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, ...

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

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

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

Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness

Alfred Hitchcock & the Making of Psycho

Count D'Orgel

'The first accessible book about menstruation as a human reality . . . entirely praiseworthy.'-Th...

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...

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

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

Tools for Conviviality was published only two years after Deschooling Society. In this work, Illi...

The English Kitchen is a series of over 20 titles about food particular to the United Kingdom. Co...

Saul's Book

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

Billiards at Half Past Nine

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

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

Mirrors

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

Memory Gardens

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

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

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

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

A Sense of Measure

Halilhan Sunteriler, would-be entrepreneur, rescues from the scrap heap a red Volvo, which he bel...

A Homemade World

Medlars orginally came from the Caucasus region, Turkey, Georgia and the Balkans. After the first...

Rainsplitter in the Zodiac Garden

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

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Text: English, Russian (translation)

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

Aberration of Starlight

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

Three Plays

Hiroshima Notes

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

A fascinating look at how pigments were created, used, and revered in the Middle Ages.

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

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

Marmalade is particularly British creation, even though its origins lie abroad, and its charms ha...