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EAN: 9780879304751
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The only complete guide to country music performers and first-rate recordings this easy-to-use book leads country lovers to the cream of the crop in all styles from the 1920s hillbilly music to today's crossover craze with rock and pop. Covers over 1 000 artists and more than 5 500 of their best albums.

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Brand: Jen Darling
EAN: 9781902512327
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Brand: Dolar Popat
EAN: 9781785905254
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FORWEWORD by David Cameron\n\nFleeing Idi Amin's regime, seventeen year-old Ugandan Indian immigrant Dolar Popat landed at Heathrow in 1971 with just GBP10 and a cardboard suitcase to his name - but with everything to prove.\n\nFuelled by a tenacious entrepreneurial spirit, a sharp talent for finance and an unparalleled drive for success, Popat worked relentlessly to pay his gratitude to the country that offered him a fresh start: Great Britain. With this same passion, he tells the incredible story of his journey from Wimpy Bar waiter to business magnate to member of the House of Lords.\n\nDespite battling prejudice, he found allies in the Conservative Party and, with guidance from David Cameron and his spiritual leader, Morari Bapu, has become one of the most influential people in commerce and politics today. Full of life lessons and business wisdom, A British Subject is a timely testament to the importance of integration in Britain.\n\nA love letter to his adopted country, this is the inspirational tale of how the barefoot boy from the streets of Tororo now treads the corridors of Parliament.

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EAN: 9781541797727
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EAN: 9781594852510
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EAN: 9781783353101
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A beautiful journey through the British countryside, drawn from The Guardian's beloved Country Diary. \nWith an introduction by Ian McMillan, and illustrations by Clifford Harper.\n\n'Full of sparkle, wonder and surprise, here is the natural world in book form.' PATRICK BARKHAM\n\nFor over a century, The Guardian's Country Diary has published the nation's most celebrated writers of natural history as they capture the essence of the British countryside.\n\nFrom Yorkshire to Belfast, Orkney to Cumbria, and Gwynedd to the Scottish Highlands, exquisitely written and softly observed snapshots emerge - of fishes lurking in dusky pools, of age-old trees beneath deep blue skies, of lives being lived alongside the ebbs and flows of the natural world.\n\nBringing together the finest contributions to the column from recent years, Under the Changing Skies is an essential companion for all those with a deep love for the British countryside, charting its subtle changes over the course of the seasons.\n\nWith contributions from Cal Flyn, Mark Cocker, Josie George, Nicola Chester, Lev Parikian, Amy-Jane Beer, Kate Bradbury, Andrea Meanwell and many others.

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Brand: Hannah Dale
EAN: 9781849948487
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A delightful gift book filled with the adorable animal paintings of Hannah Dale, creator of the immensely popular Wrendale Designs.\n\n\nThis charming book, first published in 2014 but now reissued in a larger size to give the author’s beautiful images even more chance to shine, features 50 quintessentially British birds and animals painted by Hannah Dale in her uniquely quirky, characterful style. From the red deer to the harvest mouse, from the sparrow to the barn owl, the nation’s favourite creatures are brought to life by this award-winning artist, really bringing out the character in each creature. Additional smaller pictures include their tracks and feathers, to help you identify where they've been near even when you can’t see them. The author has also provided insightful and entertaining text to accompany each animal portrait, and it all adds up to an irresistible gift package for any nature lover.

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Brand: Food
EAN: 9781838690472
Categoria: Libri e riviste

For the first time ever, Lonely Planet has compiled the best dining spots in every country of the world. Our writers know how to sniff out the best food around and our picks favour local, authentic and atmospheric experiences - whether that means tucking into tasty oysters at a seafood shack in southeast England or gorging on the best jerk chicken in Jamaica.\n\n Throughout the book's 600-plus pages, we also profile the must-try delicacies unique to each country, as well as advice on how much to tip. Full-colour photographs and illustrations showcase lip-smackingly good cuisine, such as Mexican pork-belly tacos and fresh Icelandic seafood, and accompanying text gives you the lowdown on the best restaurants to wine and dine in, as well as where to drink craft beer, eat quesadillas and much more.\n\n With over 2000 expert recommendations, this is the ultimate companion to help foodie travellers make the most of every meal, wherever they are in the world.\n\n About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, eBooks, and more.

