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Cooking and Baking
0593084276 
Hardback 
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Avery
Resource type: Physical
0008560722 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pavilion
Resource type: Physical
Note: The debut family cookbook from actor, presenter, King of the Jungle and MasterChef 2021 semi-finalist, Joe Swash.
1527293394 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: James Rayner
Resource type: Physical
1984856731 
Hardback
Year: 2020
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Resource type: Physical
XX00420460 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Amazon
Resource type: Physical
1529095573 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: One Boat
Resource type: Physical
Note: A beautiful full-colour cookbook featuring simple, tasty recipes to nourish your health and support the planet, based on a global scientific report. Originally published: as Eat to save the planet. 2020
0593192117 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Avery
Resource type: Physical
Gardening
1784728152 
Hardback 
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Resource type: Physical
Note: One of the keys to happy gardening is knowing what to do and when for the best results. In this handy guide, experienced horticulturalist and gardening writer Martyn Cox takes you through the gardening year month by month, offering wise, clear and helpful advice on the essential tasks and how to avoid problems along the way.
1838663207 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Resource type: Physical
Note: A beautifully illustrated A-to-Z who's who of the world's finest garden-makers, planters, horticulturists and their signature works from throughout history, spanning all styles and continents, this book has been fully revised and updated.
1804190012 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Radar
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Make Hay While the Sun Shines' takes us behind the farm gate and follows a year on the farm: from calving cows to maintaining machinery, from mucking out to planning and building a brand-new cow shed. Tom gives us a unique insight into everyday life on a busy dairy farm with all its highs, lows and hard graft.
1910258288 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The Pimpernel Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: An examination of the relationship between gardens and current environmental issues, and how ideas can be explored that create positive and holistic ways of engaging with the natural world.
147229291X 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Headline
Resource type: Physical
Note: 2022 sees the 20th anniversary of Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park in Suffolk, which started out as a farm for rare breed pigs in 2002. This book will celebrate the journey that Jimmy and his family have found themselves on over the years, and the many animals that now call the farm home.
0241545781 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Limited
Resource type: Physical
0717192520 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Gill Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Discover the inspiration to get gardening! Create and maintain a stunning and fragrant garden with Ireland's favourite garden designer Diarmuid Gavin and plantsman extraordinaire Paul Smyth as your guides.
1784884928 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Learn how to make cuttings and regrow a huge range of houseplants as well as a few outdoor varieties with this simple, step-by-step guide to propagation.
1529389410 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Resource type: Physical
Note: National treasure and presenter of ITV's hugely popular Love Your Garden, Alan Titchmarsh brings us his month by month almanac of garden knowledge, facts, advice and inspiration. Here is seasonal advice on what to grow and sow, projects to engage in, as well as wildlife to spot, gorgeous gardens to visit, birds and flowers to celebrate, weather notes, and nature to reflect on in poems, music, and books.
1785947427 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: BBC Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Few world cities hold the romance and historical sweep of Venice. Thousands visit every year - and a mixture of crowds and climate leave it vulnerable, so much so it is often said to be in danger of sinking - but away from the usual tourist haunts around St.
1785947303 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: BBC Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: As Conservation Manager at Holkham in Norfolk, Jake Fiennes' radical habitat restoration and agricultural work has nurtured its species and risen its crop yields - bringing back wetlands, hedgerows, birds and butterflies over 25,000 acres of land. But this isn't rewilding - there is no 'wild' in Britain anymore.
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1842467468 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Kew
Resource type: Physical
Note: Kew expert Tony Hall profiles over 70 of our amazing ancient trees, avenues and forests, revealing their locations across Britain and Ireland, and their cultural and natural history, botany and folklore.
1643261789 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Timber Press
Resource type: Physical
0711269939 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: Discover what to do at just the right time to create a garden that's full of life and colour all year round. 'What to Sow, Grow and Do' is a season-by-season guide that brings together projects, advice, task lists and ideas to help you plan your time in the garden, inspire your planting and nurture a deeper relationship with nature.
