Category Archives: Accessories
Riverwise: Meditations on Afon Teifi
Riverwise, a volume of slow river prose centred around AfonTeifi, is a book of wanderings and wonderings, witnessings andenchantments, rememberings and endings. Weaving memoir,poetry and keen observation into its meandering course, it shiftsacross time and space to reflect the beauty of hidden, fluvialplaces, and to meditate on the strangeness of being human.Above all, though, this
Feast Your Eyes on Food
Learn how flour and water were revolutionized as you pore over different pasta and noodle shapes, discover how cheese is made, find out why onions make you cry and marvel at nature`s ingenuity as you take a bite from eighteen varieties of apples and pears. Split into digestible chapters, this visual guide explores the journey
France in the World: A New Global History
A fresh, provocative history that renews our understanding of France in the world through short, incisive essays ranging from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group of established and up-and-coming historians, this bestselling history conceives of France not as a fixed, rooted entity, but instead as
A Single Rose
The temples and teahouses of Kyoto are the scene of a Frenchwoman`s emotional awakening in the stunning new novel by international bestseller Muriel Barbery.Rose has turned 40, but has barely begun to live. When the Japanese father she never knew dies and she finds herself an orphan, she leaves France for Kyoto to hear the
A Trap for Cinderella
A young woman wakes in a hospital room. What happened to her and why is a mystery. Is she victim or murderer?The young woman has been badly injured in a fire and has amnesia. But what happened to her? Is she Mi, Micky or Michele, or Do, Dominique? As she struggles to rebuild her identity,
Old Enough to Save the Planet: With a foreword from the leaders of the School Strike for Climate Change
Meet kids – just like you – taking action against climate change. Learn about the work they do and discover how the future of our planet starts here… with you.
B: A Year in Plagues and Pencils
`I blame the pencil. I hadn`t meant to do it. I wasn`t thinking. It just happened that way.`In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey published a sketch on social media with a plan to keep posting a drawing a day from his family home in Austin, Texas,
Black London: History, Art & Culture in over 120 places
London is a city justly proud of its cultural diversity, yet for too long tourists and Londoners alike have had to rely on guides focusing on its white history and landmarks. Now Black London allows us to see this familiar city anew, gathering together the places that tell the story of its Black inhabitants, stretching
A Naturalist`s Guide to the Lizards of Australia
Featuring 280 of Australia`s most beautiful, unusual and commonly encountered lizard species, this lavishly illustrated guide provides a thorough introduction to the land of the lizard.Stunning photographs from Australia`s top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution, habits and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers the geography and climate of
The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in Australia
This book is about having fun birding. It contains the author`s personal selection of 100 of the best birdwatching sites in all states, territories and islands of Australia. The sites are chosen for the large number of species or the large number of special birds to be found in each one. In some cases the
Havana Year Zero
The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic crisis following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. For Julia, a mathematics lecturer who hates teaching, Havana is at Year Zero: the lowest possible point, going nowhere. Desperate to seize control of her life, Julia teams up with her
The Rooftop
In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world. `The world is this house`, says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness. As Clara`s connection to the outside is stripped away-the neighbor who
Brickmakers
Two young men, Pajaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The story begins almost at its end, just after the two main characters have faced off in a knife fight: the culmination of a rivalry that has pitted them against one another since childhood. The present in Brickmakers is a
Livingston Unfound
Set in Guatemala in the mid-Eighties, during a very turbulent historical period, Livingston Unfound is the journey of a woman, Monica, travelling on her own, taking risks and facing dangers, choosing friends and lovers across cultural boundaries, and, above all, struggling to come to terms with the inevitable contradictions that come with being an affluent
An Interesting Word for Every Day of the Year: Fascinating Words for First Readers
Learn a new and inspiring word every day of the year with this book, arranged into 52 seasonally themed spreads. Each fully illustrated scene provides a fun and supportive platform to introduce little readers to big words and extend their vocabulary, which studies have recently proven to be the biggest indicator of a child`s potential
Little Brother: an odyssey to Europe
A heartbreaking account of a poor and illiterate young West African`s odyssey to Europe, translated by one of Britain`s most celebrated playwrights.Ibrahima, whose family live in a village in the West African country of Guinea, helps his father sell shoes at a street stall in the capital, Conakry. At the sudden death of his father,
Tito
The charismatic, near-mythological figure of Josip Broz Tito was many things: an inspirational partisan leader and scourge of the Germans during their occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War; a doctrinaire communist but an ever-present thorn in Moscow`s side; an oppressor, a dictator, a reformer, and a playboy. He managed Yugoslavia`s internal tensions through
