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A fast paced foray through the era that changed British food forever and saw the creation of the now familiar gastropub and the rise of the celebrity chef

A brilliant and challenging book GORDON BROWNFrom the founder of Britain s leading antifascist organisation HOPE not hate this is an urgent call to resist the forces of extremism on the march in Western societies and how to go about it If you re shocked and disconcerted by the rise of intolerance and hate you re not alone Drawing from 35 years of campaigning and journalism Nick Lowles shows how anti immigration antisemitic and Islamophobic attacks have proliferated in the modern world and how Britain with the likes of Tommy Robinson and the threat of Reform UK has been far from immune from far right politics From HOPE not hate s pioneering campaigns against the BNP in east London to the impact of the manosphere and the issues in Netflix s Adolescence from explorations of the pernicious influence of race science and conspiracy theory to the interplay of deprivation and intolerance in Britain s deindustrialised towns Lowles entwines his inspirational story with hard won lessons from decades of activism His conclusions which do not shy away from awkward truths for campaigners suggest practical ways for the far right to be defeated And he shares powerful examples from a participant led youth club in Hull to Syrian refugees connecting with local p

I cannot think of a single person who wouldn t find hope and inspiration in these pages Mel Robbins This book doesn t just speak to your heart it revives it Jenna Kutcher Perfect for fans of Untamed Awake is a powerful memoir of self discovery authenticity and finding the courage to rethink and rebuild your life after heartbreak A truly brilliant read it s also a fascinating account of a woman learning to question the rules of the oppressively patriarchal US church in which she grew up At 2 30 am on July 11 2020 author and mother of five Jen Hatmaker woke up to her husband of 26 years voice texting his girlfriend in bed next to her Life as she knew it was over In Awake she scrutinises the toxic systems that led to the end of her marriage sharing intimate sometimes hilariously hard moments along the way Beautifully written and shot through with deep emotion this is a story of hope and resilience of unpicking the past and challenging limitations around the kind of person you can be It s a love letter to friendship family and the power of community and a roadmap showing how to cope survive and even thrive when all seems lost

Truth is always stranger than fiction A stunning riveting and extraordinary real life story of life in the shadows 1 International Bestselling Author Don Winslow

From actor comedian co creator of Marcel the Shell and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate a wild soulful hilarious collection of genre bending essays depicting the journey into motherhood as you ve never seen it before What happened was this Jenny Slate was a human mammal who sniffed the air every morning hoping to find another person to love who would love her and in that period there was a deep dark loneliness that she had to face and befriend and then we are pleased to report that she did fall in love and in that period she was like chimes or a flock of clean breaths and her spine lying flat was the many colored planks on the xylophone but also she was rabid with fear of losing this love because of past injury And then what happened was that she became a wild pregnant mammal thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal but was this normal and had she or anything ever been normal Herein lies an account of this journey told in five phases Single True Love Pregnancy Baby and Ongoing through luminous laugh out loud funny unclassifiable essays that take the form of letters to a doctor dreams of

From Sunday Times bestselling author Gyles Brandreth comes the remarkable life of A A Milne and the bear who captured millions of hearts Gyles Brandreth has a touching access to the secrets of the human heart The Times Whatever subject an author chooses or has chosen for him he reveals no secret but the secret of himself A A MilneWhen Winnie the Pooh first appeared in print on Christmas Eve 1925 his creator had no idea that this bear and the fellow inhabitants of the Hundred Acre Wood would go on to capture the imaginations of people of all ages all over the world for the next hundred years In this new biography Gyles Brandreth tells the remarkable story of A A Milne and of the bear of very little brain who went on to become a global phenomenon Drawing on his friendship with Milne s son the real Christopher Robin Gyles Brandreth has produced a revealing and intimate portrait of a prolific author whose legacy came to be defined by his most famous creation and of the divided Milne family who for many years had a conflicted relationship with the iconic bear This is the story of a man a boy and a bear but it is also a gripping family drama and a fascinating exploration of the complicated nature of growing up and the impossible longing for a retu

From the acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Glory and Frederick the Great a riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th century Poland and Saxony and his catastrophic reign It s been a superb year for history but Augustus the Strong ranks up there with the very very best I cant recommend it strongly enough Simon Sebag Montefiore The wonderful story of one of the worst monarchs in European history told with enormous wit and scholarship by a supremely talented historian If you have the slightest interest in Germans Poles porcelain jewels the Enlightenment military disasters or the pleasures of fox tossing then this is the book for you Dominic Sandbrook Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2025 Augustus is one of the great what ifs of the 18th century He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state a bulwark against the Russians and a block on Prussian expansion Alas there was no opportunity Augustus did not waste and no decision he did not get wrong By the time of his death Poland was fatally damaged and would subsequently disappear as an independent state until the 20th century Tim Blanning s wonderfully entertaining and original new book

