Al Murray's alter ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognizable and successful comic creations of the past twenty years, and Murray, who has won numerous awards and accolades, continues to fill arenas and theatres around the world. 
 
He is also the author of many successful books including Watching War Films with My Dad and Command, a sharply entertaining analysis of the key allied military leaders in the Second World War. He is well known for co-hosting the hugely popular Second World War history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland. 
 
Arnhem: Black Tuesday is his first history book about a single campaign.

Al Murray

Al Murray is a Perrier Award-winning comic, TV personality and, as 'The Pub Landlord', the author of the bestselling The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense and Think Yourself British. Most recently, he has taken on the leadership of the Free United Kingdom Party (FUKP).

Actor and director Al Pacino is a unique and enduring figure in the world of American stage and film. He grew up in New York City’s South Bronx, attended the School of Performing Art, and studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio with Charles Laughton and the Actors Studio with mentor Lee Strasberg. 
 
 
He has been nominated for the Academy Award nine times, for movies including The Godfather, Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Godfather Part II, and The Irishman, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1992 for Scent of a Woman. He has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award nineteen times, and won four, and has been nominated for three Tonys and won two. 
 
 
Pacino has been awarded the Kennedy Center Honor, the American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, the National Merit of Arts from President Obama, and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures.

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Al Rodin is a writer and illustrator from London. He studied children's book illustration at Cambridge School of Art and received the 2019 Sebastian Walker Prize. Al enjoys working with a wide variety of materials including acrylic, watercolour and collage. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries around Europe and Asia, and he was selected for lllustrators' Exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in 2019. Little Echo is his first book.

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Alain Gheerbrant

Alain de Botton is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including The School of Life: An Emotional Education, How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The Course of Love. He is the founder of The School of Life (theschooloflife.com).

Alain de Botton

Alaina Urquhart is the science-loving co-host of the chart-topping show Morbid: A True Crime Podcast. As an autopsy technician by trade, she offers a unique perspective from deep inside the morgue. Alaina hails from Boston, where she lives with her wonderful husband, John, their three amazing daughters, and a ghost Puggle named Bailey. She is about 75 percent coffee, and truly believes she and Agent Clarice Starling could be friends. 
 
Before writing her first psychological horror novel, she received degrees in criminal justice, psychology, and biology. When she isn't hosting Morbid, she hosts the Parcast original show Crime Countdown, and a horror movie podcast called Scream!. Her days are usually spent either recording or eviscerating. The way she sees it, when she hangs up her microphone for the day, it's time to let the dead speak.

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Born in London in 1939, Alan Ayckbourn is one of  the world's most popular and prolific playwrights. He has written 74  full length plays and more than 20 other revues and plays for children.  He is also an acclaimed director. Alan Ayckbourn was awarded a CBE in  1987. Ten years later to the day, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II  'for services to the theatre.'

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Alan Bennett's television series Talking Heads has become a modern-day classic, as have many of his works for the stage, including Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, The Madness of George III (together with the Oscar-nominated screenplay The Madness of King George) and an adaptation of The Wind in the Willows. The History Boys won the Evening Standard and Critics' Circle awards for Best Play, The Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the South Bank Award.

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett is one of Britain's best-loved and most highly acclaimed writers. He has written widely for radio, television and theatre. His latest play, The History Boys, won several awards, including Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. It also won six Tony Awards, including Best Play, following an extremely successful transfer to Broadway. In 2006 Bennett was named Author of the Year at the British Book Awards for Untold Stories, his collection of memoirs and diaries.

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ALAN BOOTH was born in London in 1946 and travelled to Japan in 1970 to study Noh theatre. He stayed, working as a writer and film critic, until his untimely death in 1993.

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Alan Brazil is a Scottish broadcasting legend and former football player, most notably for Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United and internationally for Scotland. He played as a forward before being forced to retire due to a recurring back injury. 
 
After retirement, Alan moved into media presentation, initially on television, before a career in radio where for many years he has presented the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on TalkSPORT.

