Category Archives: Accessories
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
`More than ever, we need books like this` Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, FeastA whole new way of looking at the world – and your life – inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom.Wabi sabi (“wah-bi sah-bi”) is a captivating concept from Japanese aesthetics, which helps us to see beauty in imperfection,
Do Nothing: Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing and Underliving
We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity.`This book is so important and could truly save lives . . . With intelligence and compassion, Headlee presents realistic solutions
All Together Now
The Bridgeford Community Choir is in crisis. Numbers are down. The choir leader is in hospital. The tea urn is behaving in an ominous fashion. Something must be done. New joiners Tracey Leckford and Bennett Parker might just be able to save the day. But Tracey is hiding a huge secret about her past. And
The Old Slave and the Mastiff
A profoundly unsettling story of a plantation slave`s desperate escape into a rainforest beyond human control, with his master and a ferocious dog on his heels. This flight to freedom takes them on a journey that will transform them all, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest and its dense primeval wilderness reshapes reality
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle
This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain`s most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost tangible, the crews of the British, French and Spanish ships did their
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother`s wedding. He mops his sister`s floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn`t
Let`s Explore Diabetes With Owls
A guy walks into a bar …From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let`s Explore Diabetes with
Unusual Uses for Olive Oil: A Von Igelfeld Novel
Life is so unfair, and it sends many things to try Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld, author of Portuguese Irregular Verbs and pillar of the Institute of Romance Philology in the proud Bavarian city of Regensburg. There is the undeserved rise of his rival (and owner of a one-legged dachshund), Detlev Amadeus Unterholzer; the interminable
Jack Tar: Life in Nelson`s Navy
The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy invincible through skill, courage and sheer determination. They cast a long shadow, with millions of
Infinite Jest
Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of
The Mountain Shadow
The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay`s improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything.
Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings
When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish – internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United States. Married to a man with a genius for publicity, her life was crowded, demanding and adventurous. Mary S. Lovell`s superb biography examines a
Post-Truth: Peak Bullshit – and What We Can Do About It
`A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer` Evening StandardLow-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting – from Trump and the Brexit debate to companies that tell us `your call is important to us`. How did we get to a place where bullshit
Polly and the Puffin: Book 1
Meet Polly and her puffin Neil in the debut children`s book from Sunday Times bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan. Illustrated throughout and with recipes, activities and rhymes in addition to the irresistible story.Polly heard a CRASH downstairs. Was it a monster? NO! Was it a spider alien? NO!It was a little puffin with a broken wing…When
Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain
The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important and inspiring book, Robert Winder tells of the remarkable migrations that have founded and defined a nation. `Our aristocracy was created by a Frenchman, William the Conqueror, who
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy
A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses – all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really work? What would happen
Miss Mole
`Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places? Who would imagine that Miss Mole had pictured herself, at different times, as an explorer in strange lands, as a lady wrapped in luxury and delicate garments?`Miss Hannah Mole has
The Crow Road
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. `It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach`s Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew
If This is a Man/The Truce
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing
The Wasp Factory
`Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I`d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That`s my score to date. Three. I haven`t killed anybody for years, and don`t intend
