Snap your way through the cosmos with a fun, educational card game that’s out of this world!Blast off into space with Snap! The Solar System. This 52-card deck features four sets of thirteen illustrations of the planets, moons, an…

Snap to it and discover the mighty world of dinosaurs with this fun and educational card game! Get ready to dive into the prehistoric world with Snap! Dinosaurs. This exciting card game features 52 cards, four sets of thirteen bea…

Pandora’s Box has been opened! All manner of evil creatures, curses and catastrophes are flooding out into the world – but there is Hope, too, hiding at the bottom of the box. Can you survive the onslaught of monsters and misery, …

A history of the Japanese archipelago through its material artefacts over fifteen millennia. This spirited visual account of life in the Japanese archipelago spans over 15,000 years, revealing the stories behind an intriguing sele…

A new take on Southeast Asia’s complex history, expertly told through art objects and cultural artefacts dating from the Neolithic Age to the present. Southeast Asia is home to numerous world heritage sites. Through engaging texts…

Explore the life and art of Vincent van Gogh through 50 of his most important works. Part of a brand new series celebrating the works of great artists, The Works: Vincent Van Gogh is an exquisite exploration of 50 masterpieces fro…

Explore the life and art of Gustav Klimt through 50 of his most important works. Part of a brand new series celebrating the works of great artists, The Works: Gustav Klimt is an exquisite exploration of 50 masterpieces from the ce…

The word ‘samurai’ stands for ideals of courage, honour, self-sacrifice and loyalty. Yet much of the common understanding is imaginative fiction. This book explores the concept from medieval reality, through early modern changes, …

This book explores Francis Bacon’s deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers…

Nan Goldin's deeply personal exploration of female trauma and resistance. Sisters, Saints and Sibyls is a tribute ‘to all rebellious women struggling to survive in society.’ Focusing on the tragic life of her sister, Barbara, Nan …

A compact edition of this stylishly illustrated compendium of over sixty spices, brilliantly designed by the bestselling author of Herbarium. Spices have played an intrinsic part in the human story, running through history, geogra…

A pocket-sized career guide for emerging artists, The Artist's Roadmap is an essential primer for anyone wishing to discover what underpins a professional practice within this field. Being an artist is challenging. Not only are th…

What explains ghost sightings? What do haunted people see? And what proof is there? Roger Clarke, who spent his childhood in two haunted houses, has produced the first comprehensive study of the evolution of the ghost, through the…

We all love stories. But why do we tell them? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way? John Yorke, creator of the BBC Writers' Academy, has brought a vast array of drama to British screens. Here he takes us on a j…

Enter the macabre world of Edgar Allan Poe, master of gothic horror and psychological dread. This collection includes The Fall of the House of Usher, where a crumbling mansion mirrors the decay of its inhabitants, alongside Poe’s …

You never forget your first... Lucy Albright is eager for a fresh start when she arrives on the campus of her small California college, quickly embracing college life and all it has to offer: new friends, wild parties, stimulating…

On a secluded cliff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house that contains a century's worth of secrets.By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned - yet there are still clothes in t…

Join Andy and Terry in their 104-storey spectacular treehouse – it used to be a 91-story treehouse, but they decided it was still missing a few things!They've added thirteen new levels, including a never-ending staircase, a burp b…

The discovery of this vital form led to a transformation in medicine but also in our understanding of ourselves - not as bodies or machines but as ecosystems. It has also given us the power to treat a vast array of mortal maladies…

Every time we choose a route to work, decide whether to go on a second date, or set aside money for a rainy day, we are making a prediction about the future. Yet from the financial crisis to ecological disasters, we routinely fail…

What if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in this masterful account of the science of human behaviour, everything we think and do is caused by the luck of our biology and the influence of our environment, and ulti…

Meet the magical, mystical, and miraculous! Dare you step inside the dark realm of mythical monsters, legendary spirits, and terrifying tricksters? Discover more than 100 eye-catching, jaw-dropping, otherworldly creatures in aston…

Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the…

US President Harry Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Those military attack…

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humour? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? David Foster …

If you love lunches which pack a punch and suppers with attitude, then this collection of more than 100 flavourful dishes from LEON is the one for you. From fiery coconut noodles to miso-spiked aubergine, caramel pork to blueberry…

Joe Tucker's Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout his life.A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he appeared to exist only for daily trips to the bookie - and yet h…

From declaring my love to Vanessa Redgrave to being fed cockroaches by Steve Buscemi, from turnip-based comedy with Blackadder to being farted on by Arnold Schwarzenegger, from Graham Norton's sofa to Alan Cumming's camper van, my…

I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide ... It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a S…

A woman on the run. A crew of Viking mercenaries. A forbidden romance.And the secret which threatens them all . . .Silla Nordvig is running for her life. The queen of Íseldur has sent warriors to bring Silla to Sunnavík, where dea…