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Alan Carr is one of Britain's most successful and treasured comedians. His unique humour and effortless stage presence have earned him a catalogue of awards including Best Chat Show host at the publicly voted for 2015 National Television Awards, winner of the 2013 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance and 2013 British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. In previous years he has garnered a clutch of awards, from the 2012 National Television Award for Best Talk Show and the 2012 Loaded LAFTA Award for Best Stand-up to the 2010 TV Choice Awards for Best Entertainment Show. There were also nominations for Best New British Comedy &amp; Best Comedy Entertainment Personality at the 2009 British Comedy Awards. 
 
The success of the first series of his own chat show, 'Alan Carr: Chatty Man', in the summer of 2009, led to Channel 4 commissioning 16 further series' as well as numerous Christmas Specials and New Year Specstaculars. In September 2013, the 100th episode aired with A-list guests Justin Timberlake and Rihanna. Guests from past series include: Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, Vin Diesel, Adele, Grace Jones, Naomi Campbell, Hugh Grant, Drew Barrymore, Robin Williams, David Walliams, Mariah Carey, Russell Brand, Samuel L Jackson, Miley Cyrus, Robbie Williams, Bette Midler, Sharon Osbourne, One Direction, Gok Wan and Miranda Hart. 
 
The DVD of Alan's 2007 debut stand-up show, 'Tooth Fairy Live' topped the HMV charts and was a Christmas 2007 top seller. 
 
His best-selling debut autobiography 'Look Who It Is' was published in September 2008 by HarperCollins. 
 
In 2011, Alan travelled the country with his second live tour. 'Spexy Beast Live' was a 33-date arena tour and culminated in the successful DVD of the same name. 
 
Throughout 2015, Alan hit the road once again and performed at over 150 sold-out theatre's across the UK and Ireland with his 'Yap, Yap, Yap!' live show. His third stand up DVD 'Alan Carr - Yap Yap Yap! Live' was released by Universal Pictures (UK) in November 2016. 
 
2016 has also seen Alan go global with international performances of his Yap Yap Yap! live show throughout Scandinavia, Montreal (at the prestigious Just For Laughs Comedy Festival) and can currently be seen on tour this summer in New Zealand and Australia this summer, with two shows at the iconic Sydney Opera House. 
 
Alan also hosts Channel 4's flagship fundraising show 'Stand Up To Cancer' which in 2014 went on to raise an amazing £14 million for Cancer Research. Alan returns once again to host 'Stand Up To Cancer' on Channel 4 this October. 
 
Alanatomy: The Inside Story is Alan's second memoir, and will be published by Penguin in October 2016.

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Alan Connor has been the question editor for BBC2's Only Connect and Richard Osman's House of Games. He is the author of books for Pointless and The Traitors and is the puzzle consultant for the BBC1 drama Ludwig. He writes puzzles for various newspapers and has written for Charlie Brooker series and Have I Got News for You. His favourite quiz question is: What word was intentionally omitted from the screenplay of The Godfather?

Alan Connor

Alan Connor is the author of Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword ("witty, charming, encyclopaedic and highly readable" - Spectator) and The Joy of Quiz ("An absolute delight" - Mail on Sunday). He has made quizzes for various TV shows and newspapers and written comedy including BBC Film's The Rack Pack, A Young Doctor's Notebook (Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe) and Have I Got News For You.

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Naomi Sani

Does the sight of your child's maths homework fill you with dread? Do you look for any excuse when they ask you to explain equations, fractions or multiplication? Maths can often leave children - and parents - perplexed. 
 
How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too works through maths topics with a simple step-by-step approach, explaining the new ways of teaching maths that confuse so many parents. This book will show you how to: 
 
- Master 'number bonds' and 'number lines' 
- Divide by 'chunking' 
- Multiply using 'the grid method' 
- Work with fractions, percentages and ratios 
- Understand number and place value 
 
Bridging the gap between primary and secondary school - when children often struggle - and packed full of simple, accessible examples, this essential guide will banish your maths phobia and take the pain out of homework time.

How to do Maths so Your Children Can Too

The essential parents' guide

Julia Cole

Finding out your partner has had an affair can feel like the ultimate betrayal and learning to trust again is difficult and painful. After the Affair takes a frank look at the reasons why people have affairs and the devastating effects they may have upon the person who has been betrayed. 
 
