Ella Risbridger

**From Ella Risbridger, bestselling author of Midnight Chicken, comes The Great Mouse Orchestra - the irresistible story of one brave little mouse who sets out on a grand festive adventure.** Featuring gorgeous colour artwork and wintery activities to make-and-do throughout, this beautiful book is sure to become a festive family tradition to be enjoyed year after year.** This is the tale of one little mouse called Jeremy Larkin – and his dream of finding the legendary Great Mouse Orchestra. Over one magical winter night, Jeremy sets out on his mission, helped by a bold little fox called Cleo, a squirrel boy called Antoine, a Pekinese named Eloise, and an all-girl Bat Gang. Will Jeremy find the Orchestra? Or will he find that – just maybe – it’s been there all along? Featuring six gorgeous activities – including recipes for Christmas spice cake, salt dough ornaments and festive hot chocolate, this irresistible winter adventure is packed with frosty magic, warmth and wonder.

The new cookbook from award-winning writer Ella Risbridger. Home cooking, but make it gorgeous. Make it just, like, 10% better. Make it the thing that makes your day better. From kale caesar sandwiches, no-knife potato curry, crispy leek latkes, pistachio chilli, Marmite soup, turmeric satay salmon, roasted raisin rice, marinated bavette, and kimchi remoulade; to rhubarb and custard, lemon curd cake, one-bowl cannelés, and supermarket cherry pie; to bread, butter and breakfast bars: this is real-life cooking done right. Featuring more than 100 delicious and achievable recipes that you’ll want to cook again and again, it’s about how to cook, how to eat, how to live, and how to make things nice. With weeknight dinners, week-ahead shortcuts and kitchen counter meals, Ella Risbridger also gives plenty of options for roasting a chicken, hosting elegant and delightful gatherings, and a failsafe cookie formula for all occasions and emergencies. These are dishes that deliver even when you don’t have an abundance of time or energy, and all of them promise to make your life at least ten per cent more lovely (even after the washing up). Make them; change them; fit them into your life, and cook them so often that you (almost) forget where they came from.

Smart, funny and passionate: An ode to a beloved genre and a brilliantly insightful piece of cultural criticismAcclaimed author Ella Risbridger takes romantic fiction seriously, as a fan and a thinker, in this original new book, journeying through the genre's rich history and many fascinating iterations.From Jane Austen to Jilly Cooper, regency romance to cowboys, vampires and fanfic, romance reflects the concerns of the age and continues to evolve in new directions, while consistently offering its readers pleasure. It deserves our attention!In Love with Love is a tour through romantic fiction, a loving but sharp assessment of these books and our reading habits, and a celebration of generations of longing glances...

Smart, funny and passionate: An ode to a beloved genre and a brilliantly insightful piece of cultural criticismAcclaimed author Ella Risbridger takes romantic fiction seriously, as a fan and a thinker, in this original new book, journeying through the genre's rich history and many fascinating iterations.From Jane Austen to Jilly Cooper, regency romance to cowboys, vampires and fanfic, romance reflects the concerns of the age and continues to evolve in new directions, while consistently offering its readers pleasure. It deserves our attention!In Love with Love is a tour through romantic fiction, a loving but sharp assessment of these books and our reading habits, and a celebration of generations of longing glances...

"God chudes" - vtoraja kniga Elly Risbridzher, obeschannoe dolgozhdannoe prodolzhenie "Polunochnoj kuritsy". Shestdesjat sem retseptov, razbitykh po mesjatsam, retseptov na vse sluchai zhizni i posle vsekh sluchaev zhizni - retseptov dlja ustalykh i polnykh sil, schastlivykh i ne ochen. I absoljutno vse retsepty sposobny na glavnoe - darit uverennost. Uverennost v tom, chto vsjo poluchitsja. Ponimanie, chto glavnoe - eto dom. A sozdat svoj dom mozhesh tolko ty sam. Ty sam i to, chto ty delaesh na kukhne.Pered toboj kniga, kotoruju mozhno prosto chitat, chtoby nabratsja sil i ubeditsja, chto zhit - prekrasno. A mozhno prosto listat, potomu chto risunki ocharovatelny i optimistichny. A mozhno srochno nachat gotovit, ved ona polna udivitelnykh retseptov - prostykh v ispolnenii, zavorazhivajusche krasivykh po tsvetovoj gamme, a esche - vkusnykh, sytnykh i dukhopodemnykh. Vse oni na osnove znakomykh i ponjatnykh nam produktov, ne trebujut sverkhusilij i neprevzojdennogo masterstva. Oni dlja tvoego doma, tvoej kukhni, oni dlja tebja. "Ja obozhaju vsekh ugoschat - obozhaju improvizirovannye ugoschenija. Obozhaju, chtoby morozilnik byl nabit, ljublju srochno pridumyvat, kak sdelat tak, chtoby edy na vsekh khvatilo. Ljublju, chtoby v nashem dome vsem bylo ujutno i chtoby mne bylo ujutno vo mnogikh domakh - i imenno s etogo nado nachinat, kogda stanovitsja tugo". Ella RisbridzherPerevodchik: Cherezova TatjanaKhudozhnik: Kanningem Eliza

A forceful, passionate and uplifting collection of poems by women and girls that is guaranteed to inspire, delight and empower.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDRE SIMON BEST COOKBOOK AWARD _______________'Ella Risbridger has a comforting talent for delivering deliciousness in a way that seems like an act of compassion' - NIGELLA LAWSON‘An extraordinary, heartwarming book with gorgeous recipes. I loved it’ - NIGEL SLATER_______________This cookbook is about a year in the kitchen. A year of grief and hope and change; of fancy fish pie, cardamom-cinnamon chicken rice, chimichurri courgettes, quadruple carb soup, blackberry miso birthday cake, and sticky toffee Guinness brownie pudding. A year of loss, and every kind of romance, and fried jam sandwiches. A year of seedlings and pancakes. A year of falling in love. A year of recipes. A year, in other words, of minor miracles.The Year of Miracles by bestselling author Ella Risbridger is more than just a cookbook; like her award-winning Midnight Chicken, every page is a transporting blend of recipes and life story. This is about what happens when you've lived through the worst thing you could have imagined – and how you can still cook, and eat, and love._______________'Love, sorrow, grief and how cooking can get you through. Ella Risbridger has such a sincere and distinctive voice. A book full of wisdom.' - DIANA HENRY'Gut-wrenching and beautiful' - VOGUE'Both a beautiful memoir and a hugely comforting cookbook' - MARIAN KEYES

"Kogda kulinarija okazyvaet terapevticheskij effekt... "Polunochnaja kuritsa" - eto i vpravdu kulinarnaja kniga - v nej bolee 80 retseptov, ot zavtrakov do desertov. No kniga eta ne prosto sbornik podrobnykh instruktsij po prigotovleniju dejstvitelno khoroshej zharenoj kuritsy, nastojaschego boloneze ili pirozhnykh s korichnevym maslom i solenoj karamelju. Pered nami udivitelnyj rasskaz o tom, kak prigotovlenie etikh bljud - voobsche ljubykh bljud - pomogaet zhit i vyzhivat. A esche neprostaja istorija ljubvi, privkus kotoroj stanovitsja gorko-sladkim uzhe k seredine stranitsy s blagodarnostjami". Washington Post Proizvedenie dokazhet, chto gotovka sposobna okazyvat terapevticheskij effekt: uluchshat nastroenie, delat son krepkim, podnimat fizicheskij tonus i probuzhdat zhelanie svorachivat gory. Legko chitaetsja, potomu chto voznikaet oschuschenie, budto govorish po dusham s khoroshim drugom vo vremja ocherednykh posidelok na kukhne. Kniga nauchit trem vazhnym vescham: solit vodu dlja pasty, v sluchae somnenij dobavljat slivochnoe maslo i nikogda ne sdavatsja. V knige chitateli najdut ne tolko podrobnye retsepty s poleznymi sovetami, no i dushevnye istorii ot avtora, kotorye vdokhnovjat na sozdanie novykh shedevrov. Milye illjustratsii zakhochetsja ne tolko rassmatrivat snova i snova, no i povesit na steny vmesto kartin i posterov.Perevodchik: Cherezova Tatjana

