The London Porcelain Tray from Galison features a charming illustration of London's landmarks, the Shard, the Eye, St Paul's, Nelson's Column, a red London bus, Union Jack flag and Underground signs in colour on detailed line art background. This tray is a perfect spot to leave keys, jewellery and other trinkets. 6.5 x 5", gold trimmed, gift boxed.

Black and white and red lips all over design, this luxurious address book has Lulu's trademark red edges to the book block, a ribbon marker and 4 die-cut bold design geometric pockets interspersed throughout to hold essentials such as business cards, tickets or receipts. Generous space for three entries per page - name, address, email, home, mobile, work, @Connect (Instagram etc) Striped pagemarker, lips page decoration at header. 10.8 x 15.24cm, 128 pages.

Captain James T. Kirk, Mr Spock, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise are among the images. Send a unique note or greeting to friends, family and fellow Trekkies with this set of pop-up notecards featuring five iconic scenes from Star Trek history. The set includes 10 notecards, each featuring a fun pop-up scene, blank space for your own personalized message and a short description on the back of the card. Includes 2 cards each of 5 designs and10 blank envelopes. Colour printed box.

The magical combination of Dahl and illustrator Blake makes this a winning combination. Inside this big picture book is a bonus envelope packed with Dahl-inspired booklets, games and activity sheets to encourage budding storytellers. Read Mrs Twit's recipe for Bird Pie, become a giant expert with The BFG's Spotter's Guide, and discover Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket. Indulge your love of Roald Dahl's magical, madcap worlds by diving into your favourite stories, retold through letters, photographs, magic books, recipes and newspaper clippings and what inspired Dahl to write his stories. 'In an early first draft, the BFG was described as wearing black trousers tucked into black boots. However, Roald realised that this wasn't the right look, and he sent a pair of his own Norwegian-style sandals to Quentin Blake as inspiration for alternative footwear. The rest is history!' And pictured is a photograph of said footwear, Blake's illustrations, snippets and clippings and photographs and drawings and a whole scrapbook of fantastical foxy features. 80 very large pages, colour. 28.7 x 22.2cm, ages 6-8 years or avid collectors of children's books.

In this exceptional and popular series of Haynes Owners' Workshop Manuals, this volume covers the Bentley 4.5 Litre all models including Blower, giving an insight into the design, engineering, maintenance and ownership of W. O. Bentley's legendary Le Mans winner. Tim Birkin's chase of Rudi Caracciola's Mercedes-Benz at Le Mans in 1930 is one of the most stirring stories in motor racing history. Here top race car engineer Andy Brown has contributed a detailed examination of the car's anatomy, illustrated with original factory drawings and numerous detailed photographs. There are memories from Bentley's leading period drivers and mechanics, and interviews with many involved in preparing and racing these iconic cars today. There is a driver's view and how contemporary drivers felt about the car including the thoughts of Sir Henry Birkin, 'Sammy' Davis and Dr Dudley Benjafield. There is the engineer's view, restoration and historic racing projects and outline histories of the individual cars raced by the factory. But best of all is the superb gallery of images, huge colour photographs, archive images and postcards, workshop and factory images such as Neil Davies' extensive machine shop and a Blower displayed on the Vanden Plas stand at the 1930 Olympian Motor Show, and proud owners like Charles Amherst Villiers reliving old memories. We also discover that it was actually Michael Burne who wrote Full Throttle at the age of 19. Hundreds of colour and other illustrations, 160pp, 21.6 x 28cm.

