Miscellanies & Guides

Gallivanting With Words is a playful romp through the words, phrases and quirks that reflect the very soul of Ireland. Accents, phrases, slagging and cursing – a highly entertaining exploration of Hiberno-English. 

Make Irish an everyday habit that’s as easy as brushing your teeth!

A Hunk: a strong, attractive man. An Irish Hunk: something even better. . .

Combining practical stargazing information and advice, the insights of internationally renowned astronomers and the history, technological advances and art revering the night sky, Collins Stargazer's Bible is a stunning celebration of the remarkable sky above.

Miller's Antiques Handbook & Price Guide remains the essential and trusted guide to the antiques market. . .

The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook. In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of fabric, she created a record of her life and times.

Packed with unexpected stories and unforgettable words, on a mission to describe the indescribable, this life-enhancing book will deepen your vocabulary as much as it extends it. Welcome to the first truly human dictionary, as idiosyncratic and unusual as you are.

Miller's Antiques Handbook & Price Guide remains the essential and trusted guide to the antiques market. 

In the course of this exploration, the book provides some insight and enlightenment, and, perhaps, offered a challenge to some long-held erroneous interpretations. The exploration of the place names of Ireland is a never-ending story.

Miller's Collectables Handbook & Price Guide 2021-2022 is the only full-colour, fully-illustrated collectables price guide in the world.

Zoom into the new world of remote collaboration While a worldwide pandemic may have started the Zoom revolution, the convenience of remote meetings is here to stay. 

Shakespeare everyone can understand - now in this new EXPANDED edition of ROMEO AND JULIET!

Enter the fascinating world of Nikola Tesla, the inventor who enabled the modern world as we know it to exist, thanks to his work as a pioneering electrical engineer, inventor, physicist and futurist.

Taking each theory in turn, Stuff They Don't Want You to Know considers more than 80 conspiracies, examining the evidence and key suspects in an explosive account of the world's secrets. 

In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of modern urban life.

In Secret Societies, Nick Harding highlights the similarities that cults have - they all work to a similar pattern and that basic human psychology plays a far more important role in their continued existence and their enduring appeal than any hidden wisdom, knowledge or world-shattering secret.

The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart, and this book sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon.

This book contains all you will need for setting your own pub quizzes, or for brushing up on your general knowledge before you try your next competition.

Includes more than 10,000 questions and answers.

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity . . .