Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Roy

Alexander Shannon

Alexander Sinclair

Alexander Slater is an author and illustrator from London who loves stories with big ideas and bigger heart. He holds a First Class degree in Graphic Design and Illustration from the University of Hertfordshire and has earned several awards in design and cartooning. When he’s not doodling or daydreaming, he can be found cooking, walking his adorable cockapoo, Bailey, or entertaining his millions of followers on his TikTok account @AlexRabbit

Alexander Slater

Alexander Soderberg previously worked as a scriptwriter and story editor for Swedish television, where he worked on adaptations of well-known crime novels as well as drama and sitcoms.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Stille

Alexander Watson is the author of the prize-winning history of the Central Powers in the First World War, Ring of Steel. He is Professor of History at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Alexander Watson

In his lifetime Alexander von Humboldt was a major international celebrity - only Napoleon, it was said, was more well-known. He was born into the Prussian nobility in 1769 and destined for a career in the civil service. In his twenties he combined his position in the Ministry of Mines with his own investigative studies in science, geology and botany. He travelled around Europe, meeting many other adventurers of his age - including Bligh, Banks and Bougainville – and spent many stimulating months with Goethe in Weimar and Jena. He inherited a fortune on the death of his mother and immediately began planning a major expedition. Napoleon's activities thwarted him at every turn, but he succeeded, rather surprisingly, to gain the permission of Carlos IV to visit the Spanish colonies in South America, and set off with the French botanist Aimé Bonpland and many boxes full of scientific instruments, dodging British warships en route. These five extraordinary years of exploration and research gave Humboldt material for a lifetime's writing. But the expenses of publication exhausted his funds and after more than twenty years living in Paris he was obliged to return to Prussia as a chamberlain at the court of Friedrich Wilhelm III. It was hardly to his taste. He did manage one more major expedition across Russia, when he was sixty years old. Tirelessly energetic, he never stopped working and writing. He was mourned worldwide when he died at the age of nearly ninety in 1859.

Alexander von Humboldt

Alexandr Sergeyevitch Pushkin

Alexandra Bell studied Law at university and signed her first book deal at nineteen. Since then, she has written multiple books for both adults and young people. She works at a legal advice charity and lives in Hampshire with her husband, sons, and Sphynx cats.

Alexandra Bell

Allie Brosh has enjoyed writing ever since her mother tricked her into writing a story to distract her from her immediate goal of wrapping the cat in duct-tape.  She started her award-winning blog in 2009.  Brosh lives in Bend, Oregon, with her husband Duncan, her two dogs, and six pet rats. Visit HyperboleAndAHalf.blogspot.com.

Alexandra Brosh

Alexandra Bruce

Alexandra Chesterfield is a behavioural scientist with a master's degree in Cognitive and Decision Science. Forever curious about why we do what we do, she currently works in financial services, leading a team of behavioural scientists to help get better outcomes for employees and customers. For four years, she was an elected Councillor in Guildford for the Conservative Party. She has personally experienced the effects of affective polarisation, both in and out of the workplace.

Alexandra Chesterfield

Alexandra Christo is a British author whose characters are always funnier and far more deadly than she is. She studied Creative Writing at university and graduated with the desire to never stop letting her imagination run wild. She currently lives in Hertfordshire with a rapidly growing garden and a never-ending stack of books. Her debut novel To Kill a Kingdom is an international bestseller and her Young Adult fantasy books have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide.

Alexandra Christo-Cheung

Alexandra Coghlan is a music journalist and critic. She has written for publications including the Spectator, New Statesman, the Independent, Gramophone and Opera magazines, and for ensembles including the BBC Proms, Salzburg Festival, The Academy of Ancient Music and The Sixteen. Alexandra was a choral scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and it was during her time there that she first discovered the beauty of King's College Chapel and the unique sound of the King's College Choir.

Alexandra Coghlan

Alexandra Dudley is a food writer and cook living in London. She is the recipe columnist for Sheerluxe, writer of the bestselling Substack newsletter Come For Supper, and host of the Come For Supper podcast. She has been dubbed a serial dinner party host but believes that the best food is usually simple and cooked at home. She prefers home cooking to restaurant food and believes that the cook should always get the first glass of champagne or slice of pudding.

