New books

Did you know that horses can sleep standing up? Or that horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal? Find out all about horses' senses, life cycle, behaviour and more in this fact-filled book.

If anything in this book doesn't quite ring true, you'd better start believing! This irresistible page-turner will keep your eyes popping and your jaws dropping from start to finish. Did you know that Earth could fit inside Jupiter more than 1000 times? Can you believe the Eiffel Tower would fit ...

Cleo and her unicorn friends are having fun dancing, prancing and swishing their tails in the magic forest, until - oh no! - their noise wakes the big, scary GIANT. But not all is what it seems - and a FE FI FO FUM turns quickly into friendship!

Bird is looking for her best friend Bee. She searches high in the sky and deep underground - she can't find Bee anywhere - but who else will she meet along the way?

The 'Queen of Herbs' uses her 40 years of plant knowledge to showcase the best herbs for culinary and medicinal uses.

A commemorative book "100 Years of Rotary in Tonbridge" has been published to celebrate the Club’s centenary. Edited by Assistant Secretary and former President Eddie Prescott, the book was launched at a Charter Lunch at the Holiday Inn Maidstone-Sevenoaks held on 27 February.

Andy and Terry have added 13 new levels of crazy fun to their biggest treehouse yet. But Anti-Andy and Junkyard Jill - our trouble making opposites are trapped in one of the mirrors, and they want out! (Oh, and Mr Big Nose wants us to write another book...or else!) Can we avoid school, defeat our...

It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the US and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that's held power for over a decade. Efforts to tighten its grip have resulted in mounting violent resistance. The American president h...

The Women's Murder Club is out celebrating an engagement at San Francisco's finest restaurant when a blood-curdling scream interrupts the festivities. They soon discover a young woman who has been the victim of a violent assault. Sergeant Lindsay Boxer makes an arrest. Assistant District Attorney...

1959 saw Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the other members of Miles's sextet come together to record the seminal jazz album of all time Kind of Blue. '3 Shades of Blue' is a magnificent, blended biography on the meandering paths which led Miles, Coltrane and Evans to the mountaintop o...

When a beautiful woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate. Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for fun? Or did she finally make the decision to leave behind her claustro...

A thrilling, exhilarating and rousing journey through some of the most dramatic sporting events of the last 40 years. The book takes the reader on an unforgettable trip through the late twists that defined some of football's biggest matches, with late goals of great consequence that deserve a las...

In a small seaside town on the French coast lives Uncle. He shares his house with his niece and nephew, who look after him when they could be doing something - anything - else. A disabled veteran with odd habits, Uncle is prone to drinking, hoarding and gorging, not to mention the occasional excu...

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan's history? 'Abroad in Japan' charts a decade of l...

In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man is the first stone in an avalanche of chaos. The head of the village is beset with problems - including the injured stranger - and failing to find his way out. His daughter receives a love letter and incurs her fathe...

Master of modern meditation Deepak Chopra illuminates the path to abundance, helping readers become agents of change in their own lives. Demonstrating how to work past self-generated feelings of limitation and fear and providing meditations to help you focus and direct your attention and intuitio...

'Acceptance' is about accepting the truth of a negative moment, without resistance. It is a foundation for transformation and a path to freedom. Anxiety, pain and illness, unpleasant encounters with people, low self-esteem, conditions such as long Covid-19 - these are issues that can become part ...

Every time Kate Duggan looks in a mirror she's reminded of the night her life changed forever. Kate managed to walk away from the car accident that ruined the lives of her siblings, but questions still remain about what really happened on that dark stretch of road. Since then Kate's life has been...

'The Achilles Trap' untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth ...