Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Tennyson

Alfred Tong

Alfred de Musset

Alfred de Vigny

Algernon Blackwood (1869 – 1951) was one of the most influential horror writers of the twentieth century. Transcending the boundaries of conventional writing in the genre, his tales are celebrated for their atmospheric descriptions, psychological depth, and their deep interest in phenomena outside of conventional human experience. A lover of nature, his writing is imbued with a mysticism and awe for his surroundings, and much of his work is concerned with the beauty and terror to be found in moutainscapes and dark forests. Blackwood's influence extends beyond horror literature, inspiring authors across various genres and with his evocative storytelling and philosophical insight.

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Ali Abdaal is a doctor, entrepreneur, amateur magician, and the world's most-followed productivity expert. 
 
Ali became intrigued by the science of productivity while juggling the demands of medical training at Cambridge University with building his business. While working as a doctor in the UK's National Health Service, Ali started to document his journey towards living a healthier, happier, more productive life online. In the years since, Ali's evidence-based videos, podcasts and articles about the human mind have reached hundreds of millions of people all around the world. 
 
In 2021, Ali took a break from his medical practice to focus full-time on his work popularising the science of human flourishing and high performance. Here, he reveals everything he has learnt from a decade studying the secrets of feeling better and achieving more.

Ali Abdaal

His Excellency Ali Ibrahim Al-Naimi is the former Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. One of the most powerful economic and political jobs in the world, he held this post from August 1995 to May 2016. 
 
Prior to that he held a wide range of leadership positions in the Kingdom's national oil company, Saudi Aramco. He was the first Saudi national to be named President of the company in 1984 and became the first Saudi CEO in 1988. Al-Naimi joined the company, then called Aramco, as an office boy in 1947. A Bedouin, he was born in the deserts of eastern Arabia in 1935.

Ali Al-Naimi

Ali Campbell

Ali Cronin

After graduating from university with a degree in mental health, Ali Land spent a decade working as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse in hospitals and schools in the UK and Australia. Ali is now a full-time writer and lives in Scotland. Her first novel, Good Me Bad Me, was a Sunday Times bestseller and has been translated into over twenty languages. 
 
Follow Ali on Twitter and Instagram @byAliLand

Ali Land

Ali is a leading expert in spiralizing and launched the world-renowned blog Inspiralized.com.

Ali Maffucci

Ali McDowall is a designer, life coach, and creative mentor with a passion for helping others connect, reflect, and grow. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2008 with a degree in Design for Performance, she worked in the arts until becoming a mother in 2013. Her own journey then led her into coaching, where she now supports fellow creatives through mentoring, vision board workshops, and networking events that centre on open, honest conversation and inspiring panel talks. Ali lives in Bath with her husband and two children.

Ali McDowall

Ali Millar was born and raised in the Scottish Borders, and now lives in England with her husband and four children. She has an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing from Edinburgh Napier University, and has worked as a cultural producer for Summerhall in Edinburgh, for whom she has interviewed dozens of writers including Marina Warner, Rachel Cusk, Emma Jane Unsworth, and Etgar Keret. She has also chaired events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Ali Millar

Ali Pantony is a freelance writer and editor. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, Grazia, BBC Three, Refinery29, Vice, Red and Evening Standard. Almost Adults is her debut novel. 
 
Ali was born in Maidstone, Kent, and lives in North London. You can follow Ali on Twitter and Instagram @alipantony

Ali Pantony

Ali Pye has illustrated more than 30 books, which have been published around the world. She is the author of several picture books, and the 'Harry Stevenson' young fiction series. Ali studied fashion at Central St Martins before taking an MA in illustration at Kingston University. She lives in London with her family, two guinea pigs and the world's greediest spaniel.

Ali Pye

Ali Recanati, the farmer's wife, joined Farmer J with a branding obsession, strong views on pickles and an eye for everything beautiful and bold. Now CMO and co-pilot of the brand, she brings the creative spark and mischief to Farmer J — from breakfast raves to the perfect field tray.

Ali Recanati

Ali Sethi

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962. She is the author of several novels and short story collections including, The Accidental, Hotel World, How to Be Both and the Seasonal Quartet. She has been four times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has won the Goldsmiths Prize, Orwell Prize, Costa Best Novel Award and the Women’s Prize. Ali Smith lives in Cambridge.