Alexandra Dudley

Alexandra Fuller is the author of four memoirs, including Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-Fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize – and the New York Times-bestselling Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, two books of non-fiction, and the novel Quiet Until the Thaw. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian and Financial Times.

Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Heminsley is an author, ghostwriter, journalist, broadcaster and speaker. Her bestselling non-fiction work includes Running Like a Girl and Leap In, and her first novel, Under the Same Stars is to be published in 2022. She lives in Hove with her son, and proudly co-parents her LGBT+ family.

Alexandra Heminsley

Alex Hollingsworth co-founded Dig Club and is an experienced and award-winning garden designer, following a successful career in Management Consultancy. Alex trained with the Garden Design Academy of Ireland and also holds an RHS Level 2 Certificate in Horticulture and has had show gardens at Ireland’s ‘Bloom’ and ‘Gardener’s World Live’ in the UK.

Alexandra Hollingsworth

Alexandra Lapierre

Alexandra Massey

Alexandra McCollum grew up in rural northeast Ohio and now lives in Nevada with their husband and dog. Among other jobs, they’ve worked in a bakery in Austria, managed a coffee shop in Ohio, and taught high school in Las Vegas. When not writing, they can be found studying languages and exploring local coffeehouses in search of the perfect americano.

Alexandra McCollum

A graduate of Yale University, Alexandra Oliva grew up in a small town deep in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School University and undertook intensive wilderness survival training while researching The Last One. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and their brindled mutt, Codex. The Last One is her first novel.

Alexandra Oliva

John Peel was born the day before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. His 38-year career as a radio DJ is the stuff of legend and the bands he went on to discover too numerous to mention, though David Bowie, Roxy Music, T Rex, Genesis, Joy Division, New Order, The Smiths, Radiohead and the White Stripes would do as a start. He lived in Suffolk with his wife Sheila and their children William, Thomas, Alexandra and Florence, plus various dogs and cats, until his death in October 2004.

Alexandra Ravenscroft

Alexandra Shulman

ALEXANDRA SOVERAL founded her award-winning eponymous skin care line in 2005, where she still hand-blends every product. Originally from Portugal, Alexandra moved to London 1987 to study Philosophy of Science, before dedicating her research to Anatomy, Physiology and Chemistry, becoming a respected skin specialist and product formulator for high quality brands.

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C W Randolph

Genie James

If you're a woman over 30, or a man over 40, it could be happening to you! 
 
It's an all-too-common problem when you hit 30: despite your best efforts, you just can't seem to lose the extra weight around your middle. Medical research proves you're not alone - that the average person gains one to two pounds a year after the age of 30, usually around the stomach. 
 
Hormone imbalance specialist, Dr C W Randolph, explains that the real reason behind this problem has less to do with calories and carbs, and everything to do with a little-known but very real medical problem known as 'oestrogen dominance'. 
 
In From Belly Fat to Belly Flat you will learn: 
- How to self-diagnose oestrogen dominance 
- The top ten belly-blasting foods 
- The everyday culprits that impact hormone levels 
- Which vitamins and supplements support and sabotage hormone balance 
 
The result? Within four weeks you'll lose pounds and inches to reveal a flat belly.

From Belly Fat to Belly Flat

The Medically Proven Diet to Reshape Your Body

Richard O'Connor

One of the basic beliefs of contemporary society has been that increasing prosperity and comfort will automatically lead to greater happiness. But we now have the data to prove that it's just not so... 
 
Happiness: The Thinking Person's Guide teaches you how to be happier by exploring the science of happiness in human beings and revealing why we feel joy and sorrow when it often makes more sense to feel the opposite.Did you know that survival instincts left over from caveman days make us want things that are no longer good for us? Ever wondered why men tend to seek power and status and women worry about their physical appearance? Answering these questions and many more Richard O'Connor explains why we feel the way we do and trains us to: 
 
- Develop core skills that we need to feel happiness today 
- Fight the 'I see, I want' elements in ourselves that lead to unhappiness 
- Manipulate dissatisfaction to change the way we view life 
- Distinguish between second-rate desire and true happiness 
 
Using self-assessment exercises combined with fascinating science this practical self-help guide will teach you how to rewire your brain to feel more joy; it's simply a learning process.