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Brand: Marsha Blackburn
EAN: 9781546059219
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Reject our society's liberal bias against conservative women and learn how traditional principles will secure a better future for us all with this inspiring guide from a political powerhouse.\n\nThe Mind of a Conservative Woman challenges women to improve their place in life and open doors for themselves and the next generation through the courage of their convictions. Senator Blackburn expounds upon why beliefs labeled as \"traditional\" have common ground and can improve all of society, such as:\n\n* Protecting the next generation, the family, and the freedom of faith and values,\n* Supporting a free market that rewards women who apply their talents and rise to great heights,\n* Respecting the institutions in our nation to make change from the inside,\n* Securing an effective government that will not overreach, and \n* Honoring and respecting those who hold differing opinions.\n\nThough it is politically liberal women who receive the attention of left-leaning media and universities, it is conservatism that guarantees what most women hold dear. Blackburn addresses the frustrations of working women and the false perceptions of women presented by the media in general.\n\nHer maxim \"Leave Things in Better Shape Than You Found Them\" will challenge you to improve your place in life and create opportunities you never dreamed possible for yourself and those around you.

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Brand: Kai Thomas
EAN: 9781529389609
Categoria: Libri e riviste

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023\n\n'Fresh and propulsive . . . a testament to the power of story and a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times\n\nFreedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away. \nNo, child.\nYou got to swing your freedom like a club.\n\nIn 1859, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore via the Underground Railroad to escape enslavement, but an American bounty hunter tracked her down. Now she's in jail for killing him, and the fragile peace of Dunmore, a town settled by people fleeing the American south, hangs by a thread.\n\n Lensinda Martin, a smart young reporter, wants to gather the woman's testimony before she can be condemned, but the old woman has no time for confessions. Instead she proposes a barter: a story for a story.\n\n As the women swap stories - of family and first loves, of survival and freedom against all odds - Lensinda must face her past. And it seems the old woman may carry a secret that could shape Lensinda's destiny.\n\n Travelling along the path of the Underground Railroad from the American South to British Canada, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country is an unforgettable debut about the interwoven history of peoples in North America, slavery and resistance, and two women reckoning with the stories they've been given, and the ones they want to tell.

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Brand: Jerry Yarnell
EAN: 9781440350221
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Best-selling author, instructor and PBS TV show host, Jerry Yarnell delivers his latest offering with dozens of all new lessons and 8 full step-by-step landscape painting projects. Features detailed materials lists and advice on how to set up a palette. Learn the terms and techniques necessary to achieve your desired effects. Get lessons on color mixing, composition, negative space, perspective, values and more. With his signature, easy-to-follow style, Jerry Yarnell provides the instruction needed to help you learn how to bring life and beauty to your acrylic landscape paintings.\n\nTips on choosing supplies and setting up your painting studio\nTechniques for painting the sky, rivers, meadows, flowers, cottages, barns and many other elements of country landscapes\nEasy-to-follow step-by-step instruction walks you through 8 complete painting demonstrations

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Brand: Julian Sayarer
EAN: 9781529429954
Categoria: Libri e riviste

\"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside\" CAROLINE EDEN\n\nBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing\n\n\"The best travelogues should make you question your preconceptions of a place and force you to engage with what the author is saying. Türkiye succeeds on both fronts\" Cycle Magazine\n\n\"We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with fire. Sayarer is a marvellous example\" HORATIO CLARE\n\nOn the eve of its centenary year and elections that will shape the coming generations, Julian Emre Sayarer sets out to cycle across Türkiye, from the Aegean coast to the Armenian border.\n\nMeeting Turkish farmers and workers, Syrian refugees and Russians avoiding conscription, the journey brings to life a living, breathing, cultural tapestry of the place where Asia, Africa and Europe converge. The result is a love letter to a country and its neighbours - one that offers a clear-eyed view of Türkiye and its place in a changing world. Yet the route is also marked by tragedy, as Sayarer cycles along a major fault line just months before one of the most devastating earthquakes in the region's modern history.\n\nAlways engaged with the big historical and political questions that inform so much of his writing, Sayarer uses his bicycle and the roadside encounters it allows to bring everything back to the human level. At the end of his journey we are left with a deeper understanding of the country, as well as the essential and universal nature of political power, both in Türkiye and closer to home.\n\n\"A persuasive corrective to western views of a place he loves\" Guardian

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Brand: Kevin Barry
EAN: 9781786891433
Categoria: Libri e riviste

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE\n\n'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times\n'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer\n\nIn this rapturous story collection we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories affirm Kevin Barry as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted writers, and show an Ireland in a condition of great flux but also as a place where older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist.

