Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

"Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth. Choose rotting away, pishing and shiteing yersel in a home, a total fuckin embarrassment tae...

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling; Jonathan Stroud (Introduction by)

For Mowgli movie fans, the must-have companion to The Jungle Book   Children all around the world are fascinated by the animal kingdom, and that's what makes the Just So Stories a perennial classic... Elephants, kangaroos, cats, leopards, and more. This complete volume of Rudyard Kipling's masterpiec...

How Space Works: The Facts Visually Explained

DK

The clearest, most visual guide to space and the Universe for complete beginners to astronomy. Have you ever asked yourself how big the Universe is, how far it is to the nearest star, or what came before the Big Bang? Then this is the book for you. How Space Works shows you the different types of object...

The Story of Art without Men

Katy Hessel

The story of art for our times - one with women at its heart, brought together for the first time by the creator of @thegreatwomenartists How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history?  Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century?  And what is the Baroque anyway? Discover the...