David’s Christmas Guide
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A stunning new edition of a natural history classic from 1955, enhanced with woodcut illustrations and a new introduction from John Lewis-Stempel, who writes of it ‘Almost every book I have written in the last eighteen years has been informed by A British Flora.’
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'It's time to share a little more of my love for home cooking and the merry dance of appetite and technique that lies behind the dishes I make, to bring to the table more of the home cook that I have become.'Following his bestselling Nights…
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From the starting point of Homer, poet Alice Oswald’s rich, digressive essay celebrates the oral tradition, poetry that exists before, beyond and without writing. Max Porter writes ‘I can’t remember being as excited or as wholly engaged by a book in years. The words vibrate through you as you read, thronged by the living and the dead, human and animal in splendour and agony. It is a revitalising and radical manifesto. I will cherish it and revisit it as long as I live.’
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Subtitled ‘Seven Composers and What They Taught Me’ Stephen Johnson examines pieces from Bruckner, Rachmaninoff , Bach, Lili Boulanger, Wagner, Sibelius and Beethoven in a highly personal reflection on the transformative power of music
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Northern Ireland is on fire. But rather than attending to the conflict raging around her, the young Sinead Morrissey is obsessed with the Cold War, East Germany and the utopia of the USSR.Set against the distinctive cultural milieu of…
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At a time when it feels like every year buildings get larger and more impersonal, sheds remain a beacon of ergonomic simplicity. Maybe it's the nostalgia of the ancient huts from which humanity evolved, or the sense of focused calm produced…
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An immersive journey through trees in Japan by celebrated writer Aya Koda - now available in English for the first time'Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them...'Ezo spruce,…
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