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Publications for Autumn 2006
March 28 2006
Thanks as ever for your fantastic support for the success of last season, and a warm welcome to our autumn list for 2006, with over sixty great new books to present to you. This season's many highlights include:
Please use the links to the left to browse through the list category by category.
This season's highlights include:
FOOD & DRINK
As usual we present both classic kitchen reference books and practical cookbooks with an original twist. This season's new launches include fantastic handbook-size paperback editions of our best-selling curry and cookie recipe compendiums, and a paperback reissue of the glorious Bread Bible, which has already sold over 250,000 copies.
Entertaining is covered with two complementary titles on party food and a handy home guide to mixing 600 cocktails and drinks. Best-loved Main Courses for Special Occasions is the perfect collection of impressive but easy dishes, and for a zesty follow-up, there is 150 Fruit Desserts. To tempt those with a sweet tooth, we have fabulous Sweet Treats, packed with mouthwatering ideas for all occasions. Regional cookery highlights include The Irish Kitchen, a beautiful guide to Irish food and eating, as well as more sun-soaked recipes from Greece and Africa.
Vegetarians are well catered for this season, with volumes on soups and vegan food, and a book that offers three healthy ways of eating in one, Low-Fat Vegetarian Mediterranean Recipes. There is an enticing little cookbook on the fashionable theme of wraps, rolls and parcels, and Garlic in the Kitchen shows wonderful ways of using this healthy ingredient.
Finally, we continue the great-value staple-bound collection with titles on onions, eggs and ice cream.
GARDENING
In this ever-popular category we have two new handy guides to pruning, a beautiful reference volume on choosing flowering plants, and a practical guide to growing annuals and perennials. Plant portraits are shown in colour, as well as step-by-step photographs and illustrations to show every technique. There is also an original title on creating garden decorations and embellishments, combining both craft and gardening in one step-by-step project book.
NEW AGE & HEALTH
The titles offer fully illustrated, accessible advice from experts. Pregnancy, Babycare & Baby Food offers clear and authoritative information in one comprehensive volume. How to Use Yoga is a classic reissue of Mira Mehta's guide for beginners, and we also publish a lively book on yoga for kids. Pilates Step-by-Step shows how to achieve a leaner body with fast and lasting results. Natural approaches to health are explored in practical books on massage, and, how to boost your energy levels, a compendium of over 350 tips, remedies and body treatments. In the more esoteric category, we show how you can bring the spiritual into the everyday with personalized home altars, how to use space-cleansing techniques to re-energize your home, and how to explore the power of astrology. Little guides on tai chi, stress-relieving stretches and crystal healing offer something for everyone.
HOME IMPROVEMENT & CRAFTS
Practical books give the low-down on decorating your home with stencilling, on picture-framing techniques, and home woodworking, with fabulous professional-looking projects to make yourself. Learn how to create amazing jewellery pieces with metal, wire, paper and clay, and how to do great origami and napkin folds, all shown in step-by-step projects. An inspirational how-to book on carving pumpkins reveals all kinds of original ways to create faces and patterns, not just for Hallowe'en!
REFERENCE
Our incredible range of highly illustrated family reference books includes titles on a wide variety of historical and general subjects - Roman architecture; the ancient pyramids of Egypt; the first battleships; World War tanks; and a fantastic illustrated series of world mythology, which presents five fascinating compendiums of ancient myths and legends. There is a welcome handbook-size edition of our highly regarded illustrated encyclopedia of the birds of the world, and Tracing Your Family Tree offers practical and accessible advice on what is now one of our most popular hobbies.
SPORTS & PASTIMES
Both outdoor and indoor activities are catered for, from an illustrated guide to salt-water fishing to an irresistible step-by-step book on ballroom dancing - learn to waltz, foxtrot and tango in easy photographs - as well as stamp collecting. There are also two great new guides to pet breeds and care, with volumes on aquarium fish and dogs.
CHILDREN'S
We continue to produce fun educational titles for children to the highest possible standard, perfect for home and school study.
This season features a beautiful illustrated history series that combines fascinating facts with step-by-step projects to bring the past into the present. The fantastic 300 Science and History Projects presents 300 amazing experiments and activities that teach through practical example.
These books have been developed by our hardworking in-house creative team editors, managers, designers and picture researchers creating the most beautiful and informative illustrated books available. Our books are justifiably considered to be among the best you can buy. They are developed step-by-step, and painstakingly checked and rechecked at every stage. The authors are experts in their respective fields, and there is a whole battalion of consultants and specialist contributors going through the work in fine detail. No restrictions are placed on the number of photographs and illustrations, and production values are of key importance. The highly talented photographers, stylists, home economists and designers are among the finest in the industry. Yet our price-points, of course, will always continue to offer incredible value to the buyer.
We wish you great sales and great success with these highly competitive and very commercial books. Addresses and contact details for our global sales teams are included please contact them, or me personally, or Paul Anness on panness@anness.com if you have ideas, suggestions, questions or if there is anything at all we can do to help you.
Joanna Lorenz
Publisher