Category Archives: Accessories
The Lady and the Generals : Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma`s Struggle for Freedom
Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma`s first free general election in a generation. Acclaimed biographer, Peter Popham, describes how, inspired by her leadership, Burma has found
Start and Run a Bed and Breakfast: All You Need to Know to Make Money from Your Dream Property
Whether you are thinking about running a B&B or have already made the decision and are ready to start planning your business, this book will tell you all you need to know. If you are already established with a B & B, it will help you provide quality accommodation and maximize your earnings and occupancy
A Lebanese Feast of Vegetables, Pulses, Herbs and Spices
This cornucopia of delicious vegetable recipes has been assembled by the author of Everyday Lebanese Cooking. It focuses on those recipes that make Lebanese cuisine one of the healthiest in the world because of the huge variety of vegetarian dishes on which it is based. Vegetable and pulse dishes are what most Lebanese prefer to
The Happiness Trap: Stop Struggling, Start Living
Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depresssion. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse. In this controversial, but empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the `The Happiness Trap`, where the
Carpentaria
Set in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, Carpentaria is the unforgettable portrait of the powerful Phantom family, leader of the Westend Pricklebush people, and its battles with old Joseph Midnight`s renegade Eastend mob on the one hand, and the white officials of Uptown and the neighbouring Gurfurrit mine on the other. By turns
Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavours
`This is everything I want from a cookbook: inspiration, intelligent company, great good-mood food, and beautiful writing.` Nigella Lawson No-one is better than Diana Henry at turning the everyday into something special. Here is a superb collection of recipes that you can rustle up with absolutely no fuss, but which will knock your socks off
A Boy in Winter
From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Dark Room, an extraordinary new novel: `A spellbinding evocation of fear and threat tinged with the possibility of hope and change` – Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetEarly on a grey November morning in 1941, only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun
Artist Quarter: Modigliani, Montmartre and Montparnasse
What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their hey-day roughtly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on the Hill of Martyrs, and 1920, when Amedeo Modigliani , justly called `the prince of Bohemians`, died of consumption and dissipation in Montparnasse? This book, written by an Enflishman who lived in Montnartre for
The Land Of Neverbelieve
Discover the extraordinary animals and plants found on the fantastical island of Neverbelieve in this exquisitely illustrated gift book by world-renowned artist, Norman Messenger. On setting foot on the island I was immediately spellbound. There could be nowhere else on Earth quite like this. Such trees, plants, creatures and intriguing people you would never believe.
The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea
The first novel by the author of The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman is a beautifully touching story of friendship, hope and despair – richly imaginative and stunningly lyrical.It is a sense of remoteness and abandon that first draws the two boys together. Each having lost a parent, they are trying to come to
NOTLondon
When photographer Anthony Dawton realised how dramatically homelessness had increased in London, he took to the streets with his cam-era. For years he had taken photographs in areas of need worldwide, but after spending some time in his home city, he noticed how many people were living on its streets. He embarked on a new
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists
The Isokon building, Lawn Road Flats, in Belsize Park on Hampstead`s lower slopes, is a remarkable building. The first modernist building in Britain to use reinforced concrete in domestic architecture, its construction demanded new building techniques. But the building was as remarkable for those who took up residence there as for the application of revolutionary
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
From the creator of the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes the hilarious and entertaining festive tale for the whole family, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Starring the Santa Claus whom we all know and love, L. Frank Baum`s story takes us back to the fantastical origins of so many of our Christmas
Crap Taxidermy
You won`t know whether to laugh or cry at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, brought to you courtesy of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com. The site`s plethora of bad taxidermy examples – including a squirrel riding a rattlesnake like a cowboy, and various anatomically imaginative renderings of all creatures great and small – have proved
101 Chillies to Try Before You Die
Work your way up the Scoville scale with 101 Chillies to Try Before You Die. With fun facts, stats, recipes and much more, this is the ultimate challenge for those who love to test their taste buds. Expertly chosen chillies to blow your mind. Extreme stats and facts for heat fanatics. Not suitable for the
