Ottolenghi's cookbooks are always an absolute delight. This one features over 120 recipes from his Soho restaurant. The recipes are both accessible and provide access to new flavour territories. You will love this book.
>> Ottolenghi and Scully design a recipe for this book.
That's Christmas sorted.
On a small island off the south coast of France, Robert Hendricks, an English doctor who has seen the best and the worst the twentieth century had to offer, is forced to confront the events that made up his life. His host, and antagonist, is Alexander Pereira, a man whose time is running out, but who seems to know more about his guest than Hendricks himself does. The search for sanity takes us through the war in Italy in 1944, a passionate love that seems to hold out hope, the great days of idealistic work in the 1960s and finally unforgettably back into the trenches of the Western Front.
"A thought-provoking and excellent read." - Sarah
A companion novel to the very wonderful Every Day. This book tells Rhiannon's side of the story as she seeks to discover the truth about love and how it can change you. Every day is the same for Rhiannon. She has accepted her life, convinced herself that she deserves her distant, temperamental boyfriend, Justin. Then they share a perfect day - a perfect day Justin doesn't remember the next morning. Confused, depressed and desperate for another great day, Rhiannon starts questioning everything. Until a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with - the one who made her feel like a real person - wasn't Justin at all.
Dorothy Aroha Morris (1904–1998) volunteered to serve with Sir George Young’s University Ambulance Unit, and worked at an International Brigades base hospital and as head nurse to a renowned Catalan surgeon. She then headed a Quaker-funded children’s hospital in Murcia, southern Spain. As Franco’s forces advanced, she fled to France and directed Quaker relief services for tens of thousands of Spanish refugees. Nurse Morris spent the Second World War in London munitions factories, as welfare supervisor to their all-female workforces. She then joined the newly formed UN Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, working in the Middle East and Germany with those who had been displaced and made homeless and destitute as a result of the war.
"Set in the near future, the Jinn (fairy people) have breached the veil between our world and theirs and chaos reigns. The battle can only be fought successfully for our world by the descendants of a brief union between a Jinn princess and an Andalusian philosopher from 12th-Century Spain. Sounds a bit far-fetched perhaps, but this novel is a masterpiece of writing. Rushdie's experiences with religious intolerance permeate this book and he makes a splendid plea for sanity with his subtle storylines." - Peter
The context and contours, the sights and sounds, the myths and memories of his Samoan upbringing, in the swampy Vaipe of Apia’s backstreets; and the dislocations and cultural culs-de-sac of his arrival at a New Zealand provincial boarding school in the 1950s. An interesting account of his foundations as a novelist and poet.
"This is one of those books that takes a single subject and finds doors to open in all directions. The starting-point, and the base that she frequently touches, is the biology and ecology of molluscs, but like most ecological subjects this becomes quickly intermeshed with human history. Spirals in Time is a book about creatures filtering water for scraps too small for us to see, and about the global circulation of commodities that change in value and meaning as they travel. One does not know what will come next. Often the descriptions made me see shafts of sunlight underwater, irradiating extraordinary places and creatures. That is just what the book does itself." - Guardian
The public's right to know is a battleground. At stake are the kind of journalism that survives and the kind of world in which we will live: democratic or dominated by executive government, unchallenged and unaccountable, spying on its own citizens and producing fraudulent arguments to fight horrific wars.
The internet – which promised people easy access to information and each other – is now being used to produce a dark future. This is a defining moment, not just for journalism but for us all.
The Islamic veil in all its forms – from the headscarf to the full body garment – is one of the most visible signs of Islam as a religion. It is also one of its most controversial and misunderstood traditions. Sahar Amer introduces the historical, religious and cultural background; contemporary debates about the veil; and the varied, shifting meanings the veil has had for Muslim women.
>> Meet the author and have your book signed: 22 September, midday in the shop.
>> She will also be giving a lecture: 22 September, 5:30, NMIT Media Centre (G Block, Nile Street).
The Islamification of France is presented as a result of the country's cultural decadence and paralleled by the deprotagonisation of the spiritually barren protagonist.
"That we feel Houellebecq’s satire (like all the best from Swift to Céline to Waugh) is only half in jest makes reading Submission a shifty, discomfiting affair: we’re never sure quite how many steps ahead of us the author is; how much of the nastiness is meant and how much mere drôlerie; how many levels lie beneath, just waiting to suck us down from our moral high ground." - Guardian
Dawkins' advocacy of science as a tool for understanding the wonders of the natural world is unparalleled. Here he continues his autobiography - that began with An Appetite for Wonder - up to the present. Dawkins is consistently personable and interesting.
