Collection: Reader Development

There's more to being human than you think! Alanna Collen explores the extraordinary world of the powerful microbes that make up 90% of the human body.

In 3010, humanity lives in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth's toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the planet will be habitable again. Now a hundred juvenile delinquents are sent on a high-stakes mission to re-colonize Earth. After a brutal crash landing, the teens arrive...

Madhur Jaffrey is the world's best-selling author of Indian cookery books. Here, she has collected 100 curry recipes from dals to biryanis, vehetarian to meat, simple and elaborate.

Featuring everything from old ballads such as 'The Four Maries' and 'The Bonny House o Airlie', to walking songs such as 'The Road to the Isles', this collection of poems includes some of the most famous examples of Scottish verse.

This title gives readers a chance to see the people and witness the great moments of the last hundred years of football in Britain. The pictures provide an insight into our history and to modern eyes, the crowds and backgrounds are as interesting as the subject itself.

One of the world's great capitals, London is an icon for both the British people and visitors alike. This book shows London at its best and worst through the 20th century, a century in which it has experienced events of immense significance from the Blitz to the Millennium. One of the world's gre...

This is a photographic tribute to the sport straight from the archives of the Press Association. It contains around 300 photographs spanning the whole of the 20th century, most of which have lain unseen since they were used as news pictures when they were first taken.

This volume contains a visual exploration of motoring in Britain. Motoring in Britain began the century as a minority pursuit of the rich & eccentric: here the reader can see the story unfold until 33 million vehicles travel on British roads, dominating all of our daily lives.

Featuring around 300 photographs and spanning the whole of the 20th century, this book is a visual history of Great Britain's railway network.