Misc - Other

365 knot challenges for all abilities.

You won't escape this book without learning something, and you won't put it down without picking up an interesting fact or useful technique. Give it a month and you'll be a knot tying fanatic; give it a year and you'll be a knotting supremo!

Author: Nic Compton

Publisher: Adlard Coles

Paperback. 368pp. 20cm by 19.5cm.

ISBN: 9781472985163

Weight: 877g

Original Price: £17.99

New buildings from an old tradition.

The book offers both visual inspiration from the specially commissioned photography but also the human stories behind the creation and design of these treehouses.

Author: Jane Field Lewis

Publisher: Pavilion

Hardback. 223pp. 25.5cm by 25.5cm.

ISBN: 9781911595120

Weight: 1.32kg

Original Price: £25.00

Father of the modern circus. The life and times of Philip Astley.

Author: Steve Ward.

Publisher: Pen & Sword.

Paperback. 128pp. 15cm by 23cm.

ISBN 9781526706874

Original Price: £12.99

Foreword written by Nick Baveystock, Director General and Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers: David McFetrich has created a wonderful encyclopaedia. This is not just a list of British bridges: it is also a social history of a nation continually growing in industrial power and might, of engineers and architects striving to create beauty and purpose out of functionality, and of the real heroes of the tale, the bridges that underpin our very existence.

Author: David McFetrich

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 444pp. 22.5cm by 29cm.

ISBN 9781526752956

Weight. 1.885 kg

Original Price: £60.00

A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables. Purkiss uses the story of food as a revelatory device to chart changing views on class, gender, and tradition through the ages.

Author: Diane Purkiss

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. 549pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780007255566

Weight: 904g

Original Price: £30.00

Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard

Author: Kathryn Baird

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 128pp. 20cm by 21.5cm.

ISBN: 9781803990460

Weight: 354g

Original Price: £15.99

The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with this much-loved art has changed, evolved and progressed over time.

Author: Emma Kay

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 224pp. 15.9cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781526757487

Weight: 700g

Original Price: £25.00

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, it was Britain that first spread the beautiful game across the world.

Author: Stuart Laycock, Philip Laycock

Publisher: History Press

Hardback. 320pp. 13.8cm by 21.6cm.

ISBN: 9780750998796

Weight: 536g

Original Price: £15.99

Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for a dialogue that weaves a fascinating tale.

Author: Theodore Papakostas, translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito

Publisher: William Collins

Paperback. 288pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780008596071

Original Price: £14.99

A lifetime journey to the sources of nature's scents.

Author: Dominique Roques

Publisher: Welbeck

Hardback. 272pp. 16cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9781914495168

Weight: 678g

Original Price: £20.00

Puzzles Inspired by the World's Deadliest Espionage Organisation.

Author: Tim Dedopulos

Publisher: Welbeck

Hardback. 224pp. 17.5cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781787391741

Weight: 760g

Original Price: £14.99

A Masterpiece, A Mystery and the Dirty World of Art.

Author: Ben Lewis

Publisher: William Collins

Paperback. 416pp. 13cm by 20cm.

ISBN: 9780008313449

Weight: 330g

Original Price: £9.99

This book offers a whistle-stop guide to the history of leathercraft and tanning.

Author: Lynn Huggins-Cooper

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 176pp. 15.2cm by 22.8cm.

ISBN: 9781526724489

Weight: 260g

Original Price: £12.99

15 step by step projects for the great outdoors.

Maker.Wild will take you on a journey from DIY greenhorn to survival crafts professional, and give you all the necessary maker skills to upgrade camping trips and hikes from barely organized to expertly crafted.

Author: Mike Warren

Publisher: Welbeck

Hardback. 158pp. 19cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781787393981

Weight: 655g

Original Price: £16.99

Author: Millie Marotta

Publisher: Batsford

50 Cards. 11cm by 16cm.

ISBN: 9781849942904

Weight: 482g

Original Price: £12.99

Author: Millie Marotta

Publisher: Batsford

50 Cards. 11cm by 16cm.

ISBN: 9781849943796

Weight: 482g

Original Price: £12.99

A modern guide to growing and making plant-based products.

Author: Silvana De Soissons

Publisher: Pavilion

Hardback. 192pp. 20cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781911663812

Weight: 846g

Original Price: £20.00

Author: Stephen Turnbull

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 230pp. 15.5cm by 23.3cm.

ISBN: 9781526796486

Weight: 432g

Original Price: £14.99

This unique book offers a detailed itinerary for actually ‘walking’ Sherlock Holmes. 

Author: Stephen Browning.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 140pp. 16x24x1.9cm.

ISBN: 9781526779014

Weight: 450g.

Original Price: £20.00

In the last few decades, steampunk has blossomed into a striking and distinctive style of fashion, art, design and even music. It is in the written word however that steampunk has its roots and in this book Simon Webb explores and examines the real inventions which underpin the fantasy. 

Author: Simon Webb.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Paperback. 155pp. 15.7x23.3x1.4cm.

ISBN: 9781526732859

Weight: 300g.

Original Price: £12.99

Explore Britain’s dark criminal history through the fascinating objects that have been hidden away in the Crime Museum at Scotland Yard, a collection that, although world-famous, is so sensitive it has never before been opened to the public.

Author: Alan Moss, Keith Skinner

Publisher: History Press

Hardback. 400pp. 15.6cm by 23.4cm.

ISBN: 9780750998635

Weight: 990g

Original Price: £22.00

The Film Memoirs and Photographs of Alan Tomkins

Author: Alan Tomkins, Oliver Stone (Foreword)

Publisher: History Press

Paperback. 167pp. 24.7x22.5x1cm.

ISBN: 9780750992565

Weight: 743g

Original Price: £20.00

Egyptomania in Fashion From the 19th Century to the Present Day

Author: Isabella Campagnol.

Publisher: Pen & Sword

Hardback. 231pp. 16x24x2.2cm.

ISBN: 9781399098076

Weight: 750g.

Original Price: £25.00

Try a different look - learn professional techniques - discover styles foe every hair type.

Author: DK

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley

Paperback. 192pp. 19.5cm by 23cm.

ISBN: 9780241237267

Weight: 723g

Original Price: £9.99

Easy Ways to Live with Nature in Mind.

Author: Ida Magntorn

Publisher: Pavilion

HPaperback. 144pp. 16.5cm by 22cm.

ISBN: 9781911682110

Weight: 400g

Original Price: £14.99

Conversations on art, life and everything from the cult podcast.

Author: Russell Tovey, Robert Diament

Publisher: Batsford

Paperback. 256pp. 19.5cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781781578797

Weight: 580g

Original Price: £25.00

The True Crime Story of the Most Astonishing Murder Ring in History.

Author: Patti McCracken

Publisher: Mudlark

Hardback. 336pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780008579531

Original Price: £16.99

The past, present and future of our quest to go deeper underwater.

Author: Jeff Maynard

Publisher: William Collins Books

Hardback. 298pp. 15.5cm by 34cm.

ISBN: 9780008532727

Weight: 575g

Original Price: £25.00

Edith Twyford was once a world-famous children's author, but now her only legacy is the rumoured existence of the Twyford Code: a series of clues hidden in her books leading to... what? No one knows - but that hasn't stopped the speculation.

Author: Janice Hallett

Publisher: Viper

Hardback. 384pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9781788165310

Weight: 700g

Original Price: £16.99

Exploring the 19th- and early 20th Century legal history that influenced the modern-day stances on issues such as domestic abuse, sexual violence and divorce.

Author: Kate Morgan

Publisher: Mudlark

Hardback. 320pp. 16cm by 24cm.

ISBN: 9780008559571

Original Price: £20.00

The battle over Britain's narrative is the struggle for its future and its place in the world. So, how do we escape the trick mirror - and see ourselves as we really are?

Author: Michael Peer

Publisher: Monoray

Hardback. 384pp. 16cm by 23.5cm.

ISBN: 9781800961760

Weight: 470g

Original Price: £20.00