Mr Mc Greggor

If we teach children when they are young to reject their epiphanies,then it's no wonder that we end up with adults who are mathematically, poetically and theologically illiterate.

In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader's hands.

Garnett closed his eyes. Was al this really happening? Some mysterious intruder was banging down his front door, a strange women from Lexington was attempting to uncover his most embarrassing secret, his back ached like the dickens, and his bare buttocks were hanging out in the breeze. He did not wish he were dead, exactly, just maybe peacefully asleep in his bed, with all the lights out.

A book to dip in to and each wee essay, poem or whatever is so well chosen

A great ol yarn

Just listened to a discussion of this book on BBC's In Our Time http://www.bbc.co.uk/progra... and plan to read it on holiday next week.

Enchanting dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa

Just got this through Book Mooch.. Readable wide ranging Holistic benefit of gardens..sounds interesting

"monumental.." "A tour de force." If you tend to obsess about the information in your latest read then you are about to enter a twilight zone that will bore the socks off your friends. This is a little overstuffed but the information is facinating

Jane Grigson described this book as "..a real book, written with authority and enthusiasm, a coolection of history, ivestigation, comment, recipes" and this copy is well used for it's recipes.