Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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Susannah Constantine

Susannah Constantine, our loved style guru and one half of the outrageously popular television programme, What Not to Wear, spent her youth entangled in glitz and glamour. Susannah's very first memoir is filled to the brim with scandalous stories, jaw-dropping royal relationships and star-studded encounters from pop stars to the fashion greats. But beneath it all is a woman who is still getting to know herself, even after falling in love at first sight, presenting one of the most monumental television programmes ever and having Princess Margaret as a second mother figure. 
 
Uncertain of her future, unsure of how to cope with her own mother's tragic battle with bipolar disorder, and becoming a mother herself, Susannah is on a journey of discovery and her memoir tells you her greatest loves and lessons, bound together with disarming honesty and beguiling humour.

Ready For Absolutely Nothing

‘If you like Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner, you’ll like this’ The Times

Jeannette Jackson

'I designed the Drop Zone Diet as a scientist. I wrote it as a woman' 
 
It's rapid -- it's intense -- and it WORKS. 
 
It's the celebrity secret -- it's the diet originally designed for celebrities and models looking to shed the weight fast for a photoshoot or casting. The Drop Zone Diet offers you 'Intelligent Nutrition' as biochemist Jeannette Jackson combines foods with minimal calories but with maximal nutritional value to blast the pounds away and make you look and feel amazing. 
It works with your body, leaving you vibrant, energised and radiant from the inside out. 
 
After dropping a whopping 14lbs in 14 days you'll be in fabulous shape and motivated to transform your health and wellness long term. With an easy-to-follow guide to the science behind dieting and some fantastic and fool-proof advice, it's the once and for all plan to end the yo-yo dieting cycle. 
 
There's no need for gimmicks, calorie counting, classes or sponsors. You just need you: passionate, prepped and ready to change your life once and for all ... and a little help from Jeannette, of course. 
 
It's time to get in the zone!

The Drop Zone Diet

Angela Liddon

One of the trailblazers of plant-based cooking, Angela Liddon's irresistible and foolproof recipes have become the gold standard for this type of food. Her phenomenally popular blog and bestselling debut, The Oh She Glows Cookbook, have amassed millions of fans worldwide, eager for her latest recipes. 
 
Now, in this highly anticipated follow-up cookbook, Liddon shares creative, accessible and delicious ideas that are perfect for busy lifestyles, promising to make plant-based eating convenient every day of the week, not forgetting special occasions. 
 
Filled with more than 100 family-friendly recipes, including simple smoothies, breakfasts, snacks and staples, you'll find meals and treats that everyone will love, such as Homemade Sunflower Seed Butter, Lentil-Mushroom Bolognese, Sweet Potato Casserole, Rainbow Quinoa Salad, Ultimate Flourless Brownies and Cookie Dough Balls. Oh She Glows Every Day also includes useful store-cupboard suggestions and tips for kid-, allergy-, and freezer-friendly cooking. 
 
A beautiful go-to cookbook from one of the internet's most popular voices in food, Oh She Glows Every Day proves that it's possible to cook simple, nourishing and tasty meals - even on a busy schedule.

Oh She Glows Every Day

Quick and simply satisfying plant-based recipes

Lucy Claire Dunbar

For Lucy, hope can be found everywhere – in family, friendships and even the changing of seasons – and in her art, she seeks to capture that magic in every line and brushstroke. 
 
From celebrating the kindness of strangers and commemorating loss to reflections on the passing of time and the beginning of new opportunities as the years turn, Lucy’s work combines beautiful, hand-drawn illustrations with words that speak to the heart. 
 
In this, her first book, she’ll be drawing together a range of her most popular artwork, framing it within a series of intertwined short stories, to create an irresistible and perennially appealing gift, whether it’s for your friend, family, partner or yourself.

The Book of Gifts

Susan Smillie

When Susan set sail from the south-west coast of England on her beloved sailboat, Isean, she was unaware this spontaneous departure would lead to a journey spanning several years and countries across the continent. 
 
Enduring both physical and navigational challenges, the other side of her story reveals a more important change - her inner journey - that took place. This wasn't a challenge or a mid-life adventure; it was much gentler than that, but much greater too. She was seeking nothing less than an entirely different life, having left the land far behind to call the wild, unbiddable sea home.

