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Nikki Welch
The Pocket Guide to Wineearning about wine can be a daunting task. With...earning about wine can be a daunting task. With terms like assemblage, batonnage and cuvee; ullage, terroir and vielles vignes, it's not surprising that many people are put off and simply reach for... -
Tim Marshall
The Power of Geography : Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our WorldPrisoners of Geography showed how every nation'...Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new boo... -
Sam Knight
The Premonitions BureauThe story of a strange experiment - a journey i...The story of a strange experiment - a journey into the oddest corners of 60s Britain and the outer edges of science and reason. Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time.You thin... -
Ariane Bankes
The Quality of Love : Twin Sisters at the Heart of the CenturyWhen her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes...When her mother Celia Paget died, Ariane Bankes inherited a battered trunk stuffed with letters and diaries belonging to Celia and her twin Mamaine. This correspondence charted the remarkable lives... -
Tess Gunty
The Rabbit HutchVacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on...Vacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Newsweek's list of dying American cities. According to the developers, however, it's a city with a whole history of reinvention, one that 'buzzes wit... -
Theresa Breslin
The Rasputin DaggerRussia, 1916.Nina Ivanovna’s world is in turmoi...Russia, 1916.Nina Ivanovna’s world is in turmoil. Her only hope is to travel to St Petersburg, to escape the past and find a future.Stefan Kolodin is a medical student – young and idealistic, he wa... -
Philippe Sands
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi FugitiveAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto F...As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the aut... -
Sarah Thomas
The Raven's NestVisiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-...Visiting Iceland as an anthropologist and film-maker in 2008, Sarah Thomas is spellbound by its otherworldly landscape. An immediate love for this country and for Bjarni, a man she meets there, tur... -
Rosemary Bythell
The Real Bride of LammermoorMany people consider The Bride of Lammermoor to...Many people consider The Bride of Lammermoor to be the best of Walter Scott's romantic novels despite its tragic circumstances. This is the true story of Janet Dalrymple who was the real Bride of B... -
Naoki Higashida , David Mitchell
The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autismWhat is it like to have autism? How can we know...What is it like to have autism? How can we know what a person - especially a child - with autism is thinking and feeling?This ground-breaking book, written by Naoki Higashida when he was only thirt... -
Maggie Gee
The Red ChildrenIt's the 2030s in Ramsgate and four people who ...It's the 2030s in Ramsgate and four people who don't look quite human are found sitting, naked, in the early spring sunlight on the quay of a quiet south coast resort. The locals are puzzled - the ... -
Tom Morgan-Jones
The Red DreadTHUMP THUMP. The Red Dread is on the loose and ...THUMP THUMP. The Red Dread is on the loose and Shrew and the other animals are afraid. From stolen nuts to missing rabbits, they whisper of the terrible actions of the Red Dread. As panic increases...