0719841704 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: The seaside can be a stunning setting for a garden, but it can be difficult to find plants that will thrive. Salt-laden winds make the careful selection of plants and landscaping materials vital. This book provides a step-by-step process, as used by professional garden designers, that will help you design, build and plant a beautiful, sustainable garden.
0754835375 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Patios & Courtyards' is packed with creative ideas for making a successful outdoor space of every shape and size. There is advice on flooring, walls and screens, containers, structures, furniture, ornaments, water features and lighting. Inspirational examples are presented alongside step-by-step instructions to explain how to create a courtyard in your chosen style.
1838666168 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Resource type: Physical
Note: With its easy-to-use A-Z format, this book examines over 200 modern and historical garden styles, features, types and ornaments, with definitions and informative descriptions and more than 500 spectacular images. This accessible, inspirational book is perfect for both amateur gardeners and specialists alike.
178472761X 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'Grow 5' reveals a brilliantly simple, fast way to make a beautiful garden, whether you have a small plot or a handful of pots. This practical and inspirational book by award-winning garden expert Lucy Bellamy and photographer Jason Ingram includes more than 100 of the newest and best plants and how to use them through the seasons.
1529421217 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Greenfinch
Resource type: Physical
Note: Transform your patch of earth into a thriving, vibrant garden with this failsafe guide. Gardening expert Ellen Mary takes you through every step of gardening, from the basics of understanding your space and decoding plant labels to common pests and how to manage them.
0008595232 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: National Trust Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Discover the joy of growing and using plants indoors and outdoors, no matter how limited your space. If one positive thing came out of the successive lockdowns of recent years, it was a renewed interest in gardening. While life slowed down, we were all looking for simple ways to connect with nature, improve our surroundings and lift our spirits.
Biographies
1526382822 
Hardback 
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pat-a-Cake
Resource type: Physical
Note: Who is hiding under the flaps!
1529045754 
Hardback 
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
1913639525 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Catch a Star
Resource type: Physical
Note: Discover all the different foods you can get in the supermarket.
1526382830 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Pat-a-Cake
Resource type: Physical
Note: Who is hiding under the flaps. Play peek-a-boo with new dinosaur friends to find out
1781963665 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Fantom Films Limited
Resource type: Physical
1471170845 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Resource type: Physical
0755502396 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Farshore
Resource type: Physical
Note: This fun-filled book will help little ones learn the names of familiar things.
183891188X 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Caterpillar Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Travel by land, sea and air in this bright and bold board book full of peek-through holes, flaps and surprises!
1913639592 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: New Frontier Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: Discover the joy of being outside in the park in this bright and colourful lift-the-flap children's board book. Perfect for reading aloud and developing early word recognition.
1406391832 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Hop aboard the baby bus.
XX00420723 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Imagine That
Resource type: Physical
Note: Touch, feel, and tickle the friendly jungle animals in this interactive book that is full of playful fun.
1788813731 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Little Tiger Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Lift the peep-through flaps to find out which animal really makes each noise.
0141376147 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Puffin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: There's a little dragon in your book! She's oh-so cute, but watch out for her fiery sneezes.
XX00420546 
Paperback
Year: May 2021
Media class: Paperback
Resource type: Physical
10p: illus.,
0995721750 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: London Books
Resource type: Physical
139832597X 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Rising Stars
Resource type: Physical
Note: Look at all the books in the book nook!
1398325937 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Rising Stars
Resource type: Physical
Note: Zak and Yazz spot a lot of stuff in Nan's attic!
1619634074 
Hardback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: A message of unconditional love through the seasons is wrapped in a warm and exuberant board book--perfect for baby showers, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, and love all year round! I love you strong, I love you small, Together, we have it all. I love you wild, I love you loud, I shout it out and I feel proud. When you love someone, you want the whole world to know. Through good times and bad, rain or shine, love is unconditional. Share this beautiful board book for story time, bedtime, or anytime--with someone you love!
1623541549 
Hardback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Resource type: Physical
Note: Baby loves trying new foods. How does she taste their flavors?
1474988881 
Hardback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: A delightful series of board books
Arts and Crafts
0500023794 
Hardback 
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Resource type: Physical
1787393976 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Welbeck
Resource type: Physical
1440353484 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: IMPACT Books
Resource type: Physical
0762472847 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Running Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Packed with 100+ inventive groupings, hierarchies, and infographics, the 'DC Book of Lists' offers a creative way of looking at both the well-known and obscure histories of the top heroes and villains from the DC Universe across 80+ years.
1645674282 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Resource type: Physical
1781577587 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Ilex Press
Resource type: Physical
0789208792 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
Resource type: Physical
1446308693 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: David & Charles
Resource type: Physical
Note: Here is a collection of 100 fun quilt blocks from some of the best known names in patchwork and quilting. All the blocks are made using foundation paper piecing and it includes full step-by-step instructions and photographs for how to paper piece.
1950934578 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Cedar Lane Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: From Megan Kreiner, best-selling author and popular crochet designer, 'Construction Vehicles to Crochet' is packed with creative projects to help your favorite construction fan play all day.
1788169298 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Profile Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: A critic and superfan takes on the superhero epic to end all epics. What he finds is a magic mirror of the past 60 years, from the atomic terrors of the Cold War to the political divides of our present. Wolk teases out Marvel's mixture of progressive visions and painful stereotypes, its regrettable moments as well as its flights of luminous creative
Health and Wellbeing
1529109396 
Paperback 
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Ebury Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'If I can go from obesity to the Olympics in four years, and then become a professional boxer, then anything is possible in your life'. Lawrence Okolie shares 40 short life lessons and explains what you should do to focus your mind on your goals, however ambitious they are, so you can make your pipe dreams real too. Originally published: 2021
256p
1541617576 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Basic Books
Resource type: Physical
1861688482 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Independence Educational Publishers
Resource type: Physical
1138213691 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Resource type: Physical
1912821206 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Tricorn Books
Resource type: Physical
1861688423 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Independence Educational Publishers
Resource type: Physical
1903458781 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Hawthorn Press
Resource type: Physical
0241504627 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Life
Resource type: Physical
1912872110 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Blue Tao Publishing
Resource type: Physical
1628604220 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Victory Belt Publishing
Resource type: Physical
1471194574 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: In the modern era of highly professional cricket, with coaches for every aspect of the game and a support staff that outnumbers the players, it often seems that everything should run smoothly. But we all know that life doesn't work that way.
1472274903 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Headline
Resource type: Physical
1859598544 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Class Professional Publishing
Resource type: Physical
1398807524 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Arcturus
Resource type: Physical
0754835030 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Resource type: Physical
1760879088 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is a vibrant, empowering guide to surviving and thriving with endometriosis, from presenter and endometriosis advocate Bridget Hustwaite.
1648766498 
Paperback
Year: May 2021
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Rockridge Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: An evidence-based guide to recovering from Gaslighting. Gaslighting is a targeted form of manipulation, deception and control that makes you doubt your own perceptions, feelings and memories. This book gives you the tools to recognize the signs of it and begin the process of healing.
0335243193 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Resource type: Physical
XX00420380 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Monoray
Resource type: Physical
Note: With diving players, abusive fans, feckless agents and the dreaded VAR, football has taken a wrong turn. Now, Chris Sutton, the nation's most forthright football pundit, takes an unaltered look at 25 aspects of the modern game that need to be changed right away - and offers practical and, at times, controversial solutions.
