A guide to what not to do in your garden, this entertaining and helpful book teaches you how to avoid pointless and unnecessary garden work, leaving you with the time to enjoy looking after your little patch of paradise.

History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ... until now. Author Emma Marriott pulls it all together, from the world's earliest civilizations to the founding of the United Nations in 1945, passing by the likes of Charlemagne, the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean War, to name a few.

From the best ways to test a witch to making a mummy in eight simple steps, and with fascinating facts about botched beheadings, greedy royals and the plague, Hung, Drawn and Quartered looks at the most gruesome facts from the past.

For the first time, social historian and TV presenter Ruth Goodman uncovers how the development of the coal-fired domestic range fundamentally changed our world - and how the Industrial Revolution truly started in the kitchen.

Your cool pocket companion and one-stop guide to kindness! The fourth in this pocket-sized range of gift self-help titles, designed to help you get in touch with your empathy and kindness

The first biography of Lettice Knollys, one of the most prominent women of the Elizabethan era, also examines the relationship between Elizabeth and Lettice's husband, Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, within the context of his third marriage.

Discover the true history of some of the most extraordinary inventions of the ancient world, including mysterious devices that we can't recreate today, and the original versions of modern technology.

To discover whether you (or your loved ones) possess the grumpy gene, this quiz book has been devised to gauge your reaction to hundreds of different situations. Points are awarded for each answer and your total score indicates where you rate on the grumpy scale.