A Village Affair

Joanna Trollope

The Grey House was the answer to everything in Alice Jordan's life - her perfect life. The beautiful eighteenth-century building with its orchard and paddock, the village of friendly eccentrics - Lettice Deverel with her parrot, and the vicar, a wonderful man - seemed to be the ultimate achievement of h...

How Everything Works: From the Human Brain to the Solar System

DK

Have you ever wondered how an email gets to someone on the other side of the world in just a few seconds or why it's a bad idea to stand under a tree during a thunderstorm?Each page of this mind-blowingly detailed and ambitious encyclopedia will guide you through the natural world and the technology tha...