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Taking tea is one of the quintessentially English occasions, and who is a greater authority on the subject than the sumptuous Ritz London Hotel? This charming Edwardian-style book captures the essence of this traditional British pastime, and provides us with all the expertise on the ceremony as well as the recipes. Stories about the legendary afternoon teas at The Ritz and fascinating details about the history of tea drinking are complemented with passages from such diverse writers as Charles Dickens to Oscar Wilde. Over fifty recipes are included for different kinds of afternoon tea specialities, from delicate sandwiches, strawberry shortcake and rose petal jam, to crumpets and muffins for hearty teas in front of a roaring fire. The author gives an infallible guide to the many blends of tea and their suitability to particular occasions. Beautifully presented and delightfully illustrated, this book is the perfect gift for tea drinkers everywhere.

Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. From a bed that transforms the lives of a struggling couple to a chorus of midwives telling the dramatic story of a birth, this is a playful, unique set of stories to treasure.

This new anthology of Helen de Guerry Simpson's supernatural fiction selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories to her 1925 collection The Baseless Fabric.

Anglická spisovatelka Angela Carterová je českým čtenářům téměř neznámá, přičemž v roce 1993 vyšla pouze její Kytice dívčích pohádek, která spadá spíše do badatelské činnosti. V původní tvorbě často čerpá z mýtů a pohádek, přičemž ji fascinuje neustále se měnící invence vypravěčů. Příběhy, jejichž autoři nejsou známí, mohou být kdykoli převyprávěny a přizpůsobeny fantazii, což z nich činí živé a zábavné vyprávění pro široké vrstvy. Carterová zahrnuje do této zábavy i televizi, například v populárním seriálu Dynastie vidí moderní verzi klasické pohádky. Krvavá komnata (1979) je skvostným příkladem její pohádkové filozofie, kde klasické pohádky a pověsti, jako Třináctá komnata či Červená Karkulka, dostávají v originálních parafrázích nový rozměr. Carterová si s těmito příběhy jazykově i myšlenkově pohrává, což vytváří úchvatnou atmosféru, která vtahuje čtenáře do magického světa. Ženské hrdinky prožívají přirozené touhy a vášně, zatímco muži jsou z ženského pohledu vnímáni jako přitažlivé netvory, kteří buď mění život žen, nebo hynou. Moderní pohádky Carterové vyprávějí o lásce na život a na smrt, typicky pro naši dobu.

This collection, Helen Simpson's third and best yet, is a loosely linked set of stories about women - at work, at home and on holiday - that is poignant, perceptive, often sad and frequently funny. schovat popis

A sensational new short story collection about women’s lives, from Britain’s master of the “A masterful contemporary exponent of the genre, Simpson now deserves to be compared with Flannery O’Connor and Alice Munro.”– The Observer

"Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and renewal found in long friendships and marriages. It opens irresistible new windows onto the world from Arizona to Dubai and from Moscow to Berlin. Turning both a panoramic and a zoom lens on the way we live now, these stories range through hitch-hiking in Bohemian forest-land to cresting the waves of the Aegean to the mending of hearts and the recovery of lost property at the end of the Piccadilly Line. Helen Simpson writes with great warmth, wit and candour about the complexities of modern life, and this new collection shows why she is hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today."

Helen Simpson is a writer with such a gift for sweet tenderness that one could almost overlook the glittering sharpness of the insights... Not many writers manage to be as funny as Helen Simpson without sacrificing the honesty that her writing unmistakably has Philip Hensher Mail on Sunday

Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These wonderfully funny and penetrating stories take on the full stretch, from birth to death and everything in between, in writing of remarkable originality and clarity.