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Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You
*AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 LOOSE ENDSA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SUMMER BOOKLoveReading’s Best Books of the Year 2025__ A deliciously nourishing memoir of food, family and finding love…‘A world-spanning love story.’ Rebecca May Johnson‘A wonderfully heartwarming memoir with lots of foodie insights.’ Rachel Khoo----- After a thirteen-year relationship ends, food journalist Candice Chung find herself losing both her first love and her favourite dining partner. So when her retired Cantonese parents volunteer as her new plus-ones, she must decide whether to keep the peace – or finally confront the distance that’s grown between them. As a new romance stirs and old wounds heal, Candice begins to learn that some truths can’t be spoken – only tasted . . . This is a deliciously nourishing story of food, family and finding new love. __‘A touching, poignant love story… so vivid and flavoursome.’ Huma Qureshi, author of How We Met‘Packed with heart, humour, and those tender moments around a dinner table.’ Angela Hui, author of Takeaway‘Will undo anyone whose love language is food.’ Tara Wigley, co-author of Ottolenghi SIMPLE‘A real and delightful surprise – and also very funny.’ Ella Risbridger, author of Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For)
The Scientist Who Wasn't There
<p><b>'A page-turner with a mystery to solve, and a meditation on what it means for a child to know their parents' - Cathy Rentzenbrink</b><br><b>'An exceptional, entirely unpredictable, real-life thriller' - Michael Mansfield</b><br><b>'An astonishingly original memoir about truth, identity and the ethics of science' <i>The Telegraph</i></b><br><b>'Gripping' <i>The Times<br></i><br>WINNER OF THE BRIDPORT PRIZE FOR MEMOIR</b><br><b><br>What would you do to find out the truth about someone you love? A forensic, propulsive book about the line between fact and fiction.</b><br><br>Renowned scientist Professor Michael Briggs was many things:<br>A Space expert at NASA<br>An adviser to the World Health Organisation<br>A successful Big Pharma executive <br><br>But Michael Briggs had a secret. <br><br>A scandal broke out in 1986 when research he conducted was revealed to be compromised. Patients were also claiming that a pregnancy test he pioneered had caused devastating birth defects. Soon after his fall from grace, Briggs was dead, struck down by a mystery illness in a foreign country<br><br>Briggs left behind a long list of publications, patents, and inventions. But he also left behind hundreds of people who believe they are victims of his negligence and who are still fighting for justice to this day. <br><br>And he left someone else: his daughter, Joanne. After decades of wondering who her father really was, Joanne decided to investigate for herself. In hypnotic prose, she uncovers the secret that shaped her father's entire life and made his story more fantastic than any science fiction. As she discovered, Briggs's greatest invention was himself.</p>
Flutter
Flutter is a memoir about how the author fell in love with a secret gambler, and their journey to be free of this addiction. Dianne has recreated Tony’s voice from her memories of him, supplemented by his diaries and notes, so the story is told from two points of view. For Tony, gambling was more than a flutter, it was his life. But they sought help and learned how important other people are on the road to recovery. Dianne and Tony were happily married for thirty-four years. Theirs is just one story, but compulsive gambling affects thousands of people every day. It’s a puzzling problem to pin down, as it has no obvious physical symptoms. It’s horrible living with an addict and not having a clue what’s going on. This book could help someone, perhaps you or maybe someone you know, identify the problem of addiction and be able to seek help. This book is not just about gambling. Dianne and Tony face challenges and joys that may be just like some of yours. No one can escape loss and grief, and that is written about too. However, it’s written with a light touch, so there is fun and love and laughter included too.
Dafydd Elis-Thomas
Explores why Dafydd Elis-Thomas, the leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Nationalist party, didn?t believe in nationalism and how this changed Welsh politics. Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas of Nant Conwy is one of the most outstanding Welsh public figures of the last fifty years. His political career spans from his first election as MP for the Welsh Nationalist Party in 1974 at the age of 27, to May 2021 when he finally retired after twenty-years of service as a member of the Senedd. At different stages in his career, he was branded a maverick, an intellectual acrobat and political chameleon, a terrorist for his interventions in Northern Ireland, and a traitor for opposing nationalism. As the first Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales he helped stabilize the new institution and embedded devolution in its first tentative decade. His career has often been marked by controversy. This is what makes his story remarkable, just as his political life has proved to be unpredictable. Both controversial and magnetic, the life and thought of Elis-Thomas is captured in this biography.
