Little Brown Book Group: 2532 books
by Waris Dirie
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Fashion model, UN ambassador and courageous spirit, Waris Dirie was born into a family of tribal desert nomads in Somalia. She told her story - enduring female circumcision at five years old; running away through the desert; being discovered by Terence Donovan and becoming a top fashion model - in...
ToddlerCalm
A guide for calmer toddlers and happier parents
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
This book works.
It shows that that the naughty step, sticker charts and controlled crying are NOT the only solutions.
Many parents struggle with getting their toddlers to sleep, picky eaters; respect; tantrums; discipline; throwing; biting; hitting, communication... All this is normal.
What is important...
by Sophie King
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Let best-selling novelist Sophie King guide you through the whole process of writing your first novel and getting it published.
This revised edition takes aspiring novelists through the steps of writing a novel, from finding that initial idea, to keeping the plot going and crafting the perfect...
Improve Your Written English
Master the essentials of grammar, punctuation and spelling and write with greater confidence
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Written in short, accessible sections, this book explains the basics of writing good English. It includes punctuation, sentence construction and spelling. You will learn how to adopt different tasks, such as writing a report, essay or short story. There are also chapters on letter writing, filling in forms and constructing job applications.
by Stephen P. Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire.
The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's Iliad & Odyssey;...
Crazy Age
Thoughts on Being Old
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Ever since I have inhabited old age, I have looked and listened, mostly in vain, for news of what it is like for others who inhabit it too. Naturally, I'm interested in its well-known depredations, the physical and mental ones that people in their forties and fifties so publicly dread. And who would...
The Battle for Singapore
The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the Malayan campaign, the siege of Singapore, the ignominious surrender to a much smaller Japanese force,...
Scarlett's Women
'Gone With the Wind' and its Female Fans
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
One of the most successful books ever published and the basis of one of the most popular and highly praised Hollywood films of all time, Gone With the Wind has entered world culture in a way that few other stories have.
Seventy-five years on from the cinematic release of Gone with the Wind,...
Skymeadow
Notes from an English Gardener
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
'A love letter to English horticulture written by a passionate gardener. A must-read for anyone who has dreamt of cultivating their own patch of land' Jane Perrone
'Skymeadow is a fascinating book . . . Every flower, every passing bud, every change in the season is described with rapture' Jilly...
What Freud Really Said
An Introduction to His Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
What Freud Really Said offers the most lucid overview available of Sigmund Freud, his legacy, and his place in our world. As the person responsible for the birth of psychoanalysis and one of the sharpest clinical minds of the twentieth century, Freud continues to be one of the most influential thinkers...
A Different Kind Of Weather
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
'Why did you go into politics in the first place?'
A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over the years, Lord Waldegrave's is a life lived through politics.
The youngest of seven children, and the son of an earl, Waldegrave's quintessentially...
I Call Myself A Feminist
The View from Twenty-Five Women Under Thirty
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Is feminism still a dirty word? We asked twenty-five of the brightest, funniest, bravest young women what being a feminist in 2015 means to them.
We hear from Laura Bates (of the Everyday Sexism Project), Reni Eddo-Lodge (award-winning journalist and author), Yas Necati (an eighteen-year-old...
by Michael Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Drawing on unique sources, Michael Bloch describes the career of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War.As a military liaison officer in France during 1939-40, he issued warnings which, had they been heeded, might have avoided the defeat of France;as Governor of the Bahamas 1940-45, he succeeded...
by Stephen Oppenheimer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Stephen Oppenheimer's extraordinary scientific detective story combining genetics, linguistics, archaeology and historical record shatters the myths we have come to live by. It demonstrates that the Anglo-Saxon invasions contributed just a tiny fraction (5%) to the English gene pool.
Two thirds...