Pavilion Books: 614 books
by John Grindrod
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
A passionate and personal book about the writer's own love for a controversial architectural style.
Whether you love or hate brutalist buildings, this book will explain what it is about them that elicits such strong feeling. You will understand the true power of concrete and of mammoth-sized...
Science is Beautiful: Disease and Medicine
Under the Microscope
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Our understanding of disease and the powers of medicine today are unparalleled, and their documentation has increased signficantly. Science is Beautiful collects the most fascinating microscopic photographs of our diseases along with the medicines we use to treat them. These photographs are profoundly...
by Mike Haskins
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
An enormous collection of over 3,000 side-splitting jokes for every occasion. Jokes range from quick-fire one-liners and observations to rambling yarns, and from the classic to the modern. This book contains quips for every occasion, from the best man’s speech to the sales conference to the children’s...
Those Were the Days ... My Arse!
101 Old Fashioned Activities NOT to Do With Your Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Richard Wilson is like the naughty kid poking the ant's nest with a stick.'-Times Online Kids these days are all fat, lazy and thick and their parents dont know how to bring them up properly any more. Theyre glued to their phones, play too many violent computer games, communicate only in text-speak...
by Ann Blockley
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Well-known watercolour painter Ann Blockley presents flowers through a variety of interpretations, from traditional to unconventional in both technique and concept. In this exciting new book she really pushes the boundaries of watercolour, showing how to paint a stunning range of flowers throughout...
Kent's Strangest Tales
Extraordinary but true stories from a very curious county
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Kent’s Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England. Home to historically rich towns such as Canterbury, Margate and Ramsgate, Kent is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a strange-shaped stick at. From Chaucer’s legendary tales of debauchery...
London's Strangest: The Thames
Extraordinary but true stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The 19th-century MP John Burns described the Thames as 'liquid history' and ever since the Romans founded Londinium in 43 AD, the river has played a key cultural and economic, political and social role in the history of England. London's Strangest: The Thames reveals the bizarre, funny and surreal...
by Iain Spragg
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
Extraordinary but true stories from 200 years of cycling history. Part of the bestselling Strangest series, Cycling’s Strangest Tales is a quirky and fascinating collection of stories from cycling’s history. Included are stories of Thomas Stevens, the doughty Englishman who circumnavigated the...
Hey Presto!
Amazing magic tricks to confound and astound
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
The world's greatest and most celebrated magicians, conjurors and illusionists can make us believe the unbelievable, the impossible possible. But, of course, just like everybody else these conjurors had to start at a beginning. They too had to learn the simple (but effective) card tricks, the easy...
by Peter Seddon
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Author Peter Seddon gives life to over five centuries of bizarre, macabre and sometimes hilarious criminal cases. You'll be gripped by tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Despite how unbelievable the stories banged up inside these pages may seem, Crime's Strangest...
Tennis's Strangest Matches
Extraordinary but true stories from over five centuries of tennis
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
In this hugely entertaining collection of stories taken from over a hundred years of world tennis history, award-winning sports historian Peter Seddon has gathered together the most extraordinary events ever to occur on a tennis court. They include the Wimbledon final between the tea-drinking vicar...
Don't You Know There's A War On?
Words and Phrases from the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Nigel Rees presents a nostalgic and witty guide to wartime catchphrases, from the now ubiquitous 'Keep Calm and Carry On' to lesser-known gems such as 'lions led by donkeys'. Following his hugely popular survey of domestic sayings, More Tea Vicar?, Rees returns with a witty and fascinating examination...
The Angry Years
The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
What were the achievements of the angry writers who emerged in the fifties? Historically, they gave birth to the satire movement of the 1960s-Beyond the Fringe, That Was the Week that Was and Private Eye. Their satire and irreverence aroused enthusiasm in man, and a new anti-Establishment mood developed...
Bereavement
Clear, practical advice on psychological and emotional states, bringing guidance to sufferers and their families
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
The one thing we all have to deal with at some time in our lives is the death of someone we love. And yet this is an eventuality that very few of us are prepared for. This book, by encouraging the person left behind to understand the stages of bereavement and to deal with the emotions it causes, bringing both sympathetic help and, hopefully, reassurance at a time when it is needed most.