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Man has three mothers: the one who gives birth to her in wartime, the nun who plucks her from a vegetable garden, & her beloved Maman, who becomes a spy to survive. Seeking security for her grown daughter, Maman finds Man a husband
- a lonely Vietnamese restaurateur who lives in Montreal. Thrown into a new world, Man discovers her natural talent as a chef. Gracefully she practices her art, with food as her medium. She creates dishes that are much more than sustenance for the body: they evoke memory & emotion, time & place, & even bring her customers to tears. Man is a mystery
- her name means `perfect fulfillment`, yet she & her husband seem to drift along, respectfully & dutifully. But when she encounters a married chef in Paris, everything changes in the instant of a fleeting touch, & Man discovers the all-encompassing obsession & ever-present dangers of a love affair. Full of indelible images of beauty, delicacy & quiet power, Man is a novel that begs to be savoured for its language, its sensuousness & its love of life.

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Odo of Conteville, the younger half-brother of William the Conqueror, was ordained Bishop of Bayeux while still in his teens. A larger than life character, he is best known for commissioning the Bayeaux Tapestry, in which he makes a dashing appearance at the height of the Battle of Hastings. He also played a pivotal role in the planning & implementation of the Conquest of Engl&, after which, as Earl of Kent, he was second only to William in wealth & power. The popular impression of Odo is of a not so loveable rogue, who typified the worst excesses of the Norman conquerors. He was the first Chief Justice of England & on occasion also acted as regent when the king was in Normandy. After defrauding both Crown & Church, however, Odo was disgraced & his plans to raise an unauthorised army for a campaign in Italy, possibly in order to gain the papacy, saw him imprisoned for five years. He was released by the dying William in 1087, but soon rebelled against the new king, his nephew William Rufus. Yet Odo was far from being a loutish philistine. The bishop recognised the value of education & the arts & amongst his less well-known activities was his generous patronage of both. Trevor Rowley`s book is the first full-length biography of Odo, which seeks to redress this balance & to make Bishop Odo`s extraordinary life-story known. ...

` Smart, funny, & deeply wise` Mirabai Starr`A funny, courageous, & inspiring memoir about one woman`s journey into the unknown` Elisabeth Eaves, author of Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents Any cute boys? Natasha Scripture`s 64-year-old Indian mother wants to know. Once again, Natasha finds herself explaining that it is not easy to find a husband while serving as a relief worker in refugee camps, war zones & natural disaster areas. Yet returning to New York, still reeling from the sudden death of her father, Natasha realizes that no matter how many dates she goes on, she is no closer to finding that special someone to fill the imaginary void inside her. Exasperated by her search for love, she embarks on a `man fast`, where she stops looking for a relationship & instead turns inward to explore the question at the heart of her anxiety: what is her purpose? This soul-searching takes her deep into the wilderness: from meditating in an Ayurvedic ashram in southern India to toiling on a vineyard on Mount Etna to going on a solo-safari in southern Tanzania (where she also marries herself-yes, it`s a thing). In stepping away from the demands of modern life & societal pressure to couple up, Natasha finds a space where she allows herself to become fully present & awake: to her grief, to her identity, & to love as a mystical, ever-present force. This is a book to inspire readers who also want to discover their truest, wildest, most empowered selves. ...

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D' Artagnan, Athos, Porthos & Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV & change the face of the French monarchy. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark, Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis & Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? & what is the nature of the threat he poses? Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading & guessing until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers. ...

Hand built solid wood in distressed French finish. An age-old hallowed tradition. These long, narrow & fast wooden racers were cut up in sections when retired. Transformed into bookcases they lined the halls & bars of fraternities the world over. Oars were painted with crests & races, names & dates, & wall-hung. AM’s latest is an exact replica of a late 19th C. prow of a man-of-eight that once cut through the rippling waters of the inland Thames. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Man of Everest
- The Autobiography of Tenzing Norgay who on 29th May 1953 together with Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount
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The enthralling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering & whose genius we still benefit from today Thomas Telford`s name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford`s life soared to span almost eight decades of gloriously obsessive, prodigiously productive energy. Few people have done more to shape our nation. Thomas Telford invented the modern road. A stonemason turned architect turned engineer, he built churches, harbours, canals, docks & the famously vertiginous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in Wales. He created the backbone of our national road network. His bridges are some of the most dramatic & beautiful ever built, most of all the Menai Bridge, a wonder then & now, which spans the dangerous channel between the mainland & Anglesey. His constructions were the most stupendous in Europe for a thousand years, &
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- almost everything he ever built remains in use today. Telford was a complex man: a shepherd`s boy who loved the countryside but helped industrialise it; an ambitious man who cared little for accolades; highly sociable & charming, but peculiarly private about his personal life; & an engineer who was also a poet. He cherished a vision of a country connected to transform mobility & commerce: his radical politics lay not in ideas but the creation of useful, solid things. In an age in which economics, engineering & national identity came together, Thomas Telford`s life was a model of what can be achieved by persistence, skill & ambition. Drawing on contemporary accounts, this, the first full modern biography of Telford, at once intimate & expansive, is an utterly original portrait. It is a book of roads & landscapes, waterways & bridges, but above all, of how one man transformed himself into the greatest engineer Britain has ever produced.

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The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering & whose genius we still benefit from today Thomas Telford`s name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford`s life soared to span almost eight decades of gloriously obsessive, prodigiously productive energy. Few people have done more to shape our nation.A stonemason turned architect turned engineer, Telford invented the modern road, built churches, harbours, canals, docks, the famously vertiginous Pontcysyllte aqueduct in Wales & the dramatic Menai Bridge. His constructions were the greatest in Europe for a thousand years, &
- astonishingly
- almost everything he ever built remains in use today. Intimate, expansive & drawing on contemporary accounts, Man of Iron is the first full modern biography of Telford. It is a book of roads & landscapes, waterways & bridges, but above all, of how one man transformed himself into the greatest engineer Britain has ever produced.

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Jamie Johnson starts the season on fire. He`s playing for his beloved Hawkstone
- & he`s the top scorer in the country. But when
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