When her parents' marriage suddenly collapses, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the 'wastelands' of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated bubble with her dad and new stepmother. But when Mim learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland, she ditches her new life and hops aboard a Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travellers along the way.
"At times heartwarming, heartbreaking and hilarious, but always maintaining a distinctly innocent brilliance." - USA Today
Scorper, noun, a tool used to scoop out broad areas when engraving wood or metal. Scorper, novel, an uncanny and sinister tale of an eccentric American visitor to the small Sussex town of Ditchling, searching for stories about his grandfather. A tale of twitching curtains, severed hands and peculiar sexual practices. A book about Eric Gill's artistic legacy, his despicable behaviour and enduring influence.
"Like an Evelyn Waugh novel given the Edgar Allen Poe treatment." - Kevin Brockmeyer
In a lush green forest, a sloth sleeps. Can you see him? CLANG! Machines come to tear down the trees, but the sloth still sleeps... will he wake up? Turn the pages of this ingenious and stylish pop-up book, which tells the story of one lazy sloth who hangs on in there as the forest is destroyed and then reborn.
"A stunningly beautiful book. I love it and my children love it." - Sarah
This is a really beautiful book. The pages are filled with animals who are similar, but the challenge is to find the two who are the same.
This delightfully browseable book tells the 1,500-year story of chess in fifty selections. The fifty people, places, or things all make fascinating stand-alone stories that can be read individually, but taken together they give the reader a sense of how chess has changed, adapted, and thrived down through the centuries.
What does love feel like beyond death? Jane's husband Jim has just died - or not quite. For Jim, a mild-mannered chaplain at the hospital where Jane works as a surgeon, has left his body to Polaris, a shadowy cryonics organisation that promises to do away with mortality forever.
"I would probably read a shopping list written by Chris Adrian. He is one of the most accomplished novelists of his generation, whose interests combine the technological with the theological without ever losing sight of the human. His novels are dream-hauntingly surreal. The New World is a forward-looking, clever and elegiac piece of work. As Jane struggles to retrieve her husband’s head from Polaris, the book is by turns satirical and conspiratorial.The book manages to debunk romantic protestations then subtly re-enchant them. For all its metaphysical riffs, it is a sardonically moving dissection of the ironies and glories of marriage." - Guardian
This looks good!!! Decades have passed since the heroic knight Tristan and the famed wizard Vithric defeated the evil Nethergrim and his minions. Everyone in Moorvale knows the legend and celebrates the triumph. Yet now something dark has crept over the village. The whispers start quietly, yet soon the news is out: the Nethergrim has returned. Edmund knows little of the Nethergrim. He just wants to study magic-which his father cannot tolerate. When Edmund's little brother disappears, though, Edmund and his best friends run away to battle an evil whose strength and power none of them can imagine.
"An incredibly ambitious, teeming look at the life of a marriage, and the lives of the two people who make up that union. It’s being compared to Gone Girl all over the place, and with reason. Groff accomplishes real feminist work on the back of an unlikable but mesmerizing character; this is impressive. Unquestionably, Fates and Furies is a tour de force, a culmination of the marriage-switch novel mini-genre which reminds us that no objective truth can be found even in fiction, and that every relationship, every event, and every family takes on a different aspect depending on who our guide is." - Flavorwire
Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South Wales, she fell for the creatures. Their teeth, their skin, their eyes; their hunters and their victims. Everything is Teeth is a graphic collection of the memories she brought home to England, a book about family, love and the forces that pass through life unseen, under the surface, ready to emerge at any point.
William Gilbert Grace (1848-1915) looms as large in the history of modern sport as Bach in the history of music or Michelangelo in the history of art.
Research scientist Mike Berridge unpacks the myths around some of the most popular health issues, including cancer, vaccination, sugar consumption, and water fluoridation.
The story of Roy Haycock, who fought in the 12th Nelson and Marlborough Company during World War I. Haycock was a farmer from Hope, and was only 20 years old when he enlisted to fight in 1916. The book was written with the aid of two diaries belonging to Haycock. One of the diaries was with Haycock when he was killed in action at Passchendaele in 1917 and has a bullet hole through it.
The first monograph of this innovative and versatile artist.
>>In the/at the White Cube.
There's one truth on Australia. You fight or you die. Usually both. Imagine a nightmare from which there is no escape. Seventeen-year-old Chan's ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never found one. This is a hell where no one can hide. The only life that Chan's ever known is one of violence, of fighting. Of trying to survive. This is a ship of death, of murderers and cults and gangs. But there might be a way to escape. In order to find it, Chan must head way down into the darkness - a place of buried secrets, long-forgotten lies, and the abandoned bodies of the dead. This is Australia.
Surely the most bizarre election campaign in New Zealand history.
Seasons come, seasons go. This is a delightful book, with die-cut pages. Owl remains, but the other animals come and go with the seasons.
"I urge you to read this reissued collection from a writer who reinvented and invigorated the short story. The title story is one of the most moving I have ever read, a testament to both the power and the weakness of literature and human memory. Kis is one of those writers you feel is on your side. In short, I cannot recommend this book highly enough, or urge it on you more strongly." - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian
Spademan is back! "Anyone who still lives in Manhattan and has anything of real value to protect does it with a shotgun, not a deadbolt. So the problem isn't getting in, it's getting out." The gripping, horrible sequel to Shovel Ready.
In a future London, Concentr8 is a prescription drug intended to help kids with ADD. Soon every troubled teen is on it. Troy, Femi, Lee, Karen and Blaze have been taking Concentr8 as long as they can remember. They're not exactly a gang, but Blaze is their leader, and Troy has always been his quiet, watchful sidekick - the only one Blaze really trusts. They're not looking for trouble, but one hot summer day, when riots break out across the city, they find it. What makes five kids pick a man seemingly at random, hold a knife to his side, take him to a warehouse and chain him to a radiator? They've got a hostage, but don't really know what they want, or why they've done it. And across the course of five tense days, with a journalist, a floppy-haired mayor, a police negotiator, and the sinister face of the pharmaceutical industry, they - and we - begin to understand why. A provocative YA novel.
Travelling by foot and canoe, McPhee moves from urban landscape to the remote Alaskan bush, drawing a rich and comprehensive history of a vast land and its inhabitants. With his keen eye and poetic sensibility leading the way, we paddle with McPhee through the salmon-filled waters of the Brooks Range Rivers, meet a young chief of the Athapaskan tribe, and become well-acquainted with the habits of the barren-ground grizzly bear. We encounter settlers and discover the deeply held dreams that drive them to survive in one of the most remote regions on earth.
With a foreword by Robert Macfarlane.
Whether you are an aspiring scientist or an old-hand, pitting yourself against these problems will test your ability to think, and inspire you with curiosity and enthusiasm for physics.
A new edition (at last!) of this classic book exploring the evolution of styles and techniques through the four main artistic periods to the present day, and providing detailed explanations of carving styles in different parts of the country, using examples from meeting houses and leading artists.
In 1882, through a series of experiments, scientist Robert Koch discovered the germ that caused TB. Eager for greater glory, he abandoned his principles and prematurely announced a cure, a remedy. As Europe's consumptives descended upon Berlin, so too did Arthur Conan Doyle, a small town doctor and sometime writer. Investigating Koch's remedy, he was aghast to discover its true nature.
"Written from the point of view of a child called Tochtli, this is not your usual novel with a child protagonist. Tochtli’s father is the leader of a powerful gang and he lives in a secluded mansion in excessive wealth fueled by drugs. Both darkly disturbing and unsettlingly funny, this is about a pampered but isolated child’s quest to be ‘macho’ and to own a Liberian pygmy hippopotamus." - Holly
Mma Ramotswe is not one to sit about. Her busy life gives her little time for relaxation (apart from the drinking of tea, of course, which is another matter altogether). Nonetheless, she is persuaded to take a holiday from the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. But Mma Ramotswe finds it impossible to resist the temptation to follow the cases taken on by her business partner, Mma Makutsi, and to interfere in them - at one remove. This leads her to delve into the past of a man whose reputation has been called into question. Meanwhile, Violet Sephotho, Mma Makutsi's arch enemy, has had the temerity to set up a new secretarial college - one that aims to rival that great institution, the Botswana Secretarial College. Will she get her comeuppance? It will be a close-run thing.
The Fender Telecaster is a working-class hero and the ultimate blue-collar guitar. It wasn't meant to be elegant, pretty, or sophisticated. Designed to be a utilitarian musical instrument, it has lived up to that destiny. In the hands of players from Muddy Waters to James Burton, Bruce Springsteen to Joe Strummer, the Telecaster has made the music of working people - country, blues, punk, rock 'n' roll, and jazz.
>> Demo.
A novel set amid the series of devastating Christchurch earthquakes beginning on 4th September 2010, through to late 2012. As buildings crumble, the ground opens, and liquefaction and water springs up, seven people, their lives in pieces, go on. The photographic journal, the italicised voice and the engaging narrative, work together to create a journey through time, inside the reaches of the world of spirit, to a place of healing.
Don't know what to do with a bucket and three sticks? This book will show you how to make them into a coatrack (even if you have to go out and buy the bucket).
>> "I didn't buy it. Instead I made it myself."
