A forceful, passionate and uplifting collection of poems by women and girls that is guaranteed to inspire, delight and empower.From well-loved poets, including Maya Angelou, Wendy Cope, Lucille Clifton and Christina Rossetti, to newer voices such as Amanda Gorman, Yrsa-Daley Ward and Amineh Abou Kerech, this outstanding collection from talented anthologist Ella Risbridger has poems for every mood and every moment. Ella's selection is wide-ranging but accessible and will appeal to poetry lovers both young and old alike.
Recipes that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken... There was a time when, for Ella Risbridger, the world had become overwhelming. Sounds were too loud, colours were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up – and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive. Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chilli-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagne, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce. But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for: a manifesto of moments worth living for. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.
Set Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry: a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead. With an intuitive, accessible, feelings-first format, these are poems for the moments when you really need to know that someone else has been there too. These are poems about eating and kissing and having too many feelings, about being outside and inside and loving someone so much you think you might die. They are about break-ups and getting back together and oh-god-it's-complicated-don't-ask-me moments. They are about wanting and waiting and having, about grieving and life after death and the end of the world. They are, in other words, about being alive.
Ella Risbridger weiß, wovon sie schreibt: Es gab eine Zeit, in der für sie die Welt überwältigend schien. Die Geräusche waren zu laut, die Farben zu hell, alle bewegten sich zu schnell. Eines Nachts lag sie auf ihrem Küchenboden und fragte sich, ob sie jemals wieder aufstehen würde. Es war der Gedanke an ein Huhn, es zu braten und zu essen, welcher sie wieder auf die Beine brachte und das Leben lebenswert machte. Aus dieser Situation heraus ist Die Geschichte beginnt mit einem Huhn entstanden: Es finden sich Rezepte, wie z.B. geröstete Knoblauch-Tomaten-Suppe, frische Chili-Zitronen-Spaghetti, u.v.m., auf eine ganz persönliche Weise beschrieben, als koche man mit der besten Freundin. Die Art des Kochens, die ein bisschen betrunken machen kann. Wenn man sich jedoch niederlässt und es mit einer Tasse Tee (oder einem Glas Wein) liest, wird man feststellen, dass es sich um eine liebevoll ausgewählte Liste von Dingen handelt – ein Manifest von Momenten, für die es sich zu leben lohnt!
Inspired by The Secret Garden and the golden age of crime writing, The Secret
Detectives is a gripping, beautifully historical mystery. Perfect for fans of
Katherine Rundell.
