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Colours of the Moon introduces an eclectic mix of the new voices and new writing that have emerged from the 2023 Artemesia Arts poetry competition: thirty-four poems exploring a variety of subjects in as many different styles. Competition judge Roger McGough said "The standard was particularly high, which made whittling down the final selection almost impossible. My congratulations to the winners and to all the poets who took part. It was a pr...

Correnti Incrociate/Salero Project 2021: Poesie del mondo anglofono tradotte dagli studenti del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell'Uniersita di Salerno comprende quarantanove poesie di un gruppo multinazionale tradotte dall'inglese all'italiano da studenti di traduzione letteraria del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell'Università di Salerno. Ognuna delle poesie è presentata con testo a fronte inglese - italiano, per arricchire l'esperien...

Chef Claire Tritschler of Le Sens de la Terre restaurant in the French town of Piégut-Pluviers shares her culinary knowledge in 50 simple and tasty recipes designed for standard ingredients and home kitchens.This lavishly illustrated book grew out of a project that began at the start of the French coronavirus lockdown and ran throughout the eight weeks of isolation. Claire and her partner Leo began posting a recipe a day on their Facebook page...

Chasing an alcoholic father around the UK - and attending nine different schools in the process - may not have been the best start to life for Ian Bain. But it certainly gave him a taste for adventure. By 23, the young Scot had sailed around the world a couple of times, risked jail as a big-time booze smuggler in India and worked as the Buenos Aires correspondent of The Economist. Then, after a decade as a journalist in London with some of Bri...

Canzoni del venerdì sera introduce la poesia di John Eliot al pubblico italiano per la prima volta grazie alla collaborazione del poeta con un gruppo di giovani e talentuosi traduttori, Alessia Calabrese, Sara Pallante, Alessandro Pinto e Mariagrazia Poppiti.. In seguito a un laboratorio di traduzione a cui John Eliot ha partecipato durante il Festival Salerno Letteratura nel 2019, il gruppo si è riunito di nuovo grazie all'amore comune per la...

Now gather round and lend an ear / for there's a ballad I would sing'Of famous Captain Avery / And how he went a-pirating.'Brave, anarchic folk heroes or cruel, black-hearted villains? In the long violent history of piracy, the men and women who roamed the oceans under the black flag have been both of these and all shades of chivalry and chicanery in between.Now Thomas Tyrrell's debut collection, The Poor Rogues Hang, written with the rhythmic...

Ian Mathie was an entertaining raconteur and writer who told his true life stories with great vigour and enthusiasm. He had an amazing memory and was able to recall the smallest details, even from his early childhood. His life was packed with unusual experiences and adventures in distant places with strange people, wild animals, danger and fun.He had an extraordinary start in life by today's standards. Born in Edinburgh, the second son of a Sc...

Thin Ice' promises a quiet stroll through a dappled woodland of words, wherein big bad wolves and other dangers lurk. It gives readers gentle warnings about the desperate fragility of human relationships and quiet messages about appreciating what you already have.In 'Thin Ice', Sheila Large brings together her first collection of sensual, human poetry that leads us on a winding journey through life, love and the light and dark of relationships...

I think about death more and more as I get older." So writes the poet John Eliot. In this his third collection, John Eliot examines thoughts, fears, hopes and feelings surrounding the conclusion of life. His own fear of death finds poignancy in the mundane sufficient to elevate it to the spiritual. He writes: "These poems are a therapy, certainly a therapy for me, and perhaps also for you, the reader. I hope so.

52 Ways is written for business owners who don't want to read a lot of marketing theory, who would rather pick up some quick ideas that they can introduce into their businesses today -- for immediate impact. Marketing mentor Alastair Campbell distills his know-how into 52 practical ideas.

DOCTOR LARK is the story of Bill Larkworthy, a British-born doctor whose recollections, delightful vignettes and keen observations (medical and otherwise) make this a funny and vivid account of how a medical education provided a passport to the world. In 20 years as a doctor with the RAF in Germany, Cyprus, Malaysia and England, he met and treated Gurkhas, SAS commandos, serving and retired aircrew and an assortment of characters. Head-hunted ...

When a powerful and feared man demands a 'bride price' for the young girl he fosters, the author is forced to rely on his wits and courage to find a way within the rich traditions and superstitions of rural Zaire to set a fair price that the man would refuse to pay.

In volatile 1970s West Africa, Ian Mathie's work brought him in contact with a succession of extraordinary people, including presidents Mobuto of Zaire, Traore of Mali, Senghor of Senegal and Eyadema of Togo. They left him with insights into a fascinating continent at a fascinating time of history.

The culture shock experienced by a London-based government investigator when he travels to Africa only deepens when he is hit by tropical fever, mysterious forces and the ramifications of corruption at high level. His gradual coming to terms with Africa opens a window on the reality of rural life in Central Africa in the 1970s.

Marijcke Jongbloed's fascinating memoir of her life in the United Arab Emirates, her introduction to the care of endangered species and the founding of the Arabian Leopard Trust.

The night before Christmas is a time when magic happens, if only you know where to look for it... When snow inexplicably falls on Christmas Eve in Australia, young Evie's parents sense something unusual is in the air. A mysterious visitor raises their suspicions but somehow puts them at ease with her soft-spoken manner, humour and sense of proportion. A Christmas Carol for Evie is a modern fairy story that gives fairy godmothers a chance to sp...

Don't Go', the second collection of poetry by John Eliot, explores themes of memory, love, loss and death. The poet draws on wide and varied influences, from his own background as a teacher of religion to music, and the discovery of Richard III's bones near his old school in England. The reader will find examples of poems that reflect religion, such as Prayer, John 1 and Crucifix. Anne Neville, the wife of Richard III, provides a connection wi...

Sorcery is a fact of life in many African societies, the supernatural is taken for granted. In SORCERERS AND ORANGE PEEL, author Ian Mathie describes how this other dimension plays a role - somethings amusing, sometimes frightening, always intriguing - in everyday life in remote West Africa.

Jenny Selby-Green entered the idiosyncratic world of the provincial press by answering a 'Sits Vac' ad for a newspaper reporter (conveniently ignoring that they were looking for a young man). She quickly learned that being the sole female on staff brought few advantages. Even in the 1950s, it was a business tied up in archaic practices, driven by deadlines and a despotic editor called 'God' by his staff. In the course of her work, Jenny was bu...

John Eliot's short collection contains poems of love and hate, poems of religion and death, loss and grief. Poems to touch your soul. Poems to carry with you and return to read again and again.