From legend of the high street Mary Portas comes a no holds barred account about her time as the window dresser and creative director for Harvey Nichols that is full of juicy anecdotes from the fashi

The author of She Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV two cousins whose rivalry brought their nation to the brink of disintegration and back again LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON FICTION 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2025 THE TELEGRAPH S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A glorious work of history a gripping and haunting tragedy There was no book published this year novels included that I found richer in character no plot more taut Tom Holland The Spectator A dazzling tour de force of epic royal history a compulsive unputdownable real life thriller a gripping portrait of ruthless power politics and a study of British tyranny written with the delicacy and elegance of one of Britain s most brilliant historians at the top of her game Simon Sebag Montefiore If ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance this one is The dumbfounding delusional narcissistic King Richard the white knuckle ride of Henry IV dogged all the way by notions of illegitimacy I feel these men could have been ripped from today s headlines The book s great achievement is in the storytelling the unfolding drama the secrets of power and ambition so beautifully controlled

Please read this book It may very well change how you live Rachel Clarke I was spellbound Kathryn MannixDeath of an Ordinary Man is an unforgettable account of this universal aspect of life It is not a book about grief it is a book about dying and it is a book about family and care and love Sarah Perry s father in law David died in the autumn of 2022 only nine days after a cancer diagnosis Until then he d been a healthy and happy man he loved stamp collecting fish and chips comic novels his local church and the Antiques Roadshow He was in some ways a very ordinary man but as he began to die it became clear how extraordinary he was Sarah and her husband Robert nursed David themselves at home eventually with the help of carers and visiting nurses They bathed and cleaned and dressed him comforted him in pain sat with him through waking and sleeping talked to him sang to him prayed with him Day by day and hour by hour they witnessed what happens to the body and spirit as death approaches and finally arrives By the end I was left shaken deeply moved Christos Tsiolkas This book will be a lifeline for so many people Sean Hewitt To read this book is a privilege a gift on the craft of dying Amy Key

The wonderful new book from Britain s best loved travel writer In February 2025 Michael Palin travelled to Venezuela to get a sense of what life is like in one of South America s most culturally rich vibrant but also troubled nations In the journal he kept during his trip he gives a vivid account of the towns and cities he visited the landscapes he travelled through and the people he met Illustrated throughout with colour photographs taken on the trip and permeated with his warmth and humour this is a vivid and varied portrait of a complex country from the best selling author of Great Uncle Harry and Into Iraq

From her prison cell the irrepressible magnetic Sara Monday looks back on the past half century of her life in Herself Surprised Born into a poor family her employment while still a young girl as a cook in a middle class household set her on a colourful and picaresque path In To Be a Pilgrim Tom Wilcher a wealthy and disgraced lawyer who has been both Sara s employer and her lover has retreated to his estate near the end of his life to wrestle with his tormented conscience And the centre of The Horse s Mouth a charming talented impoverished artist named Gulley Jimson also a lover of Sara Monday is a restless rebellious and self serving scoundrel whose antics verge on the appalling and farcical Read together these three vigorous and unforgettable narrative voices offer a sweeping vision of the first half of the twentieth century that is lyrical profane tragic and comic all at once Published in 1941 1942 and 1944 the novels in Cary s trilogy were designed to reveal three complex characters not only as they see themselves but as they are seen by one another resulting in a work of three dimensional depth and force Family life just goes on Toughest thing in the world But of course it is also the microcosm of a world You get everything there

From the Wainwright Nature Prize Highly Commended author Nicola Chester a rural narrative between two women in two different eras who both wanted to become farmers Nicola Chester will come to be seen as a Nan Shepherd of our time Nick Acheson author of The Meaning of GeeseThis is the story of Miss White a woman who lived in the author s village 80 years ago a pioneer who realised her ambition to become a farmer during the Second World War and how she worked to become accepted within this community Nicola Chester too dreamed of becoming a farmer but working with horses was the only path open to her Was it easier for women to become farmers in the 1940s than it is now Moving between Nicola s own attempts to work outdoors and Miss White s desire to farm a generation earlier Nicola explores the parallels between their lives and the differences Miss White buys a derelict farm and begins to renovate and modernize it As ghost barn owls flit between these two worlds Nicola draws connections with farming and rural life in both times from the role of women in rural communities in the modern day to Miss White s experience in the 1940s And how those farming modernizations have left the modern day with both a denuded landscape and farming community and a disc

Juan de Mata Sevillano y Fraile (Vicálvaro 1790-Madrid 1864) I duque de Sevillano y I marqués de Fuentes de Duero, llegó a ser considerado como el primer banquero del país. Además de sus actividades financieras, tambien incremento su patrimonio adquiriendo fincas urbanas y rusticas en toda la Peninsula, que las arrendaba consiguiendo importantes beneficios. Participo activamente en la politica española, siendo en 1854, ministro de Hacienda, bajo la presidencia del general Espartero. Logro el nombramiento, por parte de la reina Isabel II, de sus dos titulos nobiliarios. Fue senador desde 1846 hasta su muerte, que sucedio en su palacio, un 15 de febrero de 1864. Dejo su herencia a sus dos hijas.