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Brand: Kai Thomas
EAN: 9781529389616
Categoria: Libri e riviste

WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD \nCOSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023\n\n'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times\n\n'A mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling' Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Fiction Prize judges\n\nFreedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away. \nNo, child.\nYou got to swing your freedom like a club.\n\nIn 1859, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore via the Underground Railroad to escape enslavement, but an American bounty hunter tracked her down. Now she's in jail for killing him, and the fragile peace of Dunmore, a town settled by people fleeing the American south, hangs by a thread.\n\n Lensinda Martin, a smart young reporter, wants to gather the woman's testimony before she can be condemned, but the old woman has no time for confessions. Instead she proposes a barter: a story for a story.\n\n As the women swap stories - of family and first loves, of survival and freedom against all odds - Lensinda must face her past. And it seems the old woman may carry a secret that could shape Lensinda's destiny.\n\n Travelling along the path of the Underground Railroad from the American South to British Canada, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country is an unforgettable debut about the interwoven history of peoples in North America, slavery and resistance, and two women reckoning with the stories they've been given, and the ones they want to tell.

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Brand: Guy De Maupassant
EAN: 9780199555789
Categoria: Libri e riviste

This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Necklace , and Le Horla, an account of a disintegrating personality that chillingly parallels the author's own decline into madness. All the stories demonstrate his genius for invention and his ability to write unblinkingly about the absurdity of the human condition, supporting Henry James' claim that in the annals of story-telling, Maupassant stands `like a lion in the path'. \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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Brand: Valeria Necchio
EAN: 9781783351084
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'Really wonderful . . . it's amazing, she's amazing, buy this book.' STANLEY TUCCI\n\n'Valeria lets you in on the region's secrets and there is a beauty and sincerity to her writing.' RACHEL RODDY\n\nIntroducing Italy's best kept secret . . . the cuisine of the Veneto.\n\nFood-writer, cook and photographer Valeria Necchio shares the food and flavours at the heart of the Veneto region in North Eastern Italy. Veneto includes lovingly written recipes that capture the spirit of this beautiful and often unexplored region, and Valeria's memories of the people and places that make the Veneto so special.\n\nPacked with fresh ingredients and lively flavours, the recipes range from the dramatic black cuttlefish stew, through soups, pastas and risottos, a mouthwatering selection of Italian sweet treats, and sweet and savoury preserves for your pantry to ensure year-round deliciousness.

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Brand: Matthew Cole
EAN: 9781568589060
Categoria: Libri e riviste

A hard-hitting exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military's best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire.\n\nThe Navy SEALs are, in the eyes of many Americans, the ultimate heroes. When they killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, it was celebrated as a massive victory. Former SEALs rake in cash as leadership consultants for corporations, and young military-bound men dream of serving in their ranks.\n\nBut the SEALs have lost their bearings. Investigative journalist Matthew Cole tells the story of the most lauded unit, SEAL Team 6, revealing a troubling pattern of war crimes and the deep moral rot beneath authorized narratives. From their origins in World War II, the SEALs have trained to be specialized killers with short missions. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan became the endless War on Terror, their violence spiraled out of control.\n\nCode Over Country details the high-level decisions that unleashed the SEALs' carnage and the coverups that prevented their crimes from coming to light. It is a necessary and rigorous investigation of the unchecked power of the military-and the harms enacted by and upon soldiers in America's name.

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Brand: Paul O'grady
EAN: 9780552169653
Categoria: Libri e riviste