Ali Smith

Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent, served on the front lines against Al Qaeda and gained an international reputation as a top counter-terrorism operative and interrogator. He has been profiled in The New Yorker and featured in books, newspaper articles, and documentaries around the globe.

Ali Soufan

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Alia Akkam is former managing editor at both Beverage Media and Hospitality Design magazines, where she remains a frequent contributor and continues to immerse herself in the intricacies of the spirits and hotel worlds. Her interest lies in covering the intersection of food, drink, travel and design, and she has written for outlets including Architectural Digest, Food &amp; Wine and Vogue.

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Alice Albinia

Alice Albinia is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction. Her books include Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River and Cwen, set on an archipelago which comes under female rule, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and Scotland's National Book Awards. Albinia has worked as an editor and journalist, writing for publications including the Guardian, Financial Times and National Geographic. She has taught writing in Orkney for the Islands' Council, at King's College London and the University of Kent.

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Ian Grant

In Growing Great Boys, parenting guru Ian Grant shows how to work with the essential character of boys using understanding and emotional support to raise passionate, hard-working, sensitive, funny, fearless and strong men. 
 
Growing Great Boys is brimming with practical advice on raising sons from the vital preschool years through to the challenge of teenage. With chapters on the roles of mums and dads, and on the special challenges faced by single parents, plus hot tips, quotes and action labs to encourage parents to take a hands-on approach, this book will help you to coach your son to succeed in the game of life.

Growing Great Boys

100s of practical strategies for bringing out the best in your son

Tom Kimble

Most single girls will tell you that meeting and dating men is a minefield. Yet so many relationship books tell girls the things they don't want to hear (why all men are scoundrels) as opposed to what they really want to know - how to navigate that minefield to meet, date and ultimately bag, the man of their dreams. 
 
How to Pull fills that gap in the relationship book market. It's packed with all the essentials from how to hook him with that first look, to dating scenarios, moving in for the kill, playing the texting or email game and what to wear on a first date. What's more, it's written by a man and by allowing girls to understand how an insider thinks, it answers all the questions they agonise over: how long should you wait to return his text, does it pay to seem busy or desired by other men and what does he want his friends to think when they meet you. 
 
How to Pull is a fun, indispensable guide to finding (and keeping) a man that all single girls will be desperate to get their hands on.

How to Pull

A girl's must-have guide to meeting and dating men

Martin Lewis

The Three Most Important Lessons You've Never Been Taught is a survival guide to living in one of the world's most competitive consumer economies.We need to change the way we think about money. This book will start you on the path to beating the system, grabbing the best deals and avoiding being ripped off... and it only takes an hour to read. 
 
- A company 's job is to make money from you; your job is to stop them. 
- Debt isn't bad; bad debt is bad. Learn to tell them apart. 
- Loyalty doesn't pay; become someone whose custom is fought for, not taken for granted. 
 
Consumer campaigner and top TV expert, Martin Lewis, first designed these lessons for a unique TV challenge where he had just one day to turn twelve normal 15-year-olds into Money Saving Experts. Yet this isn't child's play - after the class they went home and saved their parents over £5,000. Now it's time for everyone to learn these golden rules... 
 
(Martin Lewis is donating all his proceeds from this book to the MSE Charity (registered charity no. 1121320).)

The Three Most Important Lessons You've Never Been Taught

Siobhan Mulholland

From the leading publishers of parenting books comes a brand new series of beautifully illustrated and easy-to-follow guides covering all the essential phases of childcare. 
 
When babies cry too much parents can sometimes worry and misunderstand the reasons for the cries. This comprehensive guide offers parents practical and reassuring advice on why their babies cry and how to respond to and reduce their crying. They will learn to understand certain signals and how best to remedy them to soothe their baby. The book also outlines exactly what colic is, common misconceptions about colic and how best to ease it.

Coping with crying and colic

an easy-to-follow guide

Theresa Cheung

Lemon juice is the new cabbage soup of the diet world and a major Hollywood fad; the media is full of stories of stars losing weight on diets in which lemon juice is a key feature. The Lemon Juice Diet is a safe, delicious way to get thin quickly using this most magical and most fashionable of ingredients. Scientifically-proven to work and easy-to-follow, this diet will help you lose those excess pounds and stay in shape for good. 
 
So, what's the secret behind this diet? Lemon juice stimulates the flow of saliva and gastric juice and is an excellent digestive agent. And the health of your digestive system determines how well nutrients get absorbed from your food, how effectively toxins are filtered out and eliminated from your body and how quickly you lose weight. 
 
Lemon juice... 
- When taken regularly first thing in the morning, acts as a tonic to the liver and stimulates it to produce bile making it ready to digest the day's food 
- Helps lower blood sugar and can lower the glycemic impact of any meal 
- Is one of the richest and most concentrated food sources of vitamin C and recent research suggests that people who eat more fresh citrus are more likely to lose weight 
- Contains pectin power creating a satisfying feeling of fullness and preventing nagging hunger 
 
With easy meal plans, eating guidelines and exercise tips, The Lemon Juice Diet will help you to lose weight safely and effortlessly; all you need to do is give life a squeeze.

The Lemon Juice Diet

With a foreword by Dr Marilyn Glenville

Oliver James

There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver James travelled around the world to try and find out why. He discovered how, despite very different cultures and levels of wealth, affluenza is spreading. Cities he visited include Sydney, Singapore, Moscow, Copenhagen, New York and Shanghai, and in each place he interviewed several groups of people in the hope of finding out not only why this is happening, but also how one can increase the strength of one's emotional immune system. He asks: why do so many more people want what they haven't got and want to be someone they're not, despite being richer and freer from traditional restraints? And, in so doing, uncovers the answer to how to reconnect with what really matters and learn to value what you've already got. In other words, how to be successful and stay sane.

Affluenza

Dr John Hunter

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a condition that is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Despite common perceptions, only 50% of cases are related to diet and the causes of the other 50% of cases are rarely examined and sufferers are unable to find suitable treatment. 
 
In this groundbreaking new book, Professor John Hunter reveals how you can solve the causes of your IBS. Using his carefully-constructed questionnaire, find out the reasons for your symptoms then turn to the appropriate chapter to learn how to treat them. Irritable Bowel Solutions also answers all the other questions that might be causing concern, such as: 
 
-What if I don't fit any of the types described? 
-What do probiotics really do and are they helpful? 
-Will my disease always affect me or can I manage it effectively?

Irritable Bowel Solutions

The essential guide to IBS, its causes and treatments

Azmina Govindji

Nina Puddefoot

The Hot Body Plan is different because it's not a diet. It is not about avoiding foods, but about making choices. It's about equipping you with tools and swap lists so that you can choose the food or snack that's right for any occasion. This diet isn't about sitting at a party with a few carrot sticks on your plate, but instead includes hundreds of tempting recipe ideas and snacks, carefully selected for their nutritional and GI benefit. Balanced with savvy psychological advice from Nina, this book will help you to achieve that hot body that is essential for the party season and beyond. 
 
With a host of choices, activity boosters and mental energisers, you can embrace what your body and taste buds dictate and remain guilt-free, whilst being mentally and physically charged.

The Hot Body Plan

Look good...the healthy way

Peter Hill

Christine Hill

For many parents the first few months after a baby's birth can be a time of shock and adjustment as well as personal joy. Fatigue, confusion and feelings of incompetence are as common as the delight and pride which are part of having a baby. 
 
In this friendly, accessible guide, Christine and Peter Hill take over from where other pregnancy books stop and before baby books begin. They provide a vast amount of practical and down-to-earth guidance on: 
- What to expect in hospital and afterwards at home 
- How to cope with persistent crying 
- Dealing with feelings of depression and isolation 
- Looking after yourself as well as your baby 
- How to maintain fulfilling relationships with parents and friends 
- When and when not to return to work. 
 
Drawing on the experiences of over 5,000 mothers - and fathers - with new babies, and now fully updated, this authoritative guide is both reassuring and fun to read.

A Perfect Start

Or coping with the first months of parenthood

Robert E Kowalski

High blood pressure is one of the biggest killers in the UK today: it is a major factor in causing heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease and renal failure. About 3 in every 10 adults in England have high blood pressure. Among people in their 60s, about 6 out of 10 have high blood pressure, and among people in their 70s, 7 out of 10 people have it. 
 
