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Life - A User's Manual
This marvellous book is one of the most ingenious works of modern fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives ...
The Fly Trap
Fredrik Sjoberg's Swedish bestseller about summer, islands, freedom and boundaries. 'The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong - the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?' Fredrik Sjoberg finds happiness in the little things. Millions of them, in fact. This beguiling bestseller is his uniq...
How to Fly A Horse - The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery
WINNER OF THE 800-CEO-READ BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015. In the vein of Susan Cain's QUIET and Malcolm Gladwell's DAVID AND GOLIATH, HOW TO FLY A HORSE is a smart, empowering book that dispels the myths around genius and creativity. There is a myth about how something new comes to be; that geniuses ha...
Field Notes from the Edge
'A profoundly satisfying read' Financial TimesIn Field Notes from the Edge, the acclaimed writer of the Guardian's'Country Diary', Paul Evans, takes us on a journey through the in-between spaces of Nature - such as strandlines, mudflats, cliff tops and caves - where one wilderness is on the verge of bec...
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome de las Casas was born in Sevilla in 1474. At the age of 18 he left Spain for the new world, where he managed his father's ranch and subsequently became a priest. After many years of witnessing the ravages and atrocities of Spanish colonial policy and experiencing the failure of his own attempt...
Bookworm - A Memoir of Childhood Reading
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. No wonder she only le...
Gilead
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDIn 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son: 'I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I...
Maori Made Easy Workbook 7/Kete 7
The accessible guide to learning the Maori language, no matter your knowledge level. Fun, user-friendly and relevant to modern readers, Scotty Morrison's Maori Made Easy workbook series is the ultimate resource for anyone wanting to learn the basics of the Maori language. While dictionaries list words a...
The Foucault Reader
The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and influential writers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all his richly textured historical studies - including Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality - as well as many of his best interviews....
Olive, Again
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 'A novel to treasure' Sunday Times Olive, Again follows the ...
What Artists Wear
Most of us live our lives in our clothes without realising their power. But in the hands of artists, garments reveal themselves. They are pure tools of expression, storytelling, resistance and creativity: canvases on which to show who we really are. In What Artists Wear, style luminary Charlie Porter ta...
Three Summers
With an introduction by Sunday Times bestselling author Victoria Hislop 'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .' Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countrys...
How to Be You: Simone de Beauvoir and the art of authentic living
'Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.'So said Simone de Beauvoir, the world's most famous female philosopher. In this galvanising tour of her rebellious philosophies for life by a leading Columbia professor,we learn how de Beauvoir can teach us to free ourselves of...
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
"Original and readable." --Financial Times' Best Environmental Books of 2022 "A superb, inspiring work." --Winner, Inaugural National Academies of Science Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbin...
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