Encyclopaedias & reference works

The Food Almanac II is an annual, seasonal collection of recipes and stories celebrating the joy of food – a dazzling, diverse mix of memoir, history, short stories and poems alongside recipes, cooking tips, menus and reading lists.

A fiendish collection of over 100 super-tricky brainteasers from puzzle-maestros Rob Eastaway and David Wells.

A hilarious gift book to help Remainers cope in the run-up to the fateful Brexit moment. 

The Food Almanac is a monthly collection of food stories told by an eclectic mix of voices from the literary, performance and food worlds.

From legendary food writers and lauded chefs to up-and-coming poets and debut novelists, each story looks at the gastronomic world through a cultural prism, using food as a way to explore deeper issues.

In 2018 Project Love launched their debut journal Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019, an end-of-year guide that helps you to say a proper farewell to one year as it comes to an end and create a vision and a plan for the year ahead. Since then they have published a bestselling follow-up and are returning with the latest in their series.

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."

Oscar Wilde

Another all-new instalment of the sidesplitting and bestselling Donald Trump Yearbook, packed with Trump-related games, puzzles and fun.

Rugby fans will delight in this astonishing collection of outlandish stories from the past 150 years of the game.

A rollicking collection of barely believable stories from five centuries of legal history – you’ll be gripped by these tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice.

All the fun of Portico's bestselling Strangest series, now in quiz form!

London’s Strangest Tales takes a walk on London’s weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world’s greatest cities.

A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of cycling, including doughty Edwardian explorers, intrepid tightrope cyclists and a long-forgotten bike growing in a tree.