English Books Gift Ideas

 

Nine Dragons Nine Dragons

by Michael Connelly

Little Brown and Company

$ 27.99   discount 15%

€ 19.66

While investigating the murder of a Chinese liquor store owner, Harry Bosch gets word his daughter, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, has been kidnapped.


Adventures with Chocolate Adventures with Chocolate

80 Sensational Recipes

by Paul A Young

Kyle Cathie

£ 17.99   discount 15%

€ 20.71

This book takes you on a chocolate adventure, showing you how to blend it with other ingredients from lavender to chilli to cinnamon.


Michelle Obama Michelle Obama

by Sarah Parvis

Andrews McMeel

£ 3.99   discount 15%

€ 3.99

"All of us are driven by a belief that the world as it is just won't go,that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be" Michelle Obama


 

Scarpetta Scarpetta

by Patricia Cornwell

Sphere

£ 7.99   discount 15%

€ 9.20

Twenty years after creating Kay Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell has written her most extraordinary novel yet


Testimony Testimony

by Anita Shreve

Abacus

£ 6.99   discount 15%

€ 7.00

Provocative, dazzling and compassionate, Anita Shreve's 14th novel explores important issues to do with privacy and teen behaviour


Voice-Over for Animation Voice-Over for Animation

by Jean Ann Wright, M.J. Lallo

Focal Press

£ 18.66   discount 15%

€ 18.68

Takes animation and voice-over students and professionals alike through the animated voice-over world. This book provides information, exercises, and advice from professional voice-over artists.


 

Martha Stewart's Cookies Martha Stewart's Cookies

Clarkson Potter

£ 14.99   discount 15%

€ 17.25

The joy of cooking cookies !


High Definition Cinematography High Definition Cinematography

by Paul Wheeler

Focal Press

£ 21.99   discount 15%

€ 22.01

This comprehensive book presents the explanations, definitions, and workflows that cinematographers and camera operators need to make the transition


Peanuts Peanuts

You Can be Anything!

Running Press,U.S.

£ 9.99   discount 15%

€ 10.00

Based on the comic strips of everyone's favorite canine - Snoopy, this book reminds the kid in all of us that we can be anything.


 

Matters of the Heart Matters of the Heart

by Danielle Steel

Delacorte Press

$ 27.00   discount 15%

€ 16.49

In a spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one woman's journey from darkness into light


The Camera Assistant's Manual The Camera Assistant's Manual

by David E. Elkins

Focal Press

£ 24.99   discount 15%

€ 25.01

Offers guidance to student filmmakers as they prepare to enter the professional world and work as camera assistants


The Late Paintings of Velazquez The Late Paintings of Velazquez

Theorizing Painterly Performance

by Giles Knox

Visual Culture in Early Modernity

Ashgate Publishing Limited

£ 55.00   discount 15%

€ 55.05

Argues that Diego Velazquez painted two of his most famous works, "The Spinners" and "Las Meninas", as theoretically informed manifestos of painterly brushwork.


 

Paris Imperfect Paris Imperfect

by Susie Vereker

Severn House Publishers Ltd

£ 18.99   discount 15%

€ 21.86

An exciting love story.


A Reliable Wife A Reliable Wife

by Robert Goolrick

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

$ 23.95   discount 15%

€ 16.82

Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife."


Home Repair Home Repair

by Liz Rosenberg

Avon a

$ 13.99   discount 15%

€ 8.54

Prize-winning poet Rosenberg's debut novel is a bittersweet and moving story


 

Italian Renaissance Frames at the V&A Italian Renaissance Frames at the V&A

A Technical Study

by Christine Powell, Zoe Allen

Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd

£ 49.99   discount 15%

€ 50.04

This book teaches the reader to recognise frame style, structure and surface decoration of the period, as well as additions and alterations and later frames in the style


New Asian Emperors New Asian Emperors

The Business Strategies of the Overseas Chinese

by George T. Haley, Usha C.V. Haley, Chin Tiong Tan

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

£ 13.99   discount 15%

€ 14.00

Southeast Asia has a population of more than half a billion, yet its economy is dominated by about 40 families, most of Overseas Chinese descent.


Rivers of Europe Rivers of Europe

by Klement Tockner, Urs Uehlinger, Christopher T. Robinson

Academic Press Inc

€ 117.95   discount 15%

€ 103.26

A source of comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of the highest profile rivers in Europe.


 

Michel Thomas Foundation Review Course Michel Thomas Foundation Review Course

Spanish

by Michel Thomas

Michel Thomas Series

Hodder Arnold

£ 19.57   discount 15%

€ 19.59

This brand new, 2-CD Review course allows the student at home to review or check their learning to find areas causing difficulty


Indian by Choice Indian by Choice

by Amit Dasgupta

Wisdom Tree

£ 9.99   discount 15%

€ 11.50

This book provides a journey of self-discovery through the myriad human relationships that help us to see things in perspective and in context.


Kingdom of the Deep Kingdom of the Deep

by Frank Hinks

Perronet Press

£ 12.99   discount 15%

€ 14.95

When the wicked witch Griselda changes the holiday plans of the three brothers, the boys travel to the Kingdom of the Deep, meet an octopus who wants a cuddle


 

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday

by Lily Karr

Cartwheel Books

$ 5.99   discount 15%

€ 4.21

Happy Birthday little one !


Grandma's Remedies Grandma's Remedies

A Guide to Traditional Cures and Treatments from Mustard Poultices to Rosehip Syrup

by Cherry Chappell

Random House Books

£ 14.99   discount 15%

€ 17.25

Long before modern medicines became so widely available, families treated everyday illnesses with home-made remedies


Regaining Paradise Regaining Paradise

Milton and the Eighteenth Century

by Dustin H. Griffin

Cambridge University Press

£ 21.99   discount 15%

€ 22.01

This book explores the way in which Milton's poems served as a rich and fruitful resource for the English poets of the eighteenth century


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