Happiness

The Thinking Person's Guide

Sarah Key

Whether you suffer from aches, pains and creaky joints, or you simply feel old beyond your years, Keep Your Joints Young will help you achieve a better body and a healthier life. 
 
Sarah Key, a renowned physiotherapist and bestselling author, shows you how to keep your skeleton young with a series of stretches designed to combat stiffness and joint pain. 
 
This practical and accessible guide shows you how to: 
- spot the tell-tale warning signs of imminent joint problems 
- take immediate action to reverse the trend 
- exercise to alleviate joint pain and restore full mobility 
 
With stretches to suit all levels of ability and a 30-minute daily regime, Keep Your Joints Young will help you break the bad habits that come with our increasingly sedentary lifestyle.

Keep Your Joints Young

Banish your aches, pains and creaky joints

Stephanie Merritt

'I was nearly twenty before I understood that there was a name for what sometimes happened to me. Later, I learned that it has gone by many names - the black dog, the bell jar, the noonday demon, darkness visible, malignant sadness - but in my teens I'd just assumed that my fierce highs and days of disproportionate, isolating despair were part of every teenager's repertoire - how else would Morrissey have sold so many records? These pitches in mood were something I didn't speak about to anyone, because I was afraid of two things - either that it was nothing serious, and I would be told to pull myself together, or that it was serious, and I would be told that, yes, I was a mental case.' 
 
Stephanie Merritt has a career as a novelist and journalist, a beautiful son and a supportive family. Why then did she want to kill herself at the age of 29? Why could no one, neither the system of GPs and health professionals, nor her closest family and friends help her? 
 
Reading like a hybrid of Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation and Rachel Cusk's more sober A Life's Work, Stephanie's unflinchingly honest memoir explores areas of experience commonly associated with depression such as love, solitude and self-medication through the prism of her own experience. 
 
Beautifully written and intensely honest this is an extraordinarily moving, life-affirming book about a debilitating illness that affects one in six people in the UK alone.

The Devil Within

A Memoir of Depression

Robin Ryan

Whether you're just starting out, moving onwards and upwards, or re-entering the job market, 60 Seconds and You're Hired! provides the quickest route to getting the job and salary you deserve. 
 
Filled with insider's tips from managers and human resource personnel and real-life success stories, it presents sure-fire strategies for success in your next interview, including: 
 
--The best response to the interviewer's questions 
--How to communicate that you are the best person for the job 
--What intelligent, informed questions to ask about the company and position --How to avoid common pitfalls that cause most candidates to fail 
--Negotiating the best salary and benefits package possible 
 
Robin Ryan's proven and easy-to-use techniques are certain to help you find a satisfying place for yourself in today's ever-changing business world.

60 Seconds And You're Hired

Cherie Carter-Scott

Bestselling author, Cherie Carter-Scott gives vital, real-world advice to help you create the level of personal success that we all desire. 
If Succcess is a Game, These are the Rules outlines Cherie's 10 rules for success. She explains that by putting these rules into action we can set the game of success in motion and create more rewarding and fulfilling lives for ourselves. Featuring breakthrough advice and illustrated by heart-warming true stories, this book is destined to encourage and inspire women and men around the world.

If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules

Jenny Woolner

Elizabeth Workman

Dr John Hunter

Many people are unaware that they suffer from food allergies or intolerance. Inexplicable rashes, a persistent runny nose, bloatedness, headaches or pronounced weight gain for no apparent reason, are just some of the symptoms that may indicate a sensitivity to certain types of food. 
 
Now fully revised and updated, The New Allergy Diet is a practical dietary programme devised by one of the country's leading allergy specialists. It has been highly successful in combating a wide range of health problems including: 
 
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome 
- Migraine 
- Asthma and rhinitis 
- Eczema 
- Urticaria 
 
Each food type is systematically excluded from the diet for a period of time, and then gradually reintroduced, with guidelines for monitoring the body's responses. Easy, tried and tested recipes are included which have been carefully designed with taste in mind - but excluding common trigger foods such as wheat, dairy products, yeast and coffee.

The New Allergy Diet

The Step-By-Step Guide to Overcoming Food Intolerance

Mari Winsor

Mark Laska

A wonderful conditioning exercise for women of all shapes and sizes, Pilates is now recognised as one of the best exercise programmes for the pregnant body as well. It offers quite an amazing number of benefits, while being a gentle, low-impact regime. These include:--Improved circulation in the abdomen area (this is unique to Pilates)--Firmer, wider and longer abdominal muscles, which reduce backache during pregnancy and speed recovery post delivery--Faster return to shape after delivery--More effective breathing and increased flexibility for easier deliveryThere are also some great indirect advantages to Pilates during pregnancy. By taking care of your body you will also find yourself taking care of your diet, and even your outlook on life and impending motherhood will benefit. The Pilates Pregnancy is an easy step-by-step guide through all the best exercises for the pregnant body. Illustrated throughout, it offers a wonderful programme that has been developed in California by one of America's leading Pilates teachers and which can now be enjoyed in the comfort of your own home.

The Pilates Pregnancy

A low-impact excercise programme for maintaining strength and flexibility

Stephanie Pierson

Phyllis Cohen

At a time when it's never been more difficult to get from twelve to twenty in one sane, self-confident piece, this book provides explanations, straightforward advice and strategies, even a script, to help parents cope with their daughters' body image problems. This is the truly practical book, Stephanie Pierson looked for in vain when her own daughter developed anorexia and body image problems.   Written with Phyllis Cohen, a psychotherapist with 30 years of experience of adolescent problems, there are chapters on why daughters have negative body images and how mothers can prevent this, staying connected with your daughter, communicating, daughter's viewpoint, sex, developing a realistic sense of self, problems of coloured teenagers, health and nutrition.  It provides the warning signs of depression: changes in sleep patterns, appetite, eating patterns, lethargy, social withdrawal, irritability; and the danger signs: suicidal thoughts, drug or alcohol use, self-mutilation, anorexia and bulimia.

You Have To Say I'm Pretty, You're My Mother

How to Help Your Daughter Learn to Love Her Body and Herself

Ian Grant

Mary Grant

Girls have an instinctive ability for good verbal communication, nurturing and emotional intelligence, but they need a simple and strong foundation from their parents to really grow into healthy adults. 
 
Raising Confident Girls is all about working with the essential character of girls to raise confident, communicative and successful women by showing you how to combine warmth and encouragement with routine and predictability in her life. 
 
Ian and Mary Grant have packed Raising Confident Girls with indispensable no-nonsense advice on raising girls from the pre-school years through to the challenging teens. With chapters on the nature of girls, 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 cultivate your daughter's natural talents to help her succeed in the game of life.

Raising Confident Girls

Practical tips for bringing out the best in your daughter

Jasmine Birtles

Jasmine Birtles believes that anyone can be better off, she just needs to show you how... 
 
Packed full of practical financial advice and brilliant money-saving ideas, The Money Magpie shows you how to spend less, make more and invest what's left over, even in hard times. Based on this key idea, Jasmine tells you how to: 
- be the King or Queen of cash by getting the best deals on utilities, credit cards and food 
- assess and manage your finances with clear, easy-to-follow techniques 
- make more money instantly using what you have already 
- work out a long term plan for increasing wealth that fits into your lifestyle 
 
With handy links to Jasmine's fast-growing website www.moneymagpie.com, and the use of self-assessment quizzes, brilliantly simple advice and ideas that mould around the way you live, The Money Magpie will teach you how to be rich, whatever your situation.

The Money Magpie

I can help you ditch your debts, make money and save £1000s

Ian Palmer

As would-be parents cycle through the adoption process, they balance anxiety and fear with the life-altering decision of adoption. The emotional toll of this dance can be completely overwhelming and can confuse parents while navigating the decisions of how to expand their families. 
 
