Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Taste of Belgium
Belgium is a country that boasts many Michelin-starred restaurants and it is sometimes said that Belgian food is served in the quantity of German cuisine but with the quality of French cuisine.It`s a country where home cooks and everyone, it seems, is a great home cook spend copious amounts of time thinking about, shopping for,
Veganissimo: Italian Vegan Cuisine
Italian food is diverse, full of variety and above all designed for enjoyment. But it is also traditionally rich in products of animal origin.`Veganissimo` translates all the Italian classics into vegan alternatives. You will discover many easy recipes to make, with simple ingredients, some with gluten-free alternatives.Learn how to make Italian vegan cheese, and fresh
A Celebration of David Attenborough: The Activity Book
A highly diverting celebration of television`s favourite naturalist, packed with games, trivia and Attenborough-inspired activities.Attenborough. Just saying the name makes everyone feel better. Words like `dependable`, `inspiring` and `soothing` cascade like the rains returning to the sun-parched savanna. And according to a recent poll, he`s the most trustworthy person alive, above Michelle Obama and The
The Strangest London Quiz Book
Test your London knowledge with this fascinating book, packed with fun and challenging quiz questions based around the weirdest events from the illustrious history of this wonderful city.Quiz categories include: Ancient traditions, London eccentrics, Getting about, Ghosts and ghouls, Corridors of power, Monumental monuments, Quirky buildings and Just plain weird.Whether you`re testing your friends, practising
Van Gogh: A Life in Places
Early in his career, as he grappled with the idea of becoming an artist, Vincent van Gogh attempted portraiture, possibly with a mission in the religious sense. His models were impoverished miners, weavers and peasants. Later, his great achievement was in still life, landscape painting and further portraits all closely related to the places where
MOB Kitchen: Feed 4 or More for Under ยฃ10
`This is one to buy for the students in your life.`- The Times `Food books of the year 2018`”`MOB` takes the deliciousness of social food videos but combines it with recipes you would actually make – the ultimate millennial cookbook” London Evening Standard.”Ben Lebus proves home cooking can be great, cheap and fast” independent.co.uk.Having taken
Time Out 50: 50 years, 50 covers
In August 1968, Time Out was created in London to help people make the most ofthe city – the iconic brand`s fiftieth anniversary will be celebrated with thisbook packed with fifty amazing magazine covers and the stories behind them.Time Out`s fiftieth anniversary will also be marked by theexhibition Time Out 50: 50 Years, 50 Covers
The Consolation of Food: Stories About Life And Death, Seasoned with Recipes
“Time spent with Val is not just time spent in wonderful company but with an intelligent, proper cook – I could sit at a table with this man for days. He cooks like he eats; just delicious, delicious food.” Angela HartnettUltimately, this is a story book with food in it. Valentine Warner presents a collection
London Incognita
Includes the Shirley Jackson Award shortlisted Judderman.London Incognita chronicles a city caught in the cycle of perpetual decline and continuous renewal: the English capital, groaning under the weight of two-thousand years of history, as seen through the eyes of its desperate and troubled inhabitants.A malicious presence from the 1970s resurfaces in the fevered alleyways of
Dead Relatives
Iris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The Ladies arrive, she finds that she must appease her dead relatives. Other stories in this collection explore themes of motherhood and the fragile body, family dynamics and small town tensions, unusual traditions and metamorphosis.`Dead Relatives and
Number One Chinese Restaurant
Mixing business and family is a recipe for disasterThe popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving devoted regulars for decades. Yet behind the staff`s professional smiles simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from years of bustling restaurant life.When disaster strikes, two of the younger generation find themselves in a dangerous game that means
The Fishermen
In a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers – the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen – use their strict father`s absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another. This prophecy breaks their
She Would Be King
“Wayetu Moore is an inspiration… her book is a gift” Imbolo Mbue “The book is unforgettabl… irresistibly evocative and fierce. She Would Be King is a masterfully wrought alternate history of magical black resistance” Star Tribune “This novel dazzles with beauty and transcendent, transformative humanity” Sarah Jessica Parker In the west African village of Lai,
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so entranced by the landscape`s rhythms and beauty that he could not bear to leave. Settled in his isolated house facing the North Atlantic, Beston spent
Bart`s Fish Tales: A fishing adventure in over 100 recipes
Winner of the Food and Travel Magazine Travel Cookery Book of the Year at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018In this unique and comprehensive book Bart van Olphen travels around the world to visit the most sustainable fisheries. Along with the world-renowned photographer David Loftus, Bart recounts his journey where he lived, fished and
The Classic Food of Northern Italy
“With this book you will not only be able to cook authentic Italian food, you will also be able to go on an exciting journey of discovery throughout the whole of Northern Italy” – Delia SmithThe original edition of `Classic Food of Northern Italy` in 1996 won both The Guild of Food Writers Book Award
40 Knots and How to Tie Them
A beautifully presented, practical gift guide to the age-old art of tying knots.The next title in Pavilion`s exciting new series for adventurers, this book follows on from the success of 50 Things to Do with a Penknife. The book features step-by-step instructions on how to tie 40 fundamental knots, and then shows you how your
Forest: Walking Among Trees
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Photography Travel Book of the Year`Forest` is a celebration of the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they ever have been.Journeying across the continents, writer Matt Collins and photographer Roo Lewis tie together both the
Honey & Co – At Home
“Just the sort of food I want to eat: welcoming, abundant, and with as much heart as flavour.” Nigella Lawson”If you buy one cookbook…an Aladdin`s cave of ideas for anybody whose tastebuds are already fond of tahini.” Waitrose FoodBrought to you by the award-winning chefs behind the Honey & Co. empire, Sarit Packer and Itamar
Winter in Sokcho
“Narrated in an elegant, enigmatic voice that skilfully summons the tenderness and mutability of an inner life, `Winter in Sokcho` is a lyrical and atmospheric work of art.” Sharlene Teo, author of `Ponti`”A masterpiece.” Huffington PostTranslated by Aneesa Abbas HigginsIt`s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The
