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Travel along with actor and podcaster Tim Downie as he explores the strange and beautiful places that have shaped British folklore. Tim brings to life the mystical stories that shape the character of our isles. Push through the bramble and briar to embark on a journey through the seasons, encountering wonders from clowns to coffins, horn dances to blazing tar barrels, punkies to soulcakers. Filled with detailed insights into hidden mythic sites and stories from the incredible people that keep our folklore fires burning year after year, this book is an invitation to step outside and reconnect with the ebb and flow of the natural world. Rituals reveals how British folklore’s rich tapestry breathes life and power into every season.
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£30.00
Jasper Rees has interviewed Sir Michael Gambon more than any other journalist alive. In this deeply personal, moving, and funny biography, Rees has been granted exclusive access to Gambon’s personal archive and effects. Rees has interviewed over one hundred actors, playwrights and directors who, over a career that spanned more than half a century, witnessed some of Gambon’s most magnificent performances. With touching accounts from Penelope Wilton, Alan Ayckbourn, Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins, David Hare, Judi Dench, Christopher Hampton, Simon Russell Beale, Richard Eyre, Patricia Hodge, Simon Callow, Stephen Poliakoff and his closest friend in theatre, Oliver Cotton, this biography spans Gambon’s epoch-defining roles on stage, television and screen. Both heartwarming and surprising, this is a book that enriches our understanding of an acting legend.
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Rick Stein has been cooking for the last 60 years. Now, for the first time, he shares his complete cookery course. With 150 classic recipes and photographed step-by-step techniques, here Rick goes right back to basics and brings together a lifetime of cooking expertise into one essential volume. In this book Rick looks back on the essential recipes and techniques he returns to again and again. With chapters focusing on main ingredients – eggs & dairy, vegetables, fish & shellfish, meat & poultry, pulses & grains – this is his most extensive book yet. It features recipes big and small, each one accompanied by insightful tips and personal anecdotes from one of Britain’s best-loved chefs.
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£9.99
Within the depths of the Underworld the formidable snake-haired Gorgon has finally had enough. Tired of being eternally and unjustly brandished a villain, Medusa has found the courage to face her tragic past and speak out. Determined to expose the centuries of lies surrounding her name, Medusa gives unparalleled insight into her cursed life, from her earliest memories and abandonment at birth, right through to her tragic and untimely death at the hands of the hero Perseus. Through telling her story, Medusa finally reveals the lost truth behind antiquity’s most infamous monster. Medusa breathes new life into an ancient story and echoes the battle that women throughout millennia have continued to wage – the opportunity to simply be heard.
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£11.99
In an uncertain world, we need hope and happiness more than ever. So what are the words that can help us find it? Let Michael Rosen take you on a quest for joy in this book, where each letter of the alphabet offers us a moment of daily enchantment, celebrating the magic of the small things that bring hope and happiness into our lives.
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£30.00
Most of life on Earth is plant. And yet the half a million species of plant alive today are a minuscule fraction of those that have ever existed. The true story of the plant kingdom’s almost inconceivable variety and ingenuity is to be found in the past. From the arrival of the first plants on land 484 million years ago to the globe-spanning diversity of flora we know today, ‘Green Kingdom’ traces the evolution of plant life across eons and continents, reanimating the lost worlds that shaped its course and dramatically expanding our vision of what it means to be a plant. Through the stories of sixteen plant families, from the humble bog moss to the exquisite adaptations of the orchid, we witness how plant life colonised land, pioneered leaves, recruited fungi, invented wood, sunk roots, formed seeds, manipulated animals and ultimately came to dominate our planet.
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£14.99
Uncover the animal kingdom’s secrets of disguise in this delightful, interactive book. Author and illustrator Amandine Delaunay invites curious kids into a playful world of animal disguises. With the aid of translucent overlays, readers can lift, layer and experiment with clever camouflage techniques found across the animal kingdom. Discover how manta rays, killer whales and whale sharks glide unseen through the sea; stalk through the jungle with a tiger, whose stripes blend in with its forest home; watch zebra herds ‘disappear’ into their backgrounds; meet the ermine, brown in summer and white in winter.
