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A Farmgirl's Table by Jessica Robinson
Category: Food & Wine
From a farmgirl's table to yours. The New England farmgirl, transplanted to North Carolina, shares heartwarming stories and personal advice along with a bushel of new recipes for using produce from the garden or farmers market, stocking a pantry with canned goods, making homemade bread and traditional ...Show more
A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse by Lennox Robinson
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1925, A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse is an impressive and beautifully crafted collection of the best of Irish poetry from ancient times to the early twentieth century. It features folklore and legend, often beautifully translated from Gaelic together with contributions from Wil ...Show more
A Good Clean Fight (RAF Quartet #2) by Derek Robinson
Category: Military
North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. A good clean fight, for those who like that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field, striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends from Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette, flying their clapped-out Tomahawks on ground ...Show more
A Love Letter to Europe - An Outpouring of Love and Sadness from Our Writers, Thinkers and Artists by Melvyn Bragg; Simon Callow; Tracey Emin; Pete Townshend; Jeffrey Boakye; Onjali Rauf; Tony Robinson; Will Hutton; Margaret Drabble
Category: Politics
Great writers, artists, musicians and thinkers in British life say what Europe means to them: an outpouring of love and sadness. With pieces from Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Alan Hollinghurst, Will Hutton, Holly Johnson, Penelope Lively, Jonathan Meades, Deborah Moggach, Alan M ...Show more
A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger by Lucy Robinson
Category: Fiction
A" Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger" by Lucy Robinson, author of "The Greatest Love Story of All Time", is a hilariously funny and gorgeously romantic story about falling in love when you least expect it. Charley Lambert has worked hard at creating a perfect life. She has an aspirational fla ...Show more
A Portable Paradise by Roger ROBINSON
Category: Gift
Roger Robinson's range is wide: the joys and pains of family life; the ubiquitous presence of racism, both subtle and unsubtle; observations on the threatening edge of violence below the surface energies of Black British territories in London; emblematic poems on the beauty and often bizarre strangeness ...Show more
A Splendid Little War (Publication abandoned) by Derek Robinson
Category: Fiction
The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, ...Show more
ABC (Rainbow Road) by Alexandra Robinson
Category: Board Books
Introduce the alphabet with this addition to our Rainbow Road series! With soft felt-and-card pages and rainbow-coloured plastic loops to explore, children will love learning the alphabet with this book.
Abattoir Blues by Peter Robinson
Category: Fiction
BANKS IS BACK - AND THE HUNT IS ON. When two boys vanish under mysterious circumstances, the local community is filled with unease. Then a bloodstain is discovered in a disused World War Two hangar nearby, and a caravan belonging to one of the youths is burned to the ground. Things quickly become much m ...Show more
Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The\Terry Lectures Ser.
In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought--science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern athe ...Show more
Ad Nauseam : A Miscellany of Latin Words and Phrases by Lorna Robinson
Category: Non-Fiction
Join Lorna Robinson as she introduces you to the fascinating (and humorous) world of the Latin language. Explore ancient Rome through familiar and not-so-familiar words and concepts - from the more classic Latin of the upper classes to the insults and the everyday 'vulgar Latin' straight from the seedy ...Show more
Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer by Fiona Robinson
Category: Picture Books
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the daughter of Lord Byron, a poet and Anna Isabella Milbanke, a mathematician. Her parents separated when she was young and her mother insisted on a logic-focused education, rejecting Byron's "mad" love of poetry, but Ada remained fascinated with her father and considered m ...Show more