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Mexican Food – Made Simple
If you love having friends and family round for dinner or simply rustling up fresh, fast food, Mexican cooking is fun, fantastic and full of flavour. One of its brightest stars, Wahaca chef and food writer Thomasina Miers shares the recipes she has gathered since she first fell in love with the country aged 18,
A Boy Called Ocean
One boy stranded at sea. One girl back on land. One ocean between them. The only thing willing him to survive is the thought of her. A romance with bite, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Nicola Yoon.Sometimes you have to lose yourself, to find each other.Kai has always been best friends with Jen;
Incendiary
Incendiary by Chris Cleave is a novel in the form of a letter to Osama Bin Laden from a woman who has lost her husband and four-year-old son in a terrorist attack on a London soccer stadium. The letter recounts her experiences after the death of her family and follows her descent into a madness
The Evolution Of Beauty: How Darwin`s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World – and Us
A major reimagining of how evolutionary forces work, revealing how mating preferences–what Darwin termed “the taste for the beautiful”–create the extraordinary range of ornament in the animal world.In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin`s theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away
Heat & Dust
The beautiful, spoiled and bored Olivia, married to a civil servant, outrages society in the tiny, suffocating town of Satipur by eloping with an Indian prince. Fifty years later, her step-granddaughter goes back to the heat, the dust and the squalor of the bazaars to solve the enigma of Olivia`s scandal. `A superb book. A
Last Friends
`It`s a cliche to compare novelists to Jane Austen, but in the case of Jane Gardam it happens to be true. Her diamond-like prose, her understanding of the human heart, her formal inventiveness and her sense of what it is to be alive – young, old, lonely, in love – never fades` Amanda Craig`Her work,
Crazy River
No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in Bandit Roads, he now plunges with his trademark recklessness and curiosity into Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of a previously unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid by
This Is Not A Love Story
Kitty dreams of a beautiful life, but that`s impossible in suburban London where her family is haunted by her father`s unexpected death. So when her mum suggests moving to Amsterdam to try a new life, Kitty doesn`t take much persuading. Will this be her opportunity to make her life picture perfect? In Amsterdam she meets
Stranger
Astor, Ontario. 1904.A boy staggers out of the forest covered in blood and collapses at the feet of 16-year-old Emmy. While others are suspicious and afraid, Emmy is drawn to him. Is he really the monster the townsfolk say he is?Astor, Ontario. 1994. Megan arrives from London for her great grandmother Emmy`s 105th birthday. It
Schindler`s Ark
Schindler`s Ark tells the now-famous story of the Oskar Schindler, who for a brief period in an otherwise undistinguished life became a hero and a saviour. In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon
Blue Skies and Black Olives
It was a moment of mad impulse when John Humphrys decided to buy a semi-derelict cottage and a building site on a plot of land overlooking the Aegean. After all, his son Christopher was already raising his family there so he would help build the beautiful villa that would soon rise there. What could possibly
The Wrong Kind of Snow
The Wrong Kind of Snow” is the complete daily companion to how the weather made Britain. It is a fact universally acknowledged that the British are obsessed with the weather. This is not surprising as no country in the world has such unpredictable weather, with such power to rule people`s lives. Rain gave us Inspector
The Welsh Girl
In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his sense of honour. As
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Sir Ranulph Fiennes is often described as the world’s greatest living explorer, and ‘Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know” shows that as his life story stands, this is no exaggeration.From his early military career and his time in the Special Forces to his many expeditions, his life of extraordinary achievement has been characterised by courage,
The People`s Train
After a long, dangerous escape from Tsarist Russia, Artem Samsurov might have reached sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia, but that doesn`t stop him trying to create a socialist paradise with his fellow emigres and workmates. And despite getting entangled with an attractive female lawyer, then charged with the murder of an informer, he never loses hope
A Diamond in the Desert – Behind the Scenes in the World`s Richest City
Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each worth $17 million, it holds major stakes in Western economies, and has money to burn. In this timely, revealing and evocative portrait of a global player, Jo Tatchell traces
Gentlemen of the Road
`Gentlemen of the Road` is set in the Kingdom of Arran, in the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, A.D. 950. It tells the tale of two wandering adventurers and unlikely soulmates, variously plying their trades as swords for hire, horse thieves and con artists – until fortune entangles them in
Zulu Heart
George Hart just wants to serve his Queen and honour his family. It`s not that simple. He doesn`t know his father, only that he`s a pillar of the Establishment. His beloved mother is half Irish, half Zulu. In a Victorian society rife with racism and prejudice, George`s dark skin spells trouble to his regimental commander.
Hart of Empire
Back in England following his heroics in the Zulu Wars, George Hart is summoned to a new adventure when Prime Minister Disraeli asks him to go on a secret mission to Afghanistan, where the British fear Muslim extremists are poised to overthrow the local ruler and threaten the jewel in the Imperial crown, India. Hart
The Witch`s Trinity
Witch. Some words can kill …To Gude`s son and grandchildren it could mean the loss of a loved one. To Gude it could mean torture and death at the stake. And to Gude`s daughter-in-law it could mean one less mouth to feed. In a time when famine is rife and panic spreading, people resort to