I Loved Him From The Day He Died
''I wanted him to be someone he wasn''t. I wanted me to be someone I wasn''t.''A stunning new book from the number one bestselling, award-winning author of All the Things Left Unsaid and Staring at Lakes.To mark his 70th birthday Michael Harding travelled to Spain and walked the Camino de Santiago. Yet, as he set off on his pilgrimage, he found he wasn''t alone. Accompanying him on his 126-kilometre walk in theheat of the Spanish sun was the ghost of his long-dead father, a distant and aloof figure whom he lost when he was only twenty-two years old.Here, with searing honesty and beautifully wrought prose, Harding examines how this man, who had diedalmost half a century ago, could have had such a profound effect on the writer''s life.From the Ireland of his youth, to the time of his father''s death, and to the holy wells and pubs he frequented in search of a connection with a man he never really knew, I Loved Him From The Day He Died is a heartfeltexamination of love, forgiveness and letting go - told with simple vulnerability and profound insight.
My Brother, My Land
A riveting and unapologetic account of Palestinian resistance, the story of one family''s care for their land, and a reflection on love and heartache while living under military occupation. In 1967, Sireen Sawalha''s mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen''s family in the decades that followed and their lives in the Palestinian village of Kufr Ra''i. From Sireen''s early life growing up in the shadow of the ''67 War and her family''s work as farmers caring for their land, to the involvement of her brother Iyad in armed resistance in the First and Second Intifada, Sami Hermez, with Sireen Sawalha, crafts a rich story of intertwining voices, mixing genres of oral history, memoir, and creative nonfiction. Through the lives of the Sawalha family, and the story of Iyad''s involvement with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hermez confronts readers with the politics and complexities of armed resistance and the ethical tensions and contradictions that arise, as well as with the dispossession and suffocation of people living under occupation and their ordinary lives in such times. Whether this story leaves readers discomforted, angry, or empowered, they will certainly emerge with a deeper understanding of the Palestinian predicament.
The Dark Dad
Art historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a father who talked little, whose affection she cherished and whose anger she feared. She later came to understand the trauma that lay behind his dark moods: rejection and violence in his childhood and the brutal experience of being a prisoner of war in Italy and then Germany from late 1941 to 1945.In this affecting memoir, she traces back through her father’s life and war record, discovering a man who had suffered but who ultimately found peace of mind among the people he loved most.
The Pursuit of Motherhood
''A must read for anyone facing fertility issues.'' - Kate Brian, Author of The Complete Guide to IVF.If you’ve ever felt a crumpling in your chest when another friend tells you that they’re pregnant… If you’ve ever wondered why you weren’t taught in school that it might not be easy… If you’ve ever experienced the pursuit of motherhood… This book is for you. The story of Jessica Hepburn’s decade long journey through a diagnosis of ‘Unexplained Infertility’ involving multiple miscarriages, unsuccessful IVF and the heartbreak of not getting what you hoped for. But in the end her attempt to create a life will become life-affirming.
Tiny
Tiny is a memoir by award-winning travel writer Louise Southerden about her quest to create a simpler way of life by building her very own tiny house. In her successful career as a travel writer, Louise found herself staying in ever new and exotic locations, but while staying in a cabin in Norway, she had an epiphany about what she truly wanted for her life, ready to put down roots. With no prior building experience, Louise decided to build a tiny house with her partner, Max, which tested an already unstable relationship. Over the year and a half of planning and construction of her tiny house, Louise witnessed her new home coming together as her relationship was falling apart. Alongside her burgeoning construction skills, Louise learned about love, home, forgiveness and what we really need to be happy. This is an intensely personal story about searching for home and true love, two of life's most fundamental needs, risking everything, failing and finding ways to cope, and discovering that what we need isn't always what we thought we wanted.
The Diaries of Mr Lucas
''A kaleidoscopic portrait of post-war queer life'' Guardian''Fascinating'' The Times''Absorbing, illuminating, highly entertaining and often very funny'' Spectator''Fascinating, bitchy, humorous and shocking'' Time OutFOR NEARLY 60 YEARS Mr George Lucas led a double life. A mild-mannered civil servant by day, by night he was a fixture of London''s colourful underground gay scene - a twilight world of petty crime, louche pubs and public toilets. He was also an obsessive diary writer. Beginning in the early 1960s, Mr Lucas had a passionate and fraught affair with a rent boy associate of the Kray twins known as Irish Peter, one of many men Mr Lucas paid for sex. Together, Irish Peter and Mr Lucas represent the spectrum of gay criminality prior to the partial decriminalisation of gay sex in 1967. When Mr Lucas died in 2014, he left his diaries to the journalist Hugo Greenhalgh. The Diaries of Mr Lucas combines Mr Lucas''s deliciously indiscreet recollections of a life spent sometimes literally in the shadows with Greenhalgh''s commentary - this is gay London like it''s never been seen before.
