Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Book of the Month

'The real-life children's fairy tale book so inspiring adults are reading it' 

'Absolutely beautiful - get one for yourself and one to inspire a woman in your life'
'In an ideal world, not only would mothers read this aloud to their daughters, but teachers would read it to schoolboys'  

These are just some of the quotes  describing this brilliant and original book.
Illustrated by sixty female artists from all over the world, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces us to a hundred  extraordinary women, who have achieved amazing things, from Ada Lovelace to Malala, Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama.

Inspirational and empowering, these are true fairy tales of heroines who definitely don't need rescuing.

A lesson we would all want our daughters to learn, women do not wait on a ‘Prince Charming’ to rescue them! Girls can do anything if they have strength, integrity, bravery and perseverance to follow their dreams!

How to Eat a Lobster and other Edible Enigmas Explained

Ever sat down at a dinner table, received a intricately arranged plate of food and wondered, how on earth am I supposed to eat this?!

Learn the answer to how to eat a lobster and other edible enigmas in this delightfully funny and practical book.

For food lovers everywhere, How to Eat a Lobster is the perfect handbook for handling every tricky dining situation you have every been in and perhaps ever will, with elegance and style whist avoiding embarrassing faux pas!

With easy-to-follow instructions and helpful illustrations, you’ll learn the answers to 50 food-related questions you’ve been afraid to ask...
 ‘What do you do when crayfish arrive?  Twist and snap off the head. Peel the tail and pull out the meat. Then suck the juices from the head. Seriously: you’re supposed to!’

September Author of the Month

Author of the Month

Discover some of the secrets of Dorset’s past by journalists Fanny Charles and Gay Pirrie-Weir. Deepest Dorset is a full colour hardback, exploring what makes Dorset special, from landscape to literature, boat-building to beer. 

Written mostly by Fanny Charles and Gay Pirrie-Wier, also including contributions from a wide range of Dorset residents and celebrities including Julian Fellowes, Tracy Chevalier, Paul Hyland, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Anna del Conte, James Crowden, Kate Adie and many more.

Fully funded by a charitable foundation and the book is being sold to raise funds for Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance, Weldmar Hospicecare Trust, Dorset Community Foundation and the RNLI .

The Labrador Theory by Cheever Hardwick

From one of our Wiltshire Authors... Christmas conundrum:  people who have everything. Answer? This book. The Labrador Theory by Cheever Hardwick, hardback, £14.95 Quiller Publishing

You don't have to be a country gent or lady to enjoy this book. A dog lover? Unquestionably!

Like me, you may not be as well acquainted with the tribe as the author thinks (they have money and land...) but it makes no matter. This romp of a coffee table book will make you chuckle and perhaps even prompt some useful self-reflection.

Wiltshire author Cheever Hardwick has found a remarkable cartoonist in Alasdair Hilleary to complement his witty theory. He makes a robust case for treating our men with more appreciation, affection and allowing them a long lead when it comes to their misdemeanours, as we would our labradors.

Warm, funny but not for the vegan!

Done your Christmas shopping already?  Sneak a copy away and present it on Valentine's Day, with a bottle of bubbly and follow Hardwick's rules on love...