New Books

Synopsis Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was ...

Synopsis The Great Philosophers Series : No' 5. A short book combining extracts from the work of one of the world's greatest thinkers combined wi...

Synopsis Full Title : The Science of sleep, work, diet, rest, love, exercise, living. Subtitled : 219 Reasons To Rethink Your Daily Routine. A Su...

Synopsis Record-breaking Million Copy Bestseller. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Book of the Year 2021. The first b...

Synopsis  Award winning Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up toge...

Synopsis After the Sickness has killed off her parents, and the bombs have fallen on the last safe cities, Monster emerges from the Arctic vault ...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller & Radio 4 Book of The Week. Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated ...

Synopsis An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century’s primary chroniclers of the African American experience. Is who we are really ...

Synopsis In 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, li...

Synopsis The Collins Nature Guides are comprehensive, indexed and photographically illustrated reference books that are perfect for any lover of na...

Synopsis The Mirror & The Light is a historical novel by English writer Hilary Mantel. Following Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012...

Synopsis Updated Edition. Authors : Storm Dunlop & Wil Tirion. Star charts to help the beginner identify all of the constellations. Everythin...

Synopsis The Collins Nature Guides are comprehensive, indexed and photographically illustrated reference books that are perfect for any lover of ...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Women's Prize For Fiction 2021. As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana t...

Synopsis Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2021. Winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2020. Winner of the Women's Pr...

Synopsis These forty walks in England's glorious Lake District will take you to a range of lakes, peaks, rivers, tarns and waterfalls and introduce...

Synopsis The Peak District is an upland area at the southern end of the Pennines and includes parts of Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshir...

Synopsis "Breathes there the man with soul so dead. Who never to himself hath said. This is my own, my native land." - Sir Walter Scott. Containing...

Synopsis A follow-up to The Scottish Bothy Bible (50,000 copies sold) this photo travel guide this walking companion will share 28 of the best both...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2021. Between life and death there is a library, and within that library,...

Synopsis A hairy mammoth takes a cheeky little baby on a thrilling ride through a moonlit landscape populated by a sabre-toothed tiger, a leaping h...

Synopsis A brilliantly funny story all about celebrating difference, from the stellar picture-book partnership of Julia Donaldson and David Roberts...

Synopsis Room on The Broom is a British children's story book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which tel...

Synopsis The Snail and the Whale is a 2003 children's picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. It won the 2004 Ea...

Synopsis ''Wise old man, won't you help me, please? My house is a squash and squeeze.'' What can you do if your house is too small? The wise old ...

Synopsis Julia Donaldson's trademark rhyming text and Axel Scheffler's brilliant, characterful illustrations create this funny and adorable seque...

Synopsis "A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good." Walk further into the deep dark wood,...

Synopsis A clever and funny ode to reading and books from the creators of The Gruffalo. Charlie Cook is reading a book about a pirate captain, wh...

Synopsis George wished he wasn't the scruffiest giant in town. So when he sees a new shop selling giant-sized clothes, he decides it's time for a...

Synopsis Winner of the Booker Prize 2020. Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2020. The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2020....

Synopsis Text by Hamish Coghill. Part of the range of Scottish Guides from Lomond, this compact yet comprehensive guide to Edinburgh is a must-ha...

Synopsis Text by Ian Mitchell. Part of the range of Scottish Guides from Lomond, this compact yet comprehensive guide to Glasgow is a must-have f...

Synopsis Young children will enjoy following Alan Baker's inquisitive little rabbits as they make new discoveries. Simple scenes involving sortin...

Synopsis Young children will enjoy following Alan Baker's inquisitive little rabbits as they make new discoveries. Simple and playful artwork gro...

Synopsis Author : Halge Hofmann The Collins Nature Guides are comprehensive, indexed and photographically illustrated reference books that are pe...

Synopsis Albie's visit to the library quickly turns into an amazing adventure when he makes a new knightly friend amongst the bookshelves. The br...

Synopsis Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for May 2020. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020. Told with Ann Patchett's inimitabl...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home and l...

Synopsis Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, Seasonal, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, a...

Synopsis After the Second World War, cars in Britain were very hard to come by. Most new models had to go for export or were reserved for those dri...

Synopsis Through the foggy streets of Victorian London to the deepest countryside, Sherlock Holmes uses his unique powers of deduction in eight thr...

Synopsis Black Beauty is a handsome, sweet-tempered colt with a strong spirit. As a young colt he is free to gallop in the fresh green meadows with...

Synopsis Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magi...

Synopsis The multi-million copy bestseller. Soon to be a major film. A Number 1 New York Times Bestseller. For years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' h...

Synopsis The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere ...

Synopsis After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansion on the wild English moors. She is lon...

Synopsis Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic child...