Take your chess game to the next level with this exciting and approachable guide for intermediate players from YouTube’s top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess)Unlock the secrets to mastering chess and move beyond the basics to dominate your matches with How to Win at Chess, Next Level. This comprehensive guide for mid-level players (1000-1600 Elo rating) teaches you everything you need to know to transform your approach to chess and elevate your g...

**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLearn chess from International Master and YouTube's top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) in this refreshing and fun guide for beginner and intermediate players**How to Win at Chess teaches you everything you need to know about the game, including all the important moves and strategies to start off strong and keep you thinking several steps ahead.Full of Levy Rozman's signature charm and humour that have made him belo...

It's never too early for your first checkmate. International Master and top YouTube chess coach Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess) brings the world’s greatest game to its youngest fans: babies!This board book introduces little ones to the basics of chess: the names of the pieces, how they move, and what it takes to win. With bold, high-contrast illustrations designed to support a baby’s developing vision and growing mind, this charming little book is both brainy and bea...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to your brand-new wordplay obsessionFrom the creators of the hugely popular online puzzle platform, Minute Cryptic, comes this step-by-step guide to solving and enjoying cryptic puzzles.With over 160 different clues for you to solve, each chapter teaches you about a different wordplay concept essential for unlocking cryptic crossword clues. As you complete the book, you'll build yo...

'A beautifully observed and sympathetic tour of modern Britain that runs on the tracks of our years.'David Quantick'Charming…The accounts will make any fan of railways want to experience these delights for themselves.' – The IndependentAll aboard for a one-of-a-kind journey by train to some of the most obscure parts of BritainOn the 200th birthday of the world’s first passenger-carrying railway, Nige Tassell sets o...

An easy-to-understand guide to chess strategy—conceptual planning—has always been the amateur’s dream. The Complete Book of Chess Strategy makes that dream a reality. This comprehensive guide in dictionary form, the first of its kind, makes all aspects of chess strategy quick, easy, and painlessly accessible to players of all degrees of strength. Each strategic concept is listed alphabetically and followed by a clear, easy-to-absorb explanation accompanied by examples of how this strategy ...

Unlock the power of self-talk to build confidence, believe in yourself and transform your life.Have you ever felt not quite good enough? Or confident enough? Ever felt like you need to do more, be more, to fit in?You’re not alone.In this comforting and empowering book*,* Ro Mitchell teaches you that your thoughts are not always worth believing. Instead, through observing your inner voice and practising self talk, you can unlock happiness.Ro ...

SCHOTT IS BACK – and better than ever.From the mind behind the million-copy bestseller Schott’s Original Miscellany comes an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore and secret languages of our modern age.'Beyond extraordinary' Gyles Brandreth‘The Rosetta Stone for modern times’ Graydon Carter‘This truly remarkable book is quite unlike any other work of etymology or ente...

'The Cultural Tutor is dedicated to a cosmopolitan view of culture. It writes about every continent, every religion, every tradition of art and poetry' TOMIWA OWOLADE, THE TIMES'For anyone who has enjoyed The Cultural Tutor on X, this book will be more of the same delight. Expect nuggets of insight and wisdom, wrapped in the author's trademark warmth and wit' ALAIN DE BOTTON'A rema...

'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' ***The New Yorker***on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar BearAre you formed by your mother tongue?How might the world unfold if you stepped outside of its rhythms?In this playful and daring interrogation of language, the globally acclaimed Yoko Tawada reveals the poetics, politics and potential of ex...

Why do we write poetry?Who should write it?And where do you even start?Well, Brian Bilston, one of the UK’s most hilarious and best-loved poets, is here to take us through the hows, whys and whats of reading, writing and enjoying poetry every day.With his characteristic wit and charm, Bilston accompanies us through the jungle of imagination to the source of inspiration, takes us under the bonnet of a sonnet and over the fear of literary device...

'You will love Harry Sidebottom’s magnificent, blood-drenched study of the life of a gladiator … Was I not entertained? I absolutely was.' Dominic Sandbrook, The Times'Grippingly original' Tom HollandA TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN AWARD------In ancient Rome, a single day could decide a ...