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Celebrating the dishes you find on pub menus across Britain and exciting fresh takes on quintessential British flavours, these are 100 super comforting, delicious recipes that you can make at home. Based off his hugely popular online recipe series ‘Pub Grub’, George grew up above his parents’ chippy, and has been in love with British food ever since. Full of nostalgia, and guaranteed to fill you up, these are the ultimate dishes for your next cosy night in (glass of wine or pint optional). With ‘money-saving’ and ‘time-saving’ options, this is also a versatile cookbook that allows you to create your favourites based on your life and schedule.
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£12.99
Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered and nomadic childhood, sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful. From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become ‘Cat’s Eye’ to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.
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As a cognitive scientist, the ultimate subject of Steven Pinker’s fascination is how we think about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum. It sounds impossible, but Steven Pinker shows that we do it all the time. This awareness, which we experience as something that is public or ‘out there’, is called common knowledge, and it has a momentous impact on our social, political, and economic lives.Common knowledge, Pinker shows, can make sense of many of life’s enigmas: financial bubbles and crashes, revolutions that come out of nowhere, the posturing and pretence of diplomacy, the eruption of social media shaming mobs and academic cancel culture, the awkwardness of a first date. But people also go to great lengths to avoid common knowledge-to ensure that even if everyone knows something, they can’t know that everyone else knows they know it.
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£30.00
When people in ancient China spoke of the ‘five tastes’, they were talking not only literally about the five tastes recognized in Chinese gastronomy – sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty – but also metaphorically about all the ingredients and flavours at a cook’s disposal. They were part of the dynamic process of the cosmos, like the five elements and the constant flux of yin and yang. A chef was a kind of magician, someone able to harness the virtues of the five tastes and combine them harmoniously in a dish. You don’t need to be a Chinese cook to find inspiration in the Chinese arts of flavour. With a few core seasonings, flavour combinations and techniques, you can conjure up delicious dishes from whatever ingredients you have to hand, whether seasonal treats from a farmers’ market, specialist produce or basic vegetables from a supermarket.
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£27.00
Travel across Italy and discover the pasta dishes that shape each region in this beautiful cookbook. For Italians, pasta isn’t just a dish – it’s part of their identity. Every shape, filling, and sauce tells a story which reflects the landscape and history of the places they come from. Whether it’s the saffron-stained strands of Sardinia’s malloreddus or the hand-cut ribbons of Emilia-Romagna’s tagliatelle, each of Italy’s 20 regions each have their own pasta traditions which continue to be celebrated and protected. A Pasta Tour is a journey through these dishes and traditions, exploring how geography and culture have shaped the pasta dishes that come from each of Italy’s regions. Discover the origins of iconic pasta shapes, such as orecchiette, pici and ravioli, and the sauces they are traditionally served with, such as pesto alla Genovese, ragu alla Bolognese or carbonara. Written by Pia Gava, cook, author and former MasterChef
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Did you know that Dachshunds were once fierce hunters of wild boar? Why the Havanese holds the title of Cuba’s national dog? Or why the Papillon is named after the French word for ‘butterfly’? In ‘The Invention of the Dog’, Tamsin Pickeral uncovers these surprising stories and more, exploring how humans have shaped over 70 breeds to hunt, guard, herd, retrieve and, of course, to be loyal companions.
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The maps they love, the maps they use, the maps that set them dreaming: this is a spellbinding compendium of writers’ thoughts on the wild landscapes of their imagination. Maps have the power to transport us, filled as they are with wonder and possibility. Here a team of internationally acclaimed writers and illustrators share their personal insights, encompassing not only the maps that appear in their books, but also the maps that have inspired them and the sketches they create in writing. Philip Pullman recounts a map he drew for an early novel; Robert Macfarlane reflects on his cartophilia, set off by Treasure Island; Joanne Harris tells of her fascination with Norse maps of the universe; Daniel Reeve describes working on The Hobbit films; Miraphora Mina recalls creating ‘The Marauder’s Map’ for Harry Potter. And there’s much more besides. Amidst a cornucopia of beautiful images, including unpublished sketches by authors, there ar
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Discover the wonders of the natural world with The Ancient Ways, a seasonal guide from Seren Hawley-Plows, using myths, folklore and old rituals to help you reconnect with nature.
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‘Come for a walk with me, if you would, along the streets of Jerusalem. My family has walked these streets for more than a thousand years.’ With this invitation, this book offers a powerful introduction to Palestinian history through a century of conflict and resistance. Blending incisive research with his own family memories, celebrated scholar Rashid Khalidi traces Palestine’s story from the British occupation to Israel’s ongoing colonial war. Powerfully explaining the history behind the world’s most urgent – and misunderstood – conflict, Khalidi explores why Israel has long fought against Palestine.
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Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds – bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and disruptive, some didn’t believe he was deaf at all. ‘The Quiet Ear’ tells the story of Raymond’s upbringing at the intersection of race and disability. Growing up in East London to an English mother and Jamaican father, educated in both mainstream and deaf schooling systems, Raymond explores the shame of miscommunication, the joy of finding community and shines a light on the decline of deaf education in Britain. Throughout, Raymond sets his story alongside those of other D/deaf cultural figures – from painters to silent film stars, poets to performers – the inspiring models of D/deaf creativity he did not have growing up.
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An essential guide to English wine from Sam Caporn, Master of Wine, from how to taste it to where to enjoy it across the country: perfect for newbies and experts alike.
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In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the ‘squalid overboogie’ of it all, Eve Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like ‘Eve’s Hollywood,’ ‘Slow Days, Fast Company’ and ‘Sex and Rage.’ But Babitz considered her letters ‘the kind of writing I do best,’ calling them ‘practically a diary,’ and rarely depositing them into a mailbox. Her missives to friends like Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha and Steve Martin – fresh and frank, dashing and droll – are irresistible, as highly spirited as they are acutely perceptive. In ‘Too L.A.,’ Babitz’s biographer, Lili Anolik, has performed a remarkable feat, not only raising these letters from the tomb but accompanying them with informative and irreverent commentary, guiding the reader through the uproarious lifelong party that was Eve Babitz’s real masterpiece.
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£30.00
An extraordinary chronicle of the Nazi destruction of Jewish Vienna, from the bestselling author of Former People.
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A gripping story of Himalayan climbing between the wars, one of the richest and most dramatic periods of mountaineering history.
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A fascinating journey through the landscapes and communities of the Domesday Book from the author of King in the North
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This is an illustrated gift book with rhyming text and pages to personalise. It is the perfect gift for new parents, enabling mums, dads and caregivers to bond with their new child and encourage early communication skills to develop. Each page features bespoke parent and child animal illustrations, paired with a rhyming poem to read aloud while you rock your baby in your arms.
Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2027 
