Adventures On The High Teas

Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn't know either, so he packed his Thermos and sandwiches and set off to find out... Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers in the park? And is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais and John Betjeman make out? From Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Vaughan Williams to Craig David, William Morris to B&Q, Stuart Maconie leads the expedition, with plenty of stop-offs for tea and scones, to discover the truth.

Everyone talks about Middle England. Sometimes they mean something bad & sometimes they mean something good. But just where & what is Middle England? The atuhor didn't know either, so he packed his Thermos & sandwiches and set off to find out.

“Athini and Wisteria are two young, beautiful, and glamorous “Sloane” EuroCat Fashionistas, living in prestigious Chelsea and a country “pile.” They travel abroad to the “in” places and parties - living the high life, enjoying the social scene, and social calendar. Their owners are rich and privileged nobility and adore them; indulging them with the best of everything. They are very smart, playful, and adventurous. They combine their love of fashion - high end of course; with their love of going to all the posh events and dos, wherever they may be. At these events, they very often end up involved in escapades. Enjoy meeting the Kittys on the first of their many adventures; at the Tissori London Hotel - frequented by the rich and famous, where they have gone for the quintessential afternoon tea. Here, they find themselves embroiled in a mystery, and use a little help from their friends to sniff out what’s happening.

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARHenrietta Lovell is best known as 'The Rare Tea Lady'. She is on a mission to revolutionise the way we drink tea by replacing industrially produced teabags with the highest quality tea leaves. Her quest has seen her travel to the Shire Highlands of Malawi, across the foothills of the Himalayas, and to hidden gardens in the Wuyi-Shan to source the world's most extraordinary teas.Infused invites us to discover these remarkable places, introducing us to the individual growers and household name chefs Lovell has met along the way - and reveals the true pleasures of tea. The result is a delicious infusion of travel writing, memoir, recipes, and glorious photography, all written with Lovell's unique charm and wit.

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This is a coming-of-age story of Mr. Wrenn, an employee of a novelty company, who quits his job after inheriting a fortune from his father and decides to go on a voyage to Europe. A brief story on how the leading character, Mr. Wrenn, changes his life around. This story is also a window into the minds of the prewar people from 1910's New York. Any tired businessman will find just the right cure for exhaustion in 'Our Mr. Wrenn' Sinclair Lewis became the first writer from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." He used the pseudonym Tom Graham for his earlier books. Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is the first novel published under his real name and also his first serious novel.