War Child is an extraordinarily sensitive novel, the story of James Esslin who is part of everything but apart from everyone. At once the story of every adult's lost childhood and a superb portrait of character in formation -- and disintegration -- War Child is told in a way that makes a lost colonial world vividly real.

War Child

Comics & Graphic Novels

Gray, Stephen

Graphic Novels

Serif

Mara is a translator. In her Greenwich Village apartment she successfully renders her native Czech into best-selling English, until one fine night she notices alarming similarities between her own Prague childhood and a "brilliant novel" by a rising young star of Czech literature. Making contact with the author, Mara realizes that he had been the protégé-perhaps the lover-of her now dead novelist mother. She threatens to reveal his plagiarism of her past and her mother's papers and is soon caught up in a cycle of threats and counter-threats. 
As the layers of deception in the lives of Mara, her mother and the young author are steadily revealed, the boundaries between literary creation and lived experience begin to evaporate ...

Fat Skeletons

Molinaro, Ursule

Cooking in Ten Minutes : Or the Adaptation of Cooking to the Rhythm of Our Time

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Pomiane, Edouard De

Quick & Easy

The Cattle Truck

Jorge Semprún

Pleasant the Scholar's Life: Irish Intellectuals and the Construction of the Nation State

History

Goldring, Maurice

Europe

As Northern Ireland braces itself for a return to conflict after eighteen months of peace, the new edition of this path-breaking study could scarcely be more timely. Covering the entire period between partition and the end of the IRA's ceasefire in 1996, the authors take issue with the stereotypes which portray the old Unionist state and the Protestant population as unchanging and monolithic and Catholics as uniformly alienated from the political establishment. Three of Ireland's most respected historians have written an accessible yet sophisticated history which shows how the divisions between the old Orange elite and the broader Protestant population created an explosive political dynamic. Using a wide range of primary sources, they lay bare the key issues of Northern Ireland's history from the establishment of the B Specials after partition to the stark realities of Direct Rule from London. 'Revisionist' history has been much discussed in recent years. In an Irish context this does not mean denying past realities, but reassessing the country's history in a way which acknowledges the importance of specifically Irish factors in bringing about historical change rather than laying responsibility for all Ireland's woes at England's door. This highly acclaimed study is a landmark in that new history.

Northern Ireland 1921-1994: Political Forces and Social Classes

Bew, Paul

Patterson, Henry

Gibbon, Peter

Home baking is once again one of the most popular forms of cookery and this is the perfect introduction for all those who want to make their own bread but fear that baking is time-consuming and complicated. Home Baked starts with a clear summary of kneading, rising, proving and baking itself. As in all forms of cookery, bread's appearance is almost as important as its flavor, and the Scurfields describe how to transform a tasty but ordinary-looking loaf into a supremely attractive and appetising one. Here are easily-made recipoes for croissants, brioches and penettone, for traditional English tea breads and a variety of European breads from Swedish caraway to Irish soda bread. Home Baked is essential kitchen equipment for those who suspect that bread-making can be more rewarding than warming up a frozen supermarket 'French stick' but fear that they could never get their dough to rise.

Home Baked: A Little Book of Bread Recipes

Scurfield, Cecilia

Scurfield, George

Baking

What could be more useful than a short, unpretentious introduction to the art of cake-making? Starting with simple recipes, the reader is gradually introduced to a full range of cakes including those made with nuts, chocolate and fruit both fresh and dried. Unlike over-sweet cakes bought from shops, those made at home can be completely free of additives and colouring - and twice as tasty. Home-Made Cakes and Biscuits contains recipes that will appeal to children as well as adults, cakes for special occasions and for every day. There are also clear, concise and practical recipes for pastries, biscuits, icing and fillings. With easy-to-follow recipes for such delights as Rich Chocolate Cake, Viennese Orange Cake, Nusstorte, Hazel Nut Macaroons and French Plum Cake, tea-time need never again be reduced to a packet of biscuits fast approaching its sell-by date.

Home-Made Cakes and Biscuits

A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan". Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning his mansion. Slowly but inevitably, the stranger's charm and the novel's richly inventive language draws Malgas into "the plan" and he sees, feels and moves into the new building. Then, just as remorselessly, all that seemed solid begins to melt back into air.

The Folly

VLADISLAVIC, Ivan

The Crime Studio

Literature & Fiction

AYLETT, Steve

Literary

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