Anthony Powell: a life

Literature & Fiction

BARBER, Michael

History & Criticism

Duckworth Overlook

The Week-End Problems Book

Phillips, Hubert (ed.)

An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violin

Kriwaczek, Rohan

David West is a highly distinguished classicist and literary critic. Here, he explores the sonnets of Shakespeare. The application of the techniques of classical scholarship to the sonnets results in the one of the most impressive and delightful contributions to Shakespeare studies in recent years. At a time when our familiarity with Shakespeare's language is in decline, West restores the full force of the poems' meaning to non-specialist readers with an immediacy and power that will surprise and delight. The context of each poem, its relationship with its neighbours, its argument, as well as the details of its language and musical effects, are all explained in clear terms by a master of close reading. This is literary criticism at its best - a sensitive and subtle reading of a great poet at the height of his powers. Lovers of Shakespeare and lovers of great poetry will find here the best possible guide to what is perhaps the greatest wonder in the English language - the high summit of Shakespeare's himalayan career.

Shakespeare's Sonnets

West, David

A fiasco that resulted in Churchills dismissal and a change of government, the Allied defeat at Gallipoli probably extended the length of the First World War, and this book traces the cause of the failure to mistakes made in the preceding Dardanelles naval campaign. The book describes the events as they unfolded, reviews the political and military decisions that influenced those events, and explores the historical, strategic importance of the Dardanelles strait.

Dardanelles Disaster

VAN DER VAT, DAN

Effie Gray was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Caught in a loveless marriage to the art critic John Ruskin, she fell in love with his protégé, the painter John Everett Millais, inspiring many of his most celebrated paintings. Drawing on exclusive access to unpublished letters and diaries, this absorbing biography brings to life this intelligent and resourceful woman, reveals her key role in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and offers a new explanation of the Ruskins unconsummated marriage.

The Model Wife: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais

Suzanne Fagence Cooper

The dark past of the most commonplace of commodities revealedMuch like oil today, sugar was once the most powerful commodity on earth. It shaped world affairs, influencing the economic policies of nations, driving international trade and wreaking environmental havoc. The Western world's addiction to sugar came at a terrible human cost: the near extinction of the New World indigenous peoples gave rise to a new form of slavery, as millions of captured Africans were crammed into ships to make the dangerous voyage to Caribbean cane plantations.What began as the extraordinarily expensive luxury of nobles and the very wealthy has become a staple in the modern world. Indeed, it played its own role in creating that world, fuelling the workers of the Industrial Revolution, and giving rise to the craze for fast food. Sugar: A Bittersweet History' tells the extraordinary, dramatic and thought-provoking story of this most commonplace of products from its very origins to the present day. Elizabeth Abbott examines how and in what quantities we still consume sugar; its role in the crisis of obesity and diabetes; how its cultivation continues to affect the environment; and how coerced labour continues in so many sugar-producing nations. Richly detailed, impeccably researched and thoroughly compelling, 'Sugar' is a comprehensive social history of a substance that has revolutionised the way we eat, and poignant testimony to the suffering endured in the name of satisfying the world's sweet tooth.

Sugar

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Elizabeth Abbott

Cooking Education & Reference

What do Nell Gwynn, Marilyn Monroe, Emma Bovary and Camilla Parker-Bowles have in common? Desired and despised in equal measure, the other woman enters a shadowy world of secret assignations and fear of discovery. This compelling study examines the role of the mistress throughout history, from Chinese concubines to European royal favourites, in life and literature. It examines the reasons why women become mistresses, the subversive threat they pose to the established order, and the eternal fascination they exert.

A History of Mistresses

History

FINE AS NEW CLEAN AND TIGHT - SOFT COVER. SHIPS FROM WA- USPS. EXPEDITED SHIPPING AVAILABLE. Sugar: A Bittersweet History is a compelling and surprising look at the sweet commodity, from how it Africanized the cane fields of the Caribbean to how it fuelled the Industrial Revolution and jumpstarted the fast-food revolution. Agriculture &amp; Food; Cooking; Food &amp; society; History; Non-Fiction; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Sugar; World

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

ABBOTT, Elizabeth

From one of China's most acclaimed writers, his first work of non-fiction to appear in English: a unique, intimate look at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that sharply illuminate the country's meteoric economic and social transformation. This is framed by ten phrases common in the Chinese vernacular "China in Ten Words" reveals as never before the world's most populous yet most often misunderstood nation. In "Disparity" Yu Hua illustrates the mind-boggling economic gaps that separate citizens of the country. In "Copycat" he depicts the escalating trend of piracy and imitation as a creative new form of revolutionary action. And in "Bamboozle" he describes the increasingly brazen practices of trickery, fraud and chicanery that are, he suggests, becoming a way of life at every level of society. With Yu Hua's characteristic wit, insight and courage, "China in Ten Words" is a refreshingly candid vision of the 'Chinese miracle' and all its consequences, from the singularly invaluable perspective of a writer living in China today.

China in Ten Words

Yu, Hua

Asia

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