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by Alison White
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
This is a memoir about hope - hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future.
I've never quite known where to begin when someone asks me what I've been up to. I've never quite known how to explain what our daily life is like. I wanted to write how it is in order to give others a greater...
Comfrey
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Comfrey is noted by both organic gardeners and herbalists for its great usefulness and versatility. Of particular interest is the 'Bocking 14' cultivar of Russian Comfrey. This strain was developed during the 1950s by Lawrence D. Hills, who founded the organic gardening organization now known as Garden...
The Pub and the People
A Worktown Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Mass Observation was founded in 1937 with the aim of researching the everyday lives of ordinary people in Britain. One of its best-loved publications is The Pub and the People (1943), a unique study of one of Britain's best-loved pastimes, describing how people behaved in pubs, what and how much they...
Run, Ride, Sink or Swim
A year in the exhilarating and addictive world of women's triathlon
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
At the age of thirty-one, Lucy Fry was pretty certain she knew her limits. And here's how she felt about the component parts of triathlon: swimming - fairly terrifying, especially in open water. Cycling - brilliant when done on a stationery bike, indoors. Running - sometimes fantastic, sometimes hideous....
Hildegard of Bingen
The Woman of Her Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial views on sex, love and marriage too - a woman astonishing...
The Sleep of Reason
The James Bulger Case
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop. In between they abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Bulger. In search of an explanation, award-winning journalist David James...
by DBC Pierre
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
"If rape or arson, poison or the knifeHas wove no pleasing patterns in the stuffOf this drab canvas we accept as life -It is because we are not bold enough!" Charles BaudelaireIf you are familiar with the explosive End Times Trilogy (Vernon God Little, Ludmila's Broken English, Lights Out...
The Jewish People
Their History and Their Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
'This handsomely produced and interestingly illustrated volume is two works in one. The first part offers a survey of Jewish history and literature. The second part presents what the preface describes as 'a thematic analysis of the teachings and practices of Judaism.'' Israel Finestein, Jewish Chronicle...
The Pen and the Sword
Jonathan Swift and the Power of the Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Disappointment can be salutary. In the 1955 election Michael Foot surprisingly lost his seat. Until then he had been a journalist, albeit a prolific and influential one. He now had more time on his hands. To both his father, Isaac Foot, and himself Jonathan Swift was a hero. His father, who believed...
by Sarah Ward
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death.
Three bodies discovered - a family obliterated - their deaths all seem to point to one conclusion: One mother, one...
The Challenge
Britain Against America in the Naval War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In the summer of 1812 Britain stood alone, fighting for her very survival against a vast European Empire. Only the Royal Navy stood between Napoleon's legions and ultimate victory. In that dark hour America saw its chance to challenge British dominance: her troops invaded Canada and American frigates...
by Paul Muldoon
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Why Brownlee Left, Paul Muldoon's third collection, was published in 1980.
by Michael Frayn
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the "Guardian" and "Observer", and originally came to prominence as the thrice weekly purveyor of these short, surreal, razor-sharp explorations...
Julius Caesar
Containing 'The Young Caesar' and 'Imperial Caesar'
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Julius Caesar combines in one volume two of Rex Warner's most acclaimed historical novels: The Young Caesar and Imperial Caesar. The latter won the 1960 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Together these two novels create one of the most compelling and substantial portraits in modern fiction...