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A selection of Observer's Books including the first in the series, British Birds (1937), showing the wavy line pattern on the dustjackets. The Observer's Books are a series of small, pocket-sized books, published by Frederick Warne & Co in the United Kingdom from 1937 to 2003. They covered topics such as hobbies, art, history and wildlife.
The book's argument has proved to be controversial and it has attracted some highly critical reviews. [1] [2] Values, Voice and Virtue became a Sunday Times Bestseller, entering the non-fiction chart on 9 April 2023 at number 2 in general paperbacks. [3] It was also listed among the Financial Times best summer 2023 books, selected by Gideon ...
The Left Book Club, the first book club in the UK, was a publishing group pioneered by Gollancz that exerted a strong left-wing influence in Great Britain from 1936 to 1948. It offered a monthly book choice, for sale to members only, as well as a newsletter that acquired the status of a major political magazine. It also held an annual rally.
The British Values Survey indicates that, since data collection began, the proportion of the UK population in different values groups has changed significantly. [28] The period 1973–2005 saw a shift away from Settler values [ 29 ] – probably because of greater affluence meaning core needs were more often being met.
The sequel Merde Actually appeared in 2005, and was followed by a non-fiction book (Talk to the Snail, a humorous guide to the French language and the French) in 2006. The third novel about Paul West was published in July 2007 in Great Britain and one year later in the USA: Merde Happens , [ 12 ] This time Englishman Paul West explores the ...
The rationale was that books took a long time to export to the colonies, that readership in those settlements was avid, and that books were an effective means to disseminate British values. Australia was by far the largest consumer of colonial editions. Macmillan (London) published the largest number of colonial edition titles. They began in ...
Pages in category "British children's novels" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 703 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
I-Spy Colour Series. A companion range of 1/-books, the I-Spy Colour Series was the same size and actually had the same number of pages as their 6d cousins, but used better, thicker quality paper and some inside pages in full colour. Launched probably in 1952 with the first two titles, the colour series issued two new titles each year for a while.