John Wright: 164 books
Hedgerow
River Cottage Handbook No.7
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In the seventh of the River Cottage Handbook series, John Wright explores the culinary delights of the British hedgerow.
Hedgerows, moors, meadows and woods - these hold a veritable feast for the forager. In this hugely informative and witty handbook, John Wright reveals how to spot the free...
Why Is That So Funny?
A Practical Exploration of Physical Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
A practical investigation of how comedy works, by a well-respected practitioner and teacher. With a Foreword by Toby Jones.
Comedy is recognised as one of the most problematic areas of performances. For that reason, it is rarely written about in any systematic way. John Wright, founder of Trestle...
Booze
River Cottage Handbook No.12
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In the twelfth River Cottage Handbook, John Wright explains how to home-brew and make your own tipples.
What could possibly beat a cool pint of beer down the pub or a lazy glass of wine at your favourite bar? The answer is: home-brewed beer or your very own brand of wine. With this, the twelfth...
Mushrooms
River Cottage Handbook No.1
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In the first of the River Cottage Handbook series, mycologist John Wright uncovers the secret habits and habitats of Britain's thriving mushrooms - and the team at River Cottage explain how to cook them to perfection.
In the first of the River Cottage Handbook series, mycologist John Wright...
Edible Seashore
River Cottage Handbook No.5
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
In the fifth of the River Cottage Handbook series, John Wright reveals the rich pickings to be had on the seashore - and the team at River Cottage explain how to cook them to perfection.
For the forager, the seashore holds surprising culinary potential. In this authoritative, witty book John...
The Whispering Surgeon
The Making of McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
John Wright's moving novel is based entirely on real events and people, countless experiences, reliable testimony and recorded history. The Whispering Surgeon explores the surgical life of Paddy McKenzie and his freakish skills, tireless dedication, courage, wisdom and innovation. The very human story...
Canuckology
From Dollars to Donuts—Canada's Premier Pollsters Reveal What Canadians Think and Why
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010
The anonymity of a phone line is the secret to the success for Darrell Bricker and John Wright of Ipsos Reid, the largest market research company in Canada. Ipsos' accuracy in gathering people's thoughts and predicting trends makes them the go-to source for major companies seeking answers to unusual...
by John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
This book tells the story of two people who seized the opportunity to roam the highways and byways of Eastern Australia for several years, living as closely as possible to the nomadic Gypsy lifestyle while bringing the rich cultural heritage of the landless Romani to a wide variety of non-Romani people.Kate,...
The Forager's Calendar
A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
'He writes so engagingly that it's hard to imagine that actual foraging can be more attractive than reading his accounts of it. ...[This book] is a treasure. It is beautifully produced, designed and illustrated.' - John Carey, The Sunday Times
Look out of your window, walk down a country path...
by John Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
On November 4, 2008, the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States showed that the country had finally overcome its most hurtful, shameful, and enduring legacy—slavery. Though Obama's election showed progress, the John McCain–Sarah Palin campaign and the...
Child From Home
Memories of a North Country Evacuee
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
In 1939, John Wright, a four-year-old boy from a deprived but loving Middlesbrough home, was uprooted from his family and evacuated to a large house in North Yorkshire, requisitioned as a nursery school. His story is not unlike any other during the upheaval of wartime, but in this remarkably lucid...
My Other Wife is a Car
Confessions of a car tragic
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
In John Wright's life, cars take a close second place to family, simple as that. My Other Wife is a Car is his memoir of 30 years of automotive obsession - one man's life seen as a life-long test drive.
A full-time freelance writer for Wheels, Modern Motor, Best Car magazine and many others,...
A Natural History of the Hedgerow
and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
It is difficult to think of a more quintessential symbol of the British countryside than the British Hedgerow, bursting with blackberries, hazelnuts and sloes, and home to oak and ash, field mice and butterflies. But as much as we might dream about foraging for mushrooms or collecting wayside nettles...
The Grace of Giving
Money and the Gospel
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
In The Grace of Giving, John Stott takes you through the Apostle Paul’s teaching on giving. He’ll help you answer questions about when to give, what to give, and in what spirit. These 10 principles of Christian giving offer sound guidelines for you as you make decisions about finances.
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