Category Archives: Accessories
RHS Flowers the Watercolour Art Pad
Anyone can produce beautiful botanical paintings with this, the first guided watercolour book. Printed on specialist watercolour art paper and containing step-by-step tutorials, this book is the perfect introduction to producing exquisite illustrations. 30 works by Rachel Pedder-Smith have been recreated by the artist in outline-only form, ready for you to paint, along with recommended
Stranger in the Shogun`s City: A Woman`s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo – now known as Tokyo – and a portrait of a great city on the brink of momentous change`Compelling… Deeply absorbing` GuardianThe daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in
World Atlas of Wine 8th Edition
Winner of the Andre Simon Drink Book of the YearShortlisted for the Louis Roederer Wine Book of the Year 2020โ€One book deserves a place on every wine drinker`s shelf, and that is The World Atlas of Wineโ€ – Victoria Moore in the Telegraphโ€magisterialโ€ – Fiona Beckett, Guardian โ€a key reference material for any sommelier, wine
The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times
`Moving and rich…overflowing with warmth and humanity` The Times In this pioneering work of life-writing and reportage, Anthony DePalma reconstructs the interwoven stories of five ordinary citizens and their families to bring the true story of the Cuban people to the world. From Castro`s heyday, through the devastation of post-Soviet collapse, to the false dawn
BrewDog: Craft Beer for the Geeks
We are Geeks.There, we said it. We love beer and its creation so much that we literally wrote the book on it.The success of Craft Beer for the People was amazing and it proved that there is a market for a book about beer that breaks the mould.But there is so much more to say.We
The Only Story
A profoundly moving story of first love and memory from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an EndingWould you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn`t
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons
**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**`A modern masterpiece` GuardianUncovering the mystery of her mother`s disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.Autumn 1929 – a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered
Knife: Harry Hole 12
Featured in The Times top ten crime novels of the decade**THE No.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**`This is the king of Norwegian crime on top form` ObserverHARRY HOLE`S DEADLIEST ENEMY IS BACK… AND OUT FOR BLOOD Harry is in a bad place: Rakel has left him, he`s working cold cases and notorious murderer Svein Finne is back
Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? Why does it matter that we make things well? What is the nature of work? And what is the nature of a good life? Part memoir, part polemic, part
The Bass Rock
`A modern gothic triumph` Max PorterThe Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other.In the early 1700s, Sarah, accused of being a witch, flees for her life.In the
The Sense of an Ending (Film tie-in)
Now a major film starring Academy Award nominees Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
`A cracking historical novel – with a twinge of the surreal – about passion and obsession` The TimesSHORLISTED FOR THE WOMEN`S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. He has sold Jonah`s ship for what appears to be a mermaid.As
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland
A journey into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe, until it was finally submerged
From the Heart
Everyone likes Olive Piper. A happy, open-hearted child growing up in the 1950s, her life is contented. When her passion for reading gets her into university she feels sure the world is waiting for her. But then she makes a mistake – the kind any one of us could make – and faces an impossible
Bridget Jones`s Baby: The Diaries
This is the funniest book of the year. It is the new Bridget Jones novel. 8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time. Before motherhood, before marriage, Bridget, with biological clock ticking
Smile
Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly`s pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in shorts and a pink shirt brings over his pint and sits down. He seems to know Victor`s name and
Himalaya: A Human History
`A scholarly yet entertaining synthesis of hundreds of years of history` Financial TimesThis is the first major history of the Himalaya: an epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world`s highest mountains.SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 DUFF COOPER PRIZEAn epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world`s highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries
The Line Becomes A River
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard`Stunningly good… The best thing I`ve read for ages` James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd`s LifeFrancisco Cantu was a US Border Patrol agent from 2008 to 2012. In this extraordinary account, he describes his work in the
A Place for Us
** The New York Times bestseller **`To be taken hostage by Fatima Mirza`s heartrending and timely story is a gutting pleasure… She captures your mind and heart with an urgency that defies you to stop reading. I guarantee you will be different when you close the book` Sarah Jessica Parker`I loved this book` Anne Tyler`The
Autumn: (Seasons Quartet 1)
The Sunday Times bestseller from literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard, a love letter about the world written by a father to his unborn daughter.`Inspiring, surprising… Autumn will warm and enlighten anyone who opens their eyes to it` The TimesAutumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short
