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Big Pig, Little Pig by Jacqueline Yallop
Category: Biography
When Jacqueline moves to south-west France with her husband, she embraces rural village life and buys two pigs to rear for slaughter. But as she gets to know the animals better, her English sentimentality threatens to get in the way and she begins to wonder if she can actually bring herself to kill them ...Show more
Big Pig, Little Pig: A Year on a Smallholding in South-West France by Jacqueline Yallop
Category: Animals & Nature
'A love story, a meditation on meat eating, on farming animals, on the relations between man and beast. Yallop writes with great tenderness' Daily Telegraph On her fortieth birthday Jacqueline Yallop built a pig sty in rural south-west France. She and her husband Ed had decided to turn their Aveyron cot ...Show more
DREAMSTREETS A JOURNEY THROUGH BRITAINS VILLAGE UTOPIAS firm sale by YALLOP JACQUELINE
Category: Biography
Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop was leading guided walks at Nenthead, one of a network of 'model' villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A life-long fascination was born. From Scotland's New Lanark Mills to the Arts and Crafts cottages of Port Sunlig ...Show more
Into the Dark: What darkness is and why it matters by JACQUELINE YALLOP
Category: Space
Drawing on science, literature, art and psychology, Jacqueline Yallop explores our fascination with the dark. Can you remember the first time you encountered true darkness? The kind that remains as black and inky whether your eyes are open or closed? Where you can't see your hand in front of your face? ...Show more
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World by Jacqueline Yallop
Category: History
During the Victorian age, British collectors were among the most active, passionate and eccentric in the world. Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves tells the stories of some of the nineteenth century's most intriguing collectors following their perilous journeys across the globe in the hunt for rare and beau ...Show more
Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World by Jacqueline Yallop
Category: History
Marlford by Jacqueline Yallop
Category: Fiction
Ellie Barton has spent her young life living in the dilapidated manor house with her elderly father. Her duty is to her aristocratic lineage, something of which she is often reminded by those few people around her. But Marlford, the local village founded by her grandfather, is in decay - subsidence from ...Show more
Obedience by Jacqueline Yallop
Category: Fiction
Sister Bernard has lived in a grey-stone convent in rural France for more than seventy years. In that time, a once youthful and lively cloister has gradually emptied, until only Bernard and two other nuns remain. Now, the three women pack away their few possessions into wooden boxes, preparing to leave ...Show more
Obedience by Jacqueline Yallop
Category: Fiction
Imagine "The Secret Scripture" crossed with "The Reader": in this shattering novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Jacqueline Yallop has spun a story of collaboration, betrayal, illicit love, faith and aching desire. In a convent in rural France, three ageing nuns remain. Cloistered within her failing fait ...Show more
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