Infinite Ideas imprint: 102 books

Julian Jeffs’ 2015 Guide to Sherry is the pocket guide that no sherry lover can afford to be without. Based on the sixth edition of his best-selling Sherry this handy little book begins with chapters outlining the geography and fascinating history of the sherry-producing region. This is followed...

Have you ever known someone who constantly thinks doom and gloom, and seems to find it at every turn? Have you ever known someone who expects the best of every situation and always seems to get it? That, according to author Claude Bristol, is the magic of believing. For more than four decades success‐oriented...

Wine: A social and cultural history of the drink that changed our lives is a wine history with a difference. Most histories of wine (like Hugh Johnson’s The Story of Wine, Paul Lukacs’s Inventing Wine, and Rod Phillips’s own A Short History of Wine) are chronological narratives that begin with...

Three forms of development finance – aid, remittances, and philanthropy – have the potential to transform the developing world. Individually and collectively these three flows of money represent an enormous transfer of wealth. Maximizing them has the power to change the world for the better. This...

Wine has been made commercially in Canada since the mid-1800s but Canadian wine has begun to register with professionals and consumers in the wider wine world only in the last five to ten years, as quality has dramatically improved. Canadian wine is now being exported in meaningful volumes to the...

Wine production in Greece dates back thousands of years. Excavations at prehistoric settlements have brought to light charred remains of Vitis Vinifera vines that provide the earliest indication of wine making in the Mediterranean, and remains of wine presses found in Crete suggest that wine was consumed...

Austrian wine has experienced a truly sensational quality boom in the last twenty years and is widely regarded as a phenomenon in the wine world. Austrian wine is found on every good wine list and is widely appreciated by a growing band of ardent consumers. In this thorough and engaging book, the...

The Lost Treasure of Annwn, the fourth book in the magical Jack Brenin series, sees Jack wrestling with a daunting task. It has been centuries since one of Annwn’s greatest treasures, a golden torc, was broken into three pieces and hidden away for safe keeping. If Jack can find and remake the lost...

This spin-off adventure from the Jack Brenin series sees Camelin and his friend Jack Brenin plunged into a race against time. Camelin comes across a book that he shouldn’t open, but curiosity gets the better of him and he looks inside – and gets more than he bargained for. Worried by the effects,...

When Jack Brenin finds a golden acorn lying in the grass little does he know that it is the beginning of a thrilling and magical adventure. Just an ordinary boy, Jack has been chosen for a hugely important task, and enters a world he believed only existed in legend. Full of twists and turns, talking...

Glasruhen Gate is the sequel to Catherine Cooper’s award winning The Golden Acorn. When Jack Brenin found out that, beyond doubt, he was ‘The One’ written about in ancient prophecy, his whole life changed. Now, armed with the golden acorn, his wand and newly acquired skills, Jack must fulfil...

With Nora away on a vitally important mission in Annwn, Jack Brenin has to take sole responsibility for rescuing the last two dragonettes left on earth from being roasted for a Spriggan feast. Using his trusty Book of Shadows for guidance, and with his friends Camelin the raven and Timmery the bat...

The Oak Lord is the finale to Jack Brenin’s adventures, which began with the international bestseller The Golden Acorn, winner of the 2010 Brit Writers’ Award, and continued in its sequels, Glasruhen Gate, Silver Hill and The Lost Treasure of Annwn. It is written in the Law of Annwn that whoever...

Fully revised and updated for its sixth edition, this benchmark book recounts the exciting and turbulent evolution of the sherry region and explores how its history and culture are intertwined with the sherry trade. Julian Jeffs chronicles the changing face of sherry – its viticultural methods,...