When did we lose the knack of looking after our own homes? We have become dependent on 5-in-1 chemical cleaners; we can\'t seem to wield a Hoover anymore; and descaling the kettle is a task to be indefinitely delayed. Somewhere along the way we have lost the domestic tradition that was simple, quick and effective. The Home Handbook seeks to redress the balance and celebrates the art of caring for your

A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner as is witty as he is knowledgeable\' - Tom Holland Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals

It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting \'Bah! Humbug!\' at anyone who dares wish him a Merry Christmas. But that night the miser has a terrifying visitor. Marley, his dead business partner who must wander the earth for ever to pay for his sins, comes with a warning. Scrooge will be haunted by three more spirits. The ghosts of Christmas

She was a brazen hussy.\" \"She wasn\'t. And she was pretty, wasn\'t she?\" \"I didn\'t look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they\'re running after you, they\'re not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes\"\'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband,

A gripping, compulsive thriller set in a future where the cure for ageing has been discovered! to devastating consequences \"You got me. I don\'t want to die. I\'m terrified of death. I fear there\'s nothing beyond it and that this existence is the only one I\'ll ever possess. That\'s why I\'m here.\" (An excerpt from the digital journal of John Farrell, cure age 29) 2019. Humanity has witnessed its

1962, Anchor Bend, Oregon. The sea calls to Eleanor. Like the turn of the waves it beckons her from the heart of the town she\'s always known, from her husband Hob and their young daughter, Agnes, to the unfathomable depths of the ocean. 1985 Agnes\'s daughter Eleanor is six years old. She shares her name with the grandmother she never knew and everything else with her identical twin, Esmerelda. But

With 20 million copies sold worldwide THE SHACK is an international bestseller that explores life\'s toughest questions through the gripping story of one man\'s struggle to find answers to his suffering. Mack\'s youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years

On his first day of work at a struggling brand management firm, an ambitious intern discovers a blog created by his predecessor, Iris Massey. Iris, he quickly learns, died a few months earlier, leaving a hole in the life of the firm\'s morose boss, Smith. Now, stuck at his desk all day, Carl-the-Intern - whose sky-high aspirations are thwarted only by Smith\'s sluggishness - gets hooked on Iris\'s

Billboards have become the most creative form of advertising. This book not only looks back a the most controversial and striking ad campaigns of the last fifty years but also looks to the future, with an overview of the very latest advertising formats and techniques.

The National Trust for Scotland is one of the largest landowners in Scotland owning 300 square miles, or 1% of its countryside. Most people are aware that the Trust has ownership of and responsibility for -- on behalf of the nation -- many fine houses, castles and gardens. Few, however, are aware that, within its general purpose written into the 1935 Act establishing theTrust, it has responsibility

Roman Polanski\'s ability to wring laughter from the most degrading heartbreaks will carry the same wealth of healthy shocks in a hundred years. He creates a macabre beauty to be wooed by and wondered at. But behind the laughter and the beauty is the ghostly truth that Polanski was orphaned by the Nazis and wandered Poland alone from ages 9 to 13. Consider the isolated intensity that bridges Knife

Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident - the broken body of a woman was discovered on the rocks at the foot of the cliff. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies a husband and wife shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into a crime committed

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when \'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a \"subject\" people, an inferior people with black faces\'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The

A superb new Joe Pike/Elvis Cole novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Robert Crais...

\'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here\'s the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.\' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur\'s son instead of the son of the rich

Four short stories of murder and mystery, in which Edgar Allan Poe wrote about terrible people who lead strange lives. \"Penguin Readers\" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series\' combination of high interest level

Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet\'s Le Costume historique was the most wide-ranging and intelligent study of clothing ever published. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through the end of the 19th century, the great work—\"consolidated\" in 1888 into 6 volumes containing nearly 500 plates—remains, to this day, completely unique

Inferno

Gaming: it\'s the greatest British invasion of them all. Lara Croft is an international icon and the British-born Grand Theft Auto and its spin-offs have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. The UK\'s games industry is now bigger than either its cinema or its music. Yet the medium\'s birth in Thatcher\'s Britain was almost accidental. While politicians championed computers like the BBC Micro