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The Heritage range is quarter cloth bound with a soft textured linen. The editions are complete with 4-colour print patterned endpapers, a silk ribbon marker, head and tail bands and metallic gold gilded page edges. The beautiful designs are in line with the rising trend of vintage chic and will sit perfectly on any book shelf. The prints are that of renowned artists William Morris and William Kilburn which will effortlessly deliver vintage elegance to your ever growing library. A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: ‘Every idiot who goes about with “Merry Christmas” on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart’.
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• Made in Türkiye • Author: C. Dickens
With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue. Dylan Thomas wrote some of the best-known and best-loved poems of the twentieth century, amongst them ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’, ‘Fern Hill’ and ‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’. This edition reproduces the Collected Poems 1934-1952 which the poet authorised just before his tragically early death at the age of 39 and which contains, as he said, ‘most of the poems I have written, and all, up to the present year, I wish to preserve’. His was a precocious talent: his first poem was published nationally at the age of 18, and his first collection, 18 Poems, was published when he was just 20. In spite of his early death, he therefore left behind a substantial and significant body of work, represented here. His poems cover the span of birth to death, while at their heart is a lyrical, joyful impulse that celebrates life.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Dylan Thomas
These compact hardbacks have coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking. These editions are admired by literature-lovers and the design savvy looking for reasonably priced, beautiful hardbacks to add to their collections. Trapped in a marriage which has become sterile and joyless since her husband's return from the trenches of the First World War, partially paralysed and confined to a wheelchair, Connie seizes the chance of sexual fulfilment she had thought lost to her forever.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Lawrence, D.H.
With an Introduction, Notes and Bibliography by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religious drama of his romance with Rome is captured here, as well as its resolution in his renewed love of ancient Greece. He explores forbidden sexual desires, pays homage to the great theatre stars and poets of his day, observes cityscapes with impressionist intensity. His final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, tells the painful story of his own prison experience and calls for universal compassion. This edition of Wilde’s verse presents the full range of his achievement as a poet.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Oscar Wilde
The world of wine can be intimidating for the novice. This book celebrates wine as a fundamentally sensory experience that can and should be enjoyed by everyone. In these pages, learn how to taste and discuss key grapes and wine styles using your five senses to guide you; find out how successful pairings work in sections exploring different food categories, each with delicious recommendations and recipes; and build your knowledge and expertise in areas including reading wine labels, impressing your guests, buying wine and getting the best out of a restaurant wine list.
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Author: Kristensen, Charlotte
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 12/09/2024
ISBN: 9781784729288
B-Code: B073857
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Pages: 224
Dimensions: 216x152mm
Beautiful and luxurious, this sketch book combines high-quality production with magnificent art. The thick paper stock is ideal for sketching and drawing. The cover image by Angela Harding is embossed and foil stamped, and complemented by luxury binding and bookmark ribbons.
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• Author: Flame Tree Publisher:
• Flame Tree Publishing
• Format: Hardback
• Publication Date: 10/10/2023
• ISBN: 9781804176665
• B-Code: B069585
• Illustrated :
• Pages: 144
• Dimensions: 280x216mm
Why does Scotch whisky taste the way it does? Where do the flavours come from? How have they changed over the years under the influences of tradition and innovation? In this ultimate guide to Scotch whisky, introductory sections provide a historical overview and an exploration of production techniques. Entries on individual distilleries follow, with the bottlings currently available, details of how the whisky is made, and notes on the flavour and character of each label. Fully revised and updated edition with new entries on the latest distilleries.
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• Author: MacLean, Charles
• Publisher: Birlinn Specials
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 13/06/2024
• ISBN: 9781780278896
• B-Code: B072027
• Illustrated : Colour illustrations
• Pages: 448
• Dimensions: 198x129mm
It’s not easy being a grown-up. From surviving ever-more apocalyptic hangovers, relationship niggles and endless laundry, to trying to stay healthy when…well…cake. But with this book, your besties and a big glass of wine, these tricky adult situations may be a little easier to navigate. From award-winning greetings card designer Rosie Made a Thing.
