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*WINNER OF THE 2026 GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS AWARDS - SPECIALIST COOKERY BOOK AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES BEARD MEDIA AWARD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD & DRINK AWARD 2026*Richard Hart Bread is a comprehensive guide to the craft of baking bread, featuring 60 recipes filled with all the expertise and experience of the founder of Copenhagen's Hart Bageri and former head baker at San Francisco's Tartine.Richard Hart Bread is THE guide to the intuitive art of baking bread. Including bread making techniques, creating a starter, and breads that use a range of grains from rich rye and wheat loaves to barley, polenta loaves. As well you can explore flatbreads, focaccias and ciabatta and bakery favourites like bagels, English muffins and burger buns.By learning how to see, taste, touch and adapt, readers can find their own way to making truly wonderful bread – from blistering sourdoughs to delicious beer loaves and more. Rather than focusing obsessively on precise formulas, Richard teaches both.

Richard Hart’s concise and accessible history of the peoples of the English-speaking West Indies spans five centuries, from the early days of settlement, through colonisation to the achievement of political independence.Covering all the larger territories Hart focuses on the key events, significant political and social movements and prominent figures in the region’s history. He looks at the slave trade and its overwhelming social and economic legacy during the last two centuries, and at the growth and structure of colonial resistance. Hart also considers the impact of colonial legislation and the effects of constitutional change on non-whites of the region, and their struggle for enfranchisement and self determination.

A bundle of passionate but unclaimed love letters written a century ago and found in a London bank vault have led to the uncovering of an extraordinary story. Research has revealed the adventures of a spirited young woman who by the standards of the time, or perhaps any time, behaved scandalously. Yet she managed to avoid disgrace, get her man, and go on to lead a respectable life. At first sight Ellen Nelsen’s behaviour appears shocking. Among other misdeeds she appears to have been bigamously married twice. Given her circumstances, however, her survival is a triumph of fortitude over betrayal.

A study of the Maroon Wars and the many slave rebellions and revolts in Jamaica. Richard Hart seeks to avoid polemics and emphasizes that the Jamaican rebels forced the British government to reset the agenda for emancipation and the slaves gained their freedom sooner than anticipated.

Richard Harts book is the study of the means by which the British Government and the mainly white planters and merchants in Jamaica maintained their control for centuries over the mainly black working class and peasant masses and the emerging coloured middles classes in Jamaica. It gives a detailed history of the colonial militia, the regular armed forces, the law courts and enforcement legislation, the constitution and constitutional developments, and the process of indoctrination designed to, as far as possible, cement imperial loyalties and facilitate government by consent. The author has drawn on public records available in the National Library and the National Archives in Jamaica and in the Public Office in London and the Library of Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and has made use of contemporary writings and recollections of persons responsible for exercising these controls. This is the only existing comprehensive study of the machinery of control of this former colony, and will be of use to teachers and students of the history of the English-speaking Caribbean region and of British imperial policies.