Pre order the paperback now and discover the heartwarming first hand account of one of the most celebrated partnerships in the history of British entertainment the 60 year marriage of Timothy West and Prunella Scales Timothy West and Prunella Scales were first and foremost actors Over seventy years they have delighted millions portraying a host of larger than life characters that the nation has taken to our hearts But their finest roles it turns out have always been as husband and wife in the extraordinary and enduring double act that is Tim and Pru In Pru and Me the late Timothy West charted the course of their lives from the years before they met treading the boards in the 50s to their secret courting marriage and settling in Wandsworth And then together as they established themselves at the heart of British theatre television and film over the next seventy years in some of the nation s favourite shows such as Fawlty Towers and Brass Crammed full of stories which are funny poignant jaw dropping and occasionally painful Pru and Me also vividly recounts the late blaze of glory that introduced the world to the real Tim and Pru via Great Canal Journeys Here the couple charmed the nation while at the same time charting Pru s ge

The story of an incredible friendship between one man and a wild robin and a beautiful celebration of Britain s favorite bird When a robin appears a loved one is near In 2019 Tony Putman was working as a gardener in Edenbridge Kent when he noticed a bold robin sitting on a branch of an old plum tree The robin glanced in his direction as he approached but he didn t move so Tony grabbed his camera and took a photo This would be the first of hundreds of photos that Tony would take of Bob the robin and the start of an extraordinary friendship that would last for years As Tony shared his pictures on his social media account Putman and Robin he witnessed an outpouring the love not just for Bob but for robins everywhere who populate our gardens with song and movement even on the direst winter days In this book Tony shares his touching journey with Bob and tells the story of our unwavering affection for these magnificent creatures This is an informative book about the life of a robin as well as a beautiful love letter to these spirited and lively birds who offer us a connection with nature a moment of contact and a great source of comfort and joy

PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE SUBLIME A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 STUNNINGLY GOOD THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOKS 2024 COMPULSIVE A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 BRILLIANT A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A delicious grippingly paced tale of rogues riotous sex regicide and realpolitik INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS This is the page turner that Buckingham s short racy life deserves DAILY TELEGRAPH Vivid erudite and sympathetic The Scapegoat shows that Hughes Hallett s eye for the seamy realities of an extraordinary life is as sharp as ever THE TIMES Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic seductively detailed biography OLIVIA LAING As King James I s favourite Buckingham was also his confidant gatekeeper right hand man and lover When Charles I succeeded his father he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor A dazzling figure on horseback and a skilful player of the political game Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth century royal and political life With a novelist s touch

I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration PHILIP PULLMAN Entrancing a creative manifesto TELEGRAPH Mesmerising vibrating with life and curiosity OBSERVER

These are the dishes that fuelled great writing Ever wondered what Iris Murdoch might have served for supper or how Emily Dickinson took her tea The Writer s Table brings together dining habits and favourite recipes from some of the world s most beloved authors offering a delicious glimpse into their everyday lives and kitchen rituals Each recipe is paired with a short introduction to the author and dish along with clear instructions and modern ingredients making it easy to recreate literary comfort food at home With beautiful illustrations throughout the book is a feast for the eyes as well as the table making you feel closer to the writers you love Writers and recipes featured include Leo Tolstoy s Sour Schi Jane Austen s White Soup Colette s Cherry Clafoutis Barbara Pym s Toad in the Hole Truman Capote s Chicken Hash Andrea Camilleri s Sardines a beccafico Perfectly giftable irresistibly browsable and full of charm The Writer s Table is a celebration of food creativity and the simple pleasures that connect us all A must have for readers home cooks and anyone who s ever wondered what their favourite author had for dinner

The instant Sunday Times bestseller The UK s bestselling medieval historian brings unforgettably to life the astonishing rise of Henry V who survived rebellion a near fatal arrow wound and a lengthy and precarious princely apprenticeship to become England s greatest warrior king A historian who writes as addictively as any page turning novelist Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just 35 but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond The victor of Agincourt was a model king for his successors Shakespeare s version of Henry V saw his youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship and in the dark days of World War II Henry s victories in France were recounted in British propaganda Churchill called Henry a gleam of splendour in the dark troubled story of medieval England while for one modern medievalist Henry was quite simply the greatest man who ever ruled England For Dan Jones Henry is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history but one of the hardest to pin down He was a hardened sometimes brutal warrior yet he was also creative and artistic with a bookish temperament He was a leader who made many mistakes who misjudged his friends and