Special Interest

Any Colour - So Long As It's Black

Designing the Model T Ford 1906 - 1908
Do you know why Ford insisted on black? Black paint dried two whole days quicker than any other colour and with production fully stretched, Ford needed all the time he could get.

CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF THE MODEL T

Cholas in Bowlers

Journey to Bolivia
With two grown-up sons, a satisfying job as a journalist, great friends and plenty of interests, life for Jane Mundy was humming along nicely when, out of the blue and in the most unlikely of places, she met Graham. In no time at all she had abandoned her comfortable life and run away with him to Bolivia.

And Lovely is the Rose

This lovely book presents a selection of 50 roses whose charm has endured over generations. These thoughtfully selected roses are available worldwide to grace any garden, large or small. Each rose has been placed in chronological order so that the history of this beloved flower can be appreciated, as well as the years of patient breeding and cultivation that have gone into creating the modern roses of today.

Eye on the Sky

The fascination of telescopes
This superb book provides easy-to-understand factual information about all aspects of the telescope – their history, development and operation – as well as an exciting glimpse into the future.

CELEBRATING FOUR CENTURIES OF ASTRONOMY