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
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£14.99
Edition:Hardback978147116931101/11/2018From a Bookshelf nearby
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MH has spent the last twelve years designing and tending a beautiful 12-acre garden - not his own, but the property of an elderly widow. More rough greenman than elegant plantsman, his accou... read more
Seed to Dust: A Gardener’s Story
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SM's parents were German Jewish refugees; he was raised a Catholic and forbidden to identify as Jewish or German or British. His maternal aunts concealed their origins too and had very diffe... read more
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A memoir by the great Hungarian pianist, addressing concerns such as communism and anti-Semitism alongside piano technique and musical interpretation.
Music Comes Out of Silence: A Memoir
Hardback £20.00