Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love & happiness, until she meets Ernest Hemingway. After a whirlwind courtship & wedding, the pair set sail for Paris, where they soon fall in with a circle of lively & volatile expatriates, including F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald & Ezra Pound. Ernest & Hadley are thrust into a life of artistic ambition, hard liquor & spur-of-the-moment dashes to Pamplona, the Riviera & the Swiss Alps. But Jazz Age Paris does not lend itself to family life & fidelity. As Hadley struggles with jealousy & self-doubt, Ernest`s ferocious literary endeavours begin to bear fruit, & the couple faces the ultimate crisis of their marriage
- a deception that will lead to the unravelling of everything they made for themselves in Paris, their `great good place`.
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Imogen Robertson's break-out novel
- a deep, dark & opulent tale of Belle ?poque Paris, & the secrets & dangers hidden beneath
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Imogen Robertson`s break-out novel
- a deep, dark & opulent tale of Belle Epoque Paris, & the secrets & dangers hidden beneath
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An atlas old English PARISHES for the general user, local historians & genealogists. Using desktop publishing & high capacity memory personal computers the 19th Century Ordnance Survey 6-Inch County series maps have been traced over at 16.8mm (0.6619 inch) to 1 mile with readable text, combined with information from tithe maps & other sources. This is seven-year, solo, labour of love project by T.C.H. Cockin contains all 39 counties of Engl&, with consideration to the possibility panels can make wall charts or fold-outs for separate publication. ...

Follow the cheeky parrot Tico Tango, as he creates chaos throughout the rainforest stealing fruits from all the other forest dwellers. But parrot Tico Tango learns his lesson, when greed finally gets the better of him, & he takes on more than he can carry! ...

A radical new interpretation of the meaning & purposes of one of the world`s most iconic buildings. For more than two millennia, the Parthenon has been revered as the symbol of Western culture & its highest ideals. It was understood to honour the city-state`s patron deity, Athena, & its sculptures to depict a civic celebration in the birthplace of democracy. But through a close reading of a lost play by Euripides, Joan Connelly has developed a theory that has sparked fierce controversy. Here she explains that our most basic sense of the Parthenon & the culture that built it may have been crucially mistaken. Re-creating the ancient structure, & using a breathtaking range of textual & visual evidence, she uncovers a monument glorifying human sacrifice set in a world of cult ritual quite alien to our understanding of the word ` Athenian`. ...

On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother`s homemade lemon-chocolate cake & discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother`s emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair & desperation. Suddenly, & for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal. Rose`s gift forces her to confront the truth behind her family`s emotions
- her mother`s sadness, her father`s detachment & her brother`s clash with the world. But as Rose grows up, she learns that there are some secrets even her taste buds cannot discern. The ” Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” is about the pain of loving those whom you know too much about, & the secrets that exist within every family. At once profound, funny, wise & sad, this is a novel to savour.
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The Parting Glass is an inviting ramble through forty-three traditional pubs in the cities & countryside of Irel&. Some are historic taverns, others are more contemporary, but all convey the timeless feel & the flavour of the country. Roth's glowing, intimate photographs are accompanied by narratives of the places & their patrons by columnist Eileen Mc Namara, as well as a sprinkling of"ations. ...

Richard Mc Gregor`s ” The Party” has been established as the book on China & its political leadership. It is indispensable to understanding what may soon become the most powerful country on earth, & here is it is newly updated to include material on the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012. Newly updated version including analysis of the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012 China`s Communist Party is the largest, most powerful political machine in the world. Here, Richard Mc Gregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum, revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country
- its military & media, legal system & businesses, even its religious organizations. How has the Party merged Marx, Mao & the market to create a global superpower? & what does this mean for the world? ” Extraordinary”. (” Sunday Times”). ” Masterful...entertaining & insightful”. (” Economist”). ”superb...an essential, riveting guide to how the rising power really works”. (Jonathan Fenby). ” If you read only one book about China this year, it should be this one. And if you do not read this book, you probably do not understand China today”. (Arthur Kroeber, China Economic Quarterly). ”A compelling exploration of the world`s largest & most successful political machine”. (” New Statesman”). ”A book that is as informative as it is entertaining... China has been transformed. The system that takes the credit is brilliantly described by Mc Gregor”. (Chris Patten, ” Financial Times”). Having joined the ” Financial Times” in 2000 in Shanghai & being appointed China bureau chief in 2005, Richard Mc Gregor is now Washington Bureau Chief for the FT. Mc Gregor has won numerous awards throughout his nearly two decades of reporting from north Asia, including a 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia Editorial Excellence Award for his coverage on the Xinjiang Riots & 2008 SOPA Awards for Editorial Intelligence. He has spent twenty years in north Asia, starting in Taiwan, & then in Tokyo, Hong Kong & Beijing, where he established offices for ” The Australian” newspaper. He has also contributed articles & reports to the BBC, the ” International Herald Tribune” & the ” Far Eastern Economic Review”.
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AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping story of betrayal, privilege & hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. ` Think Brideshead Revisited meets The Talented Mr Ripley with a dash of The Riot Club. I couldn`t put it down` Louise O` Neill, author of Asking For It Martin Gilmour & Ben Fitzmaurice have been best friends for 25 years, since their days together at Burtonbury School. They are an unlikely pair: the scholarship boy with the wrong accent & clothes, & the dazzlingly popular, wealthy young aristocrat. But Martin knows no one else can understand the bond they share
- & no one else could have kept Ben`s secret for over two decades. At Ben`s 40th birthday party, the cream of the British establishment gathers in a haze of champagne, drugs & glamour. Amid the politicians, the celebrities, the old money & the newly rich, Martin once again feels that pang of not quite belonging. His wife Lucy has her reservations, too. There is something unnerving in the air. But Ben wouldn`t do anything to damage their friendship. Would he?
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