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  The Grade Cricketer - Alphas...

  Ian Higgins, Sam Perry

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  Bigger, buffer and even more insecure than before, The Grade Cricketer is back 
   
   
  After wasting several years becoming a worldwide sports comedy phenomenon, The Grade Cricketer is back to deliver another sharp, hilarious and often risqué critique of the game. Full of side-splitting humour, it's a brilliant skewering of sporting masculinity and cricket culture, channeling the raucous energy of Sam Perry and Ian Higgins' hit podcast, TV, radio and live shows. 
   
  A hallowed, suspicious-smelling manual, Alphas, Champs and Chop Kings is an induction to grade cricket handed down through generations of cricketers who weren't quite good enough to play professionally. 
   
  Outrageous, ridiculous and sadly completely true, it's the handbook you should not give to any aspiring young cricketer. 
   
  'The Grade Cricketer nails it for anyone who's ever donned a pair of whites. Underneath all the laughs, he's just saying what we're all thinking. I actually find it hard to believe he's a fictional character ...' MERV HUGHES 
   
  'The Grade Cricketer is the finest tribute to a sport since Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, and the best cricket book in yonks!' TOM KENEALLY 
   
  'The Grade Cricketer has taken us so far inside a district club dressing room that you feel like a locker. Ligaments could not be closer to the bone than some of his observations.' KERRY O'KEEFFE 
   
  'The Grade Cricketer is strange and, I suspect, brilliant'. WISDEN

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  I Have This Thing for Flowers -...

  Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn

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  A story of love, marriage, and flowers from beloved writer and gardening enthusiast Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn  
  Six months before her wedding, Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s fiancé broke off their engagement. Stunned, reeling, and newly uninsured, Alysia married her friend Sarah in an arrangement that secured them both free health insurance. They moved in together in the midst of the pandemic, and with time and while tending a garden, their marriage of convenience grew into a marriage of love.   
  In science, art, and mythology, we cannot help but to see flowers as metaphors for the fleeting nature of youth, vitality, and love. It’s easy to casually admire something beautiful, but it takes a discerning eye to appreciate the effort that went into nourishing and tending to that beauty. In both gardening and relationships, one cannot expect to fill your garden with flowers if you are unwilling—or unable—to put in the work they need to thrive. In I Have This Thing For Flowers, Sawchyn does just that, likening the many flowers she has grown in her gardens to a range of relationships and moments of her life, reflecting on topics from motherhood to perfumery to scientific illustration.  
  Cataloguing many of the great romances and loves of her life like an herbarium of flowers preserved from the garden, Sawchyn examines the kinds of love that can't be explained.

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  A Short History of Black Craft...

  Robell Awake

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  Black artisans have long been central to American art and design, creating innovative and highly desired work against immense odds. Atlanta-based chairmaker and scholar Robell Awake explores the stories behind ten cornerstones of Black craft, including: 
   
   
   
  ● The celebrated wooden chairs of Richard Poynor, an enslaved craftsman who began a dynasty of Tennessee chairmakers. 
   
   
   
  ● The elegant wrought-iron gates of Philip Simmons, seen to this day throughout Charleston, South Carolina, whose work features motifs from the Low Country. 
   
   
   
  ● The inventive assemblage art and yard shows of Joe Minter, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, and others, who draw on African spiritual traditions to create large-scale improvisational art installations. 
   
   
   
  From the enslaved potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, to Ann Lowe, the couture dressmaker who made Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, to Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket makers, to the celebrated quilters of Gee's Bend, A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects illuminates the work of generations of Black craftspeople, foregrounding their enduring contributions to American craft.

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  Losing a Pet to Heaven - Repair...

  Pet Studios London

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  The house is quieter now. You notice it in the strangest moments. Reaching down to a spot on the couch that's empty. Hearing a sound that isn't there anymore. Catching yourself about to call a name that no one answers to. 
  And yet the world just... kept spinning. As if nothing happened. But something did happen. Something enormous. You loved someone with your whole heart, and they're gone. 
  If you're carrying that weight right now, the grief that sneaks up in the middle of a grocery store, the guilt that whispers at 2 a.m., the ache of a thousand tiny "what ifs," then this audiobook was made for you. 
  With a soft voice, Jessica Sporleder walks with you through the hardest days of pet loss. Not to rush you. Not to fix you. Not to tell you it's time to move on. Just to sit with you in it, and remind you: the size of your grief is the size of your love. And that love was real. It's still real now and always will be.  
  Together, you'll explore why this loss hits so hard, and why it's supposed to. You'll learn to rise over the guilt and the regret with something kinder than judgment. You'll find ways to get through the heavy, foggy days when sleep won't come and nothing feels quite right. And slowly, you'll discover how to remember your pet with a warmth that doesn't only sting, but glows. 
  Whether you're ready to open your heart again someday or you just need someone to tell you it's okay to not be okay right now, this is your space. For steadiness. For remembrance. For the kind of healing that doesn't ask you to forget. 
  Begin whenever you're ready. Your pet would understand.

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  Eothen - Traces of Travels...

  Alexander Kinglake

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  One of the most witty and idiosyncratic travel books, Eothen started out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map for a friend, but took Kinglake seven years of painstaking work to finesse. The physical details of the journey, undertaken in 1834 through Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Cairo and Damascus, are barely mentioned. The infectious charm lies in the conversations, the whimsical chance encounters and the attitudes of the author. Over the years, Kinglake has been recognised as a stylist without equal.

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  Fifty Cents

  Billy Mortimer

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Fifty Cents by Billy Mortimer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 21, 2011.Originally published in 1881 as a song, with music by Dan Lewis. (Summary by TriciaG)

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