Quantitative Reasoning 1

Verbal Reasoning 2

‘No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.’
Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun.

Join Gyles Brandreth – wit and word-meister, Just A Minute regular, One Show reporter, denizen of Countdown’s Dictionary Corner, founder of the National Scrabble Championships, patron of The Queen’s English Society, QI, Room 101, Have I Got News For You and Pointless survivor – on an uproarious and unexpected magic carpet ride around the awesome world of words and wordplay.

Puns, palindromes, pangrams, Malaprops, euphemisms, mnemonics, acronyms, anagrams, alphabeticals, Tweets, verbiage, verbarrhea – if you can name it, you should find it here, along with the longest, shortest, wittiest, wildest, oldest, latest, oddest, most interesting and most memorable words in the English language – the richest, most remarkable language ever known.

This is the most comprehensive book ever written on one of the world’s greatest, and most explosive, rock bands: The Who. Organized by year, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere presents in diary fashion exactly what The Who were doing, where they were doing it, and with whom from 1958-1978.

OCD affects between 1 and 2 per cent of the UK population, causing terrible distress to hundreds of thousands. A serious mental illness, it affects people in different ways from well-known rituals such as obsessive hand-washing and checking, to lesser known symptoms such as disturbing intrusive thoughts and hoarding. Those affected typically suffer for a number of years before seeking help and receiving professional treatment.

This collection of real women’s sexual fantasies makes for a hot read and a unique insight into the desires of today’s women.

Compiled by New York magazine Journalist, Lisa Sussman, Hot Sex Fantasies By Women For Women is a provocative collection of erotic fantasies, day dreams and confessions from anonymous women on both sides of the Atlantic.

One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kubler-Ross first explores the now-famous stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys.

Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together – birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they’re a happy family. Johnny’s wife, Jessie – who has the most money – insists on it.

Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much . . .

‘One of the freshest, funniest, most exciting new voices I’ve read for a long time’ JANE FALLON

Since she burst breathtakingly into view with her introduction novel very nearly two decades back, Zadie Smith has set up herself not similarly as one of the world’s overwhelming fiction authors, yet in addition a splendid and solitary writer. She contributes consistently to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books on a scope of subjects, and each bit of hers is a scholarly occasion in its very own right.

The ultimate Nigerian cookbook is a standard 132 paged cookbook for making delicious Nigerian foods. There over 65 different Nigerian recipes with step by step guide and images that make the process a whole lot easier.

The Movie Book, the latest in DK’s award-winning Big Ideas Simply Explained series, profiles 100 of the best movies ever made throughout the world.

Make deliciously decadent golden shards of honeycomb to fold into ice cream or pile high on a showstopper cake.

The stories and history behind the individual foods we eat–from salt to sushi and rice to salami–beginning with the early efforts of humans in their quest for sustenance and culminating in today’s diverse culinary landscape.

From ancient and medieval philosophers such as Confucius and Thomas Aquinas, to revolutionary thought leaders such as Thomas Jefferson and Leon Trotsky, to the voices who have shaped modern politics today — Mao Zedong, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, and more — “The Politics Book” clearly and simply explains more than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought.