Digby: 69 books

Digby was a natural writer, as entertaining as instructive. Many of the recipes are for drinks, particularly of meads or metheglins, but the culinary material provides a remarkable conspectus of accepted practice among court circles in Restoration England, with extra details supplied from Digby's...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Kenelm Digby, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today....

Ideas of masculinity and femininity become sharply defined in war-reliant societies, resulting in a presumed enmity between men and women. This so-called "battle of the sexes" is intensified by the use of misogyny to encourage men and boys to conform to the demands of masculinity. These...

In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been. In book eight, Elizabeth is desperate to play the piano in the end of school concert. Elizabeth knows Arabella is very good - so she...

In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been. In book seven, the school's strawberry plants are vandalised and a lost blazer button at the scene of the crime leads straight to the...

In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been. In book five, Elizabeth intends never to be naughty again. But when John entrusts her with his secret, the naughtiest girl finds herself...

In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been. In book six, the school goes camping and the Naughtiest Girl means to be well-behaved. But horrible Arabella is sleeping in the very...

In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been. In book nine, Elizabeth is furious when Kerry, new girl and young actress, becomes head girl over the obvious choice, her friend Emma....

Cookery Books are collection of most admired cook recipes  from different authors. Enjoy reading the cookery book collection one by one to celebrate coming Diwali and Christmas.

According to Wikipedia: "Durante degli Alighieri (c.1265 - 1321), commonly known as Dante Alighieri, was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages. His central work, the Divina Commedia (originally called "Commedia" and later called "Divina" (divine) by Boccaccio hence "Divina Commedia"), is often considered...

Christmas is just a happy memory now and the spring vacation is coming up - and with it the chance to be selected a for a very special school camp with best friend Lindy.  A small group will be taken to a wild and remote little Scottish island called Scallish Beag - made up of the two girls from...

Tennis is a high-stakes game, played by prodigies identified early and coached by professionals in hopes of high rankings and endorsements. This commercial world is far removed from the origins of the sport. Before 1968—when Wimbledon invited professional players to compete for the first time—tennis...

When her parents are posted to Saudi Arabia, Rebecca finds herself uprooted from her London day school and sent to an elite boarding school on the coast, hundreds of miles from home. Lonely and anxious to prove herself she submits something to the prestigious school magazine - but something quite...

Rebecca is making sensational progress at tennis and gets into the school team. Her partner is Pippa, her favourite senior and she doesn't want to let her down. But when somebody plays a weird hoax on the school Principal, it looks as though Rebecca is the culprit. Even her friends begin to wonder...