Since this book was first published the internet has grown hugely; websites such as Facebook have mushroomed; and mobile phones have become ubiquitous. All of these create more chances to connect with other people discreetly, quickly and at any time of the day or night. As a result, the nature of affairs is changing dramatically. 
 
After the Affair helps couples understand their feelings and explains: 
- Why affairs happen, including common triggers 
- What constitutes an affair 
- How to recover from a betrayal 
- The pros and cons of leaving or staying in a relationship, with steps to take for reconciliation or parting as amicably as possible 
 
Whether you choose to reconcile or to move on, After the Affair can help you work through your feelings and make sense of what has happened.

Relate - After The Affair

How to build trust and love again

Philippa Kaye

The wonderful news of a new addition to the family will leave you and your loved ones eager to prepare for their arrival. However, it is you, with the support of your partner, who will experience your child's first nine months of development during pregnancy. 
 
Your Pregnancy Week by Week tells you everything you need to know about your pregnancy. On a week-by-week basis, you can learn how your baby is developing, how and why your body is changing and what you can do to ensure a smooth and comfortable pregnancy, every step of the way. 
 
With clear, authoritative advice that demystifies complex medical jargon, this indispensable guide takes you through each stage of pregnancy, addressing common concerns and questions to ensure a healthy start for your baby.

Your Pregnancy Week by Week

Practical and reassuring advice from conception to birth

Charlie Taylor

Endless arguments? Communication by grunt? Seismic sulking? Lives ruled by FOMO (fear of missing out)? 
 
Sound like your teenager? 
 
Behavioural expert Charlie Taylor has the answers in this practical handbook which is full of simple, effective techniques for improving your teenager's behaviour. 
 
Charlie Taylor's straight-talking, no-nonsense approach guides you away from knee-jerk parenting towards a more proactive and positive relationship with your teenager. With particular emphasis on the power of praise - the basis of his acclaimed 6 to1 strategy - and planning in advance for behaviour or communication hotspots, every parent can break the miserable pattern of constant confrontation, endless negotiation and repetitive nagging. 
 
With the insights and methods found in Divas and Door Slammers – including a handy Troubleshooting Guide that looks at such issues as under-age drinking, sex, drugs and problems at school – every household with teenagers can quickly transform from havoc to harmony.

Divas & Door Slammers

The Secret to Having a Better Behaved Teenager

Marc Weissbluth

Good sleep is essential for your children's health, growth and development. But establishing a successful sleep schedule is not easy, and training twins and multiples offers an even greater challenge for parents. 
 
Leading paediatrician and renowned sleep expert Dr Marc Weissbluth combines specialised advice for parents of twins with his tried-and-tested sleep-training methods to show exhausted parents how to get their babies to sleep on thier own, stay asleep and sleep reguarly. This practical, step-by-step guide: 
 
- Explains how fraternal and identical twins may sleep train differently - and what to do about it 
- Addresses specific problems that can arise from training more than one baby at the same time 
- Describes ways to get your babies to synchronise their internal clocks and fall asleep at the same time - naturally 
- Reveals the common mistakes parents of twins make to get their children to sleep 
 
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins is an invaluable guide based on proven techniques that will not only get your babies to sleep through the night, but help you stay healthy and rested too.

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Twins

A step-by-step programme for sleep-training your multiples

Nicola Baird

Modern living offers convenience, and as parents we need all the help we can get. Food is produced in abundance, and clothes are cheap enough for us to use and then discard. But is it necessary to be so wasteful? And is this really how we want to raise our children? 
 
Homemade Kids is full of top tips, inspirational ideas and practical advice that will help you to: 
 
• make your home a more healthy, energy-efficient environment 
• create toys and fun activities for your baby 
• decide whether reusuable nappies are the right choice for you 
• consider the best feeding and transport solutions for your family 
 
Raising a healthy, happy child doesn't need to be a complicated process that puts a strain on the planet and your wallet. Homemade Kids takes you back to basics and reminds you of the simple pleasures of parenting.

Homemade Kids

Thrifty, Creative and Eco-Friendly Ways to Raise Your Child

Tara Parker-Pope

We've all heard the statistic: 50% of marriages end in divorce. It's enough to make many couples give up when the going gets tough. But what if it weren't true? What if, in fact, it's not only possible 
but often easier than you think to save a seemingly troubled relationship? 
 
These are the questions leading New York Times blogger Tara Parker-Pope asked herself after her own divorce. An investigative journalist, she turned to some of the top biologists, neuroscientists and psychologists for the facts about marriage and divorce. 
 
For Better (For Worse) offers page after page of astonishing, eye-opening good news. Discover: 
- The science behind why some marriages work and others don't 
- The biology behind why some spouses cheat and others remain faithful 
- The best diagnostic tools created by cutting-edge psychologists to assess the probability of success 
in getting married and staying married 
 
Packed full of questionnaires to uncover your hidden feelings and tools to show how small adjustments can make a huge difference, this is the definitive guide to the most profound relationship of our lives.

For Better (For Worse)

The Science of a Good Marriage

Adam Glasser

Adam Glasser, aka successful porn star Seymour Butts, has slept with more than 600 women, on and off camera. 
Drawing on his extensive experience, Rock Her World covers everything you need to know to give and receive perfect pleasure. With explicit illustrations and riotous anecdotes from Adam's own escapades, it also includes: 
 
- sexercises to keep your equipment in top shape for improved performance 
- eye-opening explanations of a woman's orgasm and female ejaculation 
- how to handle embarrassing/messy situations 
- sex toys, anal sex (Adam's favourite subject) and spanking 
- the truth about erectile dysfunction 
 
Rock Her World will educate you about the ins and outs of male and female sexuality and show you how to truly satisfy a woman in fantastic, juicy detail.

Rock Her World

The Sex Guide for the Modern Man

Lisa Doodson

Stepfamilies are currently the fastest growing family type in the UK, with current estimates suggesting that 1 in 10 of all families are now stepfamilies. Yet despite the ever-growing number of stepfamilies, there remains a dearth of information and support for them. 
 
How to be a Happy Stepmum provides the first step in this support by guiding stepmothers through the pitfalls of adapting to stepfamily life; firstly by identifying what type of stepmother they are and then by addressing each of the recognised factors related to becoming a successful and happy stepmother. 
 
Based on sound research and written by an expert in the field, this book is essential reading for all stepmums.

How to be a Happy Stepmum

Gina Ford

All parents want their toddlers to be healthy, happy eaters but mealtimes can often end in a battle of wills. Gina Ford's Top Tips for Fussy Eaters offers parents practical, straightforward advice on turning those difficult mealtimes into happy family occasions. 
 
Gina's no-nonsense quick and easy tips will help you to: 
- create food that is fun to eat, yet healthy and nutritious 
- make mealtimes less stressful 
- encourage your child to eat fruit and vegetables 
 
This handy parenting guide offers sensible solutions to help you cope with your little fussy eater, encourage healthy eating and banish tantrums at mealtimes for good.

Top Tips for Fussy Eaters

Sarah Key

Vicky Roberts

Back pain is extremely common - about eight in 10 people in the UK are affected at some time in their lives. In the majority of cases, the cause of back pain can be linked to the way the bones, muscles and ligaments in the back work together. 
 
With advice on back pain management, the role of medication, the use of bed rest and how to return to work, this handy, pocket edition of Sarah Key's bestselling Back Sufferers' Bible outlines the five stages of spine breakdown and includes an easy exercise programme to help you deal with your individual pain. 
 
Whether you are confined to bed with acute back pain or have less severe back problems, but still have to cope with back pain or discomfort on an everyday basis, this straightforward self-help guide will help you to cure your back problems quickly.

The Back Sufferers' Pocket Guide

Tracy Hogg

Melinda Blau

'How do I know if my baby is getting enough to eat?' 'How often do I feed her?' 'How can I tell if she's hungry?' 
 
There are many issues that surround breast- or bottle-feeding and the introduction of solid foods to your baby, and it can be a major cause of anxiety for many parents. Even the lucky ones, whose babies latch onto the breast easily or happily move from a liquid diet to solid foods, have initial concerns over ensuring their baby is getting adequate nourishment. 
 
