Books from Fig Tree

A Half Baked Idea: A How Love, Grief and Cake Took Me from the Courtroom to the Cordon Bleu
By Olivia Potts
'A tender and beautifully written tour-de-force on love, grief, hope and cake. If this is not the book of the summer, I will eat my wig.
The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid
By Marina Lewycka
After walking out on his wife to shack up with 'Brexit Brenda' next door, George Pantis thinks he's got it made - especially when he wins millions on a Kosovan lottery he barely remembers entering.
The Lubetkin Legacy
By Marina Lewycka
'Lively . . . a joy to read' - The Times Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize From the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian...
Various Pets Alive and Dead
By Marina Lewycka
For twenty years Doro and Marcus lived in a commune, convinced lentils and free love would change the world.
A Natural Curiosity
By Margaret Drabble
'What I do suffer from is curiosity'.
Common People: The History of an English Family
By Alison Light
Beginning with her grandparents, Alison Light moves between the present and the past, in an extraordinary series of journeys over two centuries, across Britain and beyond.
Look at Me
By Anita Brookner
The lives of a single woman and her coupled friends "illustrate the gulf between those assured of love and those condemned to yearn for it."
Queen of Crafts: The Modern Girls' Guide to Knitting, Sewing, Quilting, Baking, Preserving and Kitchen Gardening
By Jazz Domino Holly
Have fun and impress your friends and family as you learn how to- Unravel the mystery of knits and purls and whip up a Girlie Bow Headband Fix your stitches and sew a string of Heart-Felt Bunting Feel the heat in the kitchen and bake a ...
Michelangelo: His Epic Life
By Martin Gayford
In Michelangelo Martin Gayford describes what it felt like to be Michelangelo Buonarroti, and how he transformed forever our notion of what an artist could be.
Big Pig, Little Pig: A Tale of Two Pigs in France
By Jacqueline Yallop
At its heart, this book is a love story, exploring the increasing attachment of the author for her particular pigs, and celebrating the enduring closeness of humans and pigs over the centuries.
Things Bright and Beautiful
By Anbara Salam
In the 1950s a missionary and his wife hope to bring God to a remote South Pacific island, but instead fear losing their souls .
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One
By Miranda Carter
IN THE YEARS BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR, the great European powers, Britain, Germany and Russia, were ruled by three cousins- George V, King-Emperor of England, the British Empire and...
You're All Invited: Margot's Recipes for Entertaining
By Margot Henderson
In You're All Invited, Margot Henderson, who cooks for between 30 to 200 people every day, shows you how- using her panache as a caterer for Arnold & Henderson and restaurateur at London's Rochelle Canteen, and drawing on her family life ...
Our Endless Numbered Days
By Claire Fuller
Tautly written, tense, haunting, suspenseful' Metro 'Fuller's twisted tale is compulsive, treading the fine line between charming and sinister . . . could well become a classic' Stylist 'Bewitching.
The Whalebone Theatre
By Joanna Quinn
' Maudie closes the book with a clllump. 'We haven't read all the books yet, Miss Cristabel.
The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford
By Nancy Mitford
The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford.
Venice: Four Seasons of Home Cooking
By Russell Norman
The book also affords us a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of the city, its hidden architectural gems, its secret places, the embedded history, the colour and vitality of daily life, and the food merchants and growers who make ...
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
By Marina Lewycka
Putting aside a lifetime of rivalry when they learn that their recently widowed father is planning to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda find themselves outmaneuvered by their father's scheming fiancée.
Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything - Sausages to Smoked Salmon, Sourdough to Sloe Gin, Bacon to Buns
By Tim Hayward
Food DIYis the essential modern urban cook's manual. enthusiastic DIYer Tim Hayward will show you- How to make your own butter and cheese, sloe gin, suet pudding and potted lobster.
Unsettled Ground
By Claire Fuller
This is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival.