Ebury Publishing: 2512 books
What If...?
Commonsense strategies for kids on worries, upsets and scares
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2011
What if ...
...Your front tooth is knocked out?
...You are staying at a friend's house and by mistake you break something?
...You come home from school and you smell gas?
...Your hamster has escaped?
...You are bullied at school?
...There is a strange man lurking by the playground?
Today's...
by Evelyn Prentis
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
'We were quickly learning to live with war. We became very proficient at moving the patients who could walk quickly to the shelters when the sirens went. We were equally proficient at talking those who couldn't walk into believing that they would be safe where they were. Some believed us, others didn't.'
Surprising...
by Colin Fry
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
As Britain's leading psychic medium, perhaps it's not surprising that more than 200,000 people buy tickets every year to see Colin Fry's theatre tour up and down the country (and in New Zealand). It's also not surprising that his top-rating TV show, 6ixth Sense, is now in its 7th series and continues...
by Hugo Tagholm, Sarah Brown, Gil McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Whether it is memories of childhood holidays or exotic fantasies of faraway places, a sea and its coast forms the most evocative of landscapes. Combining elements of romance, danger and mystery, it provides the perfect inspiration for this unique collection. The finest writers from our water-bound...
The Frustrated Commuter’s Companion
A survival guide for the bored and desperate
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
The perfect stocking filler for frustrated commuters everywhere!
Commuting is hell -- this is your survival guide
Delays, price rises, leaves on the line, rail replacement bus services, snowflakes, sunshine, rain, the list of excuses is endless. Forget enjoyment, commuting is about survival....
by Tony Husband
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Most joke books at least attempt to make you laugh. A chuckle, a giggle, even an outright guffaw. Something you can repeat to your friends and be guaranteed to raise a smile. That's what a joke book is for. Right?
Well, not this one.
This is a collection of the world's most cringe-worthy...
Boy
One Child's Fight to Survive in the Brutal British Care System
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
“My parents had to try for eighteen months to conceive me, but my father was adamant he wanted one last child. After eighteen months of trying, my mother eventually conceived and nine months later I was born. My birth was a difficult one. It was like I was never meant to be in this world.”
Boy...
by Hunter Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Ivy, Dulcie, Barbara, Ann, Dorothy and Jean all had different reasons for applying to work at Carr’s biscuits, but once they had put on their overalls and walked through the factory gates they discovered a community full of life, laughter and friendship.
To those who didn’t know, the biscuit...
My Family and Other Strangers
Adventures in Family History
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard. Other legends ranged from the...
How to be a Princess
Real-Life Fairy Tales for Modern Heroines – No Fairy Godmothers Required
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
As Meghan Markle once said: 'With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on the glass slipper and more on pushing through glass ceilings. And, if I'm lucky enough, to inspire.'
Inspired by the Royal Wedding on 19 May, this beautiful...
A Man Walks On To a Pitch
Stories from a Life in Football
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
‘When a man walks on to a pitch there’s always a chance something magic can happen, that’s what keeps us coming back…’
In A Man Walks On To a Pitch, Harry shares a lifetime’s experience of obsessing over football, during which he has seen it all first hand – the good, the bad...
Jamie Vardy: From Nowhere, My Story
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The Sunday Times Bestseller and Number 1 Sport Book of 2016
'A tale that's truly inspirational' The Sun
An ordinary lad from Sheffield, Jamie Vardy has become known as an against-the-odds footballing hero the world over. Yet a few years ago, things couldn’t have been any more different....
Louis van Gaal
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
So who is Louis van Gaal? An inflexible ex-PE teacher who only knows how to act like a dictator or a footballing visionary that has made him one of the greatest ever European managers?
Wherever he has gone, Van Gaal has been accused of being a domineering disciplinarian and a control freak....
A Rough Ride
An Insight into Pro Cycling
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In A Rough Ride, Paul Kimmage gives a devastatingly frank account of what life is really like in the world of professional cycling. In tracing his mixed fortunes, Kimmage describes not only the grueling pressures of the sport but also the seamier side: the widespread use of drugs to enhance performance....