1839012307 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Lume Books
Resource type: Physical
History
1784383783 
Hardback 
Year: 2020
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Resource type: Physical
1784386189 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Resource type: Physical
1784387118 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: In April 1945, German troops withdrawing from the Seelow Heights were encircled by the Soviet Army near the small town of Halbe, south-east of Berlin. Rather than surrender, their orders were to attempt to break out, westward, and join up with the German 12th Army. A brutal battle ensued, with an estimated 30,000 German and 20,000 Russian soldiers
1784387274 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944-45. More than 75 years after its conception, the assassination plan remains shrouded in mystery. Eric Lee's book is the product of painstaking research and sheds more light on this plan. Lee also asks what would have happened if Foxley had been executed successfully.
1785789244 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Icon Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Oswaldo Paya was seven years old when Fidel Castro seized power, promising to create a 'free, democratic, and just Cuba'. But Castro instead created an authoritarian regime and crushed all dissent. The dream of democracy became Paya's life work. Sent to Castro's forced labour camps, he could not stay silent, and formed a pro-democracy movement.
1785907352 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: By 2014, the world had grown weary of Iraq and its troubles. The Americans had all but gone and the media had switched its gaze towards Syria, but Iraq's problems were far from over. That same year, ISIS put Iraq back on the map as they crossed the border from Syria and rampaged through the country, kidnapping, raping and killing, and enforcing their murderous interpretation of Sharia law.
XX00420372 
Hardback
Year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Sussex Archaeological Society
Resource type: Physical
244p; illus., maps, plans
1789293650 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Limited
Resource type: Physical
Note: Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (c.1400 BC), which saw a royal transition take place bringing Thutmose IV to the throne of Upper and Lower Egypt.
1838954759 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Resource type: Physical
Note: From the first meeting of an elected English parliament on 20 January 1265 to the abolition of the Slave Trade on 25 March 1807; from the Peterloo massacre of 16 August 1819 to Britain voting to leave the EU on 23 June 2016, there is a growing thirst for knowledge about the history of our constitutional settlement, our party system and how our parliamentary democracy has developed.
1803991917 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: The History Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Two celebrated Egyptologists bring to vivid life the intriguing and controversial reign of King Tut's parents.
1844866211 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Conway
Resource type: Physical
Note: This powerfully relevant work tells the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections around the world. Retracing the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections across the world, this book is published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the first crossing.
1851245855 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Resource type: Physical
Note: This selection of fifty key items chosen by the staff of the Griffith Institute - including photographs, letters, plans, drawings and diaries - provides an accessible and authoritative overview of the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, and offers an intimate insight into the records of one of the world's most famous archaeological discoveries.
1914451074 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Mardle Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Britain. Within its pages you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem, royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and scandal, sporting triumphs and sporting disasters, millionaires and eccentrics, film stars and train robbers and so much more!
1912423510 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Imperial War Museums
Resource type: Physical
Note: In the summer of 1940, the Nazi Blitzkrieg had blown through much of western Europe, seizing control of territory right up to the French coast and preparing to invade Britain. Standing in their way was Fighter, Bomber and Coastal Commands and the Royal Navy, all determined to prevent invasion, fighting off enemy forces in the air and in the water
1912914425 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Mensch Publishing
Resource type: Physical
1914484533 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Scribe UK
Resource type: Physical
Note: In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator, gave her father and Hitler an extraordinary ultimatum: release her husband, Italy's former foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband's incendiary diaries to the press.
1982172487 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Resource type: Physical
Note: This is the authoritative account of an eighteen-month crisis in American democracy that will be seared into the country's political memory for decades to come. With stunning, in-the-room detail, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns show how both our political parties confronted a series of national traumas, including the coronavirus pandemic, the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and the political brinksmanship of President Biden's first year in the White House.
4805316594 
Hardback
Year: 2022
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Resource type: Physical
Note: The Samurai are continuously celebrated as the greatest warriors the world has ever seen. They ruled Japan for centuries, finally uniting the nation after a prolonged period of brutal war and bloodshed. Though famed for their loyalty, honour, and chivalry, they could also be treacherous, bloodthirsty, and merciless.