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What Time Is It?
What Time Is It?

John Berger Selçuk Demirel Maria Nadotti

Visionary thinker John Berger and Turkish artist Selçuk Demirel came together came together for the last time to create this precious little volume about time.

A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing
A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing

Jon Day

The best fishing writing is never only about fishing, and the writers collected in this anthology use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. The perfect gift book on fishing, this popular anthology of great writers is introduced by Jon Day.

A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing – Signed Copy
A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing – Signed Copy

Jon Day

The best fishing writing is never only about fishing, and the writers collected in this anthology use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. The perfect gift book on fishing, this popular anthology of great writers is introduced by Jon Day.

Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking
Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking

Duncan Minshull

Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk out a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. But the best insights, the deepest and most joyous examinations of this simple activity are to be found in non-fiction – in essays, travelogues and memoir.

Notting Hill: A Walking  Guide
Notting Hill: A Walking Guide

Julian Mash

A delightful English/Japanese pocket-size guide to London’s most popular district. Through four walks London writer Julian Mash uncovers the history, culture and fascinating characters that have made Notting Hill so iconic. Beautifully laid out including several photographic images and four hand-drawn maps, the guide will appeal to both tourists and residents alike.

Break A Leg: A Dictionary of theatrical quotations
Break A Leg: A Dictionary of theatrical quotations

Michèle Brown Gyles Brandreth

‘The book is a joy, to be kept near at hand and to dip into at random.  A must for any lover of the theatre.’ Breakaway Reviewers

Break A Leg: A Dictionary of theatrical quotations – Signed Copy
Break A Leg: A Dictionary of theatrical quotations – Signed Copy

Michèle Brown Gyles Brandreth

‘The book is a joy, to be kept near at hand and to dip into at random.  A must for any lover of the theatre.’ Breakaway Reviewers

How Shostakovich Changed My Mind
How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

Stephen Johnson

Winner of the 2021 Rubery Book Award. BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson (who has Bipolar Disorder himself) explores the power of Shostakovich’s music during Stalin’s reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect of music on the mind for sufferers of mental illness.

A Roundabout Manner: Sketches of Life by W. M. Thackeray
A Roundabout Manner: Sketches of Life by W. M. Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray John Sutherland

This is the first ‘sampler’ which covers all of Thackeray’s versatile genius: his cartoons, his journalism, his carefully restrained sentimentality (much to Victorian taste), his cutting satire, his essayism and what one could grandly call the Thackerayan world view.

On Christmas: A Seasonal Anthology
On Christmas: A Seasonal Anthology

Gyles Brandreth

A seasonal anthology of Christmas-themed writings to savour during the highs and lows of Christmas Day, introduced by Gyles Brandreth. This delightful book offers a diverse array of classic and contemporary writers who have expressed their thoughts about Christmas over the centuries – with joy, nostalgia, grumpiness, and dazzling wit.

Found and Lost: Mittens, Miep, and Shovelfuls of Dirt
Found and Lost: Mittens, Miep, and Shovelfuls of Dirt

Alison Leslie Gold

Starting with supervision of her primary school’s ‘Lost and Found’ depot, Gold charts her need to save objects, stories, and people – including herself – that she sensed to be on a road to perdition. In this compelling memoir, Gold relates her descent into addiction, and the fateful meeting that ultimately led to her salvation.

The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer’s Diary
The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer’s Diary

Fyodor Dostoevsky Rosamund Bartlett

A new anthology of Dostoevsky’s remarkable work ‘A Writer’s Diary’. Brilliantly introduced by Rosamund Bartlett, distinguished scholar and writer, The Diary stands revealed as the work of a writer-activist and blogger avant la lettre, who sought to transform Russian society and humankind itself.

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