Grilled, baked, simmered, cracked, braised or raw, the range of recipe ideas is stunning. With recipes including Alfonso mango and curried chickpea salad, Membrillo and stilton quiche, Buttermilk-crusted okra, Candy beetroot with lentils, Seaweed, ginger and carrot salad, and even desserts such as Roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh and Quince poached in pomegranate juice, this is the cookbook that everyone has been waiting for.
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A fascinating exploration of the phenomenology of reading, interweaving text and image and worthy to sit alongside Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Message and John Berger's Ways of Seeing. Mendelsund is a creative director at Knopf, and the designer of some of the most wonderful book covers you will ever see.
"You will certainly start reading this book on the way home, if not in the shop. Recommended." - Thomas
Introduces young children to the creatures that live in the seas around New Zealand. The book describes different habitats: underwater reefs, the sea floor, the open ocean and the deep ocean. Animals featured in the fact pages include octopus and squid, sharks and rays, whales, dolphins, penguins and many others. Follows In the Garden and At the Beach.
Abramsky's grandfather was a bookdealer and amassed a vast number of books in his London home, notably rare Socialist literature, manuscripts and handwritten documents. After rejecting Orthodoxy for Communism, his house became a focal point for left-wing intellectual Jewish life. This book is a fascinating and tender portrayal of lost worlds and the enduring power of books.
An important survey of the work of this unique New Zealand artist who moved from abstraction to experimental op art (earning him the nick-name 'Optic Merv') to textured colour fields to experiments building on Renaissance chiaroscuro techniques. Another stunning production from Ron Sang.
A pioneering and important broad anthology, ranging from established to emerging voices.
Have we given up on any serious effort to prevent catastrophic climate change? Despite mounting scientific evidence, denialism is surging in many wealthy countries, and extreme fossil-fuel extraction gathers pace. Exposing the work of ideologues on the right who know the challenge this poses to the free market all too well, Klein also challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups. She argues that it's time to stop running from the full implications of the crisis and begin to embrace them.
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In 1884 Birdie made an exquisite collaged doll's house in the form of a book. This wonderful book reproduces this piece of period charm and provides information about the maker's life. It also includes paper dolls to dress and move through the rooms. A delight for both adults and children!
A man calling himself Dr John Shepherd arrives at an isolated women's mental hospital in the 1890s to begin work as assistant to the owner Dr Morgan. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? Why does the chief nurse hate him? And why is he not allowed to visit the hospital's top floor?
A rather cheerful account of kauri milling, apparently written with an eye on the cinema. First published in 1921, following the success of The Story of a New Zealand River, Mander’s novel draws directly on her childhood experiences of pioneering life in northern New Zealand.
"All the Light We Cannot See is a dazzling, epic work of fiction. Anthony Doerr writes beautifully about the mythic and the intimate, about snails on beaches and armies on the move, about fate and love and history and those breathless, unbearable moments when they all come crashing together." - Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins.
A stunning book by an outstanding wildlife photographer.
An Afghan woman's life expectancy is just 44 years, and her life cycle often begins and ends in disappointment: being born a girl and finally, having a daughter of her own. For some, disguising themselves as boys is a way to get an education and have the chance to make their lives better.
Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography. Daphne found fame for her perceptive fiction (three of her books were made into films by Alfred Hitchcock), but it was her sisters, writer Angela and artist Jeanne,who found the courage to defy the conventions that hampered Daphne's emotional life.
Man has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, and her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Maman finds Man a husband - a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Man discovers her natural talent as a chef. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory and emotion, time and place, and even bring her customers to tears. But when Man encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch, and Man discovers the obsession and dangers of a love affair.
Write yourself letters on various topics, seal them and post them through time. Don't you wish you had started doing this years ago?
A lost classic of twentieth century American fiction (first published (posthumously) in 1983. The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death.