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From piano-playing child prodigy, through to classically trained keyboardist and onto his rise with Yes and as a solo artist, Rick Wakeman’s life so far has been one of very dramatic spirals, spectacular comebacks and legendary rock ‘n’ roll excess. While Rick takes his music and creativity very seriously, he views his life as material for a sitcom. This memoir is the story of a musical genius with a taste for adventure, a delightful sense of the absurd and a winning gift for comedy. It’s the book Rick has always wanted to write and the sole unsurprising thing about it is that it’s a hell of a read.
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A vastly diverse and geographically scattered nation of forty million people, Canada is now threatened with annexation as the 51st state by the US President, beyond the longest undefended border in the world. This threat has had the effect of unifying the nation, inspiring patriotism, and encouraging the normally laconic Canadians to be forthcoming, ideal for a traveller with a gift for listening. For Theroux, this journey is also personal: his ancestor Antoine Theroux left Gascony in 1693 to become a pioneer in Nouvelle France and to settle in the small village of Yamaska, where many Theroux’s still live and thrive. He recounts the riveting story of Antoine, illuminating the deeper, and often darker, history of Canada, before hitting the road from Yamaska, to explore the length and breadth of the country.
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£16.95
The ultimate guide to the Chinese Zodiac, featuring fun facts, frame-worthy illustrations, and a choose your own adventure-style quiz to find your perfect zodiac match!
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£29.95
Discover 100 delicious, globally-inspired recipes for perfect roasting and rotisserie cooking at home, from the kitchens of Larousse
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£10.99
Book lovers can answer questions by themselves or host a quiz among friends with twenty-four quizzes to keep you guessing with a variety of question styles including: ‘Blankety Books’, where you must fill in the missing word in each title; Anagrams to decipher; ‘Two of a Kind’, where you must identify a character and author who share the same initials; Guess the book with ‘Say What You See’ pictures and badly drawn covers; ‘Book Bingo’. The quizzes are carefully weighted so avid bookworms will get a workout, while more casual readers can still have lots of fun having a go. All questions are designed to aid guessing, with multiple-choice answers and hints, and make the reader smile with amusing wrong answers, clever red herrings, little-known facts and footnotes.
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£14.99
This title will tell the whole story by covering a dozen Christmas number ones, stretching from ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ in 1950 – a song that feels like it’s been around forever – to Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’, which finally made it to number one in 2023, thirty-nine years after it was first released. Each chapter will talk about the background behind each song, the songwriter and the performer. Not all of them will be Christmas songs – the Beatles dominated the Christmas number one slot in the sixties, and the Spice Girls likewise in the late nineties, but none of them were Christmas songs.
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£12.99
Having gone north to college, Sassafrass, a weaver, is now living with other artists in Los Angeles. Cypress, a dancer, is leaving home to find new ways of moving in the world. Meanwhile Indigo, a musician and healer, is still a child of Charleston – ‘too much of the south in her’ – with a supreme gift of seeing the magic of the world. ‘Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo’ is a lyrical, magical exploration of Black womanhood, love and creativity. Following three sisters, the novel blends prose, recipes, letters, spells and dreams into a vibrant tapestry.
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£16.99
For thousands of years, civilisations around the world have turned to the stars for guidance, marking the passage of time, navigating vast distances and weaving myths that have been passed down through generations. This book explores these stories from each corner of the world. From the Polynesians who voyaged across open oceans using only the stars to light their way, to ancient farmers who timed their harvests by celestial rhythms, and storytellers who filled the heavens with legends. Each tale is beautifully retold by Laura Knowles, author of the award-winning ‘It Starts With a Seed’, whose lyrical approach to non-fiction expertly brings the stories and artwork to life.
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