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On Christmas
A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries – with joy, nostalgia and dazzling wit. Includes selections from Dostoevsky, Truman Capote, A.A. Milne, Jerome K
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking: 2018
`Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of wellbeing and walk away from every illness.` Soren Aaby KierkegaardDuncan Minshull has always walked, and in the last twenty years has made use of it by writing and publishing books on the subject. He has described the
The Cookbook Notebook
This charming book recalls a time when the housewives of Britain were still making do and keeping a nation `fighting fit`. It contains a vast collection of recipes, from a classic fish pie to a `gooey` ginger cake, showing how even during the post-war rationing period, food could still be adventurous and tasty. Go back
This Young Monster
THIS YOUNG MONSTER is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders andshow their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the presentas a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate
The Doll`s Alphabet
Surreal, ambitious, and exquisitely conceived, THE DOLL`S ALPHABET is a collection of stories in the tradition of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. Dolls, sewing machines, tinned foods, mirrors, malfunctioning bodies – many images recur in stories that are in turn child-like and naive, grotesque and very dark. In `Unstitching`, a feminist revolution takes place. In
Cathedrals and Abbeys
Cathedrals and abbeys are the most beautiful and iconic buildings of the British Isles, and have formed the bedrock of our nation for centuries. This absorbing collection of amazing and extraordinary facts opens the doors of these fascinating structures to reveal their rich historical and architectural heritage. From stories of English Popes, martyred archbishops and
This Little Art
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs`s THIS LITTLE ART is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes`s lecture notes as a starting point,
Mid-Wales South Sustrans Cycle Map 14
The sparsely populated areas of mid-Wales provide an ideal location for an adventure if you want to get away from the crowds. The coastal areas that surround Cardigan Bay offer great views out to sea, whilst the counties of Ceredigion and Powys afford some challenging gradients as well as a selection of wonderful traffic-free paths.This
The Years
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist`s defining work, THE YEARS is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private
Second-Hand Time
Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature for inventing `a new kind of literary genre`. Here she brings together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to surmise
Summer: (Seasons Quartet 4)
Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer.Your voice woke me up around eight this morning, it sounded unusually close, since, as I discovered upon opening my eyes, you were lying in our
When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow
A laugh-out-loud satire on dogma, which tests the limits of freedom of expression.Everybody at the Women`s Institute in the village of Upper Bottom is eagerly awaiting the arrival of a very special guest speaker: the world famous evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins.But with a blizzard setting in, their visitor finds himself trapped in the nearby
The Miner
โ€It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be deeply affected by it. It cannot and should not be overlooked. It is one of my favorites.โ€Haruki Murakamiโ€The Miner โ€is the most daringly experimental and least well-known novel of Japanese writer
Friends for Mouse
Mouse is convinced he`s BIG ENOUGH to explore all on his own. But he`s just not able to do the things all the other animals are doing – the water is too wet, the trees are too high. When his friends Hare and Bear finally join him, he realises he is just the right size
This Little Reindeer
This little reindeer went to market. This little reindeer loaded the sleigh. This little reindeer did some stretching. And this little reindeer mapped the way. These little reindeer have a lot of work to do to prepare for Christmas! One goes to the market, one loads Santa`s sleigh, one stretches, one cooks some treats, and
Beyond the Odyssey
Elliot`s life is spiralling out of control. He`s been suspended from school, his ex-convict dad is useless around the house and his mum`s health is worsening. What`s more, the gods are determined to forge on with the quest for the third chaos stone. An unlikely, hilarious and heart-warming odyssey begins. But Elliot has heard of
An Island
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE`An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiledhimself from the known world only to find himself called to the service of others, themselves exiledfrom the world by cruelty and circumstance. It is on these grounds that this writer deftly
Macarons
Macarons are the aristocrats of pastry; these brightly coloured, mini meringues, daintily sandwiched together with gooey fillings, have become a holy grail for cookery fanatics and there are even food blogs dedicated to them. Like Pierre Herme`s famous macarons, it would be difficult for any macaron book to surpass this one and indeed the hardback
Veggie Fast Food
Are you under the impression that vegetarians can`t have fast food? On the contrary! This exciting new cookbook offers more than 80 quick and easy veggie recipes – from Manchego quesadillas and TexMex burgers to tomato-cinnamon fries and No Tuna Sandwich. This is the book of vegetarian food for those in a hurry, and the