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\nA fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Paul's life at home in the country with his animals\n\nPaul O'Grady's Country Life for the first time gives a glimpse into the home life of one of Britain’s best loved stars, alongside the animals he adores. \n\nSometimes rural idyll, sometimes hell on earth, Paul’s life in rural Kent has been shared over the years with some very vocal pigs, a mad cow, various rescued barn owls, the world’s most sadistic geese and Christine the psychotic sheep – among many other animal waifs and strays. And of course Paul tells the stories of the dogs in his life – including the tiny chihuahua/Jack Russell cross with Napoleonic ambitions, Eddie, Miss Olga, Bullseye, Louis, Boycie and, of course, Buster, the greatest canine star since Lassie. In addition, Paul shares some of his favourite recipes, explores country lore and superstitions, and extols the benefits of growing your own vegetables, herbs and fruit.\n\nThis is a warts-and-all account of country living, as far removed from the bright lights of celebrity as you could ever imagine. The trials and tribulations Paul experienced on moving to deepest darkest Kent as a dyed-in-the-wool city dweller are every bit as hilarious and eventful as you would think. He had a lot of new skills to learn, and fast: everything from how to churn your own butter and how to birth a lamb to the best way to lure a cow out of your kitchen while naked from the waist down.\n\nBrilliantly funny and full of classic stories, Paul O’Grady’s Country Life is your armchair guide to the wonders and horrors of rural existence.

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Brand: Charles Cumming
EAN: 9780007346431
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year. Selected by Sunday Times Books of the Year and The Guardian as Best Thriller of the Year. \n Perfect for fans of John le Carre, a gripping and suspenseful spy thriller from 'the master of the modern spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday)\n Six weeks before she is due to become the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene disappears without a trace.\n\n\n Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her - quickly and quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into the secret world, the only life he's ever known.\n\n\n Tracking her through France and North Africa, Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage, shadowed by foreign intelligence services. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are entirely different - and the consequences worse than anyone imagines...

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Brand: Bill Bryson
EAN: 9781784161842
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.\n\nOf course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood: the glories of a New England autumn; the pleasingly comical sight of oneself in shorts; and motel rooms where you can generally count on being awakened in the night by a piercing shriek and the sound of a female voice pleading, 'Put the gun down, Vinnie, I'll do anything you say.'\n\nWhether discussing the strange appeal of breakfast pizza or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life.

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Brand: Kevin Barry
EAN: 9781782116219
Categoria: Libri e riviste

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE\n\n'One of the best collections you'll read this year' Sunday Times\n'Wild, witty stories . . . Exhilarating' Observer\n\nSince his landmark debut collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and its award-winning sequel in 2012, Dark Lies the Island, Kevin Barry has been acclaimed as one of the world's most accomplished and gifted short story writers. \n\nBarry's lyric intensity, the vitality of his comedy and the darkness of his vision recall the work of masters of the genre like Flannery O'Connor and William Trevor, but he has forged a style which is patently his own.\n\nIn this rapturous third collection, we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and hope. These stories show an Ireland in a condition of great flux but also as a place where older rhythms, and an older magic, somehow persist.

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Brand: James Crowden
EAN: 9780008393571
Categoria: Libri e riviste

‘James Crowden is Britain’s best cider writer … Cider Country is the book we’ve all been waiting for.’ Oz Clarke\n \n\n\n \n Join James Crowden as he embarks on a journey to distil the ancient origins of cider, uncovering a rich culture and philosophy that has united farmer, maker and drinker for millennia.\n \n\n\n \n LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 ANDRE SIMON FOOD AND DRINK AWARD\n \n\n\n Cidermaking has been at the heart of country life for hundreds of years. But the fascinating story of how this drink came into existence and why it became so deeply rooted in the nation’s psyche has never been told. In order to answer these questions, James Crowden traces an elusive history stretching back to the ancient, myth-infused civilisations of the Mediterranean and the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan.\n\n\n Meeting cider experts, farmers and historians, he unearths the surprising story of an apple that travelled from east to west and proved irresistible to everyone who tasted it. Upon its arrival in Britain, monks, pirates and politicians formed a pioneering and evangelical fan base, all seeking the company of a drink that might guide them through uncertain times.\n\n\n But the nation’s love-affair with cider didn’t fully blossom until after the reformation, when the thirst for knowledge about the drink was at its peak. This infatuation with experimentation would lead to remarkable innovations and the creation of a ‘sparkling cider’, a technique that pre-dated Dom Pérignon's champagne by forty years.\n\n\n Turning to the present day, Crowden meets the next generation of cider makers and unearths a unique philosophy that has been shared through the ages. In the face of real challenges, these enterprising cider makers are still finding new ways to produce this golden drink that is enjoyed by so many.\n\n\n \n Spanning centuries and continents, Cider Country tells the story of our country through the culture, craft and consumption of our most iconic rural drink.