You won't find a better value for money collection of the very best in tattooing including what's hot and what's new from such luminaries of the art as the Buena Vista Tattoo Club, Adam Collins, Jeff Gogue, Dan Gold, Kari Barba and more. With brief biographies of each tattoo artist, the book showcases over 700 tattoos in full colour by over 80 tattoo artists from the USA, UK, the rest of Europe, Australia and Japan. Body art and tattooing have come a long, long way in the last 20 years and this mammoth book printed on heavyweight black paper does justice to an entire worldwide gallery of colourful designs, images and entire scenes depicted directly on to human skin. Mottos and slogans way beyond LOVE and HATE, here are Samurai warriors, intricate Aztec, flower, animals, Indians, flames, skulls, beautiful women, Celtic crosses and extraordinarily artistic depictions of real people including Jesus with a crown of thorns, babies, Vargas-style girls, dragons and devils. 448 glossy pages, softback. Colour.
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From the Daily Telegraph's Pet Agony Aunt, Celia Haddon is a reputed lover and worshipper of cats with a number of anthologies in their honour. Here her bestselling book is almost an instruction manual for cats on how to deal with their bumbling humans. 'They force their attention on us. This inter-species harassment is abuse. Walk away from it with dignity.' Cats should rub their hair onto every surface in their home to help their humans deal with the fact that they are sadly handicapped by being almost hairless. 'Most humans would starve in the wild. They can't mouse.' 'They ruin meat. Only a small minority, the most sophisticated humans, have the good taste to eat it raw like we do.' A teeny 96 page softback gift book. Illus.

'If you're lucky enough to go to Fontevrault Abbey near Chinon in France, you can pay your respects to Eleanor of Aquitaine, who died in 1204. There is a splendid carving which shows her reading even though she is dead, while her husband King Henry II appears to be lying beside her wondering if he locked the front door.' Here are many amuse-bouches for the mind, a whole year's worth of entertainment to dip into, with quotes from famous authors and a miscellany of history and information beginning with New Year celebrations in Babylon 2300BC, the Chinese New Year, and the poem of the month January by Edith Nesbit. There are resolutions, Dr Elizabeth Blackwell becoming Britain's first woman doctor and Maria Montessori opening her first school. On 5th February 1848 Belle Starr, the notorious American outlaw known as the Bandit Queen, was born. No one was ever charged with her murder. Dandara was an Afro-Brazilian warrior who committed suicide on 6th February 1694. The entries can be a few pages long to a few lines long covering April Fools, fishy festivals, the rules of mullet tossing, revolutionary women, a quick Caesar trivia quiz, National Aviation Day 19th August, the suffragists and politicians. Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for the President of the United States, was born on 23rd September 1838 and the Chinese revolutionary and feminist writer Qiu Jin was born on 8th November 1875. 4th December is the International Day of Banks and the cosmetics empire businesswoman Elizabeth Arden was born on 31st December 1881. Why the Almanac has 2021 on the front you should ask the publisher, because this fun slightly feminist compendium can be dipped into over and over as we enjoy our lovely friend Sandys gentle humour, excellent research and QI facts. 360pp, line art.

Historian Lucy Worsley visits Jane Austen's childhood home, her schools, holiday destinations and houses both grand and small of the relations upon which she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister toward the end of her life. In places like Steventon Parsonage, Godmersham Park, Chawton House, and a small, rented house in Winchester, Worsley discovers a Jane Austen very different from the one who famously lived a 'life without incident'. In this new biography, it is the story of Jane's life which shows us how and why she lived as she did, examining the rooms, spaces and possessions that mattered to her, and the way in which the home is used in her novels to mean a place of both pleasure and a prison. It gives a flavour of the accepted rules and customs of the period and familiar locations such as Bath. There are fascinating snippets of detail like how Jane and her sister wore pattens to protect their shoes from the mud, how Jane received £10 (the equivalent of £900 today) for her first published novel and how her father actively encouraged her writing, bought her a writing desk, created a room in which she could write and approached publishers on her behalf. With all of the television historian's enthusiastic interjections, and two sections of colour plates. 387pp, paperback.

Volume one for beginners to intermediate level designed to give a sense of achievement and most importantly enjoyment. There are eight stories in a variety of exciting genres from science fiction and crime to history and thriller introducing a wide range of new vocabulary including the thousand most frequent words in Italian. It will all help you progress confidently. There are authentic spoken dialogues to help you learn conversational expressions and approve your speaking ability and accessible grammar so that you learn new structures naturally in these carefully curated stories. There is a glossary for bolded words in each text, a bilingual word list, full plot summary and comprehension questions after each chapter. There are tips on how to read effectively and a six-step reading process encouraging us to look at the illustration and read the chapter title and think about what the story might be about without stopping to look up all the words but simply following the plot on your first read through before going back and studying the story and language in more depth. 'Take time to focus on all that you have understood and congratulate yourself.' The first two short stories are titled La Pizza Pazza and La Creatura. 208pp, illustrated paperback in the Teach Yourself popular series.