The Half Bird

Kate Ferdinand

Kate's aim is to make every woman feel body-beautiful whatever their size, in this book she shares how she has grown to love her own body, and how everyone can do the same. 
 
She has always loved exercise, for both the mental and physical benefits, and has developed this plan to make exercise fun and achievable for everyone. Her 21-day plan consists of 20-minute HIIT style routines which alternate between upper, lower, and full body exercises so that every muscle group is worked but never burned out. 
 
Alongside the workouts Kate also reveals how she motivates herself, fits in exercise in around her busy family life, how she combats her anxieties and she even reveals her favourite energy-boosting recipes.

Fitter, Happier, Healthier

Discover the strength of your mind and body at home

Lisa Riley

Lisa Riley's weight-loss story is truly remarkable. After years wearing size-30 clothes and convincing herself she was 'fat but happy', she finally got a wake-up call when diabetes threatened. Two years later, she's 12 stone lighter, significantly healthier and the weight is gone for good. 
 
Lisa's many devoted fans are desperate to know how she did it. In this inspirational book, Lisa shares her story, along with a simple 8-day eating plan to kick off the diet, 75 delicious low-carb recipes, everyday fitness tips and unflinching advice for anyone keen to follow in her footsteps. Lisa credits her success to the power of honesty - only when she was 100% honest with herself did the pounds finally fall away. With Lisa's help, readers can put the fibs and excuses behind them, kick the bad habits and achieve the body and health they've always wanted.

Lisa Riley's Honesty Diet

Change your life in just 8 days

Chris Ramsey

Rosie Ramsey

SH**GED. 
Hitting the bars, necking drinks and necking strangers, one-night-stands, nightmare dates, ghosting, tears, more drinking, living off late-night chips. 
 
MARRIED. 
Meeting 'the one', weekends away, moving in, declaring life-long love, stags and hens, the perfect wedding, the honeymoon period, starting a family. 
 
ANNOYED. 
Can you close the bathroom door if you're doing that? Sleepless nights, arguing about whose turn it is to change the baby's nappy, toys everywhere, only having two drinks, still being hungover, wondering when it all stopped being easy. 
 
The Ramseys write hilariously and with honesty about the ups and downs of dating, relationships, arguing, parenting and everything in between.

Sh**ged. Married. Annoyed.

The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller

Evie Sage

A deeply intimate and beautifully written memoir of female desire all told through the lens of one woman and her open marriage. Through self-excavation, honesty and piercing insight, Sage picks herself apart to find the sparks that triggered the expansion of a marriage into unfamiliar terrain. The result is an intimate portrait of a marriage that embraces the fluidity of desire, new beginnings, appetites and possibilities, but also love, commitment and trust.

Me, You, Them

A Memoir of Modern Love

Giovanna Fletcher

From the author of the no. 1 bestseller Happy Mum, Happy Baby, and the chart-topping podcast of the same name, comes a beautiful collection of heartfelt letters written to her three young sons, her husband and the family and friends who have inspired and supported her to become the mother she is today. 
 
 In this beautiful book Giovanna shares touching personal tales of her own family life whilst also reflecting on deeper universal truths of parenting, from coping with mum guilt and finding a work / life balance to positive body image and a parent's hopes for their child's future.

Letters on Motherhood

The heartwarming and inspiring collection of letters perfect for Mother’s Day

Chloe Brotheridge

Many young women struggle with confidence, compulsive people-pleasing, and an inability to speak up and ask for what they really want. Now, Chloe Brotheridge offers her expert advice on how young women should take up space, speak up, and put themselves first. 
 
We often think that confidence is either something we have or don't have, but it can be built like a muscle. Chloe herself used to have panic attacks during presentations but can now confidently present to hundreds of people. The key to her transformation was to create more time and space for herself, to say 'no' to things that aren't in her own best interests, and to stop worrying about what other people think of her. 
 
The Confidence Solution reveals how everyone can follow their path to confidence. 
 
*Previously published as Brave New Girl*

The Confidence Solution

The essential guide to boosting self-esteem, reducing anxiety and feeling confident

Will Schwalbe

By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met everyone he cared to know. He also knew exactly whom he wanted to avoid: the jocks. The jocks wore backwards baseball caps and moved in packs, filling boisterous tables in the dining hall, and on the whole seemed to Will another species, one he might encounter only at his own peril. 
 
