Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Irish Cookbook
`The Irish Cookbook` showcases the true depth of Irish cuisine, its ingredients and its fascinating history, as never beforeIreland`s remarkably rich food heritage dates back millenia and, in `The Irish Cookbook`, acclaimed chef J.P. McMahon captures its unique culinary origins and varied influences. Irish food is the summation of what the land and sea gives;
The Silver Spoon: Recipes for Babies
The complete guide to feeding your baby or toddler, giving them a lifelong love of good food – the Italian way!From their very first morsels, Italian infants are encouraged to explore the tastes and textures of real food – the goal being to help them develop a love of fresh ingredients and healthy eating. `The
The Vegetarian Silver Spoon: Classic and Contemporary Italian Recipes
More than 200 delicious classic and contemporary Italian vegetarian recipes from the acclaimed Silver Spoon kitchen The latest title to join Phaidon`s Silver Spoon library features more than 200 recipes for Italian vegetarian dishes, with a particular emphasis on healthy meat-free options for appetizers, main dishes, salads, sides, and desserts. Recipes range from classic dishes
Spirited: Cocktails from Around the World
A major global celebration of classic and cutting-edge cocktail recipes that defi ne the way we drink, wherever we are Spirited is the most important book of cocktails from around the world – researched and collected for the home drink maker. It spotlights hundreds of cocktail recipes from the past 500 years and 60 countries,
Atlas of Brutalist Architecture
A landmark survey of one of architecture`s most controversial yet popular styles – in a great, new, classic edition The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance – and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-ranging investigation ever undertaken into one of architecture`s most powerful movements, more than 850 Brutalist buildings –
Into the Eyes of Lions
The adventures described in this book represent the realisation of a dream that in the author`s boyhood seemed unthinkable. His first safari, in Kenya in 1962 was certainly low-budget (GBP12 for 2 days!). Later, when working as a teacher in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, he often spent weeks in some of the world`s most celebrated
A Foodie Afloat
A Foodie Afloat is the story of a cook`s journey through France on a barge. Di Murrell takes us on a gentle journey across France; her main preoccupation being to make sure that tasty food arrives on the table each day. As she voyages across the country she shows, through her recipes, how the cuisine
Etruscan Places
The Etruscan civilisation, which flourished from the 8th until the 5th century BC in what is now Tuscany, is one of the most fascinating and mysterious in history. An uninhibited, elemental people, the Etruscans enthralled D.H. Lawrence, who craved their `old wisdom`, the secret of their vivacity and love of life. To him they represented
The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran: A Travel Companion
Stretching from the ancient Chinese capital of Xian across the expanses of Central Asia to Rome, the Silk Road was, for 1,500 years, a vibrant network of arteries that carried the lifeblood of nations across the world. Along a multitude of routes everything was exchanged: exotic goods, art, knowledge, religion, philosophy, disease and war. From
Perseus in the Wind: A Life of Travel
Written just after the Second World War, `Perseus in the Wind` (named after the constellation) is perhaps the most personal, and haunting, of all Freya Stark`s writings. She muses on the seasons, the effect light has on a landscape at a particular time of day, the smell of the earth after rain, Muslim saints, Indian
Off the Beach in the Caribbean: Travels in the Little Leeward Islands
Colourful and various – characterised by rich histories, a treasure-trove of fascinating places, and most especially by an array of unique, compelling personalities – the Caribbean islands are decidedly more than their beaches and resorts. Focused upon some of the region`s tiniest islands, this work offers the reader unique access to the stunning beauty, the
The Little Book of Trees: An Arboretum of Tree Lore
Appreciating the trees of yesterday and today.You don`t need to be a tree hugger to love trees. Whether they grow in cities or form part of a huge rainforest canopy, learn interesting facts about trees, why we need them and how we`ve lived with them throughout the centuries. You`ll find snippets on trees in literature,
The Little Book of Wanderlust: Travel Quips & Quotes for Life`s Big Adventures
The ultimate travel companion for voracious voyagers.Do you yearn for a life off the beaten track? Brought to you by Wanderlust, the original travel magazine, this bite-sized guide is jam-packed with trivia, facts and quotes to help cure even the most serious cases of itchy feet. Find out which country has a museum dedicated exclusively
The High House – Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel of the Year Award
Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel of the Year Award”Suffused with joy” GuardianCrisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like staticA stunning novel of the extraordinary and the everyday, `The High House` explores how we get used to change that once seemed unthinkable, how we place the needs of
Nomadland
Now a major motion picture staring Frances McDormand `Sublimely written` Sunday Times`Scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny)` Rebecca Solnit Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy – one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Yang Jisheng`s `The World Turned Upside Down` is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People`s Republic of China, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) marked the zenith as well as the nadir of Mao Zedong`s
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
One of the Guardian`s Best Paperbacks of November `Astonishing … If by chance you can`t meet these 6,042 species yourself, this book is a close second` Jennifer Ackerman, author of The Genius of Birds`Even readers who wouldn`t know a marvellous spatuletail from a southern ground hornbill will be awed` Publishers WeeklyNoah Strycker set himself a
Nibbles Christmas
Say HELLO to Nibbles, he’s ready for some fun Jolly, holly jingles ‘“ the Christmas countdown has begun!Suitable for ages 1 to 3.
Routemasters of the Universe
The last Routemaster to ply a proper London bus route retired to the garage back in 2005. But over 15 years later, this indestructible bus still pops up everywhere! It`s just that nowadays merely in London Routemasters are wedding buses, Ghost Buses, afternoon tea buses, mobile yoghurt stalls on the South Bank… And elsewhere, all
