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A sumptuous French cookbook that immerses readers in the
incomparable cuisine of the PĂ©rigord region, by the bestselling
author of the beloved Dordogne Mysteries series, co-authored with
his wife, food writer and novelist, Julia Watson. Bruno Courrèges,
the protagonist of Martin Walker's internationally acclaimed
mystery series, is not only the local police chief of the idyllic
village of St Denis. Bruno also happens to be an impressive amateur
chef, and in this delightful new cookbook, the culinary and
cultural inspiration behind Bruno's fiction world comes to life.
Featuring local recipes, charming anecdotes, and a history of its
French setting, Bruno's Cookbook invites readers into the bucolic
life of Walker and his wife, Julia, and showcases their passion for
the region's rich cuisine. Brimming with truffles, pate, top
quality fruit and vegetables, famed regional cheeses and wines, the
PĂ©rigord is a gourmet's paradise. Bruno's Cookbook includes over
90 recipes, steeped in local flavours and prepared in Walker's
large country kitchen, from Duck Breast Fillets with Honey and
Mustard, Red Onion Tarte Tatin, and a classic Beef Pot Roast, to
Chard Gratin (Bruno's comfort meal), Hazelnut Meringue Cake, and
Homemade Blackcurrant Liqueur. Centred on the splendid institution
of the village market, the recipes are organised around the people
who provide the food: the fisherman, the hunter, the cheesemaker,
the forager, the baker, and the winemaker. A feast for the senses,
Bruno's Cookbook transports readers to France's gastronomic
heartland.
From resumes to personal ads, from talk shows to self-help groups,
autobiographical storytelling has become a central theme of
American culture. Visual media offer possible lives through soap
operas, talk shows, and "lifestyle programming", and newspapers and
magazines frame their stories as "personality profiles". This text
explores a variety of occasions during which people consume
personal narratives. This collection aims to expand our
understanding of how we negotiate and commodify identity.
Words of joy, love, devotion and celebration Deciding how to
express your feelings on one of the most important days of your or
your loved one's life can be overwhelming. Poems and Readings for
Weddings collects the very best readings by world-renowned poets,
bards, playwrights and novelists who have written passionately,
thoughtfully and deeply over hundreds of years about love, marriage
and commitment. This beautiful collection contains an astonishing
range of poems, prose extracts, prayers and songs, all chosen to
enhance the occasion, whether they be moving, witty, irreverent,
thoughtful or heartfelt. Above all, these words will be recognized
as timeless and true.
With the memoir boom, life storytelling has become ubiquitous and
emerged as a distinct field of study. "Reading Autobiography,"
originally published in 2001, was the first comprehensive critical
introduction to life writing in all its forms. Widely adopted for
undergraduate and graduate-level courses, it is an essential guide
for students and scholars reading and interpreting autobiographical
texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences, and
visual and performing arts.aThoroughly updated, the second edition
of "Reading Autobiography" is the most complete assessment of life
narrative in its myriad forms. It lays out a sophisticated,
theoretical approach to life writing and the components of
autobiographical acts, including memory, experience, identity,
embodiment, space, and agency. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
explore these components, review the history of life writing and
the foundations of autobiographical subjectivity, and provide a
toolkit for working with twenty-three key concepts. Their survey of
innovative forms of life writing, such as autographics and
installation self-portraiture, charts recent shifts in
autobiographical practice. Especially useful for courses are the
appendices: a glossary covering dozens of distinct genres of life
writing, proposals for group and classroom projects, and an
extensive bibliography.
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'I have cancer, but it's not who I am.' - Julia Watson Mother of
four girls Julia Watson thought her world was falling apart when
she found out she had terminal cancer. But with humour and courage,
Julia faces the greatest challenge of her life - and in the process
becomes the person she'd always wanted to be. A survivor of child
abuse, brought up by a mother with mental illness, Julia was no
stranger to adversity. After her daughter Georgie was born with
Down syndrome, she thought she'd faced it all. But when doctors
offer her the chance of risky but potentially life-saving surgery,
Julia faces her toughest situation yet. Follow Julia and her
family, as she writes her way through the crisis, chases her
dreams, gets her dancing shoes on and discovers the lighter side of
life with a colostomy bag. This is a candid, entertaining look at
life with cancer and living each day with humour and hope. A
proportion of the proceeds from each copy sold will be donated to
the Jodi Lee Foundation.
Words of sadness and loss, comfort and consolation Summoning the
words to express our feelings of loss for a loved one in the days
following a death can feel almost impossible. And often the choice
of readings available can seem daunting. Poems and Readings for
Funerals is a carefully curated collection of the very wisest words
about death by some of the world's greatest poets, thinkers,
playwrights and novelists. Featuring beautifully and thoughtfully
written poems, prose extracts and prayers, these readings have been
chosen to move and console, sympathize and relieve - to bring
everyone attending a funeral or memorial closer together.
Modern and contemporary women's artistic production of
autobiography frequently occurs at the interfaces of image and
text. The many permutations of words and images in all their modes
of production--photograph, pose, invocation, written narrative,
sculpture, dance, diatribe--create countless possibilities of
expression, and this volume charts some of the ways in which women
artists are seizing these possibilities.
Editors Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson have been at the vanguard of
the study of women's self-representation, and here have collected
leading critics' and scholars' thoughts on artistic fusions of the
visual and autobiographical. Marianne Hirsch, Linda Hutcheon, Linda
Kauffman, Nellie McKay, Marjorie Perloff, Lee Quinby, and the other
contributors offer new insights into the work of such artists as
Laurie Anderson, Judy Chicago, Frida Kahlo, Orlan, and Cindy
Sherman. From a painter's diary to a performance artist's
ritualized enactments of kitchen domesticity, the many narratives
of the self arising from these artists' negotiations of the visual
and textual prove to be goldmines for analysis.
Art historians, artists, critics, literary scholars in women's
studies, and anyone interested in the forms and implications of
depicting the self will enjoy this richly illustrated collection.
Sidonie Smith is Professor of English, University of Michigan.
Julia Watson is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies, The
Ohio State University. They also edited "Reading Autobiography: A
Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives" and "Women, Autobiography,
Theory: A Reader,"
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