Tracy Hogg's incredible sensitivity and ability to read infants' cries, coos and assorted baby noises quickly earned her the admiration and gratitude of high-profile couples, including a host of celebrities. With reassuring, down-to-earth advice, her practical feeding programme will help you overcome your baby's feeding issues and works with infants from as young as a day old. 
 
A lifesaver for any busy parent.

Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer: Breastfeeding

Includes advice on bottle-feeding

Eric C Westman

Stephen D Phinney

Jeff S Volek

New Atkins For A New You is an alternative to the original Atkins diet, which allows you to lose weight successfully and emerge with a healthier, firmer body. This new diet offers all the benefits of the original diet, including the freedom to eat luxuriously and feel completely satisfied, a metabolic boost giving you more energy and weight loss that never comes back, but it also has these enhanced benefits: 
 
- More flexibility in what you eat 
- Allows you to include carbohydrates in your diet 
- Trains your body to burn fat for energy rather than banning fats altogether 
- Includes more options for vegetarians, vegans and those who want to limit their meat intake 
 
This breakthrough new diet provides all the benefits of the original Atkins diet in an improved, simplified form that can be tailored to your individual needs and sustained for the rest of your life.

New Atkins For a New You

The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great

All parents relish that very first cry from their newborn baby. Yet as the crying continues it can become deeply stressful. And no sooner have you worked out what your young baby is trying to tell you - often hunger, fatigue or discomfort - than they grow older and the reasons more complex - teething pain, anxiety or simply frustration. 
 
In From Crying Baby to Contented Baby, Britain's bestselling childcare author, Gina Ford, outlines the common triggers for each specific age group, whether it's a five-week-old or a 10-month-old, to help you determine the most likely cause for your baby's distress so that you can respond to their needs and quickly comfort and settle them. 
 
Full of practical tips such as encouraging parents to 'stop, look, listen', and lots of reassuring advice, your baby - and you! - will soon be calm and content once more.

From Crying Baby to Contented Baby

Rob Kemp

The accessible and practical parenting book for fathers-to-be about pregnancy, birth and what to expect during the first 6 weeks, from a man who has been through it all (multiple times). 
 
‘Written in a light, informative tone but backed with expert advice’?The Guardian 
 
From buying buggies and cutting the cord to dealing with your wife's breastfeeding in public -?the life of a first-time father will throw up new experiences every day. 
 
The Expectant Dad's Survival Guide?is here to tell you everything you need to know during your partner's pregnancy and the first few weeks of your new life as a dad. Combining expert advice from midwives, psychologists and obstetricians with first-hand accounts, it contains essential tips and information about: <ul><li>What your partner is going through </li></ul><ul><li>What's going on with your baby </li></ul><ul><li>What the hell you should be doing every step of the way. </li></ul> 
With?tips from male midwives and obstetricians, what-to-do explanations and fascinating facts, this survival guide will ensure you're armed and ready for your role as a new dad. From discovery to delivery and beyond, this is a must-read for all fathers-to-be. 
 
'Very supportive and encouraging' ***** Reader review 
 
'Really helpful hints, tips and guidance' ***** Reader review 
 
'Was much less nervous after reading this' ***** Reader review 
 
'Funny, honest and witty' ***** Reader review

The Expectant Dad's Survival Guide

Everything You Need to Know

Zita West

Embarking on IVF - or any assisted fertility treatment - can be a very demanding and stressful experience, but the right physical, nutritional and emotional support can lessen these stresses and strains and increase your chances of success. 
 
In Zita West's Guide to Fertility and Assisted Conception leading fertility and pregnancy expert, Zita West, offers an in-depth explanation of all aspects of fertility and, uniquely, addresses the issues involved in using assisted conception. In her clear, yet sensitive, style Zita explains: 
- All aspects of fertility - from preconception and trying naturally through to assisted conception 
- What is involved in the IVF process 
- How to prepare your body to increase your chances of conceiving successfully 
- The importance of a proactive approach to diet and nutrition 
- How complementary therapies, such as acupuncture, can increase your chances of success 
 
Including interviews with leading experts in the field, case histories from patients and Zita's own holistic principles, this is an invaluable guide for the growing number of people who are considering, or have already embarked on, medical intervention to enable them to conceive.

