Presents the author's views on taste, diet and maintaining a healthy weight, on digestion, sleep, dreams and being a gourmand. This title contains some remarkable recipes, it an elegant argument for the pleasures of good food and a hearty appetite.

The name Vespa is recognised the world over as an icon of Italian design. Scriptum Editions are pleased to be publishing the third, revised, edition of 'Vespa: Italian Street Style', a unique history of the world's most famous two-wheeler. Beautifully illustrated, 'Vespa' will appeal to enthusiasts, collectors, and designers alike. It is the perfect male gift.

Walton Ford's watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th century natural science illustrations or British colonial paintings. This book explores Ford's oeuvre. It includes a biography and excerpts from the textual sources for the paintings, from Vietnamese folktales to the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini .

What sort of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? This is a book about the experience, and the attractions, of crowd violence.

Bill Buford was an enthusiastic home cook. His meals were characterized by two qualities: their ambition and his inexperience at preparing them. Nevertheless, his lifelong regret was that he'd never worked in a professional kitchen. This is the story of this cook surviving - or, perhaps trying to survive - in a professional kitchen.

Bill Buford worked his way up to being a 'line cook' and then left New York to apprentice himself under the very teachers who had taught his teacher: preparing game with Marco Pierre White, making pasta in a hillside trattoria, and finally, in a town in Northern Italy, becoming an Italian butcher. This is a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure.

Walton Ford's watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th century natural science illustrations or British colonial paintings. Ford's works are both reassuring in style and disturbing in content. This book, featuring reproductions including 16 foldouts, provides an exploration of Walton Ford's oeuvre.

A collection of travel writing from the first 35 issues of Granta magazine. The book includes work by Bill Bryson, James Fenton, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Redmon O'Hanlon, Salman Rushdie, Graham Swift, Paul Theroux and Colin Thubron.

This anthology includes essays on the subject of the family.