Category Archives: Accessories
The Rhythm of the Rain
Issac plays in his favourite pool on the mountainside.As rain starts to fall, he empties his little jar of water into the pool and races the sparkling streams as they tumble over waterfalls, rush through swollen rivers and burst out into the vast open sea.Where will my little jar of water go now? Issac wonders.On
Alison Jay`s First Words
Words and Alison Jay`s distinctive artwork combine on each page to create an introduction to familiar words that children and their parents will want to return to again and again.
Mensa: Quick Travel Puzzles
Mensa: Quick Travel Puzzles brings the challenge of Mensa to you every day for your journey or vacation with a book of puzzles specially designed for you to take on any trip. These 150 quick puzzles can be solved wherever you may find yourself with a few minutes to spare.There are all sorts of challenges
Men in My Situation
A major new novel from the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses. Men in My Situation is a tender, scintillating portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life nearly going to pieces.In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight and divorced. Turid has left with their three girls, slipping into her young, exuberant crowd of friends
Gin
Gin: A Toast to the Most Aromatic of Spirits celebrates the clear spirit in all its guises; as a straight drink, the increasingly popular flavoured brands, as a base for cocktails and a cooking ingredient. It describes the history of the spirit; how it is made and how the method of distillation has changed across
How to Spot a Fascist
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that `they` must never do it again. But who are `they`?HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance – including Eco`s iconic essay `Ur-Fascism`, which lists the fourteen essential characteristics of fascism, and
Spoon-Fed: Why almost everything we`ve been told about food is wrong
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD AND DRINK BOOK AWARDS*The groundbreaking new book from Tim Spector, bestselling author of The Diet Myth and creator of the COVID Symptom Study app. `Illuminating and so incredibly timely.` Yotam OttolenghiWe are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn`t eat, and new scientific
Sad Little Men: Private Schools and the Ruin of England
`The most important book I`ve read this year…the writing is magnetic` Adam RutherfordIn 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were David Cameron and Boris Johnson.In those days a private boys` boarding school education was largely the same experience as it had been for
Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. This is the ultimate gift for Murakami fans.Haruki Murakami`s books have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
*A SUNDAY TIMES `BOOKS OF 2021` PICK*From `Best of the Booker` winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020, including several never previously in print, Languages of Truth
Who Killed My Father
Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was. The story of my father. In Who Killed My Father, Edouard Louis explores key moments in his father`s life, and the tenderness and disconnects in their relationship. Told with the fire of a writer
Intimacies: A Barack Obama Summer 2021 Reading Pick
`An amazing book, beautiful and captivating.` Elif ShafakA gorgeous, destabilizing meditation` Raven LeilaniFrom the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths.An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is
More Than I Love My Life
An epic, deeply moving novel about the power of love and loving with courage – from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of A Horse Walks into a BarOn a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the ninetieth birthday of her grandmother Vera, the adored matriarch of a sprawling and tight-knit family. But
Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain
Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling`s Grand Tours.Julian Berrendero`s victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco`s concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer
Defenestrate
`Our speech is so full of falling. We fall down laughing, fall apart, fall away, we fall prey to things, fall from grace, fall in love. We fall down dead.`One thing that the city of Prague is famous for is its recurring incidents of throwing men out of windows. The word for this is defenestration.In
Life Without Children: Stories
***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS AUTUMN***A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending short storiesLove and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.In these ten, beautifully moving short stories mostly written over
Work Won`t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone
Whether it`s working for free in exchange for `experience`, enduring poor treatment in the name of being `part of the family`, or clocking serious overtime for a good cause, more and more of us are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do work we enjoy.Work Won`t Love You Back examines
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre
Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between
