The Book of Idle Pleasures Orange Prize for Fiction (2011) of his beloved Gaelic

of his beloved Gaelic

time travelers and civet cats

but at what price

are extraordinary

"The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes

The Book of Idle Pleasures Orange Prize for Fiction (2011) of his beloved GaelicThe Art of Doing Nothing meets The Dangerous Book for Boys in this charming celebration of simple delights. In The Book of Idle Pleasures , the United Kingdom's expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap. With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever growing consumer overload in favor of the timelessly true adage that the best things