This collection of essays started with Nancy Mitford's article “The English Aristocracy”, published in 1955 in the magazine Encounter. The expressions “U” (Upper Class) and “Non-U” (non-Upper Class) c…
Shelve Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry Into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy
The latest in the Dung Beetle Learning series, Mummy, John and Susan are taken on a thrilling Christmas adventure. "Come with me," says Father Christmas, "and I will show you the magic of kindness." "…
Edward Gorey's off-kilter depictions of Yuletide mayhem and John Updike's wryly jaundiced text examine a dozen Christmas traditions with a decidedly wheezy ho-ho-ho. This long out-of-print classic is …
Lost in a New England snowstorm, a family is sheltered by a mysterious old man who disappears the next morning, leaving behind a magical "Christmas card".
From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enchanting collection of stories for the holiday season.
For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a…
Shelve Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her …
At Christmas time two orphans and their guardian search through snowbound London for their missing landlord, even though he has threatened to evict them.
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, a…
Everyone loves the presents under the Christmas tree. Here are eight parcels ready to be opened again and again. Who knows what the reader will find inside them? Perhaps an angel or two, maybe a band …
'Fascinating' - Prue Leith Bourbons. Custard Creams. Rich Tea. Jammie Dodgers. Chocolate Digestives. Shortbread. Ginger snaps. Which is your favourite?
British people eat more biscuits than any other na…
Shelve The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence
A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.
The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 SATURDAY LIVE presenter, the Reverend Richard Coles. The Reverend Richard Coles is a parish priest in Northamptonshire and a regular host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Liv…
Shelve Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit
It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for decades to stave off progressive causes are being exposed as falsehoods. Six myths have taken hold, …
Shelve We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so m…
Shelve Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are r…
Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as “the Old Mu…
Between these pages, readers can experience Christmas in the later Georgian period, as described by many of Miss Austen's contemporaries, including Robert Southey, John Clare, and Sir Walter Scott. Le…
Shelve Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England
'However you attempt to justify it with thoughtful questions about history and provenance, writing a book about cake is an idea born of pure gluttony. I just like to think it was gluttony with an enqu…
Shelve A Slice of Britain: Around the country by cake
'A beautifully textured tour around the cheeseboard' Simon Garfield 'Full of flavour' Sunday Times 'A delightful and informative romp ... a fine Christmas present, along with a wedge of Sparkenhoe Red L…
Shelve A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles
A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, this is "how to be a woman artist" This is the story of Tracey Thorn, one half of the internationally successful …
Shelve Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star
Midcentury America was a wonderland of department stores, suburban cul-de-sacs, and Tupperware parties. Every kid on the block had to have the latest cool toy, be it an Easy Bake Oven for pretend baki…
Shelve Midcentury Christmas: Holiday Fads, Fancies, and Fun from 1945 to 1970
Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own.
'After the success of their ingenious idea of matching pictures from Ladybird's archive with prose that mocks the mores of modern life, they are bowing out with a bang with this compendium' - Sunday T…
Shelve The Wonderful World of Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups
