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Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
'I was born on May 25, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.' So begins Margaret Forster's journey through the houses she's lived in, from that sparkling new council house, built as part of a utopian vision by Carlisle City Council, to her beloved London house of today, via Oxford, Hampstead, the Lake District and a spell in the Mediterranean.
3) Island home
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
'I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how Australia's unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. Wise, rhapsodic, exalted - 'Island Home' is not just a moving insight into the life and art of one of our finest writers, but a compelling investigation into the way our country shapes us.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown of Reims and rediscovers the working-class world he had left behind 30 years earlier. For years, Eribon had thought of his father largely in terms of the latter's intolerable homophobia. Yet his father's death provokes new reflection on Eribon's part about how multiple processes of domination intersect in a given life and in a given culture. Eribon sets out to investigate his past, the history...
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Annie Proulx, one of America's finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie and her pleasure in uncovering the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil.
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
New pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere and he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska. Suddenly Guy was thrown into one of the harshest environments in the world, miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment.
Author
Publisher
Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For two months of every year, from 1946 to his death 18 years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand beach on Jamaica's stunning north coast. This book tells the story of Fleming's time on this extraordinary island and explores how its spirit - its exoticism, its unpredictable danger, its melancholy, its love of exaggeration and gothic melodrama - infused Fleming's novels and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
TV presenter, writer, and adventurer Alice Morrison gives her own unique and personal insight into Morocco, her home for 1001 nights. When Alice Morrison headed out to Morocco, it was to take on one of the most daunting challenges: to run in the famous Marathon des Sables. Little did she expect to end up living there. But as soon as she settled in a flat in Marrakech, she was won over by the people, the spectacular scenery and the ancient alleyways...
Author
Publisher
Two Roads
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
'My Garden World' is a celebration of every living creature that we all share. This year has given us the enforced opportunity to learn more about the fascinating natural world around us. Whether you live in the countryside or the town, Monty's observations and insights are relevant to each and every one of us. It is Monty Don's personal journey through the natural year, month by month, season by season, observed from the immediate world around him....
Author
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 2016 Scottish writer Iain Maloney and his Japanese wife Minori moved to a village in rural Japan. This is the story of his attempt to fit in, be accepted and fulfil his duties as a member of the community, despite being the only foreigner in the village. Even after more than a decade living in Japan and learning the language, life in the countryside was a culture shock. Due to increasing numbers of young people moving to the cities in search of...
14) My Scotland
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Val McDermid takes readers to the landscapes where she has lived all her life, and the places where her stories and characters reside. Accompanied by over 100 stunning photographs, this remarkable book uncovers Val's own Scotland in all its glory - from the iconic Isle of Skye to the majestic streets of Edinburgh; from the undiscovered hideaways of the Highlands to the wild and untamed Jura. Featuring excerpts from Val McDermid's...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
'The Smell of Summer Grass' is based partly on the long out of print 'Perch Hill'. It is the story of the years spent in finding and building a personal Arcadia, sometimes a dream, sometimes a nightmare, by writer Adam Nicolson and his wife, cook and gardener, Sarah Raven.
19) Sea state
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In her mid-30s and sprung out of a terrible relationship, Tabitha quit her job at a women's magazine, left London and put her savings into a six-month lease on a flat in a dodgy neighbourhood in Aberdeen - she was going to make good on a long-deferred idea for a book about oil rigs and the men who work on them. Why oil rigs? 'I wanted to see what men were like, with no women around'. 'Sea State' is, on the one hand, a portrait of an overlooked industry,...
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