Bricks and Brickwork in Reading Sandra McPherson

Bricks and Brickwork in Reading Sandra McPhersonBrick features prominently in the towns of the Thames Valley, because the local geology provides little good building stone. Reading is particularly rewarding for the brick fancier, thanks to the variety of colours available and the inventive patterns that Victorian bricklayers loved to make. Illustrated throughout with photographs of surviving examples, Reading Bricks and Brickwork revels in the delights of air bricks and crinkle crankle walls, gets

+ Fernando Pessoa

another travel narrative—this time in Central America—that bears witness to scenes of intimate tyranny

by nature and context

A wide-ranging and fact-filled compendium of influential women

when he inherited the family estate in Radnorshire

Helen Mort

and Choman Hardi’s fine translation at last gives the English-speaking reader the most extensive example yet of his outstanding writing

One Foot in England and one Foot in Mauritius

Her second collection

to eschew the po-faced

they become symbolic of our relation to ourselves

Mahdi Muhammed Ali