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Author: Rosie Made A Thing
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 01/09/2022
ISBN: 9780008531287
B-Code: B064425
Illustrated: Colour images
Pages: 128
Dimensions: 152x152mm
These compact hardbacks have matching coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking. These editions are admired by literature-lovers and the design savvy looking for reasonably priced, beautiful hardbacks to add to their collections. The stories, in which the master sleuth receives a stream of clients presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries in his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, were instantly popular and by the time of the publication of the final story, 'The Copper Beeches', they had become the mainstay of The Strand Magazine.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Doyle, A.C.
These compact hardbacks have coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking. These editions are admired by literature-lovers and the design savvy looking for reasonably priced, beautiful hardbacks to add to their collections. First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Stevenson, R.L
These compact hardbacks have coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking. These editions are admired by literature-lovers and the design savvy looking for reasonably priced, beautiful hardbacks to add to their collections. Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Melville, H.
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prize-winner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his ‘very self’ into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman’s greatness, described him as ‘one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them’. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats’s work is essential. This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: W. B. Yeats
Something is happening in Scotland – a new confidence – and inspirational voices are redefining what 'Scottish style' really is. A Place in Scotland is a collation of interior spaces that represent a rejuvenated Scottish vernacular that has emerged over the past twenty years. It includes thirty different spaces, from a masterfully restored Scottish castle and the Gleneagles hotel to a World War 2 control tower in the Scottish Highlands and a brightly coloured tenement apartment in Glasgow.
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Author: Beale, Banjo
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 23/09/2024
ISBN: 9781837831999
B-Code: B074500
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Pages: 272
Dimensions: 283x216mm
This eye-catching hardcover journal captures the beauty of the forest floor. Blank, lined and gridded pages are interspersed with full-page photographs of mushrooms, mosses, ferns, and other foraged treasures. Carefully arranged against black backgrounds, the striking portraits are sure to inspire your writing, sketching, and notetaking. Features textured spine, and ribbon marker.
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Author: Hajnoczky, Julya
Publisher: Chronicle (Vatable Products)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 09/11/2023
ISBN: 9781797227863
B-Code: B069817
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Pages: 192
Dimensions: 178x127mm
Retirement is a fresh chapter, another adventure and permission to try something new. It’s also a great time to take care of your health, your money and your everyday happiness. This is the essential guide to your new life of opportunity, relaxation and enjoyment, whether you’re in need of inspiration for holidays and hobbies or advice on staying active, mentally sharp and emotionally fulfilled. Practical, insightful and enlivening, these ideas are perfect for any newcomer to full-time freedom.
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Author: Heybridge, Ted
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 10/06/2021
ISBN: 9781787836983
B-Code: B055349
Illustrated: Illustrations
Pages: 192
Dimensions: 204x135mm
The Heritage range is quarter cloth bound with a soft textured linen. The editions are complete with 4-colour print patterned endpapers, a silk ribbon marker, head and tail bands and metallic gold gilded page edges. The beautiful designs are in line with the rising trend of vintage chic and will sit perfectly on any book shelf. The prints are that of renowned artists William Morris and William Kilburn which will effortlessly deliver vintage elegance to your ever growing library. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll’s delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.
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• Made in Türkiye • Author: L. Carroll
This compact hardback has coloured end papers, embossed gold and coloured blocking. These editions are admired by literature-lovers and the design savvy looking for reasonably priced, beautiful hardbacks to add to their collections. Frankenstein is the classic gothic horror novel which has thrilled and engrossed readers for two centuries. Written by Mary Shelley, it is a story which she intended would ‘curdle the blood and quicken the beatings of the heart.’ The tale is a superb blend of science fiction, mystery and thriller.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Shelley, M.
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim – that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Jane Austen
Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the "roaring twenties", and a devastating expose of the ‘Jazz Age’. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him. The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
The embossed and foil-stamped cover of this A5 size (210x148mm) journal features an image created by Flame Tree Studio for the cover of the fantasy novel The Garden of Delights, written by Amal Singh and based on Indian myths. Includes a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts, two ribbon markers, robust ivory paper printed with ruled lines and a magnetic side flap to keep everything neat and tidy.
