Deadline at Dawn

This is the essential book about the cookery as well as zoology of the fish and shellfish that in...

Languedoc-Roussillion (not forgetting the Midi-Pyrénées and Aquitaine) are the regions of France ...

Tart, richly flavoured damsons have been growing in England since the island's earliest recorded ...

Madeleine Neave's book is unique, describing her collection of breadboards from Victorian times, ...

For more than 30 years, Jean Cocteau maintained a passionate affair with the moving image. To him...

Although seaweed is now all the rage, because we have been reading about and eating Japanese food...

This sparkling book was first published in France in 2005 and has been magnificently translated i...

It is important in all sorts of ways: it was written by an independent woman; it was composed wit...

Alistair Elliot has chosen widely from Latin literature, from humble graffiti to the most famous ...

A Modern English Translation and Commentary by Terence Scully. These three books by François Pier...

Alfred Hitchcock & the Making of Psycho

A languid but often hilarious and rich-as-cream Irish comedy about three elderly women and a gree...

Dairy free diets are now in vogue.The vegan movement led the way, with enthusiasts whipping up th...

This book brings pieces of the oldest Persian cooking manuscripts into its first English translat...

Saul's Book

The face of a clown is the face of innocence, and innocence goes to the wall in German society af...

This important book looks at the entire history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from ...

The quince has always had a special place among the fruits of Europe.The ancient Greeks called it...

There has been no serious consideration of local food in England. Most available material is ligh...

This book was the cookery writer Geraldene Holt's first work, and is the result of years of bakin...

A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.?Independent on SundayThe cast-offs of modern urba...

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Text: English, Russian (translation)

Billiards at Half Past Nine

A Swedish literary masterpiece Considered one of the greatest love stories of all time Available ...

A new paperback edition of a wonderfully evocative cookery manual by one of England's greatest mo...

The Investigation is a dramatic reconstruction of the Frankfurt War Crimes trials, based on the a...

Madame Millet-Robinet's book is a treasure trove of information for lovers of history, for reader...

A Homemade World

Aberration of Starlight

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

During 1933-1936, Dorothy Hartley was commissioned by the Daily Sketch newspaper to write article...

Palladius wrote in the 5th century AD. His is the latest of Roman agricultural texts and perhaps ...

Freekeh (from the Arabic 'to rub' )foundin health and grocery shops, the main staple famed in the...

The author of Consuming Passions and Deadline at Dawn presents a classic text--used worldwide--re...

Sleuth has all the ingredients of a top-class thriller, which it undoubtedly is - a plot whose tw...

I Lost it at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-War cinema as On the Waterfront,...

Peter Brears has a long acquaintance with jellies in every guise. He was fed them in childhood, h...

Traditional Tuscan life through recipes. Romer found hand-written nineteenth century recipes by v...

Count D'Orgel

Three Plays

China is a big country and its cookery is one of the world's greatest. In the last century all na...

Governor Jerry Brown, in his Preface to this new collection of essays, quoted Ivan Illich who sai...

Hiroshima Notes

Every spring, the intrepid gardener makes his choice of plants and produce. Invariably, a few cou...

It was a gathering together of many classical and post-classical agricultural works, from Pliny i...

. An epitomy of all surviving English medieval recipes . The great advantage for students of medi...