Published By: Jessica Kingsley Publisher Pages: 128Released On: 18/11/2021 This book combines moving accounts of the lived experience of dyslexia adults with tips and strategies for surmounting the challenges you or a loved one or family member may face. Drawing on in-depth interviews, Kelli Sandman-Hurley explores common themes such as school experiences; the impact ofContinue reading “The Adult Side of Dyslexia – Kelli Sandman-Hurley”
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Per My Last Email – Stephanie K. Wright
Published By: Andrews McMeelPages: 128Released On: 11/11/2021 Offices are a breeding ground for odd expressions and hackneyed platitudes. Why are we peeling onions and putting irons in the fire? And most importantly, how is it even possible to give 110%? Per My Last Email will provide you with fresh new words to sprinkle throughout yourContinue reading “Per My Last Email – Stephanie K. Wright”
Autobibliography- Rob Doyle
Published By: SwiftPages: 256Released On: 04/11/2021 Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two books – from the Dhammapada and Marcuz Aurelius, via The Tibetan Book of the Dead and La Rochefoucauld, to Robert Bolano and Svetlana Alexievich – as well as the memories they trigger and the reverberations they create. It is a recordContinue reading “Autobibliography- Rob Doyle”
The Illustrated Etymologicon-Mark Forsyth
Published By: Icon BooksPages: 320Released On: 04/11/2021 The Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language. What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? MarkContinue reading “The Illustrated Etymologicon-Mark Forsyth”
Orwell’s Roses – Rebecca Solnit
Published By: GrantaPages: 272Released On: 21/10/2021 “In the year 1936 a writer planted roses.” So begins Rebecca Solnit’s new book, a reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, and the natural world illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics ofContinue reading “Orwell’s Roses – Rebecca Solnit”
This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
Published By: PicadorPages: 280Date Released: 12/09/2017 Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s “This is Going to Hurt” provides aContinue reading “This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay”
Man’s Search For Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
Published by: RiderPages: 160Date released: 06/05/2004Date read: 04/03/2021 Man’s Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl’s story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives. This book review is going to beContinue reading “Man’s Search For Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl”
The Kitchen Cabinet – Annie Gray
Published By: Ebury/Penguin Random HousePages: 336Released On: 30/09/2021 The official ”The Kitchen Cabinet” compendium is here at last, with over 100 hours of dinner table talk distilled into this handy almanac, a year in the life of our kitchens to aid you in yours. Open up to find food tips and tricks, stories, recipes, anecdotesContinue reading “The Kitchen Cabinet – Annie Gray”
This Much Is True – Miriam Margolyes
Published By: John Murray (Hachette)Pages: 448Released On: 16/09/2021 BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury’s Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, Miriam is the nation’s favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinaryContinue reading “This Much Is True – Miriam Margolyes”
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce – Massimo Montanari
Published By: Europa CompassPages: 128Released On: 23/09/2021 Is it possible to identify a starting point in history from which everything else unfolds – a single moment that can explain the present and reveal the essence of our identities? According to Massimo Montanari, this is just a myth: by themselves, origins explain very little and historicalContinue reading “A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce – Massimo Montanari”
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