![]() ![]() There is no doubt that Sophie Kinsella is still high-heels above many other chick-lit writers and Mini Shopaholic is still quality stuff, but.įirstly, the humour isn't quite there. ![]() I have read all the other Shopaholics but this one really misses the mark. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Besides producing illustrations and designs for stained glass, either of which would have been a full-time occupation, until illness prevented him – and he was dogged by ill-health throughout his tragically short life – he ran the stained glass workshop established by his father as part of his church decorating business. ![]() Clarke is probably best known now for his stained glass but, as his friend Lennox Robinson wrote following his death: “Ireland has lost her greatest designer in stained glass, and her greatest black-and-white artist.” Clarke’s book illustrations had proved enormously successful. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Geometry of Holding Hands: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (13) (Isabel Dalhousie Series #13) (Paperback): The Quiet Side of Passion: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (12) (Isabel Dalhousie Series #12) (Paperback): The Novel Habits of Happiness (Isabel Dalhousie Series #10) (Paperback):Ī Distant View of Everything: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel (11) (Isabel Dalhousie Series #11) (Hardcover): The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds (Isabel Dalhousie Series #9) (Paperback): The Forgotten Affairs of Youth (Isabel Dalhousie Series #8) (Paperback): The Charming Quirks of Others (Isabel Dalhousie Series #7) (Hardcover): The Lost Art of Gratitude (Isabel Dalhousie Series #6) (Paperback): ![]() The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday (Isabel Dalhousie Series #5) (Paperback): The Careful Use of Compliments (Isabel Dalhousie Series #4) (Paperback): The Right Attitude to Rain (Isabel Dalhousie Series #3) (Paperback): This is book number 1 in the Isabel Dalhousie Series series.įriends, Lovers, Chocolate (Isabel Dalhousie Series #2) (Paperback): ![]() ![]() ![]() Audrey is sent to an English boarding school, where she becomes passionate about ballet. 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Covering the years 1935 to the 1960s, it stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, who also produced the film. The Audrey Hepburn Story is a 2000 American biographical drama television film based on the life of actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn. ![]() ![]() ![]() My next book for Random House will examine NASA’s long-running Voyager mission-its engineering, scientific observations, and legacy. A story about the process of scientific discovery, the book aims to tell how the work in Greenland, aided by an evolving array of technological tools, has led us to a profound understanding of our current climate crisis. The Ice at the End of the World, (Random House, 2019) details 150 years of exploration and investigation on the Greenland ice sheet, beginning in the 1880s. My first book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (Penguin Press, 2012) chronicles a generation of scientists working at the 20th Century’s greatest laboratory and explores the importance of technological innovation. To put it slightly differently: In my longer projects, I’m trying to pay close attention to certain aspects of our past so we can better understand the present, and perhaps the future. ![]() My books, however, focus on historical episodes that have had a significant but underappreciated influence. My magazine and newspaper stories mainly address contemporary issues in science, technology, and business. My journalism and book reviews have also appeared in Wired, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. In addition to writing books, I’m a longtime contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I fight, I struggle, I strain to twiddle a toe or flex a nostril, and it does no good. Whenever he sleeps on his back Kean will awake in the morning and be unable to move any part of his body. ![]() More than once you will find yourself sitting with your mouth agape in complete wonder of the brain, an effect that begins with Kean’s own peculiar malady, something called sleep paralysis. In his entrancing new book, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, science writer Sam Kean burrows into the workings of an organ once deemed as unknowable as the far reaches of the galaxy, and does so with boyish charm, accessible language, a prodigious amount of enthusiasm and the sobering realization that throughout history a catastrophic brain injury has ghoulishly been the neuroscientists best friend.Īs he did in his previous books on DNA and the Periodic Table, Kean mixes incredible historical tales and case histories with the heavier slogging that wouldn’t be out of place in a classroom setting. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each of her books published since 1993 have been on The New York Times Best Seller list. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments. Her most famous works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. ![]() Kingsolver earned degrees in Biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in Africa in her early childhood. Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks to the publisher for the review copy. I laughed, cried, and felt so much all the way through. This retelling of Joan of Arc is how I’d like to think she actually was: a flesh and blood woman, courageous, driven by a multitude of motivations. It’s also written beautifully, told from Joan’s perspective, yet all encompassing. I felt immersed into both the period and the location, and subsequently, became highly invested in the story. Not just on Joan herself, but also on the political, religious, and social history of the era. There is so much research that has gone into this novel that is evident throughout the story. Anyone who goes as far as writing a whole novel in order to throw their log into the bonfire of Joan's memory is, in my book (no pun intended), a hero. Chen (ISBN 978 1 39970 711 7) just hit the shelves in July 2022. You walk with a spring in your step toward a destination yet unknown.’ Fresh off the press, Joan by Katherine J. Your heart may be breaking, but you don’t let it show, not on your face or in your eyes. ![]() Particularly when it is someone as legendary as Joan of Arc, I was nothing but filled with anticipation for this novel and it more than lived up to my own personal expectations. ![]() I know that some people are hesitant when it comes to fictional retellings of the lives and doings of real people, but I’m not one of them. I do really love a good feminist retelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Guess what she found? Many colorful Smarties! 12. Paying no heed to the final message, “ Do not open this coffin,” she slowly opened the lid. Every step of the way, she saw messages in slime “ Do not enter” and “ Do not go one step further.” But that did not stop her until she reached a dark room with a coffin. She saw a message in green slime on the wall “ Do not go to the magic castle at midnight.” The curious woman decided to go that very night. While she was strolling around, she found a castle in the woods. Once upon a time, there lived a curious woman who strayed off her path while taking her dog for a walk. When the husband turns around, he finds the fifty-pence coin lying on a burnt table! 11. They return to see for themselves and are shocked to find the dilapidated shell of a house. The next morning, a restaurant owner in the next town tells them that the house they are talking about was destroyed in a fire, and Mr. The travelers leave a fifty-pence coin in return for the hospitality. They find an old house where an old couple welcomes them, feeds them, and gives them a bed to sleep in. ![]() A couple traveling home from a faraway place looks for shelter to spend the night. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's personal, historical, political, and it speaks to where we are now. ![]() LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE AND THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2019 Just one of our core collections of books on Trade, Empire & Migration here at the National Maritime Museum. Natives by Akala is a book about racism in the UK that has been on my virtual tbr for a while now, so when Caitlyn from Mad Cheshire Rabbit gifted me a copy last Christmas I was excited to delve in. ![]() In this unique book, he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.Ĭovering everything from the police, education and identity to politics, sexual objectification and the far right, Natives will speak directly to British denial and squeamishness when it comes to confronting issues of race and class that are at the heart of the legacy of Britain's racialised empire. ![]() Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire, is a searing modern polemic and Sunday Times bestseller from the BAFTA and MOBO award-winning musician and political commentator, Akala.įrom the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. ![]() |