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Exploring gardens, monuments, museums and churches Exploring gardens, monuments, museums and churches, with walks both urban and rural, this book will take you on an evocative tour of the UK’s literary sites and landscapes. There are the real-life settings of fantastical worlds, the places that inspired our best-loved stories, and, of course, their authors’ favourite writing spots. From the Brontë parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith’s North London, from the Scottish birthplace of Thomas Carlyle to Anna Burns’ Belfast, each landmark is brought to life by colour destination photographs and illustrations from the British Library’s collections. 📚 Start with Chaucer, Dickens and Larkin in Westminster Abbey. Spend an afternoon at Colliers Wood Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire and take in the lake D. H. Lawrence described as ‘all grey and visionary, stretching into the moist, translucent vista of trees and meadow’. Venture south to Cornwall and work your way up to the Scottish Highlands, taking detours to Northern Ireland in the west and Norfolk in the east. Wherever you are in the United Kingdom, you’re never far from something associated with a good book.
Ubuntu: “I am because we are, and because we are Ubuntu: “I am because we are, and because we are, you are.” 📒 When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life’s purpose. Unable to move from hunger and malnourishment, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life - a transformative moment that inspired Elizabeth to dedicate herself to giving back to her community, her continent and the world. 📒 In the decades that have followed, Elizabeth has been instrumental in creating change and uplifting the lives of others: by fighting global inequalities, advancing social justice for vulnerable communities and challenging the status quo to accelerate women’s rights around the world. She has served as a senior advisor at the United Nations, where she launched HeForShe, one of the world’s largest global solidarity movements for gender equality. In I Am a Girl from Africa, she charts her journey from her small village of Goromonzi to Harare, Zimbabwe; London; New York; and beyond, always grounded by the African concept of ubuntu taught to her by her beloved grandmother. 📒 This memoir brings to vivid life one extraordinary woman’s story of persevering through incredible odds and finding her true calling - while delivering an important message of hope, empowerment, community support and interdependence.
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and father Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and father figures! Thinking too of those who find this day difficult 💙
Thank you to author Cecily Blench who popped into Thank you to author Cecily Blench who popped into our Leominster store yesterday to sign copies of her new book! The Long Journey Home is out now in paperback!
The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, the The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which we lived altered completely. 🍂 Across four seasons and a luminous series of poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes paint a picture of a year caught in the grip of history filled with revelatory perspectives close at hand. A sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved one’s hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard - the everyday wonders and memories that shape a life and help us recall our own. 🍂 The Heeding leads us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with fear and pain but beauty and wonder too. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, it is a profound meditation to a time no one will forget. 🍂 At its heart, this is a book that helps us look again, to heed: to be attentive to this world we share, to grieve what’s lost and to hope for a better and brighter tomorrow.
Designed to hold back a Soviet invasion of Western Designed to hold back a Soviet invasion of Western Europe by all necessary measures including nuclear strikes, the Panavia Tornado was a product of the Cold War. For nearly a decade, the possibility of its engagement in all-out conflict had been remote. 🛩 Then, in August 1990, everything changed. When Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded neighbouring Kuwait, he set in motion a chain of events that had immense political, military and personal repercussions which still reverberate around the globe today. 🛩 The RAF Tornado force found itself at the very centre of Operation Desert Storm, the Allied mission to turn back the aggressor. Launched on the most perilous sorties into the heart of heavily defended Iraqi strongholds, their task was to neutralise Saddam’s highly trained and combat-hardened air force, protecting coalition ground troops from aerial attack. 🛩 At the time, no Tornado crew had ever flown the jet in anger. Heading towards their targets in pitch darkness at high speed and ultra-low level, they hoped to catch the enemy defences unawares - but were met with the hottest and most terrifying of welcomes. 🛩 Former Tornado navigator John Nichol, who was shot down and captured during the conflict, brings those raids vividly to life, and also follows the narratives of those who did not return. We join the families who watched and waited as one of the most complex conflicts in recent history unfolded live on television. Theirs is a story of fast-evolving tactics and great camaraderie; of love, hope and loss; of untold suffering and astounding courage in the face of hitherto unimaginable adversity.
Stack Saturday featuring the lovely @4thestatebook Stack Saturday featuring the lovely @4thestatebooks Modern Collins Classics again as they are just so gorgeous! How colourful are these stunning spines?! 😍📚
The gripping story of an epic battle at sea, from The gripping story of an epic battle at sea, from one of Britain’s most acclaimed historians of war. 📖 In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Winston Churchill made a personal decision that at all costs, the ‘island fortress’ must be saved. This was not merely a matter of strategy, but of national prestige, when Britain’s fortunes and morale had fallen to their lowest ebb. 📖 The largest fleet the Royal Navy committed to any operation of the western war was assembled to escort fourteen fast merchantmen across a thousand miles of sea defended by six hundred German and Italian aircraft, together with packs of U-boats and torpedo-craft. The Mediterranean battles that ensued between 11 and 15 August were the most brutal of Britain’s war at sea, embracing four aircraft-carriers, two battleships, seven cruisers, scores of destroyers and smaller craft. The losses were appalling: defeat seemed to beckon. 📖 This is the saga Max Hastings unfolds in his first full-length narrative of the Royal Navy, which he believes was the most successful of Britain’s wartime services. As always, he blends the ‘big picture’ of statesmen and admirals with human stories of German U-boat men, Italian torpedo-plane crews, Hurricane pilots, destroyer and merchant-ship captains, ordinary but extraordinary seamen. 📖 Operation Pedestal describes catastrophic ship sinking, including that of the aircraft-carrier Eagle, together with struggles to rescue survivors and salvage stricken ships. Most moving of all is the story of the tanker Ohio, indispensable to Malta’s survival, victim of countless Axis attacks. In the last days of the battle, the ravaged hulk was kept under way only by two destroyers, lashed to her sides. Max Hastings describes this as one of the most extraordinary tales he has ever recounted. Until the very last hours, no participant on either side could tell what would be the outcome of an epic of wartime suspense and courage.
“Awfully opinionated for a girl” is what they “Awfully opinionated for a girl” is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. 🇺🇸 Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader - and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm No. 🇺🇸 How might things have worked out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton? 🇺🇸 With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Curtis Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men. 🇺🇸 We are giving away* Awfully Opinionated For A Girl pin badges with every purchase of a copy of Rodham, which is out now in paperback! 🇺🇸 *While stock lasts!
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