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Brand: James Crowden
EAN: 9780008393588
Categoria: Libri e riviste

'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke\n \n\n\n \n Join James Crowden as he embarks on a journey to distil the ancient origins of cider, uncovering a rich culture and philosophy that has united farmer, maker and drinker for millennia.\n \n\n\n \n LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 ANDRE SIMON FOOD AND DRINK AWARD\n \n\n\n Cidermaking has been at the heart of country life for hundreds of years. But the fascinating story of how this drink came into existence and why it became so deeply rooted in the nation's psyche has never been told. In order to answer these questions, James Crowden traces an elusive history stretching back to the ancient, myth-infused civilisations of the Mediterranean and the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan.\n\n\n Meeting cider experts, farmers and historians, he unearths the surprising story of an apple that travelled from east to west and proved irresistible to everyone who tasted it. Upon its arrival in Britain, monks, pirates and politicians formed a pioneering and evangelical fan base, all seeking the company of a drink that might guide them through uncertain times.\n\n\n But the nation's love-affair with cider didn't fully blossom until after the reformation, when the thirst for knowledge about the drink was at its peak. This infatuation with experimentation would lead to remarkable innovations and the creation of a 'sparkling cider', a technique that pre-dated Dom Perignon's champagne by forty years.\n\n\n Turning to the present day, Crowden meets the next generation of cider makers and unearths a unique philosophy that has been shared through the ages. In the face of real challenges, these enterprising cider makers are still finding new ways to produce this golden drink that is enjoyed by so many.\n\n\n \n Spanning centuries and continents, Cider Country tells the story of our country through the culture, craft and consumption of our most iconic rural drink.

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Brand: Jack Thurston
EAN: 9781910636138
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Jack Thurston, best-selling author of Lost Lanes series and presenter of the internationally acclaimed Bike Show, takes you on a freewheeling tour of the lost lanes and forgotten byways of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. Enjoy 36 of the best rural rides in the region: Ride on traffic free lanes from the seashore into the heart of the west country. Stunning photography, downloadable GPX, handmade maps. Discover car-free routes through the grand estates of Longleat, Stourhead, Lanhydrock and Ashton Court. Escape to ancient trackways of Wessex's chalk downs, passing the prehistoric remains of Avebury, Silbury Hill and Stonehenge. Ride traffic free paths along the River Dart, River Camel and River Exe stopping for river swims and picnics in sun-dappled woodlands. Climb to the windswept heights of Dartmoor and Exmoor and descend beneath the towering crags of Cheddar Gorge.

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Brand: Elena Kostyuchenko
EAN: 9781847927699
Categoria: Libri e riviste

**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2024**\n\n'Would you like to know where Putin comes from? What the Russians are like today? And why? Read this book' SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH\n\n'Brilliant and immersive ... reportage at its brave and luminous best' OBSERVER\n\nTo be a journalist is to tell the truth. To be patriotic is to be critical, honest, and fearless.\n\nI Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer people in the outer provinces, patients and doc­tors at a Ukrainian maternity ward, and reporters like herself.\n\nAt once uncompromising and deeply humane, it stitches reportage and personal essays into a kaleidoscopic, often other-worldly journey. Here is Russia as it is, not as we imagine it.\n\nI Love Russia may be the last work from her homeland Kostyuchenko will publish for a long time – perhaps ever. She writes driven by the conviction that the greatest form of love and patriotism is criticism. And because the threat of Putin’s Russia extends beyond herself, beyond Crimea, and beyond Ukraine.\n\nThis is a singular portrait of a nation, and of a woman who refuses to be silenced.\n\n'Elena's bravery and reportage are astonishing' CHRISTINA LAMB\n\n'Kostyuchenko is an important guide to the twenty-first century' TIMOTHY SNYDER\n\n*A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*

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Brand: Max Stafford-clark;maeve Mckeown
EAN: 9781848420434
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Page to Stage series – highly accessible guides to the world's best-known plays, written by established theatre professionals to show how the plays come to life on the stage.\n\n\n\n'Modern classic' was the fitting accolade bestowed on Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good soon after its premiere in 1988 at the Royal Court Theatre, London. The play tells how a company of convicts staged George Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer in the early days of the Australian penal colony.\n\n\n\nHaving directed the premiere, Max Stafford-Clark brings his own unrivalled insights to this in-depth study of how it actually works on stage. Sections include an introduction about the creation of the play, a discussion of its action moment by moment, the historical context, the characters and how the production was rehearsed and designed for its original production. The result is an invaluable and authoritative guide for anyone studying, teaching or performing the play.

