French Leave followed John Burton Race, wife Kim & six children to the South of France. There he rediscovered good home cooking using fresh, seasonal produce. Now Home Leave finds John & the family moving to Devon where he is running The New Angel restaurant in Dartmouth. Describing Devon as ' France without the sunflowers', & taking his inspiration from the delicious fish & shellfish, delivered daily by boat to the restaurant, the Devon Ruby beef bought direct form the farm, & succulent lamb, venison & game fresh from the moors, John has created 150 br&-new recipes that anyone can cook. The simple & delicious dishes include imaginative twists on classics
- Moules Marinieres becomes Mussels in Scrumpy Jack
- & new interpretations of family favourites
- ideas for the Sunday roast range from Roast Loin of Pork with Prunes & Apple, & Leg of Lamb in Salt Crust. Anyone who loved French Leave will enjoy this wonderful cookery book: No fancy recipes, just straightforward well-cooked food for everyone to enjoy!


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Could one calamitous evening ruin the perfect life?

No challenge was too great, or so she thought........





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Could one calamitous evening ruin the perfect life?

No challenge was too great, or so she thought........





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Lauren is on top of the world, literally, travelling in the Himalayas to 'find herself'. But when she runs into her first ever boyfriend, Callum, everything turns rocky. Lauren still loves Callum. Callum still loves Lauren. The problem is he is on honeymoon with someone else
- someone Lauren & her new pal Stella think is highly unsuitable for the hunky Callum. Lauren runs off to a monastery in an attempt to get rid of her earthly desires, but with some surprisingly sexy monks around, Lauren's desires only multiply. Then, while trekking, Callum gets altitude sickness. Lauren could take care of him, but what will happen if his new wife finds out?
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Coming Up for Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates, new arterial roads & the domination of the motor-car, to an idealised golden Engl&, largely rural & unmechanised when, in the nostalgia of childhood, it was 'summer... always summer'. It looks forward to the destruction wrought by air-raids (though written in 1938-1939, war is expected in 1941) leading to ' The world we're going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan-world.. the rubber truncheons.. the posters with enormous faces' that will be Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yet, despite its sense of loss & its grim foreboding, Coming Up for Air is a very funny book, with a rich sense of the incongruity of life & people, & it is illuminated by Orwell's wry, sardonic wit in which there is not a little self-parody. ...

Rosie Cooper, an impoverished, self-employed landscape gardner, is booted off her job by an over-fussy client. ALthough it's unprofessional, she decides to visit the woman a few days later, to contest her dismissal. She arrives to find a rugged, male replacement behaving even more unprofessionally by having sex with the client in the back garden! It seems she's got competition
- a rival firm of fit, good-looking blokes are targetting single well-off women in West London. When the competition's this unfair, Rosie will need all her sexual skills to level the playing field.
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In March 1784, at a time when most of the fleet was laid up, His Majesty's frigate Undine weighed anchor at Spithead to ...