Zita West's Guide to Fertility and Assisted Conception

Essential Advice on Preparing Your Body for IVF and Other Fertility Treatments

Leslie Kenton

Leslie Kenton was the only child of Violet, a stunning Hitchcock blonde, and Stanley - the legendary jazz giant Stan Kenton. Their story takes place on the road in 1950s America and in the mania of Hollywood - a world of jazz clubs, dance halls and one-nighters, where lives were lived on a razor's edge. 
 
Love Affair takes us beyond the bright lights and glamour into an intense, claustrophobic world of a father and his child. Too closely matched, their shared DNA traps them in a double helix - one strand forged in terror, the other luminous with a shared passion for music, joy and laughter. As the strands become entwined, blood on white tiles obliterates innocence and a forbidden honeymoon brings a terrifying, unbounded freedom. Gradually, as Stanley grapples with alcohol and his personal demons, his actions threaten to destroy the only real, untainted thing in his life: Leslie. 
 
A true story of obsession, tragedy and grace, Love Affair is Leslie Kenton's powerful memoir. At its heart is the complex relationship with her father - a union so powerful it defines all that comes after. As their lives become increasingly entangled, so do the forces of darkness and light that exist within us all, leading to destruction for him and heartbreaking redemption for her.

Love Affair

The memoir of a forbidden father-daughter relationship

Jo Hemmings

When you want to buy or rent your dream home, you go to an estate agent. When you want to learn to cook, you buy a recipe book from TV's latest celebrity chef. But who is there for you when you want to learn about having great sex? Or when you want to revive a flagging sex life? 
 
How to Have Great Sex is the answer. This step-by-step guide takes you from the underrated pleasures of a good snog through to the best positions for having that quickie in a forbidden place and gives you all the advice you need on: 
 
- How to initiate sex 
- How to talk dirty 
- How to give and get great oral sex 
- How to enjoy casual, safe sex 
- How to make love to the same partner for the rest of your life 
 
Whether you are a novice wanting to move on from the basics of the missionary position, or an experienced lover aching to know how to pep up your sex life, you'll find it all explained between these sheets in explicit, intimate, fun and supersexy detail.

How to Have Great Sex

Sammy Margo

With 69 per cent of children under the age of 10 affected by sleep problems that can lead to mood swings, behavioural disorders and irritability, good sleep plays a major part in their wellbeing. In The Good Sleep Guide for Kids, Sammy Margo addresses problems such as night waking, sleep terrors and sleep walking and offers sound advice on ensuring the best quality sleep for your child. 
 
With expert guidance on bedroom environment, bedclothes, bedtime routines and foods that help and hinder sleep for children, Sammy also looks at issues such as: 
- sibling relationships 
- comfort toys 
- napping 
- co-sleeping with parents 
 
The Good Sleep Guide for Kids offers a simple, positive approach to solving sleep problems and creating the best environment and routine for restful, satisfying sleep every night.

The Good Sleep Guide for Kids

The essential guide to solving your child's sleep problems, from ages 3 to 10

Although new parents are most worried about sleep issues, their anxiety seems to reach new heights when they even think about that important milestone: potty training. 'When should you potty train?' 'How do you potty train?' 'What if we start too early?' 'What if we start too late?' The questions are endless. 
 
Thankfully help is at hand with Tracy Hogg's reassuring, down-to-earth parenting advice. Her practical potty training programme will help you overcome your fears and includes essential information, including: 
 
- What you'll need to get started 
- How to prepare 
- Getting your child into a training routine 
- What to do if your little one isn't ready 
 
With handy tips and a trouble-shooting section, this potty training guide is a lifesaver for any busy parent.

Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer: Potty Training

Barbara Bloomfield

Relate

Why are you looking for love right now? What kind of relationship do you want? How will you know if you find 'The One'? The Relate Guide to Finding Love will answer all these questions, and more. 
 
