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Pleasures of the Table, A Literary Anthology; Christina Hardyment ✓ In Stock

Hardback Condition: New This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks. Napoleon famously declared that an army marched on its stomach; less familiar is the idea that great authors were as eager to feed their stomachs as their imaginations. Far-ranging in both time and place, this exploration of literary eating and great writing about food will amuse, surprise, and make the mouth water. The anthology begins with examples of hospitality, ranging from Chaucer's convivial Franklin to Walter Scott's bountiful breakfasts and dinner with Virginia Woolf's Mrs Ramsay. Next comes eating to impress - dazzling banquets from Flaubert to F. Scott Fitzgerald - and some great fictional love feasts (there is no doubt that in literature food and love go together rather better than love and marriage).Many of our most vivid memories of food in literature were laid down in childhood, and nostalgia is to the fore in such classic scenes as Pinocchio aching with hunger, Ratty and Mole picnicking, enchanted Turkish delight in Narnia, and a seaside picnic from Enid Blyton. A section on distant times and places ranges from seethed tortoise in ancient China to seal's liver fried in penguin blubber as a treat for Captain Scott. Those who relish simplicity rather than excess will enjoy Sydney Smith's delicate salad dressing and Hemingway's appreciation of oysters.

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The Brontes in Brussels; Helen MacEwan ✓ In Stock

Paperback Condition: New A fascinating and thorough account of Charlotte and Emily Bronte's formative stay in Brussels during 1842-43. The Brontes' time in Belgium, five years before they became best-selling authors, is the least-known episode of their lives, but is a fascinating and important one. The book follows in the tracks of the sisters in Brussels, describing their life in the city: though the school where they came to study French has now disappeared, there is still a lot to be seen of the city the sisters knew; two of Charlotte's four novels (Villette and The Professor) are also based on her spell abroad, which was pivotal to her both as a writer and personally, since she fell in love with her teacher Constantin Heger. Charlotte's moving and harrowing letters to Heger--a respectable married man--are reproduced in full here and belie the common image of her as the motherly and strait-laced Bronte. Also including maps of the period, extracts from Villette reflecting real-life experiences in Brussels and translations of the sisters' little-known "Belgian essays," what emerges is a complete portrait of a slice of literary history--as well as a haunting evocation of a time and a place that came to haunt the Brontes themselves.

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Introducing Linguistics, A Graphic Guide ✓ In Stock
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Introducing Linguistics, A Graphic Guide
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The Reality Frame, Relativity And Our Place In The Universe; Brian Clegg ✓ In Stock
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Introducing Capitalism, A Graphic Guide ✓ In Stock
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Cell 8; Anders Roslund & Hellstrom ✓ In Stock
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Did You See Melody?; Sophie Hannah ✓ In Stock
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The Smell of Fresh Rain, The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense; Barney Shaw ✓ In Stock
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Introducing Artificial Intelligence, A Graphic Guide ✓ In Stock
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Introducing Darwin, A Graphic Guide ✓ In Stock
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I, Robot; Isaac Asimov ✓ In Stock
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Anansi Boys; Neil Gaiman ✓ In Stock
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The Story of Philosophy, A Western Thought; James Garvey & Jeremy Stangroom ✓ In Stock
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The Mammoth Book of Combat, Reports From The Frontline ✓ In Stock
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The Search for Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson) ✓ In Stock
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1918: The Dramatic Resolution of the Great War; Martin Marix Evans ✓ In Stock
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The Drowned and the Saved; Primo Levi ✓ In Stock
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The Art of Kissing; Hugh Morris ✓ In Stock
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Olives, The Life & Lore of A Noble Fruit; Mort Rosenblum ✓ In Stock
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The Universe: Explained, Condensed and Exploded; Richard Osborne ✓ In Stock
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Marabou Stork nightmares; Irvine Welsh ✓ In Stock
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The High Window; Raymond Chandler (Philip Marlowe Book 3) ✓ In Stock
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The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu: New Lovecraftian Fiction; Edited by Paula Guran ✓ In Stock
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City of Sin, London and It's Vices; Catharine Arnold ✓ In Stock
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Lean on Pete; Willy Vlautin ✓ In Stock
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Stasi Wolf; David Young ✓ In Stock
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The Epicurean's Good Food Guide, Buying and Using Ingredients from Around the World; Roz Denny ✓ In Stock
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Lola; Melissa Scrivner Love ✓ In Stock
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The Pleasure Principle, Epicureanism: A Philosophy for Modern Living; Catherine Wilson ✓ In Stock
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Kill My Mother, A Graphic Novel; Jules Feiffer ✓ In Stock
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Goldilocks and The Water Bears, The Search for Life in the Universe; Louisa Preston ✓ In Stock
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Inventions That Didn't Change the World; Julie Halls ✓ In Stock
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Strange Intelligence, Memoirs of Naval Secret Service; Hector C. Bywater & H.C Ferraby ✓ In Stock
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Dali's Moustache; Boris Friedewald ✓ In Stock
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I Knew The Bride; Hugo Williams ✓ In Stock
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Travels With My Aunt; Graham Greene ✓ In Stock
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A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice; Jack Holland ✓ In Stock
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A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof; Roger Clarke ✓ In Stock
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Freud, The Key Ideas; Ruth Snowden ✓ In Stock
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Stuff Matters; Mark Miodownik ✓ In Stock
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Tender Is The Night; F. Scott Fitzgerald ✓ In Stock
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Can't Be Arsed, 101 Things NOT To Do Before You Die; Richard Wilson ✓ In Stock
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Understand Psychology; Dr. Nicky Hayes ✓ In Stock
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Psychedelia and Other Colours; Rob Chapman ✓ In Stock
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The Fall at Home; Don Patterson ✓ In Stock
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Theatres of The Troubles: Theatre, Resistance and Liberation in Ireland; Bill McDonnell ✓ In Stock
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Malcolm Morley Itineraries; Jean-Claude Lebensztejn ✓ In Stock
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The Immeasurable World, Journeys in Desert Places; William Atkins ✓ In Stock
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Walking in Ruins; Geoff Nicholson ✓ In Stock
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Murder Has A Public Face, Crime and Punishment in the Speed Graphic Era; Larry Millett ✓ In Stock
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The Essential Cook's Kitchen; Alison Walker ✓ In Stock
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, The Strife of Love in a Dream (Thames & Hudson) ✓ In Stock
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Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea; Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith and Bruno Ciceri ✓ In Stock
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Company Confessions, Revealing CIA Secrets, Christopher Moran ✓ In Stock
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Gunpowder & Geometry, The Life of Charles Hutton: Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel; Benjamin Wardhaugh ✓ In Stock
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Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast; Barbie Latza Nadeau ✓ In Stock
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1666: Plague, War & Hellfire; Rebecca Rideal ✓ In Stock
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