Whether you’re a first-time visitor or an experienced Prommer, plan your summer through the 2013 BBC Proms season with the official Proms Guide. It contains: brand-new articles on featured composers, insights on performers, new music and Proms Plus events; introduction to the season from Roger Wright, Director of the BBC Proms and Controller of BBC Radio 3; full listings for every concert and event; repertoire, performers, time, location, ticket and broadcast information; and, details on how to book tickets. With beautiful photographs and images throughout, this official Proms Guide is the most comprehensive way to plan your summer’s Proms visiting, watching and listening.

The BBC Proms is the world’s biggest and longest-running classical music festival and features many of the greatest artists and orchestras from the UK and around the world in over 80 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall. There are also daily free Proms Plus talks, workshops, performances and family events.

From its humble origins over a century ago to its present day glory, the Tour de France has always been a race that has inspired fascination. The exploits of the riders – Tommy Simpson’s death of the slopes of Mont Ventoux, Lance Armstrong’s controversial career and Bradley Wiggins’ historic win – continue to enthral audiences worldwide. With unequalled access to the race’s archives and a chronological approach building to the present day, this beautifully illustrated book commemorates the 100th race in style.

The rivalries, passion and drama of the world’s greatest cycling challenge are revealed through entertaining and authoritative commentary and breathtaking official photography. Featuring unique 2012 race content, including Bradley Wiggins’ 2012 victory; route maps; profiles of key riders and a section dedicated to the vital statistics of every race, Tour de France is the definitive, up-to-date account of this historic event.

This takes the form of Tom’s battered homework diary – crammed with his doodles and stories. “Exciting News! Mr Fullerman announces that class 5F are going on an ‘Activity Break’! Which should be fun. As long as I don’t ge stuck in a group with anyone who snores or worse still with …Marcus Meldrew.

Delia is already threatening to paint my room funny colours while I’m away. Which is annoying. I just hope the only surprise I have when I get home is the new pet that I hear Mum and Dad talking about.

Because I’ve always wanted a pet!”

‘Dead Money’ is the debut crime novel from award-winning financial journalist Teresa Hunter.

Hunter springs the torpid world of finance into life in a novel, which reviewers have labelled ‘compelling’,  ‘fast-paced’, ‘bloody’, ‘thrilling’ and ‘brimming with tension’.

Dead Money’s main character,  journalist Julia Lighthorn, seeks the truth behind terrible crimes, while struggling with her own secret demons.  Her journey roars through London’s Square Mile to criminal underbellies in London and Glasgow.  Along the way Hunter skilfully weaves in threads of violence, murder, exploitation and romance.

Did financial greed and corruption trigger the death of her friend?  Who can she trust among the complex characters she confronts on her journey? What is any of us capable of when pushed to the limits of our endurance?

Teresa Hunter explains: “You are always told to write what you know, so it was inevitable I would begin my story in the world of finance, which is what I know most. But the story stretches way beyond these confines, and explores what any of us is capable of when pushed to the limits.”

EARLY REVIEWS OF DEAD MONEY

Emma Simon, Daily Telegraph

“A taut and fast-paced thriller set against the background of the financial crisis, where greed, corruption and the desperation of those who have lost everything provide all the motivation needed for murder.

“From the steel and glass edifices of the Square Mile’s banking elite to the criminal underbellies in London and Glasgow, Teresa Hunter unravels  a tense tale, with parallels to many recent scandals that have blighted the City.

“Pensions have never been quite so compelling, nor quite so bloody.”

Terry Murden, the Scotsman Group

“A murky financial scandal is the backdrop to a fast-moving tale of organised crime, tragic romance and exploitation.”

Nic Cicutti, financial freelance

“Brimming with tension, this is a page-turner with a twist, one that manages to both inform and entertain in equal measure.  I devoured it in one sitting.”

Teresa Hunter is a regular contributor to the Telegraph Group, Sunday Times, and Corporate Adviser as well as a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute’s Professional Standards Board.

She is a former personal finance editor of Scotland on Sunday and the Sunday Herald in Glasgow, and spent many years as deputy personal finance editor of the Guardian.  She has also worked in television for BBC1’s Watchdog and news output.

She has won many awards for her work in financial journalism, including Best National Newspaper Personal Finance Journalist of the Year, and Personal Finance Freelance Journalist of the Year.

Most parents photograph their children growing up, but Doodlemum (Angie Stevens) posts a drawing of her children and their family life on her blog every night (after the kids have gone to sleep). She draws everything from holidays to pets, tantrums to camping. All captured in a few key strokes of the pen.

Angie Stevens’s enthusiasm for drawing developed in childhood and she went on to study illustration at the Unviersity of Westminster. After shis, she says, came ‘the tsunami of children and marriage’ but her passion for drawing never left her. After the birth of her third child, ‘a bit exhausted, sleep-deprived and probably suffering from a bit of post natal depression’, her husband bought her a collection of Moleskin notebooks and suggested it might help to start drawing again.

It did, and in 2010 the Doodlemum blog was born. Over 1000 illustrations later, Doodlemum is established. This is the book her fans have been asking for – perfect for them and for those who will fall in love with this tender and funny picture of family life in all its messy glory.