In 8 Weeks to Lower Blood Pressure internationally-respected author Robert Kowalski provides vital information on recognising the risks of high blood pressure and lays out lifestyle advice, heart-friendly exercise programmes and tempting recipes that will help you to reduce your blood pressure in just eight weeks. 
 
Some tips include: 
- Put a heaped teaspoon of potassium into every saucepan of boiling water you use when you are cooking vegetables or pasta or rice 
- Grape seed extract in just one small capsule a day, is sufficient to lower blood pressure by 7 or 8 points. It is just as effective as prescription drugs, without the side effects, is inexpensive and easy to do 
- Even cocoa powder can lower blood pressure by 4-6 points 
 
With special considerations for men, women, children and diabetics, as well as the truth on salt and sodium intake, this book could add years to your life and help you to decrease your prescription drug dosage - or even go without them all together.

8 Weeks to Lower Blood Pressure

Take the pressure off your heart without the use of prescription drugs

Paula Hall

Children of all ages can be devastated by the news that their parents are splitting up. Even those who have been living in a highly conflictual situation are often shocked by their parents' final decision to separate. For most children, separation means major changes to family life and often losing a parent. The long-term impacts of divorce are now widely recognised with increasing chances of problems at school, criminal behaviour, problems in their own relationships and mental illness. 
 
This guide will provide you with clear advice and guidance on how to minimise the impact of your relationship breakdown on your children. Including: 
- An explanation of the age-specific issues that children face when they find out their family is breaking up 
- Professional comment, stories and quotes from children 
- Checklists and case studies 
 
Acknowledging the personal difficulties faced by the adult who has made the decision to leave, as well as the adult who feels they are being abandoned, this sensitive, accessible guide is a must for all parents going through divorce or separation who are concerned for their children.

Help Your Children Cope With Your Divorce

A Relate Guide

Tamar Geller

The Loved Dog is Tamar Geller's revolutionary guide to effective dog-training using the gentlest of methods. Tamar, whose clients include Oprah Winfrey, Ben Affleck and Goldie Hawn, teaches a groundbreaking socialisation technique for training dogs. By strengthening the bond between dog and owner, dogs begin to enjoy listening to commands with no need for aggressive training aids such as verbal or physical reprimands. Using this technique, The Loved Dog shows you how to child-proof your dog and teach him good behaviour. 
 
Tamar's amazing methods have swept across America, changing the way owners train and relate to their canine friends. Tamar believes that loving your dog is the key to its training. In The Loved Dog she shows you how to build this relationship.

The Loved Dog

The Gentle Way to Teach Your Dog Good Manners

Gary Huffnagle

Sarah Wernick

If the thought of bacteria conjures up images of germs that should be avoided at all costs - and certainly not ingested - think again! Some friendly bacteria, called probiotics, are not only beneficial to your health, they're essential. Now one of the leading researchers in the field sheds light on the extraordinary benefits of these natural health superstars. 
 
The Probiotics Revolution is an up-to-the-minute, highly accessible guide to probiotics and the foods and supplements that contain and support them. Discover: 
- The key role of probiotics and prebiotics in restoring healthy balance to our bodies 
- How to use probiotic foods and supplements to prevent and relieve allergies, IBS, yeast infections and much more 
- A step-by-step plan for incorporating probiotics and prebiotics into your diet 
- A complete buyer's guide to probiotic supplements 
- How to introduce probiotics to your family and children 
 
With new evidence to suggest that probiotics may help to fight asthma, cardiovascular disease, breast and colon cancer, autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue and even obesity, this is more than just Yakult - it is the health guide for 2007.

The Probiotics Revolution

Donna Ford

Linda Watson-Brown

The true story of Donna Ford, who between the ages of five and eleven was abused by her stepmother Helen. Labelled 'the bastard', the 'little witch' and 'the evil one'; beaten, isolated and afraid to even look at her own reflection, this beautiful little child was told she was lucky to be the victim of abuse - abuse which began as physical and mental, but progressed to the most appalling sexual attacks. 
 
Despite an horrendous early life, Donna is now a successful artist and mother of three with an enormous enthusiasm and an optimism which completely belies her experiences. 
 
In 2003, Donna watched as her stepmother was found guilty of 'procuring a minor' for sexual abuse and sentenced to two years in prison. 
 
Beautifully written and savagely honest, The Step Child is Donna's story. It is an inspiring tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.

