Howards End

David (INT) E. M.; Lodge Forster

In "Howard's End", E.M. Forster unveils the English character as never before, exploring the underlying class warfare involving three distinct groups - a wealthy family bound by the rules of tradition and property, two independent, cultured sisters, and a young man living on the edge of poverty. The sou...

The Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Grahame

""Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above ground into the warm sunshine, and happens upon his friend Ratty. Together they picnic on the sparkling, burbling river, brave the sinister Wild Wood in winter...

Stepping Out of Self-deceptionThe Buddha's Liberating Teaching of No-self

Rodney Smith

Anatta is the Buddhist teaching on the nonexistence of a permanent, independent self. It's a notoriously puzzling and elusive concept, usually leading to such questions as, "If I don't have a self, who's reading this sentence?" It's not that there's no self there, says Rodney Smith. It's just that the s...

Falling Awake

Alice Oswald

Winner of the Costa Poetry Award - Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award and the Forward Prize"These lyrics...illustrate poetry's unique ability to shock readers into a renewed awareness of the world." --Washington Post Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, "give s] us the sensation of l...

Falastin: A Cookbook

Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley

FALASTIN is a love letter to Palestine, the land and its people; an evocative collection of over 110 unforgettable recipes and stories from the co-authors of Jerusalem and Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, and Ottolenghi SIMPLE. Travelling through Bethlehem, East Jerusalem, Nablus, Haifa, Akka, Nazareth, Galil...

Don't Forget

Jane Godwin

Don't forget to make your bed, and wear socks that fit your feet... Don't forget to care, to play, To run, to laugh... Sometimes, we need to remember all the things we can do to be part of the world. Small things, like offering a smile. And bigger things, like hoping, dreaming, imagining...  ...