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Rutherford and Fry’s Complete Guide The complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it - skipping over some of the boring parts. This is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos, the strangeness of humans and the fact that amid all the mess, we can somehow make sense of life. HB, 304pp. Ref. E189217 £16.99
Slimming World’s Best-Ever Recipes Drawing on 40 years of experience and packed with nutritional, lifestyle and diet information, as well as more than 120 new, healthy yet delicious recipes, Slimming World’s best ever recipes is the definitive guide to successful - and enjoyable - weight loss. HB, 208pp. Ref. E184219 £18.99
Pam Ayres on Animals A collection of Pam’s poetry over the last five decades featuring delightful tales of our British wildlife from ‘I’m a Starling, Me Darling’ and the difficulties of keeping farm animals in ‘Fleeced’, to her hilarious observations of our pets in ‘Ode to a Jack Russell’. HB, 216pp Ref. E189216 £16.99
Calling WPC Crockford In 1951, at the age of 21, Gwendoline Crockford was accepted as a Woman Police Constable into the Berkshire Constabulary. This memoir reveals not just the life of a pioneering female police constable but a now barely-remembered world of post-war austerity and a society on the brink of enormous change. PB, 352pp. Ref. E189293 £8.99
Churchill’s Flawed Decisions One of the most respected and best-loved characters the nation has ever known, based on his leadership during the bleak and dire times of the Second World War. If it wasn’t for him, Britain would almost definitely have lost the war. Yet there was another side to Churchill that is not often spoken of, and one that led to him making some questionable decisions. HB, 192pp. Ref. E184220 £19.99
Dead Men Don’t Tell Tales Guy Martin is a doer, not a talker. From racing across Arizona on a mountain bike to trying to reach 300mph on the motorbike he built in his shed, his latest book on the last four years of his life makes the rest of us look like we’re in slow motion. HB, 320pp. Ref. E189220 £20.00
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm Faced with suffocating red tape, biblical weather, local objections, a global pandemic and his own frankly staggering ignorance of how to ‘do farming’, Jeremy soon realises that turning the farm around is going to take more than splashing out on a massive tractor. Fortunately, there’s help at hand. HB, 224pp. Ref. E189222 £16.99
A Life on the Lines: The Grand Old Man of Steam From 1944 through to the early 1960s, Richard Hardy took hundreds of pictures of life on the railways.This carefully collated selection of personal photographs, ephemera, artworks and photographs drawn from the National Railway Museum tells the stories of the great brotherhood of railwaymen, brilliantly conjuring up the speed, heat and dust of the footplate. HB, 192pp. Ref. E185186 £16.99
