in art and art history. This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through...

A highly entertaining read for anyone interested in English history and culture, this great myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through his...

A highly entertaining read for anyone with even a passing interest in London's history. This myth-busting book takes you on a great ride through hi...

A fascinating and humorous read that debunks the surprising myths about the world we always believed.  The latest addition to the popular Everythi...

A highly entertaining, myth-busting read for anyone with even a passing interest in science. Hot on the heels of the fascinating compendium Everyth...

Indulge your curiosity with this humorous and fascinating book that demystifies the surprising myths about space. In the latest book from the Ever...

A highly entertaining book debunking the many myths about the human body. Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong debunks the scientific ...

An exciting approach to botanical illustration featuring exotic and extraordinary plant specimens.  Striking plants, flowers, fruits and vegetable...

Well-known watercolour painter Ann Blockley presents flowers from traditional to unconventional in both technique and concept. In this exciting new...

Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to traditional subjects. Following the huge success of her previous book, Experimental ...

New and experimental ways to capture landscape in acrylics. Landscape artist Paul Bailey's fascination with the natural world is sensationally conv...

Renowned quilt artist C June Barnes follows up her popular title Stitching to Dye with an exploration of raising the surface in quilt art  Learn h...

Following on from the enduring success of one of the most important chess books ever written, Bobby Fischer: My 60 Memorable Games, and the recentl...

A unique collection of traditional stories about faeries, elves and goblins.  Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many ot...

An informative and beautifully illustrated celebration of our favourite farmyard animals.  Readers of The Country Set and Flying the Nest should du...

A great book for expressing your creative fashion urges, with doodling, drawing and colouring exercises to fill in. Fashion illustrator and lecture...

The book takes the reader through all the major steps of fashion portfolio creation. It features the main components of the design process from the...

A celebration of love with a collection of everyone's favourite love poems. From the Song of Solomon, Catullus and Ovid, to recent masterpieces by ...

A diverse collection of poetry which celebrates both England and all that it means to be English from the rolling hills, to those lost in battle o...