Household Lore : Folklore, Traditions and Remedies for Every Room in Your Home - Liza Frank Genre:Self-help & personal development Though he has won the

Though he has won the battle for his ancestral home

Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney

author of the Sunday Times bestselling THE FALL OF NUMENOR and leading expert on THE LORD OF THE RINGS (he adapted the work for the acclaimed 1981 BBC radio dramatisation)

broadcaster and foreign correspondent Jake Wallis Simons offers a searing analysis of the state of the West

For more than a century it has defined the tastes and style of successive generations

Household Lore : Folklore, Traditions and Remedies for Every Room in Your Home - Liza Frank Genre:Self-help & personal development Though he has won theA perfect gift, this fun illustrated book will take you room by room to discover global traditions, remedies, folklore and rituals hiding in your house. Uncover the folklore and rituals hiding in your own home. Did you know that planting holly may deter lightning strikes, evil spirits might be spooked by a hot cross bun, and gifting soap can end a friendship? Open this book for a tour around the traditions that lurk under the stairs, inside the cracks