From the UK's leading relationship counsellor, The Relate Guide to Finding Love offers common sense help and advice on all aspects of dating and relationships. Short, snappy chapters, each containing a thought-provoking exercise, plus personal case histories, combine to make this a fun and interesting read to help you to: 
- Discover your needs and what you expect from a relationship 
- Get yourself into the right frame of mind to meet someone new 
- Make the most of online dating and singles events 
- Identify whether your new love is really the one for you 
 
Whether you are looking for a long-term relationship or just a quick fling, this practical, accessible guide is perfect for you.

The Relate Guide to Finding Love

David Burns

We all have people in our lives that we just can't seem to get along with. Whether it's our spouse, co-worker or neighbour, something about the relationship just rubs us up the wrong way, and though our natural instinct is to blame the other person, that can just make things worse. 
 
In Feeling Good Together, renowned US psychiatrist Dr David Burns applies his successful method of cognitive interpersonal therapy to teach us how to take control of our relationships. 
 
Building on the principles that he first introduced in Feeling Good (over 4 million copies sold), Burns offers innovative techniques designed to improve communication skills and shows us how to cope with different personality types, such as the big ego, the jealous type, the stubborn mule and the critic, and reveals the five secrets of effective communication. 
 
This groundbreaking book will identify the behaviours that are sabotaging your relationships and give you the tools to change.

Feeling Good Together

The secret to making troubled relationships work

Becky Goddard-Hill

A new baby brings a great deal of excitement to a household, but managing on a reduced income can be a daunting prospect. Full of top tips and creative ideas, this practical guide will help you make the right financial decisions during your pregnancy and throughout your maternity leave - whether this is 6 weeks or 6 years! 
 
How to Afford Time Off with Your Baby will: 
 
* help you to budget at each and every stage, from pregnancy to starting school 
 
* offer guidance on the essential pieces of baby kit so you don't overbuy 
 
* propose creative ways to generate a little extra cash and achieve more with less 
 
* advise you on how to release and save money during this critical time 
 
With an extensive resource section full of up-to-date websites, activity groups and key advisors, How to Afford Time off with Your Baby is an indispensable guide that will help you worry less so you can enjoy those precious moments with your new baby much more.

How to Afford Time Off with your Baby

101 Ways to Ease the Financial Strain

'I can't get my five-week-old to sleep in her cot.' 'My six-week-old resists his naps.' 'My baby is three months old and is still waking up throughout the night.' 
 
Sleep is the number one issue that plagues parents from the moment they bring their newborn baby home from hospital. Even the lucky ones, whose babies are naturally good sleepers, wonder when their baby will sleep through the night. 
 
Tracy Hogg's incredible sensitivity and ability to read infants' cries, coos and assorted baby noises quickly earned her the admiration and gratitude of high-profile couples, including a host of celebrities. With reassuring, down-to-earth advice, her practical sleep programme will help you overcome your baby's sleep problems and works with infants from as young as a day old. 
 
A lifesaver for any busy parent.

Top Tips from the Baby Whisperer: Sleep

Secrets to Getting Your Baby to Sleep through the Night

Oliver James

Dementia is a little understood and currently incurable illness, but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition. Contented Dementia - by clinical psychologist and bestselling author Oliver James - outlines a groundbreaking and practical method for managing dementia that will allow both sufferer and carer to maintain the highest possible quality of life, throughout every stage of the illness. 
 
A person with dementia will experience random and increasingly frequent memory blanks relating to recent events. Feelings, however, remain intact, as do memories of past events and both can be used in a special way to substitute for more recent information that has been lost. The SPECAL method (Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer's) outlined in this book works by creating links between past memories and the routine activities of daily life in the present. 
 
Drawing on real-life examples and user-friendly tried-and-tested methods, Contented Dementia provides essential information and guidance for carers, relatives and professionals.

Contented Dementia

24-hour Wraparound Care for Lifelong Well-being

Simone Cave

Caroline Fertleman

Girls mature more quickly than boys and so are usually ready to potty train earlier. However, they can also be more sensitive to the process as a whole. In Potty Training Girls, Dr Caroline Fertleman and Simone Cave provide a clear step-by-step guide, taking parents through preparation; introducing and encouraging your daughter to use the potty; troubleshooting and much more. 
 
