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Life in Majorca wirh Robert Graves

As a five-year-old child, William Graves is taken in 1944 from England to a mountain village in Majorca, where his father, the poet Robert Graves, had returned with his new family to the place where he had lived before the war with Laura Riding. Young William grows up in the writer’s shadow, while experiencing the way of life of the Majorcans which have hardly changed for hundreds of years, and participating in the day-to-day activities of the village. William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca - the food, the pattern of the seasons, the camaraderie and rivalries within the village, and the growing sense, from the 1960s onwards, that his fragile paradise was under threat. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his “Muses” and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.

Price 13.50€

Clodagh & Dick Handscombe

The Complete guide to terrace, balcony and windowsill gardening in Spain and other Mediterranean Countries. Packed with practical infomation and tips, this book will help resident and non-resident owners of apartments in towns and villages, inland and on the coast, make the best use of the space available to them. Includes designing aand maximising growing space, selecting plants for sunny, semi-shady or shady locations.

Price 15.00€

Price 6.00€ while stocks last.

The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet’s daughter Lucia Graves.

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. Apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Cairo University in 1926, he earned his living by writing, mostly historical novels, including: I, Claudius; Claudius the God; Count Belisarius and many others. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He also translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths. Robert Graves died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929

Price: 19.50€

1 x pine drawers (4 drawers). Size 85 x 80 x 40cm. Price 30€

1 x pine drawers (4 drawers) Size 71 x 75 x 40cm. Price 20€

In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life with his girlfriend in Kyoto, Japan, to travel to China. His journey took him to some of the most inhospitable and dangerous places in the world, from the poppy fields of the Afghan-Pakistan border to the ancient trade routes of the Silk Road, before he was arrested for drug smuggling while boarding a boat from Shanghai to Japan. After eight months on remand in a Chinese police lock-up, Stevenson was sentenced to two and a half years in one of the biggest prisons in the world, the Shanghai Municipal Prison aka ‘The Monkey House’. There, he was imprisoned alongside just five westerners amongst five thousand Chinese criminals in a block for death row inmates and political prisoners, where the guards drank green tea and let the prison run itself. The experience led him to reflect on his previous life in Japan, India and Thailand, during which time he took on a varied array of jobs, including English teacher, karaoke-bar host, factory worker, busker, crystal seller and dope smuggler. From Afghan gun shops to Tibetan monasteries, Thai brothels and the stirrings of the rave culture in Goa, “Monkey House Blues” is a tale of discovery and rediscovery, of friendship and betrayal.

Price: 14:50€