Cristine MacKie's classic cookery book broke new ground when first published in the late 1980's. Now re-issued and available in the States for the first time, it still remains one of the definitive works on Caribbean cooking. Utilising diares and journals of the 18th and 19th century MacKie evokes the attitudes of the plantation owners, settlers  and visitors to the islands and gives us an insight into the history and background of its peoples. Not just a recipe book, also a passionate love letter to the Caribbean, its people and its food.

Trade Winds : Caribbean Cooking

MacKie, Cristine

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

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'It's impossible to pinpoint a certain specific cuisine to one region, so when people ask me what type of food is Singaporean, I simply reply with "the delicious type". Southeast Asian cuisine is a proud mix of migrants and influences from all across Asia, which fuses together to create something even greater than the original.' Meaning 'to eat' or 'dinner time' in Malay, inMakan, rising star Elizabeth Haigh draws together recipes that have been handed down through many generations of her family, from Nonya to Nonya, creating a time-capsule of a cuisine. Growing up, it was through food that Elizabeth's mum demonstrated her affection, and the passion and love poured into each recipe is all collated here; a love letter to family cooking and traditions. Recipes include: Nonya-spiced braised duck stew pickled watermelon and radish salad beef rendang Singapore chilli crab fried tofu with spicy peanut sauce spicy noodle soup nasi goreng (spicy fried rice) Miso apple pie ... and many more! Adapting these traditional recipes to ensure ingredients are easily sourced in the West, Elizabeth brings a taste of Singapore to your own kitchen.

Makan: Recipes from the Heart of Singapore

Elizabeth Haigh

Regional & International

20th Century Icons is a stylish, quirky and instantly collectable series of little books created to celebrate the last hundred years. Famous names in the arenas of fashion, film, rock and pop, design, kitsch and camp have all chosen their own personal icons, recorded with interesting and amusing and sometimes controversial results. Holly Johnson, lead singer with Frankie Goes to Hollywood, selects his favourites pop and rock icons. From Marlene Dietrich and Little Richard to Kraftwerk and The Spice Girls, this is a choice as inspired and individual as Holly himself.

20th Century Icons-Rock & Pop

Arts & Photography

Johnson, Holly

VARIOUS

Music

Richard Burton explores the fascinating world of early to mid-twentieth century artistic gay Paris and in particular the links between Poulenc's sexuality, his music and his relgious beliefs, with extensive reference to other artists in his circle, including Cocteau and Radiguet.

Francis Poulenc (Outlines)

Burton, Richard D. E.

Biographies & Memoirs

Armistead Maupin has done more than any other writer this century to help straight readers love gay people, to help gay readers love straight ones, to make anyone who is different feel good about themselves and to make an extraordinary number of otherwise rational people suddenly yearn to live in an imaginary rooming house in San Francisco so they could become a cherished intimate of its all-wise pot-growing, transsexual landlady. Patrick Gale's Outline is a biographical tribute to his longstanding friendship with Maupin. Based on long, candid and hilarious conversations between these two outstanding novelists, it covers everything from Maupin's aristocratic Southern background and extreme right wing youth to his battle to wrench open the door on the Hollywood closet and the difficulty of sustaining a highly publicised gay "marriage".

Armistead Maupin

GALE, Patrick

Arts & Literature

Tallulah Bankhead ended her autobiography with, 'I've lived to the hilt. I've soared in the clouds and touched bottom. Much as I like to idle, I know I must carry on or perish. I have a tiger by the tail.' Hang on to that tail, as Bryony Lavery's funny and affectionate Outline takes you for a ride through Bankhead's extraordinary, party-going, dirty-talking, hard-loving life as a glamourous, promiscuous actress from New York, through London in the twenties, the early years of Hollywood and the great years of American radio.

Tallulah Bankhead (Outlines (Bath, England).)

Lavery, Bryony

A delightful gift book for Christmas which sets out, in words and pictures, to act as a light-hearted antidote to the often excessive sentimentality of the holiday period. Using quotations, poems and witticisms from the greats of world literature this little book turns out to be both sweet and sour and always fun.

Bah Humbug: A Seasonal Antidote in Words and Pictures

Fountain paints his story agaisnt the backdrop of Crisp's colourful and controversial life and sheds some light on the intriguing events leading up to his death. It is a compelling portrait of man who Fountain calls a 'great, glittering contradiction': a man who flaunted his sexuality at a time when the penalty for buggery was gaol, a man whose very name epitomised style and yet lived alone in abject poverty in a room he refused to clean and a man who confidently declared at the height of the AIDS epidemic that he 'didn't believe it existed'.

Quentin Crisp

Fountain, Tim

Providing advice and support for gay men and women. This book covers everything from the best pubs and clubs to cruising areas and gay saunas. It also includes street maps to the major cities of Britain.

Ultimate Gay Guide

Politics & Social Sciences

Szponarski, John

Social Sciences

Based on a candid conversation with the artist, Peter Adam's "Outline" leads us through David Hockney's endlessly inventive artistic development. From the perspective of his enduring fascination with the male nude, it also charts his relationships with the friends and lovers who fired his imagination and whom he portrayed, both intimately and formally, in his work - including those in London, such as W.H. Auden, Ossie Clark and Patrick Procktor, and later those in the United States, notably Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, Peter Schlesinger and Gregory Evans. It tells the story of a wonderfully engaging artistic personality, from his swinging sixties' peroxided hair and gold lame jacket, through his impatience with English prudery and censoriousness, to the present day when so many of those he has painted or drawn are no longer alive.

David Hockney: And His Friends (Outlines)

ADAM, Peter

History & Criticism

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