Drawing on extensive research and the author's own experience of being adopted, What to Expect When You're Adopting... does not gloss over the realities of the adoption process, but rather leads parents through the many stages and emotional aspects involved and offer practical and sensitive advice allowing you to: 
- Make crucial decisions with confidence 
- Build a strong foundation for your family 
- Separate the myths about adopted children from the realities 
- Discover the key to healthy attachment with your child 
 
Dr Ian Palmer will also deal with the issues of single-parent adoption, infertility and, unusually, the option of remaining childless.

What to Expect When You're Adopting...

A practical guide to the decisions and emotions involved in adoption

Lesley Berk

Michael Berk

David Castle

Sue Lauder

Approximately half the people seeking help with depression are diagnosed with a form of bipolar disorder and it affects about one in 100 people in the UK. Formerly known as manic depression, its mood swings can be extraordinarily disturbing for both the sufferer and for those around them. 
 
Written by two leading psychiatrists and two clinical psychologists, Living with Bipolar explains that this challenging illness can be managed. While there is no cure, it's possible for people with bipolar disorder to live well. 
 
This accessible guide explains the characteristics of the two main forms, Bipolar I and Bipolar II; their causes and triggers; both medical and psychological treatment options - including CBT thinking strategies - and ways of preventing relapses. 
 
Drawing on the experience of patients, Living with Bipolar also offers clear guidelines for readers to develop successful personal strategies for identifying and coping with symptoms and emphasises the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

Living with Bipolar

A practical guide for those with the disorder, their family and friends

Emily Halban

Emily Halban developed anorexia in her final year at school. She went on to university at Oxford where her disease took on a powerful dimension and by her final year she was so debilitated that she had to sit her exams in a separate room where she could be fed continuously throughout each one. 
 
With heartbreaking candour and poignant intimacy, Emily vividly chronicles the complexities and inner struggles of living with anorexia. Two years on, she traces her disease from its elusive origins, through its darkest moments of deprivation, guilt and self-loathing, and finally recounts her journey towards recovery. Emily allows us to understand what it's really like to suffer from anorexia, exposing its secrets and dispelling some of the myths that shroud it. 
 
Alive with self-awareness, but never self-pity, Perfect is an inspiring read that will help those battling with the horrors of anorexia find a way out, and those on the outside to understand more.

Perfect

Anorexia and me

Michaela Ryan

Being as desperate as I was for a baby, I thought I was completely open and ready for motherhood. But I look back and realise that I was putting up a lot of resistance on an emotional level. So it turns out I was my own worst enemy. I knew instinctively that my attitude had to change before this baby could freely come into my life... 
 
This was Michaela Ryan's experience of trying to fall pregnant and her story will resonate with many couples trying to conceive. While stress is a well-known factor affecting fertility, other more subtle issues can play a major role - such as unresolved fears about becoming a parent, childhood traumas, repressed emotions, self-esteem issues and relationship difficulties. 
 
Mark and his wife Charlotte had to learn to work together as a team and make their relationship a priority before they fell pregnant. 
 
Deb and Keith endured 23 IVF cycles and had to deal with numerous miscarriages before Deb radically changed her lifestyle and fell pregnant. 
 
With fifteen real-life stories, this compelling, uplifting and often humorous book examines an area of infertility largely ignored and offers practical solutions for couples dealing with fertility issues.

Trying to Conceive

True stories of how couples overcame infertility

Siobhan Mulholland

A new title in the series of beautifully illustrated and easy-to-follow practical guides covering all the essential phases of childcare. 
 
Getting your toddler to sleep, and to sleep well, can become a battle that can be tiring and upsetting for both parent and child. And the less sleep they get, the more tiring it can be. This comprehensive guide - the first to be aimed purely at toddlers - offers practical guidance and clear guidelines on how to achieve the best result. From sleep cycles and nap times to food and mental attitude, Helping Your Toddler to Sleep is the only book parents need to ensure that their toddler - and they - get as much sleep as they need.

