(Photo credit: Hurst & Co.) (Image above shows cover image of the book which is the title, African soundscapes: how a continent changed the world’s game, and images of stamps representing African soccer players) As evidenced by this years World Cup, Africa has a passion for soccerball. Soccer (or football) is the most popular sport […]
Category: 21st-century items
Gardening women
(Photo credit: publisher- Virago) (Image shows two women halfway up two ladders tending to a plant, with the title of the book ‘Gardening women: their stories 1600 to the present’ and the authors name – Catherine Horwood) Women are rarely celebrated in the history of gardening – a fact Catherine Horwood, a historian and passionate […]
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: the graphic novel
(Photo credit: Titan Books) (Image shows a female zombie in period dress crawling out of a grave) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies quickly became a New York Times bestseller when it was published in 2009. Now it has been adapted and published in graphic novel format. The book combines Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice with […]
Celebrating Peanuts
(Photo credit: andrewsmcmeel.com) (Image shows the cover of the book which is an illustration of Charlie Brown hugging Snoopy) ‘Celebrating Peanuts’ by Charles M. Schulz This special anniversary tribute celebrating 60 years of the most successful comic strip, features more than 500 pages of classic “Peanuts” comic strips in both black and white and colour. […]