Tart
£16.99The hilarious, gutsy account of misadventures in the kitchen and in the bedroom by anonymous chef Slutty Cheff.
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Ghost Nation
£22.00One of the most highly respected and longstanding foreign correspondents in Taiwan explores the people, politics and history of the unique nation caught in a power struggle between the USA and China.
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Rogue Agent
£10.99Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart (1887-1970) was an impressive figure: a diplomat, intelligence agent, conspirator, journalist and propagandist who played a key role in both world wars. He was a man who charmed his way into the confidences of everyone from Leon Trotsky to Anthony Eden. A man whom the influential press baron Lord Beaverbook claimed ‘could well have been prime minister’. And yet Lockhart died almost forgotten and near destitute, a Scottish footnote in the pages of history. ‘Rogue Agent’ is a biography of this gifted yet habitually flawed maverick. It chronicles his many exploits, from his time as Britain’s ‘Agent’ in Moscow, and his role in a plot to bring down the communist regime, to leading the Political Warfare Executive, a secret body responsible for disinformation and propaganda in the Second World War.
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What I Ate in One Year
£10.99Sharing food is one of the purest human acts. Food has always been an integral part of Stanley Tucci’s life: from stracciatella soup served in the shadow of the Pantheon, to marinara sauce cooked between scene rehearsals and costume fittings, to home-made pizza eaten with his children before bedtime. Now, in ‘What I Ate In One Year’, Tucci records 12 months of eating, in restaurants, kitchens, film sets, press junkets, at home and abroad, with friends, with family, with strangers, and occasionally just by himself. Ranging from the mouth-wateringly memorable, to the comfortingly domestic, to the infuriatingly inedible, the meals memorialised in this diary are a prism for him to reflect on the ways his life, and his family, are constantly evolving. Through food he marks – and mourns – the passing of time, the loss of loved ones, and steels himself for what is to come.
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Empire of the Elite
£22.00For decades, Condé Nast and its glittering magazines defined how to live the good life in America. The brilliant, complicated, striving characters behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, and many other titles manufactured a vision of luxury and sophistication that shaped consumer habits, cultural trends, intellectual attitudes, and political beliefs the world over. Condé’s billionaire owner Si Newhouse and his stable of star editors, photographers, and writers were the gatekeepers who decided what and who mattered, and they offered those opinions to tens of millions of readers every month. They were the ultimate influencers – before social media changed everything.
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Budapest & Hungary
£15.99Lonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan a multi-week adventure to Budapest & Hungary. Raise a glass at a wine festival, explore Orség National Park, climb the Cat’s Stairs, with our classic travel guide that’s packed with comprehensive itineraries, maps and essential tips so you can create the trip of a lifetime.
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Prague & Czechia
£16.99Lonely Planet’s local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan a multi-week adventure to Prague & Czechia. Stroll across Charles Bridge, peek inside the Sedlec Ossuary, admire Old Town Square, with our classic travel guide that’s packed with comprehensive itineraries, maps and essential tips so you can create the trip of a lifetime.
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Blooming of a Lotus, The
£16.99A revised and expanded edition of Thich Nhat Hanh’s classic introduction to guided meditation for a world in search of mindfulness
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Flint Country
£14.99Taking us from the shingle beaches of Suffolk and Norfolk to the Hebrides and beyond, this volume is a true gem that will delight tourists and locals alike. It blends geology, architecture, art and archaeology to tell a fascinating natural and cultural history of flint.
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An Opinionated Guide to Active London
£10.95Everywhere you look in London, yoga mats peek out from bags, early-morning runners set off across parks and dusty rucksacks are laden with climbing rope. London is full of activity, but it can all feel a bit impenetrable. This guide will be your gateway to the very best of London’s dizzying array of ways to get moving, whether you’re flying solo or bringing a pal along for a ride. Showing you the city’s most accessible classes and pursuits, find the best places to try everything from padel to Pilates, tango to tai chi.
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Vertigo
£10.99Germany, 1918: a country in flux. The First World War is lost, traditional values are shaken to their core, revolution is afoot and the victory of democracy beckons. Everything must change with the times. The country is abuzz with talk of the ‘new woman’, the ‘new man’, ‘new living’ and ‘new thinking’. What follows is the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an economic crisis and the transformation of Germany. A triumphant procession of liberated lifestyles emerges. Women conquer the racetracks and tennis courts, go out alone in the evenings, cut their hair short and cast the idea of marriage aside. Unisex style comes into fashion, androgynous and experimental. People revel in the discovery of leisure, filling up boxing halls, dance palaces and the hotspots of the New Age, embracing the department stores’ promise of happiness and accepting the streets as a place of fierce battles.
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