Helping Your Toddler to Sleep

an easy-to-follow guide

Naia Edwards

A new title in the series of beautifully illustrated and easy-to-follow practical guides covering all the essential phases of childcare. 
 
The different stages of weaning can be confusing, from reading a child's signs to introducing solid foods. And once your child reaches toddlerdom, the trouble doesn't stop - the psychological battles of getting your toddler to eat well can be a daily struggle. This comprehensive illustrated guide offers practical guidance and clear guidelines to help you establish what's suitable at different ages, when and how to feed them, and how to create good feeding habits in your baby and your toddler, making mealtimes a better place.

Weaning and Coping with Feeding Problems

Cindy Lu

Are you fabulous and very, very single? 
Do you secretly suspect that you suck at love? 
 
Author Cindy Lu knew for a long time that she was hopeless at relationships. For years she dated one wrong man after the next until, fed up with her lack of success, she decided to employ her maths skills in her search for the right man. The result was The Four Man Plan, a brilliant system for finding love that combines the certainties of maths and human behaviour to create a sure-fire formula for finding Mr Right. The secret? Always be dating four men at any given time. 
 
Cindy's step-by-step process takes the guesswork and heartache out of dating and lets men compete for your affections while you enjoy the ride. Based on a carefully developed system of practices such as 'The Disney Theorem' and 'The Wait For Sex Index', The Four Man Plan is guaranteed to deliver the ultimate prize.

The Four Man Plan

A Romantic Science

J M Kearns

When you figure out how love went wrong, you can figure out how to make it go right, what adjustments you may need to make and what sort of man you can be happy with. 
 
In his inimitable sensitive style, J M Kearns shows you not just how to cope with failed love, but how to uncover the clues in a failed relationship that can help you find a better one. Better Love Next Time deals with the problems of relationships and the pain of break-ups, the constructive lessons that can be learned and the new course that can be charted. 
 
This isn't a quick fix that doesn't work, or a patronising tirade against single women, or written by a self-righteous expert. This book, by contrast, is witty, well-written, practical and grounded in common sense.

Better Love Next Time

How the relationship that didn't last can lead you to Mr Right

Kathy Freston

Quantum Wellness is the idea that you can achieve a significant increase in the health of mind, body and spirit through small focused steps, which will, in turn, yield extraordinary changes in your life. 
 
None of us makes perfect choices all the time so, in this New York Times bestseller, Kathy Freston shows how small steps regarding how to eat, how to work, how to live in our imperfect bodies and how to stay positive can add up to significant breakthroughs in overall well-being. To do this, Freston advocates setting manageable goals - achieving a little one day a week, then two, then more - and building up to a complete programme that can incorporate all or some of the eight pillars of wellness: meditation, visualisation, fun activities, a diet of whole foods, exercise, helping others, considering yourself and spiritual practise. In combination, these will take perfect care of your mind, body and spirit, raising you to the pinnacle of wellness.

Quantum Wellness

A Step-by-Step Guide to Health and Happiness

Paula Hall

The process of divorce can be an emotionally devastating experience and, on the practical side, the financial and legal strains can be a major source of stress. But approaching divorce with the right advice and support can help you turn the experience into a chance for personal growth and development, so you can look to the future with a realistic optimism. 
 
How to Have a Healthy Divorce will help you to embrace the reality of the situation, gain more understanding of what went wrong in your marriage and help you handle the rollercoaster of emotions involved in a break up. In clear and simple steps, this practical guide will show you how to: 
- Overcome actual and potential challenges 
- Accept your past, present and future circumstances 
- Formulate a personal action plan that includes practical points on financial and legal matters 
- Build a relationship with your ex so you can communicate effectively 
 
This is an accessible, sympathetic and uncomplicated guide to facing divorce with pragmatism and optimism, helping you to emerge from a healthy divorce with valuable lessons learnt and the tools to build a secure and fulfilling future.