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Brand: Kai Thomas
EAN: 9781529389593
Categoria: Libri e riviste

WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023\nSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD \nCOSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023\n\n'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times\n\n'A mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling' Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Fiction Prize judges\n\nFreedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away. \nNo, child.\nYou got to swing your freedom like a club.\n\nIn 1859, deep in the forests of Canada, an elderly woman sits behind bars. She came to Dunmore via the Underground Railroad to escape enslavement, but an American bounty hunter tracked her down. Now she's in jail for killing him, and the fragile peace of Dunmore, a town settled by people fleeing the American south, hangs by a thread.\n\n Lensinda Martin, a smart young reporter, wants to gather the woman's testimony before she can be condemned, but the old woman has no time for confessions. Instead she proposes a barter: a story for a story.\n\n As the women swap stories - of family and first loves, of survival and freedom against all odds - Lensinda must face her past. And it seems the old woman may carry a secret that could shape Lensinda's destiny.\n\n Travelling along the path of the Underground Railroad from the American South to British Canada, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country is an unforgettable debut about the interwoven history of peoples in North America, slavery and resistance, and two women reckoning with the stories they've been given, and the ones they want to tell.

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Brand: Edward Bulmer
EAN: 9780847871988
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Edward Bulmer is a leading interior designer, architectural historian, and founder of the paint company Natural Paint based in Great Britain. He is perhaps best known for breathing new life into houses with a sympathy that is rooted in a deep understanding of their past, a particular skill that few interior designers possess. He can see where details are missing and unravel a mishmash of periods accumulated over centuries in a historical house. In this, his first book, Bulmer compiles the best from thirty years of work in some of Britain s most famous and grandest homes, including Castle Howard, Broughton Hall, Althorp, Goodwood, Pitshill, and many others. It also includes his work for private clients, highlighting his own stunning home, a laboratory for his practice, in a Queen Anne manor house built in 1700, which Bulmer and his family have spent the last twenty years renovating into a comfortable, practical home perfect for a modern lifestyle. He operates his paint company out of an old granary on the property that he converted into a studio. Bulmer has also revived the farm and turned it into a working organic farm. Written by Bulmer and featuring seventeen houses, among other projects, Bulmer takes readers through his creative and working process in each project, describing in detail how he renovated, decorated, and preserved the home, the problems he encountered and the decisions he and his clients made to solve them, all while sharing tips and secrets that readers can take away for their own home. Tours of these well-lived-in houses, rich with history, are conveyed through the gorgeous photography of Paul Whitbread.

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Brand: Nate Hendley
EAN: 9781459748101
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The sensational true story of how a bank robber killed a man in a wild shootout, sparking a national debate around gun control and the death penalty.\n\nWINNER of the 2022 Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book\n\nOn July 24, 1964, twenty-four-year-old Matthew Kerry Smith disguised himself with a mask and a Beatle wig, hoisted a semi-automatic rifle, then held up a bank in North York, Ontario.\n\n \nThe intelligent but troubled son of a businessman and mentally ill mother, Smith was a navy veteran with a young Indigenous wife and a hazy plan for violent revolution.\n\n \nOutside the bank, Smith was confronted by Jack Blanc, a former member of the Canadian and Israeli armies, who brandished a revolver. During a wild shootout, Blanc was killed, and Smith escaped - only to become the object of the largest manhunt in the history of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Force.\n\n \nDubbed \"The Beatle Bandit,\" Smith was eventually captured, tried, and sentenced to hang. His murderous rampage had tragic consequences for multiple families and fuelled a national debate about the death penalty, gun control, and the insanity defence.

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Brand: Graham Gough
EAN: 9781398109971
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Press photographer Graham Gough has collected humorous photographs of the Black Country in his portfolio over many years. This is a collection of his best and most amusing photographs spanning the past few decades. Styles may change but humour remains eternal. This book is a timely antidote to current tribulations as readers can escape into a past where wrestling vied with Kenny Ball and the Merry Widow at the Dudley Hippodrome, seven bobbies on a bike promote the National Cycle Festival, Royals are stuck in the mud and a cheeky hen night provides the inspiration for Beryl Cook.\n\nIn Have a Loff! Graham Gough has collected around 180 of his favourite photographs of the Black Country which will appeal to all those who know and love this corner of the world.

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