Motherhood. Vintage Minis, Paperback - Helen Simpson

Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, constant self-sacrifice and thankless servitude, a land of bottomless devotion, small hands and f...

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. How do we carry on when som...

How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer lik...

How does a writer compose a suicide note? This was not a question that the prize-winning novelist had ever contemplated before. In this true accoun...

How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong sceptic of all things spiritual - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation ret...

Thought-provoking and life-affirming, this is at once an examination and a celebration of friendship in all its glorious complexity.Selected from t...

Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.' In inimitable st...

'This is a history of intellectual courage, hard work, occasional inspiration and every conceivable form of human failing.

In these beautifully told cases we find compulsive liars, deceived spouses, violent children and delusional adults but we also find ourselves and i...

'Because "God" is infinite, nobody can have the last word'What is this thing, religion, supposedly the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries...

Both are the unforgettable creations of the deeply independent and brilliant Charlotte Bronte.Selected from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Villet...

Can we truly know the one we love? The author looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven t...

A self-described 'emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two', the author explores the true meaning of home. He looks at what it means to belong...

In these three tales of quarrelling clans and fraught reunions, Mark Haddon shows family in its frank, unsparing yet frequently absurd light, and, ...

What's the worst another drink could do? From the calculating teenager who raids her parents' liquor cabinet, only to drown her sorrows in it, to t...

'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Could any writer portray Lo...

Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This swimming tour of Britain offers a frog's-eye view of the country's best bat...

'Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days'Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective.

How to be a good father? From children's birthday parties, unsuccessful family holidays, to humiliating antenatal music classes, this account of fa...

Freedom and enfranchisement. Something anarchical which pushes at boundaries. The sweetness of leisure time. Each of these rich avenues of meaning ...

LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Murde...

Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. From a bed that transforms the...

This new anthology of Helen de Guerry Simpson's supernatural fiction selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories t...

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror...

Providing a concise toolbox for publishing professionals and students of publishing, this book explores skills needed to master the key elements of...

Our foremost mountaineering writer reflects on the perilous and exacting nature of the activity which has dominated his adult life, seeking to reve...

White, black, and Native American women in the early South often viewed motherhood as a composite of roles, ranging from teacher and nurse to farme...

**A Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Irish Times, Refinery29, TLS and The White Review Book of the Year 2018**A provocative novel about the desire...

A stunning collection of portraits and intimate reflections on motherhood, sharing what unites mothers from different times and diverse cultures. A...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the outcome was totally unpredict...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Helen MortNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 214 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain to...

Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death. Helen M...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Helen MortNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 216 x 11Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. 'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' JAMES...

**CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR AND A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ**'Thrilling dispatches from a vanishing world' ObserverAnimals do...

the pin-up of Romantic artists.Focusing on the 'real' Helen - a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age - acclaimed historian Bettany ...