Informed by John Pawson's minimalist ethos, this book is about making life easier, more enjoyable & more beautiful. It is first & foremost a cookery book, with food that has been carefully selected to be simple, comfortable & delicious, allowing each individual flavour to be enjoyed. Eating is a central focus of our lives & of our homes, & this innovative book goes beyond the food itself to look at the whole context in which we enjoy it
- the plates we eat from, the glasses we drink out of, the equipment we use to prepare the food & the kitchen in which we cook it. John's philosophy is to pare down to a small yet beautiful range of carefully chosen essentials, allowing each object to be appreciated & eliminating the time-consuming confusion of excess. Functionality is as important as style, however, & practical information is provided throughout. Exquisitely designed & produced, Living & Eating is an unequalled guide to a simple yet utterly seductive way of living.
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Budda & Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings & practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over the course of two millennia. If they were to meet on the road today, what would each think of the other's spiritual views & practices? Thich Nhat Hanh has been part of a decades-long dialogue between the two greatest living contemplative traditions, & brings to Christianity an appreciation of its beauty that could be conveyed only by an outsider. In a lucid, meditative prose, he explores the crossroads of compassion & holiness at which the two traditions meet, & reawakens our understanding of both. ...

Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five & celibate, living in a small Gloucestershire town with a possessive cat for company & a Rayburn for comfort. After all, a relationship would only complicate things...

But Polly's life is already complicated. In addition to her job in the Whole Nut café & her part in the ' Save Our High Street' campaign, there's her pottery career to get off the ground. Not to mention dodging the efforts of her friends & mother to find her a husb&...

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Polly Cameron is happy being thirty-five & celibate, living in a small Gloucestershire town with a possessive cat for company & a Rayburn for comfort. After all, a relationship would only complicate things...

But Polly's life is already complicated. In addition to her job in the Whole Nut café & her part in the ' Save Our High Street' campaign, there's her pottery career to get off the ground. Not to mention dodging the efforts of her friends & mother to find her a husb&...

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Carol has always resented her family
- her mother, endlessly knitting, her father & his obsession with next door's encroaching
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Carol has always resented her family
- her mother, endlessly knitting, her father & his obsession with next door's encroaching
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Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces
- in the hope of steady
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Corby, the industrial new town built around a vast steel works, draws many to the fires of its furnaces
- in the hope of steady
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A week before Christmas Debbie Stansfield's life falls apart. Her son
- her funny, cheeky, kind Richard
- has been found hanging

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