Red Pockets
‘A fascinating exploration of the linkages between ancestral inheritance, diasporic belonging, and our climate future... I read it in one sitting, which took me on a moving and often unexpected journey’ Aube Rey Lescure''Part of me knew what the hungry ghosts wanted all along, what they still want. It is not vengeance. No, they want something else, but we refuse to listen. They want us to face up to our broken obligations.'' Every spring during the Qingming Festival, people return to their home villages in China to sweep the tombs of their ancestors, making offerings of food and incense to prevent them from becoming hungry ghosts that could cause misfortune. Yet for the past century, a time ruptured by war and revolution, many tombs have been left unattended. Following a record year of wildfires, Alice Mah returns to her family’s rice village in South China, and discovers that her ancestors are almost forgotten, and there are no tombs left to sweep. Instead, there are incalculable clan debts to be paid. Here Mah chronicles her journey from the rice villages of South China to her home in post-industrial England, through the Chinatowns of Western Canada where she grew up, to the isles and industry of Scotland where she now lives. As years pass and fires rage on, she becomes increasingly troubled by her ancestors’ neglected graves. Her research on pollution gives way to growing eco-anxiety, culminating in a crisis of spiritual belief. A haunting blend of memoir, cultural history and environmental exploration, Red Pockets confronts the hungry ghosts of our neglected ancestors, while searching for an acceptable offering. What do we owe to past and future generations? What do we owe to the places that we inhabit?
Always Hungry
A riot of dark humour beginning with her dysfunctional childhood in outback Australia, Jane McGuinness details her recovery from an emotional eating disorder with dry wit, discovering that hers is something of a curious social experiment. Exploring themes of patriarchy and discrimination against the overweight, Jane walks away from her long-term marriage, returns to grad school while raising her three children in a foreign country, and transforms her health. Hiking the Camino de Santiago through Spain and adventures in Greece are regaled with self-deprecating fervour, while horrifying post-divorce Tinder dating will leave the reader amused and aghast in equal measure. This debut memoir is truly a transformative journey in every sense, as Jane discovered that it was never food that she hungered for after all.
Ivan M. Havel
Ačkoli se rodina Havlova těší velké pozornosti a osudy jednotlivých členů byly již literárně zpracovány, životu Ivana M. Havla se dosud nedostalo ze strany historiků systematického zájmu. Právě to bylo impulzem ke vzniku historické biografie, která kombinuje archivní a orálněhistorický výzkum. Vzniká tak obraz člověka, který není pouhým souhrnem biografických dat, ale živoucí osobností, která promlouvá skrze souvislosti a prostředí, v němž se pohybovala.
Monografie se snaží čtenáři přiblížit život významného pokračovatele rodu, ale též vědce, intelektuála a autora, který se pohyboval v několika různých, zdánlivě nesourodých prostředích, na pomezí oficiální a neoficiální sféry, člověka, jenž propojuje vědu a umění. Snaha o porozumění osobnosti Ivana M. Havla je přitom doprovázena vědomím širších, především rodinných souvislostí, sahajících až do počátku dvacátého století.
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Me You A Diary
This is Dawn French's fabulous new non-fiction book for 2017, and it's totally interactive: take a lovely ramble through the year together with Dawn. Think of it as Dawn's diary, personalized by you . . . perfection.
'Wreck This Journal meets Dawn French's ruminations on the seasons, ageing and more - this is a companion piece to help you through life itself. A very good idea' Stylist
I can't count the amount of diaries I have crammed full with entries in January, that then fizzle out as the other months pile in. One of my teenage diaries has fulsome fizzing reports of every single conversation, thought and feeling about every friend, every crush, every meal, every argument until mid-March, when the entry on the 18th simply reads,
'Washed hair.'
