Marion & Shiva Stone, born in a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are twin sons of an illicit union between an Indian nun & British doctor. Bound by birth but with widely different temperaments they grow up together, in a country on the brink of revolution, until a betrayal splits them apart. But fate has not finished with them ...

Each year many books are published which serve to enhance the mystique of famous London restaurants & the chefs who work in them. Here, for the first time, a leading chef strips away that mystique & tells us how a restaurant really works. Andrew Parkinson takes us behind the scenes & reveals the complex human, economic & technical processes involved in putting a steak on your plate. How do you cost a menu? What happens if everyone orders the sea bass? What happens if no one orders the sea bass? How do you deal with a complaint about food poisoning? How indeed can five people in a small hot kitchen produce great food for hundreds of people at twenty minutes' notice? Cutting It Fine answers all the questions we have ever pondered, & reveals in telling detail each bit of the everyday magic involved in running a successful restaurant. ...

Christopher Lloyd was the grand old man of British gardening & gardening writers. From 1989 until 2006
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If you only ever buy one Hollywood autobiography make it this one. Sassy, shocking, funny & totally revealing this is Cybill Shepherd's unexpurgated life-story, told with the wit & honesty you'd expect from the star that's seen it all & knows it all. She has been 57 kinds of disobedient & she has never held back from doing or saying what she wants. Cybill Disobedience is a limit-breaking, open-top car ride down Hollywood's Hall of Fame. From top model to movie siren, sex with Elvis to Bruce Willis's appeal, The Last Picture Show to Taxi Driver, the Cybill disaster & the Moonlighting phenomenon, it's all in here; every boyfriend, every affair, every good film & bad film. But most of all it's about a strong woman's determination to survive. The whole shebang
- from Hollywood's mouthiest queen.
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* Roger Penrose's groundbreaking & bestselling The Road to Reality provided a comprehensive yet readable guide to our present ...