"The best, most sincere writer I've ever read." - Kurt Vonnegut
"It would be easy to allow his one collection of stories to be buried under the landslide of books published every year. But it's worth doing a little excavating to dig it up. Get out your pickaxes." - New Yorker
The perfect gift for all those with a passion for all things Italian and the finer things of life - beautiful architecture, centuries of tradition and fine food and wine. This celebration of the heart and soul of Italy provides a glimpse inside 15 ravishing Italian homes, from castles to farmhouses, as well as the regions in which they are set.
How do we experience art? How do we look at it? How to we think about it?
This selection of the very best, and most intriguing, writing on cricket, drawn from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day, adopts a fresh approach. It is arranged around the theme of the many things that must happen simply for a day's play to happen - from creating a clearing in a Malaysian jungle to getting to the ground - so includes, alongside writing by players both great and unknown, the perspectives of spectators, umpires, scorers and other unsung heroes of the game.
"In the study of modern miscellany Dave Gorman is the equivalent of a professor emeritus." - Independent
"Dave Gorman is funny and brilliant in equal measure." - The Times
"Umrigar's novel begins as a small domestic drama and develops into a forceful examination of identity, cultural isolation and the power of storytelling. An impressive writer, Umrigar delivers another smart, compulsively readable work." - Kirkus Reviews
Marie liked this so much, she is after everything Umrigar has written!
Looks at the impact on society of market-based economics, and suggests steps that could be taken to restore concern for human wellbeing to political discourse.
Yes, there are a million ways to die in the wild, wild West, and Albert plans to avoid them all. Some people think that makes him a coward. Albert calls it common sense. But when his girlfriend dumps him, Albert decides to fight back - even though he can't shoot, ride, or throw a punch. Fortunately, he teams up with a beautiful gunslinger who's tough enough for the both of them. Unfortunately, she's married to the biggest, meanest, most jealous badass on the frontier. That's 1000001 ways....
"Packed with raunchy, twisted jokes, the story has all the hallmarks of a classic Western - gunfights, a stagecoach robbery, hostile Indians - but Mr. MacFarlane mocks those tropes at every turn." - Wall Street Journal
"The New Yorker cartoonist's account of her parents' final years is sobering stuff. It's also dead funny. A memoir of decrepitude – specifically, the decrepitude of her batty parents – her brilliant new book is honest, plangent and thoroughly ghoulish. But it's also hysterical: I mean wake-up-your-sleeping-husband hysterical. Every time I opened it, I hooted like an owl." - Rachel Cooke, Guardian
Being Astrid Krieger is absolutely all it's cracked up to be. She lives in a rocket ship in the backyard of her parents' estate. She was kicked out of the elite Bristol Academy and she's intent on her own special kind of revenge. She only loves her grandfather, an incredibly rich politician who makes his money building nuclear warheads. Everything is just fine [!] until Astrid's father tells her he is sending her to the public school...
Brian Jones's life was an epic battle between creativity and ambition, between self-sabotage and betrayal.
Meet Eugene, the most portly of princes, and Kalvitas, the most courageous of chocolate makers. Theirs is a tale of cakes and cowardice, bullies and battles, as they set out to defeat a terrifying tyrant. The characters are CURSED. The deserts are DEADLY. And people are NOT always as they appear...
In this prequel to Inridason's stunning series, the loner Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. The beat on the streets in Reykjavik is busy: traffic accidents, theft, domestic violence, contraband... And an unexplained death. When a tramp he met regularly on the night shift is found drowned in a ditch no one seems to care. But his fate haunts Erlendur and drags him inexorably into the strange and dark underworld of the city.
The first book to consider how religion created and prolonged the Great War, and how the war changed the landscape of religious thinking.
As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion, five families from across the globe are brought together in an unforgettable tale of passion and conflict during the Cold War.
The final instalment of 'The Century Trilogy'.
How can a shared international order be built in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, proliferating technology and ideological extremism? One of the twentieth century's most influential political architects has not relinquished his grip on the pulse of the world's destiny.