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Author: Flame Tree
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 15/10/2024
ISBN: 9781804179529
B-Code: B074113
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Pages: 176
Dimensions: 210x148mm
Join the Hebridean Baker on an irresistible culinary voyage to the heart of Scotland's islands that will inspire you in the kitchen. From savoury pies to biscuit tin favourites, cakes for every occasion and forgotten culinary gems, these recipes are woven together with a delectable and captivating narrative. Each chapter weaves a broad narrative of tradition, folklore, travel and the vibrant cultural tapestry of the Hebrides whilst inviting readers to savour the essence of Scotland, one delectable recipe at a time.
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Author: MacLeod, Coinneach
Publisher: Black and White Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 17/10/2024
ISBN: 9781785306433
B-Code: B074465
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Pages: 256
Dimensions: 246x189mm
In these pages you will see hope and connection, ingenuity and creativity, alongside tales of racism and oppression, resistance and celebration. From the Victorian Transatlantic anti-slavery movement to the Black contribution to World Wars One and Two, the work of Black creatives during the Harlem Renaissance to Beyonce and Stormzy, this book is about well known figures and unsung heroes, famous and lesser known key cultural moments and includes important information about Black people throughout history, from ancient times to the modern day.
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Author: Olusoga, David & Yinka & Kemi
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 12/09/2024
ISBN: 9781529066203
B-Code: B065072
Illustrated: Illustrations
Pages: 496
Dimensions: 234x153mm
Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne’s influence in some way. We see her grow from a girl to a young woman of sixteen, making her mistakes, and not always learning from them. Intelligent, hot-headed as her own red hair, unwilling to take a moral truth as read until she works it out for herself, she must also face grief and loss and learn the true meaning of love. Part Tom Sawyer, part Jane Eyre, by the end of Anne of Green Gables, Anne has become the heroine of her own story.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious, sardonic and attractive Mr Rochester. However, there is great kindness and warmth in this epic love story, which is set against the magnificent backdrop of the Yorkshire moors. Ultimately the grand passion of Jane and Rochester is called upon to survive cruel revelation, loss and reunion, only to be confronted with tragedy.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Louisa May Alcott
Edited with Introductions, Bibliographies, Footnotes and on-page Glossaries by Dr Lesley A. Coote, Lecturer in Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Hull. During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father. Whilst he was doing and ‘being’ all of these things, he was writing. Not only did he write in English – for princes, friends, family and, presumably, for his own pleasure – but his knowledge of French and Italian enabled him to engage with the works of notable French poets such as Eustache Deschamps, and also with the Italian works of Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio, an understanding which he used to enrich and develop his own language. This transcription and edition is taken from British Library MS Harley 7334, produced within ten years of Chaucer’s death.
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious, outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity. Originally branded an eccentric, Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet of great depth, startling originality and courage for as she wrote: ‘Assent and you are sane; /Demure you’re straightaway dangerous / And handled with a chain’
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• Made in United Kingdom • Author: Emily Dickinson
The embossed and foil-stamped cover of this A5 size (210x148mm) journal features an image by illustrator Anna Stead, who works in the north Cotswolds and draws inspiration from nature, history, folklore, and her background in medieval studies. Includes a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts, two ribbon markers, robust ivory paper printed with ruled lines and a magnetic side flap to keep everything neat and tidy.
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Author: Flame Tree
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 15/10/2024
ISBN: 9781804179499
B-Code: B074111
Illustrated:
Pages: 176
Dimensions: 210x148mm
A light-hearted, fully-illustrated retro-style picture book with over 60 Scottish Gaelic words and phrases for you to practise with your furry best friend. Suitable as a first introduction to Gaelic for learners of all ages: for adults who would like a fun way to pick up a few basic words for when visiting Scotland or to connect with their heritage, or for children, who will love the cute pictures. There is a pronunciation guide, and many of the words and phrases can also be used in non cat-related situations.
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Author: Cakebread, Anne
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 01/05/2023
ISBN: 9781800993396
B-Code: B067833
Illustrated: Illustrations
Pages: 112
Dimensions: 148x105mm
This eye-catching set of ten unique pencils will help you create vibrant hues, whether you use them as regular colour pencils or combine them with water to create watercolour effects. Featuring barrel designs by French creative duo Sacree Frangine, they are a perfect way to bring joyful colour to your creative pursuits.
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Author: Sacree Frangine
Publisher: Chronicle (Vatable Products)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 01/09/2023
ISBN: 9781797219820
B-Code: B069813
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10
Dimensions: 197x83mm