All this dramatically changed when he collided with Chris Maxey, known to just about everyone as Maxey. Maxey was physically imposing, loud, a star wrestler-and under the strangely liberating circumstances of a little-known secret society at Yale, the two forged a bond that has remained a mainstay of their lives for forty years and counting. 
 
We Should Not be Friends tracks an extraordinary friendship over decades of challenge and change. Will Schwalbe's marvellous new work is a testament to the miracle of human connection and to all we have to gain when we let go of first impressions and see one another for who we truly are.

We Should Not Be Friends

The Story of An Unlikely Friendship

Gyles Brandreth

This is both a book about Winnie-the-Pooh - his genesis, his life across a hundred years, the essence of Pooh’s special philosophy and the reasons for his worldwide popularity - and the intimate biography of three generations of an unusual, fascinating and troubled family who knew fame and fortune, for many years despising both, but ultimately finding a profound reason to be grateful for the millions Pooh brought them.

Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear

A Biography of A. A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh

Mary Berry

'This book is a collection of skills I've learnt for running a home. Gleaned from years of practical experience, along with all the hints that friends and family have imparted to me, I hope it will be a helping hand' - Mary Berry 
 
Inside you'll find tips on how to: 
 
Order your freezer - Store and organize your food - Create cleaning products from store cupboard items - Make a bed in no time - Banish moths from your home for good - Remove stains from every kind of fabric - Bring greenery into your home even if you have no garden - Create beautiful flower arrangements - Set a formal dining table - Be a fantastic host at dinner parties - Make thoughtful homemade and edible gifts - Prepare your home for Christmas - Write thank you letters 
 
Easy to use, practical and beautifully illustrated, Mary's Household Tips &amp; Tricks covers everything from Mary's golden rules for baking to her favourite flowers for each season, from how to polish silver to whether 
tea should be poured before or after the milk. With secrets for accomplishing the most challenging home-keeping tasks with ease, Mary's wonderfully simple book will help turn any house into a home.

Mary's Household Tips and Tricks

Your Guide to Happiness in the Home

Patsy Rodenburg

Patsy Rodenburg is the leading acting coach in the UK (she has worked with Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen and Cate Blanchett). Patsy has discovered the principles of speech in theatre apply extremely effectively when transferred into the workplace. 
 
Do you want to be more persuasive? Do you want to enthuse and inpsire and feel good whenever you present or speak in public? This practical programme will make you as effective as Judi Dench is on screen in every meeting, pitch and conversation in person or on the phone. You will learn how to impress your boss without being overbearing, connect with people if you are introvert and you will have true confidence in all your communication. There are practical exercises and example throughout and Patsy's results are amazing.

Power Presentation

Formal Speech in an Informal World

Marian Keyes

Learn to bake with Britain and Ireland's favourite women's fiction author, Marian Keyes 
 
 Saved by Cake gives an extremely honest account of Marian Keyes' recent battle with depression, and how baking has helped her. A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend and that was it - she realized that baking was what she needed to do in order to get her through each day. And so she baked, and she wrote her recipes down, and little by little the depression has started to lift, along with her sponges... 
 
 With chapters on cupcakes, cheesecakes, meringues and macaroons, chocolate cakes, fruit cakes and favourite classics, Marian's recipes are aimed firmly at beginner bakers, offering hints and tips to help along the way. Never patronizing, always honest and witty, accessible and full of fun, the bakes and cakes that Marian serves up in this cookbook will put a smile on your face and make you happy. From her Consistently Reliable Cupcakes and Very Chocolately Macaroons, to the ease of her Fridge-set Honeycomb Cheesecake, you will want to have a go at making all of Marian's recipes. The shoe and handbag biscuits particularly. Very covetable. Very Marian.

Saved by Cake

British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

James Norbury

In James Norbury’s fifth book, we are invited to take a closer look at the world around us and search for beauty in the here and now. As Big Panda and Tiny Dragon undertake their demanding expedition, they traverse dark forests, hazardous mountains and derelict ruins. But whilst the landscapes of life can seem overwhelming,  the pair slowly come to see pockets of light and beauty at every turn. As day-to-day life steadily consumes us, it is easy to to miss life's hidden treasures. Through beautiful illustrations and a simple tale inspired by Buddhist philosophy, Norbury draws our gaze back to the simple pleasures and helps us to find hope in the most unlikely places.

