Winter Essentials We Love

Created to inspire an ambient backdrop for any occasion, Castelbel diffusers have been carefully made to fragrance and personalise any room. Used at home or in the office, each different fragrance will stamp your personality on your environment.
By placing the rattan sticks into the liquid infusion the fragrance is drawn up and gently released throughout the room.  

Size: 250ml

 Made in Portugal

Beautiful hand poured aromatic candle that will delicate fragrance any space with the same perfume that characterises this collection, allowing you to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere. In addition to being an elegant decorative element that perfectly matched any decoration, it is also a fine gift that will be much appreciated.

Size: 210g

Made in Portugal

Beautiful hand poured aromatic candle that will delicate fragrance any space with the same perfume that characterises this collection, allowing you to create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere. In addition to being an elegant decorative element that perfectly matched any decoration, it is also a fine gift that will be much appreciated.

 210g

Made in Portugal

Barnacle Love, Paperback, By Anthony De Sa

Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Like Wayson Choy and David Bezmozgis before him, Anthony De Sa captures, in stories brimming with life, the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience.

At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes up nearly dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It is Manuel Rebelo who has tried to escape the suffocating smallness of his Portuguese village and the crushing weight of his mother’s expectations to build a future for himself in a terra nova. Manuel struggles to shed the traditions of a village frozen in time and to silence the brutal voice of Maria Theresa da Conceicao Rebelo, but embracing the promise of his adopted land is not as simple as he had hoped.

Manuel’s son, Antonio, is born into Toronto’s little Portugal, a world of colourful houses and labyrinthine back alleys. In the Rebelo home the Church looms large, men and women inhabit sharply divided space, pigs are slaughtered in the garage, and a family lives in the shadow cast by a father’s failures. Most days Antonio and his friends take to their bikes, pushing the boundaries of their neighbourhood street by street, but when they finally break through to the city beyond they confront dangers of a new sort.

Casa Betina

Hand poured soy candles made in small batches to maintain product integrity and quality.  Using all natural pure Soy Wax, and blended with essential oils native to the wild fields of Portugal and certified premium fragrance oils.

The candles are free from paraffins, phthalates, parabens, lead, dyes, stabilizers, and UV inhibiters. Using only natural soy wax, a cotton wick, and scented oils (both essential and premium fragrance oils) so they won't overpower you, cause headaches, allergies, and are safe for pets.  A clean, natural burning candle in your home. 

Burn time: 20+ hours with proper wick care.

Once your candle is finished - soak the tin in hot soapy water and use it for everyday odds and ends. 

Available in various scents:

Saturday Morning Cleaning - Top note:  Lemon  /  Mid Note: Lily of the Valley 

Pastel De Nata - Cinnamon, Lemon, Tahitian Vanilla perfectly blended

Cherry Blossom Lemon - all-natural lemon and a kiss of sweet cherry blossom essential oil * Mother’s Day Limited Edition *

Doce Algarve - Top note:  Sweet Almond  /  Mid Note: Lemon

Berry Kiss - Notes: fresh picked strawberries, vanilla

Hand Poured in Toronto

With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.

The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years later, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his own beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together.
     Beautiful, witty and engaging, Yann Martel's new novel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss, belief and unbelief, that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels.

Paperback Edition

Unisex Crewneck sweatshirt 50% cotton and 50% polyester

Heavy Cotton Poly Blend with Light Fleece Interior 

Unisex / Fits true to size

Unisex Crewneck sweatshirt 50% cotton and 50% polyester

Heavy Cotton Poly Blend with Light Fleece Interior 

Unisex / Fits true to size

Unisex Crewneck sweatshirt 50% cotton and 50% polyester

Heavy Cotton Poly Blend with Light Fleece Interior 

Unisex / Fits true to size

Unisex Crewneck sweatshirt 50% cotton and 50% polyester

Heavy Cotton Poly Blend with Light Fleece Interior 

Unisex / Fits true to size

Unisex Crewneck sweatshirt 50% cotton and 50% polyester

Heavy Cotton Poly Blend with Light Fleece Interior 

Unisex / Fits true to size

Unisex Crewneck sweatshirt 50% cotton and 50% polyester

Heavy Cotton Poly Blend with Light Fleece Interior 

Unisex / Fits true to size

A nova aventura da menina Néveda apresenta-nos a um novo meio de transporte e uma viajem pelas Américas. Do Canadá, passando por alguns lugares nos Estados Unidos, México, Brasil e terminando no Uruguai, a Néveda aprende sobre lugares, arte e muita cultura em geral.

conto/story: Terry Costa
ilustração/illustration: Vera Bettencourt

Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or “heteronyms,” under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this “most multifarious of writers” (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.

Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius.

Much as Nobel laureate José Saramago brought a single heteronym to life in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Zenith traces the backstories of virtually all of Pessoa’s imagined personalities, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. A solitary man who had only one, ultimately platonic love affair, Pessoa used his and his heteronyms’ writings to explore questions of sexuality, to obsessively search after spiritual truth, and to try to chart a way forward for a benighted and politically agitated Portugal.

Although he preferred the world of his mind, Pessoa was nonetheless a man of the places he inhabited, including not only Lisbon but also turn-of-the-century Durban, South Africa, where he spent nine years as a child. Zenith re-creates the drama of Pessoa’s adolescence—when the first heteronyms emerged—and his bumbling attempts to survive as a translator and publisher. Zenith introduces us, too, to Pessoa’s bohemian circle of friends, and to Ophelia Quieroz, with whom he exchanged numerous love letters. Pessoa reveals in equal force the poet’s unwavering commitment to defending homosexual writers whose books had been banned, as well as his courageous opposition to Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, toward the end of his life. In stunning, magisterial prose, Zenith contextualizes Pessoa’s posthumous literary achievements—especially his most renowned work, The Book of Disquiet.

A modern literary masterpiece, Pessoa simultaneously immortalizes the life of a literary maestro and confirms the enduring power of Pessoa’s work to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of our modern world.

Paperback