Join Milly-Molly-Mandy as she rescues a baby hedgehog, has a tea party, looks after a baby, goes motoring, goes on an expedition, helps to thatch a roof, writes letters, learns to ride, makes a garden, camps out and goes carol singing among the 12 delightfully charming stories about the once upon a time little girl in the candy-striped dress. All great nostalgic fun, collect all five in the series. 192pp, paperback. Ages 4-8, large print and line art.

Whether you believe in one god, many gods, or no god at all, this is a book to challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives. Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions and here she takes on a subject even more immense - God, writ large. In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, he narrates the history of religion as one long and remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. This innate desire to humanise God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. But we bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature - our compassion and thirst for justice - but all that is bad in it - greed, bigotry, violence. All the qualities inform our religions, cultures and governments and more than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanising impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Chapters include Adam and Eve in Eden, The Lord of the Beasts, The Face in the Tree, Spears into Ploughs, Lofty Persons and The High God. The book is an appeal to stop foisting our human compulsions upon the divine and in that truth lies the key to a more mature, more peaceful and more primal form of spirituality. 300pp, illus. Remainder mark.

Join Milly-Molly-Mandy as she goes excavating, learns to ride a horse and cooks her very own toffee, has American visitors, runs an errand and finds a parcel. Nine short chapters for young readers aged 4-8 with illustrations. 116 page paperback.

Join Milly-Molly-Mandy as she goes to the blacksmith's wedding, takes care of Dum-dum the Duck, has a new dress, finds a train, discovers a surprise plant, and even goes sledging in the snow. Whatever she's up to you're sure to have fun with Milly-Molly-Mandy and her best friends Little-Friend-Susan and Billy Blunt. 170pp, paperback. Ages 4-8, large print and line art.

Milly-Molly-Mandy is always ready for an adventure and here she takes her first ever trip to the seaside, gets stuck in a tree, makes some new friends, gets up early, goes to a concert, has her photo taken, goes to the pictures, goes for a picnic, gets locked in, sees her mother go away, finds a nest and more. 188pp, paperback. Ages 4-8, large print and line art.

With a padded cover and appealing watercolour and line art illustrations here is a special storybook to relax little children's minds and bodies and sooth their brain's chemical response to anxiety. When young children have bad dreams their whole routine and yours may become troubled. Resisting bedtime can be tricky and the book is designed to harness a child's imagination to work through a psychological grounding technique of being in the moment and understanding that they are safe. It encourages resilience and belief in their own strength to cope with bad dreams and by reading the book together your child will feel listened to and understood and safe and realise that you can resolve worries together. 'Little Knight, you are bold as the brave knights of old, but I have a secret for you. Though the stories don't tell, knights had bad dreams as well, and they couldn't sleep sometimes, too. Those knights, they were strong, they faced dragons all day long...' Pink, red, orange and blue, dragons peep out from behind trees and breath fire on the little male and female Knight characters, sometimes three or four to a page across starry skies and into the bedroom where there is the cat, the bookcase and comfy quilt. Count one, two, three sounds far and near. 'Or a place you can hide, and shut out the outside, with someone who loves you so much.' 26 pages, 20cm square, apologies for sticker, designed for ages 3-6 years.

The book asks who was John Lewis? Born into poverty, he was orphaned at the age of seven when his father died in a Somerset workhouse. Dreaming of a better life, the young man travelled to London at the start of what would become a retail revolution. From early years as a draper's apprentice, we see how Lewis's first pokey little business opened on Oxford Street in 1864, and expanded as an emerging middle class embraced the department stores as a recreational experience. Award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning captures the toxic relationships that unfolded between Lewis and his two sons Spedan and Oswald, as they collided over the future of their retail empire. Their worst moments included emotional blackmail, face-slapping and a kidnapping, and much litigation between father and both sons. Behind the glass windows and displays of soft furnishings, she reveals the eccentricities of the family whose relationships became blighted by conflicts of epic proportions as their wealth bloomed. Yet the family never broke up, and Spedan's vision of a Partnership model to act as an ethical corrective and foster a community of happier, more productive workers was eventually realised and survives to this day and is now much copied in business as a model. This brilliant group biography has riveting details of this rags-to-riches story and a tempestuous family saga, all unfolding against the dramatic social and political worlds of 19th century London. The book concludes with an assessment of the position John Lewis holds in British sensibilities, and whether John Lewis and institutions like it have a place in our future. She also writes about the 157-year-old commercial enterprise famous for affordable haberdashery, wedding-list glassware, and more recently producing rather cute Christmas TV commercials. 16 pages of photos including colour and one of Spedan's radical new flagship store Peter Jones, now a listed building. Plus colour reproductions of original advertising on the endpapers, 338pp.

