Tell Them That You Love Them!
It’s Valentine’s Day on Sunday 14th February, and we thought we’d start you thinking about gift suggestions. A book can be a romantic gift – if you choose wisely! Here are some of the titles we’re recommending.
They are all available from our stores However, to place an order by telephone, contact our call centre on: 04 – 3444009 (between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.)
Love Letters of Great Men and Women – Ursula Doyle (Ed)
Available for AED 46 |
Juliet the Valentine Fairy – Daisy Meadows
Available for AED 39 |
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Committed – Elizabeth Gilbert
Available for AED 72 |
Map of Love – Adhaf Soueif
Available for AED 65 |
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Love Poems of Rumi – Jealuddin Rumi
Available for AED 65 |
Love Poems – Carol Ann Duffy
Available for AED 85 |
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My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead – Jeffrey Eugenides (Ed.)
Available for AED 52 |
The Concise Art of Seduction – Robert Greene
Available for AED 46 |
From the private papers of Jane Austen and Mozart to those of Anne Boleyn and Nelson, this book collects together some of the most romantic letters in history. For some of these great men, love is a 'delicious poison' (William Congreve); for others, 'a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music' (Charles Darwin). Love ‘can scorch like the heat of the sun’ (Henry-VIII), or ‘penetrate the depths of one's heart like a cooling rain’ (Flaubert). This title also includes letters by: Anne Boleyn; Beethoven; Edith Wharton; Mark Twain; Mary Wordsworth; Nell Gwyn (mistress of Charles-II); Elizabeth Barrett Browning; GK Chesterton; Queen Victoria; Napoleon Bonaparte; The Empress Josephine; Mary Wollstonecraft; Amadeus Mozart; and, Katherine Mansfield amongst many others.
Juliet the Valentine Fairy is in a terrible state! She helps make every Valentine’s Day special for friends and sweethearts everywhere. But Jack Frost and his naughty goblins have stolen her three special Valentine objects, so nobody is enjoying this most special and wonderful of days! Can Kirsty and Rachel help Juliet, or will the missing Valentine items affect their friendship, too...? A book about Valentine’s Day for younger readers.
A witty and intelligent contemplation of marriage that debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in her amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood. Gilbert's memoir - destined to become a cherished handbook for any thinking person hovering on the verge of marriage - is ultimately a clear-eyed celebration of love, with all the complexity and consequence that real love, in the real world, actually entails.
In 1900, Lady Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt where she falls in love with Sharif, an Egyptian Nationalist utterly committed to his country's cause. A hundred years later, Isabel Parkman, an American divorcee and a descendant of Anna and Sharif, goes to Egypt, taking with her an old family trunk, inside which are found notebooks and journals which reveal Anna and Sharif's secret. A tender and romantic novel for lovers of fiction.
Born Jalal ad-Din Mohammad Balkhi in Persia in the 13th century, the poet known as Rumi expressed deep feelings of the heart through his poetry. This volume consists of new translations, edited by Deepak Chopra to evoke the mood and music of Rumi's love poems.
Whether writing of longing or adultery, seduction or simple homely acts of love, Carol Ann Duffy brings to her readers the truth of each experience. Her poetry speaks of tangled, heated passion; of erotic love; fierce and hungry love; unrequited love; and of the end of love. It recognizes too the way that love can make the everyday sacred. As with all her writing, these poems are alive to the sounds of modern life, but also attuned to - and rich with - the traditions of love poetry. Love Poems contains some of Carol Ann Duffy's most popular poems. Always imaginative, heartfelt and direct, Duffy finds words for our experiences in love and out of love, and displays all the eloquence and skill that have made her one of the foremost poets of her time.
A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. No other aspect of the human experience regularly inspires such an outpouring of poetry, prose and philosophy as love. From passionate declarations to clinical analysis, writers of every age have been fascinated, tormented and inspired by love. This beautifully produced collection of short stories will combine the best of contemporary and classic fiction on the theme of love, from Catullus to Alice Munro. Edited and introduced by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, this wonderfully heterodox look at love will include, amongst others, 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'The Lady with the Lapdog' by Anton Chekhov and stories by Lorrie Moore, Milan Kundera and Guy de Maupassant.
This is the companion book to the bestselling "Concise 48 Laws of Power". Amoral, ruthless, clever and cunning, this is the essential guide to the art of seduction. So if your best efforts as a seducer have thus far conspicuously failed to bring your true love into your arms, this book will effectively help you cheat!Copyright © 2010, Magrudy's Bookshops. All Rights Reserved