The Collins Gem Wine Guide is an easy-to-use, completely accessible introduction to the world of wine. This beautifully illustrated little book features: * The Wine Directory, a lively, down-to-earth survey of all the major wine-producing regions of both the Old and New Worlds that includes details of best vintages and tasting notes for specific labels from each area * Clear explanantions about wine production, grape varieties and quality-control systems * No-nonsense help and advice on buying and keeping wines, reading the labels and matching wines and food successfully This is the perfect guide for the novice wine-buff

Wine Guide (Collins GEM)

Reference

Andrea Gillies

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Collins

This A-Z guide features over 1000 beers throughout the world. Organized alphabetically by country, it offers comprehensive brand listings and assessments. As well as informing on what's available, it includes "tasting notes" - what each beer tastes like (and why). A 3-star rating system gives further indication of each beer's quality. The guide also offers details on draught beers, world classics and food with beers. A high street guide discusses rare and exclusive beers appearing in the big supermarkets and wine merchants.

Gillies Guide to World Beers

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

A stunning debut novel from the winner of the Orwell Prize 2010 and the inaugural Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2009 On a hot summer's afternoon, Ursula Salter runs sobbing from the loch on her parents' Scottish estate and confesses, distraught, that she has killed Michael, her 19 year old nephew. But what really happened? No body can be found, and Ursula's story is full of contradictions. In order to protect her, the Salters come up with another version of events, a decision that some of them will come to regret. Years later, at a family gathering, a witness speaks up and the web of deceit begins to unravel. What is the white lie? Only one person knows the whole truth. Narrating from beyond the grave, Michael takes us to key moments in the past, looping back and back until - finally - we see what he sees.

The White Lie

Literature & Fiction

Short Books

On a hot summer s afternoon, Ursula Salter runs sobbing from the loch on her parents Scottish estate and confesses, distraught, that she has killed Michael, her 19-year old-nephew. But what really happened? No body can be found, and Ursula s story is full of contradictions. In order to protect her, the Salters come up with another version of events, a decision that some of them will come to regret. Years later, at a family gathering, a witness speaks up and the web of deceit begins to unravel. What is the white lie? Only one person knows the whole truth. Narrating from beyond the grave, Michael takes us to key moments in the past, looping back and back until - finally - we see what he sees.

Literary

Enlightenment Of Nina Findlay

Short Books Limited

Five years ago, Andrea Gillies-- writer, wife, and mother of three--seeing that her husband's parents were struggling to cope, invited them to move in. She and her newly extended family relocated to a big Victorian house on a remote, windswept peninsula in the far north of Scotland, leaving behind their friends and all that was familiar; hoping to find a new life, and new inspiration for work. Her mother-in-law Nancy was in the middle stages of Alzheimer's Disease, and "Keeper" charts her journey into dementia, its impact on her personality and her family, and the author's researches into what dementia is. As the grip of her disease tightens, Nancy's grasp on everything we think of as ordinary unravels before our eyes. Diary entries and accounts of conversations with Nancy track the slow unravelling. The journey is marked by frustration, isolation, exhaustion, and unexpected black comedy. For the author, who knew little about dementia at the outset, the learning curve was steeper than she could have imagined. The most pernicious quality of Alzheimer's, Gillies suggests, is that the loss of memory is, in effect, the loss of one's "self, " and Alzheimer's, because it robs us of our intrinsic self-knowledge, our ability to connect with others, and our capacity for self-expression, is perhaps the most terrible and most dehumanizing illness. Moreover, as Gillies reminds us, the effects of Alzheimer's are far-reaching, impacting the lives of caregivers and their loved ones in every way imaginable. " Keeper" is a fiercely honest "glimpse into the dementia abyss"--an endlessly engrossing meditation on memory and the mind, on family, and on a society that is largely indifferent to the far-reaching ravages of this baffling disease. 
"From the Hardcover edition."

Keeper

Medical Books

Medicine

Can our personalities be taken away from us? Are memory and identity mutually dependent? What exactly is the soul? Three years ago, Andrea Gillies, a writer and mother of three, took on the care of her mother-in-law Nancy, who was in the middle stages of Alzheimer's disease. This newly extended family moved to a big Victorian house on a headland in the far, far north of Scotland, where the author failed to write a novel and Nancy, her disease accelerated by change, began to move out of the rational world and into dementia's alternative reality. This book is a journal of life in this wild location, in which Gillies tracks Nancy's unravelling grasp on everything that we think of as ordinary, and interleaves her own brilliantly cogent investigations into the way Alzheimer's works. For the family at the centre of this drama, the learning curve was steeper and more interesting than anyone could have imagined.

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

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Books by Andrea Gillies

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Wine Guide (Collins GEM)

Gillies Guide to World Beers

The White Lie

The White Lie

Enlightenment Of Nina Findlay

Keeper

Keeper