Daab Publishing
This is a coffee-table book cataloguing the latest in shoe design from up and coming designers and global brands alike. From sandals to knee-high boots, the whole gamut of footwear is explored using striking imagery and evocative text. Perfect for a quick glance, or even the rebuilding of your wardrobe - Shoe Design is a fun addition to your book collection.
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009
Edited by Lucy McCauley
This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women who have travelled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples - and themselves. Their moving stories describe intense personal experiences and introspection bringing to life regions such as Kenya, Mexico and the Loire Valley. This is a read that’ll make you laugh, cry, wish you were there, or be glad you weren’t.
Eat, Pray, Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
It may have been around for a couple of years already but this inspirational novel continues to feature on the bestseller lists around the globe. It’s a tale of self-discovery and personal growth as discovered by one woman’s journey through Italy, India and Indonesia. Elizabeth Gilbert went in search of pleasure, devotion and balance and found all three.
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
As the winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, this book is a hybrid entity – a novel in 13 short stories. Set in small-town Maine it packs a cumulative emotional wallop, bound together by polished prose and by Olive, the title character who is blunt, flawed and fascinating. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition.