A gripping, beautifully written historical mystery, from an incredible new voice in children's fiction.The body seemed to fall for a long time. There was no splash, or if there was it was lost in the waves. Isobel was frozen to the spot for a moment - and then her common sense caught up with her, and she stepped back quickly into the shadows.When Isobel Petty is orphaned, she finds herself being taken away from her home in India and sent to live with a distant uncle in England. On board the S.S. Marianna, she witnesses a shocking act - somebody being thrown overboard in the middle in the night. But when the ship's captain insists that nobody is missing, Isobel and her two new reluctant friends must solve two mysteries - the identities of both the murderer and the victim - before they reach England and the culprit has the chance to escape.Inspired by The Secret Garden and the golden age of crime writing, The Secret Detectives is perfect for fans of Robin Stevens and Katherine Rundell."A thoroughly entertaining mystery and a heartening story of friendship. I loved it." - Katherine Woodfine, author of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow

_________________Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020_________________‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ - Sunday Times'Brave and moving ... as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion' - Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom_________________There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.Because one night, Ella found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up – and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.Midnight Chicken is the story of Ella’s life in a Tiny Flat, and the food she cooked there. From roast garlic and tomato soup to charred leek lasagne or burnt­butter brownies, she shares recipes that are about people, about love, about the things that matter every day. This is a cookbook-of-stories to make you fall in love with the world again.With a new afterword about life after The Tiny Flat._________________'An utter treat' - Dolly Alderton'Divine. Utterly totally perfect' - Charly Cox'Generous, honest and uplifting' - Diana Henry'So thoughtfully and poetically written' - Josie Long'She cooks like a dream and writes like an angel' - Sarah Phelps'She has found a way to write not just about food itself but, more importantly, about the darkness for which cooking can be a partial remedy' - Bee Wilson_________________

'Broad in scope, generous in spirit and wittily accompanied by Risbridger's commentary'Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentSet Me On Fire is an anthology for a new moment in poetry: a collection of fresh, vibrant voices from poets all over the globe, both living and dead.

_________________Winner of the Guild of Food Writers General Cookbook Award 2020_________________‘A manual for living and a declaration of hope’ – Nigella Lawson‘Beautiful, life-affirming memoir with recipes ... The most talented British debut writer in a generation’ - Sunday Times'Brave and moving ... as effective as a manual for life as it is as a kitchen companion' - Shamil Thakrar, co-founder of Dishoom_________________There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken.Because one night, Ella found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up – and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.Midnight Chicken is the story of Ella’s life in a Tiny Flat, and the food she cooked there. From roast garlic and tomato soup to charred leek lasagne or burnt­butter brownies, she shares recipes that are about people, about love, about the things that matter every day. This is a cookbook-of-stories to make you fall in love with the world again.With a new afterword about life after The Tiny Flat._________________'An utter treat' - Dolly Alderton'Divine. Utterly totally perfect' - Charly Cox'Generous, honest and uplifting' - Diana Henry'So thoughtfully and poetically written' - Josie Long'She cooks like a dream and writes like an angel' - Sarah Phelps'She has found a way to write not just about food itself but, more importantly, about the darkness for which cooking can be a partial remedy' - Bee Wilson_________________

"You have to make more noise than anybody else" - Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the British Suffragette movementAn incredible collection of brand new short stories, from ten of the UK's very best storytellers, celebrating inspirational girls and women, being published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the UK. £1 from the sale of every book will be donated to Camfed, an international charity which tackles poverty and inequality by supporting women's education in the developing world. Featuring short stories by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-wining The Girl of Ink and Stars, M.G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy, Patrice Lawrence, author of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winning Orangeboy, Katherine Woodfine, author of The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow, Sally Nicholls, author of Things a Bright Girl Can Do, Emma Carroll, author of Letters from the Lighthouse, and more!