Category Archives: Shower Curtains
I See a City: Todd Webb`s New York
I See a City: Todd Webb`s New York focuses on the work of photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed the city day and night, in all seasons and in all weather. Buildings, signage, vehicles, the passing throngs, isolated figures, curious eccentrics, odd corners, windows, doorways, alleyways,
A Sea Voyage: A Pop-Up Story About All Sorts of Boats
This inventive and beautifully produced pop-up book follows a couple and their small dog as they journey across the sea in a tiny sailing boat, encountering extraordinary boats from all around the world as they go. Gerard Lo Monaco is one of the world`s finest paper engineers, and this is reflected in the rich detail
Good Omens
According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter – the world`s only totally reliable guide to the future – the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea…
Chineasy: 100 Postcards
A Boxset of 100 postcards depicting the most common ‘building blocks’ of the Chinese language. Use them to learn the basic of these language and/or mail them to spread the Chineasy way of learning! The Chinese language is traditionally taught through a series of between roughly 180 and 215 radicals. These radicals are then used
A Concise History of Romania
Spanning a period of 2000 years from the Roman conquest of Dacia to the present day, A Concise History of Romania traces the development of a unique nation situated on the border between East and West. In this illuminating new history, Keith Hitchins explores Romania`s struggle to find its place amidst two diverse societies: one
Cold Steel: Lakshmi Mittal and the Multi-Billion-Dollar Battle for a Global Empire
When the world`s two largest steel producers went head to head in a bitter struggle for market domination, an epic corporate battle ensued that sent shockwaves through the political corridors of Europe, overheated the world`s financial markets and transformed the steel industry. Billions of dollars were at stake. At the heart of the battle were
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children made up the vast majority of those killed by the war, and the conflict displaced millions more. On Europe`s home fronts, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial
A Conspiracy of Friends
Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico is an oasis of old-fashioned civilisation, its inhabitants considerate and peace-loving. But beneath the polite exterior seismic change is stirring. Barbara Ragg makes an eye-popping discovery about her stolid Scottish suitor`s past, while Oedipus Snark – newly appointed and tirelessly self-interested Government Minister – has a close encounter in Switzerland that leaves
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs
Following on the success of his book The Empire of Death , which has attracted a global cult following, Paul Koudounaris brings the catacomb saints out of the darkness with this astonishing volume, which includes arresting images of more than seventy spectacular jeweled skeletons and the fascinating stories of dozens more, accompanied by rare archive
The Prime Minister`s Ironing Board and Other State Secrets: True Stories from the Government Archives
Stored in Whitehall`s archives are everything from blood-chilling warnings of imminent nuclear attack to comical details of daily life in the corridors of power. Concerned notes from ministers on the subject of the Heir to the Throne`s potential brainwashing by Welsh terrorists are shelved alongside worries about housemaids `on the wobble` at Chequers. Detailed and
Calypso
`Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses` Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt`He`s like an American Alan Bennett` GuardianA New York Times Notable Book of 2018`Entrancing . . . This book allows us to observed not just the nimble-mouthed elf of his previous work, but a man in
Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
AMAZON.COM`S #1 BEST FICTION PICK 2017WINNER OF THE GOODREADS READERS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION 2017`To say I love this book is an understatement…It moved me to tears` Reese Witherspoon`Just read it…Outstanding` Matt Haig Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020`A magnificent novel, full of wit, warmth and tenderness` Andrew McMillan`Smart, serious and entertaining` Bernardine EvaristoHow do you begin to find yourself when you only know half of who you are?As Nnenna Maloney approaches womanhood she longs to connect with her Igbo-Nigerian culture. Her once close and tender relationship
Midnight at the Pera Palace
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul`s Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres sold family heirlooms, an African American impresario founded a jazz club and Miss
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait
Along the Bering Strait, through the territories of the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia, Bathsheba Demuth explores an ecosystem that has long sustained human beings. Yet when Americans and Europeans arrived, the area became the site of an experiment and the modern ideologies of production and consumption, capitalism
In Search of Ireland
Shortly after the declaration of the Irish Free State, H V Morton goes IN SEARCH OF IRELAND by motor-car and finds, amongst other things, a Norman village in Galway, lobster fishers, a shy girl in need of an apron in Connemara and a great many beds in which Michael Collins is said to have slept.
Hemingway`s Chair
Michael Palin`s hilarious novel, a “New York Times” Notable Book, is a tale of a man learning to stand up for what he believes in–just like Ernest HemingwayMartin Sproale is a mild, conventional assistant postmaster living in a small English coastal town, the only exceptional thing about him being his obsession with Ernest Hemingway. This
History of Western Philosophy
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, it is `long on
Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain
Winner of the Political Book of the Year Award 2015 The UK Independence Party (UKIP) is the most significant new party in British politics for a generation. In recent years UKIP and their charismatic leader Nigel Farage have captivated British politics, media and voters. Yet both the party and the roots of its support remain
