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Kazuo Ishiguro wins the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature
To celebrate we are offering a “3 for the price of 2” special on all of our in stock books by Kazuo Ishiguro. Use this as an opportunity to read or re-read the great books written by this excellent author! Offer ends 15 November 2017.
Week of 6 October 2017- New and Noteworthy
Sweet – a very delicious new baking and dessert cookbook from Yatam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh. Recipes that feature exotic spices and Mediterranean flavours, all beautifully photographed.
A History of Canada in Ten Maps by Adam Shoalts, a modern day explorer, tells epic stories of charting a mysterious land by explorers from the past.
Uncle John’s Old Faithful Bathroom Reader. The 30th Anniversary edition is an all-new fount of facts!
Peter May is back with Cast Iron the 6th and final Enzo Macleod mystery that takes place in the present time with a past that goes back to 1989 and an incident in Western France.
Origin by Dan Brown brings readers a new novel featuring Robert Langdon – claiming, “Whoever you are. Whatever you believe. Everything is about to change.”
For the kids
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the 3rd volume in the series to be illustrated by Jim Kay. A great big beautiful book for a family read-aloud.
Turtles All The Way Down by John Green. A novel for teens about love, resilience and the power of friendship from the author of the hugely popular A Fault in Our Stars.
Rick Riordan is the most popular of all authors for teens – The Ship of the Dead is the 3rd in the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series.
New and notable this week
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott writes about the life of an Irish immigrant in Catholic Brooklyn. A writer of “generous intelligence, sly wit and compassion for our longings, our griefs and revelations” says Jane Hamilton.
Under a Pole Star by Stef Penny is a great big novel set against the stark, timeless beauty of Northern Greenland and also New York and London in the late 1800s. A tale of the golden age of exploration, the corrosive power of ambition, and an epic, incendiary love story.
I was delighted to discover that Whitecap Books has re-issued one of my favourite cookbooks. Second Helpings, Please! was a book I received as a wedding present in 1974 and often refer to when looking for Jewish holiday recipes. This book was originally a project of women in a Montreal chapter of the B’nai Brith, and is full of their family recipes, often the food their own mothers prepared.
The Five Roses Guide to Good Cooking has also been reprinted, once again, also by Whitecap. This is the cookbook my mother and grandmother used, as have I for almost 50 years. A must have for any young person setting out on their own!
The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary – The Next Chapter by Jeff Kinney, the latest installment of this popular series for young readers, is a behind the scenes look at the making of the movie, The Long Haul.
