These books introduce the natural world through a treasure trove of facts, folklore and things to do. As statistics reveal that young children can’t even identify the best known birds and flowers, this set brings to life the wonders of the world just outside the back door. From fieldmice to foxes, bluetits to bluebells, Usborne makes nature accessible.
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Minty has now got her man, her six-year-old twins and her covetable lifestyle. But can the transition from office sex siren to coddled dependent be entirely satisfactory?
Read by Emma Fielding.
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.
He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
Gotrek and Felix reluctantly travel to Marienburg to fulfil a last request from Felix’s dying Father, however a chance meeting with their old acquaintance Max Schreiber sends them in a different direction entirely and right into the heart of danger.
The Imperial wizard has been sent north to investigate some disturbing magical phenomena off the northern coast of the Empire. Pretty soon, the heroic duo and their companions find themselves caught up in a new adventure, fighting for their lives against the dark elves!
When Mary meets Monty, heir to a stately pile, happiness seems assured. But as the mansion crumbles, passion wanes along with the heating. Bankers wife Beth swaps Notting Hill for weekends at a bijou cottage. They only offered a smidgeon over the asking price. So why don’t the locals like them? Eco-harridan Morag is the terror of the village, with her objections to everyone and everything.
A ber -WAG Alexandra needs a footballers mansion and fast. There must be a Hello!-tastic country pile with spa, champagne bar and parking for six SUVs somewhere? Ambitions clash when the village launches an allotment project and no one escapes the bitter struggle over sex, power and money which threatens to blight more than everyone’s carrots.
Allotment Gardening is a practical guide to growing your own fruit and vegetables organically. Aimed at those who have not had an allotment before, or are new to growing their own, it is packed with advice - from choosing and planning your allotment through to harvesting and storing your produce.
Helen Hiebert’s basic paper making techniques, laid out in illustrated step-by-step instructions, make it easy to blend and shape a variety of organic papers from such common plants as hosta, milkweed, and thistledown, as well as the more unusual pineapple, yucca, and seaweed. She describes how to collect, harvest, and process the plant fibres and then create sheets using both Western and Japanese techniques.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea has delighted children for over thirty years. When it was first published, Antonia Fraser called it ‘a dazzling first book’ which would cause children to ’scream with delicious pleasure at the dangerous naughtiness of the notion.’ This story revolves around a tea party Sophie has with her mother, and a large tiger.
A superb set of eight books. Storm, a young wolf, has been sent to our world in the form of a magic puppy in order for his magical powers to grow in safe surroundings. Find out how Storm helps Freya, Kirsten and a host of other lucky little girls in these fun-filled adventures from Sue Bentley, the popular author of the Magic Kitten series.