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Not since Upstairs Downstairs has a PBS television drama series caused so much water cooler conversation. In a word, "Americans can't get enough of 'Downton Abbey,'" said The Boston Globe.
The same can be said worldwide as fans eagerly await the next Dowager Countess classic comment. Leading up to season 3, the Great War has ended, but Downton is far from peaceful. Both the upstairs and downstairs inhabitants are waking up to a world forever changed by World War I.
Written by Jessica Fellowes and Matthew Sturgis (see About the Authors below), The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era, the official companion book to the first two seasons of Downton Abbey and perfect addition to your Downton Abbey library, includes a forward written by series creator/writer, Julian Fellowes (see About the Authors below) and focuses on each character individually, examining their motivations, their actions, and the inspirations behind them.
A combination of story, history, and behind-the-scenes drama (one can only imagine a room complete with both Shirley MacLaine, who plays the mother of American-born, Cora Crawley, and the Dowager Countess herself, Dame Maggie Smith), The Chronicles of Downton Abbey: A New Era gets right to the heart of the Crawley estate.
Containing numerous photos and incredibly detailed descriptions which explain how much work is involved in keeping the show authentic, this 320-page coffee table-sized book is an absolute must for any Downton Abbey fan. If you love Downton Abbey you will love this book!
And, get ready for the January 5, 2014 series 4 premiere on your local PBS station with this sneak peak. And learn more about some of the new characters coming to Downton.
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JESSICA FELLOWES, daughter of series creator, Julian Fellowes, is the New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of The World of Downton Abbey. Formerly the Deputy Editor of Country Life, she has also been a columnist for the London Paper. Jessica also writes for the Daily Telegraph, Telegraph Weekend, The Lady and Sunday Times Style, and lives with her family in London.
MATTHEW STURGIS is a writer and critic who has written for Harpers & Queen, The Sunday Telegraph, and The Independent on Sunday. He is the author of Passionate Attitudes: the English Decadence of the 1890s and the highly-praised Aubrey Beardsley. He lives in London.
JULIAN FELLOWES is the creator, writer, and executor producer of Downton Abbey, which won six Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe for best mini-series. Previously, he won the Academy Award for best original screenplay for Gosford Park, and wrote the bestselling novels Snobs and Past Imperfect. A member of the House of Lords, he lives with his wife and son in London and Dorset, England.
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Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey: The Official Backstage Pass to the Set, the Actors and the Drama, the official season 4 tie-in book and complete with never-before-seen photos, is written by Emma Rowley with a forward by series Executive Producer, Gareth Neame (see About the Authors below).
As America awaits the season 4 premiere on January 5, 2014 on PBS' Masterpiece series, this book will delve into the inspiration behind the details seen on screen, the choice of locations (including Highclere Castle), the music and much more. Catch a glimpse of the secret backstage world, visit the hair and make-up truck and step inside the props cupboard. Yes, that is a blender that invades Mrs. Patmore's kitchen in season 4 but, it was actually a really old vintage one from the twenties ordered from ebay!
In-depth interviews and exclusive season 4 photos give insight into the actors’ experiences on set as well as the celebrated creative team behind the multi award-winning drama. Straight from the director’s chair, this is the inside track on all aspects of the making of the show. A definite must have addition to your Downton Abbey library collection.
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EMMA ROWLEY works as a journalist for The Telegraph.
GARETH NEAME is the executive producer for the award-winning television series Downton Abbey.
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We are so very excited to be able to offer you a copy of the newly updated edition of "Making Poldark" with a book plate personally signed by British television and theatre actor Robin Ellis, who originally played Captain Ross Poldark! (See an EXAMPLE of a signed book below. Robin signed these at his home in southwestern France before leaving to go back to Cornwall to being filming of Series 3 of "Poldark", so the style of the book plate he signed may vary from the one in the photo.)
And, thanks to Robin, what an honor it is to be the only book shop in the world to have a limited number of these special, autographed books! What a great gift idea — for someone special or yourself!
Some 40 years before Irish actor Aidan Turner began turning viewers' heads while traversing the Cornwall coast on horseback as Captain Russ Poldark on PBS' popular Masterpiece series, British actor Robin Ellis started hearts throbbing as Poldark, in the original, BBC One drama series that drew huge UK and US audiences in the mid-70s. (See photos to the left!)
And with the premiere of the second season of PBS's Poldark (Sunday, September 25th) comes Ellis' returns as the grumpy Rev. Dr. Halse in this new TV adaptation of Winston Graham's Poldark novels. (See the fourth and fifth photos in the series to the left.)
Making Poldark is Ellis' behind-the-scenes memoir of 1975 through 1977 when he was the handsome star of the BBC's Poldark, which was one of the most successful classic series in BBC history. Ellis and the series became an international sensation in more than 40 countries. (The original series remains a favorite on DVD, entertaining and enchanting new generations of global viewers.)
And, Making Poldark is newly updated with details and on-set photos of his involvement with the new PBS series.
The book features photographs from author Winston Graham’s personal Poldark album and photos from Ellis' own private collection, including all-new photos from the 2015 Poldark shoot on location in the West Country in southwest England.
Ellis also tells about the ongoing effect of "Poldark perks" on his life and his transformation into a cookbook author.
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ROBIN ELLIS has enjoyed a long and successful career in British television and theatre, including a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Inspired by a lifelong passion for cooking plus a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, Ellis wrote his first cookbook, Delicious Dishes for Diabetics: A Mediterranean Way of Eating, in 2011. His second cookbook, Healthy Eating for Life, published in 2014, is designed to help people eat more healthily without sacrificing good taste. And his third book, Mediterranean Cooking for Diabetics, is an updated and expanded version of his first cookbook, and it was published this year, 2016.
Ellis blogs regularly at http://robin-ellis.net on food, cooking and life in rural, southwest France, where he lives with his American-born wife. He also leads popular healthy cooking workshops in Lautrec, France, famous for its pink garlic festival.
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WE HAVE WONDERFUL NEWS! Because of your incredibly warm and enthusiastic response, Robin Ellis has graciously agreed to autograph a limited number of additional books for Pretty Things & Cool Stuff! before he leaves soon to travel to the UK for filming of the "new" POLDARK on PBS' Masterpiece. You did know that he plays the grumpy Rev. Dr. Halse, didn't you?
So, if you would like a copy or two for you and gifts, then please give us your email address in the box provided above, and we will notify you when the autographed books are in and ready to deliver to you!
Robin lives in southwestern France, so we ask your patience while we deal with international shipping. We will keep you posted!
We are very excited to be able to offer you a personally autographed copy of this delectable and good-for-you cookbook that Robin Ellis signed during his recent U.S. book tour. What a great gift idea! We only have a limited number of autographed books, so get yours now.
"This is not a diet cookbook to be followed for a while before resuming normal life. This is a book that represents a whole new way of eating and cooking that is suitable for diabetics, as well as anyone who wants to eat more healthily."
Mediterranean Cooking for Diabetics is a second, fully revised edition of British actor Robin Ellis' hugely successful Delicious Dishes for Diabetics. Based on Mediterranean cuisine — one of the healthiest in the world — Ellis shares his lifetime collection of healthy and simple recipes especially selected and adapted for people wishing to control or prevent diabetes.
As an actor, Ellis is best known for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in the original BBC One classic series Poldark, which was hugely successful in the UK and the US in the mid-70s, and became an international hit in more than 40 countries.
When PBS' Masterpiece first broadcast its new smash-hit adaptation of Poldark in 2015, Ellis returned to play a cameo as the grumpy Rev. Dr. Halse, and he returns in Season Two. Apart from his career as an actor, Ellis has always been a passionate cook.
In Mediterranean Cooking for Diabetics, Ellis, who was diagnosed wth Type 2 diabetes, explains the strategic changes he made — in what he eats and how he prepares his food — that allowed him to bring his glucose levels down sufficiently to avoid taking medication for six years.
Ellis learned to cook from his mother, who suffered from Type 1 diabetes. Following his own diabetes diagnosis in 1999, Ellis researched the best way of eating for his condition. He settled on a low-carbohydrate, Mediterranean diet and, together with daily walks, he has managed to control his condition successfully ever since.
