Category Archives: Travel Guides
Gok Cooks Chinese
The UK’s famous fashion stylist, Gok Wan, now takes on cooking and is going to show us how to Cook Good Naked’ฆ Not quite, but he is going to teach us how to prepare, dress and style some delicious Chinese dishes.His latest book Gok Cooks Chinese contains 80 delicious recipes which are also healthy and
An Indian Housewife`s Recipe Book
The 100+ traditional Indian recipes brought together here include curries (meat, vegetable and dhals), starters and everything that characterises Indian cookery for people all over the world.
Jamie`s Comfort Food
Jamie`s new cookbook brings together 100 ultimate comfort food recipes. It`s all about the dishes that are close to your heart, that put a smile on your face and make you feel happy, loved, safe and secure. Inspired by everything from childhood memories to the changing of the seasons, and taking into account the guilty
Thai Cookery Secrets
Discover how to create delicious Thai dishes using easily available ingredients and with surprisingly little effort. Kris Dhillon explains the basic principles of Thai cooking – fresh, flavoursome ingredients, correctly combined and quickly cooked – so that you can achieve the wonderful flavours Thai cooking is famous for. Many Thai restaurants in the Western world
Simply Italian: Cooking at Home with the Chiappa Sisters
The very best of Italian cooking with Michela, Romina and Emanuela in At Home with the Chiappa Sisters. `Wales and Italy, family and food: for us, these four things are inextricably linked and at the root of our upbringing. Whether at the family home in Wales or when we spend holidays in the small hilltop
Easy Walks Near Dublin
Joss Lynam’s Easy Walks Near Dublin is a book for family strollers, leisure walkers and people who like healthy exercise without exhausting themselves. Here are more that forty walks, every one of them within easy reach of Dublin.All walks are presented with clear maps and are divided both by duration and by character, e.g. coastal
Oh My God What a Complete Aisling The Novel
You loved Aisling online, now get ready to love the novel.Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen, the creators of the much-loved Aisling character and the popular Facebook page `Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling`, bring Aisling to life in their novel about the quintessential country girl in the big smoke.Aisling is twenty-eight and she`s a
Jamie`s America
In Jamie’s America the chef undertakes what he describes as the “ultimate food trip” – due to the contrasts to be found in terms of places, and traditions, and, of course, food and ingredients. Getting past the junk food and super-size portions, Jamie discovers dishes both delicious and diverse, selecting 120 of them to include
Jamie`s 30-Minute Meals
In Jamie`s 30-Minute Meals, Jamie Oliver proves that, by mastering a few tricks and being organized and focused in the kitchen, it is both possible and easy to get a complete meal on the table in the same amount of time you’d normally spend making one dish. The 50 brand-new meal ideas, including main course
Jamie Does… Spain, Italy, Morocco, Greece, Sweden and France
`Jamie Does… Spain, Italy, Morocco, Greece, Sweden and France` is Jamie Oliver’s personal celebration of amazing food from six very different countries, providing easy twists on classic dishes inspired by his travels.Due to the growth in the markets of cheaper, short-haul flights and long weekend getaways, Jamie uncovers some of the new and exciting worlds
Floating
This is one man`s journey, swimming across Britain`s countryside and immersing in the sometimes icy waters while coming to terms with something more challenging than the choppy waters of the English Channel. As Joe Minihane comes up for air, he discovers that swimming is both a joyous activity and a voyage into oneself. Minihane became
Rainsongs
Rainsongs is a novel about memory, faith and love, “a compelling story freighted with heartbreak and loss” (Shena Mackay), and a meditation on the fragile, improbable ways that history, landscape and unlikely intimacies can offer quiet redemption. Newly widowed Martha Cassidy has returned to a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland to a
Revolution: How the Bicycle Reinvented Modern Britain
It is easy to see bicycles as commonplace machines, but at the end of the nineteenth-century there was no other piece of technology which attracted the same level of excitement, discussion or controversy. Significant societal shifts followed the invention of the modern bicycle and with cycling`s ever-increasing popularity there has never been a better time
Inside Central Asia
Dilip Hiro`s “Inside Central Asia” is a thoroughly comprehensive and accessible history of a region that is beginning to play a key role in the 21st Century.The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world. Yet they remain poorly represented in libraries and
Staying On
Tony Metcalfe, Yorkshireman and retired expat, is going through a three-quarter life crisis. Viva Espagne – his bar at the heart of a small mountain village beyond the Costa Blanca – is failing. He wanted it to be a home away from home for British expats to enjoy some well-deserved rest under the Spanish sun.
Dead Men
The discovery of Captain Scott`s body in the Antarctic in November 1912 started a global obsession with him as a man and an explorer. But one mystery remains – why did he and his companions spend their last ten days in a tent only 11 miles from the safety of a depot that promised food
A Wood of One`s Own
“Delightful… Pavey writes with warmth and spirit, and brings this space to life” Penelope Lively”Captivating and grounded… If this book was not as much a pleasure to write as it is to read, I`ll eat my hat and gardening glove” ObserverAfter years spent living amid the thrum of London, Ruth Pavey yearned to reconnect with
Our Future Earth
Our Future Earth vividly describes how the decisions made about the environment in the next decades will affect the next 100,000 years of life on the planet, and shows how far todays environmental debate is overlooking crucial long-term evidence. By considering the Earths history over millions of years, and not merely over the last couple
Every Breath You Take: A User`s Guide to the Atmosphere
A fascinating journey through the atmosphere that will leave readers breathless.We breathe in and out every few seconds. But what`s really in the air all around us? From the atmosphere on distant planets to the stuff that gets into our lungs, from holes in the ozone layer to lazy and disappearing gases, air quality specialist
Flirting with French: Adventures in Pursuit of a Language
William Alexander is not just a Francophile, he wants to be French. It`s not enough to explore the country, to enjoy the food and revel in the ambience, he wants to feel French from the inside. Among the things that stand in his way is the fact that he can`t actually speak the language. Setting
