Bloomsbury

Proving that sailing is not just the husbands pursuit, this charmingnarrative of one couples first long distance voyage is told from thewifes perspective. Writing in a lively, humorous way, Sandra Claytongives an entertaining account of her and husband Davids maidencruise from the UK, down the Atlantic coast and into the warm waters ofthe...

The first book that puts the hearth of the American home-its many unique challenges and innovations-in its proper place in contemporary history.Thomas Jefferson once wrote that if you really want to understand the workings of a society, you have to "look into their pots" and "eat their bread." Steven Gdula gives us a view of American culture from...

Part of Croft-Cooke’s series of autobiographical works, The Sensual World.The Author says, ’I have given this book its title because the words seem to fit each of the two journeys it records, journeys which, in the cant phrase of the courtroom, ran concurrently.The first was through the Mediterranean on a Yugoslav cargo boat during the...

Mornings in Jenin is a multi-generational story about a Palestinian family. Forcibly removed from the olive-farming village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejos are displaced to live in canvas tents in the Jenin refugee camp. We follow the Abulhejo family as they live through a half century of violent history....

Ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower perhaps?!) ormet someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? There arehundreds of words derived from real people who are famous - or infamous- enough to give their stamp to a movement, a way of thinking oracting, a style or even a mood. Name Dropping? is an essential guide tothe better...

When Evie and her father say good-bye at the train station, they are both on their own for the first time since her mother’s death. But Evie is not lonely for long. At art school in London, she is quickly caught up in colors and critiques, gallery visits and sketching expeditions. She finds fiercely loyal friends-Rob, pragmatic and pregnant;...