THE MELANCHOLY DEATH OF OYSTER BOY...

We have just had delivery of The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & other stories by Tim Burton- as recommended by a dear friend of ours.

The book comprises of twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of Tim Burton. Burton - the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and Nightmare Before Chistmas, among others - now gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children: misunderstood outcasts who struggle to find love and belonging in their cruel, cruel worlds. His lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of these hopeful, yet hapless beings.

Paperback/ 128 pages/ £8.99

Available in store or via mail order.

GO BACK IN TIME FOR SOME RECESSION STYLE EATING...

We recently stumbled across this wonderful book of wartime recipes, perfect for penny pinching traditional home cooking.

Supplemented by recipes by the Daily Telegraph Home Cook, this delightful facsimile edition includes recipes for the perfect omelette made with dried egg, mock cream, mock fish pie (made with Jerusalem artichokes!) and seven ways to stuff potatoes, but in amongst the more horrific attempts to feed a family on meagre rations are some dishes that would grace any good cook's table today: jugged steak, red cabbage, hot and cold, fresh fruit charlotte and spiced fruit gingerbread. Even recipes that seem heavily reliant on tinned milk, marge and dried egg, when made today with fresh milk, butter and whole eggs will work a treat.

Available in store or via mail order.
129 pages/ 184mm x 122mm/ £7.99

Coco & I Know How to Cook Back in Stock

Both Coco and I know How To Cook are back in stock today. Both beautiful foody/ cooking books published by Phaidon.

• The bible of traditional French home cooking with 1400 recipes, I Know How to Cook has been a best-seller since its first publication in 1932, with millions of copies sold in France, it is now available in English for the first time.
• Curated by Ferran Adrià, Mario Batali, Shannon Bennet, Alain Ducasse, Fergus Henderson, Yoshihiro Murata, Gordon Ramsay, René Redzepi, Alice Waters, and Jacky Yu, Coco provides unique insights into the incredible variety of culinary talent working today in places as diverse as Paris, Copenhagen, Kyoto, New Orleans, Bilbao, and Beijing

ELEPHANT MAGAZINE BACK IN STOCK

After having sold out almost instantly just before Christmas, we now have more copies of issue no. 1 of Elephant magazine back in stock. Get it quick before they go again.

For more info, see blog on 17th December 09...

COME AND CHECK OUT OUR SALE TABLE

This week, we have put together a selection of items to go on sale in store on our very special SALE TABLE.

There will be up to 25% off a range of products from Hulger Skye Phones to back issues of IdN, Grafik and Eye. So, if you missed an all important issue of one of your favoured publications, then you might find it here.

The sale will be on all throgh this month and into February and more items will added as and when.

If you have any queries or just want to see if something you had your eye has gone into the sale, please do not hesitate to email or drop us a line.

GONE SLEDGING...

After a few hours in the shop, we realised that Ludlow is a ghost town and everyone has gone sledging so we have taken the opportunity to do the same (can you blame us?) and, thus, have closed up for the day to have some snow based fun and we think you should do the same.

Back to normal tomorrow...

Happy New Ruddy Year...

Thank you to everyone we saw, sold things to and shouted at over the last couple if weeks. Trying to get brain back to some form of normality... We hope that you had a cracking Christmas and New Year. We had enough fun to kill a small elephant. But enough about that - back to business...

SIMPLE HOME

We have lots of new things to talk about including the recently produced book by Mark & Sally Bailey.

Available in the shop for £19.99

For more information about Baileys please visit their website.