A lyrical and moving story of Mehar, one of three women married to Sikh brothers in 1929, kept veiled and confined to perform domestic duties and bear sons, interspersed with the tale of her great-grandson dealing with his experiences of racism and isolation.
Fresh, engaging survey of how Christianity evolved from a fringe sect into a world religion showing how the process was never inevitable but hinged upon a series of pivotal conversions.
Thrilling inside story of the prison camp on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany and of the tensions and conflicts between the men as they endured their captivity and desperately planned their escape.
An analysis of the concept of command as a means of asserting authority and achieving objectives in decision-making, leadership and military action.
On Wednesday 22nd of June Natasha Lunn will be talking in conversation with Julia Samuel at St Mary’s, Primrose Hill – see here for details on how to buy tickets.
After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking: How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it? In Conversations on Love she began to find the answers: Philippa Perry on falling in love slowly, Dolly Alderton on vulnerability, Stephen Grosz on accepting change, Candice Carty-Williams on friendship, Lisa Taddeo on the loneliness of loss, Diana Evans on parenthood, Emily Nagoski on the science of sex, Alain de Botton on the psychology of being alone, Esther Perel on unrealistic expectations, Roxane Gay on redefining romance, and many more…
Presented with the author’s characteristic wit and good sense, this is the eagerly awaited first cookbook from Soho’s Quo Vadis, a masterclass in well-executed dishes.
Books will be delivered to the Savile Club for collection at the event on 22nd April – select “Collect from Shop” at the checkout after entering your billing address details.
Delightful homage to Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love in which Linda, Franny, and the Radlett family reappear with a contemporary twist in rural Norfolk. Witty, warm, and wonderfully entertaining.
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Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can’t even get a signal on her mobile phone.
Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family, and she escapes to London. She knows she doesn’t want to marry ‘a man who looks like a pudding’, as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead. But this is only the beginning of Linda’s pursuit of love, a journey that will be wilder, more surprising and more complicated than she could ever have imagined.
Books will be delievered to the Savile Club for collection at the event on 6th May – select “Collect from Shop” at the checkout after entering your billing address details.
The story of the revolutionary impact of the legendary dancers, actors, musicians and artists who worked under the inspired direction of the Russian impressario.
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Unusual story of Gil who walks, quite literally, away from his comfortable New York life to start afresh in Arizona. A compelling examination of whether it is possible to be wealthy and priveleged and also to lead a ‘good’ life – a life of service.
A superbly imagined story of domestic pets learning to survive in the wild following the departure of their human family.
Age guide: 9-12
Reflections from many years of discovering and appreciating a wide range of wines – articulate, informative and designed to appeal to the discerning wine-lover.