The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges.Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don't like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken - just so there'll be no misunderstandings.The English itch inside their own skins. They feel foreign in their own country and run naked through their own heads. They are often admirable but rarely loveable. An Englishman's greatest achievement is in resisting his national inclination to go tonto with an axe in a cul-de-sac. This book hunts down the causes and the results of being the Angry Island.

The Angry Island: Hunting the English

Travel

Gill, A.A.

Europe

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

AA Gill is Away

Whether describing the horror of famine in the Sudan, the tragic forgotten city of Kaliningrad or the anthropology of a motorway service station on the M1, this is A. A. Gill at his best: controversial, funny, full of compassion for those who deserve it; full of scorn for those who don't.

Aa Gill Is Away

The Ivy restaurant is known as a theatrical, literary and artistic haunt, which keeps its roots in quick and simple food, not tied to any style or regional cuisine. A.A. Gill has combined its recipes, all suitable for the home kitchen, with the history of the restaurant.

The Ivy: The Restaurant and Its Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Regional & International

Hodder&Stoughton

A table at the Ivy is one of the most sought-after pieces of furniture in London. At the heart of its success is the menu, a selection of dishes that are tested daily against some of the most cosmopolitan, well-fed palates in the world. Everyone who eats there has a favorite dish: the Crispy Duck and Watercress Salad, the Malayan Spiced Noodles with Roasted Pumpkin, the Thai Baked Sea Bass with Fragrant Rice, or the Ivy's renowned Sticky Toffee Pudding. Now, the Ivy has produced a cookbook that is genuinely suitable for the home kitchen. While some of the recipes are surprisingly simple and others more demanding, all are absolutely dependable. The recipes are presented along with a behind-the-scenes look at the running of the restaurant, accompanied by a lavish selection of artful photography. A.A. Gill is the award-winning restaurant critic of The Sunday Times of London.

The famed London restaurant, La Caprice, has been a contemporary restaurant since the forties, reflecting the appetites of creative London. From simply the best Eggs Benedict and Chopped Steak to the Epicurean Baked Razor Clams and Truffle-Studded Roast Capon, the recipes from Le Caprice are a directory of what fashionable London fancies on a plate most often. Whether it is the lightest lunch, a restorative brunch, or an indulgent first-night celebration, Le Caprice provides with practiced elan and panache.

Le Caprice

Very good hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. First Edition. Mylar coated. DJ shows minor imperfections, pageblock is lightly tanned with minor blemishes consistent with general shelfwear. Internally, the text is clean, with no marks or marginalia noted. CN

Sap Rising

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

DOUBLEDAY

Serialized in Esquire, A.A. Gill's Pour Me a Life is a riveting meditation on the author's alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. “Pour Me a Life is an unapologetically honest, raw, and often harrowing account of the life of a man who, up until now, we only thought we knew. Here is A.A. Gill at his best. A real-life Bright Lights, Big City.” —Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin, and author of the New York Timesbestseller 32 Yolks Best known for his hysterically funny and often scathing restaurant reviews for the London Sunday Times, A.A. Gill’s Pour Me a Life is a riveting memoir of the author’s alcoholism, seen through the lens of the memories that remain, and the transformative moments in art, food, religion, and family that saved him from a lifelong addiction and early death. By his early twenties, at London’s prestigious Saint Martin’s art school, journalist Adrian Gill was entrenched in alcoholism. He writes from the handful of memories that remain, of drunken conquests with anonymous women, of waking to morbid hallucinations, of emptying jacket pockets that “were like tiny crime scenes,” helping him puzzle his whereabouts back together. Throughout his recollections, Gill traces his childhood, his early diagnosis of dyslexia, the deep sense of isolation when he was sent to boarding school at age eleven, the disappearance of his only brother, whom he has not seen for decades. When Gill was confronted at age thirty by a doctor who questioned his drinking, he answered honestly for the first time, not because he was ready to stop, but because his body was too damaged to live much longer. Gill was admitted to a thirty-day rehab center—then a rare and revolutionary concept in England—and has lived three decades of his life sober. Written with clear-eyed honesty and empathy, Pour Me a Life is a haunting account of addiction, its exhilarating power and destructive force, and is destined to be a classic of its kind.

Pour Me, a Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Blue Rider Press

SAP Rising

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Transworld Publishers

A. A. Gill is one of the most feared writers in London, noted--according to the New York Times--for his "rapier wit." Some even consider the mere assignment of a subject to Gill a hostile act. But when the notice "AA GILL IS AWAY" runs in the Sunday Times of London, the city can rest peacefully in the knowledge that the writer is off traveling. "My editor asked me what I wanted from journalism and I said the first thing that came into my head--I'd like to interview places. To treat a place as if it were a person, to go and listen to it, ask it questions, observe it the way you would interview a politician or a pop star," Gill writes. Upon his return, readers are treated to an account of his vacations to places like famine-stricken Sudan, the pornography studios of California's San Fernando Valley, the dying Aral Sea or the seedy parts of Kaliningrad. The result is one of the most fascinating, stylish and irreverent collections of travel writing.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Simon&Schuster

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The Angry Island: Hunting the English

Aa Gill Is Away

The Ivy: The Restaurant and Its Recipes

The Ivy: The Restaurant and Its Recipes

Le Caprice

Sap Rising

Pour Me, a Life

SAP Rising

AA Gill is Away

Aa Gill Is Away