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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.

Two long stories, born from surprisingly fertile imaginations... In "The Arbutus," Ruth Rendell portrays an English family on vacation in Spain whose summer is marred by a mysterious and heartbreaking event. In a long flashback, the sister recalls the cursed stay: the exoticism of Mediterranean holidays intertwines with the bitterness of a fate forever marked by tragedy. Forever? Of course not, as Rendell reserves a series of twists for the end that are both subtle and skillful. This great mistress of suspense has invited a young talent, Helen Simpson, to appear alongside her in this volume. Simpson's story, "Flesh and Grass," immerses us in a macabre world populated by sinister characters: a chef with strange recipes, a perverse doctor engaged in dubious machinations, a little girl murdered in the forest... Woven with strange atmospheres and an unusual style, this text takes us into a decidedly unsettling universe.

Short stories about mixed blessings of independence and marriage, sex and babies.

A reissue of a collection of short stories first published ten years ago.

These stories are aimed at readers of 'Good Housekeeping' magazine - primarily women aged 25 to 55 - and deal with the myriad issues facing women today. Each story is a generous bite size of well-written, self-contained fiction perfectly suited to holiday reading.

This second collection of short stories by the author of the prize-winning Four Bare Legs in a Bed, recently nominated as one of Granta magazine's Best Young British Novelists, continues to explore ideas of independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies.

Here is London life glimpsed from buses, trains and the occasional taxi, with the Thames as a diamond-dusted ribbon seen from an airplane coming into Heathrow from behind buggyloads of babies, and from suburban back yards with their barbecues and dawn revelations.

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

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

A unique anthology for crime aficionados seven of the world s most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier s mysterious suicide; a brutal double murder in New Zealand Seven of the world s greatest crime writers turn their hand to some of the world s most spine-tingling mysteries all of them astonishingly TRUE. This remarkable collection from the archives of the Detection Club follows The Floating Admiral, Ask a Policeman and Six Against the Yard back into print after more than 75 years, and shows some of the most accomplished authors of their generation retelling real-life murder mysteries with all the relish of the tastiest crime fiction."

Poignant, funny and perceptive, Helen Simpson's fifth collection of runs the gamut of emotions and deals with birth, death and everything in between.

Das Haus der geheimen Wünsche/Die Sünden des Fleisches - 2 Romane in einem Band - bk1250; Goldmann Verlag; Ruth Rendell/Helen Simpson; pocket_book; 1993

Zwei Frauen, die sich kaum kennen, aber sympathisch finden, treffen sich auf einen Kaffee. Doch da ist auch noch der kleine Ben, der ein Gespräch unmöglich macht. Und so klafft das, was die beiden gern sagen würden, und das, was sie tatsächlich sagen können, immer weiter auseinander. Eine 17-Jährige, die eigentlich für ihr Abitur lernen müsste, spaziert an einem Frühlingstag durch einen Vorort und schwört sich, nie wie ihre Mutter zu werden. Diese wiederum, eine erfolgreiche Anwältin, macht sich bei der Abendveranstaltung einer Bank Gedanken darüber, welcher der anwesenden Herren einen Seitensprung wert sein könnte. In jeder ihrer Erzählungen, die durch wiederkehrende Figuren miteinander verbunden sind, lässt Helen Simpson die Hauptfigur unvermittelt innehalten, die eigene Situation mit kritischem Blick betrachten und bringt auf diese Weise Unausgesprochenes ans Licht.