Keiko has never really fitted in. At school & university people find her odd & her family worries she`ll never be normal. To appease them, Keiko takes a job at a newly opened convenience store. Here, she finds peace & purpose in the simple, daily tasks & routine interactions. She is, she comes to underst&, happiest as a convenience store worker. But in Keiko`s social circle it just won`t do for an unmarried woman to spend all her time stacking shelves & re-ordering green tea. As pressure mounts on Keiko to find either a new job, or worse, a husb&, she is forced to take desperate action... A best-seller in Japan, & the winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize, Convenience Store Woman marks the English-language debut of a writer who has been hailed as the most exciting voice of her generation. ...

Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of General Ordia. Suspicion, paranoia & blackmail have become part of life. The conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago & Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives & of the degradation & frustration that has taken over their town. In this groundbreaking novel, Mario Vargas Llosa explores the mental & moral mechanisms that govern power & the people behind it. It is about identity, the role of a citizen & how a lack of personal freedom can forever scar a nation & its people. ...

From one of the Observer`s ` Rising Stars of 2017`, a high-risk, highbrow & intimate novel
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WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER & TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARFrances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed & observant. A student in Dublin & an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed & then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties & holidays in Provence, beginning a complex menage-a-quatre. But when Frances & Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty & emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time. ...

This book comes with a foreword by President Barack Obama. Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring & iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of taking pen to paper to record thoughts & events, hardships & victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers an unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. ” Conversations With Myself” gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure: from letters written in the darkest hours of Mandela`s twenty-seven years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to ” Long Walk to Freedom”. Here he is making notes & even doodling during meetings, or recording troubled dreams on the desk calendar of his cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggles in the early 1960s, or conversing with friends in almost seventy hours of recorded conversations. In these pages, he is neither an icon nor a saint; here he is like you & me. An intimate journey from the first stirrings of his political conscience to his galvanizing role on the world stage, ” Conversations With Myself” is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private. ...

Jo Langer was an idealistic teenager in 1940s Hungary when she began a correspondence course in Marxism. Her tutor was Oskar Langer, a committed young communist from the former Czechoslovakia. They eventually met & married, & Jo left her bourgeois upbringing behind to become part of the new Socialist future in Bratislavia. But when Oskar, a respected economist & party-member, was arrested & imprisoned, Jo was immediately stripped of her home & her job. She spent the next ten years eking out a life for herself & her two daughters in near-impossible conditions. Convictions is Jo`s compelling memoir of that time, told without sensationalism, but with candour & wit. It is the story of an immensely courageous, resourceful young woman, a portrait of a marriage, & a tale of survival in a totalitarian state. At its heart it is a demand for people to come before politics, & a protest against the terrible human consequences of unquestioning convictions & blind faith. ...

The Cook 30cm (12) globe will complement & enhance any home, office or school environment. This physical globe shows environmental mapping with prevailing sea & air currents. When illuminated, the mapping changes to display political colours. It is mounted on an antique brass-plated, half-meridian with quality, real wood base. ...

Presents 15 separate maps of the islands & atolls at various scales from 1:25, 000 to 1:100, 000. Elevation tinting shows the general relief where appropriate & some peak heights are marked. Roads tracks & rivers are marked with symbols indicating beaches, caves, airstrips, beaches, diving locations, petrol stations, hospitals, hotels, sites of interest, notable buildings. Reefs & swamp areas are also marked. Each map has latitude & longitude margin ticks. There is a small general map of the Cook Islands & a simple street plan of Avarua town showing notable buldings, restaurants, hotels, post offices etc. ...

With sections on vegetables, spices, herbs, berries, fruit, meat, fish, seafood, eggs & seasonal baking, this is the ultimate guide to Scandinavian cooking. It

Includes:: 100 essential ingredients & 300recipes selected by Camilla Plum, an authority on the distinctive produce of Scandinavia, & book celebrates the varied cooking methods used to make the most of Nordic ingredients, from salting & jamming to eating fresh from the wild. From crayfish to lingonberries, by way of venison & rye bread, the information & recipes in this book give you a fascinating insight into the Scandinavian kitchen & offers a truly fascinating insight into the food culture & philosophy of Northern Europe.

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A delightful present for keen cooks, Cook's Journal is divided by food type into seven sections: Soups, Salads & Vegetables, Pasta & Grains, Fish & Shellfish, Meat, Poultry & Game, Puddings & Cakes. Each begins with basic know-how & invaluable information, followed by a selection of absolutely simply delicious recipes with mouthwatering photography, ranging from simple stocks to more adventurous dishes like Duck with Campari & Rosemary & Caramelised Orange. There are also descriptions of the different cuts of meat & tips for buying fish & a guide to choosing the right type of poultry. There is a handy pocket in each section to organise those tear-out recipes from newspapers & magazines picked up along your culinary travels. With practical advice on buying, storing & freezing, conversion charts, store-cupboard essentials, a party planning section, & a unique, easy-tear notepad for your shopping list, this classic journal is the perfect addition to anyone's kitchen shelf. ...