The Step Child

A true story of a broken childhood

Sue Martin

Sue Martin was not three years old when she began life at her first children's home: a home that could at best be described as cold and regimented; at worst, torturous and terrifying. 
 
When her mother abandoned her to the protection of the home, Sue was soon to discover that behind the welcoming doors of this reputedly kind-hearted organisation lay a world steeped in lies, cover-ups, victimisation and abuse. At its heart was Boagey, whose perverse bullying was targeted at Sue. Her attacks quickly progressed from the gratuitous punishment of an innocent child to sordid gratification of her sexual whims. 
 
Sue's story is one of institutional abuse - of physical, mental and emotional torture of the most appalling kind - but it also a story full of joy, humour and many victories - small and large - against her abusers. 
 
Utterly compelling and shockingly revelatory, No Way Home will astound, move and inspire.

No Way Home

The terrifying story of life in a children's home and a little girl's struggle to survive

Napoleon Hill

Unlock the door to your fortune using the secrets revealed in this book. 
 
Based on Andrew Carnegie's famous formula for money-making, Master Key to Riches has been revised for the 21st century. As well as explaining the practical philosophy for success, in this inspiring book Napoleon Hill describes the key that will convert all your past failures into priceless assets and lead you to the attainment of the twelve great riches. 
 
Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of the world's most powerful and wealthy people, this book will show you how to succeed in any walk of life.

Master Key to Riches

The Secret to Making Your Fortune

No women can escape the menopause. Its symptoms often include weight gain, fatigue, hot flushes, mood swings, poor concentration, low libido and joint pain. Research shows that healthy eating, combined with regular exercise and weight management, is one of the best ways of controlling these symptoms. 
 
Based on the latest scientific research, studies of the world's healthiest women, real life stories and expert advice, Theresa Cheung, co-author of the bestselling The PCOS Diet Book, offers a groundbreaking plan for nutritional self-help. 
 
This practical book explains how to use diet as a powerful self-help tool to: 
- Beat symptoms and balance hormones with simple eating plans 
- Protect against osteoporosis, heart disease and cancer 
- Manage weight naturally 
- Boost libido 
- Lose weight and slow down the ageing process

The Menopause Diet

The natural way to beat your symptoms and lose weight

Charles Clark

Maureen Clark

To lose weight quickly, easily and permanently, you don't need... 
- superhuman willpower 
- endless hours to prepare complex low-calorie recipes 
- to live on cottage cheese and lettuce 
 
By following this medically-based, yet amazingly accessible diet you will soon program your body to burn fat without ever having to go hungry. The diet is low-carb, but by no means no-carb, and will enable you to: 
- control your appetite 
- eliminate cravings 
- eat delicious foods 
- help protect against heart disease and diabetes 
 
The New High Protein Diet is packed with hundreds of delicious, easy recipes and is for anyone who loves good food, but craves a slimmer waistline!

The New High Protein Diet

Lose weight quickly, easily and permanently

Craig Hamilton-Parker

Most of us have had psychic experiences at one time or another; we may find a new place strangely familiar, finish other people's sentences or sense a definite positive or negative feeling about a house. Almost everyone has some latent psychic ability. 
 
The Psychic Handbook provides a fun, entertaining way to develop your psychic power. Craig Hamilton-Parker takes you step-by-step through skills such as mediumship, prophesy, psychometry, dream analysis, dowsing, numerology and clairvoyance. He also shows how you can learn to meditate in order to liberate the intuition that is the basis of all psychic ability, and find out about crystals and how they can have a beneficial effect on your life. 
 
Packed with information, experiments and games, including special cards developed by scientists to test your telepathic skills, The Psychic Handbook will show how you can explore an undiscovered part of your personality and unlock your psychic potential.

The Psychic Handbook

Discover and Enhance Your Hidden Psychic Powers

Mathilde Monaque

Mathilde Monaque developed severe depression when she was just 14. The eldest in a family of six and an exceptionally bright and gifted little girl, the discovery shook her family to the core. 
 
Trouble in My Head is Mathilde's tender and illuminating account of her struggle to surface from a disease that could have taken her life. With remarkable sensitivity and lucidity she describes her experience of depression, her days in the teenage hospital and her battle to conquer the disease. 
 
