Books

Imagine if you had been watching Test cricket, in person, for 66 years. You'd have seen Mankad taking on Trueman and Laker, Compton and Edrich in their golden summer, and Lindwall and Miller showing off their sublime skills. You'd have watched the...

When the first lockdown came, finding himself without cricket for the first time in his life, Geoffrey Boycott sat down and began to write a retrospective warts-and-all diary of each of his Test match appearances. It is illuminating and unsparing,...

With one ball left of the World Cup final, England needed five runs to win. Mo stood in the middle of the pitch as Jos Buttler whispered in his ear: "If anyone can do it, it's you." Mo shook his head modestly and wandered back to the stumps. He tapped...

A handy pocket guide to help demystify the subject of Consent for all those working in health and social care. Consent is a concept that can be complex and difficult to understand, but it does not have to be. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to...

Starting a nursing course as a mature student can be a daunting prospect. How to Thrive as a Mature Student Nurse will you help you to deal with the challenges you may face during your course. Packed full of advice, the book will guide you through your...

Learning Disabilities is an accessible introductory textbook that will help to improve the quality of care provided to people with learning disabilities. It is aimed primarily at nursing and healthcare students who are not in the learning disabilities...

General practice is fast-paced, complex and deeply human. For trainees just starting out, the challenge is not just learning medicine but how to do so well under pressure, while putting the patient's needs front and centre. How to Thrive as a GP Trainee...

Skin problems make up around one-quarter of all new consultations in primary care, yet making a confident dermatology diagnosis can often be daunting. Dermatology Essentials for General Practice is a colourful, practical guide designed to help GPs and...

Exams for medical students are no longer just about memorising facts - they're about applying knowledge to real-life scenarios using clinical reasoning. UKMLA Practice Questions provides an effective and engaging way to develop these skills and ace the...

Women's Health Made Easy Women's Health Made Easy provides a clear and comprehensive overview of key women's health topics, helping GPs and primary care teams deliver high-quality, evidence-based, patient-centred care. The book offers practical guidance...

Essential Examination for Advancing Clinical Practice puts the service user's story at the heart of every physical exam. Clear, practical, and easy to follow, it shows you what to do, why it matters, and how to explain it with confidence. Each...

The second edition of Rheumatology: A clinical handbook has been fully revised and updated. It remains an essential resource for medical students who need an introduction, understanding and overview of the subject. Most competing texts either burden...

Breaking Bad News provides practical guidance on the key principles needed to create a framework for discussions with the patient The ability to impart bad news well is an important skill for all doctors and many healthcare professionals. But it is...

It is important for healthcare professionals to understand the basics of clinical research. This book offers a thorough explanation of the principles of clinical research, alongside a wide range of worked examples which show how these principles are...

Three complete mock exams, with answers, including the new-style CRQs This book combines the new-style CRQ (constructed response questions) as well as SBA (single best answer) questions to accurately mimic the structure and content of the new-style final...

After suffering countless defeats at the hands of Stingray and the World Aquanaut Security Patrol, the evil undersea warlord Titan launches his most audacious campaign against the surface world to date. Rallying the WASP's greatest enemies to his cause...

Stingray survives its encounter with moderate damage, necessitating major repairs. Growing increasingly frustrated that Titan is acquiring new allies and fearing that his own position is in jeopardy, X20 hatches a plan to finally impress Titan and regain...

Battle Lines starts with Stingray's final epic storyline from TV Century 21. From there, the anthology includes Stingray's adventures from the pages of Countdown in the early 1970s involving underwater tremors, cyber saboteurs and Martian monsters, plus...

Dive into a new chapter of the Stingray Deadly Uprising saga! Celebrate 60 years of thrilling underwater adventures with this fantastic new release. Crafted by renowned author Chris Dale, The Titanican Strategem promises to captivate both long-time fans...

The last line of defence in a clandestine war, SHADO is all that stands between humanity and a force of alien invaders - and leading that fight is the uncompromising Ed Straker, commanding Earths defenders around the clock. But what happens when the man...

In 1983, science fiction puppet master Gerry Anderson made a triumphant return to television screens with Terrahawks. The cult classic space fantasy series, filmed in Supermarcromation, tells the exploits of the heroic Terrahawks and their efforts in...

Forty years since the series began, the Terrahawks are back in two exciting new adventures penned by Chris Thompson and Andrew Clements, with art by Connor Flanagan. A mysterious force ravages bases and shipping across the Arctic Circle and the...

Are you fascinated by the mysterious world of Joe 90 with its espionage and secret agents? Unravel the hidden world of the World Intelligence Network’s top-secret Project 90! Meet Joe McClaine, an ordinary nine year old boy who is transformed into an...

A brand new novelisation of the previously unreleased Gerry Anderson feature Five Star Five. Five Star Five was Gerry Andersons answer to Star Wars, and was on the cusp of entering production in 1978 when the financing for the feature collapsed. This is...

Let Marco Polo Lisbon guide you around this beautiful city. Explore Lisbon with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants and get tips on shopping and what to do on a limited...

Let Marco Polo Paris guide you around this beautiful city. Explore Paris with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide, packed with Insider Tips. Discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the city's trendiest places, and get tips on shopping...

Let PopOut Chicago guide you around this wonderful city. Discover the Windy City of Chicago with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size, yet big on detail, this compact, dependable city map will ensure you dont miss a thing. ...

Let PopOut Bristol guide you around this wonderful city. Explore the glorious city of Bristol with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size yet big on detail, this compact, dependable, Bristol city map will ensure you dont miss...

Let PopOut Washington DC guide you around this wonderful city. Discover the many magnificent monuments and museums of Americas capital, Washington DC, with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. From the elegant Neo-classical architecture...

These memoirs reflect the momentous changes that have taken place over the last century through the prism of Flavia Ormond's experiences: first as an evacuee in Canada during the Second World War, then as a returned exile travelling and working in...

Nobody forgets Sandhurst. The outside perception is one of pure professionalism, organisation, resilience and, dare I say, military efficiency. It's all those things. But that isn't what makes Sandhurst unique. This is a story of when reality meets...

St Petersburg, 1825. Imperial Russia still basks in the glory of victory over Napoleon, but in the army and elsewhere resentment is growing against serfdom and autocracy. Vasily, a pleasure loving, privileged young man, returns home from abroad expecting...

We all consume architecture - it's the one artform we can't avoid. So it's hardly surprising that the finest writers have applied their minds to it. Most of them aren't architects, but their powers of perception are such that what they say gets under the...

Throughout London's two-thousand-year history, architecture has expressed the identity of the city's diverse communities. From Franciscan friars to merchant bankers, royal dynasties to grocers and tailors, the ideals and wealth of these groups have been...

A Thousand Fates explores the afterlife of medieval monasticism in England and Wales, a thousand years monasticism in England and Wales came to an abrupt end in the mid-sixteenth century with the Dissolution of the Monasteries. At its peak two hundred...

Since 2003 Hong Kong has changed dramatically. In recent years the city has been rocked by social instability and Covid-19, yet Hong Kong endures, evolving as it always has. This book is a window to the events of a city that has been the author's home...

Winner of the Architectural Book Awards 2020 Architectural Reference Book of the Year. Cameron Mackintosh is Londons West Ends leading theatrical producer of musicals such as Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. He is also a significant theatre...

The book is an illustrated collection of projects carried out in silver and gold reflecting the many interesting personal stories that combine people with a place of significance portrayed in miniature for a special event in their lives.

Anarchy in the Art Gallery is a humorous and thought provoking illustrated book: a re-imagined trip through Western art and cultural history, and one not limited by time or space. It mixes characters, places, events and situations to create fresh and...

In 1936, the Duke of York unexpectedly became King George VI, and his ten-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, became heir presumptive. However, she was never heir apparent, because a male sibling would automatically assume her place in the line of...

This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford,...

A woman lies unconscious on the carpet of a smart Westminster apartment, one red high-heeled shoe has fallen off... A younger woman lies with her eyes closed, half-hidden under a drinks cabinet... Her fingers clutch an empty bottle... What happens when a...

The Few Who Flew is an evocative memoir written by one of the last young men to train as a RAF pilot, gaining his 'Wings' in April 1957 just days before the end of National Service. Michael Morris as he was then (he is now Lord Naseby) was selected to do...

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? These questions form the title of an 1897 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin. He knew he was pushing the limits of human knowledge by asking them. He also knew they are not new questions...

During his 1920s heyday, Arnold Bennett was one of Britain's most celebrated writers. As the author of The Old Wives' Tale and Clayhanger he was a household name, writing just as much for the common man as London's literati. His face was plastered over...

Life Lines is a celebration of how our ordinary, organic and often imperfect handwriting is not just a living form of expression and mode of communication, but also a relevant and poignant way of understanding ourselves and the people around us. This...

Told in his own words, in response to questions from the writer and art critic Andrew Lambirth, this book chronicles Andrew Logan's life and work through expressive anecdote and factual recollection. Reflections is a look back, but also a look at the...

Many piers were originally built as wharfs for ships to load and unload goods, then, as the railways expanded and people were able to travel further afield for trips and holidays, they became places to promenade. In the UK, Steamships would take day...