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Crave: Recipes Arranged by Flavour, to Suit Your Mood and Appetite by Ed Smith
Category: Food & Wine
Why do we choose to cook the things we do, when we do? Most of the time, it is simply so we can eat what we really fancy; a subconscious response to a constantly fluctuating state of mind and appetite that's influenced by mood, season, weather, memory, occasion, outside events and internal feelings. Ed ...Show more
Friends by ed. Barbara Paulding & Rene J. Smith
Category: Gift
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too? I thought I was the only one (C. S. Lewis). One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human (George Santayana). The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn ...Show more
Good Eggs: Over 100 Cracking Ways to Cook and Elevate Eggs by Ed Smith
Category: Food & Wine
A compendium and celebration of eggs. Over 100 recipes and ideas that make eggs the star of the show. Whether you're partial to fried, poached, boiled, baked, scrambled or set, in this definitive book you'll find all the inspiration you need. From everyday classics to reinventions of old favourites wit ...Show more
Luck: A Fresh Look at Fortune by Ed Smith
Category: Fiction
For aspiring cricketer Ed Smith, luck was for other people. Ed believed that the successful cricketer made his own luck by an application of will power, elimination of error, and the relentless pursuit of excellence. But when a freak accident at the crease at Lords prematurely ended Ed Smith's internati ...Show more
Luck: What it Means and Why it Matters by Ed Smith
Category: Non-Fiction
Tracing the history of the concepts of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day - in religion, in banking, in politics - Ed Smith argues that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent today as it has ever been. Weaving in his personal stories - notably the f ...Show more
Making Decisions: Putting the Human Back in the Machine by Ed Smith
Category: Self-Help
For fans of Matthew Syed, this is a book about leadership, judgement and decision-making - rooted in the theory that helped Ed Smith lead the UK cricket team to international success. In spring 2018, England cricket had a performance problem. The Test team hadn't won a Test match overseas for nearly tw ...Show more
On the Side by Ed Smith
Category: Food & Wine
A revolutionary cookbook that moves the humble side dish to centre stage.Whilst writing his food blog, Rocket & Squash, Ed Smith noticed that a key part of our meals was being ignored. On too many occasions, side dishes were being relegated to an overboiled afterthought, or dismissed with a throwawa ...Show more
THE SELF MANAGED SUPERANNUATION FUND HANDBOOK by BARBARA SMITH AND ED KOKEN
Category: Business
The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 by Jackson Ryan (ed.), Carl Smith (ed.)
Category: Non-Fiction
The finest voices in Australian science writing. This much-loved anthology now in its fourteenth year selects the most riveting, entertaining, poignant and fascinating science stories from Australian writers, poets and scientists. The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 anthologises another major yea ...Show more
The Borough Market Cookbook - Recipes and Stories from a Year at Market by Ed Smith
Category: Food & Wine
For over 1000 years, Borough has served the people of London, and now welcomes 12 million visitors a year. Locals and tourists alike, foodies know that this is the place to source the very best ingredients from traders who know their produce inside out. This gorgeous collection takes you on a tour of t ...Show more
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Ed)
Category: History | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gift to those who contemplate the marvels of travelling in the ancient world. Ibn Battuta was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, travelling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, coveri ...Show more
These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries by May Smith; Duncan Marlor (ed.)
Category: Biography
Auntie F. came in announcing dramatically that Hitler is coming tomorrow, at which my father remarked that he would, now that he's just finished papering upstairs. At the outbreak of World War Two, May Smith was twenty-four. She lived in a small village near Derby with her parents, and taught at the loc ...Show more