Great British Cheeses is the first visual guide to Britain's popular farmhouse cheeses. The book aims to offer general tips on choosing, buying and serving cheese, as well as describing over 300 specific varieties from around the British Isles. Engaging text showcases the best new and traditional cheese varieties, as well as the lives and techniques of the independent farmers and cheese-makers who create them. The book concludes with a directory suppliers of the featured cheeses.
50 Things You Need To Know About British History - Roots
What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history?
History Channel and Daily Telegraph present Hugh Williams' selection of the 50 things that define British history. ”Roots” is a fascinating overview of 10 of them. With great clarity, simplicity and zest for the marvellous stories that underpin many of these events, Williams explains the linkage between each one and its importance in the progress of British history as a whole.
As If an Enemy's Country: The British Occupation of Boston and the Origins of Revolution
In the dramatic few years when colonial Americans were galvanized to resist British rule, perhaps nothing did more to foment anti-British sentiment than the armed occupation of Boston. As If an Enemy's Country is Richard Archer's gripping narrative of those critical months between October 1, 1768 and the winter of 1770 when Boston was an occupied town.
The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction
The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex relationship, Tony E. Jackson explains how the technology of alphabetic writing has determined the nature of the modern novel.
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 27 February 2010
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Women in Love by D.H Lawrence Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, pursues a destructive relationship with Gerald Crich, an industrialist. Lawrence contrasts this pair with the love that develops between Ursula and Rupert Birkin, an alienated intellectual who articulates many opinions associated with the author.