Thank god, this isn't that. This book is a way for us to tell the story of a year together. Feel free to write your appointments in it, lists, thoughts and reminders of, say, who to kill, and when, and in what order. But I've also written about age and life as I see it, through the seasons and the months, and I've added some places for you to join me in some fun and some thinking. By the end of the year, I am hoping you will have a fatter, scruffier book that is written by me but totally personalized by you.
Come on in. The paper is lovely . . .
AND . . . importantly, Me. You: A Diary comes with a practical elastic strap to keep all of your papers safe, with a pocket in the back for storing those special momentoes.
Adolf Hitler Zrození diktátora
Tato strhující kniha se zaobírá Adolfem Hitlerem, nacismem a procesem vzniku třetí říše. Jedná se o fascinující vhled, který je nejen objektivní, ale i založený na pečlivých historických výzkumech. Začíná Hitlerovým dětstvím a jeho mučivou zkušeností z Vídně, kde žil jako chudý umělec. Po líčení jeho účasti v první světové válce ukazuje začátky jeho politické činnosti v Mnichově, kdy využíval násilí jako prostředek k dosažení politické moci. Kniha pokračuje popisem znovuvyzbrojování Německa a druhou světovou válkou, konec v Berlíně je vyobrazen na pozadí událostí, jež se odehrávaly v bunkru pod říšským kancléřstvím. Kniha končí zúčtováním s hlavními strůjci této apokalypsy dvacátého století. A jsou k ní připojeny dva dodatky, z nichž jeden ukazuje Hitlerovy vztahy k ženám. Čtenáři se tak dostávají do rukou vlastně knihy dvě: jedna líčí soukromý i veřejný život Adolfa Hitlera, druhá jej ukazuje na pozadí širších událostí, jichž byl Hitler často strůjcem.
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Riders on the Storm
„Než potkal Jima Morrisona, než si s Rayem Manzarekem a Robbym Kriegerem zajamoval na „Little Red Rooster“, nebo než si přečetl text „Break on Through“, vzal si John Densmore LSD. Bylo to jeho první nahlédnutí do propasti. Ale to nelze srovnat s temnou cestou, kterou podstoupil jako bubeník Doors. Riders on the Storm je první zprávou o této plodné rockové kapele od jednoho z jejích členů. Densmore vzpomíná, jak hudba vznikala, ale nemůže zapomenout, jak Jim Morrison ničil sám sám sebe – i kapelu –, a bojuje zde s démony, kteří jej pronásledovali od Morrisonovy smrti v roce 1971. Hledání pravdy pod mýtem, kterým se Doors stali, je ojedinělým pohledem do srdce rock and rollu.“
Český konzul ve Vídni II.
Korespondence mezi českým ministrem ve Vídni Antonínem Rezkem a mladočeskými politiky Václavem Škardou a Karlem Kramářem navazuje na první díl dopisní výměny mezi A. Rezkem a Bedřichem Pacákem a ukazuje šíři a rozmanitost působnosti českého ministra ve vídeňské vládě stejně jako rozličné osobní a stranické zájmy jeho mladočeských spolupracovníků a přátel.
Zatímco Kramářova korespondence představuje příspěvek k jeho životopisu a politickým aktivitám v období před první světovou válkou, v případě Václava Škardy jde o vůbec první zhodnocení role a působení tohoto politika na české a rakouské politické scéně přelomu 19. a 20. století. Kniha je uvozena studií vzájemného vztahu všech tří pisatelů, ediční poznámkou, doplněna obrazovou přílohou, seznamem editovaných dokumentů a jmenným rejstříkem.
Karel Beneš: Apologia pro vita mea
Kniha jen zdánlivě memoárová, svým obsahem balancující na pomezí odborné publikace a živého svědectví o člověku a době.
Době pro někoho nedávné, pro jiného patřící málem k bájím našich dědů. Kniha reflektuje osobnost profesora Karla Beneše, jednu ze zakládajících postav Jihočeské univerzity v Českých Budějovicích, a jeho životní dílo, v jehož středu stanula rostlinná buňka, čtenář snad ocení také předsazení historické kapitoly o Prachaticích - městu s jedinenčným geniem loci, rodištěm Karla Beneše, kompletní autorovu bibliografii a ukázky z jeho originálních filozoficko-teologických textů.
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
Je všeobecnou pravdou, že dobrá kniha môže ovplyvniť smerovanie nášho života. Pri biografickej literatúre to platí stonásobne, pretože v ruke držíme príbeh reálneho človeka, z ktorého môžeme čerpať mnoho inšpirácie a tipov.
Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
