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'Absorbing and delightful' Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times'For anyone who likes good storytelling ... it is like being reunited with old friends' Sunday ExpressEvery table at Quentins restaurant in Dublin has a thousand stories to tell. The staff and...

The book is motivated by the author's long-lasting interest in the role of art in society in general and education in particular and is a contribution to arts-based approaches to education. An introduction to pedagogy of dissensus: a pedagogy informed by...

A lively, unbelievably fun (even titillating!) art book that celebrates Playgirl magazine’s 50-year anniversary, including historic articles, spreads, commentary, photography, and artwork from the ’70s through todayPlaygirl is a movement. This...

The crisis of 21st-century religion is upon us. With fewer people remaining committed to traditional religions and most new religious movements in their infancy, where does that leave the vast “silent spiritual majority” who find the old religions to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914399589Author L. M. AffrossmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Sparsile Books LtdPublisher Sparsile Books Ltd

Yeah, so, no one’s really precisely sure what to make of all this. The promotional blurbs here and herein are from people more eloquent than this person right now writing this, so the blurbs are actually where you want to look for an approximate spin on...

At the end of Hawthorn Close, nestled at the heart of the Wiltshire village of Essington St Mary, is a charming park which boasts two magnificent magnolia trees. New arrivals are moving into the neighbourhood, including those being lent a helping hand...

‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago TribuneTalk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's ‘Talk of the Town’ column from 1978 to 1983. New York is a town that fast adopts those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595728777Author Constance AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Star Bright BooksPublisher Star Bright BooksWeight(grams) 181g

A gorgeous look at popular illustrators of the Jazz Age and their influential role in the dynamic culture of the 1920s and ’30s The 1920s in the United States was characterized by economic prosperity and dramatic social change. Known as the Jazz Age, it...

An emotionally wrenching novel tackling key themes such as generational trauma and what it means to be Black British, surviving between the gaps of knowledge around familial migrant journeys, set in today's London and Ghana in the mid-90s. On the cusp of...

Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international art world insider. Praised by the Art Newspaper as ‘the best art writer of his generation’, Michael...

A unique blend of perennial wisdom and modern psychological practice The Journey of Psychosynthesis is unique in several ways: it is the first book on psychosynthesis based on a defined path of learning that has been refined and proven over more than 20...

***PRE-ORDER NOW***THE UNMISSABLE DEBUT ROMANCE NOVEL FROM CAMERON CAPELLO, TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM'S @CHAMBEROFSECRETBOOKS, COMING SUMMER 2024. For fans who loved all the angst and tension of Magnolia Parks with the sun-kissed vibes of The Summer I Turned...

Augustus famously boasted that, having inherited a city of brick, he bequeathed a city of marble; but the transformation of the City's physical fabric is only one aspect of a pervasive concern with geography, topography and monumentality that dominates...

‘If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center’ - New York TimesA piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human...

This beautiful NIV edition of the Bible is bound in cloth and foil stamped with an illustration inspired by the Garden of Eden. Designed to sit alongside classic literature on your bookshelf , this is an edition to be treasured forever. The New...

The artist and conservationist David Shepherd had a lifelong interest in railways. They were not only the subject of many of his paintings, but he also actively supported railway preservation in the UK and abroad. He was instrumental in setting up the...

A fresh, modern take on paint-by-number features 20 frame-worthy mushroom images, accompanied by step-by-step instructions and humorous profiles of each mushroom. This book is an open invitation to create art. Inside you'll find tips and techniques for...

Welcome to The Museum of Witchcraft, an eclectic exploration of witchcraft and magic through 100 objects, practices and symbols. Every sense is tingling. Even the dust here is rich, imbued with the past. It's cold, and quiet, so why don't you feel...

**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Banville is one of my favourite writers alive.' REBECCA F. KUANG'The repressed and sinister world of 1950s Ireland is exposed in beautiful, sometimes chilling prose.'FINANCIAL TIMESThe richly atmospheric new Strafford and...

A hilariously silly sticker activity book, with 101 bums and over 200 stickers!Now featuring an array of animals and bums AND stickers - from little to large, and everything in between -- this brilliantly silly sticker activity book is sure to get...

Filled with all the festive facts every Horrible Histories reader wants to know! The complete horrible history of Christmas tells tales of: the dark days when the Puritans tried to abolish Christmas the Christmas in the trenches when the British and...

A gorgeous story of bravery and new beginnings! Bravery starts with a single step... Once there was a little girl called Mia, who came from a city of streetlights and stars. When Mia moves away from a city of streetlight and stars to the quiet...

It's bedtime for ten little owls but they're not tired! Mama Owl needs some help to get Speedy Owl, Tall Owl, Small Owl, Hooty Owl, Cheeky Owl, Wise Owl, Hoppity Owl, Snoozy Owl, Wide-awake Owl and Teeny Tiny Owl to sleep. This sweet interactive picture...

Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. A man asks himself if he believes in God and...

Sometimes love happens in an instant. From their first meeting, a kid and his dog become best friends. As the years go by, their bond grows deeper as they play games, go on adventures, learn new tricks, comfort each other, and celebrate milestones...

Can God handle our hardest questions, biggest struggles, and secret doubts?We instinctively assume he cannot. We figure giving voice to those things will bring shame, rejection, and distance from him. But what if our hard questions don't need to function...

Waterhouses is about the places the people of Lagos have inhabited, imagined, and made home for the past two centuries. It asks what a house in Lagos is and explores how the answer to that question has been historically constructed and reconstructed in...

'Climb up here, Little Alien. Sit next to me. I will tell you about life on this planet. I will tell you how it goes'Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Remarkably Bright Creatures, this is a charming, witty and profoundly moving...

Interesting Bird Nests & Eggs presents charming and wonderfully diverse portraits of bird eggs and nests, each specially selected from specimens held by the Natural History Museum, London. The Museum holds one of the largest and most comprehensive...

This unique guide explores the broad arc of terrain that flanks the city of Edinburgh – the three old counties of East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian, plus the district of Falkirk, ancient hub of Central Scotland. It’s a rolling landscape dotted...

Explore deep into the heart of Phoenix to find its best kept secrets, natural wonders, and inspiring people – not to mention a few ghosts – and discover the Old Western charm that still permeates the culture here. Visit a mystery castle, a gleaming white...

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis...

"That's so meta! The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective meta to describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the lack of scholarship on meta-phenomena in film and...

This book highlights a number of the major Sufi figures whose writings on legal theory were strongly shaped by their Sufism, showing how they belonged to the same tradition and developed each other's ideas. The book focuses in particular on Ibn ?Arab?,...

New scholarship on Katherine Mansfield's The Garden Party and Other Stories together with creative work inspired by MansfieldThe last collection of short stories published in her lifetime, The Garden Party and Other Stories would solidify Katherine...

Between North Carolina's coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are found all over the world, but North...

Join Bizzy Bear as he zooms into space in this chunky new board book with sliding counters.Bizzy Bear is an astronaut today. He's zooming in his rocket off on a space adventure and he needs your help! Board the spaceship, fly into space, grab a snack in...

In Ukraine, War, Love, Olena Stiazhkina depicts day-to-day developments in and around her beloved hometown Donetsk during Russia’s 2014 invasion and occupation of the Ukrainian city. An award-winning fiction writer, Stiazhkina chronicles an increasingly...