Miranda Mills

A seasonal touchstone packed full of quotes, book lists, recipes, poems, and observations on the natural world to keep close at hand and to accompany you through the year. Commonplace books have been kept for centuries and have historically been used to record favourite passages from books, poetry, anecdotes, extracts from letters, proverbs, lists, shared recipes, quotes, prayers, and lyrics....

An exquisite literary anthology that celebrates life's comforts and joys, both big and small. Arranged thematically, this warm, cosy anthology concentrates on the things that make us happy. The Cosy Commonplace Book contains a rich selection of quotations from novels, letters and diaries, and poems from a wide range of writers including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jackie Kay, Emily Dickinson, Jorge...