A Beautiful World

Esther Ghey

On 11 February 2023, 16-year-old Brianna Ghey was lured to a local park where she was tragically murdered. Amidst the international outpouring of outrage, anguish and displays of support, her usually shy and private mother, Esther, came to reflect on how she could redirect her personal grief into campaigning to help others and to create a lasting legacy for her child. A clarion call for change, this is an essential and urgent read about finding threads of hope in the darkest of times and uniting to protect our young people from the threats they face in an increasingly unchecked digital world.

Under a Pink Sky

Lou Robbie

Make & Freeze is the ideal family cookbook, with 100 recipes that can all be made in advance and popped in the freezer. Family life is hectic, and parents don’t always have the time or energy to cook from scratch every evening. 
 
With recipes ranging from School Morning Pancakes to lunchbox Blueberry and Ricotta Muffins and Chickpea and Squash Curry, Make and Freeze is real homecooked food for time-poor parents. Lou’s recipes are healthier, cheaper and tastier than shop-bought packaged food, and are just as easy to grab from the freezer when you need them on a rainy day.

Make & Freeze

The ultimate guide to family-friendly meal prep

Carla Ciccone

For Carla Ciccone, the feeling of not quite knowing how to perform adult life was all too familiar. 
 
After a lifetime of muddling through shame and self-blame, Carla was finally diagnosed with ADHD at thirty-nine years old. With this late diagnosis came the realisation that her most troubling traits weren’t deep personality flaws, but symptoms. 
 
The knowledge that her ADHD had gone unnoticed all her life felt like a missing puzzle piece. It prompted Carla to explore the cohort of women and girls (the ‘nowhere girls’) that science had ignored. Through scientific research, interviews with experts, and the warmth and wit of her own lived experience, Carla explores how the gendered approach to ADHD left girls just like her to struggle in silence for years. 
 
A powerful and deeply personal account Nowhere Girl is a source of explanation and solace for women who are embarking on their own journey of discovery of life with ADHD.

Nowhere Girl

Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation

Jamie Oliver

Get more goodness into the ones you love. 
 
Jamie's Super Food - Family Classics continues with the popular philosophy behind Jamie's Everyday Super Food, bringing exciting healthy eating to the heart of the home. 
 
Mix up your recipe repertoire and freshen up your family favourites with new nutritious, tasty meals. Make your family menu something to shout about. 
 
Sneak in extra veg with Squash Mac 'N' Cheese and enjoy a no-arguments family dinner with Chicken Fajitas. When you need a no-fuss meal on the table fast try Chicken Goujons or Pasta Pesto, or get ahead with freezer-friendly Jumbo Fish Fingers or Proper Chicken Nuggets. Use ingredients you know the family already love in new, exciting ways, with Sweet Potato Fish Cakes or Chocolate Porridge.

Super Food Family Classics

Miranda Hart

In January, Christmas trees across the land are taken down, discarded and forgotten. But what if one Christmas tree wants a different fate . . . 
 
This is a story about talking and dancing Christmas trees (yes, dancing!), a dog called Jessie who also talks, a woman called Joan who – less surprisingly, in that she is a human being – talks too, two strange men (and yes, they talk) and their truck (which doesn’t talk). There are also lots of lights, baubles and stars. 
 
Can Joan and Jessie rescue the discarded January Christmas trees, or will their plans be thwarted by the two men and their truck?

The Christmas Tree that Loved to Dance

Amelia Freer

Following the phenomenal success of her first book, Eat. Nourish. Glow., Amelia is back with a much-awaited cookbook. Containing over 100 delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes, Cook. Nourish. Glow. will equip readers with the skills and knowledge to improve their health while empowering them to cook with confidence. 
 
 Chapters will cover cooking in the simplest terms, featuring step-by-step visuals designed for the novice chef; how to use and prepare staple pantry ingredients; eating on the go; a 'naughty' chapter - because living healthily is about consistency, not perfection - and a chapter full of dishes designed combat gut-related issues.

Cook. Nourish. Glow.

120 recipes to help you lose weight, look younger, and feel healthier

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