How to Have a Healthy Divorce

A Relate Guide

Jack Canfield

Mark Victor Hansen

Marty Becker

Amy D. Shojai

Carol Kline

Cats first purred their way into human hearts thousands of years ago, and have been our treasured companions and soul mates ever since. From the impishness of kittens to the regal mystery of adult cats, our feline companions never cease to captivate our hearts and imaginations. 
 
Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul celebrates our feline friends, and the people who love them, in all their varied splendour: their independence, their mystique, their playfulness and, yes, even their disdain. So, smile at their many 'cattitudes' and feed your feline passion with wonderful stories such as these: 
- A heroic tabby saves the family he loves from a lethal gas leak in their home 
- A fish-loving shorthair nearly loses his head while scavenging in the rubbish 
- A three-legged kitten befriends a lonely young girl, transforming her world 
 
From playful and hilarious accounts of life with cats to heart-warming tales of cat courage, healing and learning, each touching story in Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul celebrates the special bond we share with our cats.

Chicken Soup for the Cat Lover's Soul

Jennifer Waldburger

Jill Spivack

Is your child a night owl or a nap resister? Help has arrived with The Sleepeasy Solution! 
 
Jill Spivack and Jennifer Waldburger have earned their reputation as two of America's leading experts on children and sleep because they give parents the key ingredients for success - a customised sleep plan, clear step-by-step instructions and plenty of emotional support. 
 
Their 'least-cry' approach ensures that healthy sleep habits are established quickly without any guessing and without any guilt. 
 
- Teach your child to sleep through the night and take regular naps 
- Say goodbye to early morning waking 
- End bedtime battles 
- Find easy solutions to common problems such as teething, illness, travelling and managing multiple siblings

The Sleepeasy Solution

The exhausted parent's guide to getting your child to sleep - from birth to 5

Valerie Muter

Dr Helen Likierman

Many children spend their entire school lives struggling with their school work. Research has shown that at least 10-15 per cent of children with apparently normal learning ability will have a significant problem with school learning. They may feel that whatever they do it is not good enough - either for their parents, their teachers or indeed themselves. This can often result in feelings of demoralisation, and even alienation from learning and school. This book aims to address these issues and to help parents understand and deal with them. 
 
Dyslexia: A Parents' Guide starts by correcting common misconceptions of learning difficulties that are rife in the press and popular literature, and addresses the conflicting approaches and advice from 'experts'. This authoritative guide then moves through diagnosis – with information on dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD, discalculia and more – to offering practical and easy tips to enable parents to help their child overcome their learning difficulty. 
 
Both authors are practising psychologists with extensive knowledge and experience of children's learning difficulties. They will show parents how to develop a successful approach to assessing and subsequently managing their child's difficulties.

Dyslexia

A parents' guide to dyslexia, dyspraxia and other learning difficulties

Max Atkinson

Whether writing a best man's speech or putting together a presentation at work, Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy is an invaluable guide to becoming a successful speaker, with easy-to-use, practical advice on how to: 
 
- Keep audiences engaged 
- Prepare, plan and structure 
- Use visual aids 
- Inspire your listeners 
- Present at work 
- Make wedding and social speeches 
- Understand body language 
 
Max Atkinson's Lend Me Your Ears provided a sound and thorough manual to public speaking. Now, with Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy, everyone from any walk of life can pick up quick tips for fast-track speech-making.

Speech-making and Presentation Made Easy

Seven Essential Steps to Success

Yehuda Shinar

Yehuda Shinar's secret is simple. To be a winner you need to learn to think like one. Based on scientific research carried out over the last 18 years, Yehuda Shinar has devised a set of winning behaviour principles that can be adapted and applied to any sphere of life. 
 
Using practical advice, quizzes, tests and real-life case studies Yehuda shows you how to transform your thought patterns so that whoever you are and whatever you want to achieve, you'll be one of life's winners. 
 
From conquering your self-defeating thoughts and winning the respect of others to clinching that promotion at work or winning in love, money and health, this book will give you the advantage over other people, equipping you with the tools you need to be succesful.

Think Like a Winner

Tracy Hogg

Melinda Blau

Having successfully helped parents to calm and connect with their baby in Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, Tracy Hogg now provides practical advice and handy tips for parents who've made it through the first year with baby and are now faced with a delightful, yet demanding toddler. 
 
In Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers Tracy's unique advice has been distilled into a handbag-sized, easy-to-use guide that reveals how to 'handle' your toddler, foster his growth and independence, and guide him towards important milestones. 
 
With essential advice on discipline, socialising and potty training, this book is a must for all parents of toddlers.

Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers

Secrets to Raising Happy and Cooperative Toddlers

Elizabeth Bryan

As a result of a genetically-transmitted gene, all three Bryan sisters, Felicity, Elizabeth and Bunny have had cancer. And, unusually, each of them suffered a different cancer; ovarian, breast and pancreatic. As the gene also has a dominant inheritance, half of their family members can be expected to carry it. Now, in a personal and deeply affecting memoir, Elizabeth writes of her family's extraordinary experience of this dreadful disease. 
 
Writing not only as a daughter, sister and aunt of those afflicted and bereaved by cancer, but as a sufferer herself, she will tell of the shocks, sadnesses, dilemmas and uncertainties that come with diagnosis and then treatment. Giving a personal view from both the perspective of a patient and that of a relative, as well as comparing the impacts of remission and terminal prognoses on herself and those around her, Singing the Life gives a uniquely wide-ranging account of dealing with life-threatening illness and the threat it still poses in her family. Eloquently setting Elizabeth's personal story against the universal fears, problems and worries that face those affected by cancer, this is an inspirational and encouraging read unlike any other on the subject.

Singing the Life

The story of a family living in the shadow of Cancer

Edward de Bono

Attention is a key part of thinking clearly and productively, and yet we pay very little attention to attention itself. If you see someone lying injured in the middle of the road, for example, your attention would go to that person but, if a bright pink dog wandered past at the same time, your attention would automatically stray to the dog. That is precisely the weakness of attention - it is pulled to the unusual. How much attention do we pay to the usual? 
 
So, what can we do about it? Instead of waiting for attention to be pulled towards something unusual, we can set out frameworks for 'directing' our attention in a conscious manner. Just as we can decide to look north, west or even south-east, so we can set up a framework for directing our attention, and that's where Edward de Bono's 'six frames' come in. Each frame is a direction or method in/with which to look, based on a different shape - triangle, circle, heart, square, diamond, slab. 
 
Today we are literally surrounded by information and it has never been so easy to obtain. Yet, information itself is not enough; it's how we look at it that really counts. Using the 'six frames' technique is the key to extracting real value from the masses of facts and figures out there and, like all de Bono's techniques, it is simple, effective and will utterly change the way you interpret information.

Six Frames

For Thinking About Information

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill, internationally-bestselling motivational author, devoted his life to unlocking the secrets to success. He analysed the outstanding life work of hundreds of magnates, tycoons, moguls and captains of industry and uncovered a key secret - thinking great will put you on the way to being great. 
 
Combining winning formulas from two of Hill's most powerful books: The Law of Success and The Magic Ladder to Success and updated for the twenty-first century, Success: The Best of Napoleon Hill offers you the essential guide to finding your fortune and winning in life. 
 
Napoleon Hill lays out the seventeen principles that make the Law of Success, which will unlock the door to success and prosperity for everyone.

Success: The Best of Napoleon Hill

Kiki's Delivery Service

King of

King's Maker

Kingdom of Lies

A gripping historical fiction series set amid England's War of the Roses in which the Houses of Lancaster and York faced each other on the field of battle - and the Tudors won.

Kingmaker

Kings of the Realm

Knights Templar

Knights of the Borrowed Dark

Kurt Wallander

Four of James Ellroy's most popular crime novels featuring the infamous Dudley Smith, which include: 'The Black Dahlia', 'The Big Nowhere', 'L.A. Confidential' and 'White Jazz'.

L.A. Quartet

Lacey Flint has never worked a murder case - until a savage murder, 120 years to the day since Jack the Ripper claimed his first victim, crosses her desk. 
This case sets the precedent that Lacey Flint is never far from danger, or the River Thames, but she will stop at nothing to find the answers.

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