This invaluable parenting guide also includes: 
- Checklists for both mental and physical signs that show your daughter is ready to potty train 
- Guidance on what kind of behaviour to expect and how to manage it 
- Sensitive advice if your daughter is a late starter or a 'rebel' 
 
Potty Training Girls ensures that parents, and their daughters, pass this important milestone calmly, without worry or stress, and shows that it can even be fun!

Potty Training Girls

Sharon Hamilton

'God only knows what fate befell Vicky after, cold and alone at that bus stop, she accepted a lift home.' 
 
Abducted from a local bus stop, schoolgirl Vicky Hamilton vanished into thin air. Her disappearance left the country in shock and a family torn apart. Sharon - her sister and best friend - never stopped looking for her. Then, seventeen years later, the search came to an abrupt and tragic end. 
 
Taken is Sharon Hamilton's heartbreaking true story of what happens to a family when one of its most loved members disappears without a trace. It's about never giving up hope that one day they will come home, and that justice will be done.

Taken

The Agonising True Story of My Missing Sister

Lucy Martin

For single parent families as well as those with two working parents, organising formal childcare can seem complicated and daunting. How are you to navigate your way through all the options available, work out what you can afford and plan all this around you or your partner returning to work? 
 
In The Childcare Bible Lucy Martin offers clear, comprehensive guidance on the world of nannies, nurseries, childminders, and much more. As an ex-solicitor, working mother of three children and owner of a successful nanny-finding business Lucy is excellently placed to give you the best advice on how to negotiate the childcare minefield. Having interviewed parents across the country to ensure the widest range of concerns and issues are covered, The Childcare Bible tells you everything you need to know, including: 
 
- What types of childcare are available and what they each offer 
- How to evaluate a childcare provider or childcare setting 
- What financial support you can get and how it works 
- How to interview nannies and the relevant employment law issues 
- How to decide whether returning to work is right for you 
- What your rights are on returning to work 
 
With checklists and case studies, this essential guide sets out the pros and cons, costs and implications of all available options. Accompanied by a regularly updated website containing the latest legal changes affecting childcare, The Childcare Bible makes organising the right childcare for your family a painless task.

The Childcare Bible

The ultimate guide to all forms of childcare: nannies, maternity nurses, au pairs, nurseries, childminders, relatives and babysitters

Adriana Rabinovich

Having to follow a gluten-free diet can be a daunting prospect for children and young adults - they feel isolated at a time when their friends are enjoying everything from bread, pizza and pasta, to crisps, cakes and biscuits. Yet with supermarkets now stocking many gluten-free ingredients, you can make versatile, healthy and enticing gluten-free meals that will appeal to all the family. Based on recipes created for the author's own daughter, The Gluten-free Cookbook for Kids includes: Over 100 recipes from crispy chicken nuggets and quick pizza to birthday cupcakes and peanut butter cookies; Top Ten kids' favourite dishes; A list of store cupboard essentials; Creative ideas for special treats, healthy snacks and lunchboxes; Top tips for eating out, travelling and school trips. 
 
The Gluten-free Cookbook for Kids will solve many of your mealtime dilemmas and help your child to learn what they can and can't eat. An essential guide for any gluten-free family.

The Gluten-free Cookbook for Kids

Supermarket tantrums? Insufferable car journeys? Sibling in-fighting? Bedtimes that last hours? 
 
Sound familiar? 
 
Behavioural expert Charlie Taylor has the answers in this practical handbook which is full of simple, effective techniques for improving your child's behaviour. 
 
Focusing predominately on the under-fives, Charlie Taylor's straight-talking, no-nonsense approach guides you away from knee-jerk parenting towards a more proactive and positive relationship with your child. With particular emphasis on the power of praise - the basis of his acclaimed 6:1 strategy - and planning in advance for behaviour hotspots, every parent can break the miserable pattern of constant confrontation and repetitive nagging. 
 
With the insights and methods of Divas and Dictators, including a handy Troubleshooter's Guide, every household with young children can quickly transform from havoc to harmony.

Divas & Dictators

The Secrets to Having a Much Better Behaved Child

Don’t Disturb the…

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