Street-food entrepreneurs Van & Anh bring you contemporary Vietnamese cooking for modern kitchens. With the freshest of ingredients, exquisite flavours, bright colours, sociable plates for sharing, & comforting broths for one, this is traditional cooking made utterly current. Vietnamese food is well-known these days
- think cleansing noodle soups, succulent caramelized pork, spicy herb-filled baguettes, zingy salads, crunchy pickles, perfect dipping sauces, & moreish sweet coffee. But, sadly, Vietnamese cooking is not. Vietnam is a land of amazing markets with dawn-picked herbs, seasonal vegetables, coffee vendors & food stalls. But, thankfully, these days we can find scenes like that closer to home with the explosion of farmers markets & artisan producers. Van & Anh began their award-winning street-food in East London`s Broadway Market, & that bustlingly fresh, creative market vibe typifies the cooking in this book.
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The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon & Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists & legends including Terry Pratchett & Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse into the head & heart of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. ` If this book came to you during a despairing night, by dawn, you would believe in ideas & hope & humans again` Caitlin Moran ` Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation` This collection will draw you in to exchanges on making good art & Syrian refugees, the power of a single word & playing the kazoo with Stephen King, writing about books, comics & the imagination of friends, being sad at the Oscars & telling lies for a living. Here Neil Gaiman opens our minds to the people he admires & the things he believes might just mean something
- & welcomes us to the conversation too.
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If you want to know about writing, about how to make others share the horror & intensity of an experience, try the first piece in this collection, Justice at Night. Martha Gellhorn wrote it as a 28-year-old, having just returned home to the States after four years in Europe, in 1936. What follows is a selection of fifty years of peacetime journalism, history caught at the moment of its unfolding, as it looked & felt to those who experienced it. It`s about revolutions in the making, guilty acts of state terrorism, poverty, injustice & recovery. It vividly captures the range & intensity of Gellhorn`s courageous work & is also a passionate call to arms, not only to remember the wronged & to bear witness to evil, but to stand your ground in the face of it. ...

In his classic sequence of films, Patrick Keiller retraces the hidden story of the places where we live, the cities & landscapes of our everyday lives. This collection explores the surrealist perception of the city; the relationship of architecture to film; how cities change over time, as well as an urgent portrait of post-crash Britain. The View from the Train establishes Keiller as one of the most perceptive writers & thinkers about the city, landscape & politics. ...

The Viking ship is one of the most iconic images of the Viking Age. As well as including well-known vessels such as the spectacular ship-burials from Gokstad & Oseberg in southern Norway, Viking Ships introduces the newly-conserved Roskilde 6 ship from Denmark. Measuring at over 37 metres, this is the longest Viking ship ever discovered & will form the core of the touring exhibition Vikings: life & legend. The Vikings used their shipbuilding skills to command the sea; their famous ships permitted the exploration, colonization & the raids for which they are best known. This book will explore the evolution of their sea-going vessels & celebrate this outstanding feature of the Viking Age. ...

For nearly three hundred years, from the end of the eighth century AD until Approx. 1100, the Vikings set out from Scandinavia across the northern world a dramatic time that would change Europe forever. This book explores the Viking conquest & settlement across Britain & Irel&, covering the core period of Viking activity from the first Viking raids to the raids of Magnus Barelegs, king of Norway. This lively history looks at the impact of the Viking forces, the development of societies within their settlements, their trades & beliefs, language & their interactions with native peoples. Drawing on the superb collection of the British Museum, together with other finds, sites & monuments, The Vikings in Britain & Ireland is a richly-illustrated introduction to the culture, daily life & times of the Vikings & their legacy which is still visible today. ...

Above Florence & the valley of the Arno stood the Villa Diana, in one of the oldest inhabited parts of Italy, at the end of an old Etruscan road that wound among olive groves & lines of cypresses. The home of Poliziano in the fifteenth century, it had been occupied by the troops of seven different armies during World War Two but otherwise escaped damage, if one overlooked the looting of the grand piano. It was here that Alan Moorehead, known as one of the greatest correspondents of that war, moved in 1948 to travel through Italy & write this celebrated book. His experiences illustrate the issues of the day, yet surrounded as always by extreme physical beauty & governed by the rhythms of the seasons. He describes with wit such diverse matters as the daily drama of life among the servants, the reviving fortunes of Portofino, the 500-year-old horse race around the main square of Siena, the gondoliers` union in Venice, & a traffic clash between a family of pigs & a cart full of crucifixes. ...

Florence, 1943. Two sisters, Isabella & Caterina Cammaccio, find themselves surrounded by terror & death; & with Italy trapped under the heel of a brutal Nazi occupation, bands of Partisans rise up. Soon Isabella & Caterina will test their wits & deepest beliefs as never before. As the winter grinds on, they will be forced to make the most important decisions of their lives. Their choices will reverberate for decades. In the present day, Alessandro Pallioti, a senior policeman agrees to oversee a murder investigation, after it emerges the victim was once a Partisan hero. When the case begins to unravel, Pallioti finds himself working to uncover a crime lost in the twilight of war, the consequences of which are as deadly today as they were over sixty years ago. ` Grindle vividly evokes Florence as few tourists see it.. . Here is the perfect summer holiday read` Literary Review ` Grindle saves her best story-weaving to the thrilling denouement that creates a surprise as unexpected & delicious as the finest Florentine cuisine` Daily Express ...

The Village by Nikita Lalwani, the prize-winning author of Gifted, is a disturbing & utterly gripping modern morality tale set in contemporary India which will appeal to readers of Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss & Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. Ray, a young British-Asian woman arrives in the afternoon heat of a small village in India. She has come to live there for several months to make a documentary about the place. For this is no ordinary Indian village
- the women collecting water at the well, the men chopping wood in the early morning light have all been found guilty of murder. The village is an open prison. Ray is accompanied by two British colleagues &, as the days pass, they begin to get closer to the lives of the inhabitants of the village. & then it feels too close. As the British visitors become desperate for a story, the distinction between innocence & guilt, between good intentions & horrifying results becomes horribly blurred. Set in a village modelled on a real-life open prison in India, The Village is a gripping story about manipulation & personal morality, about how truly frail our moral judgement can be. Nikita Lalwani has written a dazzling, heartfelt & disturbing novel which delivers on all the promise of her first. Nikita Lalwani was born in Rajasthan & raised in Cardiff. Her first novel Gifted was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize & shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award & won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She lives in London.
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” The Village” by Nikita Lalwani, the prize-winning author of ” Gifted”, is a disturbing & utterly gripping modern morality tale set in contemporary India which will appeal to readers of Kiran Desai`s ” The Inheritance of Loss” & Jhumpa Lahiri`s ” The Namesake”. Ray, a young British-Asian woman arrives in the afternoon heat of a small village in India. She has come to live there for several months to make a documentary about the place. For this is no ordinary Indian village
- the women collecting water at the well, the men chopping wood in the early morning light have all been found guilty of murder. The village is an open prison. Ray is accompanied by two British colleagues &, as the days pass, they begin to get closer to the lives of the inhabitants of the village. & then it feels too close. As the British visitors become desperate for a story, the distinction between innocence & guilt, between good intentions & horrifying results becomes horribly blurred. Set in a village modelled on a real-life open prison in India, ” The Village” is a gripping story about manipulation & personal morality, about how truly frail our moral judgement can be. Nikita Lalwani has written a dazzling, heartfelt & disturbing novel which delivers on all the promise of her first. Nikita Lalwani was born in Rajasthan & raised in Cardiff. Her first novel ” Gifted” was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize & shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award & won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She lives in London.
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