The Urban Beekeeper: A Year of Bees in the City
by Steve Benbow
RRP £16 At a time when the UK bee population is in decline there's no better way to make a difference than to start up your own beehive. Steve Benbow's enormous success with urban beekeeping show's how easy it is to keep bees, whether you're in the city or in the countryside, a beginner or an experienced beekeeper, and you'll never look back once you've tasted your very own sticky, golden honey, or lit a candle made from the beeswax from your beehive.

Steve Benbow is a visionary beekeeper who started his first beehive ten years ago on the roof of his tower block in Bermondsey and today runs 30 sites across the city.Read More

Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
by Louis de Bernieres
RRP £7.99 Welcome to the village of Notwithstanding, where a lady dresses in plus fours and shoots squirrels, a retired general gives up wearing clothes altogether, a spiritualist lives in a cottage with the ghost of her husband, and people think it quite natural to confide in a spider that lives in a potting shed.Read More

Chasing the Devil: On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields
by Tim Butcher
RRP £9.99 For many years war made Sierra Leone and Liberia too dangerous for outsiders to travel through. Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the devastation wrought by lawless militia, child soldiers, brutal violence, blood diamonds and masked figures who guard the spiritual secrets of remote jungle communities.Read More

Kick-Start Your Business: 100 Days to a Leaner, Fitter Organisation
by Robert Craven
RRP £11.99 Kick-Start Your Business uses practical, hands-on approach to putting your affairs in order, including:
* essential tools to getting a business to work better
* hundreds of ideas and examples to turn a business into a powerhouse
* useful resources and contacts
* proven worksheets to 'kick-start your business' Read More

The Country House Revealed: A Secret History of the British Ancestral Home
by Dan Cruickshank
RRP £25 Spanning the architectural history of the country house from the disarming Elizabethan charm of South Wraxall, the classical rigour of Kinross in Scotland, the majesty and ingenuity of Hawksmoor's Easton Neston, the Palladian sweep of Wentworth Woodhouse, with over 300 rooms and frontage of 600 feet, the imperial exuberance of Clandeboye, through to the ebullient vitality of Lutyens' Marshcourt, the stories of these houses tell the story of our nation.

All are the are buildings of the greatest architectural interest, each with a fascinating human story to tell, and all remain private homes that are closed to the public.Read More

A Possible Life
by Sebastian Faulks
RRP £12.99 Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground in Hampshire.

Across the courtyard in a Victorian workhouse, a father too ashamed to acknowledge his son.Read More

Eating for Two: The complete guide to nutrition during pregnancy and beyond
by Annabel Karmel
RRP £12.99 Every mum-to-be wants to know that she's eating the right things for herself and her baby. Nutrition is vital during pregnancy, and there's a huge amount of conflicting advice out there.

For the first time, child nutrition expert Annabel Karmel brings her food knowledge and experience to expectant mothers, guiding you through each stage of your pregnancy and offering tips and advice on what to eat and avoid.Read More

The Golden Egg
by Donna Leon
RRP £17.99 Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992’s Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been delighting readers around the world.Read More

A Brush With Nature: 25 years of personal reflections on nature
by Richard Mabey
RRP £12.99 Described as 'Britain's greatest living nature writer', Richard Mabey has revealed his passion for the natural world in eloquent stories for BBC Wildlife Magazine. This definitive collection brings together his favourite pieces and presents a fascinating and inspiring view of the changing natural landscape in which we live.

With marvellously observed detail, Mabey recalls following a barn owl he'd encountered while walking near his home in Norfolk, and talks of studying lichens through the lens of a Victorian microscope.Read More

Life's a Pitch
by Stephen Bayley and Roger Mavity
RRP £9.99 The pitch is the absolute essence of modern business. Ideas are the most valuable commodity in the modern economy and it is human skill which develops them. In pitching for new business, ideas and emotional intelligence dominate. However the skills of the pitch are not only relevant to the world of business, rather they apply to just about every significant personal transaction in your life...

Life's a Pitch is the ultimate how-to book - a mixture of mechanics and magic.Read More

The Geopolitics of Emotion: How Cultures of Fear, Humiliation and Hope are Reshaping the World
by Dominique Moisi
RRP £12.99 Samuel Huntington's landmark book, The Clash of Civilizations, presented a vision of a world divided by cultural differences, national interests, and political ideologies. In The Geopolitics of Emotion, Dominique Moïsi brilliantly demonstrates that the world is nowadays more likely to be shaped by the 'clash of emotions'.

Moïsi contends that both Europe and the United States are dominated by a fear of the 'other' and by the loss of their national identity and purpose.Read More

The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns The Earth
by Fred Pearce
RRP £9.99 What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of the Amazon and the prairies of Eastern Europe.Read More

Skagboys
by Irvine Welsh
RRP £7.99 BEFORE TRAINSPOTTING CAME SKAGBOYS

The Number One Bestseller

Mark Renton has it all: he’s good-looking, young, with a pretty girlfriend and a bright future. But there’s no room for him in the 1980s and when his family starts to fracture, Mark’s life swings out of control.Read More