Search results for ""Author Laura Carter""
Canelo The Kitchen: A feel-good novel of unexpected friendship and romance
Can they stand the heat...?Maggie’s in the running to be the next head chef at Michelin-starred Manhattan restaurant, Jean-Sébastien’s. Unfortunately, she’s competing against notoriously arrogant Ethan to prove she’s the best chef for the job.Food critic Emily can make or break a chef’s career. When she visits the restaurant to see what interim head chef, Maggie, has to offer, Emily is having a particularly bad day…Single mum Nayomi needs a job and Jean-Sébastien’s needs a kitchen porter – perfect! She just has to keep her head down and money coming in. But she’s desperate to speak up and help struggling chef Maggie – Nayomi's own skills might be just the recipe to save Maggie’s career and impress Emily.A delicious story of unexpected friendship and risking it all, for fans of Zara Stoneley and Lauren Weisberger.Praise for The Kitchen 'I thoroughly enjoyed this read! Loved how the main characters were all women whom were strong and independent! A gem of a story.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader'Delicious. The menus. The food. The characters. The plot. Simply delicious. Maggie, Emily and Nayomi are strong characters and you quickly become involved with their stories.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review'This book epitomizes what can occur when women support each other and cheer on their victories!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review'I really enjoyed seeing their individual stories join together, the friendships that developed, and how they were able to forge ahead and be the change that they were hoping for. Highly recommend this book for any women’s fiction fan or for book club reading.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader review
£9.99
Oxford University Press Histories of Everyday Life: The Making of Popular Social History in Britain, 1918-1979
Histories of Everyday Life is a study of the production and consumption of popular social history in mid-twentieth century Britain. It explores how non-academic historians, many of them women, developed a new breed of social history after the First World War, identified as the 'history of everyday life'. The 'history of everyday life' was a pedagogical construct based on the perceived educational needs of the new, mass democracy that emerged after 1918. It was popularized to ordinary people in educational settings, through books, in classrooms and museums, and on BBC radio. After tracing its development and dissemination between the 1920s and the 1960s, this book argues that 'history of everyday life' declined in the 1970s not because academics invented an alternative 'new' social history, but because bottom-up social change rendered this form of popular social history untenable in the changing context of mass education. Histories of Everyday Life ultimately uses the subject of history to demonstrate how profoundly the advent of mass education shaped popular culture in Britain after 1918, arguing that we should see the twentieth century as Britain's educational century.
£27.73