You look awfully like the Queen: Wit and Wisdom from the House of Windsor
For fans of the ‘Windsors’ and ‘Now we are Sixty’: a beautifully illustrated collection of amusing and affectionate stories from inside the royal family.
Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure
Modern Classics: Book 1
This is what we’ve all been waiting for: Donna Hay’s fresh new two-book series that updates timeless cookery classics and establishes some modern ones. These are the essential handbooks to perfect (or kick off) your cooking talents.
A Horse in the Country: Diary of a Year in the Heart of England
Clive Aslet, editor of Country Life, lived in Pimlico, London SW1 until January 2000. Then he bought a small cottage in the country near where his horse was stabled at Naseby. This is what happened.
Da Gospel According to Ali G
The book the whole of Staines has been waiting for – gansta rapper Ali G’s guide to life.
Spix’s Macaw: The Race to Save the World’s Rarest Bird
An environmental parable for our times – the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the twentieth century.
Rat Pack Confidential
The first biography of the Rat Pack – Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop et al – the original Swingers. Brilliant and beautifully written story of their rise and fall, and their connections with the Kennedys and the Mafia.
Once More, With Feeling: How we tried to make the greatest porn film ever
Vicky and Charlie, twenty-somethings, one the son of a vicar, the other the daughter of a much loved Radio 4 and Times columnist, friends for years but never boyfriend/girlfriend, decide to make a hardcore porn movie.
Twenty-one Dog Years: Doing Time at Amazon.com
A Michael Moore for the Dot.com generation, ‘21 Dog Years’ is Mike Daisey’s wickedly funny story of life in the New Economy trenches.
Thirst
Bestselling food writer Nigel Slater turns his trademark enthusiasm for the pleasures of eating to the pleasures of drinking fresh juices. Packed full of recipes and advice, he celebrates the pleasures to be gained from the ‘nectar of the gods’.
Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World
A narrative history of the men and women who have explored Mars and mapped its surface from afar, and in so doing conditioned our understanding of our nearest planetary neighbour.
The New Shopper’s Guide to Organic Food: Revised edition
The indispensable guide to help people eat better than ever before.
This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland
In an unforgettable tribute to the far latitudes, Gretel Ehrlich travels across Greenland, the largest island on earth.
Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
When Christopher Ross put on a hi-visibility vest and joined London Underground as a station assistant, he discovered a Plato’s cave of reflection and human comedy, populated by streakers, buskers, onanists and angry commuters. A meditation on life, a philosophical enquiry into human nature and a profoundly funny dissection of urban madness.
The Promised Land: Travels in Search of the Perfect E
Classic travel quest – the pursuit of happiness – explored by a brilliant writer seeking to rediscover the idyllic moment of her student years, its carefree rhapsodies and perfect pleasures.
Da Gospel According to Ali G
The book the whole of Staines has been waiting for – gansta rapper Ali G’s guide to life.
TV Go Home
Based on Britain’s most popular comedy website, TV GO HOME is a spoof listings magazine that does for the Radio Times what The Onion did for newspapers. Savage, satirical, surreal, and frequently incredibly stupid, this book will make you laugh out loud.