Category Archives: Shower Curtains
I Was Here Travel Journal
This colourfully illustrated, guided travel journal encourages users to observe and document the easily overlooked but wonderful everyday details that one encounters while traveling. It`s packed with journeys and explorations that can be done in any city, and interactive prompts for recording discoveries (e.g. – tasting foods you might not have thought to try and
The American Bar: The Artistry of Mixing Drinks
With its cloth binding evoking a Jazz Age guide to speakeasies and its charming illustrations that could have come from a period magazine, this most influential cocktail book is reissued in a newly updated edition. Spanning the cocktail spectrum from classic to contemporary, it includes all the information the cocktail lover or mixologist needs to
The Human Part
An elderly woman agrees to sell her life story to an author with writer`s block she meets at a book fair. She needs to talk – her husband has not spoken since a family tragedy some months ago, and seven thousand euros is a lot of money. She claims that her grown-up children are doing
Defending the Motherland: The Soviet Women Who Fought Hitler`s Aces
Plucked from every background, and led by an N.K.V.D. Major, the new recruits who boarded a train in Moscow on 16th October 1941 to go to war had much in common with millions of others across the world. What made the 586th Fighter Regiment, the 587th Heavy-bomber Regiment and the 588th Regiment of light night-bombers
Norwegian Wood: The pocket guide to chopping, stacking and drying wood the Scandinavian way
A PORTABLE, POCKET EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE WOOD-CUTTER`S BIBLE – PERFECT FOR FATHER`S DAY”The book has spread like wildfire” Daily Mail”A how-to book with poetry at its heart” T.L.S.”A step-by-step guide to preparing your wood store” IndependentWhether you`re a seasoned woodcutter, or your passion is yet to be kindled, NORWEGIAN WOOD is a highly informative
Traditional Cooking of Ireland: Classic Dishes from the Irish Home Kitchen
An evocative celebration of the food of Ireland with traditional dishes, beautifully photographed throughout.
Lampedusa: Gateway to Europe
“Bartolo tells us about rescuing everyone he can, burying those he cannot, and saving their stories as if they were his own. This is a personal, urgent and universal book” GLORIA STEINEM “An urgent, wrenching dispatch from the frontline of the defining crisis of our times . . . Bartolo is at once the saviour
From Amourette to Zal: Bizarre and Beautiful Words from Europe: (For When English Just Won`t Do)
Fjaka: the sublime state of aspiring to do absolutely nothing.Warmduscher: a `warm showerer`, meaning a bit of a wimp.Tener mano izquierda: literally `to have a left hand`; to be skilfully persuasive.For all the richness of the English language there are some nuances that other languages capture much better, whether it`s a phrase that beautifully articulates
Fitzrovia, The Other Side of Oxford Street: A Social History 1900-1950
This is the other side of the story.Before the Second World War, Ann Basu`s family of Jewish tailors lived where the BT Tower stands today. At that time of high migration, the women`s fashion trade and the new car industry were sweeping into Fitzrovia, Russian and German anarchists argued in its clubs, Indian revolutionaries practised
Crowdie and Cream and Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood
CROWDIE AND CREAM: Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, `built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match`, these are the stories of a childhood, of the hard years of the Depression, and then the departure of the island`s young men to fight in the Second World War. Together they bring alive
Ireland: A Novel
One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced and mysterious at a house in the Irish countryside. By the November fireside he begins to tell the story of this extraordinary land. One of his listeners, a nine-year-old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man leaves, he devotes his life
Trick of the Dark
When Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred in the grounds of her old Oxford college – a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As his bride and wedding guests sipped champagne, his alleged killers were slipping his
A Grave Concern: The Twenty Second Chronicle of Matthew Bartholomew
Identifying the murderer of the Chancellor of the University is not the only challenge facing physician Matthew Bartholomew. Many of his patients have been made worse by the ministrations of a `surgeon` recently arrived from Nottingham, his sister is being rooked by the mason she has commissioned to build her husband`s tomb, and his friend,
A Time to Die
AUTHOR OF THE BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB BESTSELLER BETTER OFF DEADFrom hot thriller author Tom Wood comes the latest breathtaking Victor novel – The Day of the Jackal meets Jason Bourne, with a thoroughly modern twist.`Terrifically fun and explosively propulsive`Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan XEven a killer can be a heroIf the assassin known
Bedrock Geology of the United Kingdom and Ireland
Bedrock Geology of the United Kingdom and Ireland folded map at 1:1,250,000 scale published by British Geological Survey. This map shows the bedrock (solid) geology of the United Kingdom and Ireland excluding the Channel Islands, generalised from larger-scale maps and overlaid on shaded relief. The map is intended as a teaching resource, suitable for a
The Passport
The passport is one of the most widespread documents in worldwide use and yet, paradoxically, it has no basis in law: one state cannot demand another to do something – give access – simply by issuing a document. Yet, by insisting on the requirement of holding a passport the state has provided itself with a
Bedrock Geology of the United Kingdom and Ireland Wall Map
Bedrock Geology of the United Kingdom and Ireland wall map at 1:1,250,000 scale published by British Geological Survey. This map shows the bedrock (solid) geology of the United Kingdom and Ireland excluding the Channel Islands, generalised from larger-scale maps and overlaid on shaded relief. The map is intended as a teaching resource, suitable for a
Milford Haven: Waterway and Town
In June 1790, Sir William Hamilton received Royal Assent to build the new town and port of Milford in the Manor or Lordship of Hubberston and Pill, which he had inherited from his first wife, Catherine Barlow of Slebech. His nephew, Charles Francis Greville, supervised the building task and persuaded two leading American Quaker whaling
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy
From Facebook`s COO and Wharton`s top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life`s inevitable setbacks. After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure
