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A wise passionate heartfelt book An invaluable resource for those seeking greater attunement with the year s cycles Katherine May I learnt so much about the alchemy of the living world and the possibilities of relationship I finished the book newly awestruck by planet Earth and all the life that she carries Beautifully written nourishing evocative and inspiring Lucy Jones author of Losing Eden Poppy s fresh eyed look at her own little corner of the county gave me a renewed sense of wonder and delight at the joys and challenges of loving and on good days living off a small patch of land Plus some truly brilliant ideas for getting the most from it Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall This is an intimate look at building a true relationship with a garden and all that live in it Practical poetic political like the best conversations over tea in the garden Alys Fowler A Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with an ever changing garden of setting down roots and becoming embedded in nature and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as individuals but can also help to grow a better world Join Poppy Okotcha in her wild little garden in Devon where over the course of a year she shares the inspiring the mundane and the mag

LA VIDA DE UNA MUJER SIN PRECEDENTES QUE MARCÓ EL DESTINO DEL IMPERIOá Agripina la Menor alcanzó un nivel de poder impensable para una mujer en la Roma del siglo I. Las fuentes antiguas nos cuentan que conspiro contra su hermano & x02014;el emperador Caligula& x02014;, asesino a su marido & x02014;el emperador Claudio& x02014;, y controlo obsesivamente a su hijo & x02014;el emperador Neron& x02014;, incluso acostandose con el. Aunque muchos especialistas modernos tienden a dar por bueno este relato, Anthony Barrett recurre a las recientes pruebas arqueologicas e historicas para pintar un nuevo retrato de esta influyente mujer que la historia ha juzgado de forma tendenciosa. No exenta de ambicion y determinacion, Agripina influyo en el gobierno imperial de forma mucho mas positiva de lo que se suele reconocer, y la fama negativa que ha arrastrado durante siglos parece haber sido casi siempre injusta.a Por ello, esta contribucion de Barrett, detallada y alejada de interpretaciones hechas a la ligera tiene un valor incalculable por encima de cualquier otro texto moderno que se le haya dedicado a esta mujer emblematica.a

A gloriously evocative memoir of one family s journey from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv For fans of Claudia Roden Nigella Lawson and Stanley Tucci

És hora d'aixecar la veu dels soldats que han sobreviscut al combat, però que no han tornat de la guerra. Allà fora us portarà al viatge de l'autor per descobrir, ocultar i, finalment, acceptar el tr

Angels in the Cellar is a year spent on Peter Hahn s small batch organic vineyard in the Loire Valley reflecting on his life the land and the lives of those who work with him

Deepa is the epitome of a woman living in her power Ask Me How It Works provides a stunningly vulnerable and poetic glimpse into her most intimate spaces and through her journey to sexual liberation If this book doesn t change your perspective on relationships nothing will GILLIAN ANDERSON Here is my husband Here is my boyfriend Here I am In the early hours of dawn in Amsterdam Deepa Paul rises from her boyfriend s bed She gets dressed slips away with a kiss and cycles home where she is welcomed into the arms of her husband whose contentment is mellow alongside her own There isn t a glimmer of shame deception or guilt only the honesty and compassion needed to make this kind of life possible even if it wasn t always this easy You might have questions Whose idea was it What are the rules Are you ever jealous In this memoir Deepa offers her answers openly and tenderly as she explores the truth to questions of her own Can I ask for what I want and still honour the life I have chosen Do I deserve it Is it worth it Unexpectedly relatable and joyfully vibrant this is one woman s story of discovering her own desires and how to liberate them of shifting identities from mother to lover and back again and of finding the courage to ask for the mar

A feast for mind and soul a treasure trove of insights into the enigmatic and enchanting world of the birds we share our lives with but barely notice I have learnt so much Every page is a thrill Bird School has opened my eyes Isabella Tree author of Wilding Step into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild Close to Adam Nicolson s home in Sussex there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles It is the haunt of deer and many birds nightingales the occasional cuckoo ravens robins owls and in summer the sweet singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods This gorgeous book charts his attempt to encounter birds to engage with a marvellous layer of life he had previously almost ignored He wanted to look and listen to return to bird school and see what it might teach him He built a small shed amongst the trees with nesting boxes and bird feeders Cocooned inside season after season he got to know the birds where they nest how they sing how they mate and fight what preys on them what they are like as living things Beautifully written and woven through with philosophy literature science and a sense of wonder always conscious that that this is an age in which the natural world

A compelling moving journey through Ukraine amongst the bakers chefs army cooks volunteers farmers small producers and cafe owners who have been fighting to keep people fed and hopeful in the midst of the loss fear and violence of the Russian invasion

A warm reflective and uplifting memoir about healing wounds reclaiming a voice and discovering freedom through the open water The open water To the uninitiated it represents the unknown an expanse of mystery and uncertainty But to those who brave the wild waters it is so much more A space to heal A place of communion A balm to quieten the mind soothe the soul and allow you to reconnect with the world and yourself Emma Simpson discovered wild swimming after a period of immense pain Lost in grief disillusioned with life and feeling increasingly untethered from the world she instinctively felt the pull of the water There she found an unexpected source of hope and strength a profound sense of connection and a glorious sisterhood of women each with their own remarkable stories to tell Interweaving the tales of these inspirational women with reflections on her own experiences Emma explores themes ranging from devastating loss to birth and rebirth and from chronic illness to body confidence Whether describing the taste of an iceberg or a kiss from a baby whale Breaking Waves is a love letter to womanhood and the open water It s also a celebration of community renewal and the power of writing your own life story Above all else it is a joyous cel

A Financial Times Book of the Year Thoroughly researched Sunday Times To be devoured Philip Mansel This book is a treat for fans of well told history Washington PostA new biography of Catherine de Medici the most powerful woman in sixteenth century Europe whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable and remarkably traduced woman History is rarely kind to women of power but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de Medici Italian born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings during that country s long sequence of sectarian wars in the second half of the sixteenth century Thanks to the malign efforts of propagandists motivated by religious hatred history tends to remember Catherine as a schemer who used witchcraft and poison to eradicate her rivals as a spendthrift dilettante who wasted ruinous sums of money on building and embellishment of monuments and palaces and most sinister of all as instigator of the St Bartholomew s Day massacre of 1572 in which thousands of innocent Protestants were slaughtered by Catholic mobs Mary Hollingsworth delves into contemporary archives to discover deeper truths behind these persistent myths The correspo

A necessary book and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it Cal Flyn What if Chernobyl was just the beginning The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty five days of warOn 24 February 2022 the first day of Russia s full scale invasion of Ukraine armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier Russian occupation of the plant had begun It would last thirty five days Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident We meet Valentyn Heiko the foreman who had also been there for the clean up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women s Day despite all odds Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook Gripping and unforgettable Chernobyl Roulette s

Off beat irreverent and subversive a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel Submarine A gripping story of family secrets and chemical warfare and a tale of one writer s search for a reliable past Joe Dunthorne has written a contemporary classic Andrew O HaganJoe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great grandfather Siegfried an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life an unpublished two thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it And as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself it told a very different story from the one he thought he knew Thus begins a mystery which stretches across the twentieth century and around the world from Berlin to Ankara New York Glasgow and eventually London a mystery about the production of something much more sinister than toothpaste On the trail of one jolly grandpa with a patchy psychiatric history and an encyclopaedic knowledg

If only my Cantonese parents weren t so allergic to the word love A bittersweet memoir of love culture and saying the unsayable with food

A Financial Times and Observer best summer read With its union of practicality and magic a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary longed for places are suddenly not so far away Not unreachable but present Held again in the hand and heart In her Edinburgh basement kitchen Caroline Eden recounts travels across Central Asia Turkey the Baltics and beyond using recipes souvenirs ingredients and imagination to provide routes back to distant lands and past adventures From late night baking as a way to Ukraine to the magic of Uzbekistan s wintertime melons once gifts fit for emperors and tsars this is a hauntingly honest memoir with the smell taste and preparation of food at its heart Cold Kitchen is an ode to the kitchen s extraordinary ability to tell human stories and transport us to faraway places and different times

A funny frank and uplifting memoir of what it s like to live with bipolar disorder from model and mental health activist Rosie Viva and how we can all learn to make peace with our minds

Edición definitiva del celebre Diario de Anne Frank. Su texto amplía en una cuarta parte las ediciones anteriores y ofrece una visión completa y fidedigna de la terrible odisea vivida durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial por la familia Frank. Tras la invasion de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judios alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Anne tenia sus oficinas. Ocho personas permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidas y enviadas a campos de concentracion. Desde su escondite y en las mas precarias condiciones, Anne, una niña de trece años, escribio su estremecedor Diario: un testimonio unico en su genero sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Anne y sus acompañantes. Anne murio en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morira.Reseñas:"De entre los muchos que, a lo largo de la historia, han hablado en nombre de la dignidad humana en tiempos de sufrimiento y muerte, no hay ninguna voz que tenga mas peso que la de Anne Frank".John F. Kennedy "Una de las historias mas conmovedoras de la Segunda Guerra Mundial".

A hauntingly beautiful hybrid memoir that uses the journey and cultivation of a single fruit the orange to reckon with the author s own identity and unpack themes of globalisation colonialism an

Amanda Knox reflects on her world famous confinement in an Italian prison and her return to an ordinary life to reveal hard won truths about purpose and fulfilment that will resonate with anyone who has felt trapped in their own circumstances

A wise passionate heartfelt book An invaluable resource for those seeking greater attunement with the year s cycles Katherine May I learnt so much about the alchemy of the living world and the possibilities of relationship I finished the book newly awestruck by planet Earth and all the life that she carries Beautifully written nourishing evocative and inspiring Lucy Jones author of Losing Eden Poppy s fresh eyed look at her own little corner of the county gave me a renewed sense of wonder and delight at the joys and challenges of loving and on good days living off a small patch of land Plus some truly brilliant ideas for getting the most from it Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall This is an intimate look at building a true relationship with a garden and all that live in it Practical poetic political like the best conversations over tea in the garden Alys Fowler A Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with an ever changing garden of setting down roots and becoming embedded in nature and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as individuals but can also help to grow a better world Join Poppy Okotcha in her wild little garden in Devon where over the course of a year she shares the inspiring the mundane and the mag

LA VIDA DE UNA MUJER SIN PRECEDENTES QUE MARCÓ EL DESTINO DEL IMPERIOá Agripina la Menor alcanzó un nivel de poder impensable para una mujer en la Roma del siglo I. Las fuentes antiguas nos cuentan que conspiro contra su hermano & x02014;el emperador Caligula& x02014;, asesino a su marido & x02014;el emperador Claudio& x02014;, y controlo obsesivamente a su hijo & x02014;el emperador Neron& x02014;, incluso acostandose con el. Aunque muchos especialistas modernos tienden a dar por bueno este relato, Anthony Barrett recurre a las recientes pruebas arqueologicas e historicas para pintar un nuevo retrato de esta influyente mujer que la historia ha juzgado de forma tendenciosa. No exenta de ambicion y determinacion, Agripina influyo en el gobierno imperial de forma mucho mas positiva de lo que se suele reconocer, y la fama negativa que ha arrastrado durante siglos parece haber sido casi siempre injusta.a Por ello, esta contribucion de Barrett, detallada y alejada de interpretaciones hechas a la ligera tiene un valor incalculable por encima de cualquier otro texto moderno que se le haya dedicado a esta mujer emblematica.a

A gloriously evocative memoir of one family s journey from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv For fans of Claudia Roden Nigella Lawson and Stanley Tucci

És hora d'aixecar la veu dels soldats que han sobreviscut al combat, però que no han tornat de la guerra. Allà fora us portarà al viatge de l'autor per descobrir, ocultar i, finalment, acceptar el tr

Angels in the Cellar is a year spent on Peter Hahn s small batch organic vineyard in the Loire Valley reflecting on his life the land and the lives of those who work with him

Deepa is the epitome of a woman living in her power Ask Me How It Works provides a stunningly vulnerable and poetic glimpse into her most intimate spaces and through her journey to sexual liberation If this book doesn t change your perspective on relationships nothing will GILLIAN ANDERSON Here is my husband Here is my boyfriend Here I am In the early hours of dawn in Amsterdam Deepa Paul rises from her boyfriend s bed She gets dressed slips away with a kiss and cycles home where she is welcomed into the arms of her husband whose contentment is mellow alongside her own There isn t a glimmer of shame deception or guilt only the honesty and compassion needed to make this kind of life possible even if it wasn t always this easy You might have questions Whose idea was it What are the rules Are you ever jealous In this memoir Deepa offers her answers openly and tenderly as she explores the truth to questions of her own Can I ask for what I want and still honour the life I have chosen Do I deserve it Is it worth it Unexpectedly relatable and joyfully vibrant this is one woman s story of discovering her own desires and how to liberate them of shifting identities from mother to lover and back again and of finding the courage to ask for the mar

A feast for mind and soul a treasure trove of insights into the enigmatic and enchanting world of the birds we share our lives with but barely notice I have learnt so much Every page is a thrill Bird School has opened my eyes Isabella Tree author of Wilding Step into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild Close to Adam Nicolson s home in Sussex there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles It is the haunt of deer and many birds nightingales the occasional cuckoo ravens robins owls and in summer the sweet singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods This gorgeous book charts his attempt to encounter birds to engage with a marvellous layer of life he had previously almost ignored He wanted to look and listen to return to bird school and see what it might teach him He built a small shed amongst the trees with nesting boxes and bird feeders Cocooned inside season after season he got to know the birds where they nest how they sing how they mate and fight what preys on them what they are like as living things Beautifully written and woven through with philosophy literature science and a sense of wonder always conscious that that this is an age in which the natural world

A compelling moving journey through Ukraine amongst the bakers chefs army cooks volunteers farmers small producers and cafe owners who have been fighting to keep people fed and hopeful in the midst of the loss fear and violence of the Russian invasion

A warm reflective and uplifting memoir about healing wounds reclaiming a voice and discovering freedom through the open water The open water To the uninitiated it represents the unknown an expanse of mystery and uncertainty But to those who brave the wild waters it is so much more A space to heal A place of communion A balm to quieten the mind soothe the soul and allow you to reconnect with the world and yourself Emma Simpson discovered wild swimming after a period of immense pain Lost in grief disillusioned with life and feeling increasingly untethered from the world she instinctively felt the pull of the water There she found an unexpected source of hope and strength a profound sense of connection and a glorious sisterhood of women each with their own remarkable stories to tell Interweaving the tales of these inspirational women with reflections on her own experiences Emma explores themes ranging from devastating loss to birth and rebirth and from chronic illness to body confidence Whether describing the taste of an iceberg or a kiss from a baby whale Breaking Waves is a love letter to womanhood and the open water It s also a celebration of community renewal and the power of writing your own life story Above all else it is a joyous cel

A Financial Times Book of the Year Thoroughly researched Sunday Times To be devoured Philip Mansel This book is a treat for fans of well told history Washington PostA new biography of Catherine de Medici the most powerful woman in sixteenth century Europe whose author uses neglected primary sources to recreate the life and times of a remarkable and remarkably traduced woman History is rarely kind to women of power but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de Medici Italian born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings during that country s long sequence of sectarian wars in the second half of the sixteenth century Thanks to the malign efforts of propagandists motivated by religious hatred history tends to remember Catherine as a schemer who used witchcraft and poison to eradicate her rivals as a spendthrift dilettante who wasted ruinous sums of money on building and embellishment of monuments and palaces and most sinister of all as instigator of the St Bartholomew s Day massacre of 1572 in which thousands of innocent Protestants were slaughtered by Catholic mobs Mary Hollingsworth delves into contemporary archives to discover deeper truths behind these persistent myths The correspo

A necessary book and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it Cal Flyn What if Chernobyl was just the beginning The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty five days of warOn 24 February 2022 the first day of Russia s full scale invasion of Ukraine armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier Russian occupation of the plant had begun It would last thirty five days Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident We meet Valentyn Heiko the foreman who had also been there for the clean up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women s Day despite all odds Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook Gripping and unforgettable Chernobyl Roulette s

Off beat irreverent and subversive a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel Submarine A gripping story of family secrets and chemical warfare and a tale of one writer s search for a reliable past Joe Dunthorne has written a contemporary classic Andrew O HaganJoe Dunthorne had always wanted to write about his great grandfather Siegfried an eccentric scientist who invented radioactive toothpaste and a Jewish refugee from the Nazis who returned to Germany under cover of the Berlin Olympics to pull off a heist on his own home The only problem was that Siegfried had already written the book of his life an unpublished two thousand page memoir so dry and rambling that none of his living descendants had managed to read it And as it turned out when Joe finally read the manuscript himself it told a very different story from the one he thought he knew Thus begins a mystery which stretches across the twentieth century and around the world from Berlin to Ankara New York Glasgow and eventually London a mystery about the production of something much more sinister than toothpaste On the trail of one jolly grandpa with a patchy psychiatric history and an encyclopaedic knowledg

If only my Cantonese parents weren t so allergic to the word love A bittersweet memoir of love culture and saying the unsayable with food

A Financial Times and Observer best summer read With its union of practicality and magic a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary longed for places are suddenly not so far away Not unreachable but present Held again in the hand and heart In her Edinburgh basement kitchen Caroline Eden recounts travels across Central Asia Turkey the Baltics and beyond using recipes souvenirs ingredients and imagination to provide routes back to distant lands and past adventures From late night baking as a way to Ukraine to the magic of Uzbekistan s wintertime melons once gifts fit for emperors and tsars this is a hauntingly honest memoir with the smell taste and preparation of food at its heart Cold Kitchen is an ode to the kitchen s extraordinary ability to tell human stories and transport us to faraway places and different times

A funny frank and uplifting memoir of what it s like to live with bipolar disorder from model and mental health activist Rosie Viva and how we can all learn to make peace with our minds

Edición definitiva del celebre Diario de Anne Frank. Su texto amplía en una cuarta parte las ediciones anteriores y ofrece una visión completa y fidedigna de la terrible odisea vivida durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial por la familia Frank. Tras la invasion de Holanda, los Frank, comerciantes judios alemanes emigrados a Amsterdam en 1933, se ocultaron de la Gestapo en una buhardilla anexa al edificio donde el padre de Anne tenia sus oficinas. Ocho personas permanecieron recluidas desde junio de 1942 hasta agosto de 1944, fecha en que fueron detenidas y enviadas a campos de concentracion. Desde su escondite y en las mas precarias condiciones, Anne, una niña de trece años, escribio su estremecedor Diario: un testimonio unico en su genero sobre el horror y la barbarie nazi, y sobre los sentimientos y experiencias de la propia Anne y sus acompañantes. Anne murio en el campo de Bergen-Belsen en marzo de 1945. Su Diario nunca morira.Reseñas:"De entre los muchos que, a lo largo de la historia, han hablado en nombre de la dignidad humana en tiempos de sufrimiento y muerte, no hay ninguna voz que tenga mas peso que la de Anne Frank".John F. Kennedy "Una de las historias mas conmovedoras de la Segunda Guerra Mundial".

A hauntingly beautiful hybrid memoir that uses the journey and cultivation of a single fruit the orange to reckon with the author s own identity and unpack themes of globalisation colonialism an

Amanda Knox reflects on her world famous confinement in an Italian prison and her return to an ordinary life to reveal hard won truths about purpose and fulfilment that will resonate with anyone who has felt trapped in their own circumstances