A cultural history of ice and icy places, written between Northern Greenland and the Bodleian Library, in the Alps and at the Kinross Curling Club. NC, a poet, deftly blends memoir, literary criticism and travel writing into a gleaming archive of cold climates on a warming planet. Transporting, delicious.
The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate
(author)
£14.99
Edition:Hardback978147116931101/11/2018From a Bookshelf nearby
-
This is a journey as imaginative and cerebral as it is physical: Lees, now an eminent neurologist, used to frequent the Liverpool docks as a child, with his father, and watch the ships unloa... read more
Brazil That Never Was
Hardback £14.99 -
He was in pre-Revolutionary Iran, Turkey, France, the USA... A Europhile, with trenchant views on Brexit.
They Call It Diplomacy
Hardback £25.00 -
Having and Being Had
Hardback £15.99 -
KnD was born in Derry, on the border between the Five Counties and Eire; one parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. This is a remarkable debut that combines memoir, nature writing and th... read more
Thin Places
Hardback £14.99