This carefully crafted anthology of boxing literature brings together for the first time in a single volume some of the best writing on the sport from Britain & the USA. Spanning more than sixty years of the modern era, from Tunney to Tyson, it

Includes:: coverage of over twenty title fights, many of them classics, & features all eight weight divisions from flyweight to heavyweight. Come out Writing presents the myriad aspects of the sport from as many different viewpoints: here are Norman Mailer on Ali & Foreman: Peter Wilson on Louis & Walcott: George Kimball & Hugh Mc Ilvanney on the Hagler-Leonard controversy.

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There were four of them: young women, dressed decorously in black, employed at an exclusive jewellery store in the 1960s. Close friendships were forged as Natasha, Prudence, Rachel & Maisie worked together under the benevolent rule of the two Markham brothers.

Now, in 1980, Natasha, newly divorced & back from America with a fifteen-year-old daughter, decides there must be a reunion. Pru, always the mysterious one, deeply involved with her commune in Cornwall, unexpectedly offers Prospect House, a property she has inherited in the Malvern hills where they may all forgather. Rachel, married to her former boss, a Liberal MP, gladly leaves a tangled domestic situation to join the friends she hasn

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One wet & stormy Irish summer, the three Miller sisters gather at their grand but shabby old family home, Tobar Lodge.



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One wet & stormy Irish summer, the three Miller sisters gather at their grand but shabby old family home, Tobar Lodge.



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Meet Jack

Jack Rossiter. I'm twenty-seven years old, single, & live with my best mate Matt. Matt & I started

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The penultimate volume in the 8-volume Everyman Signet Shakespeare contains Shakespeare's later Comedies
- THE MERCHANT OF VENICE,
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In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales full of love, life, humour & marvellous meals. Ruth Reichl's pursuit of good food & good company leads her to New York & China, France & Los Angeles. She cooks & dines with world-famous chefs & the three star aristocracy of French cuisine, & her accounts of these meetings range from the madcap to the sublime. Reichl lovingly recreates all her marvellous meals in such succulent detail that readers will yearn from truffles in Provence & shrimp in Beijing. Throughout it all, Reichl is unafraid, even eager, to poke holes in the pretensions of food critics, making each & every course a hilarious & instructive occasion for novices & experts alike. She shares some of her first recipes so readers can make the Dry-Fried Shrimp she first tasted in China, or the Dacquoise served at the end of a magical visit to a Paris bistro. Reichl also shares the intimacies of her personal life in a style so honest & warm that readers will feel they are enjoying a cosy dining-table conversation with a friend. In Comfort Me With Apples, Reichl again demonstrates her inimitable ability to combine food writing, humour & memoir into an art form. ...