Mathilde's perspective as a sufferer of teenage depression is unique. Unlike adult depression which involves feelings of guilt, Mathilde describes teenage depression as a breaking down of certainties, the fear of being oneself, the fear of not loving and of not being loved. Adults and teenagers alike will find inspiration and insight in her touching and remarkable account.

Trouble in My Head

A Young Girl's Fight with Depression

Christopher Green

First there was the Toddler Taming phenomenon - now this is the sequel every parent has been waiting for... 
 
Dr Christopher Green has written Beyond Toddlerdom for all those parents in need of calm and wise advice on parenting the 5-12 year age group. The 5-12s have to face a number of developmental hurdles. They become aware of the world outside the home. They will start school, make friends, take up hobbies and develop personal interests. They may move house, may live through a parental divorce, and will develop personality patterns that will stay with them for life. It is an important time. 
 
Writing with his usual humourous, practical and down-to earth style, Chris Green draws on his many years of expertise as a paediatrician, father and grandfather to enable parents to understand their child's needs and development during their pre-teen years. He takes full account of all the physical, psychological and sociological influences that are of importance during this time - and helps parents to make appropriate decisions about everything from friends to homework, sibling rivalry to positive discipline. 
 
Beyond Toddlerdom is the ideal companion to Chris Green's Toddler Taming 'bible' and is a must for every parent.

Beyond Toddlerdom

Keeping five- to twelve-year-olds on the rails

Gillian Riley

Everyone knows how bad smoking is for them: about half of all regular cigarette smokers will be killed by their habit, but they just can't seem to give up. If you're really serious about giving up smoking then this is the book that will not only help you to stop, but to stay stopped for good. 
 
Gillian Riley's techniques allow you to understand your nicotine addiction, take control and break your smoking habit. There is a step-by-step giving up programme that is easy to follow and really works. Even in stressful situations, or when boredom sets in, you'll soon realise that even though the freedom and opportunity to smoke is there, you have chosen not to. 
 
How to Stop Smoking and Stay Stopped for Good will even help you to give up smoking without gaining weight.

How To Stop Smoking And Stay Stopped For Good

fully revised and updated

Naomi Moriyama

William Doyle

In Japan, people live longer than anywhere else on Earth; obesity is virtually unknown, and 40-year-old women look like they're 20. The secret: Japanese homestyle cooking, and an approach to eating that is not about self-deprivation, but about celebrating and savouring food. 
 
Raised in Tokyo and on her grandparents' mountainside farm, author Naomi Moriyama first travelled to the West as a college student, and promptly gained 25 pounds eating an American diet. Returning home for the holidays, she found that the weight melted off as she returned to the healthy, soulful food of her mother's tiny kitchen: satisfying soups, fresh vegetables, delicate grilled fish; mouthwatering meals that never left her feeling hungry. 
 
Filled with delicious healthy recipes and evocative reminiscences, this book is for all those who are tired of counting calories and carbs, and finding themselves on diets that don't work. Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat offers a delightfully fresh and easy approach to weight loss and promises readers a healthier, slimmer, and longer lifestyle.

Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat

Delicious slimming and anti-ageing secrets

Edward de Bono

Everybody wants to be creative. Creativity makes life more fun, more interesting and more full of achievement, but too many people believe that creativity is something you are born with and cannot be learned. 
 
In How to Have Creative Ideas Edward de Bono - the leading authority on creative thinking - outlines 62 different games and exercises, built around random words chosen from a list, to help encourage creativity and lateral thinking. For example, if the task were to provide an idea for a new restaurant and the random word chosen was 'cloak', ideas generated might be: a highwayman theme; a Venetian theme with gondolas; masked waiters and waitresses. Or, if asked to make a connection between the two random words 'desk' and 'shorts', readers may come up with: both are functional; desks have 'knee holes' and shorts expose the knees; traditionally they were both male-associated items. 
 
All the exercises are simple, practical and fun, and can be done by anyone.

How to Have Creative Ideas

62 exercises to develop the mind

Dale Carnegie

Drawing on Dale Carnegie's years of experience as a business trainer this book will show you how to overcome the natural fear of public speaking, to become a successful speaker and even learn to enjoy it. 
 