'Pioneers of alcohol-based comedy' - The Sunday Times, this pair of award-winning alcohol experts are also historians and write and perform together. Their motto is drink less, drink better, and their almanac is sub-titled 'Adventurous Drinks and Eccentric Tales for Every Day of the Year.' As Aristophanes once said 'Quick, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.' That's just one of 366 (29th February is free) entries in this eclectic, elbow-bending anthology of discerning drinks and fascinating and unusual facts. Other stories include a pair of whisky highballs for 'National Giraffe Day', a South African sparkling wine served at the inauguration of both Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, an Alpine elixir inspired by a chap who eats aeroplanes, and a gin cocktail created in honour of someone who sewed monkey's testicles onto the face of a Frenchman. The pair know that alcohol is a fickle fellow that can flip from faithful friend to fearsome foe in the space of a few sips. The 1st January marks the fact that Bass (of the Pale Ale) Triangle registered the first ever trademark in 1876 and 2nd January the most famous bookseller Erika Roe unclasped her bra and ran on to the rugby pitch while England was playing Australia. The pair are drinking a pint of Naked Ladies from Twickenham Fine Ales, a brewery situated less than a mile from the stadium. The birth of Isaac Newton, the death of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Gibson Flying V guitar patented (1958) is celebrated with a Gibson Martini. For each there is a little potted history plus of course the recipe, ingredients and how best to serve with garnishes, using a cocktail shaker, crushed ice, strainer etc. Firsts include steps on the Moon (communion wine used by Buzz Aldrin) and the first episode of Mad Men released in 2007 celebrating that Don Draper drank - a lot - with Hamm's Beer, an American cult classic, now owned by Coors. 272pp, stylish design.

A brave and ambitious novel set in Ireland and Africa, and a definitive comment on the Ulster struggles written by David Park, born in Belfast in 1953. The explorations of the protagonist's childhood in Donegal are moving. Haunted by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and trapped in a land between the mountains and the sea, Naomi dreams of another life far away from the rainy sands of Donegal. When she moves to work in a refugee camp in the burning heat of Africa, she exchanges the city streets of Belfast for the arid desert. But before she leaves behind the land where she was born, escaping her past is not so easy. A powerful novel about guilt and absolution. 278pp, paperback.

'The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology' is the sub-title of this multiple biography of five women who arrived at the University of Oxford determined to study remote communities a world away from their own. Barbara Freire-Marreco travelled to New Mexico and Arizona in 1910 and 1913. Katherine Routledge voyaged to Easter Island in 1913-16 and to French Polynesia, south of Ecuador to Mangareva 1921-23. Maria Czaplicka journeyed from Paris through Moscow and Minusinsk to Golchikha in Siberia 1914-15. Winifred Blackman travelled from London to Cairo via Venice and Corfu in 1920-39. Beatrice Blackwood took a voyage from Port Said via Columbo, Sydney and through New Caledonia to Papua New Guinea to Melanesia in 1929 and also to the Solomon Islands 1929-30 and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea 1936-38. These are the voyages as mapped in colour on the endpapers and there are 28 further illustrations in the text showing the intrepid travellers taking tea with local officials or in a family group photograph on a rare visit home, travelling in a wicker carriage through Siberia or as students on an Archaeology summer camp. In the unchartered interiors of New Guinea amid uprisings along the Nile and on remote Easter Island, they found new freedoms and bore witness to now-vanished worlds. Through their work they overturned some of the most pernicious myths that dogged their gender, and proved that women could be explorers and scientists too. Yet when they returned to England they found only loss, madness and regret waiting for them. Following the lives of her subjects through women's suffrage, two world wars and into the second half of the 20th century, Larson's masterful biography is a revelatory portrait of a pioneering quintet who went on search of nomadic reindeer-herders who had never before seen a European woman or to work in the pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona or to live in the New Guinea interior with warriors who still made their weapons from wood and stone. Their travels were sensationalised in the press. These five women were not simply adventurers, they were intellectual pioneers, professional anthropologists who set out to study human cultural diversity as part of an academic community. On her return from Siberia, Maria Czaplicka was given a lectureship at Oxford, but she lost her job when the male lecturer she had replaced came home at the end of the war. Routledge married a man who shared her intellectual interests, but when their marriage fell apart, she had no recourse when he secured a High Court order to take control of her formidable assets. Anthropology offered all five women an escape and field work a temporary relief from the strictures of English society and in new cultures an opportunity to negotiate their own identity. 337pp, illus.