From a small boy growing up in a Tibetan village to the spiritual leader of the Buddhist world, the Dalai Lama proves that kindness and understanding are not only at the roots of peacefulnes... read more
A boy of seven discovers a man with a propellor on his back hovering outside his window: Karlsson lives in a little house on Smidge's roof. Jollifications and adventures ensue... Ages 4-7. O... read more
Karlsson is a funny little man with a propeller on his back who lives on the top of Smidge's house. Cheerful stories for ages 4-7. One of a pair of new Lindgren reprints.
When 12-year old Jimmy and his brother are evacuated to a small Welsh mining town in Wales he discovers a secret. As compelling as 'Carrie's War' or Morpurgo, this canters along at pace, fo... read more
Full-page starlit spreads of distant planets, solar systems, cross-sections of the world's largest telescopes, dazzling visualisations of how light works... For the amateur astronomist.
Oh to be seven again, to pore over 100 pages of fascinating details on the physics of flight and aerodynamics with gorgeous retro drawings of ailerons, propellers and flaps by a graphic desi... read more
Maeve's astute tarot readings are the talk of the school, until her ex-best friend draws an unsettling card and disappears without trace... (YA themes).
Adria is perhaps a surprising person to take us back to Flintstone cookery; an interesting exploration of the McLuhanesque relationship between pot and food.
From bronze-age chopsticks, grain stews, the dawn of the dumpling in the C4th, and the astonishing super-abundance of rice feeding a vast population, to modern fast food in the Chinese diasp... read more
A caravan of vegetable dishes, mostly small and perfectly formed, from the head chef of the eponymous Bristol restaurant who won a Michelin star aged 21.