His invaluable advice includes ways to: 
- Develop poise 
- Gain self-confidence 
- Improve your memory 
- Make your meaning clear 
- Begin and end a presentation effectively 
- Interest and charm your audience 
- Improve your diction 
- Win an argument without making enemies

How To Develop Self-Confidence

Life is very much what we make it, and since most of us spend the greater part of our lives at work, it follows that we should be making the best of our working lives. This book demonstrates that anyone can achieve greater satisfaction in both their home life and their job by learning to integrate business, social and personal fulfilment. 
 
It includes: 
- Seven ways to peace and happiness 
- Fundamental techniques for handling people 
- Ways to win people to your way of thinking 
- Ways to change people without giving offence or arousing resentment 
 
Dale Carnegie isolates and explores the feelings of harmony, excitement and purpose that will enable us to transcend boredom, frustration and fatigue - making the best of our inner resources and realising our full potential.

How To Enjoy Your Life And Job

Worry affects everyone and descends with ease upon work, money, family life and relationships. This book offers practical strategies for breaking out of this destructive habit, before it breaks you. 
 
Dale Carnegie shows how worry has been conquered by thousands, some famous, but most just ordinary people, and offers practical suggestions for leading a more positive and enjoyable life. Worry-free tips include: 
- Fundamental facts you should know about worry 
- A magic formula for solving worry situations 
- How to eliminate fifty per cent of your business worries 
- Seven ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness 
- How to keep from worrying about criticism 
- Six ways to prevent fatigue and worry 
- Personal tips from those who have conquered worry 
 
Try his methods today and this book could change the way of your future.

How To Stop Worrying And Start Living

Good public speakers are made, not born - or so thinks Dale Carnegie, the pioneer of personal business skills. Yet business, social and personal satisfaction depend heavily upon a person's ability to communicate clearly. Public speaking is an important skill which anyone can acquire and develop. It is also the very best method of overcoming self-consciousness and building confidence, courage and enthusiasm. This classic, well established title has been called 'the most brilliant book of its kind'. It takes you step by step through: 
 
-Acquiring basic public speaking skills 
-Building confidence 
-Speaking effectively the quick and easy way 
-Earning the right to talk 
-Vitalising your talk 
-Sharing the talk with the audience as well as organisation and presentation skills

The Quick And Easy Way To Effective Speaking

Chantal Sicile-Kira

Adolescence can be a difficult time for everyone, but for parents of teens on the autism spectrum it's particularly nerve-wracking. Parents must learn to protect their children from the dangers of an environment that is not always understanding of their disease while also providing them with the skills and support they need to live as independent a life as possible. 
 
Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum offers strategies for helping children, whatever their ability level, through the changes of the teenage years, and prepares them for adulthood. Using clear examples, practical advice, and supportive insights, it covers how to help teenagers understand puberty and hygiene; the specific health risks of adolescence such as seizures and depression; preparing for life after secondary school; and teenage emotions, sexuality, appropriate relationships and dating.

Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum

Foreword by Charlotte Moore

Marci Shimoff

Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

Jennifer Read Hawthorne

These heartening short stories celebrate the defining moments of motherhood - from birth to letting go as your children leave the family home. Stories of courage, sacrifice, laughter and love will make you laugh and cry and will appeal to mothers of all ages - from the mother-to-be to the revered grandmother.

Chicken Soup For The Mother's Soul

101 Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Mothers

Set in the turbulent eighteenth century, Lord John is the lonely, tormented and courageous English officer first seen in the Outlander novels. He is a man who fights for the crown, his honour and his own secrets.

Lord John Grey

Lore Olympus

Lorien Legacies Reborn

Lost Boys

Lost Soul Series

Lottie

Lottie Brooks

Love & Hockey

Meet Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and member of 15th century Rome's most notorious family. Scandal and tragedy follow her everywhere as she struggles to choose between love and loyalty.

Lucrezia Borgia

Lucy and Tom

MOOMIN

Mabel Jones

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Trilogy

Maeve Kerrigan Series

Magic Bunny

Magic Ex Libris

Irresistibly cute stories of animal magic, perfect for children who are ready to enjoy chapters books on their own.

Magic Kitten

Magic Kitten Duos

Magic Ponies

Magic Puppy

Magic Reindeer

Magic Tree House

Magical Colouring Books

Magnolia Springs

A thrilling adventure series featuring the gods and monsters of Norse mythology - from the creator of Percy Jackson.

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