This title includes simple steps to gardening success, from the experts at the RHS. From strawberries to salad leaves, “RHS Simple Steps Vegetables and Fruit” gives you practical tips and guidance on how to get started, care for your crops and combat pests to guarantee success. Plus step-by-step photographs, checklists and charts ensure that you stay on the right track all year round.

Visually inspiring, reliably informative and excellent value for money, “RHS Simple Steps Vegetables and Fruit” will give you perfect results every time. For more step-by-step gardening advice, pick up other titles from this series.

This title offers antenatal advice to help you every step of your pregnancy. From parenting guru, Dr. Miriam Stoppard, comes the latest in the “Trusted Advice” series, “Your Antenatal Care”.

Providing warm and reassuring advice and guidance for every step of the way and with a fresh, contemporary feel and affordable price, these books are perfect for reading from cover to cover or to dip in and out of for quick reference. Focusing on antenatal care, this is a handy guide to the health checks and medical care that you need during your pregnancy. It includes all the latest information on routine tests and screening as well as advice on childbirth classes and the birthing options available to you.

Plus, advice on potential complications and their symptoms help you prepare for every eventuality. “Trusted Advice Your Antenatal Care” is ideal for busy mums-to-be who want quick, reliable information about antenatal care.

A Review By Keith Smith

A story, rather remarkable really, of someone who decided to live in a run-down, isolated, virtually derelict cottage in mid-Wales where he saw no-one for weeks on end. So this is a lovingly-written account of his communion with nature and all the multifarious creatues that surrounded him. Lyrical and magical are two words that would best describe it.

Because he had little to do, other than survive, he came to know every inch of ground around the cottage and he knew the animals and birds almost by name, certainly as individuals. Such a privilege is rarely given to anyone. Indeed very few would put themselves in his position to find out.  We learn about bats and goshawks, otters and ravens, sparrowhawks and starlings….and we feel we get to know them as intimately as he did. A wonderful book. So much missing in our lives!

Now more than ever, people are being affected by the fluctuations in the global economy and by financial uncertainty – with major impacts on their savings, portfolios and pensions. Fully updated for this fourth edition, “How the Stock Market Works” tells investors what is being traded and how, who does what with whom, and how to evaluate a particular share or bond in light of rival claims from critics and admirers. From the practical consequences of being a shareholder to a basic coverage of the taxation regime, this book provides a wealth of information on individual product types as well as the key players themselves.

In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters into their own hands to protect Jews from the Nazis during one of the darkest times in human history were formally recognised as ‘Heroes of the Holocaust’ by the British Government. The silver medal, inscribed with the words ‘In the Service of Humanity’, was created to acknowledge those ‘whose selfless actions preserved life in the face of persecution’. Gordon Brown described the medal’s recipients, who risked their lives to save those of Jewish friends, or complete strangers, as, ‘true British heroes and a source of national pride for all of us.

They were shining beacons of hope in the midst of terrible evil because they were prepared to take a stand against prejudice, hatred and intolerance’. Some, like Frank Foley, a British spy whose cover was working at the British embassy in Berlin, took huge risks issuing forged visas to enable around 10,000 Jews to escape Germany before the outbreak of war. Others, like the ten British POWs who hid and cared for Hannah Sarah Rigler as she escaped from a death march, showed great humanity in the face of horrendous cruelty and suffering.

All the recipients of the award were ordinary people, acting on no one’s authority but their own, who found they could not stand idly by in the face of this great evil. “Heroes of the Holocaust” collects for the first time the remarkable stories of the recipients of the medal. Written by acclaimed Holocaust historian Lyn Smith, it is a moving testament to the bravery of those whose inspiring actions stand out in stark relief at a time of such horror.