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Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- Ancient, classical and medieval texts
Biography and non-fiction prose
- Anthologies: general
Biography: general
- Biography: adventurers and explorers
- Biography: arts and entertainment
- Biography: business and industry
- Biography: historical, political and military
- Biography: philosophy and social sciences
- Biography: religious and spiritual
- Biography: royalty
- Biography: science, technology and medicine
- Biography: sport
- Biography: writers
- Diaries, letters and journals
- Literary essays
- Memoirs
- Speeches
Children's, Teenage and Educational
Children's / Teenage fiction and true stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Biographical fiction / autobiographical stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Children's / Teenage fiction: Fantasy
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Contemporary and urban fantasy
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Dark fantasy
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Fantasy romance
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fantasy
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Magical realism / Magical fantasy
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Mythic fantasy / Mythic fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Horror and ghost stories, chillers
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Religious and spiritual stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: School stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Short stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Speculative, dystopian and utopian fiction
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Superhero stories
- Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
Children's / Teenage: General interest
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Art and artists
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Literature, books and writers
Children's / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Birds
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Dinosaurs and prehistoric world
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Ecosystems
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Farm animals
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Fish and marine life
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Insects, spiders, minibeasts
Children's / Teenage general interest: Mammals
Children's / Teenage general interest: Large land mammals
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Apes, monkeys and lemurs
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Bears
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Cats including big cats
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Cows and cattle
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Dogs and wolves
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Pigs, hogs and boars
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Ponies, horses and related animals
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Marsupials, platypuses and echidnas
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Plants and trees
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Reptiles and amphibians
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Space, stars and the solar system
Children's / Teenage general interest: Philosophy, Religion and beliefs
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Ancient religions, Mythology and legends
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Buddhism
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Christianity
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Hinduism
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Islam
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Judaism
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Other religions and spiritual traditions
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Philosophy
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Religious texts, prayers and devotional material
Children's / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Boys and men
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Celebrations, holidays, festivals and special events
- Children's / Teenage general interest: City and town life
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Countries, cultures and national identity
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Girls and women
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Queens, kings, princesses, princes etc
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Rural and farm life
Children's / Teenage general interest: Science and technology
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Architecture, buildings and construction
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Machines and how things work
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Mathematics and numbers
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Science: The human body
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Time travel
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Transport and vehicles
Children's / Teenage general interest: Sports and outdoor recreation
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Athletics and gymnastics
Children's / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports: American Football
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports: Association football (Soccer)
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports: Baseball and Softball
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Ball games and sports: Basketball
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Camping and active outdoor pursuits
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Cycling, rollerskating and skateboarding
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Martial arts
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Swimming and water sports
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Television, video and film
- Children's / Teenage general interest: Warfare, battles, armed forces
Children's / Teenage: Personal and social topics
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Disability, impairments and special needs
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Drugs and addiction
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: First / new experiences and growing up / coming of age
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Gender identity
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: LGBTQ+
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Multicultural
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Personal safety
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Racism and anti-racism
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Runaways
- Children's / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem
Children's / Teenage: Social issues / topics
- Children's / Teenage social topics: Accidents, disasters or emergencies
- Children's / Teenage social topics: Activism / activists
- Children's / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues
- Children's / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees
- Children's / Teenage social topics: Religious issues / debates
- Children's / Teenage: Social topics: Poverty / precarity
- Teenage personal and social topics: Advice on careers and further education, leaving school
Economics, Finance, Business and Management
Business and Management
- Business and the environment; 'green' approaches to business
- Business communication and presentation
- Business ethics and social responsibility
- Business innovation
- Business mathematics and systems
- Business negotiation
- Business strategy
- Consultancy
- Corporate governance: role and responsibilities of boards and directors
- E-commerce: business aspects
- Entrepreneurship / Start-ups
- History of specific companies / corporate history
- International business
- Operational research
- Organizational theory and behaviour
Fiction and Related items
- Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
- Contemporary lifestyle fiction
- Erotic fiction
- Family life fiction
Fiction: narrative themes
- Narrative theme: Coming of age
- Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
- Narrative theme: Diversity, equality, inclusion
- Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world
- Narrative theme: Health and illness
- Narrative theme: Interior life
- Narrative theme: Love and relationships
- Narrative theme: Politics
- Narrative theme: Sense of place
- Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales
- Historical fiction
- Religious and spiritual fiction
- Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)
- Sports fiction
Graphic novels, Comic books, Manga, Cartoons
Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: genres
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Action and adventure
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Anthropomorphic / animal stories
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Crime, mystery and thrillers
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Fantasy, esoteric
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Historical
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Horror / supernatural
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Inspired by or adapted from other media
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Literary adaptations
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Memoirs, true stories and non-fiction
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Modern and contemporary fiction / literature
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Religious, spiritual, inspirational
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Romance
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: School / college life
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Science fiction
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Society / culture
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Sports
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Superheroes and super-villains
- Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Reference, guides and reviews
- Strip cartoons
Health, Relationships and Personal development
Family and health
Coping with / advice about personal, social and health topics
- Coping with / advice about abuse
- Coping with / advice about addiction
- Coping with / advice about ageing
- Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias
- Coping with / advice about body image issues
- Coping with / advice about bullying, coercion and harassment
- Coping with / advice about death and bereavement
- Coping with / advice about drug and alcohol problems
- Coping with / advice about eating disorders
Coping with / advice about illness and specific health conditions
- Coping with / advice about allergies, including food allergies
- Coping with / advice about Alzheimer's and dementia
- Coping with / advice about cancer
- Coping with / advice about chronic or long-term illness or conditions
- Coping with / advice about diabetes
- Coping with / advice about headaches and migraines
- Coping with heart conditions / advice about heart and circulatory health
- Coping with / advice about physical impairments / disability
- Coping with / advice about sleep problems
- Coping with / advice about stress
- Giving up smoking
- Home nursing and caring
- Personal safety
Relationships and families: advice and issues
- Adoption and fostering: advice and issues
- Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice and issues
- Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues
- Involuntary childlessness: advice and issues
- Relationships: friends / peer groups
- Separation and divorce: advice and issues
- Sex and sexuality: advice and issues
Law
Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure
Antiques, vintage and collectables
- Antique clocks, musical boxes and automata
- Antique or vintage furniture / furniture collecting
- Antiques, vintage and collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera and printed matter
- Antiques, vintage and collectables: buyer's guides
- Antiques, vintage and collectables: instruments, implements and tools
- Antiques, vintage and collectables: jewellery
- Antiques, vintage and collectables: pictures, prints and maps
- Antiques, vintage and collectables: sports memorabilia
- Antiques, vintage and collectables: toys, games, dolls and models
- Care and restoration of antiques
- Collecting coins, banknotes, medals and other related items
- Collecting stamps, philately
- Militaria, arms and armour
Cookery / food and drink / food writing
- Budget cookery
- Cigars and smoking
Cookery / food by ingredient
- Cookery / food by ingredient: chicken and other poultry
- Cookery / food by ingredient: chocolate
- Cookery / food by ingredient: egg, cheese and dairy products
- Cookery / food by ingredient: fish and seafood
- Cookery / food by ingredient: fruit and vegetables
- Cookery / food by ingredient: herbs, spices, oils and vinegars
- Cookery / food by ingredient: meat and game
- Cookery / food by ingredient: pasta and noodles
- Cookery / food by ingredient: rice, grains, pulses, nuts and seeds
- Cookery for / with children / teenagers
- Cookery: preserving and freezing
- Cooking for one
- Cooking for parties and special occasions
- National and regional cuisine
- Organic food / organic cookery
- Quick and easy cookery
- TV / Celebrity chef / eateries cookbooks
Handicrafts, decorative arts and crafts
- Adult colouring and activity books
- Bamboo, reed and wicker crafts
- Calligraphy and hand-lettering
- Carving and modelling, moulding and casting
- Decorative metalwork
- Decorative woodwork
- Flower arranging and floral crafts
- Jewellery and beadcrafts
- Leather crafts and Leatherworking
- Painting, drawing and art manuals
- Pottery, ceramics and glass crafts
- Ropework, knots and macramé
- Rug and carpetmaking
- Rural crafts
- Spinning and weaving
- Toys: making and decorating
Travel and holiday
- Language phrasebooks
- Places and peoples: general and pictorial works
Travel and holiday guides
- Travel guides: activity holidays
- Travel guides: adventure holidays
- Travel guides: budget travel
- Travel guides: business travel
- Travel guides: cruises
- Travel guides: eco-tourism / 'green' tourism
- Travel guides: food and drink regions
- Travel guides: holidays with children / family holidays
- Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc
- Travel guides: rail travel
- Travel guides: restaurants and cafes
- Travel guides: routes and ways
- Travel guides: theme parks and funfairs
- Travel maps and atlases
- Travel writing
Medicine and Nursing
Society and Social Sciences
Education
Psychology
- Abnormal psychology
- Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
- Cognition and cognitive psychology
- Criminal or forensic psychology
- Experimental psychology
- Occupational and industrial psychology
- Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology
- Psychology of ageing
- Psychology: emotions
- Psychology: sexual behaviour
- Psychology: states of consciousness
- Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality
Society and culture: general
Social and ethical issues
- Animals and society
- Control, privacy and safety in society
- Disability: social aspects
- Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
- Housing and homelessness
- Human trafficking
- Migration, immigration and emigration
- Poverty and precarity
- Refugees and political asylum
- Sex and sexuality, social aspects
- Social discrimination and social justice
- Social forecasting, future studies
- Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)
The Arts
