Create stylish, fresh, modern floral artwork with this beautiful step-by-step guide. A brilliant new title in the bestselling Journal with Purpose series Join Helen Colebrook as she shares her artistic expertise to show you how to…

A comprehensive art course that reveals Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible life, work, and legacy. Explore the techniques, principles, and practice of Da Vinci’s work: from the Vitruvian Man and the Mona Lisa to the La Scapigliata. Wi…

A cheerful, gift-ready collection of socks to knit through the year and unwrap at the holidays. This joyful collection of 24 knitting patterns for holiday socks features a variety of different designs including stripes, stranded c…

Whimsical, weird, and wildly adorable — this is cat knitting as you’ve never seen it before. From the endlessly creative mind of Anna Hrachovec comes a collection of 20 irresistibly quirky cat-themed amigurumi knitting projects. W…

Discover twice the city in half the time as Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the ultimate short trip to Amsterdam. This latest edition uncovers the city's most popular experiences and unexpe…

She is a curator, who spends her time dressing the rooms of historic buildings to bring them to life. But in the lush private quarters of a medieval palace, she finds herself so transfixed by the reign of an almost-forgotten King …

Why make art? Faced with a capitalist system that has turned art into artwork and creative expression into cut-throat competition, why do so many artists try anyway? In this eye-opening journey through the bizarre world of contemp…

Everyone has heard of the Button heirs: the five genius children of infamous billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and trained under the "Button Method", they've had no choice but to be brilliant. ONE DEAD FATHER But brilliance come…

In 2000, burnt out by city living, Julian Hoffman and his wife Julia took a bold step: they left everything behind and moved to Prespa in northern Greece – a remote landscape of vast lakes, snow-capped mountains and stone villages…

Osric is a member of the Fyren Order, a guild of assassins who gleefully murder for money. Aurienne is a Haelan, a scholar-healer whose Order's motto is Harm to none.Clear-cut absolutes separate them: good and bad, right and wrong…

Filled with cunning witches, dragon hoards and goblins spinning straw into gold, these Germanic stories are some of the most recognized and best-loved fairy tales of all time. This gorgeous hardback contains 80 of these stories, i…

Life gets pretty boring when you can beat the snot out of any villain with just one punch. Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressi…

Could the past he thought he'd escaped be reaching out to him from the Black House . . .Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called the Territories in search of the talisman to save his mother…

Join Jack Sawyer on a terrifying trip across America in search of the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle bet…

An eye-opening journey through the secret forces shaping our opinions, this book reveals why we think what we think – and why disagreement matters. Our opinions – whether we believe in God or in ghosts, our views on se…

These markers have a versatile medium size fibre tip making them ideal for all types of art. Posca writes on virtually any surface; metal, wood, canvas, plastic, fabric, etc, and will not ‘bleed through’ paper. POSCA markers use w…

In The Hidden Seasons, Tristan Gooley shows us how to read the clues that the sun, moon, stars, plants, fungi, animals, water and weather give us - but that we continually miss, because we don't know how and where to look. Autumn …

Join Professor Alice Roberts as she travels over a thousand miles through Italy, France and Spain in search of a greater understanding of the Roman Empire and its legacy. From Naples to Pompeii, Rome to Turin, Nîmes to Narbo…

Before Charlie, before the Chocolate Factory, comes a story of invention and imagination . . .Ever since he was a child, Willy Wonka had dreamed of making chocolate and sharing it with the world. As a young man, he arrives at the …

Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.It is a pa…

Make Believe is a book for adults about books for children, a rallying cry for art and imagination, and a celebration of the power of storytelling in all our lives.Mac Barnett, the beloved, bestselling children's author and U.S. N…

Journey across 40 incredible habitats around the world to discover the biggest, boldest, and stinkiest plants Without plants there would be no life on Earth, but most people are blind to their impact. This stylish and informative …

Many of us aren't getting enough fibre in our diets, but Hugh shows us how simple – and delicious – it can be with 100 easy recipes all celebrating 12 veg heroes: Peas – Carrots – Cabbage – Tinned bea…

The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever Now available in a chic compact format, this visually stunning survey from Phaidon’s Explorer series celebrat…

A breathtaking celebration of flowers spanning centuries, cultures, and continents – now available in a compact format Flower invites readers to explore the endless ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs through…

A gifted art forger, Truyan Saigas has the unique ability to paint the future. But when her father is lost at sea, not even magic can heal her family, or save her two younger sisters from the consequences of her mother's gambling …

1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and delightfully some new friends, inclu…

On 1 February, 1910, vivacious music-hall performer, Belle Elmore, suddenly vanished from her north London home, causing alarm among her circle of female friends, the entertainers of the Music Hall Ladies’ Guild who demanded an im…

Born with the ability to speak with the dead, Viola hates her magic. It killed her sister, Olivia, and the if she doesn't learn why, it will kill her too. Her only hope lies within the perilous walls of Gorhail Institute of Magic,…

Billions of birds share the planet with us. With their flamboyant plumage and joyous dawn serenades, many of them are impossible to miss. But how did they get here, how did they break the bounds of Earth and begin to fly, and how …