In addition to its yummy recipes, Mediterranean Cooking for Diabetics contains color photographs, not only of the delicious and good-for-you dishes you can make, but also of beautiful, rural southwestern France, where Robin lives and leads sell-out cooking workshops focused on simple, delicious and healthy Mediterranean cuisine, making the most of all the fresh local ingredients available.
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ROBIN ELLIS has enjoyed a long and successful career in British television and theatre, including a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Inspired by a lifelong passion for cooking plus a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes, Ellis wrote his first cookbook, Delicious Dishes for Diabetics: A Mediterranean Way of Eating, in 2011. His second cookbook, Healthy Eating for Life, published in 2014, is designed to help people eat more healthily without sacrificing good taste.
And his latest cookbook, Mediterranean Cooking for Diabetics: Delicious Dishes to Control or Avoid Diabetes, is an updated and expanded version of his first cookbook, and it was published this year, 2016. Ellis blogs regularly at http://robin-ellis.net on food, cooking and life in rural, southwest France, where he lives with his American-born wife. He also leads popular healthy cooking workshops in Lautrec, France, famous for its pink garlic festival.
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Fortnum & Mason is the quintessential London store. It epitomizes style, elegance, English charm and, above all, one of Britain's most traditional pastimes: taking tea. The world of tea and the name Fortnum & Mason have been intertwined for over three centuries.
From the opening of the Far East to western trade, to the first harvest of tea grown on English soil, Fortnum's has sourced, refined and offered this most delicious of the Earth's bounties to its customers. Fortnum & Mason has been selling high-quality tea for almost 300 years and continues to be one of London's most desirable places to indulge in this afternoon tradition.
Tea at Fortnum & Mason contains a blast of old-fashioned Fortnum & Mason luxury. Proper cakes on cakestands, or piled on decorated china plates, finger sandwiches and cut-glass jars of lemon curd, tea in teacups and proper scones with the jam and cream the right way round.
This beautiful book covers everything on the art of 'taking tea'. With a charming collection of fascinating anecdotes and stories, this is the definitive history of tea drinking along with 45 irresistible recipes for all kinds of teatime treats.
From delicate sandwiches, jam biscuits and lemon curd meringues to rich fruit cakes, indulgent brownies and dainty cupcakes, Tea at Fortnum & Mason brings you a taste of tea at Fortnum's as it has for the past 300 years.
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First published in 1964 and 1965, John Lennon's In His Own Write & A Spaniard in the Works are an offbeat collection of his stories, drawings and poems. With an introduction by Sir Paul McCartney which begins, "At Woolton village fete I met him. I was a fat schoolboy and as he leaned an arm on my shoulder, I realised that he was drunk. We were twelve then, but, in spite of his sideboards, we went on to become teenage pals...". The rest, as they say, is history.
Lovers of the Beatles, John Lennon and music, in general, will welcome this classic book as an integral part of their music book library. As Sir Paul goes on to write, "While you might try to find a hidden meaning behind some of these stories, most of them are simply written as absurd and fun stories."
Forever tagged as "the smart Beatle", John Lennon was a remarkably gifted writer. He was clever, funny, hilarious and brilliantly inventive. As Paul says, P.S. I like the drawings, too."
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"Rich with insider authenticity. To paraphrase Walt Whitman, Mr. Davies was the man, he suffered, he was there.... The book itself-with Mr. Davies's expert guidance-gives us a glimpse into genius. No better monument could mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles arrival in America, nothing, that is, short of coming up with a hitherto lost scrap of paper with a Beatles lyric on it, wittily doodled on."
— Alexander Theroux, Wall Street Journal
"There are places I remember..."
For tens of millions of earthlings, those emotional places include the lyrics of Beatles songs they will never forget. This nonpareil collection brings together the stories behind those songs and, even more viscerally, reproductions of the handwritten, sometimes scribbled drafts of more than 100 lyrics, reminding us that these immortal songs had humble origins. Beatles biographer Hunter Davies draws on decades of expertise to present these classics in their original contexts.
The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music is the definitive book of Beatles songs, shown as first written by their own hands and put into authoritative context, for the 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America.
For the Beatles, writing songs was a process that could happen anytime -- songs we all know by heart often began as a scribble on the back of an envelope or on hotel stationery. These original documents have ended up scattered across the world at museums and universities and with collectors and friends. Many have never been published before, until now.
