Category Archives: Shower Curtains
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
Small G: A Summer Idyll: A Virago Modern Classic
At the `small g`, a Zurich bar known for its not exclusively gay clientele, the lives of a small community are played out one summer. Rickie Markwalder is a designer whose lover Petey was brutally murdered. Rickie and his performing dog Lulu are regulars at the bar, as are vindictive Renate, a seamstress, and her
Valley Of The Dolls
Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet-set.Valley of the Dolls took the world by storm when it was first published, fifty years ago. Never had a book been so frank about sex, drugs
Lost for Words
`Belly-achingly hilarious` Sunday Times `Written with restless wit …a pleasure.` Observer `What makes you smile, and smile, and smile is the elegance of the writing. Seldom was so much pretentiousness skewered so stylishly.` Novel of the Week, Mail on Sunday `Everything St. Aubyn writes is worth reading for the cleansing rancor of his intelligence and
One Night, New York: `A page turner with style` (Erin Kelly)
`From its breathless opening pages, ONE NIGHT, NEW YORK transports the reader to the glitter and the danger of old New York. A page-turner with style.` ERIN KELLYFor the hundredth time since they`d made their promise, she wondered if she and Agnes were really going to go through with it, if she was brave and
We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
`Read this book. Saving Planet Earth starts right here, right now` Stella McCartneyFrom the bestselling author of Eating Animals, a brilliantly fresh and accessible take on climate change – and what we can do about it`Climate change is the greatest crisis humankind has ever faced.It is that straightforward, that fraught.Where were you when you made
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy
A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`His best book yet` The Times`Macintyre`s page-turner is a dazzling portrait of a flawed yet driven individual who risked everything (including her children) for the cause` Sunday TimesDISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE SPY WHO ALMOST KILLED HITLER – FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SPY AND THE TRAITORUrsula
Behind the Scenes
`National treasure? I hate that. Too dusty, too in a cupboard, too behind glass, too staid …What I love is being part of a company. On stage I am not trying to be myself, I`m trying to be someone else, the more unlike me the better.` From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in
The Vory: Russia`s Super Mafia
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia`s much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone,
The Huguenots
Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win – however briefly – freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a protected minority. But in 1685, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished all
Blameless
From one of Europe`s most revered authors, a tale of one man`s obsessive project to collect the instruments of death, evil, and humanity`s darkest atrocities in order to oppose them Claudio Magris`s searing new novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war and its savagery in every age and every country. His tale centers on
Brooklyn
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.Arriving in a crowded lodging house in
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off – through luck, guile and sheer mulishness – any number of rivals, until finally packing up in 1918. From their principal lairs along the Danube they
Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300
A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly misunderstood. Features of the colored and gilded map that baffle modern expectations are typically dismissed as the
The Road Before Me Weeps: On the Refugee Route Through Europe
A powerful and revealing firsthand account of the migrant and refugee experience on the overland route across Europe War and chaos in Syria and Iraq, violence in Afghanistan, and hopelessness in countries bordering war zones have spurred several million refugees and migrants to set out for Europe. The West Balkans, from Turkey through Greece, Macedonia,
