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2021 Guide to the Night Sky: A Month-by-month Guide To Exploring The Skies Above North America
by Storm Dunlop Wil Tirion Royal Observatory GreenwichThis is the ideal resource for beginners and experienced stargazers in the United States and Canada, and has been updated to include new and practical information covering events occurring in North America's night sky throughout 2021.
2021 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A Month-by-month Guide To Exploring The Skies Above Australia, New Zealand And South Africa
by Storm Dunlop Wil TirionA comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2021.
Practically Perfect: Life Lessons From Mary Poppins
by Katy BrandMary Poppins is a story of taking practical steps towards happiness. It’s looking at the bright side of life. It’s setting boundaries, deciding what you want and making it happen. That’s the path to being Practically Perfect
Painted People: Humanity In 21 Tattoos
by Matt LodderIn 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now.
I LOVE LEOPARD: The Little Book Of Leopard Print
by Emma BastowThe essential guide to fashion’s favourite print.
Winter Warmers: 60 Cosy Cocktails For Autumn And Winter
by Jassy Davis60 delicious cocktails for crisp autumn and cosy winter, all beautifully bundled up in a lavishly illustrated cocktail gift book
Night Sky Almanac 2021: A Stargazer's Guide
by Royal Observatory Greenwich Storm Dunlop Wil TirionThe perfect gift for amateur and seasoned astronomers. Follow the progress of constellations throughout the seasons with this beautiful companion to the night sky from Astronomy experts Collins.
With Alcohol Anything is Popsicle: 60 Frozen Cocktails
by Jassy DavisBoozy ice lollies you can make at home.
Be More Sausage: Lifelong Lessons From A Small But Mighty Dog
by Matt WhymanA love letter to the small but mighty dachshund or, as it’s more affectionally known, the Sausage Dog.
Tiny Pretty Things and Shiny Broken Pieces
by Dhonielle Clayton Sona CharaipotraBlack Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this drama-packed debut about three perfect girls who will do anything to be the prima ballerina at their elite New York ballet school.
Irish Birds (Collins Gem Ser.)
by David CabotAn easy-to-use, fully illustrated guide to the birds of Ireland
The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place
by null Sally BayleyFrom the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and their teachers. In the style of her memoir Girl with Dove, this book explores a child’s search for artistic education and a sense of self. Lyrical and playful, Sally Bayley’s writing transports the reader into an eccentric world of teachers, guardians and guiding spirits of place. Moved by her female teachers, and guided by the artist J.M.W. Turner, Bayley’s protagonist goes in search of her maternal ancestors, in particular her grandmother, Edna May Turner. Following the narratives of other women in history who have taken different routes to independence and artistic freedom – including the educational suffragist Mary Neal, actress Margaret Rutherford, and poet Stevie Smith – Bayley considers the paths to happiness and the limitations social convention imposes. Part novel, part memoir, The Green Lady continues the traditions of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as an imagined biography which urgently understands the need for a space of one’s own in which to thrive. As one of the book’s several foster children, Bayley reminds us that families and homes can be found and built within literature and the arts as well as nature's green spaces.
The Times Great Events: 200 Years Of History As It Happened
by James OwenAs one of Britain’s leading newspapers for more than 200 years The Times has covered every major world events as they happened. This book profiles the ones that have had the most impact on the world today from the fall of the Berlin Wall to stepping onto the Moon.
Origin Africa: Safaris In Deep Time
by Jonathan KingdonA major new look at how Africa’s geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found there. It is also the story of how it was the crucible for the evolution most extraordinary species on Earth – Homo sapiens.
Later ... With Jools Holland: 30 Years Of Music, Magic And Mayhem
by Mark Cooper’You never knew what you were going to be confronted with when you went on Later…’ Nick Cave ‘Later… is a voyage of discovery for us as well as the viewers’ Dave Grohl
Lockdown Made Me Do It: 60 Quarantine Cocktails To Make At Home
by Amy Zavatto Jassy Davis Cecilia Rios Murrieta Lance J. Mayhew Colleen GrahamWhen life gives you lockdown, make quarantinis!
Real Men Knit
by Kwana Jackson‘A SWOONFEST’ Lindsey Kelk Don’t miss this a charming and feel-good own-voices romance – funny, sexy and as cosy as a woolly jumper…
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit And Glamour Of An Icon
by Kate Andersen BrowerThe first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor.
Save Our Species: Endangered Animals And How You Can Save Them
by Dominic CouzensWhether you would like to learn how to build a bird box, dig a hedgehog tunnel or implement broader environmental changes in your community, this practical guide to saving our most endangered species will teach you how you can help on an individual, local and national level.
I Strongly Believe in Incredible Things: A Creative Journey Through The Everyday Wonders Of Our World
by Rob AutonA selection of the world’s most incredible things according to award-winning writer, comedian, artist and podcaster Rob Auton
Still Just a Geek
by Wil WheatonCelebrated actor, personality, and all-around nerd Wil Wheaton updates his memoir of collected blog posts with all new material and annotations as he reexamines one of the most interesting lives in Hollywood and fandom!
The Pages
by Hugo Hamilton‘A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving’ Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel’ Roddy Doyle ‘A masterpiece’ Sebastian Barry The new novel about the transformative power of art, the weight of history and the strange connection we make with one another from the author of The Speckled People.
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
by null Aarathi PrasadThere is not just one story of silk. In silk is science, history and mythology. In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad’s Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global history, natural history, and future of a unique material that has fascinated the world for millennia. For silk, prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely even begun to tap its potential. As the technologies it has inspired – from sutures to pharmaceuticals, replacement body parts to holograms – continue to be developed in laboratories around the world, they are now also beginning to offer a desperately needed, sustainable alternative to the plastics choking our planet. Prasad's Silk is a cultural and biological history from the origins and ancient routes of silk to the biologists who learned the secrets of silk-producing animals, manipulating the habitats and physiologies of moths, spiders and molluscs. Because there is more than one silk, there is more than one story of silk. More than one road, more than one people who discovered it, and wove its threads. From the moths of China, Indonesia and India to the spiders of South America and Madagascar, to the silk-producing molluscs of the Mediterranean, Silk is a book rich in the passionate connections made by women and men of science to the diversity of the animal world. It is an intoxicating mix of biography, intellectual history and science writing that brings to life the human obsession with silk.
Crazy for Birds: Fascinating And Fabulous Facts
by Misha Maynerick BlaiseA charming and quirky illustrated exploration of birds and the reasons we love them.