Using contemporary documents, police files, Home Office papers and newspaper reports, Jack the Ripper: The Facts recreates the notorious crimes and police investigation of 1888 to provide the best available overview of the 'Great Victorian Mystery', the greatest unsolved, true crime story of all time.

From thousands of great works of art, Harvey Rachlin has selected fifty paintings behind whose canvasses lurk the most compelling stories. He describes how many of the world's incomparable masterpieces figured in revolutions, scandals, ransoms, thefts, shipwrecks and much more.

By the cookery editor of the Jewish Chronicle , this single volume offers the religious and historical background to all the major festivals, together with the special recipes associated with each one. It contains new recipes developed since her Complete New International Jewish Cookbook .

Working in an office can be dull. The start time is always the same, you can set your clock by the tea trolley, lunch has a plastic taste to it and the last hour before knocking-off time is by far the longest of the day. Yet for the thousands of us locked into these administrative zoos it's a reality that can test the senses.

The market for this book is huge: there are an enormous number of legal professionals working in the UK, over 60,000 solicitors and 10, 000 barristers regulated by the Law Society in England and Wales alone.

This volume is an amusing collection of accounts of cricket players who have thrown away victory for all kinds of embarassing and highly regrettable reasons. It covers two centuries of cricket.

This is a humorous take on the 'how to change your lifestyle' genre. A counter-culture book for all those who dislike being told what is bad for your health.

The history of science is littered with mad, bad and delightfully dotty inventions, from the bicycle that relied for its momentum on the rider waggling his head back and forth to the Improved Pneumatic Advertising Hat - a bowler that hurled a lit-up billboard into the air at the touch of a button. This book presents science's strangest inventions.

This 16 copy counterpack contains:- 4 copies, Birdwatcher's Companion, ISBN 1 86105 833 0; 4 copies, Golfer's Companion, ISBN 1 86105 834 9; 4 copies, Legal Companion, ISBN 1 86105 838 1; 4 copies, Sailor's Companion, ISBN 1 86105 839 X.

They are the icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analysed in countless classrooms, homes and pubs.