Miscellaneous Books
Motherhood: On the choices of being a woman
Pragya Agarwal
This is a book about motherhood. And the shapes it takes. This is a book about bodies. And how some are less than the sum of their parts. This is a book about choices. The roads we follow, and those we are not allowed to walk.
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Ravenous
How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet Into Shape
Henry Dimbleby, Jemima Lewis
You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Every mouthful you take is informed by the subtle tweaking and nudging of a vast, complex, global system: one so intimately woven into everyday life that you hardly even know it's there.
The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth.
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How to Read a Tree
Tristan Gooley
From the author of How to Read Water comes an accessible and illuminating guide to understanding the rich variety of trees through the hidden shapes and patterns that most people miss.
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Over Heard in Notts
by Left Lion
It’s a book of stupid stuff we’ve heard you say, and have written down.
Now available to buy for £6 online and in our favourite shops around town.
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Bollocks : A Word On Trial
by Michael Eaton
The play of the true story about the police raid on Nottingham’s Virgin Records, for stocking a Sex Pistols record with a challenging title
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Fighting in a World on Fire
The Next Generation’s Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future
Malm, Andreas
Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are making our Earth unlivable.
As Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future movement have made clear, solutions offered by adults are far too little, far too late: the measures in unenforceable international agreements won’t halt our reliance on fossil fuels, or take the drastic steps humans need to take in order to keep our planet livable.
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It’s Not That Radical
Climate Action to Transform Our World
Loach, Mikaela
For too long, representations of climate action in the mainstream media have been white-washed, green-washed and diluted to be made compatible with capitalism.
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One Woman’s War
Essays Written in War, for Peace
Dana Mills
On October 7th 2023 the lives of all Israelis and all Palestinians changed forever. Hamas killed over 1200 Israelis and others, then Israel started a relentless attack on Gaza.
For three months, Israeli peace activist Dana Mills wrote near daily essays, reporting her fears, thoughts and – occasionally – hopes. She knew a number of people killed on that first day, many were fellow peace activists, and she had worked as a Jewish human rights advocate for Gazans and those living under occupation on the West Bank.
These essays are presented in their raw form, barely edited. One woman’s war, written for peace.
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Ghosts in the Hedgerow
who or what is responsible for our favourite mammal’s decline
Tom Moorhouse
Miscellaneous
A body lies motionless on the ground. Small, with a snouty head and covered with spines, it is unquestionably dead before its time. And all of those gathered around the corpse are suspect. So which one of them is responsible for this crime – and for the disappearance of many many thousands of hedgehogs in recent decades?
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Federation Favourites
Recipes Celebrating 100 years
Nottinghamshire Women's Institute
A recipe book drawn together to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the county federation.
The recipes are favourites used over the years at various events (n.b. for fans of the Bramley: very few of the recipes use apples). Spiral bound
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Britain’s Living Seas
Our Coastal Wildlife and How We Can Save It
Hannah Rudd
Our seas are home to an abundance of fascinating creatures and stunning habitats. From spectacular kelp forests to intricate rocky reefs and from mud plains to open ocean, the British Isles have a diversity of marine ecosystems that rival those seen on any nature documentary. Yet, for generations, we have been slowly suffocating life beneath the waves. Decades of unsustainable exploitation, endless pollution and a warming climate have had a devastating effect on our marine habitats.
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An Accidental Bookseller: A Personal Memoir of Foyles
by Bill Samuel
Bill Samuel has written (and self-published) an entertaining, old-fashioned memoir of the firm, his own rather adventurous life before joining the family business and his successful attempt to rebuild the finances and reputation of Foyles, both of which had been destroyed by his aunt Christina Foyle.
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