This book reveals the original manuscripts for some of the best pop songs ever written! More than 100 songs and lyrics are reproduced in The Beatles Lyrics: The Stories Behind the Music, providing author Davies a unique platform to tell the story of the music.
The intimacy of these reproductions -- there are sections crossed out and rewritten, and words tossed into the final recordings that were never written down -- ensures that The Beatles Lyrics will be a treasure for musicians, scholars, and fans everywhere.
Great story about book and Beatles songs and lyrics!
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Before Lennon was a singer, a Beatle, or a music legend, he was an artist. Professionally trained, he attended the prestigious Liverpool Art Institute form 1957 to 1960.
Throughout the course of his career, John Lennon’s work as an artist expressed common societal themes from every epoch he witnessed. Until now, little of this work has been seen in one place. For the first time, John Lennon: The Collected Artwork offers a visually captivating history of Lennon’s art from his early childhood to his untimely death in 1980.
This captivating collection includes more than 200 images and features 25 never-before-published pieces from the archives of Yoko Ono.
Often surreal and extremely vibrant, Lennon’s drawings were widely considered some of the finest interpretive art of the era.
In 1969, Lennon began exhibiting selected drawings from a series entitled Bag One. This array, now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was wildly popular and frequently censored due to its overt eroticism.
His peace-themed sketches have been used in antiwar movements since the 1970s. Selections from these and many other series are featured in this matchless collection, a beautiful showpiece and a timeless record of Lennon’s emotional, political, and imaginative spirit.
Lennon's artwork predated his success with The Beatles and remained a passion throughout his years as a music legend. During his lifetime, he produced numerous series of sketches and lithographs, which were published starting in the early 1960s.
Capturing his emotional, political, and imaginative energy, John Lennon: The Collected Artwork is a lavishly produced collection that will serve as a timeless record of John Lennon's creative spirit.
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The Beatles arrived in the United States 50 years ago this month embarking on a history-making path of pop culture dominance. Who doesn't remember where they were on February 9, 1964 when those four kids from Liverpool first appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show? Over 73 million fans gathered around their television sets to witness the birth of Beatlemania in America.
You will definitely want to TUNE IN — The Beatles: All These Years!
“The biggest, deepest Beatles book ever.”
— Rolling Stone
I can think of no greater praise for Tune In than to say that it gives The Beatles the beginnings of the biography they deserve….gripping.
— Financial Times
The story is told so definitively that, after this, that really should be it…Lewisohn is a Beatles oracle.
— The Guardian (UK)
Unlikely to be surpassed as factual record…Once anointed ‘Beatle Brain of Britain’ while working in accounts at BBC Radio, Lewisohn amasses and investigates facts without sacrificing an iota of the excitement.
— Telegraph (UK)
Lewisohn treats his subjects seriously, as historical, if ultimately remarkable, figures, and eschews the myriad myths that have grown up around the band in favor of the sorts of details and minutiae, wrapped in a serious but breezy narrative, that give us the fullest picture of who John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and, eventually, Ringo Starr were.
— Esquire
The Beatles are the foundation of everything we do.
— The Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on the 2014 Grammys red carpet
TUNE IN: The Beatles: All These Years is the first volume of All These Years, a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical trilogy by the world's leading Beatles historian. Mark Lewisohn (see About the Author below) uses his unprecedented archival access and hundreds of new interviews to construct the full story of the lives and work of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
Ten years in the making, Tune In takes the Beatles from before their childhoods through the final hour of 1962—when, with breakthrough success just days away, they stand on the cusp of a whole new kind of fame and celebrity. TUNE IN: The Beatles: All These Years is the lesser-known Beatles story, the pre-Fab years of Liverpool and Hamburg—and in many respects the most absorbing and incredible period of them all.
Here is the complete and true account of their family lives, childhoods, teenage years and their infatuation with American music, here is the riveting narrative of their unforgettable days and nights in the Cavern Club, their laughs, larks and adventures when they could move about freely, before fame closed in.
Even though these may have been the least known years in the lives of the Beatles, TUNE IN: The Beatles: All These Years provides some of the richest material for a Beatle fan of any age.
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Irresistible!
— Financial Times
His research is meticulous, his scope expansive and his writing definitive.
— Time Out
When someone says 'the underground', most people who visit London immediately think of the London Tube. Not so for Peter Ackroyd. While he has spent a lifetime writing about above ground London, in London Under, the award-winning novelist, as well as broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian turns his efforts towards everything that goes on 'under London', sharing his vision of a mythical city that most do not see.
London Under is a comprehensive introduction to everything that goes on in London down under, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and, of course, modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the creatures, both real and fictional, that dwell in the darkness - rats and eels, monsters and ghosts.
From the Anglo-Saxon graves under St Paul's, to the hydraulic device in Kensal Green cemetery which lowered bodies into the catacombs below, to the fossils uncovered when the Victoria Line was built and the gold bars within the Bank of England's vaults, London Under takes you into a hidden world, beneath our feet.
As with all other Peter Ackroyd efforts, his meticulous research provides an absorbing history of those parts of the capital that lie beneath our feet connecting the past, present and future.
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Back in the 80's, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was the end all and be all for television documentaries. In many respects, that continues to hold up even in today's television landscape. This collector's item BBC Training Manual: Documentaries From Script to Screen gives a really cool inside look at how 'The Corporation' went about making the best television on television.
Presented in a simple but comprehensive format, From Script to Screen is a step-back-in-time look at an individual producer's how-to approach to making a documentary program from the time of the first idea right up to the initial screening. Whether made in-studio or on location, the essentials of television documentary making is the same
Then Head of BBC Television Training, Gordon Croton (see About the Author below), has compiled the A-Z's of 'making TV' including the initial steps before production even begins with the Stages of Production and Who are the Television Programmes For. From there, we move to the Idea and the Treatment. Unfortunately, you can't go any farther until that ever-important evil 'Budget' discussion comes in to play.
With today's technology, there are a limitless number of aspiring young television producers eager to, well, produce. BBC Training Manual: Documentaries From Script to Screen is a nostalgia look at the laying of the groundwork for even the most seasoned and confident documentary producers who will remember a time early in their career when 'they didn't know what they didn't know'.
BBC Training Manual: Documentaries From Script to Screen is an out-of-print must collectable for anyone that owns a television, watches television or produces for television.
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Back in the 80's, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was the end all and be all for television documentaries. In many respects, that continues to hold up even in today's television landscape. This collector's item BBC Training Manuals: Filming Action - After Tea We'll Do the Fight gives a really cool inside look at how 'The Corporation' went about making the best television on television. That said, action scenes didn't have to be limited to just feature films.
Presented in a simple but comprehensive format, After Tea We'll Do the Fight... is a step-back-in-time look at a how-to approach to filming action scenes including working with stuntmen, filming with animals, duels & car chase sequences and the obvious, fire and smoke scenes. What are the roots of these $200 million dollar action budget films? Look no further than BBC Training Manuals: Filming Action - After Tea We'll Do the Fight.
Then Senior Instructor of BBC Television Training, Mike Crisp (see About the Author below), has compiled everything you need to know to film the perfect car chase, duel or shootout. When asked to create his first kung-fu scene for Steptoe and Son, Crisp was hooked on getting action sequences right.
The manual begins with the initial groundwork before production even begins with step-by-step instruction on Lens and Camera Height, Undercranking & Overcranking, Archival Footage and Model Shots. From there, we move on to the cool stuff of fire scenes, smoke and visual effects. Unfortunately, you can't go any further until that ever-important evil 'Budget' discussion comes in to play.
With today's technology, there are a limitless number of aspiring young television producers eager to, well, produce. BBC Training Manuals: Filming Action - After Tea We'll Do the Fight is a nostalgia look at the laying of the groundwork for even the most seasoned and confident documentary producers who will remember a time early in their career when 'they didn't know what they didn't know'.
BBC Training Manuals: Filming Action - After Tea We'll Do the Fight is an out-of-print must collectable for anyone that owns a television, watches television or produces for television.
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As soon as you start to think of the past happening (as opposed to it having happened), a new way of conceiving history becomes possible ... You start to gain an inkling as to why people did this or that, and even why they believed things we find simply incredible.
— Ian Mortimer
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England does just that, taking a look at life in England several centuries ago, told as if the reader were preparing for an actual journey back in time, studying on what to do and how to survive in a vastly different world. It shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived. History courses taught us that Queen Elizabeth I's reign was a 'golden age' but what was it actually like to walk the streets of London in the mid-1500's?
Author and Medieval history expert Ian Mortimer (see About the Author below) turns our 21st century world and its entire understanding of history upside down by transporting readers to a jolly old England for a thorough survey of everyday life in the 1500's. His visitor's guide approach to popular history gives readers a seamless sense of being there and a clear view on Elizabethan life.
Whether you're a travel fan or history buff, take a step back in time to the smells, the sites, the attitudes of the time with The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. Almost makes you want to go back to school and take a Elizabethan England history class....I said, almost.
Once you've lived a bit in Elizabethan England, check out Mortimer's Traveler's Guide to Medieval England for another trip back in time.
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Let there be no doubt. This book was written for those who read and re-read Jane Austen“. You know who you are. The 'All Six Every Year, as in Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, crowd.
What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved is organized into twenty chapters, each based around questions inspired by the texts and the social history points in her books. According to author John Mullan (see About the Author below), to ignore this will only give the reader a diminished experience of Austen’s technique.
Each chapter in What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved attempts to de-code Jane Austen’s subtle style by concentrating on questions that most readers have, most likely, considered while reading The Six.
Our favorite chapter? Toss up between chapter 6 - Why Is It Risky to Go To The Seaside? and chapter 9 - Which Important Characters Never Speak in the Novels? Whichever chapter you read and re-read, it will certainly make your next 'All Six Every Year' journey all the better.
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John Mullan is a Professor of English at University College London specializing in 18th century fiction. He also writes a weekly column on contemporary fiction for The Guardian and occasionally appears as an 18th-century and contemporary literature expert for BBC Two's Newsnight Review and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.
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"As soon as you start to think of the past happening (as opposed to it having happened), a new way of conceiving history becomes possible ... You start to gain an inkling as to why people did this or that, and even why they believed things we find simply incredible." -- Ian Mortimer
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century does just that, taking a look at life in England several centuries ago, told as if the reader were preparing for an actual journey back in time, studying on what to do and how to survive in a vastly different world. It shows us that the past is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived.
Author and Medieval history expert Ian Mortimer (see About the Author below) turns our 21st century world and its entire understanding of history upside down by transporting readers to a jolly, squalid old England for a thorough survey of everyday 14th century life. His visitor's guide approach to popular history gives readers a seamless sense of being there and a clear view on Medieval life.
Whether you're a travel fan or history buff, take a step back in time to the smells, the sites, the attitudes of the time with The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century. Almost makes you want to go back to school and take a Medieval England history class....almost.
Once your done with Medieval times, head on over to Elizabethan England for your next time travel.
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Clara Button loves hats. When her older brother Ollie ruins her favorite from Grandma, Mum takes them on a special hat day out. Her brother Ollie prompts the journey of discovery to the museum after his comment that buttons are boring coupled with his rambunctious behavior.
Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day takes you from Clara’s living room into a delightful adventure trip through London visiting Hat departments on the way to London's Victoria & Albert Museum. While visiting the museum, Clara gets lost and embarks on an exciting journey of discovery. Meanwhile, Ollie is having adventures of his own, with swords and tigers! Written by Amy de la Haye and beautifully illustrated by the award-winning Emily Sutton, Clara Button and the Magical Hat Day is a gem of a children's book.
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From London's Natural History Museum, The What on Earth? Wallbook of Natural History tells the complete story of natural history from the formation of the Earth to the latest breakthroughs in evolutionary science. With more than 1,000 pictures, this fully illustrated single timeline can either be read like a book or unfolded to 6.5 feet and stuck on a wall.
On one side you will find the 4.5 billion year timeline. It is a unique, illustrated guide to the past that cleverly links subjects together from asteroids to algae. Key themes are grouped in streams of colour including the land, sea and sky, and these provide a backdrop to all the major events of natural history.
On the reverse side there is another timeline, which identifies the people behind the science and highlights key moments in the understanding of natural science from Aristotle to the present day.
Called the 'Where's Wally? of natural history', this colorful, educational book is perfect for younger readers but relevant to all ages.
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