To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall we bring you a sweeping family saga by Anne Richter, who grew up in East Germany and was sixteen in 1989 when the Wall fell.

Distant Signs is an intimate portrait of two families spanning three generations amidst turbulent political change, behind and beyond the Berlin Wall. In 1960s East Germany...

• A great way to introduce 8-12 year-old children to the importance of wildlife conservation through 45 beautifully illustrated stories. • Amusing and fun, yet with an important message of conservation as a foundation. • Written by a conservation expert with decades of experience. • Tigeropolis is inspired by the author’s first sighting of a tiger in...

Nobody is a bigger fan of actor Thomas Cassidy than Libby. Nobody. That's why she's totally going to marry him.

She’s going to write a novel, name the main character after Thom, and find a way to get it to him. Intrigued and flattered, he will read it, fall in love with her prose, and ask to turn it into a movie. She will pretend to think about it, then say:...

Since the first edition of Hope with Eating Disorders was published in 2012, eating disorders have become more widely recognised and treatments have progressed, as have attitudes to this most dangerous of mental health problems. In this second edition, which maintains Lynn Crilly's warm, non-judgemental, family-friendly approach, the more recently...

Type-2 diabetes doesn't have to be a lifelong condition; for many people, especially those who have been recently diagnosed, it's possible to reverse the symptoms of this malignant disease. But how can that be done? In 2017 the author, inspired by results obtained from research done at Newcastle University, UK, decided to try and kick the disease by...

Prepare to shop for gemstones and jewellery on your next holiday Going on holiday and fancy buying a piece of jewellery? Are you planning on making a romantic gesture, but your lack of knowledge makes you uneasy about parting with your hard-earned cash? What should you look out for? How do you know it's real? How do you bring it home safely? This handy...

Buying a fake can be a costly mistake!

Heading off on your next holiday adventure and considering buying a keepsake memento? Want to know how to buy a beautiful gemstone in your destination country without getting ripped off? Thinking of proposing on holiday and want to buy the engagement ring together out there? Interested in the idea of gemmology and...

Add some sparkle to your next adventure… learn how to buy gemstones with expert help! This pocket travel guide is part of the ‘Gemstone Detective’ series, created for those planning a trip to the vibrant country of Thailand.

Known as the ‘Land of Smiles’, Thailand is famous for its exquisite gemstones and jewellery.

Written by Kim Rix, a gemmologist (GIA)...

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It is generally believed that infection is a killer of the past. Right?

Wrong - research now shows that our big killers, from cancers and coronaries to dementia and diabetes are largely infection-driven. Indeed, it is difficult to find a pathology that does not...

As a health scientist and `expert patient' who has spent more than 20 years researching IBD and whose work has changed the way IBD is managed in clinics worldwide, Dr Mikocka-Walnus is ideally placed to bring all the latest research findings and clinical experience together in a truly up-to-date, evidence-based guide for people with an IBD diagnosis and...

OCD is all too often trivialized, misdiagnosed and woefully misunderstood, but for sufferers it can be completely debilitating and for their carers, life shattering, keeping them all slaves to the sufferer’s anxieties. Award-winning counsellor and author, Lynn Crilly, puts the many myths surrounding OCD under the...

Considering everything from hormones to Homer Simpson, from parental leave to the pay gap, Dads Don't Babysit asks why fathers are sometimes unwilling, but more often unable to share the pleasures of parenting.

More and more men want a bigger role in their family bringing up baby, hanging out with their kids. Yet it's not happening. At home and in the...

Clarry Pennhaligan, low on ambition but high on energy, can’t seem to come up with a proper grown-up plan to kick-start her life. Planning really isn’t her thing. But then she happens upon her true vocation: Snooping. Discovering other people’s secrets and getting paid for it. What could possibly go wrong? Well……as it turns out, just about everything...

The Brice Method aims to show people with COPD how to recognise and overcome some of the most the common issues that can make breathing so challenging. The Method teaches you: how to listen to your body, and how your posture plays a pivotal role in how you breathe; new breathing techniques that show you how to avoid severe breathlessness, so you can take...

“An empowering book helping women look inward so that they no longer attract narcissists.”

Narcissism – the label is used everywhere – but it’s widely misused to describe anyone who offends us. The synonyms of narcissism include conceit, egoism, self-admiration, self-obsession, vanity and ‘self, self, self’ as an obvious reoccurring theme.

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With mental health increasingly in the spotlight, this book offers a new perspective on anxiety. The focus of this book is on the application of psychological alchemical practice to address, explore, and examine the nature and cause of anxiety in order to tackle and overcome it. Scientific, artistic, and spiritual understanding, together with practical...

From a darkened world, bound by four walls, a young woman called Jessica tells the tale of her battle against the M.E Monster. The severest form of a neuro immune disease called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis went to war with her at just 15 years old. From beneath her dark glasses, Jessica glimpses a world far different from the one she remembers as a teenage...

A tale of a gay love triangle, bankruptcy and fraud, murder and death…all set in the well-to-do West London world of au pairs and nannies, classical music and piano concertos, jaunts to the countryside and Royal connections…

In the Fast Lane is a story for those of us trying...

The MANScript is the ultimate guide to surviving and thriving after infidelity by Julia Keys (ex-wife of TV presenter Richard Keys) and Jacqui Coles. There is a script to infidelity, it's repeated time and time again, and this book will help you identify that script....and more. This is NOT a man-bashing book, the aim is to help those who have been cheated...

The magnificent new coming-of-age novel by Dr Nat Tanoh that shines a light on what it's really like growing up in Africa. The Day of the Orphan tells the story of what unfolds when a chubby kid from a charmed background becomes the reluctant revolutionary his country so desperately needs. Can one happy-go-lucky...