each time in a form that fits the prejudices
it's a thoughtful and literary-inspired gift
The vile sequel to the equally revolting A Stinky History of Toilets
and occasionally – to modern eyes – bizarre customs that grew up around death and mourning in Victorian Britain
the vampire squid and the 'head-less chicken monster' - a strange form of sea cucumber that lives at the very bottom of the ocean
John of John by Douglas Stuart each time in a formOut of money and with little to show for his art school education, John Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew up, Cal resumes his old life, caught between the two poles of his childhood: his father John, a sheep farmer, weaver, and pillar of their local Presbyterian church, and his Glaswegian grandmother Ella, who has kept a faltering peace with