Keep Calm & Carry On – Good advice for hard times, by Ebury Press is a little booklet containing proverbs, "es & advice to encourage & inspire people through hard times. You will find the thoughts of writers, philosophers, politician, & famous national & international people stretching 2000 years. Cherish, laugh & cry reading the witty & amusing words of personalities such as Thomas A Edison, Lord Byron, Mark Twain, Francis Bacon & Boris Johnsons. Be inspired by Churchill, Cicero, Mahatma Gandhi, John F Kennedy & many more. Divided in twenty little chapters like Crisis, Economy, Money, Work, The Good Life, Happiness, Friendship & Don’t Worry, this book covers most aspect of our lives. ...

This is a unique notebook from Cavallini & Co. with a beautiful & robust cover featuring Keep Calm & Carry On caption. It



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This is a unique notebook from Cavallini & Co. with a beautiful & robust cover featuring Keep Calm & Carry On logo. It



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The Keep Calm & Carry on 2013 Wall Calendar from Graphique de France, offers 12 colourful illustrations based on the morale-boosting poster issued by the British government during WWII. It displays the slogan with funny twists, from keep calm & dream on or keep calm & shop on, to keep calm & rock on. The calendar displays names of days & months both in 3 languages including English, offers room for writing notes each day, & a monthly planner of previous & subsequent month. This calendar will definitely keep your chin up & get you thought the day. ...

` Keep Calm & Carry On` has become one of the most recognisable slogans of the twenty-first century. But where is it from & why has it resonated so strongly with the modern British public? This book reveals the truth behind the now infamous poster, tracing its origins to the Second World War, when it was created to allay public panic in the event of a German invasion. Of course this feared invasion never happened, & the poster would have been resigned to the dusty shelves of history were it not for a chance discovery by the owners of Barter Books in 2001. Later seized upon as an encouragement in the economic crisis, ` Keep Calm` went on to become arguably the most successful meme in history. This book tells the story of that phenomenon, including colourful posters & archive photographs throughout. ...

Everyone knows `tis the season to be jolly; when you can roast chestnuts on an open fire, treetops glisten & sleigh bells ring alongside the sound of small children`s laughter. However, if you don`t think Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year then reach for ” Keep Calm at Christmas” & let its soothing advice reassure you that Christmas comes but once a year. ” Keep Calm at Christmas” follows ” Keep Calm for Ladies” & ” Keep Calm for Chaps” & offers many merry pearls of wisdom to help you get through the festive season; on everything from relatives to office parties, & gluttony to New Year resolutions. This is an insightful pocket gift for Christmas. ” What I don`t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day”. (Phyllis Diller). ” About all you can do is dream of a white Christmas, for it seems like it always leaves most of us in the red”. (Anon). ” Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice”. (Anon). ” Next to a circus there ain`t nothing that packs up & tears out faster than the Christmas spirit”. (Kin Hubbard). ” New Year`s Day...now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual”. (Mark Twain). ...

Enlivened with vivid autobiographical detail, George Orwell`s Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a tragically witty account of the struggle to escape from a materialistic existence from the author of 1984, with an introduction by Peter Davison in Penguin Modern Classics. Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability & worship of money. He gives up a `good job` in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity & his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his chosen way of life. Through the character of Gordon Comstock, Orwell reveals his own disaffection with the society he once himself renounced. If you enjoyed Keep the Aspidistra Flying you might like Orwell`s Burmese Days, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. ”A completely harrowing & stark account of poverty...written in clear & violent language.” (Cyril Connolly). ...

From first arrival in Lebanon as a fresh faced graduate to the heat of the first Gulf War conflict as managed from Saudi Arabia, Sir Alan Munro`s account of life representing Her Majesty`s government in embassy posting across the world will enchant & engage. This book is intended to convey something of the flavour
- & the frivolities
- of escapades & encounters which Sir Alan & his wife experienced in the course of thirty-five years in diplomacy in the Middle East, Africa & South America, & at home too. The narrative is set against a half-century of post-imperial adjustment in Britain`s foreign policy, in which withdrawal from a global role is offset by an overriding concern, shared with western partners, to counter the extension
- political & economic as well as military
- of Soviet Marxist influence across a fractious post-colonial world. It is no purpose of mine to denigrate or burlesque any individuals who appear in its pages. This account brings out the human side, as well as the value, of a profession in which `life`s rich tapestry` plays an uncommonly prominent part.



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Whitechapel, 1888: London is bowed under Jack the Ripper`sreign of terror. London 2015: actress Julianne Bell is abducted in a case similar to the terrible Tower Hamlets murders of some ten years earlier, & harking back to the Ripper killings of a century before. Falkenberg, Sweden, 2015: a woman`s body is found mutilated in a forest, her wounds identical to those of the Tower Hamlets victims. With the man arrested for the Tower Hamlets crimes already locked up, do the new killings mean he has a dangerous accomplice, or is a copy-cat serial killer on the loose? Profiler Emily Roy & true-crime writer Alexis Castells again find themselves drawn into an intriguing case, with personal links that turn their world upside down. Following the highly acclaimed Block 46 & guaranteed to disturb & enthral, Keeper is a breathless thriller from the new queen of French Noir. ...

` Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, & that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue... It is a rare picture which stuns, or argues, us into silence. & if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain & understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.` Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Gericault`s The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, which trace the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism & into Modernism. Fully illustrated in colour throughout, Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes` essays on Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin & Lucian Freud. ...