Recommendations

If you are looking for a gift, or just something new for yourself, here are a few books we love! Just click their covers for more details…

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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Return of a King: Shah Shuja and the First Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William Dalrymple
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
The Great British Farmhouse Cookbook
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm
Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World by Michael Burleigh
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz
Shackleton’s Whisky by Neville Peat
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
Calcutta : Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri
Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Fixes by James Wong
Diana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
Daphne Du Maurier and Her Sisters by Jane Dunn
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers